Why This MOvei Sucks in No Uncertain Terms

Rating: 1/10 (15 March 2008)

I read the story over 20 years ago. I waited that long for what I thought would be a good adaption. Instead, I was given a film with a sufficiently rewritten ending that the entire point of the story was changed. Sometimes this works Without giving anything away, in the original "Poltergiest" it's as if Steven Spielberg has put the film to rest and told Tobe Hooper to wrap it because he was going home. The last 15 minutes of the film are some of the best horror ever done. In Spielberg's version of Kubrick's "A.I." you can tell where Stanley would have ended the movie, and where Spielberg HAD to tack on a cute ending. In "The Mist", Darabount is given one of King's best stories and changes the entire point. Want to see what I mean? Read the book. then see the movie. Then cringe in disgust.