I'll do my movie review on Frank Durabont since he's a pretty cool dude. Frank Durabont does a lot of work with Stephen King, like Shawshank Redemption and the Green Mile, and the Mist. I've seen all three, but I've only read the Mist.
Green mile was amazing, the casting was on point, the delivery was in point. It wasn't necessarily a movie that made your heart race with adventure, but it made me cry. Just a little though.
With the Mist, honestly the written story was horrible. The ending was boring, the story was boring. It was just not my favourite. So when I watched the movie and they had this haunting ending, and all kinds of scary moments, it was friggin awesome.
I'm not sure how to compare and contrast these. Green mile hit you right in the feels, because it's this guy on death row who really shouldn't be on death row. The Mist is about aliens and monsters and how people react in those situations, it made me really think about how I would react if I was stuck in a supermarket with a giant squid monster outside.
I think the Mist had more artistic liberties than green mile did, because they changed the ending and they made it more interesting. Green mile was more of a moral issue than the Mist, because it was a guy sympathising with a death row inmate.
Wow this was a crappy post, sorry Logsdon.
it's ok
ReplyDeletei love durabont - and i love how he's adapted SK stories