Awesome / The Mist

Film:

• Irene, when she chucks a tin can of peas at Mrs. Carmody's face:
  Irene: Shut up, you miserable buzzard! Stoning people who piss you off is perfectly okay! They do it in the Bible, don't they? And I got lots of peas!
  • And then Ollie goes and tops everything by finally shooting Carmody as she was about to have David's son sacrificed.
    Ollie: I killed her.
    David: Thank you Ollie.
    Ollie: I killed her. I wouldn't have done it if there had been any other way.
    David: That's why I said thank you.
• The scene with the roaming behemoth near the end is eerily beautiful and genuinely terrifying in a strangely subtle way. Quite a bit of people consider it the best scene in the whole movie.
• At the end of the film, David has well and truly abandoned all hope, and is calling out to the monsters within the mist to come and finish him off. Something massive approaches, obscured by the fog but sounding monstrous. Just when you're certain some grotesque monster is about to pounce, a huge, armored tank emerges from the fog instead. We are then treated to the sight of a huge column of soldiers as they march down the road, torching monsters as they go, escorting survivors, and burning away the mist that seemed so omnipresent and undefiable mere seconds ago (this was doubly unexpected for those who read the book, where it's heavily implied that the Mist had spread across the whole planet). David's tragedy notwithstanding, mankind has still risen to the challenge, the titular Mist is being driven back, and the otherworldly creatures are being slaughtered. It's not every day that humanity prevails in a Cosmic Horror Story.
• The Badass Biker volunteering to go outside to fetch Mr. Cornell's shotgun, with a rope tied around his waist so that if he doesn't make it, they can tell how far he went. The fact that he gives Ms. Carmody a Shut Up, Hannibal! speech right before going adds icing to the cake.
  • David gets some credit for suggesting he wear the waist line in the first place, due to realizing how doomed Norton's group is but seeing a way that it can prove the threat once it's clear they can't be talked down.
• David decking Jim for his stupidity in getting Norm taken.
• Amanda doesn't get many Action Girl moments, but when the scorpion-flies and pterobuzzards storm the store, she knocks one of the former creatures to the ground and then stomps it to death and sprays one of the latter species with flammable liquid before David sets it on fire.
• It's a small moment, but Sally grabs the scorpion fly that stings her and defiantly flings it away before the stinger starts making her swell up.
• From the deleted scenes and the book, Ollie gets a line to Norton telling him that if he's convinced it's safe then he can go outside and pick up some bottles in the recycling bin around the corner, adding that if he makes it back then Ollie will eat his shirt.
• It's a minor moment but Bobby and Joe (Buddy in the book) trying to stop Norton and his group from leaving before they reach David.
• Minor characters Tom and Joe trying to fight the scorpion flies with an axe and a flaming mop respectively, although it doesn't end well for them.

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