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shalafi @lemmy.world

2d ago

JFC, who did this?!

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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.
  
  The changed ending for the film is a fucking masterpiece. Even King says it, and he's famously removed about filmmakers changing his storylines.
  
  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 removed is riling up the crowd, the very people you need to work with so you all survive, and against your child?!
  
  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.
  
  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 🐢?

What is it?
- Screen grab from the final scene of The Mist (2007).
  
  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.
  youtube.com/watch?v=u4nZUEkAsw8
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  They're not a family but one of them is the main guy's son
- The Mist
  A Stephen King movie from 2007. It's worth a watch. You can find YouTube videos about the ending, but it's obviously going to spoil the movie if you're planning to watch it.

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.
- I was trying to work out what the joke was/why Wahlberg was replaced.
  It must have been something happening.

Just mist it
- Oof

OMG, there used to be this YTMND where the gun was replaced with a kit kat. I have to find it.
Found it!

Forgot all about this! Nearly passed out from how hard I was laughing at that ending
- So cool an edgy

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

What's this meant to be? Imgur's just saying it's unavailable in my region
- This is a scene from a movie called “The Mist” where in this photo, he and his family are on the run from monsters in the mist, they finally got a car and hit the road to escape, the never did get out of the mist.. the car runs out of gas and they sit there quietly in the mist.. they hear something approaching and the man, knowing damn well what was coming, looks at his wife as to say “sorry, I love you” before he shoots his wife and kids.. out of bullets he gets out of the vehicle only to discover the military is marching down the street clearing the mist.
  
  Ah, thanks

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