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THE MIST trailer is a tease that you'll want more and more and more from!

Published at:  Aug 30, 2007 6:00:38 PM CDT

Hey folks Harry here - this is the number 1 - I need to see it as soon as humanly possible movie out there. The trailer looks great - only thing I'm not real big on is the logo at the end... but who the fuck cares about a damn logo. This is Frank Darabont directing Stephen King... ALWAYS FUCKING AWESOME... but this isn't subtle Stephen King... this is RIGHT SMACK UP THE SIDE OF YOUR FACE Stephen King and I can't wait to see that FRANK DARABONT!!!



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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:02:36 PM CDT

    First

    by sammylou

    Stephen King rocks

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:02:49 PM CDT

    Looks like ass

    by zikade zarathos

    Yeah that's right I said it. If it wasn't Darabont everyone would be saying the same thing. Oh those Crazy Christians and circa '98 effects! Who cares.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:04:40 PM CDT

    Thomas Jane in a King adaptation? How can that be bad?

    by bungion boy

    Oh yeah. Dreamcatcher. I love Shawshank and I love Darabont's passion and visual style, but none of his other films did much for me. And another King adaptation? I'd love to see him do something new. Like Indiana Jones. Oh yeah. Not happening. Still, this has a good cast. It might be great. Looks better than Green Mile. And much much better than Dreamcatcher.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:11:22 PM CDT

    Where'd the wrath of God stuff come from?

    by cowboyone

    I don't remember that from the short story.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:11:33 PM CDT

    shades below 'meh'

    by captaincapslock

    what is go great about this trailer? seriously somebody tell me because i'm underwhelmed. maybe i'll read the book.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:12:52 PM CDT

    i want to love this, but

    by irc-hollywood

    those effects should not be in the trailer, they are clearly not finished, and if they are finished are very poor. I hope this movie turns out good, but the trailer left me with a bad feeling.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:13:19 PM CDT

    Looks like it may be a good

    by cblevins

    Looks like it may be a good adaptation of the novella, which ROCKS btw. I recommend everyone read it before seeing the film.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:14:44 PM CDT

    TOO MISTY ! !

    by pound sand

    So I guess not always fucking awesome.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:18:38 PM CDT

    Effects are almost

    by guy gaduois

    Yeah, that sums it up . . . almost. Maybe if that trailer was in b/w. Nice tension, but the fx were distracting. Mrs. Carmody spouted a bit of religious zealotry, but here flat-earthers never actually demanded the boy, if memory serves. I liked the scene between Braugher and Jane. Did I mention the effects are almost?

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:24:43 PM CDT

    So... when are people going to...

    by jimmy rabbitte

    ...start whining about Darabont's "lost Indy IV script?"

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:25:06 PM CDT

    Shows WAY too much.

    by jimmy_009

    That's not a teaser, that's practically the whole damn movie. Thanks for leaving nothing to the imagination.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:26:33 PM CDT

    Religious fervour

    by admiralneck

    cowboyone just brought up a good point. It's been years since I read The Mist and I don't remember the religious angle being played up that much. I was young, so all I cared about was tentacles and ten-legged spiders and all that. Now? I'm there, especially with the plot with the two factions in the mega-mart. I eat that shit up with a spoon. Plus, Homeless Dad's gonna kick a bunch of ass. About time!

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:33:54 PM CDT

    Trust me-- this will be great.

    by goonie

    I have several very close friends who worked on this film, and they all say it will be incredible (and take my word for it, they don't say that about most films they work on). From their description, this looks like a fantastic adaptation. Psychological terror, peppered with disgusting monsters. Also, as it's been described to me, this film's ending is gonna shock the fuck out of people.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:37:18 PM CDT

    Cowboyone & Guy Gaduois....

    by ken luxury yacht

    I don't like to shout people down, however... yes there was the God bothering and offering the child up in the short story. And it's very good, as does this trailer. Been waiting for this film since I was 12... Nice,

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:38:14 PM CDT

    jimmy_009, A-FUCKING-MEN, shows WAY TOO MUCH!

    by nice marmot

    That said, it's Darabont doing King (my response to ImpulseCaper) and I already know what happens and knew it would be pretty much word for word like King's story. The only losers are those not knowing the story who want suspense and a slow reveal of what's going on. Too much is the new too silver!!! And YES, the religious fanatacism and blood sacrifice was in the story, only in the story, I don't believe Carmody ever specifically demanded the kid's blood. Not a bad touch though.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:40:14 PM CDT

    Nitwit City

    by major hockshtetter

    You talkbackers give the term "yutz" new meaning. You whine that genre pictures are missing decent writing then when one comes along that seems to exhibit decent writing, y'all boo-hoo the lack of decent f/x. What a buncha' schwanzstukers.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:42:46 PM CDT

    don't think the trailer was that great

    by misnomer

    ...but I'm sure the movie will deliver....

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:42:57 PM CDT

    Looks like a TV MOVIE

    by ricksays

    Frank Darabont made this?! WTF

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:43:58 PM CDT

    Screw you guys!

    by supersize

    This movie looks awesome! Especially you Mysterious Yobo go away

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:44:16 PM CDT

    Harry - I'd like insight into your big red brain...

    by bgdawes

    Because I thought that logo was just fine, what issues did you have with it? Not that they're not valid, I don't mean that at all. I'm just curious. If anything I thought maybe you might have thought the logo was a bit direct to video-ish?

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:45:31 PM CDT

    Special Effects

    by flaggg

    CGI Special Effects are going to kill Frank Darabont. This is really the first time he has tackled them in a King adaptation -- Green Mile had the mouse and that's it.

    But the effects in this trailer looked like made-for-TV trash. Just like many of King's television stuff. I liked the tension in the trailer, and I have no doubt the acting will be great thanks to Darabont's directing. But if those effects stay in the movie it will kill it.

    Plus, it might make for a good story, but can it be made a good adaptation when it's just two factions ripping each other apart in a grocery store?

    So we shall see. But I'm not holding my breath after seeing that trailer. I had high hopes; now those hopes are dashed pretty much.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:52:01 PM CDT

    come on, this will blow

    by jmike9243

    looks like shit. cool, flying insects and thomas jane. He was cool in Boggie Nights. Go rent the reaping, that was better then this will be.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:54:19 PM CDT

    Syn_Flood

    by flaggg

    If it was reversed and it had terrible acting but great special effects, I'd be saying the same damn thing but reversed. And you know what? I bet you'd be crying with the rest of us. So don't be hypocritical.

    I want a complete, good movie -- like Shawshank and Green Mile -- and what I saw on that trailer was sub par to those two movies, easily. Why? Because those movies had it all whereas The Mist has an element in the movie that detracts from it.

    So if you want a half-ass movie, then you'll enjoy it. Me? I'd rather have a great movie where all elements are clicking among one another. With effects like I saw in that trailer, I'd rather there be no CGI at all and just leave the mist outside. It'd be a better movie, guaranteed.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:57:02 PM CDT

    No one's called it a FOG ripoff yet?

    by playkins

    C'Mon- the haters are losing their edge.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:57:25 PM CDT

    comic-con

    by jmike9243

    anbody see the comic-con clips? they looked like crapola. It was pretty funny. One guy though it was "The Stand". This will suck. It will be a bunch of dumb asses in a supermarket talking to each other.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:58:45 PM CDT

    Dumbass AICN Talkbacker: "This will blow!"

    by kasch

    Gotta love these internet retards who can predict the future without any basis whatsoever for their dumbass hick opinions.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 6:59:10 PM CDT

    Very little CG

    by goonie

    Another note: Greg Nicotero handled all the effects, almost all of which were practical. there will be very little CG. I agree that some of the CG looks a bit shoddy in this trailer, but I bet it will get much better before the film comes out.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:00:26 PM CDT

    Maggie Grace

    by jmike9243

    at least The Fog had her. She's hot. Marcia Gay Harden. No thanks.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:01:14 PM CDT

