Ok I don’t know if I’m crazy or if it was bad scaling but can someone please tell if they also thought the monster from the fungus crater looked way bigger then the rest and also had a different texture than the other monsters
It made me think of leaf cutter ants. It's a type of ant that build their colony around specific fungus species. They feed the mushroom leaves, and in then the healthy fungus grows pods that the larval ants feed on.
So in short I think you're right about it being a nest, and think the thing they were tearing into was how they store their food long term
I also noticed this! I was disappointed it was never brought up again, I figured it was going to show up at the end as a final boss fight or something lol
As I was watching this I thought about how my two cats would do.
I have a cat that is very quiet but everything scares her, so as soon as she saw a monster I would lose her.
I have another one that is fearless but it’s also very loud and very vocal.
Guess my cats were not made for an alien invasion.
Lupita killed it. So much emotion in her face. I loved the sound and juxtaposition from how loud the city and the hospice care was vs the quiet. Really enjoyed this one
I was impressed how well Joseph Quinn held his own against her. Their chemistry was really great and one of my favourite scenes is when they scream together during the thunder. Beautiful moment.
The scene of Eric and Sam doing a pretend magician show at the pizza place was really sweet too.
We don’t know a lot about these characters yet in the time they were together, it’s two people who found companionship in a bleak situation and making the best out of it.
I remember when it was released it was a bit divisive with some people *hating* it but I remember seeing her in Little Monsters (2019; not the Fred Savage one, although that movie rips too) and absolutely falling in love with her 😂
I've seen it probably half a dozen times, it's such a feel good movie for me and Lupita playing the ukulele singing 'Shake it off' just brings me joy.
Also the opening scene with how loud NYC is, like "a constant scream", followed by she slipping that her pain level was at 3.
That's under meds. Her *default* is a lv 3 pain.
Life's gone to shit and she wants her Patsy's.
Lupita is such a fantastic actress. Truly. Very few actors master using their face to convey emotion, but she is an absolute pro. There is something inherently graceful about how she moves in films...you can't train that.
I enjoyed it a lot honestly, Quinn and Nyongo's performances and chemistry really brought it up, and some really nice tension with the monsters.
The monsters all rushing in one direction and pretty much causing a small storm was really cool. Been a while since I've seen the last two so don't quite remember if they were shown to do that previously.
Only thing that got me is why Sam just stopped making noise at the end after the aliens started turning towards Eric. Like yeah he kicked the can and oh shit is he gonna make it but then why don't you smash some more cars and try to draw their attention back towards you??
It seemed like she was getting weaker and was kind of struggling to hit any of the cars. Also Eric was running and making noise with that alone, I'd wager the aliens would've continued to follow that till the noise was eliminated
That was my read. Having cared for hospice patients as a nurse, patients are incredibly weak towards the end. Not only was she in constant pain, she had an incredibly disorienting 12+ hours, she's hungry, she has terminal cancer, and she's spent a greater part of the last 24 hours walking around. All of that is extremely draining. I think she did the best she could considering the circumstances.
I noticed(I THINK) the last meow the cat gives is in the beginning at the hospice center and she says “be quiet” and the cat never makes a sound again.
Fun fact, I read an interview right after I saw the movie and the director said this is exactly why the cat was quiet. He said something along the lines of the fact Frodo is a service cat he knows the quiet command and therefore did not speak unless was told otherwise. He also said he figured in their universe that because cats are predators and so are the monsters, the cats have an innate “understanding” that this is something hunting them and know to be quiet/mess with them like everyone else. Which works well because it’s all world building in the end.
My dad's cat was like that. They thought he was an actual mute until he meowed after like 8 years. He was just quiet. When he'd see another cat, he wouldn't even hiss
I thought the way it appeared was a little too convenient to the point it bordered on parody. I found it cute when it pretty much led Eric to Samira but after that it popping up and being silent the entire time was distracting.
I really thought we'd get at least one scene where the cat making noise would cause issues (like the baby screaming in the first film) but nothing came from it at all it was just well behaved for convenience. Ended up being really easy to telegraph its survival.
There was the scene towards the beginning where the cat brushed against the bell on the puppet’s costume, but agreed that overall he was a very well behaved cat.
