I saw this Movie when it first came out in the Theater....my initial reaction was.....ehhhhhh, it was just OK...which for pretty much any Novel of Stephen King's that been made into a movie? Says a lot, in my personal opinion there ae few if ANY of his books that have been correctly portrayed/made into a worthwhile movie...now I know I am going to probably get a lot of flack from fellow Tribe members here for saying this, but it is..again...my personaly opinion here that's all.
I think that "Stand By Me" was done well, "Carrie" (The Orgininal Movie) scared the HELL out of me as a very young kid when I saw it in the theater wayyyyyyyy back when....the re-imaginings of both the Shining and Salem's Lot were much better than the Movies that were made (Ok, I admit Jack Nicholson was THE only goos thing about Kubrick's version of The Shining!!) and "Misery" was pretty good I have to admit.

Everything else is nothing but PURE and terribly made crap!! And it's just so frustrating and aggravating and annoying...to think...wellllll....maybe THIS one is the movie that a Director will finally GET right and really make the fans of Horror and Stephen Kings books happy!!
Look at such Movies as....Christine, Pet Cemetary, Needful Things (That book was pure crap anyways), Cujo, Firestarter, Hearts Of Atlantis....I can go on with a list here but I won't you get the idea.

With the "Mist"?
I thought that finally Frank Darabont would get it right! I read on a few of the Entertainment web sites that visit daily that this was going to be good and that it would be a "must see" for horror fans because the special effects and the characters in the movie were going to be awesome!
Well my opinion of the movie itself?
I thought it was just an average movie...nothing to really write home about.
The creepy monsters/special effects? Eh, soright...nothing really made me JUMP or scare the crap out of me

And the ending?
I won't ruin it for anyone who has yet to see the DVD...but...yeah, it is pretty bleak...which I thought was interesting...it reminded me of the way John Carpenter back when he was in his prime as a great Director (Com ON!! I dare you to say that "The Thing" and "Halloween" (The Original) "The Fog" and Escape From New York" are NOT Classics by Carpenter?!?! :) LOL!!!)...he never ended any of his movies on a happy La La La smiles all around sort of way.

Ok
That's my view on "The Mist"
Better to have seen THIS one on DVD my friends!
It sucks that there were some of us who paid to see this in the Theater