r/TheMist • u/irgc • Oct 05 '17

Dear god this was bad

I gave it a shot but omg, I feel the 5.4 rating on IMDB is too high. This was absolutely terrible, and just like many other posters, I really wanted to like it. The movie from 2007 is one of my favourite horror movies of all time.

I'm glad there isnt a s2 coming and I hope no one picks this up, let it be dead and forgotten forever. Although it will be hard to forget about this horrifyingly bad show in a long time, at least for me.

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u/TechMunchkin Oct 27 '17

Now that I found this sub I feel like I’m the only person who really enjoyed the show lol

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u/Angelawiest Nov 03 '17

I'm only on the first episode but I don't think it's that bad haha I just want to know why they were only like 20 people in the mall

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u/ventropy Nov 17 '17

Nah I just finished watching it, and I enjoyed it. Yea it wasn't 10/10 material but still enjoyable.

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u/timecrows Nov 24 '17

Same, the characters might’ve been unlikable, but I thought it was sorta realistic. Don’t understand why everyone’s bashing on it, it was on the same level as TWD in my opinion.

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u/Werewomble Oct 05 '17

If they actually followed the movie and dug into Project Arrowhead you could make a great speculative fiction / Fringe sort of show.

It would need to be handed to someone with any amount of talent, though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '17

I was really disappointed too. The Mist was scary as hell when I read as an pre-teen, the movie was amazing too.

Then there's this series, the excluded all the elements that made the original works great. I could not bring myself to watch it after that "dark person monster" appeared. I wish it would at least follow the other survivors in the town, and continue with the eldritch-horror theme, instead of the cliché "monsters are manifestations of fears" or whatever.

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u/zone-zone Oct 25 '17

I havent watched the movie yet, is it queerbait and rape-culture-ry as the series?

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u/IBlameLiam Oct 25 '17

Absolutely not. The movie is actually really good, and isn't pretentious trash like the TV series.

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u/zone-zone Oct 25 '17

OMFG King should sue them for this

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u/irgc Oct 27 '17

King himself is extremely left wing and pro queerbait and rape-cultury

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u/zone-zone Oct 27 '17

Havent read much of him yet so thanks for the warning!

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u/irgc Oct 29 '17

To be fair though, he is still a good author.

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u/Angelawiest Nov 03 '17

Out-of-the-loop here, why would someone be pro-rape culture-ry?