The Mist - book - is one of my favorites. Some friends didn't like the end, which I get, but for me, the Behemoth and the mist show that the world does not belong to humans anymore, the Behemoth walking past the car is like a human walking past an ant. Really good video, hope that you do more of these, I imagine that youtube is really friendly to small channels, but I truly hope that you continue;
So many whiny frail crystal people crying about the ending. It's a great ending, it's a real ending, not everything is good and smell of flowers. The hope is still there, the army is recovering what was lost, just that is too late for David.
If it was a great ending, there wouldn't be so many fans upset with it being changed from the classic short story. Yes. Short story. Not book. It was originally released under the skeleton crew collection. The original ending is open, optimistic and leaves him and his son to take on the new world while leaving their final words of their story on a diner napkin. Most people never read it. Those are the ones who don't care about the ending.
The MAIN difference for me was the ending. The novella ending was full of hope. The film was hopelessly dismal. (So much that I could only watch it once)
I think he liked it because it made sense in the movie and he said he wished he did that. So apparently the boy was the sacrifice. Once the son was killed the mist cleared. I think there's also a connection with the parallel universe and the dark tower. Good vs evil. That's the theory anyway. But everything that crazy lady said did come true.
I really liked this comparison having read the novella in high school and not seeing the film for a decade. I prefer the book up to the end. The film ending is much more jarring and memorable.
Sorry, dude, but you got the ending of the book wrong. In the book, they pulled into a Howard Johnson's rest stop to hide and plan their next move, and to figure out how to refuel their car while having to go outside to the gas pump. While everyone is asleep inside the rest stop, David is listening to a radio and overhears a broadcast and hears the word, "Hartford, Connecticut," which gives him hope that civilization is out there. But the book does not end with David and the others driving off into the mist, it ends at the Howard Johnson's where David has to figure out how to refuel the car... while being outside. I suggest you correct your video.
The narrator actually discusses whether he should or shouldn't siphon gas, but it seems more likely that he intends to wait until later if at all possible. Presumably, that would be after sharing the possibility of reaching Hartford, so there's a great deal of uncertainty, but it's more likely that they just drove off.
@@NyanCatHerder They'd need to refuel regardless if they were going to make it to Connecticut, or further south, so I'm guessing that he'd have to risk using the fuel pump and figure out how to rig it so that he doesn't have to be outside the car while the nozzle is in the fuel inlet.
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TBH, unlike a lot of people, I'm just not all that big a Darabont fan: with the possible exception of those first few seasons of The Walking Dead, I find nearly all his stuff to lack actual character depth...he, for me, is too at ease with replacing moments where real contemplative dramatic moments with an almost 1950s style surface gloss. As such, the ending of the novel, which offers both despair and hope with heady mystery is replaced by (sorry) sheer idiocy that actually betrays EVERYTHING these characters have just fought for, gone through. And as a long time King fan...I'm baffled how King can rail endlessly about how Kubrick altered too much with The Shining yet applaud Darabonts complete change of his tale. But...I'm always glad when people get to know more about how far more creative, inventive a talespinner King is, so whatever brings more fans to the fold, I'm good with that
I love the ending of the film....it's devastating, but I think it would have been a cop-out to give it a happy ending. King himself said he loves the ending, and that he didn't like that he left Steffy's fate up in the air in his original story. Never was a fan of The Walking Dead. But I love The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile (I don't agree that both film lacks character depth, I thought they had plenty of it, especially Shawshank). It's too bad that Darabont doesn't do a lot more films nowadays. I heard he got fired off of TWD show, so maybe he's not exactly on good terms with the hotshots in the studios anymore.
Any fool who thinks the ending of this dreadful adaption of a great story needed to match ANYTHING Mrs Carmody thought or said is fully indicative of someone absolutely NOT understanding the story.
@@peterconlon8234 Hey, you don't like the film or the ending that's fine. You don't have to be so insulting and condescending to those who disagree, though.
I watched Shawshank Redemption Green Mile & love the Walking Dead in Halloween. Haven't watch The Mist b4...will check the Netflix......Which movie u reckon is the closest to the book?
@@realbobphilips Oh, Happy New Year. I'll borrow the Green Mile book for reading in summer holiday here in Australia...By the way, I still keep checking ur videos. Would u mind check my channel too & have a 5 mins watch of my 2023 Goals & Jokes...if u have time. Thank you very much.
