A Quiet Place (2018)

also how do they muffle bathroom noises

this movie was ok

plenty of dumb shit in it but a pleasant enough hour-plus

that's about it

otm

xpost The triumph is that it literally ends with a grinning Emily Blunt pumping the shotgun in preparation for the monsters arriving. They figured it out, cracked the code, learned how to stop them. But it did not feel like revenge to me, it felt like a cute Hollywood ending.

I liked the Red Letter review. They mostly liked it, but wished there was just a little more emotional drama to it. For example, when Jim (do the characters have names?) tells his daughter how much he loves her, was there ever any doubt whatsoever that either of her parents didn't love her? And the scene where Emily Blunt is with the baby in the basement, what if for even a moment she had to decide: the baby or me? For that matter, they brought up, the subject of the baby at all would have been a rich source of character development. Maybe one parent wanted it and the other didn't? Maybe there would be some discussion at all about the merits of raising this baby in a world where raising a baby seems like a death warrant?

Honestly, I'm happy not to have that information if that is how they managed to keep it to 90 minutes. However, that kind of conflict would have made it a better movie.

The triumph is that it literally ends with a grinning Emily Blunt pumping the shotgun in preparation for the monsters arriving. They figured it out, cracked the code, learned how to stop them. But it did not feel like revenge to me, it felt like a cute Hollywood ending.

I still don't see how this is cheesy but ok. Killing the creatures will bring no lasting satisfaction, as I'm sure she'll learn when Earth returns to normal and she returns to therapy.

"Monsters. Packs? WHAT IS THEIR WEAKNESS? THERAPY!?!"

i wanted to know more about the monsters. where they were educated. what their feelings were.

"do they have feelings? reason with them!?"

I will say that if I were one of those creatures I also could not wait to sink my claws into John Krasinki.

With only one thing driving the narrative, I don't think there's much room for this to be great, to resonate above and beyond the scare scenes. All it can be is really efficient, and it is. I like that they join the story on Day 89. Robin Wood probably would have hated the deification of the traditional family, right up to the ultimate selflessness of dad, but maybe he'd like the females-now-in-charge ending. If this actually is about anything, I just work from the assumption these days that everything's about Trump.

The exposition wall was hilarious - everyone laughs at the whiteboard American Tim from the office keeps up in case he forgets that the creatures are armoured or that he doesn’t know how to kill them, but to me the newspaper clippings are funnier. There’s one that’s like THEY CAN HEAR YOU, which suggests that up to that point everyone has been working from the assumption that the ear monsters are deaf

This was p good, nail was the best part

Given they know what gets them and studio has talked sequel, the next movie should be called A Loud Place and just be 90 minutes of people shouting over blaring high frequencies and feedback.

nail was truly horrible and worse than the monsters

I wish Phantom Thread had started on Day 89.

lol

Why wouldn't you live by the waterfall / river?

Don't power stations / waterworks / fucking *printing presses* make noise?

Aliens were already defeated like this in 'Mars Attacks'

Blaring soundtrack defeated any chance of this film actually doing anything interesting with sound.

Astonished this is at 95%,on Rotten Tomatoes.

Aliens were already defeated like this in 'Mars Attacks'

And in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Why wouldn't you live by the waterfall / river?

My first thought as soon as they went to the waterfall. FFS, just live there you idjuts

Oh also, we watched about 30 mins of this film on a d/l at home before realising we prob should put the subtitles on for all the signing. I dont even think we missed much tbh.

It would probably make a lot of noise to build the roads to move all the materials and tools to build a house and excavation equipment and electricity pylons and whatnot

sleeping in a tent >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> living in a house where monsters will kill you for making a sound

yeah but! their driving force is to find other surviving groups of humans and either build or rejoin a society. this is the motivation for p much all their non-immediate-survival actions. if the film was about ppl who wanted to live in a tent by themselves, it would be about different characters.

I'm not endorsing these probable nutbag evangelist-like Christians who insist on procreating, but they're the protagonists of the film as released, and they don't want inbred grandbabies.

look i’m happy to accept that all the characters in this movie just happen to be a bit dim xp

I was unhappy to accept that John Krasinski wasn't nude.

just watched this last night. much of it was enjoyable but some was so silly i couldn't help but laugh. the whole "let's have a baby when the thing that kills us is noise" was full of hubris. a better film i think would've killed them all for it - i thought for sure the baby would end up suffocating in that terrible baby box before i realized it wasn't that kind of movie. it was a family film about the love of parents for their children masquerading as a horror flick. the older daughter should've died in the corn silo, the baby in the baby box, and the son and father should've died before credits. a better movie would've ended with just the mother left alive and the audience realizing that her time was running out soon. or a scarier movie at least.

while watching we kept coming up with things that could kill you in this world. like if you snore too loud one night. or fart too loud. i guess if you have ibs you're dead pretty quickly.

I prefer your ending

This movie didnt really work at all tbh

the kid on the trail should totally have farted instead of pressed the button on the toy

dramatic, slo-mo John & Emily wheel-around

I have this weird feeling that Krasinki's only contribution to the script was his character's death scene

dunno why

I desperately want a fart-laden (and thus greatly improved) redubbed version of this movie basically now.

