The Mist - Ending Scene

[Totenkindly]

What did they really acheive by ending it that way? "being clever"? Seriously- you spend the whole movie hoping that they'll survive only to have them all get killed in the end and the main character feeling like a monster? If I want to watch something depressing I'll turn on the news- movies are a chance to escape from reality!

Now that you say it that way, it reminds me of the opening 5-10 minutes of Alien 3... where Fincher kills off (as a plot device, to clear the way for his own story) all the characters we fell in love with and agonized over in Aliens and were elated to see survive.

 

[miss fortune]

:steam: That pissed me off too!

we already have to experience people in real life dying... it's just evil to get you attached to a character throughout a movie or series of movies and then kill them

Of course I just get annoyed at the ending... My mom and sis (both FJs) cry and cry at endings like that... really, what's the point?

 

[Snoopy22]

King keeps to his belief of allowing his readers to use their imagination with many of his endings (Danse Macabre). Hollywood likes to leave little to the imagination.

 

[Cimarron]

If I want to watch something depressing I'll turn on the news- movies are a chance to escape from reality!

Hmm, I guess this is what I don't personally agree with, in terms of taste. Although...emotions/lack of emotional contents is a separate measure than reality/fantasy, so they need not be correlated.