History Headscratchers / TheMist

** [[spoiler: First, because they were all rather shocked by what had happened to her. Her self-proclaimed "God-given" invincibility in the wake of her giant-alien-wasp encounter - the very reason they didn't think they ''needed'' to get between her and Ollie - had just been proven B.S., and with that brutal debunking, they suddenly were confronted by the truth that they'd just been about to murder an innocent child for ''nothing''. Second, all of them are already convinced that stepping outside the supermarket means instant death, so if the lot of them are dead-set on leaving, they don't ''need'' to kill any of David's group, because they expect the creatures will do it for them. And third, they keep back and don't intervene because they've got hammers, knives, and frying pans. '''''Ollie's got a freaking gun'''''.]]

** [[spoiler: First, because they were all rather shocked by what had happened to her. Her self-proclaimed invincibility in the wake of her giant-alien-wasp encounter - the very reason they didn't think they ''needed'' to get between her and Ollie - had just been proven B.S., and with that brutal debunking, they suddenly were confronted by the truth that they'd just been about to murder an innocent child for ''nothing''. Second, all of them are already convinced that stepping outside the supermarket means instant death, so if the lot of them are dead-set on leaving, they don't ''need'' to kill any of David's group, because they expect the creatures will do it for them. And third, they keep back and don't intervene because they've got hammers, knives, and frying pans. '''''Ollie's got a freaking gun'''''.]]

** [[spoiler: First, because they were all rather shocked by what had happened to her. Her self-proclaimed invincibility in the wake of her giant-alien-wasp encounter had just been proven a lie, and with that brutal debunking, they suddenly were confronted by the truth that they'd just been about to murder an innocent child for ''nothing''. Second, all of them are already convinced that stepping outside the supermarket means instant death, so if the lot of them are dead-set on leaving, they don't ''need'' to kill any of David's group, because they expect the creatures will do it for them. And third, they keep back and don't intervene because they've got hammers, knives, and frying pans. '''''Ollie's got a freaking gun'''''.]]

** [[spoiler: First, because they were all rather shocked by what had happened to her. Her self-proclaimed invincibility in the wake of her giant-alien-wasp encounter had just been proven a lie, and with that brutal debunking, they suddenly were confronted by the truth that they'd just been about to murder an innocent child for ''nothing''. And second, they keep back and don't intervene because they've got hammers, knives, and frying pans. '''''Ollie's got a freaking gun'''''.]]

** [[spoiler: First, because they were all rather shocked by what had happened to her. Her self-proclaimed invincibility in the wake of her giant-alien-wasp encounter had just been proven a lie, and with that brutal debunking, they suddenly were confronted by the truth that they'd just been about to murder an innocent child for ''nothing''. And second, they keep back and don't intervene because ''Ollie's got a freaking gun''.]]

** First, because they were all rather shocked by what had happened to her. Her self-proclaimed invincibility in the wake of her giant-alien-wasp encounter had just been proven a lie, and with that brutal debunking, they suddenly were confronted by the truth that they'd just been about to murder an innocent child for ''nothing''. And second, they keep back and don't intervene because ''Ollie's got a freaking gun''.

*** We see her alive and well with her children at the end of the film.

*** Indeed, the fact that some of the Arrowhead Project soldiers - the very ones implied to have some notion what was going on - ''hanged themselves'' at the supermarket rather than face what was coming would've seemed to confirm that whatever had caused the Mist was global or at least nation-wide in scope. They certainly didn't seem to have any hope that the military would be coming to the rescue. Oh, and they were "hidden" from the creatures' sense of smell, not their vision. They had all the windows up.

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

* Why didn't Mrs. Carmody's followers try to [[spoiler: save her or avenge her]]? When she begins gathering followers, they were shown to be pretty protective of her and were always around her. When they [[spoiler: lynched Private Jessup]], David and his group tried to save him, but her followers blocked the way and held them back. If her followers were so protective of her and so devoted to her, why did they immediately run off or hide when [[spoiler: Ollie shot her the first time and leave her completely exposed? Why didn't they pull her to safety, throw themselves in front of her, or try to stop Ollie from shooting a second time? When Ollie shot her the first time, he walked up to her and paused for a few seconds. There were 4-5 people armed with weapons: the mechanic and butcher each had huge knives, there was a guy wielding a baseball bat, I saw a guy with a hammer, and I think I saw a woman with a frying pan. Why, during that time where he was paused, didn't any of those people rush at Ollie and try to subdue or even kill him and take the gun away from him? Even better, after she was killed, why didn't anyone, especially those with the weapons, make any effort to avenge her or stop David's group from leaving the store? Why not sneak up behind any member of David's group and kill them? They had a chance to at least somewhat avenge her when Budd Brown ran back and begged to be let back in. They could have locked the door and just walked away or killed him the second they let him in, but no. They squandered that chance too. Just doesn't make any sense as to why they would protect their beloved leader one moment, then leave her to die and not make any efforts at revenge the next.]]

