Commentary on Steven King and his awful film "The Mist"

Rating: 1/10 (29 March 2008)

I agree with the Germans....
I rented "The Mist" thinking I'd be in for at least a semi-decent sort of horror flick by Steven King. I think I realize now that my first mistake was thinking that something written by Steven King would actually be good. What I recognized first was the God-Awful Dialogue that plagues the entire screenplay. Did everyone go to Pseudo-Colloquial English Grammar School? From demonizing Christians, to murdering innocent people, to offering human sacrifices, to making completely idiotic "subtle" remarks about the government, this movie has it all when it comes to repulsiveness. Also notable is Steven King's idiotic, communist ultra-liberalistic pessimism which shines through the majority of the film. I don't understand why so many people think that the ending was even remotely good. He shoots his son in the head. If anything this proves that King has no confidence in human character, and he's also leaving out man's ability to overcome extreme threats and man's will to live at all costs.
Every character is completely godless save for the raving lunatic woman who only quotes (out of context) the Old Testament and Revelations, completely ignores any part of the bible containing Jesus, and congregates all of the other godless grocery buying sheep into killing an innocent soldier over this so called "Arrowhead" Operation. At the end of the film when five characters remain (including the protagonist, his son, a beautiful woman, and an elderly man and woman) they run out of gas and decide that the only thing to do is have the protagonist kill them; just moments before the "military" rides on through. This has got to be the most godless, immoral, troglodytic, cynical ending to a film I've ever seen.
King has the tendency to forgo doing any actual research about anything he composes. I think that he must sit at home and contrive short stories and novels based off of tabloids. A few questions about the validity of what I'll call "King's Research:" Why is that all of this evil that is unleashed is the Army's fault? Why is it that the Army is wearing BDUs (instead of the ACUs which have been around for years)? What's the deal with this Military Policeman who wears a uniform that hasn't been used by the army in over 30 years, drives a Jeep that the Army hasn't used in more than 20 years, and knows everything about the happenings of the nearby "Army base" just in time to apologize to the main characters? I don't think I need to go on any further about this atrocious vomit of a film.
The problem that King makes through the film is his attempts at social commentary. These "remarks" are effectually misgui- This movie makes people look retarded.
My final word is: Don't waste your time watching "The Mist." If you do watch it, and you're an intelligent person, then you will have wasted more than an hour and a half of your life that you'll never get back. Don't see "The Mist."
Elements of other films in "The Mist." See if you can find them:
1. Event Horizon
2. Cujo
3. Aliens
4. Dagon
5. Godzilla
6. The Langoliers
7. Kraken
8. Every Other Steven King Film