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[SJRB]

It gets even more insane when you realize the army comes in from behind them and they were driving away from the help all this time.

 

[RJMacready73]

Id love to see a prequel and I reckon it would make for an excellent horror about how the army fought to contain it which ultimately led to its release, has there ever been any word on what happened or how it happened as that's a fucking cool story right there

 

[RJMacready73]

Enter Chat GPT...

Sure — here's a short synopsis for a prequel to Stephen King's The Mist:

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Title: The Arrowhead Project


When a classified U.S. military research facility in rural Maine begins experiments on interdimensional travel, scientists celebrate a breakthrough that could change the world. But as pressure mounts from shadowy government overseers, safety protocols start to slip. Strange power surges, unexplained disappearances, and distorted radio signals hint that something on the other side is watching back.


As paranoia spreads through the base, a young technician discovers that the "window" they've opened may already be a door — and it's stuck wide open. When containment finally fails, the project's true horror is unleashed: a creeping, otherworldly mist that devours everything in its path.


The final transmission from Arrowhead reads only: "Close the gate… if you still can."

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Would you like me to make it sound more like a film pitch, a novel blurb, or a TV series synopsis?

 

[Madflavor]

Ending is great, but personally I wouldn't shoot my boy unless our chances of survival were pretty much 0%. If I were in that dude's shoes we would've been rescued.

Then a few years later I'd be sitting in my rocking chair saying "Son…let me tell you about the time I almost shot you in the face."

 

[Poppinfresh]

Id love to see a prequel and I reckon it would make for an excellent horror about how the army fought to contain it which ultimately led to its release, has there ever been any word on what happened or how it happened as that's a fucking cool story right there

Read "The Fold" by Peter Clines. It's exactly what you are looking for.

 

[RJMacready73]

Read "The Fold" by Peter Clines. It's exactly what you are looking for.

Just read a quick synopsis of that, yup you are correct that is right up my street and onto my Amazon list

 

[Poppinfresh]

Just read a quick synopsis of that, yup you are correct that is right up my street and onto my Amazon list

If you like that one, he's written a few more in the same universe: 14, Terminus, and Dead Moon (I think)

I haven't read Terminus or Dead Moon but 14 is great.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Because i feel like i'm the only one.

Surprised by this take and all the people in here agreeing.
Everyone I talked to thought the ending was retarded; I saw it in theater and as soon as the army rolls in people started groaning, and during the credits the audience started having conversations amongst themselves about how the ending sucked and ruined the movie

 

[Hookshot]

It gets even more insane when you realize the army comes in from behind them and they were driving away from the help all this time.

They were fleeing the mist that came from the military base. The daft part to the whole story is that that would imply that it was a very small localised threat as it wasn't even the wider military that stopped it, just the base and whoever they called on quickly.

Been a while since I saw it, does it say how long they were driving for? Seems they shot each other after a day and a bit.

 

[Days like these...]

Surprised by this take and all the people in here agreeing.
Everyone I talked to thought the ending was retarded; I saw it in theater and as soon as the army rolls in people started groaning, and during the credits the audience started having conversations amongst themselves about how the ending sucked and ruined the movie

Upset that a movie doesn't have a happily ever after ending like most movies? Maybenthey should stick to movies that are rated PG or better yet G to be on the safe side.

 

[Sticks]

I love the movie

 

[nkarafo]

Surprised by this take and all the people in here agreeing.
Everyone I talked to thought the ending was retarded; I saw it in theater and as soon as the army rolls in people started groaning, and during the credits the audience started having conversations amongst themselves about how the ending sucked and ruined the movie

Not sure if i dislike the ending for the same reasons though. I was groaning at the mass suicide part. Didn't matter what happened next, i didn't even care tbh. That part had ruined the movie for me already.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Upset that a movie doesn't have a happily ever after ending like most movies?

No

Not sure if i dislike the ending for the same reasons though.

It was the same reasons yes.

