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Is Mist the one (won't play for me) where someone gets pulled through the slats in the floating platform?
Ooh, I know the story you're talking about! That ending was burned into my brain. Nope, that's not it. It's the one with the people trapped in the grocery store. There's weird monsters from another dimension out in the mist. And the rest writes itself (if the writer happens to be Stephen King).
eta: I think both of these stories were in the same book of SK short stories.
Also, anyone seen Fido?
Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50s, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies deliver the mail. Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with a craving for human flesh. A war began, pitting the living against the dead. In the ensuing revolution, a corporation was born: ZomCon, who defeated the legions of undead, and domesticated the zombies, making them our industrial workers, our domestic servants--a productive part of society. ZomCon would like the people of Willard to believe they have everything under control--but do they?
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It's the midnight movie at a place near me. (Musicbox)
Also, anyone seen Fido?
No, but it's playing at the Red Vic (in my neighborhood) this week.
FIDO has Billy Connelly as the title charceter (a zombie, natch). I heard it was a fun moive, but it only played here for a week, so I never got to it.
I shudder to think what Dick Cheney could do with an army of obedient zombie soldiers. Even somewhat-disobedient ones.
A couple of years ago, I heard The Mist adapted as a radio play -- it was one of the more hair-raising adaptations I've ever seen or heard.
As people were talking about The Prestige, I remembered I had a problem with the plot that I couldn't figure out. I may be stupid, or they just didn't feel it was necessary to explain it...
So when Michael Caine finds Christian Bale's character 'killing' Hugh Jackman's character, wouldn't the living Hugh Jackman be making his reveal behind the audience? He wouldn't have know that all that was going on underneath the stage, and would have carried on with the show, surely?
Did they explain this? Or should I just handwave it? It really bugged me. I think probably just because the rest of the movie was so well-crafted.
Jars, re: your whitefont...
It's been a while since I've seen it, but wasn't the whole murder a setup so that Jackman could get revenge on Bale? The body in the box was one of the "extra" Jackmans. After the murder, Jackman appeared as an alter ego, right? So, in theory he wouldn't have been out front finishing, that show would have seemed to have gone horribly wrong from the perspective of the audience.
That bugged me too, Jars, because how did Jackman know that this was the time Bale got back there?
I thought the shouting and hacking of the tank was loud enough to be heard throughout the theater. So as soon as the banging was heard, he knew to disappear "forever."
I just watched "Crash". All I can say is, the acclaim it got is proof that coke has not disappeared from Hollywood. They should have picked one of those stories and told it for real instead of the whole "Short Cuts" thing. Although I liked "Short Cuts".