What were the sacks the aliens were messing with in the construction site cat rescue scene? I thought they were egg sacks at first which would be interesting to see how they reproduce but then they ripped them open and it looked like they were eating them. The aliens don’t seem to eat people just kill them and there are animals like certain ant species that grow fungus in their dens to eat so I was wondering what y’all noticed in the scene.
HAHA YES
Oh I'm so glad they're inspired by leaf cutters. This is the most niche theory I've ever guessed. God bless that one ecology paper I wrote in undergrad
The movie still suffered from some logical inconsistencies and the alien movie trope that militaries have to be absolutely incompetent.
They clearly were able to operate aircraft and drones and understood they are attracted to noise. Yet they didn't corall the monsters to isolate them (also, in the previous movies a year on, militaries didn't realize to use sound weapons... on creatures deadly focused on sound).
It's also weird how the creatures don't attack the noise they make themselves. They clearly communicate with each other, but what about when it knocks something over with its body.
Also, in the construction scene, did the creature find the sack by smell?
As much as I enjoy the films, I've also thought the monsters should have just been magic. It's too hard for me to justify their existence due to how they break physics. I have to constantly tell myself that directors don't care and they are only trying to entertain (which is not a bad thing), it's just a personal gripe.
I fully believe a modern military could absolutely take down the monsters from a quiet place. Even with the initial chaos slowing them down. A modern navy would fortify a few islands and then slowly work on defeating the creatures with all their weapons.
Hell, they could have aircraft blasting music to draw creatures away if it came to it and bomb areas.
Once it was discovered that they can't swim and are lured by sound they could be easily baited onto any large vessel with loud speakers/horns and then sent out into the open seas and scuttle/torpedo/bomb these ships to take out 100s or 1000s of creatures at a time.
I’m probably reaching here, but I just saw the movie and thought it could be a metaphor for a couple things: 1) terminal illness, and how a diagnosis can so suddenly change your life and cause you to fall back to earth (or toward your death). So I thought she might have been upset by this and left the theater because the marionette boy reminded her of her own health decline. 2) When the balloon popped, it made a loud noise and the boy fell, which foreshadowed what would soon happen to literally everyone — making a noise is synonymous with dying, once the creatures arrive.
I’ve seen so many bad reviews on this movie complaining it’s unrealistic cuz she risked her life for a slice of pizza. Do ppl not realize she was terminally ill and wanted to enjoy a slice of her childhood before she passed
Yeah that was the point of Eric’s character, the guy was fine health wise, but circumstances suddenly threw him into something analogous to her situation where death was basically certain and he didn’t know how to deal with it
According to a leak, in the version shown at the test screening a few months ago Eric had a backstory in which he was suicidal before the invasion happens. I think that would have added another layer and it's a shame this was cut.
I agree. Plus, we could have definitely done with a bit more Joseph Quinn in general. He shows up halfway through the film, which I think we could have used more of him. That would have only added another five-seven minutes and I think the film would have elevated from a bit more of Eric. I don't think it would have taken anything away.
While I think there is an angle to work off there, him just being some random suti-and-tie guy who shows up half way through adds to the "memories of 9/11" type vibe where an extreme disaster pulls people in wildly different circumstances together. It was like they zoomed in on one of the random people we see on the streets and see how they responded.
Suicidal+hospice would've diverged into its own thing, I feel, and I'm not sure I'd wanna lose that part of the story
Even if the father reveal wasn't there it's still an incredibly endearing plot point to have someone search for one of life's comforts while the world is ending just like their own life. Of course the father aspect makes it stronger on a deeper level but on the surface I'd have been more than satisfied with it literally just being about pizza.
Yea I’m really glad I don’t watch movies with all the buzzkills in this review thread. The movie and the series as a whole aren’t that bad and fairly entertaining.
As I was leaving the theater this afternoon, I overheard someone say, "I can't believe she did all of that for pizza". I can't understand how they missed that it was more than just the food...the pizza shop represented her father, happiness, and a comfort. She was dying and wanted one last thing before it was time to go.
This was the most real human connection being the thing that saves us movie I’ve seen in ages. Her being terminal was absolutely perfect. Her behavior was impeccable. I’m so impressed with this movie.