    LOOKS PRETTY BAD

    by thedohdoh

    Man, modern audiences simple won't bite on this. I can't believe they showed that dragon-like monster in the market. That thing looks ridiculous.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:02:16 PM CDT

    Kasch blows!

    by jmike9243

    Dear Kasch, I actually read the script. It sucks. It will blow. So do you.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:04:29 PM CDT

    YEP, JUST REWATCHED IT. CGI EFFECTS ALL SUCK.

    by thedohdoh

    This just feels way too low-budget. I know Darabont was going to shoot it loose and furious, but this just looks like an ABC in-house series. Sorry, but I'm saying it's going to flop right now. At least 1408 had special effects that were decent.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:04:54 PM CDT

    The only black guy ALWAYS dies first

    by kdog69

    Won't be seeing it. Horror movies still haven't learned. Snakes on a Plane is still the only film where not a single minority dies.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:05:39 PM CDT

    DARABONT, STEP YOUR EFX GAME UP OR ELSE.

    by thedohdoh

    Or else you're looking at a $40 mil gross, tops.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:07:58 PM CDT

    hell yeah!

    by jwao

    I cannot wait for this movie.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:16:35 PM CDT

    Wow, talk about showing too much

    by fridge

    They shouldn't have shown the monsters so much. I get that they're the selling point for this movie, but they showed too much of them, ruining the mystery/suspense.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:26:02 PM CDT

    FOUNTAIN MUSIC

    by the knight

    completely took me out of the trailer.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:26:35 PM CDT

    most of you guys do not read much do you.

    by rsswope

    Technical manuals notwithstanding

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:27:49 PM CDT

    Nice Use

    by snakesonabicycle

    of The Fountain score. And that's about it. Cinematography sucked, why the fuck they felt guilty enough to film this thing in Louisanna instead of Maine is beyond me, Katrina or not. Costumes really sucked too. That brown shirt looks stupid as fuck on Jane, and everybody else has this real weird faded pastel vomity vibe going. Costumes, color pallettes, are all a big part. I don't want to watch a movie that makes me feel like I just stared at a florescent light for 8 hours. I did like the Braugher stuff though. Still looks like an annoying piece of shit.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:32:37 PM CDT

    trailer should have stopped

    by magic rat

    After Brauer went out into the fog with the rope.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:35:56 PM CDT

    I love how all of the retards

    by franklinstreet

    are criticizing the trailer for bad CGI when there's very little CGI in the film, and most of it is practical. The fx look pretty good to me.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:36:40 PM CDT

    Newsflash: religious people ARE nuts

    by thick mcrunfast

    The only difference is the level of nuttiness they ascribe to. No propaganda here at all.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:38:38 PM CDT

    Harry, that's Flash, not Quicktime

    by thick mcrunfast

    You have used the internets before, right?

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:40:44 PM CDT

    Well after that, I don't need to see the movie

    by rupee88

    I don't really blame anyone but myself, but that trailer really did show too much. I don't watch trailers of films that I really care about.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:44:22 PM CDT

    Love the human elements, bad fx so far, showed too much

    by industrykiller!

    Whomever said that the fx shouldn't be in the trailer was dead on. That's really really bad looking. Even the tentacle looked cheap and unreal. Also they made a huge mistake giving away the moment with the rope. now I don't know if that character lives or not, but that isn't where the drama lies. The drama lies in whether and when the guy gets grabbed by a monster, and well, I guess that riddle is given away immediately. On the otehr hand all the human drama looks excellent, very classic King with some Rod Serling thrown in. Unless the reviews are absolutely terrible I'll definitely be seeing this one.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 7:47:22 PM CDT

    Oops

    by thick mcrunfast

    OK, so the HD downloads are in QuickTime. Honest, I have used the internets before, I swear. Regarding the movie, is it an artistic choice to light and shoot it like an AfterSchool Special?

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:09:31 PM CDT

    Heavy Handed Horshit

    by doodler

    Great, another flick where the Christians are fundamentalist troublemakers, and the whole thing is a war-allegory (as if we couldn't figure that out without the "Cut and Run" reference prominently displayed), and the spooky mist is really just a cover for monsters (thanks for giving away that one, trailer!).

    Apparently Stephen King watched the Fog and Assault on Precinct 13 (and might've channel-surfed past Pitch Black) in a drunken haze and melded everything together.

    Why is THomas Jane in this crap? Shouldn't he be punishing something?

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:10:54 PM CDT

    Jim Curry

    by flaggg

    If the CGI isn't done yet, then why the fuck show it? That makes no sense and defeats the purpose of a trailer right there. I bet my bottom dollar that CGI is completed and sanctioned by Frank Darabont -- and it blew.

    As for what is going on inside the store, I don't give a fuck about it at all really. It works as a short story but will suck on the screen, regardless of Frank Darabont's talent. I'm sure it is filled with literary merit, looking at Iraq and race and religious zealotry, but in the end it won't hold a movie goer's attention span.

    And I might be completely wrong; it may in fact be a great flick with tons of internal strife and outward conflict between the people in the store. But that will only appeal to snobs and the die hard fans.

    I agree with a previous poster -- it's going to have a shit opening weekend, a shit following week, and it's done.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:14:51 PM CDT

    It's Tremors without the humour, like I said

    by performingmonkey

    I don't rate the King story, and I'm a big fan of his. It's way too generic. Maybe 25 years ago when he wrote it that was OK, but now in 2007 we've seen this kind of thing done a million times. What I want is a 3 hour hard R IT adaptation, one with real balls, I still have nightmares over how bad the IT TVM is.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:20:28 PM CDT

    The novella

    by johndeaux

    scared the shit outta me...I's a big boy who does NOT like the creepy crawlie. UHHHHH! I wonder how they will show the giant things they see on the road...

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:24:42 PM CDT

    Where did all this "mist talk" come from?

    by jollysleeve

    Did some Hollywood screenwriter come up with that to spruce up the story for today's shallow audiences? Seriously, when will Hollywood learn to respect the source material? I remember reading The Mist a long time ago, and I don't remember any of this crap about people being terrorized by a mysterious mist.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:26:23 PM CDT

    Its A Fairly Cheesy Novella Anyway..

    by skoobyx

    King likes spinning B-movie monster plots into books. Its IS pretty scary but you kind of have to take it with a grain of salt.
    The religious-nut angle is a important part of the story. Its also one of the goofier ones too. I'm a pretty panicky person but I can't imagine I'd be resorting to human sacrifice after 24 hrs stuck in a grocery store. Its not meant to be taken any more seriously than giant bugs (which are conveniently killed with bug spray) lighten up everyone.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:26:31 PM CDT

    FLAGGG

    by the knight

    Word on the street is... Some of these studios force the filmmakers to put together a Trailer of some sorts because they have to start getting word out there on the film. Film doesn't come out till what, November? I'm sure if this is the case, then the effects still aren't done but they gotta do what they gotta do... And this isn't some kinda excuse for half ass effects... Just putting it out there...

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:33:28 PM CDT

    Still want to see it

    by gozu

    I think it's a case of a bad trailer for a decent movie.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:38:36 PM CDT

    I hope the effects are vastly improved by release...

    by mr.brownstone

    because in terms of acting, tone and theme this looks fucking great to me. I love horror as under the radar social commentary. Just what I wanna see... just hope it's not marred by lamely done effects. I seem to recall Darabont saying he was gonna use mostly practical effects but the trailer makes it look like the opposite is true. I'm pretty excited for this though.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:41:30 PM CDT

    CHRISTIANITY

    by mignolafan

    I'm sick of christian being instigators, I can't remember the last time I saw someone portrayed as a level-headed christian in a movie. Not every christian is a fucking scumbag, the majority that I know are like me or Kevin Smith. Outside of that the traile looks alright, cept for the lame ass cut and run line.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:42:13 PM CDT

    using music from the fountain is stupid

    by director17

    Every fucking trailer from the last 3 years used the music from "requiem" and now they are sucking the life out of the music from "the fountain". Why do you let them Darren?