I read the book as part of the Stephen King's Skeleton Crew short stories collection and I remember wishing they made a movie about it like they did for the first story which was about a toy monkey that was cursed. Whatta ya know? some 13 years after I read the book they did! But the ending was NOT the same as the book! WHAAAA!? I liked the more realistic not so hopeful ending of them driving in the mist looking for a safe place.. open ended leaving room for a sequel 😛
I would say the movies ending is less hopeful and outright nihilistic. Literally everything in the movie was for nothing. If they just stayed in the store, they would have been alright
I'm happy to see someone else push back against my least favorite King trope, randomly making the protagonist an adulterer. it has put a damper on 3 of his best books for me.
2 biggest problems with this movie are the mist and the ending. In the short story, the mist was described as a flat wall that advanced. In the movie, it looks like they used cgi to make a giant fog machine effect. Not really scary. And the ending was too dark and not King's vision. If they had used King's ending, could have done a sequel.
What I love about the movie it makes you think it leaves so much to interpret from using your imagination, especially the part where Norton and the flat-earthers when they leave and you don’t see them killed and the biker was bisected. Hardly any movies capture the atmosphere of this type of horror which I find more fascinating and terrifying than a slasher, the only films that I feel that captures this existential dread would be John carpenters the thing, event horizon and even poltergeist because those movies are so layered and makes you think of what horrors happened and where do these things reside and what other mysterious monstrosities are lurking it all leaves things open for the audience to figure things out and that’s what makes it scarier, showing less and wanting more.
I haven’t read the book but hearing about the ending comparing it to the movie yet it’s way better. The movies too dark and movies are just not really supposed to be dark. They’re supposed to make you forget reality for a short time not make you think of real reality.
Because hollywood is just like any other job. Probably the producer of this movie liked them and offered the walking dead gig to them or vice versa. Not sure which came out first
But lord, you don't WANT concrete answers. King's ending was so beautiful, leaving the reader to use their imagination on what may have happened. The movie ending was getting slapped in the face by a wet fish. So silly. I thought the movie was solid until the end which kind of crapped on everything that came before. Maybe I'm just a reader and not a movie watcher.
The Twilight Zone style ending of the movie smacks of the kind of lazy shock value cheapness regularly seen in B level horror flicks. I know Stephen King liked it , but the moral sense of the story he wrote was betrayed by it. We have a heroic figure , the moral compass of the story who did all the right things , who kills his companions. Normalcy is restored at the end , wherein he will inevitably face murder and other charges , especially from the enemies he left behind at the store. It's frustrating when the sympathetic hero is denied the reward of heroism , and to cheat the audience of this expectation is not really a sign of sophisticated storytelling but the predictable move of a nihilistic hack. In my opinion.
“His work gets adapted well” (I paraphrased) What?! He’s infamously jinxed in getting horrible adaptations of his work😂😂 it’s pretty much a running joke in the fandom about how many bad adaptations there are. Also that’s not really the ending of the book per say. They’re in a hotel for the night low on fuel and he’s contemplating filling up because hearing the city name has given him hope even though he’s not sure he really heard it. He’s going to leave the account he’s been writing behind though in the hopes someone finds it and then goes to bed. It ends on hope but no action. They didn’t just drive off into the sunset, or in this case the mist.
The Mist - book - is one of my favorites. Some friends didn't like the end, which I get, but for me, the Behemoth and the mist show that the world does not belong to humans anymore, the Behemoth walking past the car is like a human walking past an ant.
Really good video, hope that you do more of these, I imagine that youtube is really friendly to small channels, but I truly hope that you continue;
Thank you very much. I always appreciate feedback
So many whiny frail crystal people crying about the ending. It's a great ending, it's a real ending, not everything is good and smell of flowers. The hope is still there, the army is recovering what was lost, just that is too late for David.
It always seemed a little too cruel for me, but yea it could happen.
The only crying I do about the ending of the movie is cuz of how sad it makes me EVERY TIME he kills his kid😭💔
Is a stupid ending.
If it was a great ending, there wouldn't be so many fans upset with it being changed from the classic short story. Yes. Short story. Not book. It was originally released under the skeleton crew collection. The original ending is open, optimistic and leaves him and his son to take on the new world while leaving their final words of their story on a diner napkin. Most people never read it. Those are the ones who don't care about the ending.
The ending was made to be dark regardless of choices. The most was never going to clear unless the sacrifices were made
That spider scene should have been illegal to show to kids, till this day I am traumatized
The MAIN difference for me was the ending. The novella ending was full of hope. The film was hopelessly dismal. (So much that I could only watch it once)
I think he liked it because it made sense in the movie and he said he wished he did that. So apparently the boy was the sacrifice. Once the son was killed the mist cleared. I think there's also a connection with the parallel universe and the dark tower. Good vs evil. That's the theory anyway. But everything that crazy lady said did come true.