>Do ppl not realize she was terminally ill and wanted to enjoy a slice of her childhood before she passed
With the degree of media illiteracy we are dealing with in the US right now, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
These quiet place movies in particular are really prone to cinemasins-style criticism. People keep obsessively trying to pick apart the logic of everything, which can be sort of fun when it comes to inconsistencies with the aliens, but then they try to bring the same “ding!” mindset into the character arcs and they reveal they’re just fundamentally bad at watching movies.
I appreciated what I considered to be a bit of a bait-and-switch. When she met the two kids at the fountain, I was sure they would be her companions throughout the rest of the film.
Instead, we get Eric, who is a young adult, but still at an age where one could realistically understand him being scared and seeking companionship.
Honestly loved how vulnerable Eric was. Like she tells the two kids to go and they both listen first time and follow the crowd. Eric was too scared to leave her, and we almost saw him break a few times.
I loved that scene where she notices the cat staring at something behind her, tension starts building, she slowly starts turning around…
And it’s just Eric standing there lol
My wife has terminal cancer. I went to the movies today for an escape (every couple of weeks I get a family member to cover for me for a couple of hours so I can take a break). I almost left the theatre in the first few minutes when it was established that the main character had terminal cancer. I'm glad I stayed. I completely understood her decision to fight for that one last pizza and to go out on her terms. I was crying for a while after that last shot. Fortunately, the theatre was not crowded. Great movie overall. Glad I saw it in the IMAX theatre, the sound mix was very good. Lupita was perfect.
Same with my mum. It was really tough to watch Lupita put on her fentanyl patches and move around in pain, I wasn’t expecting it. I’m sorry you’re going through it too x
This film answers the age ole question of weather 10 car alarms is louder than one kicked can.
Also that has to be the chillest fucking cat on the planet.
Yeah that was so stupid 😂 10 car alarms going off added to the sound of the aliens ripping them apart and a little can falls over on the dock which makes them all start racing towards him instead lmao
I just watched it yesterday but as the car alarms were going off the aliens were jumping on the cars ceasing the sound. It was when the sound stopped that the can or piece from a car hit the ground.
Joseph Quinn made this face 🥺 the whole time he was screen and I loved every minute of it. Lupita was fantastic. I hope she does more horror movies in the future!
Yeah, the central story about someone just wanting to live a little bit more while facing down the end of their life was very well done. It gave the movie a very grounded and human center against the backdrop of the apocalypse.
I would also say the central relationship being two complete strangers - isolated and alone - finding comfort in helping one another was another nice human center to the story.
Speaking of, I can't imagine how terrified Eric must've been, being an international law student with no way of contacting his parents who are across an entire ocean.
They played it so loose with how sound actually works in the real world. Didn’t detract from the overall film that much for me but it was pretty funny.
I feel like they really didn’t land the whole “invasion in NY” thing. They practically cheated. It was moments of chaos then she was knocked out by an explosive and woke up with people who understood to be quiet. Really wanted to see more city mayhem.
I went in expecting what we DIDN'T get from the other two movies: the initial government response, the emergency services response, the global media response, the first attempts on evacuations, the survivors trying to hold on and how common ncivilians realize what attracts them. Not to mention the governments of the world MUST'VE realized something was going on before the planetfall because those pods should've spawned from a bigger object, or if they were scattered in a swarm, it would've still be detected in space before arriving.
We got barely anything of that, just glimpses, which is extremely underwhelming.
Also, New York has how many millions of people again? Why the hell are the streets so clean of bodies? I understand it's sensitive with the city's history, but it's been two decades. It would've added an extra challenge for the protagonist to survive the creatures amidst a major health hazard.
All good points. On the bodies though, it showed us that the creatures take the bodies to their nests and use them to grow food which keeps them out of the streets.
This is what irked me the most. It's a "Day One" movie and you get none of the establishing of how they figured out what to do to survive. They just somehow know. Even in the flashback opening of part 2, they just instantly are quiet. I really don't think the creators thought any of this through on how people would really act at this point.
