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lukerj_2 2012-05-21 04:57:46

cool

People that did not like this movie went in with a closed mind. Thismovie will easily rank in the top 20 horror movies made in the past 15years.People who liked the first fog will love this remake. The specialeffects were great. The sound effects were great. The story line wasalright. Even though, the first Fog had a strong cast, this cast is asequally strong. In some ways this cast is stronger. I can not wait forthis movie to come out on DVD. I will most certainly buy two copies ofthis movie, that way I will have a spare just in case one is damaged. Ibelieve others will dothe same. I gave this movie an 7 out of 10 simplybecause I love it. But I like movies of this type.

retrogames 2012-05-21 00:00:28

This is as bad as the rating suggests

There are occasions I take the ratings for movies on here with a pinchof salt, especially when it comes to remakes. As a lot of people willgive an above average remake a lower rating due to the fact they regardthe original to be untouchable. Well I came to this movie with an openmind as I had never watched the original before I watched this one, butwatched them both back to back. The special effects in the original arebetter than the remake? With all the advances in CGI and effects how onearth did they manage that? The remake dosn't even have the same paceand its no where near as creepy as the original?This is a bad movie, and I'm surprised John Carpenter put his nameanywhere near it...bad idea John...and very bad movie!

2012-05-12 08:46:42

Clark Kent and Shannon from Lost vs. The Ghosts

The good: It was almost EXACTLY the same as the original movie. The bad: It was ALMOST exactly the same as the original movie. The ugly: I kept screaming at Clark Kent to USE HIS HEAT VISION TO DISSIPATE THE FOG!!!!!! And I could not understand why he kept driving a truck when he's faster than a speeding bullet.All jokes aside, I really did feel like I was watching a crossover of Smallville and Lost taking place on the set of Pirates of The Caribbean. 3 out of 5 stars because it was enjoyable and had an attractive cast that was fun to goof on. 2 stars taken off because the story and actual film was too close to the original story and the acting was not the best. I tend to want remakes to take us into new territory with the update like House on Haunted Hill, and 13 Ghosts.

mentalcritic 2012-05-11 21:38:31

Why isn't this one on the bottom 100?