"Silent but Deadly"

would watch a version of this film with nude John Krasinski

i'd only be interested in watching this movie if it was nude john krasinski farting the whole time

Nude with life-saving butt plug

all butt plugs are lifesavers tbf

Watched this yesterday. Love reading through these threads after the fact.

Remember when, toward the end, when one of the kids reaches through the cornstalks to grab the other kid's ankle, because that is the best way to get someone's attention without startling them which might cause them to shriek

Gonna venture a guess that that character has never shrieked in her life and is in fact entirely nonverbal. Clearly she speaks both English and ASL, but doesn't vocalize her English at all, just aspirates.

And all the convo upstream about speakers and microphones, good lord. THERE WERE NO SPEAKERS. There was a microphone and a pair of headphones. Krasinski was using them to search for responses to tapped out S.O.S. signals on all frequencies, using the minimum amount of noise he could. Just before she shoves the hearing aid into the mic, the girl cranks the headphones to their maximum volume.

and yet she continues to wear the hearing aid unnecessarily despite the pain it causes her, that was odd. She could have carried it in her pocket

It only causes her pain when one of the creatures is nearby, because they clearly give off some kind of EM signal/interference that causes a feedback loop. This is indicated by the lights also flickering any time the creatures are near. This is the movie trying to explain things to you. The rest of the time it does nothing at all, as indicated by her turning it on, snapping her fingers, and hearing nothing. Presumably she just leaves it on because, who knows, maybe it will work? Also presumably she figures it's just a glitch the first two times it causes her pain, and by the third time says "Fuck this nonsense." Only when she's cornered and watching the thing react to all the electronics downstairs -- and notice, once again, all the screens go from what they were originally displaying to white noise, because the things emit and react to EM interference -- does she realize what must have happened before.

Early on, the deaf girl stares into the basement, turns on the light, then is about to take a few tentative steps down when Jim stops her and gets mad. "Don't go down there!" he signs, iirc. And she's all "why not?" And he's all "just don't." And I'm all "why not?" Is that where he keeps his radio? Is he just worried she'll start scanning for reception or something? Or does he know the radio, which makes noise, is dangerous? That and the flood, I totally missed something.

Both because she's incapable of knowing if she's causing any noise down there, and because the electronics might interfere with her cochlear implant.

None of the characters in this movie would have survived more than a week under these particular dystopic conditions, let's just all be really real for a moment.

I don't think those giant ear monsters are real either

I don't mind movies being criticized for things that are criticisable, I mind criticisms of things that are explained within the movie's internal logic! My big thing is that the time period encompassed by the onscreen titles, from Day 89 to Day 472 or whatever, must necessarily have encompassed an upstate New York winter. How did they keep from making noise walking in the snow? How and when did they plant all that corn in perfect rows? How and when did they fill the silo? Those don't make any sense at all according to the film's logic.

Oh! And:

Don't power stations / waterworks / fucking *printing presses* make noise?

They have solar panels on the house in a couple of shots, although powering that amount of electronics seems ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One of the newspapers in the basement, the New York Post with the headline "It's Sound!," is the same paper still on the rack in town at the beginning of the movie on Day 89, so presumably the printing presses didn't run for very long.

Every time this movie comes up, I forget the title because it's so forgettable, and the substitute title which pops into my head is Be Vewwy, Vewwy Quiet! Which I think is a much better title.

There should be a sequel "A Pleasant-Smelling Place" where the monsters are triggered by the odor of methane gas

Get ready for a sequel.

“IT’S SOUND!” is my favourite thing in this film, I bet the post got a lot of letters going “oh you mean the ear monsters (that are made of ears) can hear sound? Ya fuckin think so?”

it seemed too obvious maybe

i'd only be interested in watching this movie if it was nude john krasinski farting the whole time

― macropuente (map), Friday, 26 October 2018 02:36 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nude with life-saving butt plug

― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Friday, 26 October 2018 02:39 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all butt plugs are lifesavers tbf

― macropuente (map), Friday, 26 October 2018 02:39 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In 1931, the Life Savers "Cough Drop" was introduced with menthol but it was not successful.

The nude-farting-Krasinski writer's room upthread was great.

Just saw this btw.

“IT’S SOUND!” is my favourite thing in this film, I bet the post got a lot of letters going “oh you mean the ear monsters (that are made of ears) can hear sound? Ya fuckin think so?”

― coetzee.cx (wins), Monday, October 29, 2018 2:44 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think the implied series of events here are that these creatures are suddenly attacking a world that is noisy by default, so it's not that crazy to assume that the press is hoping to broadcast exactly the way in which these monsters are hunting. The early days of this universe would be these things just running around everywhere and their tracking method would not be as obvious in that chaos, given how quickly they respond.

"Yeah, this'll work" attitude towards fast approaching birth took me out of the story the most, not that they seemed super confident, but echoing some similar thoughts upthread perhaps maybe they could have voicedwhispered more concern instead of say slow dancing (or during!) just so the audience doesn't feel quite so much like "how are they not addressing that this is impossible? A crying newborn?"

Otherwise some of the misconceptions upthread make me feel good about myself, like I'm some kind of master detail absorber and never realized it. Game of Thrones threads make me feel that way too.

they were planning to give birth by the waterfall, right? i mean, they didn't have a great contingency plan...

WHY DIDN'T THEY LIVE NEXT TO THE WATERFALL