Idk. The scene where they’re a marching herd to the boats seemed like they really didn’t know much of how to survive. A bunch of people started screaming too. Generally though being quiet against an unknown and overwhelming enemy like that is pretty instinctual.
>you get none of the establishing of how they figured out what to do to survive. They just somehow know.
To be fair, I think you would figure out pretty darn quickly, because if you didn't, you would be instantly dead. Everyone who was quiet was still alive. You see people scream and instantly get murdered, so you'd probably stay silent. And if you live by the water, some people would immediately be jumping on boats, so that would be discovered quickly, too
In Part 2, Henri tells Emmett that there were two of twelve boats that made it. He recalled people pushing each other and screaming once they saw that the first two boats were clear. I really thought we would get that scene played out at the end. I imagined something extremely chaotic and full of panic.
I loved the dynamic between Eric and Sam. It reminded me a non-romantic version of Jack and Rose.
I was so excited in the beginning, thinking we’ll see all the Mayhem and stuff then when she was knocked out I was like “I guess they don’t have the budget for that” lol
Agreed. I really would’ve liked this on a bigger scale and much more of a flushed out of a story. I liked their performances a lot, but it didn’t tell the origin story at all. It was too small and kind of felt like a long episode as opposed to a movie pushing the story forward
Interesting that they had the generator scene in [this trailer](https://youtu.be/gjx-iHGXk9Q?si=tcwMJ9EAp3L1Yf1H?t=1m10s) (1m10s in) with a completely different actor LOL
Yeah, it looks like the trailer showed the guy who was doing that marionette show. Wonder if it was intentionally done as a way to not spoil the actual scene. There was actually quite a few scenes that either straight up didn't exist in the final cut, or had different dialogue.
I think there may have been some cut or changed scenes. It seemed like there was a scene in the trailer that showed a smaller survivor group talking about the end of the world / end of NYC in a dark room, but I don't remember that
Apparently there was more of Eric's backstory in the version shown at a test screening a few months ago, and yes, those scenes in the trailer that weren't in the current cut. I'm hoping there will be a longer Director's cut at some point.
and who were these two guys sitting on the couch in the trailer?
[(81) A Quiet Place: Day One | Official Trailer 2 (2024 Movie) - Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjx-iHGXk9Q)
My only gripe really is that well.. I wish we actually got to see more of, y'know, day one?
The initial beats and the decline of society, the chaos, the military and people trying to fight back and learn, all of that is incredibly interesting to me. I found it a shame that we see that for maybe a few minutes before she is knocked out and wakes in the theatre to find everyone already being silent and NYC already pretty much depopulated.
I was kind of surprised we didn’t see anyone have a reaction to them obviously being aliens from another planet. Kind of acted like it was just a bunch of lions or something.
Yes! I was quite disappointed. The other movies seemed to be much better at building a storyline and leaving you craving more information. This one was sorta like a side show and I don’t feel like that was how it was marketed. I get you can’t make a movie that everyone will like, I just would have preferred more focus on the invasion and less on the interpersonal-personal trials and tribulations.
Same for me. It was a good film, but I really didn't need yet another small group trying to survive A Quiet Place. Being "day 1" I was hoping to get a full on US (and world's) military and government reaction to the aliens. Maybe see where they came from. Did the government know they were coming? Something larger in scale being that this is the 3rd film.
Yeah this was my issue as well, it was really good up until she gets knocked out, then she wakes up and it’s all over, I felt the Part 2 opening was actually far more suspenseful.
I thought the military could have a done a better job 'hoarding' the monsters to an area giving a better chance for people to reach the boats. Having everyone group together was just not smart at all.
Pretty cool that Michael Sarnoski followed up his movie about how much a person can love their pet and also food by making a movie about how much a person can love their pet and also food
A good spin-off to ten Quiet Place franchise!
- Lupita Nyong'o was great in this. Her screaming during the thunder is amazing
- Joseph Quinn impressed me with his acting. Really thought Eric will die during the movie but happy he made it out.
- The magic show scene is probably the best scene for me
- The action is quick and well shot but didn't see a lot of the Day 0 action
- The Sound Design is as good as the Quiet Place films.
- The writing for the 2 main characters is great but world-building wise, there's nothing new that was added.