    I dont know if the movie actually looks good or if I just like the music. Though I doubt Frank can fail with Stephen King material.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:43:02 PM CDT

    If lighting and color palette is intentional

    by guy gaduois

    I hope they wash it to b/w. Sepia? Afterschool special appearance is pretty accurate. Also, Ken Luxury Yacht - no fears, if you were trying for a shout down, you need some more work there, pard. You had zero references to genitalia or defaming sexual preferences. I grabbed the book when I got home, and you're right, there's murmurs about the boy being sacrificed. Congrats. Now, go push that sheep back through the fence. (You see, that's kinda how it's done. I'm baby-stepping it for you.)

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:47:22 PM CDT

    Groan...

    by mr. nice gaius

    Yeah, I don't know about that one. You'll have to excuse me because I'm not a reader of King's books. But SFX aside, that just looks really tepid......oh, with the exception of the smack delivered by the blonde from The X-Files.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:47:41 PM CDT

    EXACTLY how I pictured it...

    by cinemajerk

    I have to say...I recently read the Mist...and this trailer captures the images I have in my head to a T.

    That doesn't happen too often. But Frank D has adapted my two favorite screen versions of Kings work so far...so the man obviously has respect for the material.

    This makes me happy that its not some hack...cause this could have been Sci fi channel bad.

    Seeing this trailer made me happy.

    I wonder how they are going to handle the wife's story. Are they going to remain true to the book. After watching the trailer, I believe they will.

    Cool beanz. I am so there. Looks like a great pop corn date movie.

    Peace

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:48:20 PM CDT

    looking at it again

    by mr.brownstone

    it's pretty obvious some of those effects shots are works in progress... still I don't think they're doing themselves any favors releasing a trailer with bad looking effects, for what is supposed to be a terrifying film. Audiences these days are so jaded they're likely to reject the movie outright as being "cheesy" if the effects look too hokey to them.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:48:33 PM CDT

    Everyone in the place is likely a "Christian"...

    by d. allusion

    It's rural America, after all. Only a handful are portrayed as fundament-nuts. Seems like a pretty generous apportioning, if you ask me.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:55:04 PM CDT

    Wha...

    by gatack

    So Andre Brauer gets offed in the trailer? Well then I'm done.

    http://tinyurl.com/ytmdb2

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:55:30 PM CDT

    Is this the sequel to the Fog remake or orginal?

    by series7

    Or the sequel to Storm of the Century?

    Naw but seriously i like the abuse of the Requiem score and the 28 Days later score in movie trailers proves that those were some fucking bad ass scores. Now people are realizing how the score to the fountain was one of the best parts about that movie. But when is Clint Mansell gonna get his Oscar, because his music is what makes Aronofsky movies. Instead crap like Babel wins for playing the same score that was in Amores perros. And John Murphy is cool too.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:56:33 PM CDT

    @Franklin Street's "THERE'S NOT MUCH CGI"

    by thedohdoh

    UMM, HOW ABOUT TOM JANE BATTING A FLYING GARGOYLE WITH A FUCKING BROOM. Seriously, the MIST and the MONSTERS are badly done. The Mist is hanging its neck by releasing such bad SFX work (temp or not) this early.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 8:57:00 PM CDT

    Of Christians and Unfinished F/X

    by thebladehelm

    This looks like a great example of trying to get a trailer out WAY too early. Tom Jane aside, this cast looks like it belongs in a Sundance film, not a monster movie, and that could go both ways.As for the "heavy handed" Anti-Christianity, all I can say is, Boo-fucking-Hoo! After hundreds of years of persecuting everyone else, it's about fucking time those crazy assholes see how the rest of us sees them!

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:00:43 PM CDT

    The Fog...

    by thebladehelm

    ...Was about some Scooby Doo style pirate ghosts in a fog, right? The Mist is about some Scooby Doo style MONSTERS in a MIST, it's totally different.Besides, just cause one horror story takes place in a fog, does that mean that's it! No more stories about scary stuff in a fog? Besides, I'd take a hardcore R-rated ripoff of The Fog over that bullshit pansy ass PG-13 shit with Superboy any day of the week.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:01:45 PM CDT

    Aside from the Storm of the Centuryesque "fog"

    by detective_fingerling

    This looks pretty good. The fountain music fits the mood very well. I'm going to see it in theatres regardless. I've waited too long for this story to be put on the silver screen.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:13:14 PM CDT

    WOW - HOW DISAPPOINTED CAN I BE RIGHT NOW?!?!

    by bass bastardson

    Really, really disa-fucking-pointed. That trailer was awful. I have been looking forward to this movie since I first read the story twenty years ago and I fully trusted Darabont tot deliver the goods. Shawshank is a perfect movie, The Green Mile is good and well... I can forgive him that Jim Carey travesty. Now, after seeing that trailer however, I am convinced that it will suck. Badly. For one thing the trailer is way over-lit. It looks like fucking sit-com lighting. There is absolutely nothing scary about an over-lit grocery store. For another, the trailer focuses way too much on the Mrs Carmody (?) character - the religious/occult nutbag who was the worst, most cliched cardboard thing about the short story. Oh and the effects look awful - even if they are incomplete, the design and animation is incredibly weak. Seriously Harry, I usually frown at all the bashing that you take here on your own site, but you must be crazy or deep in someone's pocket to be excited about this mess - at least from what's been shown here.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:13:35 PM CDT

    Here we go..

    by atari25

    We have just seen 2:30 minutes of about an hour and a half movie and already people are jumping down throats and I think its because its SK. Face it, no studio is going to fully fund a SK creature-fest so if the fx look alittle crappy.. blame the studio. People need to lay off and wait till they actually see the damn thing before they rip it apart. Besides I think that The Fog was released the same year The Mist was so chop that up to great minds think alike.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:15:11 PM CDT

    This actually looks good.

    by christopher3

    And I don't think the trailer shows too much. Non-King nerds won't know what they're seeing.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:16:21 PM CDT

    If the FX were supposed to be retro

    by jimmy_009

    they would be done with stop motion or puppets. They look like Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie level CG. In other words crappy.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:25:47 PM CDT

    Speaking As a Fan of The Shawshank Redemption...

    by grungies

    This movie looks like utter crap.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:28:40 PM CDT

    Eat it, haters.

    by maxthesilent

    That looks awesome.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:32:53 PM CDT

    Aint nothing wrong with that logo Harry.

    by fish tank

    That bird thing was sorta lame though. The creature designers screwed that one up.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:37:21 PM CDT

    HALLOWEEN 07 > THE MIST

    by thedohdoh

    Go see Halloween this weekend. The Mist is just another wackfest for AICN that will not deliver the goods. For once, there is a pretty spectacular take on a horror icon coming out this weekend, and AICN givies it no fucking press whatsoever. But they'll hawk this shitty trailer for The Mist which features worse FX than a goddamn Sci-Fi movie and Tom Jane saying goodbye to his career.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:46:18 PM CDT

    Looks like a TV movie

    by bobo_vision

    The only thing missing from that trailer was a sig line at the end saying, "Coming this fall on NBC, right after Deal or No Deal".

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:47:38 PM CDT

    Shows too much...?

    by osmosis jones

    We get, like, 10 seconds of creature footage in 2 1/2 minutes. No giant spiders, barely a glimpse of the tentacles...what are you all bitching about? Yeah, it's a shame they spoiled the "clothesline" scene (one of my favorite King sequences ever), but this is a smartly-edited trailer, and I think the F/X look pretty good, even if they are incomplete. If they held off on revealing *any* creature footage until it was 100% complete (which never happens these days until a week before the movie's release), you'd be bitching about that. The Mist looks fucking AWESOME (even if Marcia Gay Harden is far removed from the Miss Carmody I always pictured in my head).

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:51:41 PM CDT

    This isnt a tease!, it showed the whole fucking movie!

    by bmacsmith

    thanks assholes. btw, isnt this a ripoff of silent hill (a little)?

