A Quiet Place (2018)

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

the damp kept messing up the giant speakers

WHY DIDN'T THEY LIVE NEXT TO THE WATERFALL

A White Noisy Place (2018)

those poor children, the only thing they were allowed to play on the piano was John Cage's "4'33"

This was dumb as shit, wtf everybody

jim's pullout game must've been very weak

tbf, emily blunt, etc etc

This was dumb as shit, wtf everybody

shakey otm.

so we have to believe that this things have defeated every army across the globe but they end up vulnerable to a single shotgun blast. why didn't the family live in the basement? or attempt to soundproof their house in any way or even close the fucking doors? or have some remotely operated noisemakers set up around the farm? i nearly screamed when they put the baby in the box - and then they sit there calmly chatting and not freaking out that they've had to put their baby in a fucking sealed box. and then the leak - it looked like at least 10,000 litres of water down there, that must have been one giant pipe that got broken.

i've seen both of these and didn't love either. didn't hate them either. the premise doesn't hold up to scrutiny but that isn't what doesn't make the film work, cos lots of horror doesn't. it's just that in terms of apocalyptic horror, it does one thing over and over again, and doesn't do it particularly well.

and the indicating kills me. do we need an overdramatic finger over the mouth every time someone is telling someone else to be quiet?

things that would get you killed, in my estimation:

1) farting/pooping
2) coughing
3) sneezing
4) peeing
5) snoring
6) talking in sleep
7) literally any squirrel playing outside your house
8) sex
9) pushing someone in a wheelchair

The hand mouth finger move, though overused, the more I think about it the more I think it is VERY necessary

yes I am trying really hard to be quoted out of context

And to your point about the squirrels, they had a jump scare in the second film with a bunch of birds that fly away suddenly. Now birds flying away wouldn't be as loud as they are in a movie that is trying to use that moment to scare you, but yeah that should have still been enough to summon a decibelgorgon.

The thing that bothers me the most is when there is a noise trap or an accident that creates noise- the characters go "jig's up!" and run. I have no idea why they run. Shouldn't they just move away from the noise object immediately and then stand still? The thing is going to come smack the source of the noise (why do they seem to just smack things that make noise? Are they hunting or just pissed off?) and then it will simply move along, right? The noise of running tips them off pretty good. I couldn't tell if they were supposed to have any other way of detecting people, but maybe that was made obvious at some point. I forget. But maybe that's why it's not worth staying quiet anymore?

heh i was wondering about that too.

esp since these things seem to be light-speed fast once alerted

Second film felt very much like episodes 4 and 5 of the third series of some interminable Walking Dead type show.

Yikes wouldn't go that far, but they did abandon the fun nobody-talks element so it did seem way more generic in that sense. Will say it did feel way more akin to modern survival console story games like Last Of Us 2 etc. Maybe that sounds even worse, but Walking Dead is a pretty dismal comparison these days.

Tbf, I did say third series not eleventh series

I read this thread for a little while before I realized it wasn't about the Emily Dickinson biography by Terence Davies.

Why is 90% of horror just dumb garbage?

Um, Theodore Sturgeon to thread?