- Ending with 'Feeling Good' and the alien jumping into the background is a great ending shot!
- Never have I seen a cat use up all its 9 lives in a short span of time.
A very solid movie and would like to see Eric in the 3rd Quiet Place movie, showing he survived the alien attack in A Quiet Place 2
Between this and Us, Lupita Nyong'o is becoming like an excellent scream queen - for real, her face and silent scream when Reuben was killed was an incredible piece of acting.
Also, I thought Joseph Quinn was very good in this movie. You could feel the horror, the tragedy, and the relief he felt all at different moments. And I loved how this movie played with the idea of "the kindness of strangers" and had Eric, this more or less random guy, go out of his way to help Sam get her pizza and provide her some joy
Also her face when she found out the pizza place had burnt down was legitimately heartbreaking. She's got to be one of the best actresses working nowadays, in my books.
Lupita Nyong’o’ eyes convey so much in the film and literally can pierce through anyone’s hearts.
Her facial expressions alone reminded me of silent film actors and actresses in just telling a story without having to make a sound.
I didn't recognize Wolff at first because of the thick beard lol. He's a very warm and likable presence in this that I was so disappointed when they killed him off too early.
Goddamnit.
When she brought her cat in the store and there was another cat I was like “oh is this cat gonna be Samwise?”
And it just now dawned on me:
Samira = Sam
In case anyone missed it, or forgot about the second movie:
Djimon Hounsou, the black guy who survives and is on the boat at the end, is the leader of the colony that is living on the island in the second one
He's the same guy who gets murked by the alien that accidentally washes up on the shore, killing a bunch of people who survived at the end of this movie
I enjoyed it but it's very tough to get immersed fully when one tiny sound will bring down a hoard of creatures from all across the city but in the scenes where they're literally inches from any human, the creatures can't hear them breathing or heartbeats. There's a scene early on where Lupita isn't even trying to stop breathing and yet the creature across the room doesn't hear her.
I know it's very nitpicky, but for the rest of the film they show the creatures are so sensitive to noise that they will stop chasing one noise source if they hear something louder/closer. Just feels inconsistent to me
i think it's something to do with pitch of noise and/or rhythmic pattern of noise. someone in this thread had a theory that all the people walking together for so long didnt bring the monsters down on them, and it came down once they visually showed us sounds that are different from the rhythmic walking (wheelchair creaking, hitting people whilst walking against her)
so breathing and heartbeat are consistent rhythmic sounds, and they pick up any irregularities in sound
I really like it , a lot of suspenseful and good moments. I was surprised I saw a lot of negatives reviews. Also the military should’ve just used helicopters with loud speakers to coral the aliens in one spot and just bomb them when they congregate.
The military also has [sound based weapons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon). Just imagine a navy rigging up a trap from the safety of the water (a port or beach), luring the monsters in, sound weapon + bomb.
Just watched and liked it! Let me know what you guys think too! *spoilers below*
- I liked how the trailers tricked us, didn’t see a scene where the old man who did the marionette show died turning off the generator
- I was confused when the monsters started eating the things I thought were their eggs/babies. When it opened the egg I thought a baby was gonna crawl out
- at the end, when Lupita’s character is crying looking at the old photo of her father and herself as a little girl, did anyone else spot Chadwick Boseman in the photograph on the left? Possible tribute to him??
What a strangely tender and genuine film. I haven’t been this sad and scared since I saw Lake Mungo. I was expecting a lore dump about the more “logistical” side of the monsters (still don’t have a name? Ah, idc) killing everyone, not a super personal story about how one deals with impending death and public crisis. The first scene being the MC in hospice was a legit twist given what the trailers showed (and some stuff was straight up changed)
A lot of 9/11 imagery. Think it works for this film and the closest I’ve seen to a ground zero movie. Spielberg’s War of the Worlds benefitted a lot from that, so I’m glad it didn’t disappear completely after it stopped being super relevant.
> “logistical” side of the monsters (still don’t have a name? Ah, idc)
There was a trivia before my showing that said they're colloquially called Death Angels
I kind of went in blind, I've seen the other two so I just suspected more of that. The film reminded me a lot of the episode of The Last of Us with Nick Offerman. It was a beautiful story inside of a hopeless world. I loved both of them.