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:55:01 PM CDT

    Ok, I take back what I said about this before

    by photoman

    Didn't know they were going to treat this seriously...looks like they are. And you guys are a bunch of jaded idiots.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:56:47 PM CDT

    This can be a SCI-FI channel double-feature...

    by killdozer

    along with Aliens vs. Predator. I was looking forward to this. Loved the story, but the trailer just wasn't good. Should've played up the Mist a bit more and skipped showing all the damn monsters. The great part of the story was not knowing what's out there. Now everyone who's seen the trailer is gonna have a pretty good idea.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:57:06 PM CDT

    Yeah, ripoff of Silent Hill...yes-sir-re...

    by photoman

    Yep, this is a rip-off of that video game...even though the story "The Mist" came out in 1980.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 9:58:31 PM CDT

    RELIGIOUS STUFF IS JUST LIKE IN THE NOVEL...

    by wilclas

    ...and in Darabont we trust.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 10:00:57 PM CDT

    Was that a "Jericho" preview?

    by beatsme

    Jesus, that looked bad. Very TV movie, overlit and overacted. And not scary looking at all. I remember the story freaking me out, but this preview captured none of that.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 10:08:23 PM CDT

    What's wrong with Sci Fi Original Movies?

    by christopher3

    "Mansquito" was a fucking masterpiece. And King's a big big anti-Christian and the story was written in like 1948 or something, so don't blame him for hatin' on Jesus or ripping off "Silent Hill."

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  • Aug 30, 2007 10:27:44 PM CDT

    Christopher3 - King is not anti-christian

    by bass bastardson

    One of his sons is a fucking PASTOR for crying out loud. Have you read any of his books in the last twenty years? How about The Green Mile which was every bit the obvious christ allegory that Narnia was. He may not hew to the fundamentalist bullshit, but neither do I and I'm a Christian.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 10:36:10 PM CDT

    I've read the "Good Book"...

    by jimboa22

    And there is nothing in there about killing or sacrificing kids for any reason. In fact, it says pretty explicitely NOT to sacrifice kids at all, which was common practice among other religions in ancient times, so I really have no idea why Steven King is all of a sudden presenting a "Christian" woman as a kid-killing psycho. Newsflash: 99.9% of us Christians are perfectly normal, friendly people. It's just that the psychos always somehow manage to find the cameras and microphones and embarass the rest of us in front of the entire world...

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  • Aug 30, 2007 10:52:55 PM CDT

    Halloween.

    by critch

    TheDohDoh, Halloween has been all over this site, and guess what? From most accounts, it sucks. Rob Zombie shouldn't be allowed near a camera, let alone for yet another entry in a series nobody wanted to see past #2.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 11:08:22 PM CDT

    Looks great to me

    by johnnys2

    But I agree they'd showed quite abit. Should've just have a nano-second glimpse of that creature (which by the way, was INSIDE the store) on the outside trying to get in. Meh, still won't stop me for checking it out in theaters.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 11:11:43 PM CDT

    'I wouldn't even trust Rob

    by sidburnd1

    'I wouldn't even trust Rob Zombie
    with my cell phone camera'

    best quote EVER

    finally a movie where christians sacrifice other peoples children to unknown environmental conundrums! wait...go dawkins, go dawkins, its your birthday, its your birthday.

    0_0

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  • Aug 30, 2007 11:17:59 PM CDT

    thanks harry

    by mose schrute

    awesome indeed

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  • Aug 30, 2007 11:22:57 PM CDT

    The only thing in that Mist

    by ewokstew

    ...is some poorly executed CGI.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 11:23:36 PM CDT

    "If something happens...cut and run..."

    by gray gorilla

    Yeah, no symbolism there. yet another agenda-stab at Bush by King...and Harry for that matter. This looks just like Kootnz's "Phantoms". It sucks and frankly Harry, you should be ashamed.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 11:36:27 PM CDT

    Jimboa22, Question...

    by thebladehelm

    Are you saying that because 99.9% of Christians are one way, that it is out of bounds to make movies that have characters representing the other 0.1%? Most people don't win Karate championships, should Karate Kid have not been made? Way less than 1% of the population of the world has been to the moon, so no more movies about that either. And I know that most Italian Americans are not in the Mafia, so they shouldn't have made the Godfather films? How many people are billionaires, oh, statistically almost no one? Oh, okay, so scratch Citizen Kane.As for the crazy fundamentalists being the only one's who can find microphones? Well, I call bullshit on that. I find it hard to believe that 99.9% of you can't control that other 0.1%. And from a secular perspective, it doesn't even seem like you're trying.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 11:42:46 PM CDT

    On being Christian and loving this story

    by krushjudgement

    I'm a believer in Christ. I'm not perfect. That's why I need Him. Anyway, it doesn't bother that there are psycho christians in this story. There are psychos like that in the real world too. Remember that Stephen King reads the Bible everyday. I can't speak for him, but it seems like he's into the idea of balance. I like that. Any extreme is a bad thing. We should find balance in life.

    On another note: This is my favorite story by King. I can't believe they are making it into a movie. I'm friggin' stoked.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 11:45:17 PM CDT

    Bladehelm

    by krushjudgement

    Some of us believe in freedom of speech. And the right to an opinion. I can't shut up a crazy 0.1% just because I don't like their view. And I wouldn't want to. All men should be allowed to speak their mind.

    And good point in your first paragraph.

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  • Aug 30, 2007 11:45:49 PM CDT

    actually it is quicktime if you watch the HD version...

    by purityofessence

    That is all

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  • Aug 30, 2007 11:46:55 PM CDT

    Dimension and Halloween SUCK!

    by jmike9243

    Harry is in Dimension's pocket. He blows any crap they put out. Anyone who says halloween or this trailer is good has their head up their ass.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:06:46 AM CDT

    KrushJudgment

    by thebladehelm

    Make no mistake, I fully support both the freedom of speech AND religion. I shutter to think how scary a world it would be if those freedoms didn't exist. Especially for those of us who don't choose religion. I just wish more religious people had the strength of conviction that the crazies have. The insane assholes who show up at soldier's funerals with signs that say "God Hates Fags" are the ones who control how the world sees your faith, and that should enrage you. For every 0.1% of them, there should be a sea of the other 99.9% in front of them with signs that say, "God Loves Fags, AND These Assholes Too!" But curiously, that doesn't seem to happen that often, and certainly doesn't happen 99.9% of the time.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:10:36 AM CDT

    balls

    by *groundwork*

    Looks like a TNT movie. Anyone else note that "mist" in german translates to "crap"?

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:20:07 AM CDT

    Looks like

    by haitu

    a SCI-FI Channel Movie.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:20:20 AM CDT

    Meh

    by prooferfromhell

    Trailer was OK, but I do have to agree with whoever said it looked like a SciFi Channel preview. I remember reading this book in HS, and at the time it shared the shit outta me. Might have to pick it up and re-read it sometime.On a more recent note, anyone read "The Taking" by Dean Koontz? THAT is one freaky read. I'd like to see that one adapted for film.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:30:28 AM CDT

    lack of credibility

    by dudemandude

    I agree with that assertion. That to me doesn't make it a bad film though. But that being said, I definitely think that bad cgi is distracting, and the cgi shown so far is pretty horrid.
    I also agree with the earlier accusation of Harry being bribed in some manner. I have felt this way for years. His Godzilla review pretty much left a bad taste in my mouth. Ever since the credibility of this website has come into question time and time again. Harry strikes me as a person with little or no integrity, honesty or morality. The examples of his shady behavior are written all over this webpage and it's a damn shame. Harry my friend, you aren't the only one who knows folks in Hollywood, you'd be surprised what's said when your name is mentioned. One last note, why do you insist on putting exclamation points after every link? Are they all that exciting? I think your overuse of them sort of takes away from their intended purpose and frankly looks like rather poor writing and journalism. Peace =)

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:31:50 AM CDT

    Looks like a TV Movie!

    by captainstank

    WTF!? I have mad faith in Darabont but this did not get me excited.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:49:32 AM CDT

    that was

    by alliejamison

    so cool...I could even forgive it its second coming of the neverending use clint mansell trailer music... goosebumps ...goosebumps....goosebumps...

