History Headscratchers / TheMist

* Why does the tentacle monster only grab one guy?

** Really? combined with the final ending I took the lesson to be if you give up you deserve the worst. Only the people who do not give up can get a happy endings even if it means risking certain death.

** Yeah, you're probably the only one. David adressed him in the most civil manner possible and only insulted him after he acted like a total dick for awhile. And maybe he didn't see the monsters, but at least five other people had seen them or their remains and were backing David's story. But he refused to go to see it for himself or believe any of them because they were "godamned hicks" trying to fool the smart city dweller.

*** With the sheer variety of creatures that we've seen there are at least four or five different kinds of monsters and probably more and no guarantee you'd get to die on your terms if you didn't do it right then. People have bad aim when they are panicked and I'm sure there are beast that could rip open a vehicle pretty quickly.

*** Two things missing from this conversation: 1, they had just heard another alien sound getting closer and nobody was saying "what now?" so the course of action was clear among all of them, and 2, the kid made his dad '''promise''' that he wouldn't let the monsters get him. It's almost the boys last lines in the supermarket. Also, the kid woke up to his dad pointing a gun in his face. One way or another that boy was ''never sleeping again''.

* Why the Mist creatures simply don't bulldoze their way into the supermarket? It's pretty clear that some of the things out there could effortlessly smash throught simple wood and glass.

** Why the Mist creatures simply don't bulldoze their way into the supermarket? It's pretty clear that some of the things out there could effortlessly smash throught simple wood and glass.

** In story, it was cult psychology at work. The people in the store were looking for some kind of answer and Carmody was the one they turned for that answer, so there was little chance of argument going on. No one's gonna be double-checking their bibles when the end of the world is just outside the door.

* I'm not a Christian, but it's my understanding that Jesus' death was supposed to have rendered the expiationary blood sacrifices required by Mosaic law superfluous. By demanding more of them, Mrs. Carmody is basically saying that the blood of Christ wasn't sufficient. Was there really no other Christian in the store who would challenge her blasphemous ignorance of the most basic doctrines of their religion? (All we got was that vague "God is not an asshole" stuff.)

* I'm not a Christian, but it's my understanding that Jesus' death was supposed to have rendered the expiationary blood sacrifices required by Mosaic law superfluous. By demanding more of them, Mrs. Carmody is basically saying that the blood of Christ wasn't sufficient. There was really no other Christian in the store who would challenge her blasphemous ignorance of the most basic doctrines of their religion? (All we got was that vague "God is not an asshole" stuff.)

** Yeah, you're probably the only one. David adressed him in the most civil manner possible and only insulted him after he acted like a total dick for awhile. And maybe he didn't see the monsters, but at least five other people had seen them or their remains and were backing David's story. But he refused to go to see it for himself or believe any of them because they were "godamned hicks" trying to fool the smart city dweler.

**** Oh. I'll shut up now.

**** Thing is, if she is right, then her particular view on the christian God is true, an idea that is more frightening than any of monsters could be.

** really? combined with the final ending I took the lesson to be if you give up you deserve the worst. Only the people who do not give up can get a happy endings even if it means risking certain death.

** Its classic cult psychology, take away everything from a person including their security that the world is what they think it is and then use a strong confident personality and many will follow. only many mind you, the opposition got whittled down by the creatures.

* At the end of the movie, pretty much everything [[spoiler: Mrs. Carmody]] said has come true exactly how she said it would. Hell, [[spoiler: the mist only disperses when the military shows up... immediately after David has killed his son, which is exactly what Mrs. Carmody and her congregation wanted to do.]] Does that mean that we should have been rooting for her all this time? In other words, is [[CompleteMonster *she*]] the hero of this movie?! That's... a little disturbing.

*** She's present at the end with the military.

** Here's a better question: why does everyone keep assuming she survived? After she disappears in the mist, there is nothing to suggest what her fate actually was.

** Possibly the creatures were attracted to large gatherings of people first, and the spider-things that ambushed David's group were too busy killing everyone in the pharmacy to notice a lone woman out in the parking lot.

** Um... sorry, back up. How do we know she survived? Just because she didn't scream like Mr. "I'm getting the hell out of here" did does not mean she survived. The a sense of evidence is not the evidence of absence. She probably still died. Just not right then.

* The woman who leaves the supermarket to find her kids at the beginning. Yes, her fear for her children is perfectly understandable. Yes, it's still stupid for her to leave the store alone and without any protection whatsoever. And she lives, not that we ever find out how. The message is subtle as a brick -- [[StrawVulcan simpering, virtuous stupidity is rewarded, while pragmatic intelligence fails]]. Then again, she may have just bothered me so much because her dialogue ("Won't any of you help a lady home?") falls squarely into that odd realm of StephenKing dialogue that looks fine on paper but sounds utterly unnatural when spoken by a real person.

** Yeah, you're probably the only one. David adressed him in the most civil manner possible and only insulted him after he acted like a total dick for awhile. And maybe he didn't see the monsters, but at least five other people had seen them or their remains and were backing David's story. But he refused to go to see it for himself or believe any of them because they were "godamned hicks" trying to fool the smart city dweler.

**** And the bugs were essentially giant wasps. Who ''hasn't'' had a wasp land on their clothing, and held very still until it got bored and flew away again?

*** With the sheer variety of creatures that we've seen there are at least four or five different kinds of monsters and probably more and no garauntee you'd get to die on your terms if you didn't do it right then. People have bad aim when they are panicked and I'm sure there are beast that could rip open a vehicle pretty quickly.

* Other than by the power of Aesoptinium how ''did'' that chick that'd left the mall in the beginnning, survived реу monsters and made it to the military? None of the other guys made it even past the parking lot without getting chomped.