*** Indeed, the fact that some of the Arrowhead Project soldiers - the very ones implied to have some notion what was going on - ''hanged themselves'' at the supermarket rather than face what was coming would've seemed to confirm that whatever had caused the Mist was global or at least nation-wide in scope. They certainly didn't seem to have any hope that the military would be coming to the rescue.

*** Also, the timing's off for it to be a literal, rather than just symbolic, correlation. [[spoiler: The soldiers who show up at the end have clearly been rescuing people and burning the Mist and its creatures for hours, long before the boy died. Heck, the lady who walked out at the very beginning of the siege might have survived because she stumbled into one of the military's scouting parties on her way home.]]

*** Your thinking of robberies. Sharks avoid lawyers because of the bad taste.

** The alleged narm-worthiness is very much a YMMV. In this Troper's experience, the entire reason people remember this movie is because the of the ending. It's also worth noting that [[WordOfGod King, himself]], wishes that ''he'd'' thought of the adaptation's ending.

* Did Ollie have to [[spoiler: shoot Mrs. Carmody a second time in the movie]]? [[spoiler: The gunshot wound to her abdomen would have not been survivable without immediate medical attention and since there were obviously no doctors in the store, her fate was already sealed with that first shot. David would have had a bullet for himself in that case. If she absolutely had to die, why not snap her neck, strangle her, or take the knife she had and stab her or slit her throat?]].

** Personally, I pictured a giant slug-like creature with tentacles ringing its mouth (two large ones and a bunch of small ones, similar to squid). Alternatively the tentacles might not have been tentacles at all but a pack of worm-like communal hunters.

** Disagree with the dialogue thing. To me it sounded like she was appealing to chivalry and begging them for help while still remaining somewhat dignified. She also sounded like she knew what she was getting in to, and just went for her kids. And for all we know, she spent days fighting off hordes of monsters with sticks and rocks, got to a working communication device and told the military about the extent of the situation, saving hundreds or thousands of lives.

* 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.

** Except the appearance of unnatural fog and nasty alien animals only proves that unnatural fog and nasty alien animals are real. It doesn't prove jack-squat about whether Mrs. Carmody's God sent them. Heck, if anything it would imply that Creator/StephenKing was right about how the universe works more than it implies the Bible was.

** The alleged narm-worthiness is very much a YMMV. In this Troper's experience, the entire reason people remember this movie is because the of the ending. It's also worth noting that [[WordOfGod King, himself, wishes that ''he'd'' thought of the adaptation's ending]].
** For what it's worth, King fully approved of the alternate ending.

** The alleged narm-worthiness is very much a YMMV. In this Troper's experience, the entire reason people remember this movie is because the of the ending. It's also worth noting that King, himself, prefers the film's ending.

*** The point about that they are in the middle of the mist and therefore “hidden” I think is bs because the creatures clearly come from a planet with that environment and hunt in the mist (and some of them seem not to even have eyes, so they probably hunt using other senses). Also they have no way to know the sound approaching was a truck, nor if the army was still around fighting creatures. As a viewer when I was watching that scene I assume the experiment have turn the entire Earth in that weird mist places and that there was no longer governments nor armies, and that the effect was irreversible (after all, in no way was ever implied that the effect was only local and that the army was able to contain it) I was equally surprised when I saw the army burning creatures and dispersing the mist.

*** The point about that they are in the middle of mist and therefore “hidden” I think is bs because the creatures clearly come from a planet with that environment and hunt in the mist (and some of them seem not to even have eyes, say they probably hunt using other senses). Also they have no way to know the sound approaching was a truck, nor if the army was still around fighting creatures. As a viewer when I was watching that scene I assume the experiment have turn the entire Earth in that weird mist places and that there was no longer governments nor armies, and that the effect was irreversible (after all, in no way was ever implied that the effect was only local and that the army was able to contain it) I was equally surprised when I saw the army burning creatures and dispersing the mist.

** It doesn't seem likely to be a Behemoth, considering that they shake the ground with each step. It's probably another species altogether, perhaps an aquatic life form that found itself stuck in a storm drain and burst out of it.

* What were the tentacles attached to? My guess is either some kind of land squid, or the HUGE creature at the end (we see that it has plenty of tentacles). If the latter is true, the earthquake at the beginning could've been the creature kneeling down next to the store.

** Because the other people there had put up a somewhat decent fight, even cutting off part of one of the tentacles, so the monster probably figured that grabbing more just wasn't worth it. It grabbed what it could and got out before it got hurt again.