Ooof.
I refuse to watch this movie again because of this ending.
I genuinely liked the movie, but hated the ending enough that it was years before I watched it again.
Anyone who hasn’t, go read the book. The ending is soooo much better and really had me hoping King would explore that whole world more… Easily one of my top five stories of his.
The changed ending for the film is a fucking masterpiece. Even King says it, and he’s famously bitchy about filmmakers changing his storylines.
I strongly disagree… It was deus ex machina trash with a twist. Using the original ending would have left the audience wanting closure and not getting it. Instead, they wrapped it up nice and tight and King got to murder another kid.
It was narratively consistent. Other world, no way home, found a way home at a steep cost.
I completely agree with you. I’ve left very similar comments whenever this movie’s come up in the past, and someone always shows up to say “Even King agrees the movie ending’s better!” Well, it’s bullshit.
Right? King, who’s endorsed and even appeared in some of the worst adaptations of his books. He’s truly a master, but a movie writer he is not…
Maybe the first time I read a comment disliking the movie ending! Yeah, the story leaves the ending open, maybe scarier? But the movie ending is a sledgehammer to the face.
Either way, can we agree the religious-nut lady was one of the most hateful characters of all time? I’d have shot her just to keep the situation from spiraling out of control any further. Seriously! You’re in a fight for your very survival and this bitch is riling up the crowd, the very people you need to work with so you all survive, and against your child?!
I can totally agree with that. I found her to be one of the most humanly believable villains in any story I’ve seen or read. She’d fit in to so many real world situations as that exact person. Absolutely the kind of nut job you’d see having a meltdown tantrum as someone recorded her on their phone.
King himself said he liked the new ending better. https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/z7894i/why_do_you_think_stephen_king_liked
Remember space 🐢?
What is it?
Screen grab from the final scene of The Mist (2007).
Tap for spoiler
The father in the driver seat shoots everybody else in the car as an act of mercy to save them from a certain death by the monsters in the movie. Goes to turn the gun on himself only to be met with an empty chamber. Mere moments later, military vehicles emerge from the mist to take on the monsters. If he had waited legitimately 2 more minutes everybody in the car would have been saved.
This broke my brain, I identified it as “The Mist” but I was 100% sure Mark Wahlberg was the main character so I was trying to work out what the joke was/why Wahlberg was replaced.
Guess I have my own Berenstein Bears thing going on.
you are confusing the Mist with The Happening. which starred Mark Wahlberg.
they were vaguely similar. While the Mist was a lovecraftian horror story about a heavy fog taking over a region with unearthly horrors prowling the area after a tear in reality or something occured at a Military research facility,
the Happening was a bit more hacky. it was about Plants releasing a neurotoxin that made humans off themselves.
Mark Wahlberg playing a science teacher was the most unbelievable thing in The Happening.
I was trying to work out what the joke was/why Wahlberg was replaced.
It must have been something happening.
Forgot all about this! Nearly passed out from how hard I was laughing at that ending
I had read the tale long before the movie and was very pissed with the ending. The whole movie is shit but the ending changed everything. That was Fucked up
