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By my thinking these people weren't really zombies. You have to die for that to happen and all I ever noted were people going from suffering to highly pissed off. These people were EXTREMELY rabid, not zombies. They were motivated to bite and pass along their infection, not rip and eat.
Once they'd passed their infection on to somebody else they lost interest in attacking them.
The Mist WAS amazing until that ending turned into the steaming turd previously referenced. I left the theater sickened after that movie, generally not a feeling I like paying money to inflict upon myself.
Downer endings are fine and while I believe it's perfectly legimate artistically to destroy all the characters you've invested screen time into developing, had the army just shot the two survivors you would've been denied the highly poignant singing the little girl did of Aloha Oi, the song she'd practiced for her father which ultimately saved their lives.
I could care less about IMDB - they lost me when they destroyed the message boards.
Haven't seen the movie but I can already say with complete assurance this is utterly wrong. To earn an "F" score a movie has to be utterly without any redeeming qualities whatsoever. Bad script, bad acting, bad cinematography, bad directing, bad score, etc….
At it's worst the film maybe deserves a "C."
I still remember the imbecilic score of "F" entertainment weekly handed to "O, Brother, Where Art Thou?," calling it incomprehensible flap-doodle.
I don't care. I've not been back to IMDB since they closed the boards and have no plans to ever again. At least this place seems to be catching on.
Actually, this is one of my favorite Saul Bass titles. A wrapped human face bent & distorted & re-assembled, all to the accompaniment of dissonant organ music, what's not to like?
Frankly, I was impressed at how much the three actors playing Kevin looked like each other.
Reading this thread I'm beginning to understand why IMDB decided to close the message boards, not that I agree with them, but geez, all this thread is is a bunch of people pissing on each other.
The movie was entertaining & the acting was good. I reserve the adjectives hurled at this movie for the truly awful ones, and there's plenty of them.
I did too. I saw the Stephen King ad for it on television that featured the final long shot and thought I've gotta see this. Took my girlfriend (now my wife) & we both loved it. Scared the shit out of her & she told me later she was wanting to leave 'cause it was so intense.
Two days later took a bunch of friends with us to see it again but unfortunately it was dollar night and the theater was full of rude lowlifes who just couldn't shut up. A guy right behind us said "That tree gonna get him some skank!" really loud, making my girlfriend shrink down in her seat.
Best part, though, was after Scott dismembered Shelly one woman stood up and said "Uh uh - that's it, I'm outta here!" and bolted. After that the crowd quieted down!
As a concert pianist one of the things my teacher used to make me do was record myself and listen back to it. The reason for this is you hear all kinds of things you had no idea you were doing while performing - it calls your attention to issues you're having.
What I found surprising was FFJ DID record herself and obviously listened to the recordings. That she didn't hear the rather profound problems she was having means she was likely tone deaf.
Possibly the syphilis damaged her ability to hear correctly. There is speculation it's what caused Beethoven's deafness.
Except Tiny Tim really could sing on pitch and had an incredible range. Most people only know him for the freakish falsetto they made him do over and over because he could, but he had a great baritone voice he could call on when he felt like it. I heard him do "St. Louis Blues" in this voice live once and the crowd was stunned.
Sociopaths are incapable of genuine feelings for others. It was obvious he cared deeply about her and went to great lengths to protect her from bad reviews or mockery.
He was a good husband with fidelity issues, however, his infidelity is borderline understandable and ultimately forgivable.
Something else to consider. Thought it wasn't mentioned in the movie, theirs was a common law marriage, not a legal one.
Un Chien Andalou
I have to say I agree with this criticism. I was interested in seeing how Dr. Banks was going to figure out how to decipher their language since she had nothing tangible to work with other than two almost octopoid-like blobs squirming around on the other side of a divide.
For instance, in one scene she points out the use of the symbol for "time" is used frequently. How on earth can any linguist glean the concept of "time" from blobby cephalopods, much less associate it with an inky character? I was keenly interested in seeing how all this was discovered. The ham-handed narrative passage I got instead was a disappointing cop-out.
I liked the movie enough to come here and see what others thought of it (since IMDB decided they no longer cared to support message boards) so I liked it well enough, I just thought this part of it was a disappointment.
Virtually every scene in that movie has snow in it somewhere, so it's no surprise that all the televisions, with one exception, have either images that contain ice or snow (hockey), or the images themselves are "snowy," another word to describe static. The one exception? Jean - right before she is kidnapped her television displays a bright, smiling sun.
I love this movie - there is so much attention to detail it's almost scary. How could the academy pass it over for "The English Patient?" What were they smoking?