One of the reviews for The Mist says the following:

[This] grocery-store survival drama, dominated by Marcia Gay Harden as a shrill fundamentalist, serves as a crude but effective allegory for post-9/11 America.

I never understand these post-9/11 America statements. Do people honestly believe that anything more than airport security has changed since 9/11? I mean, people have always been racist. People have always been fanatical. People have always been religious zealots. Did America really change all that much after 9/11?

Moreover, what the fuck does The Mist have to do with anything 9/11?

Then again, it seems to be the fashionable thing to drop 9/11 somewhere in movie reviews these days. I remember similar conflicts were made in Cloverfield. I didn’t realize that every disaster movie was required to pay homage to 9/11 in some obscure way. Good thing James Cameron made Titanic when he did, otherwise we might be reading about how that film captured the irrational fear and behaviour of people in a post 9/11 world.