The Mist

[andrewducker]

Thanks to the urging, and donation of AVI files, I just watched The Mist.

Which was pretty good, well made, tense and gripping.

And I hated the end.

If it had finished 30 seconds earlier.

Or a minute and a half earlier.

Or about four minutes earlier.

Any of those would be fine.

But the ending went from "Bleak and sad" to "Let's just fuck with the characters for no good reason", which pissed me off. It felt far too much like the writer snickering "Ha! This'll fuck with them!" and I hate blatant negative emotional manipulation just as much as I hate the positie kind.

Still worth seeing - I'm just annoyed.

Comments

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

Shaggy dog stories suck.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about that, and I agree with Andrew's first comment in this thread. Even a straight TPK would have been better than what we got. Honestly, it was like the worst Outer Limits ending ever.