If nothing else, the decade following the year 2000 will be rememberedas an era of remakes. Everything that has been made previously, be it afilm or a video game, they have tried to make again, and with rathermixed results at best. The Fog, an early John Carpenter film thatdemonstrated his enormous talent for making the simplest storiescompelling, has failed to escape the trend. And it is a shame, too,because Carpenter himself would do well to stop revisiting his oldglories and relearn what made him one of the most compellingstorytellers of the early 1980s. If I could sum up this remake in justone word, it would be "pointless". I have not seen the original enoughtimes to remember exactly what the conceit was about the ghosts thatinhabited the fog of the original film, but this remake attempts toelaborate on all of the details, and strangely manages to add nothing.The script is a verbatim copy of the 1980 original for the most part,except it tries to explain the deeper motives of the fog-spirits, andthus makes them a lot less menacing.The most obvious element to go wrong in this mess is the cast. Theoriginal had a cast that, while not lining up for awards, could put ona good performance that sold the story. In place of Adrienne Barbeau,Jamie Lee Curtis, and Janet Leigh, we have Tom Welling, Maggie Grace,and Selma Blair. Tom Atkins may have always looked like he drank hissalary on each film, but he at least delivered his lines in somethingother than a whine. His equivalent in this film, Welling, is such atimid excuse for a hero one rarely knows whether to wish he would hurryup and die or wish one could punch him. Selma, on the other hand, doesa better job in the Adrienne Barbeau role than the film deserves. Whendone up right, she can actually be quite pleasant to look at. It's justsuch a pity that the rest of the cast has such a high suck factor thatone never really gets into the mood of the story. And that is what madethe 1980 version so great. Because one cared for the characters, onegot into the film, and it worked.I also have no idea who edited this dross, but they deserve a good slapin the face, too. Much of the back story involving a profitable tradingcolony becoming infected with leprosy and fleeing in search of greenerpastures is shown in flashback. Granted, I would have used flashback totell this story, too, but at the right moments. The Fog circa 2005 hasso many flashbacks scattered throughout its running length in order toillustrate parallels between past and present that one becomes numb tothem just as they are about to illustrate their story point. Horrorfilms of all walks can suffer for having an element overused to thepoint where the audience becomes tired of it or even bored with it. Thecontrast between the original Nightmare On Elm Street films and theobviously toned-down to appeal to the juvenile audiences fourth andfifth episodes in the franchise is a good example of what I mean. Thinkof The Fog circa 1980 as the original NOES, and its 2005 equivalent asthe Renny Harlin butchery. Yes, this new Fog really does get thattrite.I must also make a special mention of the Sony Pictures DVD that wasreleased in Region 4, not because it represents the film well, butrather, because it does not. It may have affected my enjoyment of thisfilm even more, because the image quality of the DVD is, to put itnicely, terrible. It is not as bad as the independent releases ofneglected films like Dune that are often released here, don't get mewrong, but there is literally so much posterisation, macro-blocking,and mosquito noise during scenes in which we see the titular fog thatone could be forgiven for thinking they were watching a VCD. Don't getme wrong, the film is still a piece of manure, but this does tend toaffect my enjoyment even more. After all, how can I enjoy the spoils ofsomething being so bad it's... bad, if I cannot help but think of howdodgy the picture looks? Not that these scenes would have had thetiniest shred of suspense otherwise, but this is really letting theside down.Anyway, everything here smacks of convenience. When we want to make adeath scene that is, to the credit of the filmmakers, impressivelygory, the fog kills on contact. When it is near the top-billed stars,it does everything from stand still when it gets too close to movebackwards away from them. This inconsistent approach to the "villain"of the piece has killed many would-be horror films before, but it isamazing to see it done with such aplomb here. Having a graveyard acrossthe road from a town hall is not too far out, and I think a lot oftowns would attract less ill-will from disgruntled residents if theywere this honest about their effects on residents. But when a townsupposedly this remote and isolated that it only seems to have tenresidents who all know each other can get internet connections tobroadcast web camera video with that kind of resolution, you knowreality has taken a rolling turn off the road. Don't even get mestarted on the computer failure shown at one point.All up, this 2005 remake of The Fog is a desecration of a memento froma time when films were allowed to aim for an adult audience, whoseintelligence it respected.

Jon Gillett 2012-05-11 12:45:12

Carpenter my son; you have sinned...!

I wasn't expecting a great deal from this movie; I am a self-confessedfan of the Original (A great hokey ghost story, that doesn't reallytake itself too seriously) so thought I would give the remake a tryfrom the local Blockbuster...boy what a mistake...Everything that was done right the first time around seems to have beendeliberately done wrong this time; the total unbelievability of everysingle "Actor/Actress" involved and the complete lack of "Characterdriven acting" means this lumbers along at little over 80 mins (thankgod), giving the audience a regular fix of CGI Ghosts, flashbacksequences and pointless history that adds nothing what-so-ever to theplight of the characters that night!! To remake this film is a mistakeof the highest order; as much like Halloween, the original stands thetest of time because it solidly personifies a moment in cinema history,that could never occur again...memories of a past era of cinema caughton film.I may sound cynical; but each and every remake seems to solidly bearthe banner of "Cash Cow" film making, JC knows he has had his bestyears in Hollywood during the 70's and 80's; the current trend of"Documentary" style and realistic raw & gritty filming of footage, donot compliment Mr Carpenters unique style; and he does not seem capableof moving with the times...I would warn any fan of early JC works; away from this corporateexercise in cold money making over substance. Do yourself a favour andwatch Assault on Precinct 13 Original once more; or face the sad truthof a director now "Born outta time"!

pedrosmgfan 2012-05-10 22:48:09

"The Fog" is not as good as John Carpenter's, but still good!

