The Fog Remake.

This past weekend I finally had the chance to go see The Fog at the local theater. The movie was enjoyable but I have to say that I enjoyed the original Carpenter version more. I was glad to see that the makers of this redo didn't try to over-load it with CGI. yes there are CGI effects but the movie doesn't depend solely on them. They did keep most of the characters and loosely followed the original story. My one major dislike was the creation of the character played by Maggie Grace. They lump a lot of the fact finding onto her character, which was originally done by the priest in the original. There are a lot of loose ends and obvious scenes that are just overlooked or forgotten thru the coarse of the movie. A dock worker finds his dog lying in a steaming heap, no one seems to notice or care. The same dock worker begins to show horrible face wounds that get worse scene by scene, and he talks to several people and no one ever shows concern or asks about his face. There are many more that just make you wonder what the writers were trying to do. But even with all the flaws it was a fun watch. The ghosts were well done and there were moments of suspense. We didn't have Adrienne Barbeau to look at but Selma Blair was not hard on the eyes. But what was the deal with that ending. After the credits rolled we still sat there trying to figure out exactly what just happened. Was she a ghost the whole time? Did the ghost kill her and she was his now? Did the writers suddenly realize they were out of time and wrote a quick ending? I just hope that when it comes out on DVD that we get some deleted scenes that fill in some of the gaping holes. All in all I would still recommend it as a good watch, just don't go in expecting to see a movie as good as the original.

It was hard watching Shannon making kissey-face with Superman, I am sure Sayid is upset.
(if your a LOST fan you will get that.)