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Originally Posted by AbulletAway
I bought it a week or two ago and watched it. It was directed by the same guy who directed Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
I enjoyed the movie and would recommend it. However, here are my problems with it. First, there's too many stupid people in it. That black guy was a tard. The religious lady, I just wanted her to die painfully from the first time she opened her mouth. But, these types of people exist and I believe if something like that really happened. A lot of what happened would have happened like that. But, with there being so many stupid people in that store every time they did something else stupid it took me out of the movie. I would think, "People aren't that stupid." But then I would have to remind my self that they really are.
The other thing I didn't like was the ending. I was ok with it. But, I thought they could have done it better. I mean, here's these people who survived all this shit. Then they run out of gas and automatically make the decision to do what they did. I mean, there was no waiting. No thinking about it, nothing. Maybe it's just me, but, those damn bug things would have to be breaking the windows and crawling inside before I did what he did. So of course, as soon as he did what he did. I actually said out loud what was going to happen next and sure enough, that's exactly what happened.
Had there been a store full of smart people or at least smarter people and had they waited just a little longer at the end to do what they did I would have thought the movie was great.
I realize I am being picky about it. But, the director has made two of my most favorite movies, the guy can direct and write and this was it? It's like they dumbed the characters down to make it a horror movie instead of making them a little smarter and creating a really scary movie with a real shocking ending.
Side note I never read the story from the book, though I did listen to audio of it they did as a radio play. It was basically the same as the book from the short story from what I understand. And, the ending that they rewrote for the film. Stephen King actually told the directer, had he thought of that ending, he would have ended his book that way. I thought that was kinda cool.
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I quite agree with you - in that it seemed like a disproportionate number of stupid people in the store. But...people CAN be rather creative when it comes to inventing ways of being stupid. Lemmings and sheeple.
At least the director attempted a few times to have the smarter characters try and explain why so many people were stupid (people in fearful situations will naturally look towards a solution no matter how dumb it may be - something to that effect).
Yep, the black guy was a tard, thu and thru. He seemed okay up until the point the shit hit the fan in the store, but then de-evolved from there.
And I thought they ran outta bullets in the pharmacy? But then they magically seemed to have a few more in the end when they capped the religious bitch.
I thought it amusing the check-out 'boy' (the Ollie Weeks character) turned out to be the calm, cool and collected hero of the day. The dude you'd least expect to be 'target shooting state champion' and possess some testicular fortitude.
The movie was no Green Mile or Shawshank Redemption of course...but at least they gave it a good effort IMHO. The DVD special features had a cool little docu-segment on the real-life movie poster artist.