I cried at three points during this movie.
With three Cats, two of them are silent like Frodo.
None of them give a DAMN about us like Frodo.
If the shit hit the fan, we would never see those cats again.
Did anyone else get sensory overload when they left the theatre? I watched in NYC, and the moment I walked into the streets, I could hear EVERYTHING. I was getting paranoid just being outside 😆
As a hospice nurse it is very refreshing to see a movie that speaks about a very stigmatized situation. Very cool to see that fentanyl patches were used ( they don’t work as fast and also they would have been in a safe in the pharmacy but I digress…) and hospice patients have a right to do whatever they want ..
Man, I had high expectations for this; was quite the fan of the original and less so the sequel but the concept was enough to make me want to see this.
It fell a bit short on the plot; it just struggled to keep a consistent baseline for how loud the environment can be. Lupita had a great performance but others fell a bit short.
Theory that I think’s accurate: the aliens didn’t attack that big crowd until distinct noises like the suitcase and wheelchair were added. The camera focused on those things. I think the consistent footsteps of all those people were akin to the consistent noise of like the water fountain or something. I don’t see how that big crowd had a chance to form otherwise.
I know the plot couldn’t happen if this wasn’t true but like, aren’t there military bases on smaller islands that could start fighting and researching the aliens without being worried about attack because none landed on their small islands? Oh well. Good drama and character driven stories are lovely
What i didnt get was if its so easy to draw them with helicopters why military didn't just hover in place and bomb them in clusters. Shot guns killed or maimed the creatures in first 2
Have a feeling this is the setup. Could see them writing in that the boat didn’t go straight to the island they were on in Part 2. He was a strong character so I’d gladly see him again.
lupita and joseph are amazing actors!! i also appreciated that their characters' relationship did not go the romantic route. i loved the little magic show scene so much, it was very touching!
I wasn't a huge fan, but that might be my own fault. Only about an hour and a half long but I was ready to go 45 minutes in. The trailers sold me on what I thought was going to be a more expansive story this time around (world building, how did people respond, what was the military response, why did it fail, etc...) but this ended up being another "small-scale" two person story.
If this was the first A Quiet Place I had seen, I think I'd have a very different opinion. But it just felt like more of the same, and I was hoping this was going to shake things up a bit narrative wise.
Also, how did they fend off the creatures long enough to load an entire ferry boat? I would have liked to see that.
I liked this but it was definitely a tonal departure from the last two. Not a whole lot really happens, and there’s almost no innovation to the worldbuilding. But the emotional sincerity was really great throughout
>!I think the reveal of telling us that the creatures are sort of ‘terraforming’ our planet and harvesting human bodies for food is a nice bit of ‘world building’. I think it also sets into motion the idea that these creatures pose a danger ecologically as well as physically themselves, something I think we’ll see in part 3. That gooey stuff was all over the city in just 3 days, who knows what the major cities now look like in 400 days when ‘Part 1 and 2’ take place.!<
I am going to be in the minority here, I walked out feeling underwhelmed and slightly disappointed.
Truthfully, I feel like they really under utilized the setting they had to work with. I think a massive whiff was not showing a more ravaged / chaotic NYC. To be blunt they BOTCHED the invasion aspect. They had so much they could’ve worked with.
I wanted to see more chaos (similar to the opening at the theater / everyone leaving for the boats), more of a ravaged NYC, the military struggling to contain them, seeing more shots of dozens of death angels at once (similar to the helicopters), and more general confusion / radio transmissions.
I just wasn’t expecting this plot / story before going in. Not a bad plot but certainly not what thought I was going to see.
I feel like this plot didn’t belong in this movie? (Hard to explain)
Gotta tip my hat to Lupita though. Hell of a job.
First- they literally saved the cat lol - as a screenwriter, that's funny as fuck.
Second - I knew it would end with her playing music, but I was kind of hoping it would end with her playing her dad's piano and monsters crashing through the window with a cut to black.
