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The movie was all right, but the finale was terrible. The short story ending was much scarier (and what's more, would have left the door wide open for a sequel—I don't know what the hell they were thinking with the ending as written).
I hated the movie ending. Short story ending is way better. Best way to watch the movie is just turn it off when they leave the grocery store then it bearable.
Been a while since I'd thought about it, so I looked up some articles about it. They all seemed to think the film's ending was bleak, whereas the story's was hopeful. That wasn't at all how I remembered it, so I went back and re-read the story. All the articles seemed to miss the idea that in the story, there was no National Guard coming to the rescue. There's no indication that the mist has any end, or that civilization's existing power structures have survived. The protagonist hears (or hallucinates) a single garbled word over the radio—that's the entirety of the hope on offer. A disappointing example of popular literary criticism.
The ending of the movie is a bit shitty... Dude just had to wait like 10 more minutes and would have been fine. But they just had to use those last 3 bullets burning a hole in their pocket. The book ending still sounds better than that.
Stephen King actually likes the movie ending more than the one he wrote.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/why-stephen-king-prefers-the-mist-film-ending-to-his-own-novella
i for one liked the ending for that exact reason
Mist everywhere, monsters big as buildings roaming around, as well as small dangerous ones; Car is dead; No immediate supplies; You've seen what those things can do and how they can make you suffer before you die; No foreseeable hope that any human forces can help you. Got a gun that can end It all with no suffering.
The bitter aftertaste, when the dispair takes place is, chefs kiss. Not every story needs a happy ending.