[spoilers] A Quiet Place (Rant)

I finally just got around to watching this, and I have a couple things on my mind…

First of all, why oh why would you have another baby, knowing that to do so puts them in danger, as well as the rest of your family?

The girl was a liability the whole time. By my count, she:

  • got her littlest brother killed
  • almost got her other brother killed at least twice
  • left her pregnant and due mother alone, during which she almost got killed
  • made choices that led to her father getting killed
  • got a raccoon killed

Cool concept, annoying characters. Where was all the sand coming from? Won’t watch again.

insaneinthemembrane,

Having sex during this time is not unfathomable and pregnancy happens. It took me a while to realise you weren’t talking about the baby when you immediately switched to “the girl”.

bookmeat,

This movie was trash tier Bird Box.

wesker,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I actually also just last week watched Bird Box for the first time. It didn’t blow my socks off, but I found it enjoyable.

ShimmeringKoi,

Why does Office Jim not simply prank the aliens, so that they look foolish?

JCreazy,

It’s one of those movies where you have to just kind of enjoy it and shut your brain off and throw logic out the window.

Shurimal,

A vastly overrated movie in my opinion. Not to mention the questionable actions and decisions made by the main characters at pretty much every step, the premise of some creatures being totally immune to modern weapons (even if one is able to suspend their disbelief enough to accept the whole "surviving 20+ km/s atmosperic re-entry on an interstellar asteroid" thing) is just silly.

I mean, we've got munitions meant to penetrate the armor of a modern MBT, no organics will stand a chance, and if they do, tactical nukes are a very real thing. Although I think LORAD-s would have sufficed to deal with the bloody things. Or just set up a few Tom Danley's J5-4015 playing grindcore.

The fridge logic was strong with this one, and I didn't even make it to the fridge.

echodot,

The problem with a lot of alien movies is that lazy writers just go, oh they’re so alien they’re immune to the laws of physics. At which point we might as well just abandon the whole concept of it being science fiction and just go over to fantasy and magic.

Shurimal,

I think Ridley Scott did it best in his Alien. The bugger is quite vulnerable to bullets and blades, but you really, really don't want to put a hole in it if you're either close range or trapped in a spaceship with one. And all the arsenal in the world still doesn't guarantee success if they're swarming you and using the environment to their advantage.

Making something invulnerable to weapons is an easy way out, making something so that you don't want to use weapons on it is much harder, but much more rewarding.

richieadler,

I mean, acid that strongly corrosive as part of the xenomorph’s circulatory system is hard to believe, but if you concede that, agreed.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.one avatar

I blame the dumbass little kid for getting himself killed, but you’re right, she set it up.

But here’s the thing… she’s REALLY hateable in the sequel. Not sure what they were going for there.

maegul,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Huh … I rather enjoyed the film.

I think for me, what seemed like irrational survival decisions to you were the obvious things people would do because they want to live a life as much as possible. Think of lockdown during the pandemic and how much people just wanted to “get back to normal”. I think people doing risky things at least some of the time while thinking that it will be totally fine is actually a very realistic take on a post-apocalyptic survival story especially with its timeline being a long one as is the case in A Quiet Place.

Convincing yourself that you can totally get away with something is a way of convincing yourself that things are actually OK, even they are not at all.

Kuori,
@Kuori@hexbear.net avatar

Think of lockdown during the pandemic and how much people just wanted to “get back to normal”.

or literally think of right now, also during the pandemic, where people continue to pretend everything is just peachy.

abracaDavid,

I watched that movie one time a few years back and I mainly remember the writing just being bad. Their survival decisions made no sense to me. Just hated the logic of that movie.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.one avatar

If you knew the waterfall was safe, why not deliver the baby behind the waterfall?

Really easy questions that the script fails to answer.

Blackmist,

Because eventually the aliens will play Zelda, and learn to look behind waterfalls in real life.

ajoebyanyothername,

It’s been a while since I watched it, but doesn’t the baby come early, and their original plan was to deliver near the waterfall? I may well be wrong, mind.

echodot,

For that matter why do they even go back and forth between the house and the store why not just stay in the store?

The aliens seem really stupid and basically just assume that if they can’t hear anything there’s nothing there so it’s not like they’re going to camp out at the store and wait for the humans because they obviously don’t at any other point in the movie make any kind of plans

wesker,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Also:

John Krasinski is a mediocre actor and director, and his career would have ended with The Office if it weren’t for his talented wife floating him, and the way he’s somehow leeched onto the Boston boys.

Che_Donkey,
@Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml avatar

Another movie came out with the same alien type plot, Extinction? It may have been a straight to stream knock off but IMO was a better movie (two brothers & a young girl…daughter?). Also , another movie came out at the same time called Extinction…all during lockdown times so we watched hundreds of movies…so that why its a bit fuzzy.

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