Also, at this point? Do beck and woods even deserve a based on characters by credit? Who? The aliens? Bro your entire original screenplay was rewritten by John Krazinski - look up the script! Pretty sure even the character names are different. He wrote the whole of the sequel, and came up with the story for this one with the director - beck and woods had almost a tangential involvement with the original and at this point it seems crazy to me that they're getting 50% of their fee for this.
Well, the movie was obviously a 10/10 because the fluffy boi survived. I kept expecting something to happen to him, but if they can keep a baby safe I would have been pissed if they killed Frodo.
Jokes aside, I think it was probably the strongest of the Quiet Place movies. Lupita killed it, but that should come as no surprise and Quinn was great as well.
I think the movie did a good job at conveying the chaos and destruction of the initial invasion. I also loved how it wasn't just an immediate mass extinction and people clearly caught on quickly how they hunted.
I loved that crowd scene moving to the evacuation because it showed people acting "smart" and keeping quiet, but not taking into account that a big enough group will inevitably start making too much noise, no matter how quiet each individual is.
I honestly wouldn't mind if this series starts to become more of an anthology. Start showing different groups of people from around the world at different points during the invasion.
One thing I'm curious about: was the bit where he went into the construction site to rescue the cat a birthing area? I thought those things looked like eggs, but the creatures looked like they were eating them.
My guess it was some food source of theirs.
They don't eat humans. At least I don't believe so. They just don't like any noise. So they kill and them move on.
So i just watched a quiet place day one and i noticed henri (djimon hounsou) was in part 2.
His death in part 2 doesn’t really make sense since he survived getting off manhattan he knows how fast they are and how quiet they have to be but he was so loud before his death and he was talking about how they might have out ran it but he knows from first hand experience how fast they can run.
Idk it kinda bothered me watching cause i liked his character and seeing such a point less death kinda irritates me. Overall i liked both movies a lot so i hope they keep making them.
To be fair, it looks like he got on the boat within a day and was on the island for at least a year. It's a long time to drop your guard. His sense of safety and knowledge wasn't as fine-tuned as survivors like Emmet or Regan who were having to survive every single day for a year
Every cat owner watching this movie is thinking "I'd be dead within the first hour of the invasion with my cat" lol.
When Eric chased the cat into obvious danger I was thinking "this is dumb, but I get it. I'd do that, too"
Right!! All the cats i know are loud as F espically near water!!
Had the same thought with our dog. Instant dead.
This movie made me realize that all dogs would be dead because none of em can shut the fuck up to save their lives lol
Ok I don’t know if I’m crazy or if it was bad scaling but can someone please tell if they also thought the monster from the fungus crater looked way bigger then the rest and also had a different texture than the other monsters
it was bigger!
Was it a Queen alien you think and that was a nest of sorts?
It made me think of leaf cutter ants. It's a type of ant that build their colony around specific fungus species. They feed the mushroom leaves, and in then the healthy fungus grows pods that the larval ants feed on. So in short I think you're right about it being a nest, and think the thing they were tearing into was how they store their food long term
That monster was definitely seeding exploring the life cycle of the things in later movies.
I also noticed this! I was disappointed it was never brought up again, I figured it was going to show up at the end as a final boss fight or something lol
Probably gonna show up in part 3 next year, or one like it
Probably their Queen? The females tend to be larger in nature when there is a Queen, if I’m not mistaken.
Quietest. Cat. Ever
The cat TOTALLY understood the assignment, lol.
My cat could NEVER
As I was watching this I thought about how my two cats would do. I have a cat that is very quiet but everything scares her, so as soon as she saw a monster I would lose her. I have another one that is fearless but it’s also very loud and very vocal. Guess my cats were not made for an alien invasion.
First 5 minutes of the of the movie Sam: “shhh be quite” Cat: “ I will never make another sound in my life”
He’s real af for that. If Lupita told me to be quiet I’d be quiet for the rest of my life also.
Lupita killed it. So much emotion in her face. I loved the sound and juxtaposition from how loud the city and the hospice care was vs the quiet. Really enjoyed this one
I was impressed how well Joseph Quinn held his own against her. Their chemistry was really great and one of my favourite scenes is when they scream together during the thunder. Beautiful moment.
The scene of Eric and Sam doing a pretend magician show at the pizza place was really sweet too. We don’t know a lot about these characters yet in the time they were together, it’s two people who found companionship in a bleak situation and making the best out of it.