I must say that this film is not like John Carpenter's, but is good inits way. I know it has had very bad critics, but I do not agree. It has an interesting cast, with Tom Welling and Maggie Grace.TomWelling has made a mistake when he spent the majority of his timecontemplating how the fog causes damage and soon he recovers the speechto say something as "We must go". Some scenes are also a bit pathetic,like the one when Nick Castle'scousin is killed by a knife nailed in his eye.Or another one when aghost is killing some people throwing them away.Even so, the film was not as bad as the reviews say. It's veryentertaining, interesting and makes good fun. The new Fog does is notvery scary or frightening, but I was satisfied and I liked it. See itif you want to spend a good short while, that you will not waste.

Chickensmoke 2012-05-09 18:55:58

Its a good movie, perhaps not a good horror !

I honestly cant understand why this film has got such bad reviews. ihaven't seen the remake and i can see that there are a few unrealisticreactions or things the characters do or don't do. i wasn't scared atall but i still really enjoyed this film. i thought it was wellmade,the acting was fair, the film needs to decide if its a silly 'killthe dumb teenagers' movie or a horror/fantasy masterpiece and stillmaybe needed some more work. however, it was entertaining, the effectswere brilliant the whole look of the film and the production designmade it look very dark and creepy, it was what i like to see: a horrorwhich is more along the lines of fantasy ghost story rather thananother pointless slasher. i recommend it for the people who like asofter type of horror rather than the gore lovers.

2012-05-09 09:51:53

OMG

Watching this movie was like trying to (...)when u r really really drunk. You keep going and going but you never get there. I would say The Fog has whiskey (...). I do not reccomend it.

conorhdoherty 2012-05-06 20:06:03

The Worst Motion Picture Ever

The fact that i have to give this film 1 star to rate it as awful feelsworse than a swift kick between the legs. =========================================. you have to understand: There Is Nothing Redeeming About This Film.=========================================. It is not even so bad it's funny. It so bad that as the credits startto roll you contemplate taking a bath with the toaster because for anyhuman to devote 2 hours of their life to this film is simplyunforgivable. I would have felt better about myself had I spent 2 hours trying tolick peanut butter off my elbow.I Have Seen Hundreds Of Movies And I Can Say Without A MomentsHesitation That This Was Without A Doubt The Worst Film I've Ever Seen,and could quite possibly be the worst motion picture ever.

starcraftbw88 2012-05-06 06:01:56

Bad. Even for a supposed horror flick

Painful. Ranks right down there with crap like "Premonition". I love agood horror movie, but even the deaths in this movies were lame. Theyfailed at making the fog even remotely scary. Needless to say the storyseemed almost not existent and strung together in some incoherent wayand you'll find better plot lines in children's books. I'll be honestthough, I watched the movie half-assedly dozing off once in a while. Imean, after the first half hour it was apparent that the movie would bea enormous waste of time, but I still sat through it hoping it mightget better. It didn't.Also, there were numerous times people got thrown through glass andlike four scenes where glass breaks. Did the writer have some some oddglass fetish or under the assumption that glass breaking is scary? Theonly thing good in this movie is that white chick's legs.

sddavis63 2012-05-02 23:06:20

Very Weak

Although in all honesty the story doesn't make much sense if you thinkabout it (and you really don't have to think that hard to realize thatit doesn't make much sense) this somehow manages to lead into a decentenough last twenty minutes or so. The only problem is that this is morethan an hour and a half long. Mercifully, I found myself repeatedlywaking suddenly after dropping off to sleep for that period. That's theimpact the movie had on me; that's pretty much the level of suspense itkept me in throughout. Yes, the ending isn't bad, but it's questionablewhether the average person is going to make it there. It's a bad storythat makes little sense, and generally weak performances throughout.I'll give it a bit of credit for somehow managing to put all that"badness" aside and come up with a relatively decent (even if it doesmake as little sense as the rest of the movie) finish. (3/10)

2012-05-02 09:51:10

"THE FOG" (2005)

This is a very unnesscary remake of a classic thriller but I think it still works well. It is not the disaster that everyone is saying, but it is still not a great movie. But it is an effective one. The one gripe I have is that they changed the ending but I can live with that. Rent it if your curious...