 

[Paasei]

I think you are missing the point.

When i say the ending is dumb, i don't mean the characters are acting dumb or not.

In this situation, it would be more realistic/probable for at least 1 character (out of 4 ffs) to try their chance by getting out of the car instead of taking a bullet in the head. Or maybe wait it out more because of the reasons i already explained.

Whether this is a dumb decision by this one character or not it's a matter of perspective, like you say. But from a movie making perspective, i say it's dumb to assume all 4 people in a pool of 4 would just accept to get a bullet in the head.

I don't know how to stress this enough. The issue is not that someone decided to kill themselves over a desperate situation. The issue is that in a pool of 4 people they all decided the same thing. The possibility that someone would chicken out or that someone would be more hopeful than the others is not touched at all. That's dumb.

Gas ran out, the situation has been nothing but hopeless throughout the entire movie. You can get out of the car, opening the possibility of being fucked over by monsters. You've seen nothing else for the entire time you were in the store all the way till that point. Yet somehow you might have a faint feeling that you are the lucky one and might make it? I wouldn't believe that shit and take the bullet.

 

[nkarafo]

You can get out of the car, opening the possibility of being fucked over by monsters.

Imagine killing yourself over a possibility.

Yet somehow you might have a faint feeling that you are the lucky one and might make it? I wouldn't believe that shit and take the bullet.

Or maybe your survival instinct would kick in so you would most likely back down and wouldn't pull the trigger.

And as i said already, i bet my ass the majority of the posters who so casually claim they would do it and are so certain about it, would not do it.

 

[Paasei]

"opening the possibility"

Imagine killing yourself over a possibility.


And as i said already, the majority of the posters who so casually claim they would do it and are so certain about it, would not do it.

After taking all the circumstances and everything that happened? I can imagine someone kicking the bucket.

Great insight to know that the majority wouldn't do it.

Also, it's a movie.

 

[AgatonSax]

Heh, all the tough guys on this site thinking their character types would survive a Stephen King novel; you're the guys who get killed off for comic effect, real early.

Ending was fine. Movie is about the power of despair and sits as a counterpoint to Shawshank which is about hope. As i recall they drive until they run out of gas. The mist is everywhere and spreading; no signs of human life. They've seen the massive monster just plodding by; the world is no longer theirs and any encounter will result in horrendous death soon as they leave the car. They are traumatised and irrational; they surrender to despair, happens in nature all the time.

What I would say is that the ending would have better if they all died and then the camera casually drifts down the road to show the twisty truth. The fact they let the Dad survive was needlessly cruel.

 

[GymWolf]

That depends. How sure you are about the monster fucking fate? I don't think they had enough evidence to suggest 100% the whole world is like this. So in a pool of 4 people you would expect at least one would think there's still hope.

Even if they were 100% sure there is no way to avoid a gruesome monster fucking death, in a pool of 4 people you would still expect at least one still being in denial clinging to hopioum because the survival instinct kicked in or because they are too scared to kill themselves.

So all in all, nah, i still don't buy a perfect 4 out of 4 would do what they did in the movie.

It was definitely made for shock value but it wasn't completely nonsense, you can feel what the characters felt in that moment so when they decide to kill themselves you can symphathize with them.

 

[Clear]

Its lazy and well... just shit imho.

That King himself supposedly liked it... well it just proves what I've thought for the last 40 odd years: King has no fucking clue how to plot an ending!

Honestly, which of King's "classic era*" novels end strongly? Because off-hand I can't think of any.

 

[DrFigs]

By the time I saw the movie, I already had the ending ruined for me, so I was fine with it. But in general, I want to see the good guys win, so it is a bummer.

 

[nkarafo]

so when they decide to kill themselves you can symphathize with them.

Can't say i sympathized with them. I was frustrated not a single one of them didn't argue or protest or was afraid to do it and all the other things i already mentioned.

After that i couldn't feel anything for them and the army appearing felt like a funny moment to me rather than tragic.