Michelle a monster?


We get to see the movie through Michelle's eyes and therefore automatically assume she's the hero...but some her manipulations seem to suggest borderline personality disorders.

Howard brings her food which she spurns, tells her he saved her life--which she disbelieves--and then immediately endangers herself and Howard's lives by starting a fire in an underground bunker.

She then sharpens a stake intending to spear Howard ala Vampire Diaries as he attempts to investigate (and to presumably save Michelle, again).

She sociopathically drives Howard to anger by deliberately pushing buttons at the dinner table, toys with Emmett's emotions by falsely coming on to him, and then conspiratorially gets Emmett to perform most of the dangerous work for their escape plan (stealing kitchen implements under Howard's wrathful eye, getting Howard to dispose of the shower curtain, distracting Howard while she made the Hazmat suit, and volunteering to singlehandedly subdue Howard and relieve him of his gun).

Even when the suit was done they knew only one was getting out. So of course, old Emmett volunteers to stay behind...with what would be a supremely pissed-off Howard.

(Makes one wonder if she subconsciously set-up Emmett up to be that "hero" with her carefully emoted story about "freezing under pressure," which precipitates Emmett's rushed confession to Howard and gets him killed? Naughty girl!)

She lies, manipulates, steals, gives Howard a 10-point faceplant in an acid bath, and her only act of kindness is to stitch up Howard's cut--which she in fact, caused.

She then locks Howard in a burning bunker and watches it explode--after killing an organic spaceship with some strategically lobbed firewater to its kisser.

Who knows what havoc she will wreak when she reaches Houston?

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It's an interesting take on the main character. I think she did what she felt she needed to do to survive, and I have certainly met plenty of people who only ever think of what they need to do to survive, and wouldn't know how to do a kind act if their lives depended on it. It's just not in their make-up.

I feel I would personally have stuck it out a little longer, to see if I could figure out another way out, but the film has to keep things tight for the viewer.

I think being held prisoner in an underground bunker by a stranger, for uncertain reasons, would bring out the irrational/selfish side in all of us.

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*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
*~~~( All three of the characters in this story were mentally ill )~~~*
*~~~( Michelle was responsible for the chaos, destruction,& death )~~~*
*~~~( There was no real evidence that Howard had killed that girl )~~~*
*~~~( Emmett may have killed the girl;he had access to the shelter)~~~*
*~~~( Too much info was left unsaid to answer any other questions )~~~*
*~~~( I think Howard intended to build a family for repopulation )~~~*
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She's a woman captured by a creepy, dangerous man. She's a hero.

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We get to see the movie through Michelle's eyes and therefore automatically assume she's the hero...but some her manipulations seem to suggest borderline personality disorders.


Woah, you folks take this to a whole other level of I don't even know what. Leave your pseudo-psychoanalysis at the ticket window. Somethimes I wonder if people go to the theatres to watch films anymore. Everything is like under the microscope and your all pretending to be scientists. Quit, now.

The film in a sentence: When extra-terrestrials attack planet earth, A woman is ran off the road by a psycho-father figure fantasizer and devout doomsday prepper who wants nothing more than to have a daughter to make him feel needed, appreciated and respected.

Films creepy stop psycho-analyzing with your psych101 intellect.

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Nice troll dude

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Michelle = bad guy
Howard = good guy

i thought that was pretty clear



so many movies, so little time

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She's a woman looll

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Linkinsixecho you are so wrong on every account that it is not even funny. You are one of those people who fall for psychopaths out of fear like in "the mist"... world would be better if you wore your iq on your forehead.

Look inside yourself and understand the universe

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& what's worse ? He thrives off of 4 forum pages dedicated to his pseudo-ironical rant...

As you say he's prolly just trying to be funny, by imitation/contradiction, after having read too many feminists rant about how crowds indulge in/praise male stereotypes action movies heroes while they really are havoc-wreaking womanizing sociopaths.

I don't think his iq challenged, more his eq, you know, but aren't we all.😊

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