{"id":144,"date":"2008-04-25T23:53:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T04:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2008-04-28T15:11:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T20:11:38","slug":"movie-review-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review : The Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"

There hasn’t been a movie that wasted my time this much in a long while. I could sum up this movie<\/a> in 4 words : “steaming pile of crap.” It actually made me angry. The worst kind of movie is the one that keeps your attention for hours, only to have an ending that makes those 2 hours pointless. It’s infuriating. Don’t drag me along for 2 hours just to go, “Gotcha! We got you invested in the characters and their responses to the situations in which they were placed for no reason!” This was an entertaining movie for about 98% of it, and then the ending totally nullifies that 98%. I don’t know why I keep giving movies based on Stephen King novels a chance. The only good Stephen King movies are the ones based on his non-horror short stories: Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, The Green Mile, etc…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There hasn’t been a movie that wasted my time this much in a long while. I could sum up this movie in 4 words : “steaming pile of crap.” It actually made me angry. 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