The Mist Blu-ray...Blind buy?

[MCT]

It was so depressing to see how badly we as an American movie going populace have been brainwashed to expect a storybook happy ending where everyone lives happily ever after and the good guys come in to save the day in every movie. The ending was powerful. Anyone who says the ending ruined it for them needs to deprogram themselves.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by MCT

It was so depressing to see how badly we as an American movie going populace have been brainwashed to expect a storybook happy ending where everyone lives happily ever after and the good guys come in to save the day in every movie. The ending was powerful. Anyone who says the ending ruined it for them needs to deprogram themselves.

+1,000,000

It was brave, genius and epic on a personal scale. The ending made the rest of the movie mean 10 times as much.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

+1,000,000

It was brave, genius and epic on a personal scale. The ending made the rest of the movie mean 10 times as much.

I agree that the ending made the movie mean a lot but I see movies to be
entertained (I thought that was what movies were made for). Deprogram
ourselves??? Are you kidding?
This was a well made movie, I cared about the characters. I'm a father and
have 2 boys. This ending may have been powerfully effective but it
was nasty, depressing, cynical, and mean-spirited. It made me depressed for days after seeing it.
Put me in the "hated it" camp (there seem to be only 2 reactions to this movie
from all the posts I've read)

[gear]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

I agree that the ending made the movie mean a lot but I see movies to be
entertained (I thought that was what movies were made for). Deprogram
ourselves??? Are you kidding?
This was a well made movie, I cared about the characters. I'm a father and
have 2 boys. This ending may have been powerfully effective but it
was nasty, depressing, cynical, and mean-spirited. It made me depressed for days after seeing it.
Put me in the "hated it" camp (there seem to be only 2 reactions to this movie
from all the posts I've read)

When you wrote:

"his ending may have been powerfully effective but it was nasty, depressing, cynical, and mean-spirited. It made me depressed for days after seeing it. "

I have three boys and you expressed my exact feelings.

[JamesKurtovich]

It's one of those that pits the Christian villain against humanistic, easy-goin' secular folk.