I really liked this comparison having read the novella in high school and not seeing the film for a decade. I prefer the book up to the end. The film ending is much more jarring and memorable.
I wish the novella had some expansion, I always wanted to know more about the biology of these creatures and their home world
Sorry, dude, but you got the ending of the book wrong. In the book, they pulled into a Howard Johnson's rest stop to hide and plan their next move, and to figure out how to refuel their car while having to go outside to the gas pump. While everyone is asleep inside the rest stop, David is listening to a radio and overhears a broadcast and hears the word, "Hartford, Connecticut," which gives him hope that civilization is out there. But the book does not end with David and the others driving off into the mist, it ends at the Howard Johnson's where David has to figure out how to refuel the car... while being outside. I suggest you correct your video.
Yeah. There was hope but mostly dreadful uncertainty.
The narrator actually discusses whether he should or shouldn't siphon gas, but it seems more likely that he intends to wait until later if at all possible. Presumably, that would be after sharing the possibility of reaching Hartford, so there's a great deal of uncertainty, but it's more likely that they just drove off.
@@NyanCatHerder They'd need to refuel regardless if they were going to make it to Connecticut, or further south, so I'm guessing that he'd have to risk using the fuel pump and figure out how to rig it so that he doesn't have to be outside the car while the nozzle is in the fuel inlet.
Your channel is underrated! Good vid
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Good video, I luved this movie, however I wished they'd stuck with the ending from the book, after all they'd been through to have "THAT" ending....
Very interesting video buddy. thank you for sharing. 😊
Great explanation to both. Loved this bro.
Could tell you put a lot of work into this video. Nice job!
Every time I think about The Mist, I think about CERN.
Brlliant! Thanks for sharing 👌
I'd like to see the difference between the book and movie for Annihilation! I'm gonna check if ya have it already though. This video was perfect!
I never heard of that movie but I’m glad you liked the video
@@realbobphilips I think you'd like it whether you make a video or not 😊
TBH, unlike a lot of people, I'm just not all that big a Darabont fan: with the possible exception of those first few seasons of The Walking Dead, I find nearly all his stuff to lack actual character depth...he, for me, is too at ease with replacing moments where real contemplative dramatic moments with an almost 1950s style surface gloss.
As such, the ending of the novel, which offers both despair and hope with heady mystery is replaced by (sorry) sheer idiocy that actually betrays EVERYTHING these characters have just fought for, gone through.
And as a long time King fan...I'm baffled how King can rail endlessly about how Kubrick altered too much with The Shining yet applaud Darabonts complete change of his tale.
But...I'm always glad when people get to know more about how far more creative, inventive a talespinner King is, so whatever brings more fans to the fold, I'm good with that
King said he prefers the movie ending. Myself, I lilked the novela ending much more.
I love the ending of the film....it's devastating, but I think it would have been a cop-out to give it a happy ending. King himself said he loves the ending, and that he didn't like that he left Steffy's fate up in the air in his original story.
Never was a fan of The Walking Dead. But I love The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile (I don't agree that both film lacks character depth, I thought they had plenty of it, especially Shawshank).
It's too bad that Darabont doesn't do a lot more films nowadays. I heard he got fired off of TWD show, so maybe he's not exactly on good terms with the hotshots in the studios anymore.
The ending of the movie... The sacrifice of the boy was Required to end the most like Ms Carmoody said.
Seems like you didn't get it
Any fool who thinks the ending of this dreadful adaption of a great story needed to match ANYTHING Mrs Carmody thought or said is fully indicative of someone absolutely NOT understanding the story.
@@peterconlon8234 Hey, you don't like the film or the ending that's fine.
You don't have to be so insulting and condescending to those who disagree, though.
8:00 For a moment, I thought Mrs. Carmody has taken over the video. 😆
This is one of my all-time favourite movies.
I wanna become the Steven king of the video game industry
I watched Shawshank Redemption Green Mile & love the Walking Dead in Halloween. Haven't watch The Mist b4...will check the Netflix......Which movie u reckon is the closest to the book?
The Green Mile for sure is the most faithful Stephen King adaptation
@@realbobphilips Oh, Happy New Year. I'll borrow the Green Mile book for reading in summer holiday here in Australia...By the way, I still keep checking ur videos. Would u mind check my channel too & have a 5 mins watch of my 2023 Goals & Jokes...if u have time. Thank you very much.