strain6 2012-04-28 19:28:04

Not Any Better Than the Original

The original version of The Fog wasn't any good either. The remakedoesn't work for the same reasons. It takes more time than thefilm-makers have to develop the characters of the town. When they meettheir various fates we don't know enough about them to care. We tend toforget who they were since they were dropped from the story till theend. Worse, the cohesion of the story is marred by the MandatoryAfrican-American character. By his own admission, he comes from Chicagoand is extraneous to the action. The time spent on his characterintroduces the themes of racial profiling and man's inhumanity to man.There was too much on the film-makers' plate already to take off atangent, though I suspect the character was imposed on them. See theremake of Thirteen Ghosts if you want to another example of cohesionversus social exigency. In the case of The Fog, however, I don't thinkit would have been an effective film, gun pointed at their heads ornot. The story of the ghosts is as dry as any in dull high schoolhistory text. A remake should be done by someone who is inspired tomake the original much better. I didn't get that feeling here.

2012-04-28 07:12:10

An amazing classic gone HORRIBLY WRONG!

Well, in very short form, Mr. Carpenter, the creator of "The Fog"(1980) should hunt down Rupert Wainwright and beat him until he can'tthink anymore, just so he doesn't murder any other amazing classicmovies. I have never been more disappointed in a movie in my entirelife! I strongly urge everyone to go and rent the ORIGINAL "The Fog" byJohn Carpenter and enjoy how a true director does things. Wainwright isnothing but a wanna-be, knock-off and should quit now.For those of you who were totally confused, thought the computergenerated imagery, the 'ghosts' in the movie, and everything elsesucked... I'm right with ya! Not only didn't Wainwright follow the plotof the movie... but his own version was horrible, erratic, and made nosense! You couldn't side with a character because there was nocharacter development; you couldn't understand the plot because it wasto shallow to wade through and really grasp; you couldn't get scaredbecause of all the corny cliché's that Wainwright wrote in. Can a movieget any worse than this? I think not! We live in the year 2005 - a timewhen George Lucas shows us the power of computer generated imagery (andamazingly so), when Quentin Tarantino shows us how to develop a story,characters, and show us how are SHOULD be in films (i.e. Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2 and Sin City just to name a few), and a time period when we canlook at classic and present horror films and not only understand thembut use their astounding techniques to make a great film (using GeorgeA. Romeo, John Carpenter, and even Rob Zombie). Then we turn around andask, why with all of this background out there, with so much to learnfrom, understand, and put forth does a man put out such filth... suchfecal trash as this?! Simply because Rupert Wainwright is a horribledirector...So in conclusion (for now at least), I DO NOT recommend this movie, butI do recommend seeing John Carpenter's ORIGINAL film "the Fog"... don'tlet a cheap knock-off kill such a great movie! Boycott Wainwrightscheap-ass movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

2012-04-27 19:18:42

Don't waste your time

The first version was a bit corny but it was still better than this one. NO story, bad acting. Don't even buy this from the bin at Walmart

2_Singles 2012-04-27 13:19:34

The Trick to Enjoying this Movie...

The story takes place in the small, secluded town of Antonio Bay, whichis falling victim to a deadly fog containing revenge-seeking leperskilled many years ago by the town's 4 founding fathers. The beautiful Tom Welling ("Smallville") does a great job with hisacting. His character is believable and he pulls it off well.Undoubtedly the best part of the movie. Maggie Grace and her characterseemed a bit bland to me. Not particularly horrible, but the characterdefinitely could've been portrayed better. I liked Selma Blair andDeRay Davis. They both did good jobs. A good part of the movie was the CGI and special effects which wereboth well done. Images were spooky, but not necessarily scary. Themovie as a whole wasn't scary at all. The scariest parts being some ofthe more graphic images and unexpected loud noises, which aren't evenbad (scariness-wise). The movie wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible. The storyline waspredictable for the most part (although the ending did leave me a bitconfused) and it wasn't scary. I did enjoy the movie, however. Thetrick is really just to walk into the theater not expecting much. Ididn't walk in hoping to see some fantastic horror movie. I wasexpecting a movie with a straightforward plot with some run-of-the-millscares. It was pretty much what I expected, so I wasn't disappointed. Just go and take it for what it's worth and enjoy it for what it wassupposed to be: a good, old-fashioned ghost story. I'd recommend thisas a good movie to see if 1.) You're looking for a fun Halloween flickto see with some friends, or 2.) You're a big fan of Tom Welling. Ifyou like him, it'll be worth it.