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:52:03 AM CDT

    Just saw it on the big screen...

    by the dum guy

    Looks good. I don't understand the bitchin', the effects look so-so, but come on, its not the final look. Screw haters.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 1:24:29 AM CDT

    This looks wicked...

    by wolvenom

    SHAWSHANK WAS AWESOME! And to those who thought 'Green Mile' sucked... GET A FUCKING CLUE! it almost one an oscar for best picture, was nominated for three other oscars, and won several awards from people's choice, to blockbuster etc. It was probably one of the most original books I've ever read, and the film was true to the source material. I Can agree with those who say 'Dreamcatcher' sucked though. The film really did suck which was a shame because I really did enjoy the novel. I really want to see Grisham's 'The last Juror' put to film, and Crichton's 'Prey'... hopefully we'll see those soon. Personally, if I had to pick four authors that define our generation it would be Grisham, Chrichton, King, and Clancy (Rowling doesnt count).

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  • Aug 31, 2007 1:26:22 AM CDT

    Wow, you guy are harsh!

    by vfxdude

    Speaking as one of the CG monkeys working on this film... (yes, we actually do read this forum occasionally) ... give us a chance! First of all, there weren't very many FX shots in the trailer. Why? We're not done making them! CG stuff in trailers is always rough or left out completely. There will be some horribly disgusting and well-executed stuff in the film -- I promise. ;-) Geez... well, at least someone takes our work seriously!

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  • Aug 31, 2007 1:31:46 AM CDT

    shocking!

    by cuervojones

    The movie looks just like i imagined the book!

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  • Aug 31, 2007 1:43:15 AM CDT

    The CG didn't bother me.

    by shermdawg

    But knowing Andre Braugher bites it(?) does. :(

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  • Aug 31, 2007 2:18:59 AM CDT

    I can only assume

    by kwisatzhaderach

    that the people who say this doesn't look good are the ones that come on here and try and say that crap like Pirates of the Caribbean 3 is "awesome". This looks like a fun flick and Darabont is a reliable helmer. Ticket sold.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 2:29:01 AM CDT

    king novellas

    by fourthwall

    Its what he does best - his novellas all have excellent pacing and strong endings- unlike many of his larger novels.
    For a stephen king homage try this Youtube vid:
    http://tinyurl.com/28nlz2

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  • Aug 31, 2007 2:41:41 AM CDT

    Loved It

    by saluki

    The vitriol here is throwing me for a loop. This is one creepy fucking story people. Bugs and deadly lobsters (!!!) and all kinds of interdimensional predators ready to gobble up these people. Fuck Halloween/Saw slasher shit, give me a monsterfest like this! Read a book you fucks.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 2:48:43 AM CDT

    VFXDude

    by flaggg

    I see you don't deny the FX shots in the trailer are finished. So sad.

    I like well constructed movies. That includes CGI and FX if they are needed. All aspects, from acting to script to cinematography to directing to effects -- all must work together.

    The CGI doesn't work for this trailer. To those who think the CGI will be improved before the movie is released: Fucking figure this shit out! The studio would not want to put out a trailer they knew to be shit. If they saw the CGI and thought it terrible, it would be cut out in favor of the solid acting under Darabont's direction. Or the trailer would be a tease without the CGI. Or any number of different avenues that wouldn't produce bad press.

    At least two-thirds here, if not more, hate this trailer due to how the faulty CGI took them OUT of the trailer.

    But the studio released it anyway. What does that tell you? Either they are fucking retarded, or they are happy with the results of the CGI.

    And you know what? It's both. Logically, it's both.

    Those of you saying it's great because you will overlook the bad CGI in favor of the acting: Well, that's all well and good. Glad you are happy with the results. I have no qualms with that.

    But those of you arguing the CGI will be improved later need a serious reality check. That's the CGI you are going to be getting during the movie -- TBS special. Hope you like it.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 2:55:23 AM CDT

    Saluki

    by flaggg

    I read multiple books a week and this doesn't happen even in books. And if it does, those authors are finished and never write again.

    When an element in a movie takes you OUT Of the story because it is so poorly done, that means the director and company haven't done their job properly. A movie goer should get lost in the story -- not be taken out of it due to glaring $0.02 CGI.

    The story is great. I agree. But when I was watching the trailer I was literally PHYSICALLY taken out of watching it when the bad CGI came on. I almost forgot what I was watching, it was that bad. It hit me like a fucking sledgehammer.

    Anything that does that is BAD for the movie! Understand? This isn't about hating; this is about common fucking sense in how to tell a story.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:15:39 AM CDT

    Flaggg

    by the dum guy

    Did you see the same trailer on film or did you watch it on your' computer?Honestly, I saw the same shit and didn't think it looked bad, maybe my vision is going out, but I wasn't distracted by the FX. I don't know what you want though, so maybe you just have high expectations.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:20:06 AM CDT

    Looks fantastic

    by street trash bhoy

    What I noticed immediately is Thomas Jane was in Punisher mode, remember he said he had been in preparation for a year (even during the Mist) before he pulled out? Man he would have been great judging from what he's like in that trailer.

    As for the SFX moaners, it's a sad day when your basing a film on the level of its SFX, I thought the monsters looked very non CGI, almost old skool looking, kinda deadite'ish from Evil Dead 2.

    I'd rather have that style over the million dollar overkill Transformer style CGI were it looks more than real.....

    Would love to see Thomas Jane make more films with this potential quality.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:34:05 AM CDT

    Looks okay, but the anti-Christian stuff blows...

    by theghostwholurks

    Really. I've been a Christian my whole life and know quite a few of them. So far, I haven't met any who believe in human sacrifice to satisfy God. And if one nutjob did, no Christian I know would follow them.I've rarely seen Hollywood films that portray fundamentalists and evangelicals in a positive light... when, in fact, the exact opposite is true. It's not so much that the nutty "0.1%" find the cameras and microphones... the cameras and microphones find THEM, because most of the people in the media find the morals and standards of Christianity offensive and instinctively work to show Christians (particularly those who espouse a literal reading of the Scriptures and its moral teachings) in a negative light as often as possible.More liberal Christians — especially those who mirror secular attitudes towards sex and the equivalency of other religions to Christianity — are usually given a pass and portrayed as sane and "cool," because they aren't seen as a threat to non-Christians' self-esteem and worldview.It's a basic survival instinct: If you don't want to feel bad about the way you're living, eliminate and marginalize the people and things that are making you feel that way.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:36:56 AM CDT

    On board--I'll buy it..

    by noncents

    Imagine the possibilities.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:47:37 AM CDT

    Fuck Christianity

    by messi

    Fuck it in the ass. The more anti Christian sentiment, the better.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:53:10 AM CDT

    Guys...

    by greengeezer

    I've heard everything in here from anti-christian to war parable to moder "fundamentalists fucking things up again.

    http://www.answers.com/The+Mist?cat=entertainment

    The story was first published in 1980, then released with "skeleton crew" in 1985.
    Though the screen writers may have updated some things, the initial plot, zealotry, and military angle have been present for over 25 years. Give it a REST.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:54:27 AM CDT

    WOW

    by ray gamma

    THIS TALKBACK HAS THE HIGHEST PLANT COUNT IN AICN HISTORY.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:55:08 AM CDT

    Not a plany Ray

    by greengeezer

    But most certainly a King fan...a Calvin if you will, for any of the others out there.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:55:13 AM CDT

    TheGhostWhoLurks

    by the dum guy

    Yeah..... I know people who believe the KJM is the "WORD", so that also means there physical bodies from this life will rise in order for them to be with Christ on those streets of gold. To take the average Bible as word-for-word fact is really crazy, unless you believe in unicorns.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:58:25 AM CDT

    messi

    by the dum guy

    And, screw you for not liking Jesus!If I was in that damn super market, I would be the drunk guy.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 4:01:15 AM CDT

