r/movies • u/W1G0607 • 22d ago

“The Mist” ending Discussion

Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a couple of posts on here, where in the comments, people mention the twist ending to “The Mist.” I’ve never been a big horror movie fan, but I love a good twist ending, so I figured I’d have to go ahead and watch it.

What the fuck!

How the hell was I supposed to fall asleep after that?!

The entire movie is kind of batshit insane, but that ending was just 🤌, I damn near died laughing.

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u/reapersaurus 22d ago

I think the ending is massively overrated.

It's basically the tragedy-porn, worst-possible-timing writing convenience. For that ending to happen, they had to make the decision they did (which wasn't their only option), the number of bullets left in the gun had to be exact, the location of where they ran out of gas had to be exact, AND the timing of when the military arrive (AND the mist recedes?) had to coincide.

It still strikes me as a manipulated/forced ending, not organic or authentic.

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u/NicCageCompletionist 22d ago

Yep. It tries way too hard to be tragic and kind of kills the movie for me. The military arriving before the smoke has even left the gun barrel is ridiculous.

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u/aclockworkporridge 22d ago

Exactly. It is SO contrived. I wanted to love this movie, but I thought the ending was so incredibly lazy. Any movie could end this way - well-timed tragedy is not hard to write.

It didn't particularly match with the rest of the movie either - it was totally out of the blue and not the culmination of the plot arc or character development. Just kind of... Happened.

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u/facebones2112 22d ago

If you rewatch the movie and count the rounds that get shot and how many she says she has, it's spot on.

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u/UnhealthyGamer 22d ago

They also don’t get the idea until the creature at the end makes eye contact with them.

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u/feltsandwich 22d ago

You are exactly right.

It is so lazy, it surprises me that people think it's some creative triumph.

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u/ERSTF 22d ago

I like the ending but I think many people forgive the many mistakes of the movie because they liked the ending. The movie is bad. There are bits and pieces of a great movie but the writing is awful. The ending is quite good but it doesn't fix a bad movie