spoiler: cloverfield & The Mist
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:10 pm
Just watched "The mist" & "cloverfield"...
Why on earth don´t i read reviews before renting movies at block-buster.. 55 bucks(danish currency) out the window..
First i watched cloverfield, interesting approach... blair witch type hand held view from a hand held camera.. i´m very envies of that cameras battery life time though....
The ending: so we follow them through all the shit only to watch one of them get to be a snack... and the final two to be either nuked or carpet bombed, hard to tell since then the movie ends as the camera gets smashed. and then we get end titles..
No information to whether or not that the beast dies.. which is kind a unbelievable since it already has survived most of what the US military could throw at it.. anti tank missiles, tank rounds,artillery rounds, huge bombs from airplanes, tons of bullets... all while it looks very fleshy, and seems to be hurt by the hits.. it still survives every hit, and all rounds from tanks and missiles explodes on its skin, on impact... still its fleshy skin and what seems to be delicate gills do not take damage... E=Mc2 seems to be out of effect...
idea good, execution and continuity, bad, logical approach.. hey it´s a movie, we don´t need to obey physics, tilted sky scraper for example that leans onto another is quite unbelievable.
And then all the little critters the thing drops.. star ship trooper baby insects that apparently have infectious bites, that makes your eyes bleed, and your stomach explode in good old Alien fashion.. in less than what seems to be 2 hours.. They sound like something someone in a movie company wanted added to give the movie some “alien” moments... these can however be killed with a simple Iron Rod.. I let that stand for a moment..
bottomline, bad movie...
The Mist..
Mental note, never rent based on Stephen King book movies again..
Seems every time dear old Stephen has something to write about human nature, is that we in stressed situations degenerate to middle-age beliefs. And nobody in his story got the balls to take that religious broad mouth and stuff it with gaff tape. Instead they allow her to spread fear and soon we got the 8 believers vs the Jim Morrison group.. actually most of the story is about that.. and is quite boring.... yawn... and it takes ages before any of the group realizes that bugs are indeed attracted by lights... woohoo needs a rocket science degree to figure that one out. And our hero is asleep most of the time.. so that the religious broad can spread fear, and the rest of his group, cannot do anything while our hero is a sleep...
Regarding the monsters..
seems that in that dimension, there is nothing but predators, apart from bugs, that have a vicious sting to defend themselves with, big wasps that look like mosquitoes. They seem not to be able to use their sting however against anything but humans, their natural predator, some flying dinosaur, they just let themselves get eaten by them, without stinging... ehmm yes offcourse... like natural selection would let them survive
And then the monster spiders, acid web spiders more likely... they shoot acid web, that cuts through too arteries and thus bleeding their victims... apart from a select few that is left alive as it suits the movie plot...
The huge four legged tentacle beast.. yes everybody can´t see it because of the mist, I will get back to that later in the ending..
from inside the super market, you can see out through the mist perhaps 3 meters.. however as soon as you enter the mist, that magically becomes about 20-30 meters... now our sane group of people with out hero, escapes the Jim Morrison group, and heads for the end of the mist in a car.. naturally they run out of gas. Why did they not attempt to get some gas, from all the cars they just passed. That military jeep could have had some. Or try to tank some at the nearest tank station.. before heading out into the mist...
just after seeing a huge four legged tentacle beast that crosses their route...
visibility is now at about 100-200 meters.. hey the mist is clearing.. but no one notices that..they run out of gas...
They decide to commit collective suicide rather than stepping out into the now clearing mist and become monster food... but of course they only have 4 bullets, and are 5 people, 4 adults, and 1 kid.
it takes like 5 mins from they run out of gas, until they commit suicide.. only our hero is left alive.. and he steps out into the now clearing mist... and yells take me, to the monsters... we hear a sound, and hey here comes the military. 30+ Tanks, and Trucks, and Troops, and all the noise that we could´nt hear despite them only being 10 min away.. lights off despite the fact they drive into a mist, and somehow they make the mist retreat or evaporate... while burning nests of monster wasps..
of course our hero goes insane, cause he just killed his son, and 3 other adults, this is just another Stephen got tired of writing, and found a quick ending... but released it anyway, because he is Stephen King...
There is no point to the story, its just the same old usual, we are people therefore when threatened with getting killed as a group we become degenerate scared humans, and does not posses the fight or flight response, that is instinctively in us all.
Somebody ought to take old Stephen into real life, to teach him a tad more on human nature. Could be though he thinks “rednecks” degenerate faster, because they are country folks, and city people are arrogant therefore do not have the self preservation instinct.
In Stephens mind, all of New York should have committed collective suicide after or during 9/11, because they got scared from something they did not understand...