    Re: Human Sacrifice in the Bible

    by bobo_vision

    In response to the person who says he read the "Good book" and didnt find any human sacrifice, here are a couple passages just to show that Stephen King isn't just pulling this out of his ass: "Take your son, your only son – yes, Isaac, whom you love so much – and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you." (Genesis 22:1-18) In Exodus 13:2 the Lord said "Consecrate to me every first-born that opens the womb among Israelites, both man and beast, for it belongs to me." And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. He said, "If you give me victory over the Ammonites, I will give to the LORD the first thing coming out of my house to greet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering...When she returned home, her father kept his vow, and she (his daughter) died a virgin. So it has become a custom in Israel for young Israelite women to go away for four days each year to lament the fate of Jephthah's daughter." (Judges 11:29-40 NLT)
    And so forth, ..there are other references to Human sacrifice for God. Think of this as a literature study rather than Christianity bashing, because I'm just pointing out that King is basing the premise on things that are actually in the bible.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 4:04:09 AM CDT

    What's next, 'THE SMOG?'

    by prague23

    Coming soon, L.A. is attacked by 'THE SMOG,' 99% of the city's population are killed by some hungry 'whatever' and it's a comedy. I might watch that.

    Wasn't this film already made, called The Fog, and then remade and called The Fog again? I have the special 3D sound CD of King's story 'The Mist' and it's really trippy to listen to. But I think the story doesn't reveal what is 'in' the mist, only that it's deadly. So these 'dragons' or whatever are kinda lame and shouldn't be in the trailer but that's obvious.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 4:28:45 AM CDT

    Bobo_Vision

    by jimboa22

    A few things to say about your passages.

    First off, God never wanted Abraham to sacrifice his son, and indeed Isaac never was. It was a test to see the extent of Abraham's faith and at the last minute God told Abraham to stay his hand, as he passed the test.

    Secondly, as far as the second passage, from Exodus, what was meant was that the first-born were to be dedicated to God, or consecrated. NOT sacrificed.

    For the third passage, the man in question was an idiot because he vowed to sacrifice the first thing to walk out of his house. Notice that God didn't command him to - the moron vowed to do something of his own accord. The passage states that it has been a custom to lament his daughter's fate - that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of what the guy did.

    So what I said is still true - the Bible does not condone human sacrifice. There are instances listed where it takes place, but there is nothing that encourages or demands it.

    Oh, and bacci40 - you're the stereotypical raving liberal lunatic. Your inane babblings don't help your arguement (whatever it is) one way or another.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 4:41:31 AM CDT

    Andre Braugher

    by punch man

    wow talk about giving a lot away. Anyone coming to see "Like Andre Braugher? Well don't get used to him!"


    Also this movie loses points immediately by losing the first person narrative of the book and for having to show us the creatures.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 4:45:21 AM CDT

    What about this quote...

    by bobo_vision

    ...from Deuteronomy on sacrificing non-believers who worship foreign gods:

    "Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)

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  • Aug 31, 2007 5:15:02 AM CDT

    And of course, the most famous human sacrifice....

    by bobo_vision

    ....the one which the entire Christian religion hinges on, is the crucifixion of Christ. Didn't he die for our sins as part of God's plan? If one were to contend that it was not God's plan, it would imply that God was not powerful enough to save his own son from human mortals. Human sacrifice is at the very core of Christianity. I'm just sayin'...

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  • Aug 31, 2007 5:53:46 AM CDT

    Nothing normal about believing in invisible shit to me

    by guy who got a headache and accidentally

    So I guess that disallows any christians from being considered normal by me. Fucking wierdos. Also what about God telling whatshisdick to sacrifice his kid before pulling a "gotcha!" at the end? Also I remember in my picture bible people sacrificing all sorts of animals to god all the time in the earlier parts.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 6:19:09 AM CDT

    What's next, 'Pea Souper'

    by filmfunk

    Actually looks real purdy, like how Silent Hill shoud'a bin dun.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 6:45:34 AM CDT

    oh dear god

    by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks

    Frank Darabont is the only guy who should adapt King. Haven't read any talkback but Fuck you, you Fuckin asshole, Scumbag, Cumquat, Spermgurgling queers who hate on this flick.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 6:58:05 AM CDT

    Looks pretty

    by tehgreekhammer

    badass to me.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 6:58:36 AM CDT

    I don´t care about CGI

    by cuervojones

    Actually, all CGI look bad to me. I prefer stop-motion. The Mist looks like a good movie, that´s all i need.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 7:08:09 AM CDT

    Bobo_Vision, You're Missing The Point

    by jimboa22

    Actians taken against people are always a direct result of thier actions. In other words, the razing of towns was twofold: establishing Israeli dominance in a harsh land filled with warlike people, and self-enforcing their religion. Israeliss in ancient times were prone to assimilating into the religions and cults of other peoples, and God specifically stated that they worship no one but Him. The razing of cult-lead towns effectively set examples to the people of the consequences of straying from God. Of course, Israel fell away regardless, so they ended up being invaded and conquered numerous times. But that's another story. The point is, God didn't order the killing of people just to appease his bloodlust, like the Aztec gods, but rather to punish those who either strayed from Him or attempted to corrupt the Israelis. This is shocking to us in modern times, with our focus on tolerance, but in ancient times where reilgion, culture and political dominance were all one and the same, it was vital for the survival of the kingdom of Israel.
    As far as the death of Jesus, it's far more than simply "human sacrifice." It's payment for the wages of sin (I.E. death), and then death itself was conquered by the resurrection. Nothing in the Bible can be placed in the same league as the human sacrifice practiced by the Aztecs or the sacrifice of the child as demanded by the psychotic "Christian" woman in the trailer to this movie. It's simply not there - it takes some serious spinning, the kind that the slimiest of politicians do, to say that God wants us to go around sacrificing people. It's not Biblical.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 7:16:06 AM CDT

    And Guy Who Got A Heacache...

    by jimboa22

    So there's nothing normal in believing in the existance of the wind, or germs, or atoms, or any other other thousands of things invisible to the naked eye? Just because you can't physically see something doesn't mean there isn't any strong evidence of its existance. At the end of the day, faith is a choice. I choose to have faith partly because there is no reason or drawback not to. If non-christians are right, then death is the end, nothing you believe in matters and we're all maggot food anyways (which is a pretty sucky way to live, if you ask me. if you have no hope for the end, then what the hell is the point of living?). But if Christians are right...well, you got the idea.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 7:25:41 AM CDT

    Oh, And One More Thing...

    by jimboa22

    The death of Jesus was a one-shot deal, a once-and-for-all payment for sin. The idea is that because of His death, none of us have to attone for all of our wrong-doings (which is death - to go to heaven, being "good" isn't even close to enough. You have to be PERFECT, which none of us are. Hence why Christ came to take our place). So any "Christian" claiming we have to sacrifice someone to appease God ain't a Christian.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 8:00:16 AM CDT

    best king adaptation

    by silverglade

    While Stand By Me and Green Mile, etc are awesome, my fave is Misery. And most of the film took place in a single bedroom. I got that kind of feeling in seeing this trailer. A supermarket setting with a bunch of people trying to make sense of it all and some slowly losing their damn minds due to fear and confusion. I like those personal dramas. And I can't wait to see what hell the Mist brings with it. Cuz you just know at some point they will stop cowering and go full on into it and face whatever is to be found. On the radio drama audio cassette, they drive a truck under a spider... a spider with massive legs and that is so tall they cannot even see the bottom of its belly. "I don't think there ever was anything that big"...

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  • Aug 31, 2007 8:27:49 AM CDT

    I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH THOMAS JANE!!!

    by tehgreekhammer

    He doesnt like the logo @ the end either.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 8:36:34 AM CDT

    The Mist, Starring...

    by reynard muldrake

    everyone who's ever been in a Darabont movie, ever. I don't know a thing about the Mist, and thought it looked creepy and cool there, but I agree, it shows shloads too much....

