"The Mist" - avoid at all costs!

[alanp]

I like Stephen King movies because they take me places I'm not comfortable going.  And there is something about his charictors that makes me care what happens to them and don't want anything bad to happen to them...  But always do like in IT, pet semitary, and all the others.

[Rico]

Oh god, "Pet Sematary."  Almost walked out of that movie.  It's kind of weird I can read King and be ok, but some of his movies - ugh!  A couple things that I know I am very sensitive to are pets and kids in danger in films.  I basically can't handle if bad things happen to them.  They seem so innocent.  And it seems King likes to pick on them in some of these stories.  But that's just my personal achilles heel in movies I guess.

[Darth Gaos]

I have always held the opinion that the movies based on Stephen King's novels that are made for TV are far and away better than any of the ones that have gone to theater.  My favorites are IT, The Stand and the Langoliers.  TV doesn't allow you to be as graphic which leaves more to your imagination and leaves you to form the picture in your mind....which can be far more terrifying than a speical effect.  It is what I love about his novels..he is graphic but gives just enough info to leave you to paint that horrifying image yourself.

[wraith1701]

The film versions of Pet Sematary and The Mist actually came pretty close to conveying the mood or feel that the written stories created.  I agree that both were pretty harsh (esp. the ending of the film The Mist) but I found both to be watchable.  I won't be seeing either of them again anytime soon, though.

I'd like to think that I wouldn't make the choices that the protagonists in the films made, but I can kind of see where they were coming from.  What I appreciate about the stories (and to a lesser extent, the films) is that they made me stop and think to myself '..Crap.  How would I react if I found myself in a similar situation?'

[Rico]

I would never do what they did at the end of "The Mist" in that type of situation.  Never.