You know how 70s disaster movies tried to show the people at the heart of the disaster? The ordinary folks swept away in The Poseidon Adventure, or set ablaze in The Towering Inferno, or quaked in Earthquake? Even Independence Day did it: remember how much we cared about what happened to Will Smith's wife and the first lady? Me neither.
No, what we remember is the sheer spectacle. And no one blames those movies for trying to offset the grandiose effects with a little humanity now and then. But this "Mist" series has it all wrong. It made the fatal mistake of taking the original premise, stretching it out to series length...and then gutted the effects.
That's right. There are more beasties in the Frank Darabont film than the seven hours of this show I've watched so far. Hell, there are more otherworldly creatures in The English Patient than there are in this show.
So the mist, in this version, does all kinds of mental things to people. Golly, people going crazy from 1995-era CGI smoke effects always makes me think "great TV." How 'bout you? This would be fine if we had one group of characters -- heck, one SINGLE character -- with the juice of a Mrs. Carmody in this series. But, no. Every single one is made of cardboard.
This new mist robs victims of their humanity, alright. It's proved every time one of the actors utters a line.
No, what we remember is the sheer spectacle. And no one blames those movies for trying to offset the grandiose effects with a little humanity now and then. But this "Mist" series has it all wrong. It made the fatal mistake of taking the original premise, stretching it out to series length...and then gutted the effects.
That's right. There are more beasties in the Frank Darabont film than the seven hours of this show I've watched so far. Hell, there are more otherworldly creatures in The English Patient than there are in this show.
So the mist, in this version, does all kinds of mental things to people. Golly, people going crazy from 1995-era CGI smoke effects always makes me think "great TV." How 'bout you? This would be fine if we had one group of characters -- heck, one SINGLE character -- with the juice of a Mrs. Carmody in this series. But, no. Every single one is made of cardboard.
This new mist robs victims of their humanity, alright. It's proved every time one of the actors utters a line.
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