Anyway from now on, I avoid based on Stephen King book movies.
Why on earth don´t i read reviews before renting movies at block-buster.. 55 bucks(danish currency) out the window..
First i watched cloverfield, interesting approach... blair witch type hand held view from a hand held camera.. i´m very envies of that cameras battery life time though....
The ending: so we follow them through all the shit only to watch one of them get to be a snack... and the final two to be either nuked or carpet bombed, hard to tell since then the movie ends as the camera gets smashed. and then we get end titles..
No information to whether or not that the beast dies.. which is kind a unbelievable since it already has survived most of what the US military could throw at it.. anti tank missiles, tank rounds,artillery rounds, huge bombs from airplanes, tons of bullets... all while it looks very fleshy, and seems to be hurt by the hits.. it still survives every hit, and all rounds from tanks and missiles explodes on its skin, on impact... still its fleshy skin and what seems to be delicate gills do not take damage... E=Mc2 seems to be out of effect...
idea good, execution and continuity, bad, logical approach.. hey it´s a movie, we don´t need to obey physics, tilted sky scraper for example that leans onto another is quite unbelievable.
And then all the little critters the thing drops.. star ship trooper baby insects that apparently have infectious bites, that makes your eyes bleed, and your stomach explode in good old Alien fashion.. in less than what seems to be 2 hours.. They sound like something someone in a movie company wanted added to give the movie some “alien” moments... these can however be killed with a simple Iron Rod.. I let that stand for a moment..
bottomline, bad movie...
The Mist..
Mental note, never rent based on Stephen King book movies again..
Seems every time dear old Stephen has something to write about human nature, is that we in stressed situations degenerate to middle-age beliefs. And nobody in his story got the balls to take that religious broad mouth and stuff it with gaff tape. Instead they allow her to spread fear and soon we got the 8 believers vs the Jim Morrison group.. actually most of the story is about that.. and is quite boring.... yawn... and it takes ages before any of the group realizes that bugs are indeed attracted by lights... woohoo needs a rocket science degree to figure that one out. And our hero is asleep most of the time.. so that the religious broad can spread fear, and the rest of his group, cannot do anything while our hero is a sleep...
Regarding the monsters..
seems that in that dimension, there is nothing but predators, apart from bugs, that have a vicious sting to defend themselves with, big wasps that look like mosquitoes. They seem not to be able to use their sting however against anything but humans, their natural predator, some flying dinosaur, they just let themselves get eaten by them, without stinging... ehmm yes offcourse... like natural selection would let them survive
And then the monster spiders, acid web spiders more likely... they shoot acid web, that cuts through too arteries and thus bleeding their victims... apart from a select few that is left alive as it suits the movie plot...
The huge four legged tentacle beast.. yes everybody can´t see it because of the mist, I will get back to that later in the ending..
from inside the super market, you can see out through the mist perhaps 3 meters.. however as soon as you enter the mist, that magically becomes about 20-30 meters... now our sane group of people with out hero, escapes the Jim Morrison group, and heads for the end of the mist in a car.. naturally they run out of gas. Why did they not attempt to get some gas, from all the cars they just passed. That military jeep could have had some. Or try to tank some at the nearest tank station.. before heading out into the mist...
just after seeing a huge four legged tentacle beast that crosses their route...
visibility is now at about 100-200 meters.. hey the mist is clearing.. but no one notices that..they run out of gas...
They decide to commit collective suicide rather than stepping out into the now clearing mist and become monster food... but of course they only have 4 bullets, and are 5 people, 4 adults, and 1 kid.
it takes like 5 mins from they run out of gas, until they commit suicide.. only our hero is left alive.. and he steps out into the now clearing mist... and yells take me, to the monsters... we hear a sound, and hey here comes the military. 30+ Tanks, and Trucks, and Troops, and all the noise that we could´nt hear despite them only being 10 min away.. lights off despite the fact they drive into a mist, and somehow they make the mist retreat or evaporate... while burning nests of monster wasps..
of course our hero goes insane, cause he just killed his son, and 3 other adults, this is just another Stephen got tired of writing, and found a quick ending... but released it anyway, because he is Stephen King...
There is no point to the story, its just the same old usual, we are people therefore when threatened with getting killed as a group we become degenerate scared humans, and does not posses the fight or flight response, that is instinctively in us all.
Somebody ought to take old Stephen into real life, to teach him a tad more on human nature. Could be though he thinks “rednecks” degenerate faster, because they are country folks, and city people are arrogant therefore do not have the self preservation instinct.
In Stephens mind, all of New York should have committed collective suicide after or during 9/11, because they got scared from something they did not understand...
Anyway from now on, I avoid based on Stephen King book movies.