2012-04-26 09:09:03

A floating candy bar in the pool of life

Regardless of whether or not you liked the original The Fog by John Carpenter has nothing to do with this complete and total bowel movement of a remake.Every single person in this movie performed some of the worst acting I have ever seen. Let us review the credits shall we - Tom Welling (TV's Smallville), Maggie Grace (TV's Lost) and Selma Blair (Hellboy) and directed by Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata).Smallville, Lost, Hellboy and Stigmata. Doesn't that just say it all? Kind of like the big yellow FALLING ROCKS! sign you see on dangerous rocky mountain passes.Neither Tom Welling, Maggie Grace or Selma Blair can act their way out of wet paper sacks!The Fog is a good story/plot done wrong by mediocre Hollywood imagination and mind-numbing acting talent. What could have been a standout, knock you over remake turned into what is found in most children's diapers.

x-zombie_massacre 2012-04-25 22:59:43

The worst movie I have ever seen.

I went and saw this movie in theaters with two of my friends assomething to do on a Saturday. I saw the previews and wasn't impressed,but I decided to go anyway, because it was either The Fog, or ChickenLittle. Now that I have seen it, I REALLY wish we went to ChickenLittle. I went into the movie unenthusiastic, and came out laughinghysterically and feeling cheated. Everything in it was cliché and hadlame coincidences. For instance, when Elizabeth falls in the littlepool of water in the old boat house, she swims to the side and tries toclimb out, the rocks she grabs onto somehow come loose and expose aperfectly shaped hole containing a book telling all the secrets to tiethe plot together. WHAT ARE THE ODDS!? It wasn't scary, the ending wasincredibly stupid, it had what seemed to be a token black man who hadstereotypical one liners and wasn't really necessary. I kind of had theidea it would be lame, after all, it did open up with Fall Out Boy's'Sugar, We're Going Down.' and not a descent soundtrack. I have no ideawhy the editor didn't bring it back to the director and say 'Change it,all of it. Just start over.', and the acting was a mess. In conclusion,I hated this movie, it was a waste of time and money, I slap myself forgoing to see it. However, if you want a good laugh...then I guess youshould watch it.

poe426 2012-04-24 23:02:34

Somebody should've scuttled this one early on...

***SPOLIERS*** John Carpenter's superbly stylish ghost story caughtcritics totally by surprise way back in 1980: most were expecting moreof the (alleged) bloodletting that had made HALLOWEEN the single mostcounterfeited "spatter" movie of all time; but Carpenter once againeschewed the gallons of glistening gore served up in such heapin'helpin's by his would-be emulators and gave us a "Flying Dutchman" taleof terror the likes of which we hadn't seen since the heyday of ValLewton and company. Not for the last time did this filmmaker confoundexpectations and deliver something of lasting merit. The folks behindthis remake, however, have neither the imagination nor the talent totake this one to the next level; this one founders on the rocks ofineptitude and, like a beached whale, should've been cast adrift beforedecomposition set in. Avoid at all costs.

joshheggs 2012-04-24 15:54:20

The Fog Will be Great

The fog is based on the old horror movie back in the day.Even awhileback this movie scared many people worldwide.Now, we all knew it wascoming.... the remake of the fog. The remake contains actors suck asTom welling and Selma Blair in the gripping suspense filled horrormovie. First and for most my boy boy Tom Welling, hes a good actor. Hehas been in the film cheaper by dozen in the famous TV showSmallville.(best TV show ever? I would like to see him in a lot morehero based movies but what can you do.. Overall the the actors and theplot make the movie which in this case leaves you with a theater movie.Not a renter a theater movie. Yes i said it, this should be one youwatch in the theaters, thats all i got to say... I'm done