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  • Aug 31, 2007 8:38:01 AM CDT

    This is the point...

    by horned one

    We here on talkback are not under threat from some supernatural force trying to kill us, and yet this group still polarizes into thinkers and haters... just like in the movie.

    I think it's very realistic to think, that under those circumstances, a lone religious nut* could incite a group of scared people into human sacrifice. And for those who say: "Christians would never do that!" all I have to say is that history says different.

    *One who believes that a fictional character, born of a virgin and a ghost, made it so they can give up their personal responsibility in favor of a superiority complex.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 9:20:42 AM CDT

    First impression...

    by sapno_krei

    I'm getting a Mick Garris TV-movie vibe form this trailer, but I'm certain that has more to do with the temp music and unfinished FX than anything else. Andre Braugher adds tremendous believability to this thing, just by frickin opening his mouth and speaking! My prediction: this will be a respectable flick, but probably not at the same level as Shawshank and Green Mile.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 9:30:19 AM CDT

    I think Syn flood said it best

    by knowledge1027

    All people care about now is effects, granted if you are going to have sfx in a movie they should be decent . But i'll take a story with good acting,plot, and tension any day over mindless sfx

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  • Aug 31, 2007 11:00:03 AM CDT

    Thomas Jane...

    by thunderpants

    has less screen charisma than my jizz. Goddammit. This will be the new Dreamcatcher.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 11:01:19 AM CDT

    Bollocks...

    by abiggerboat

    Quicktime/Flash doesn't fucking work on my office computer. Serves me right for sitting on the internet all day while at work! Anyone got a link for a quicktime trailer?

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  • Aug 31, 2007 11:01:33 AM CDT

    Creatures

    by necromunda

    Wow, those were some poor creature effects. Looks like a strait to DVD release a la Pumpkin Head 2. I hope they fix that stuff up before it hits theaters. Acting looked fine for this, trailer reminded me of Silent Hill (Am I the only person who liked that one?)

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  • Aug 31, 2007 11:27:48 AM CDT

    Horned One...

    by jimboa22

    Anyone who believes that Jesus is a fictional character is certainly entitled to believe that, but they could not honestly call themselves a "thinker." And God is a supernatural being...not a ghost. If you're going to mock religion, at least get it right.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 11:41:21 AM CDT

    King's religious nuts

    by blue meanie 1138

    For some reason, they always sound like cartoons whenever they make it to screen. Sometimes thta can work in a fun way, as it did with Martin Sheen in DEAD ZONE, but more often than not, it doesn't translate, as it didn't seem to here.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 11:45:13 AM CDT

    This might be the 1st good game based movie

    by kirttawesomio

    I'm excited, the impossible might actually happen.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 11:46:50 AM CDT

    OH SHIT THAT'S EMBARRASSING, it's SK's The mist

    by kirttawesomio

    oops. I wasn't even trying to be an ass that time. It came out naturally.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 11:50:31 AM CDT

    For some reason I thought it was Myst

    by kirttawesomio

  • Aug 31, 2007 11:55:32 AM CDT

    messi you cocksucker

    by kilik777

    people like you are why the world's going to hell in a hand basket. Jesus is lacing em up I tell ya.
    http://tinyurl.com/pv8do

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:05:49 PM CDT

    I thought it was gonna be black and white?

    by rev_skarekroe

    Wasn't that supposed to be part of the gimmick?

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:07:41 PM CDT

    Death to the Interloper!

    by cybervishnu

    This movie will rock your grandpa Alvin's balls right off his motorized wheelchair! You don't doubt Darabont. The man is the best King adapter ever. Plus, most of you haven't read the story and have no idea that the horrors outside are nothing compared to the fears and prejudices unleashed on the inside. This looks pitch perfect to the story. So suck my fat one you cheap dimestore hoods!

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:24:37 PM CDT

    History verses the Bible...

    by horned one

    Sorry to disagree, but there is no evidence that Jesus ever existed. Jesus (Yeshua actually) was a very common name at the time. Kind of like someone named Josh today.

    Also, according to Catholic dogma, the holy trinity consists of the father, son, and the holy GHOST, and it is the third in this list that supposedly impregnated Mary in the form of an angel... at least that's the story she told Joseph (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

    Also, also... the movie looks like it will be pretty good if not great. I like the actors anyway.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:49:07 PM CDT

    Trailers have unfinished CGI all the time.

    by novaman5000

    Two examples that immediately spring to mind: The remake of Kong Kong and the Hulk.
    I think it looks decent. The only problem I have is that they show way too much, there's no tease. We know Andre dies... WTF is that?
    Also, honestly, I'm kind of over these winged demon creatures under cover of mist or darkness type enemies. It's just very... meh to me. I'm not saying it won't be good but, I'm kind of bummed they showed us the creatures because it didn't really work for me.
    In any case, I'll agree, they showed too much. ESPECIALLY for a first trailer.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 12:53:21 PM CDT

    It's kind of annoying that christians are painted as

    by novaman5000

    villains in this film... Because now we have to hear all the offended real-life christians play the martyr card [their very favorite card, after all]. Waa waa, hollywood is against us. Whatever. Alot of you are crazy in real life, so why not on film?

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  • Aug 31, 2007 1:11:15 PM CDT

    Freezeframing is fun!

    by novaman5000

    Is that last shot of the trailer the SHERMINATOR getting dragged off by a giant tentacle? Check it out, I think it is!!!

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  • Aug 31, 2007 1:12:08 PM CDT

    I imdb'd that bitch.

    by novaman5000

    AND IT IS THE SHERMINATOR. Poor Chris Owen, always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 1:25:15 PM CDT

    I hate Andre Braugher

    by mattmanreturns

    This looks like the same role he played in Poseidon... the black guy who dies first because he thinks everyone will survive by relying on sheer stupidity that goes against all logic of the situation.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 2:37:24 PM CDT

    Sci fi channel!

    by gorydon

    HA HA! Yes, that is where this looks like it's gonna be playing on Friday nights. Can we please clean up the CGI or take it out all together. This film shouldn't have too many FX shots anyway if it follows the novella closely. Yeah and they did give away a lot of the story.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 3:34:08 PM CDT

    Looks scary. I'm going to see it.

    by skeletonparty

    The effects look really really bad, like they're not even trying.

    But, the tension was good and the father/son thing always gets me.

    Honestly, I think the mist is the remains of that boxer that popped in the Comebacks trailer.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 5:51:47 PM CDT

    DANG! And I had such high hopes for this.

    by atari

    My favorite King short story and it looks cheesy as hell.

    I guess Hollywood just can't compete with what I imagine in my mind's eye.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 6:55:29 PM CDT

    jimboa- look up "Pascal's Wager"

    by samsquanch

    It's a ridiculous example of circular logic and a terrible reason to "choose" to have faith. Your post in response to the Headache guy sort of summed it up.

    One could argue that faith is in fact not a choice at all, but something deep-rooted, innate to one's psychological make-up. I can't "choose" to believe the sky is red, any more than I can "choose" to believe or not to believe in God.

