A Quiet Place

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Silentpony said:
Also turns out the super amazing predators cant hear you near water and aren't immune to guns. So...yeah. world is what, 75% water and there are more guns than people. How did these things beat aircraft carriers? And helicopters? Drones? Fuck, how did the Marines fail? Yeah noise, sure. But they have guns. And shooting the monsters works perfectly fine.
It wasn't "They can't hear near water". It was the fact the river noises drowned all other noises around due to being rather loud.

I will give you the gun point, the first thing when the movie was over was to turn to my brother and say "If guns work, how did they managed to destroy mankind?". However I did like the movie, it was very tense and well paced.
 

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Silentpony said:
Also turns out the super amazing predators cant hear you near water and aren't immune to guns. So...yeah. world is what, 75% water and there are more guns than people. How did these things beat aircraft carriers? And helicopters? Drones? Fuck, how did the Marines fail? Yeah noise, sure. But they have guns. And shooting the monsters works perfectly fine.
It wasn't "They can't hear near water". It was the fact the river noises drowned all other noises around due to being rather loud.

I will give you the gun point, the first thing when the movie was over was to turn to my brother and say "If guns work, how did they managed to destroy mankind?". However I did like the movie, it was very tense and well paced.
Also if these monsters can hear a wood board creak from miles away, why cant they hear heartbeats or breathing? Do people not snore anymore? Or fart?
Like there are just some bodily functions you cant sound proof. My stomach growls and gurgles when I'm hungry, and I can hear it. If I put my ear to someone's chest I can hear a heartbeat. I can hear people breathing all the time.
Also I noticed with all the tension and running, no one was ever out of breath or have a rapid heart beat.

As for pacing, eh? Going from like day 80ish to day 400 just so you can kill off the kid without filming the rest of the scene felt weak.

Also why in all holy fuck would they have a baby?! Condoms don't make noise, or at least certainly a lot less than a baby will make!
And never ever leave a toddler to their own judgement. Always have one of the parents in the back of the line, making sure the kid doesn't have a space shuttle shaped dinner bell!
 
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Silentpony said:
Diablo2000 said:
Silentpony said:
Also turns out the super amazing predators cant hear you near water and aren't immune to guns. So...yeah. world is what, 75% water and there are more guns than people. How did these things beat aircraft carriers? And helicopters? Drones? Fuck, how did the Marines fail? Yeah noise, sure. But they have guns. And shooting the monsters works perfectly fine.
It wasn't "They can't hear near water". It was the fact the river noises drowned all other noises around due to being rather loud.

I will give you the gun point, the first thing when the movie was over was to turn to my brother and say "If guns work, how did they managed to destroy mankind?". However I did like the movie, it was very tense and well paced.
Also if these monsters can hear a wood board creak from miles away, why cant they hear heartbeats or breathing? Do people not snore anymore? Or fart?
Like there are just some bodily functions you cant sound proof. My stomach growls and gurgles when I'm hungry, and I can hear it. If I put my ear to someone's chest I can hear a heartbeat. I can hear people breathing all the time.
Also I noticed with all the tension and running, no one was ever out of breath or have a rapid heart beat.

As for pacing, eh? Going from like day 80ish to day 400 just so you can kill off the kid without filming the rest of the scene felt weak.

Also why in all holy fuck would they have a baby?! Condoms don't make noise, or at least certainly a lot less than a baby will make!
And never ever leave a toddler to their own judgement. Always have one of the parents in the back of the line, making sure the kid doesn't have a space shuttle shaped dinner bell!
I actually laughed when the first kid died. I was the only one in the theater to do so, but it was just so hilarious I couldn't help myself. Anyway, from what I can remember the aliens can hear everything. Which means along with a heartbeat they can hear the shuffling of leaves, howl of the wind, and those horny beetles getting busy. In the scene with Blunt and the alien (Before she gives birth), the alien can probably hear her heartbeat, along with the louder timer ticking before it finally goes off. If I remember correctly every scene with an alien and human in close proximity (Save for Krasinski's death) has a louder sound nearby to cover whatever breathing or heartbeat they'd be able to hear otherwise.

Guns also don't work. The aliens are bulletproof and probably even nuclear-resistant. They're damn near indestructible except for one instance. When they open up their exo-skeleton to hone in on a particular sound they expose their squishy flesh underneath their neigh invulnerable armor. The greater question is, how did the militaries of the world never find the Alien's weakness? As soon as it was exposed that they hunt through sound I can only assume the military would try to use that against them.

I also wish the alien's design wasn't so obviously inspired by the Alien.
 

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Films such as The Terminator and The Matrix had me believing the inevitable war against the machines would be a lot more dire, nigh apocalyptic. Little did I know it?d come in the form of months-old threads resurrected with tangentially relevant and vague posts with links to escort websites. Pretty disappointing; not a single laser or metal skeleton with a German accent to be found anywhere?
 

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I thought it was an absolutely excellent horror movie. I actually expected the movie with the use of sound to just be a starling jump scare-a-thon and was very happy that I was not correct (Note to Hollywood; jump scares does not make your movie scary, just startling. A child can startle you, that doesn't make children scary monsters). The movie did a great job with sound and at least staying consistent with its own rules, even if the rules didn't always make complete sense.

I do agree with the criticisms on the ending though as you would think that SOMEONE in the military would have tried to use sound against the creatures at some point. The ending wasn't so bad though that it ruined the movie though.
 

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Loved it. Thankfully had a good audience that was silent for the whole thing besides the odd cough. Re-watched it at home a few months later and it still managed to feel nearly as tense as it did the first time. Thought all the actors delivered great performances. There's plenty to nitpick about the rules of the creatures and world-building but the atmosphere created by them worked well enough for me to look past it. I kinda wish the creatures had a more distinct design but they were still unnerving enough.

The ending makes me think that the inevitable sequel is gonna go in a more "Aliens" direction to this film's "Alien". I think that sounds like a really fun time.
 
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I spoke at length in other threads how I do not like the movie. I'll link to one of my criticisms.

ObsidianJones said:
So, I saw a Quiet Place last night. It's one of those pieces of media that falls strictly under 'Good premise, poor execution' (and being [url-http://thelastofus.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_of_Us]oddly familiar[/url]).

But then... the story just breaks its own rules all over the place.

The premise of the movies is that these Armored Blind Clickers [http://www.ign.com/wikis/the-last-of-us/Clickers] are killing anything that makes noise. You make one sound, and you're dead.

... So what sound did the Father make that the monster to know where he is?

Footsteps you say? The monster didn't use them to track the Father and his boy after the screaming man was done yelling.


... Yet, supposedly, after the hilarious truck rolling scene and the kids run on the same sand path that muffles their footsteps, the monster still knows to track them into the basement. And seemingly knows where they are.

There are so many breaks of logic that I, at least, need explained to me so it makes sense. But it's not going to happen. This was billed as the most genuinely horrifying movie [https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/04/24/a-quiet-place-is-the-most-genuinely-frightening-movie-ive-ever-seen/#c839ac9485b6] people have ever seen. A Terrifyingly intelligent Horror [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-a-quiet-place-review-20180405-story.html] Movie.

Everyone is ok with the inconsistencies? Got it.

Look, I don't mind B-Horror movies. I don't even mind highbrow horror movies. But when you talk to me of intelligence and you ignore the world break moments, I'm taken right out of the movie.