I read the book as part of the Stephen King's Skeleton Crew short stories collection and I remember wishing they made a movie about it like they did for the first story which was about a toy monkey that was cursed. Whatta ya know? some 13 years after I read the book they did! But the ending was NOT the same as the book! WHAAAA!? I liked the more realistic not so hopeful ending of them driving in the mist looking for a safe place.. open ended leaving room for a sequel 😛
I would say the movies ending is less hopeful and outright nihilistic. Literally everything in the movie was for nothing. If they just stayed in the store, they would have been alright
I'm happy to see someone else push back against my least favorite King trope, randomly making the protagonist an adulterer. it has put a damper on 3 of his best books for me.
2 biggest problems with this movie are the mist and the ending. In the short story, the mist was described as a flat wall that advanced. In the movie, it looks like they used cgi to make a giant fog machine effect. Not really scary. And the ending was too dark and not King's vision. If they had used King's ending, could have done a sequel.
What I love about the movie it makes you think it leaves so much to interpret from using your imagination, especially the part where Norton and the flat-earthers when they leave and you don’t see them killed and the biker was bisected. Hardly any movies capture the atmosphere of this type of horror which I find more fascinating and terrifying than a slasher, the only films that I feel that captures this existential dread would be John carpenters the thing, event horizon and even poltergeist because those movies are so layered and makes you think of what horrors happened and where do these things reside and what other mysterious monstrosities are lurking it all leaves things open for the audience to figure things out and that’s what makes it scarier, showing less and wanting more.
So did the army show up cause they were taking care of it or because the mc actually lost everyone?
I just finished reading the book yesterday and I've yet to see the movie.
I didn’t catch the ending of the book how it ended again?
I haven’t read the book but hearing about the ending comparing it to the movie yet it’s way better. The movies too dark and movies are just not really supposed to be dark. They’re supposed to make you forget reality for a short time not make you think of real reality.
Great video!
cool vid, first comment
Can you do the signing book vs movie ?
You mean the Shining with Jack Nicholson?
The endings are vastly different. The movie ending is fantastic. The book ending pissed me off😂
Great comparison!
mist erious
Hell yeah very well played
Why is the ENTIRE cast of season 1-3 of TWD in this movie 😂
Because hollywood is just like any other job. Probably the producer of this movie liked them and offered the walking dead gig to them or vice versa. Not sure which came out first
Agree the ending of film is better, after the sheer horror it’s a huge release; and a bit funny (but that’s probably just me).
The novella has a nice mysterious,
thought provoking ending, whereas,
Darabont's ending is dumb. Ruins a
perfectly good film.
But lord, you don't WANT concrete answers. King's ending was so beautiful, leaving the reader to use their imagination on what may have happened. The movie ending was getting slapped in the face by a wet fish. So silly. I thought the movie was solid until the end which kind of crapped on everything that came before. Maybe I'm just a reader and not a movie watcher.
Still wasn't an concrete answer. We can only assume what happened after and I prefer it. It was a realistic ending
I loved the book, movie stayed pretty faithful, until the sucky ending, which I can't believe SK approved and liked
The Twilight Zone style ending of the movie smacks of the kind of lazy shock value cheapness regularly seen in B level horror flicks. I know Stephen King liked it , but the moral sense of the story he wrote was betrayed by it. We have a heroic figure , the moral compass of the story who did all the right things , who kills his companions. Normalcy is restored at the end , wherein he will inevitably face murder and other charges , especially from the enemies he left behind at the store. It's frustrating when the sympathetic hero is denied the reward of heroism , and to cheat the audience of this expectation is not really a sign of sophisticated storytelling but the predictable move of a nihilistic hack. In my opinion.
I think that ending was better than anything outside of Green Mile, has ever made. It was realistic and gruesome
As often happens with King, the film adaptations are far better than the original material.
“His work gets adapted well” (I paraphrased)
What?! He’s infamously jinxed in getting horrible adaptations of his work😂😂 it’s pretty much a running joke in the fandom about how many bad adaptations there are.
Also that’s not really the ending of the book per say. They’re in a hotel for the night low on fuel and he’s contemplating filling up because hearing the city name has given him hope even though he’s not sure he really heard it. He’s going to leave the account he’s been writing behind though in the hopes someone finds it and then goes to bed. It ends on hope but no action. They didn’t just drive off into the sunset, or in this case the mist.
The book ending is much better. One of his few good endings and you're still out here throwing shade.
I used to think Carmody's little cult was way too over the top, an excessive parody of religious fanaticism. Then MAGA came along.
That's why there were no survivors after Trump's term as president and the population of 'Murka is currently zero.
Why make a movie so faithful to the book but screw us on the end ,the books ending is by far superior
Even Stephen king thinks the movie ending is better
So many walking dead characters
This was before that
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