    Also, to follow this line, if you claim that someone who doesn't believe in Jesus can't claim to be a "thinker", I think you might not know what the word means. To think means to analyse, to endeavor to understand, to use all the faculties of intellect bent towards some kind of answer. Faith and mysticism are mysteries, and therefore clearly and securely nestled outside the realms of rationalism and logic, unfettered by the disadvantages of intellect like requiring evidence or the scientific process. Simply put- you don't have to think to believe. Now, if you want to talk about what it means to think about faith- think of this: There is a very linear process to finding truth if you take the rational route, which starts with: Opinion (which is what everyone is entitled to, eg. I can be of the "opinion" that the sky is red) but once opinion is established, a thinking person with take the next cognisant step of formulating a hypothesis based on whatever impressions or secondary knowledge there is on the subject. This is where my "opinion" of a red sky falls apart, I merely have to look up to realize my opinion is without merit. But let's say, for argument's sake, that I cling to the opinion and formulate a hypothesis of a red sky. The next step is Theory- I would propose an idea claiming to at least suggest some reasons why the sky might be red. Now, if I can prove that, then the sky IS RED as a FACT, which is analogous to TRUTH. Unfortunately, my opinion falls apart right out of the gate. The point is that faith doesn't need this process, it simply is faith . You can have faith that the sky is red, or that Jesus is your savior, or that aliens regularly visit the Earth, or whatever, but if you expose your faith to the process of truth-finding, otherwise known as "thinking", you realize that all you have is faith, nothing more. So, we all have the choice- for some of us, faith is enough, for others, thinking is a necessary part of being human. For some of us, we choose a harmony between the two. Which do you choose?

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  • Aug 31, 2007 11:26:50 PM CDT

    looks good to me

    by blonde redhead

    i'll be seeing it opening day, stop bitching about the damn fx and wait and see, you fuckups.

    also, xtians do, for the most part, suck. fundamentalists of any stripe should be taken out back and shot.

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  • Aug 31, 2007 11:45:03 PM CDT

    The Sherminator has a long "tentacle"...

    by zardoz

    ...wrapped around his neck! And yes, Mrs. Carmody and the other Christian zealots ARE the real villains of the film, not the mist monsters. (man, was Carmody a Christian CUNT in the story!)

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  • Sep 01, 2007 6:19:39 AM CDT

    Flip- spoken like a true agnostic.

    by samsquanch

    bless you.

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  • Sep 01, 2007 12:02:47 PM CDT

    Did they stay true to the original ending..

    by ironmuskrat

    Which is to say not much of ending at all. The original story always felt unfinished to me, like King wasn't sure how to end it, so he leaves the fate of the survivors very open and uncertain.

    I wonder if they will feel the need to change the original ending to make it more marketable for the general audience.

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  • Sep 01, 2007 5:13:48 PM CDT

    Frank said: "ever since i read the Mist, i wanted to

    by future help

    make it a movie. (WHY?) why? there are so many better King short stories. like the ORIGINAL version of the Running Man for example. anywhoooo, the Mist, huh?
    i hope iam surprised.

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  • Sep 01, 2007 5:40:48 PM CDT

    The effects seemed basically okay to me...

    by big dumb ape

    It's still a work in progress and I'm sure they'll be tweaking SFX right up to the infamous striking the prints finish line. And all the reports to date have noted how much Darabont went for practical effects on set wherever he could, to keep things more real looking. So I think the final product will be all right. I think the guy's enough of a pro that I'll give him the benefit of the doubt to check it out opening weekend.I mean, come on, that few second shot of the Mist rolling into town had more scope and scale and sense of dread then ALL of the recent FOG remake combined. You want to talk about a shit film, go rent THAT one...

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  • Sep 01, 2007 6:05:03 PM CDT

    "Fundamentalists of any stripe should be taken & shot"

    by big dumb ape

    Nice one, Blonde Redhead. It's thinking like that that keeps this nation torn apart right down the middle so that no one ever acts like an actual statesman anymore, no one is ever willing to compromise, actual civil discourse is dead, and the levels of hate just keep on growing. Naturally for saying that when a Christian now turns to you and says "Go to Hell, Bitch" I'm sure you'll claim that comment was unprovoked and cite THAT as due cause for why you are right to say the things you do...at which point the vicious cycle keeps spinning round and round and round.Overall, it's not that I mind Marcia Gay Harden playing an "End of Days" ranting type who loses it when the shit hits the fan. Hell, I'm sure MOST people -- religious or not -- would lose it big time if caught up in a MIST-like situation. What I hate about it is that even from the trailer you can see she's playing it SO over the top that her performance is already annyoing and teeth-grating.Oh, and speaking as a very middle of the road, lifelong Catholic and Christian, the other reason I groan when it comes to portrayals like this is that this is NOT necessarily even a proper representation of what a die hard believer would even be doing in this type of crisis. Namely, running around like a chicken whose lost his head screaming "It's the End of Days! You better repent! Give me your child as a sacrifice!" I mean, come on, PUH-LEEEZE. I expected a bit better than that lame ass stereotype from Darabont. I know there were aspects of it in the original short story, but that doesn't mean he had to conversely overplay it in the film. But maybe he doesn't -- maybe the final cut will have a different feel. We'll just have to see.Speaking for myself, the truth is I believe because I CHOOSE to believe. That's my choice, much like not choosing might be yours. And I respect that. To each his own. I won't get in your face, so long as you don't get in mine. And as a result, I don't see the need for people like Redhead here to be using such ridiculous over-the-top, utterly tripe and mental midget lines like "Take Christians out and shoot them."Hell, the way I see it, in the end I can't lose. If a true end of the world moment comes and we all just die and go nowhere....well, fine. You were right, I was wrong, and we're both dead and going nowhere, so who gives a shit? We're DEAD and going NOWHERE, so the point is moot.On the other hand, if the world ends and it IS a so-called Judgment Day event, well, then I guess I get to go on while someone is screwed. Ahem. Either way, I get the end result while you only have a 50-50 shot. So, me, I'll take those odds. In the meantime, all the actual anti-Christian hate talk is exceedingly lame for a movie talkback and only reveals what utterly intolerant asses some of you actually are...

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  • Sep 01, 2007 6:33:04 PM CDT

    Big Dumb Ape

    by thebladehelm

    Why do you assume that just because one is not Christian they don't believe in an afterlife? What if there is an afterlife, and it is, like the Christian notion of an afterlife, exclusive to members of one, and only one, religion, then you'd not be welcome there as much as I am not welcome in Christian Heaven.As for all the Anti-Christian Hate Talk, all I can say is most people understand that most Christians are 'normal' people. But even Christians don't like the crazies that speak for them, and they should join in with the rest of us in denouncing them and all they say. To blindly label all religious people as kooks is ignorant and wrong, but to ignore the fact that there is a very vocal and prominent faction of nutjob Christians is just as ignorant and wrong.Or is it like I suspect? That even though publicly you and your type say they don't agree with them, in your heart you agree more with them than with us, and that's why there is never any outrage from the 'normal' Christians about the insane bullshit they say and do.

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  • Sep 02, 2007 3:21:05 AM CDT

    "You and your type"

    by big dumb ape

    I'm sorry, Bladehelm -- "you and your type"? "More with them than with us"? Seriously, you must be kidding me by even dropping lines like those, or at least I hope so.The point of my post -- however awkwardly I may or may not have stated my viewpoint -- was simple. Namely, in today's world, more than ever, we need to be talking more and fostering tolerance for different points of views, and we certainly need to always safeguard complete freedom of speech -- whatever your views -- simply because the last time I checked that actually was one of THE core reasons that our Forefathers shed their blood to create our nation to begin with.That said, there's a rather ironic notion behind your post and philosophical stance. So what you're saying is that unless I agree with YOU and speak out against Fundamentalists and THEIR beliefs, then "me and my type" are just as bad as them (who I gather represent something you personally oppose). Ahhhhh...so now I get it. So what you're saying is, either I get with YOUR program and back YOUR viewpoint and regurgitate YOUR thoughts with my voice or else I'm the enemy TOO.Sorry, Bladehelm, but now we've just come full circle and you've only proven my point about a need for stressing more tolerance in our society yet again.But for what it's worth, like I said before, I'm a middle of the road Catholic and since I don't have any so-called "Fundies" in my face, frankly I feel I have better things to spend my time worrying about or spending my political voice and capital fighting. In fact, I can't even recall the last time I ever even ran into anyone acting as "in your face" or over the top as Rebecca Gay Harden is acting in the MIST trailer. So, yeah, on a basic personal level, the way I see it they're welcome to do their thing since frankly they're not interfering with me doing MY thing. But trust me, I'm sure if the day comes when they cross that particular line THEN I'll have reason to push back more than enough...

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