This broke my brain, I identified it as “The Mist” but I was 100% sure Mark Wahlberg was the main character so I was trying to work out what the joke was/why Wahlberg was replaced.
Guess I have my own Berenstein Bears thing going on.
you are confusing the Mist with The Happening. which starred Mark Wahlberg.
they were vaguely similar. While the Mist was a lovecraftian horror story about a heavy fog taking over a region with unearthly horrors prowling the area after a tear in reality or something occured at a Military research facility,
the Happening was a bit more hacky. it was about Plants releasing a neurotoxin that made humans off themselves.
Mark Wahlberg playing a science teacher was the most unbelievable thing in The Happening.
He’s the main character in The Happening. Similar premise except its a plague that causes people to commit suicide
Ah good call, released within a year of each other, I’m probably merging the two in my head to some extent.
You’ve also got the more recent one with Sandra Bullock, where the monsters only attack people who look at them. Except they’re invisible.
And there’s mist everywhere at the beginning I think
Bird Box?
Yeah thats the one
Just mist it
Oof
Ooof.
I refuse to watch this movie again because of this ending.
I genuinely liked the movie, but hated the ending enough that it was years before I watched it again.
Anyone who hasn’t, go read the book. The ending is soooo much better and really had me hoping King would explore that whole world more… Easily one of my top five stories of his.
King himself said he liked the new ending better. https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/z7894i/why_do_you_think_stephen_king_liked
Remember space 🐢?
The book ending is super lazy. The “I was actually writing this story this whole time and now I’m leaving it here for someone to find” trope was used sooo many times before (“Handmade’s tale” to name one). Movie ending was at least original.
The Handmaid’s Tale (it’s kinda funny how both you and a commenter replying to you misspell the name in two different ways) is going for a “The Lady or the Tiger” ending. Do you believe that Nick is actually part of the Resistance, or is he part of the state secret police? The narrative tricked us a little with the “relationship” between Offred and the Commander - can we trust anyone at all?
The epilogue also gives the narrative some verisimilitude. It’s pretending to be a historical document - how would the world post-Gilead react to accounts of what happened to women during Gilead? How would you interact with the Diary of Anne Frank if you didn’t know that she was killed in the camps?
I fail to see how it’s similar to “The Mist” here.
If I remember correctly “The Mist” also ends by pretending it was a “historical document”. That’s the similarity I was referring to. In my opinion it’s a bit silly. Are we really to believe someone had time to write entire book while running for their lives? With dialogs and detailed description of all events? It’s also totally unnecessary. You can have an open ending without pretending it’s a historic document. It’s also crazy old. Don Quijote does he same thing, pretending it’s actually a real story being translated from old, Arabic sources. It doesn’t mean the books are bad. It just a trope ending.
The changed ending for the film is a fucking masterpiece. Even King says it, and he’s famously bitchy about filmmakers changing his storylines.
I strongly disagree… It was deus ex machina trash with a twist. Using the original ending would have left the audience wanting closure and not getting it. Instead, they wrapped it up nice and tight and King got to murder another kid.
It was narratively consistent. Other world, no way home, found a way home at a steep cost.
I completely agree with you. I’ve left very similar comments whenever this movie’s come up in the past, and someone always shows up to say “Even King agrees the movie ending’s better!” Well, it’s bullshit.
Right? King, who’s endorsed and even appeared in some of the worst adaptations of his books. He’s truly a master, but a movie writer he is not…
Maybe the first time I read a comment disliking the movie ending! Yeah, the story leaves the ending open, maybe scarier? But the movie ending is a sledgehammer to the face.
Either way, can we agree the religious-nut lady was one of the most hateful characters of all time? I’d have shot her just to keep the situation from spiraling out of control any further. Seriously! You’re in a fight for your very survival and this bitch is riling up the crowd, the very people you need to work with so you all survive, and against your child?!
I can totally agree with that. I found her to be one of the most humanly believable villains in any story I’ve seen or read. She’d fit in to so many real world situations as that exact person. Absolutely the kind of nut job you’d see having a meltdown tantrum as someone recorded her on their phone.
Forgot all about this! Nearly passed out from how hard I was laughing at that ending
So cool an edgy
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What is it?
Screen grab from the final scene of The Mist (2007).
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The father in the driver seat shoots everybody else in the car as an act of mercy to save them from a certain death by the monsters in the movie. Goes to turn the gun on himself only to be met with an empty chamber. Mere moments later, military vehicles emerge from the mist to take on the monsters. If he had waited legitimately 2 more minutes everybody in the car would have been saved.
Vague to avoid spoilers. Must be Mandela effect. I remember it being passed around to each person. Which honestly made it more horrible.
I accidentally found this when I was searching for the ending.
Not gonna lie, I was hoping to be Rick Rolled and you actually posted the ending
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I mean. It was slightly tweaked.
The move “The Mist” which ends with uh…
a questionable choice of action taken by an entire family immediately revealed to be incorrect before the credits roll.
They’re not a family but one of them is the main guy’s son
My favourite bit of trivia from that movie was that Stephen King watched it and was furious by the ending because he wished he’d thought of such a grim ending when he wrote the book.
That seems to happen to a lot of adaptations of his work. I think he may have even admitted that he’s not great at ending what he starts.
He’s my favorite author, up there with Pratchett anyway, and yes he’s said that. He doesn’t plan anything, just sits down and starts hammering it out. He’s so engrossed in writing the tale, he doesn’t want it to end, doesn’t plan that part.
It’s in the end of the last Dark Tower book. What he wrote can be reworded as ‘Do you have sex only for the orgasm alone, or for the whole process of it?’. And it wasn’t the weirdest part of said series.
Yeah Stephen King probably wrote some ending about having to sacrifice a child and then it showing up before the credits as a ghost with the other dead children in a dreamworld. I have no idea, just guessing.
He left the ending ambiguous for the reader to imagine what happens. He missed out on twisting the knife.
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I just watched an edited version of the ending video on YouTube. Basically this family is trapped in a supermarket and terrified of a giant kaiju-type bug attack going on.
The story revolves around the groups of people at the store trying to survive.
Immediately after this screenshot in the meme, the father kills his entire family, leaves the car, and sees a MASSIVE caravan of military personnel escorting survivors out of the titular mist and using flamethrowers to burn away the bugs and mist.
Most of the folks from the supermarket are seen in these trucks.
I had read the tale long before the movie and was very pissed with the ending. The whole movie is shit but the ending changed everything. That was Fucked up
