The movie itself is like the old 1980's version only that they have worse actors/actresses now, but basically it's the exact same story without anything cool whatsoever happening.
The Fog 2005 is a remake of the 1980's version and I don't understand why they bothered to do a remake of this movie in the first place. Or why they keep doing remakes of so many movies that just end up being terrible, except for Dawn of the Dead which ruled.
Problem here (and with a lot of remakes for that matter) is that a remake should take the old movie and then try and improve it, adding new improved stuff to it and so forth. Not just remaking it again without adding anything much...if so, then what's the point?
This movie is really hopeless and it actually really blows when thinking about it. I like the orginal The Fog, it's somewhat entertaining even though it's far from Carpenter's best. But it's so much better than this new one.
For me personally, it just felt like a waste of time, it would have been better to just watch the original version again to avoid the irritation you got from watching this one.
I guess one of the worst things about these remakes are that so many people are unaware of that they actually are just remakes and that they have no idea that there was an original version before, and that's a shame.
It really sucks so don't spend your money on this. It's not scary, it really has nothing to offer except you being angry after seeing this junk. Just stick with the original flick, it's not great but way better than this lousy remake.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Rupert Wainwright
WRITING CREDITS: Cooper Layne, John Carpenter
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair
COUNTRY: USA, Canada
RUNTIME: 100 min
RATING: 2/10
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