The ending of The Pit and the Pendulum had the Spanish Inquisition show up unexpectedly. The comfy chair was missing though.
In Hollywood of the 60s-70s you can almost predict how films will end--someone getting shot by a sniper or other paranoid occurrence. If it is a devil movie--expect the devil to win something.
The ending for the Mist was ruined for me in advance.
Not sure how I would have responded to it because
In Hollywood of the 60s-70s you can almost predict how films will end--someone getting shot by a sniper or other paranoid occurrence. If it is a devil movie--expect the devil to win something.
The ending for the Mist was ruined for me in advance.
Not sure how I would have responded to it because
when I watched it the second time I thought "didn't the army have a megaphone or horn?" Unless they were concerned about the monsters--but it looked to me like they were doing a rescue operation.
Other things really bugged me about that movie though--the cadet with lipstick--he looked like a vampire. The casual conversation he has with the girl after they see a guy ripped in half. And the lawyer who angrily refused to look in the back room after 2-3 people asked him to.
It felt contrived to me--especially since the main character appeared to forget all about the woman at home--even after the mother had left to find her children...which was why they were shown on the truck at the end--as a way of scolding him for his inexplicable actions leading to a murder suicide. Felt like the story was set up so as to destroy the character for his effort to be a leader or neglecting the wife and I don't see the moral in it since he also had his son to be concerned about--not unless he was looking to have an affair with the woman he meets in the store. Plus making him a movie poster illustrator--that felt REALLY awkward to me. Not exactly the everyman job.
Other things really bugged me about that movie though--the cadet with lipstick--he looked like a vampire. The casual conversation he has with the girl after they see a guy ripped in half. And the lawyer who angrily refused to look in the back room after 2-3 people asked him to.
It felt contrived to me--especially since the main character appeared to forget all about the woman at home--even after the mother had left to find her children...which was why they were shown on the truck at the end--as a way of scolding him for his inexplicable actions leading to a murder suicide. Felt like the story was set up so as to destroy the character for his effort to be a leader or neglecting the wife and I don't see the moral in it since he also had his son to be concerned about--not unless he was looking to have an affair with the woman he meets in the store. Plus making him a movie poster illustrator--that felt REALLY awkward to me. Not exactly the everyman job.
