So the movie for today was the novel to cinema movie The Mist, based off of one of Stephen King's novels. Apparently, someone had told me the ending before even though I could swear I never heard of the movie before I saw it on YouTube. Even considering that I went in to the film with some spoilers in mind this film really earned no cool points. I'm not really sure there ever was a great movie re-make of a Stephen King novel. This film in particular lacked any real story development much like that other crappy horror movie, The happening.
The film is basically about a secret Army base opening a portal to another dimension to let aliens through that wreck a small village. None of this is explained in any detail it's basically forced out of one character in a three minute blip that happens about three quarters of the way through the film. The first hour and change you have to take for granted that some how it's supposed to make sense only to be disappointed by the "scientists opened up a hole to another dimension" line. I would have preferred a secret military weapon that got lose. At least that would have allowed me to suspend disbelief long enough to get through the cheesy dialogue. To be fair, I think the movie suffered from the same problem that every novel to film project has to deal with. You can't express even a fraction of a novel with a movie without making it some massive undertaking like the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Today was a good day for rest though. Ran through the Sunday field day routine and cleaned up the whole apartment clearing up all the lint and fuzzies that build up from hanging my laundry inside during the rainy days. Tomorrow I'm going to head out for some shopping and get back into the more serious studies. Flash cards and kanji review games haven't really given me a feeling of progress the last couple of days so I'll have to pull the books back out.
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