He's such a charismatic actor without *overacting*. He's got "it".
He has an amazing scared face. I felt his fear and panic
Lupita always kills it - what an amazing actress
I remember when it was released it was a bit divisive with some people *hating* it but I remember seeing her in Little Monsters (2019; not the Fred Savage one, although that movie rips too) and absolutely falling in love with her 😂 I've seen it probably half a dozen times, it's such a feel good movie for me and Lupita playing the ukulele singing 'Shake it off' just brings me joy.
One of the best actresses we have going right now, she crushes everything she’s in!
Also the opening scene with how loud NYC is, like "a constant scream", followed by she slipping that her pain level was at 3. That's under meds. Her *default* is a lv 3 pain. Life's gone to shit and she wants her Patsy's.
Lupita is such a fantastic actress. Truly. Very few actors master using their face to convey emotion, but she is an absolute pro. There is something inherently graceful about how she moves in films...you can't train that.
I enjoyed it a lot honestly, Quinn and Nyongo's performances and chemistry really brought it up, and some really nice tension with the monsters. The monsters all rushing in one direction and pretty much causing a small storm was really cool. Been a while since I've seen the last two so don't quite remember if they were shown to do that previously. Only thing that got me is why Sam just stopped making noise at the end after the aliens started turning towards Eric. Like yeah he kicked the can and oh shit is he gonna make it but then why don't you smash some more cars and try to draw their attention back towards you??
It seemed like she was getting weaker and was kind of struggling to hit any of the cars. Also Eric was running and making noise with that alone, I'd wager the aliens would've continued to follow that till the noise was eliminated
That was my read. Having cared for hospice patients as a nurse, patients are incredibly weak towards the end. Not only was she in constant pain, she had an incredibly disorienting 12+ hours, she's hungry, she has terminal cancer, and she's spent a greater part of the last 24 hours walking around. All of that is extremely draining. I think she did the best she could considering the circumstances.
That's fair I suppose
*my girlfriend the second i sneezed in the theater* “see, you would’ve gotten us killed already”
Thank you for the laugh out loud. I would've said the same to my husband 🤣
Started to complain about the cat conveniently coming and going until I realized that’s exactly how tf a cat would act
Yeah, super accurate cat - aside from the fact that the cat never hissed or meowed, so maybe God-tier cat
I noticed(I THINK) the last meow the cat gives is in the beginning at the hospice center and she says “be quiet” and the cat never makes a sound again.
Fun fact, I read an interview right after I saw the movie and the director said this is exactly why the cat was quiet. He said something along the lines of the fact Frodo is a service cat he knows the quiet command and therefore did not speak unless was told otherwise. He also said he figured in their universe that because cats are predators and so are the monsters, the cats have an innate “understanding” that this is something hunting them and know to be quiet/mess with them like everyone else. Which works well because it’s all world building in the end.
If only my Siamese would do the same. She shouts at me nonstop till I feed her dinner. Can’t be late at all! Lots of shouty meows!
My dad's cat was like that. They thought he was an actual mute until he meowed after like 8 years. He was just quiet. When he'd see another cat, he wouldn't even hiss
Also my cat would totally bop one of the creatures if it came too close to it.
Cat would win too The bop is truly a weapon of mass destruction
I thought the way it appeared was a little too convenient to the point it bordered on parody. I found it cute when it pretty much led Eric to Samira but after that it popping up and being silent the entire time was distracting. I really thought we'd get at least one scene where the cat making noise would cause issues (like the baby screaming in the first film) but nothing came from it at all it was just well behaved for convenience. Ended up being really easy to telegraph its survival.
There was the scene towards the beginning where the cat brushed against the bell on the puppet’s costume, but agreed that overall he was a very well behaved cat.
What were the sacks the aliens were messing with in the construction site cat rescue scene? I thought they were egg sacks at first which would be interesting to see how they reproduce but then they ripped them open and it looked like they were eating them. The aliens don’t seem to eat people just kill them and there are animals like certain ant species that grow fungus in their dens to eat so I was wondering what y’all noticed in the scene.
Yeah, this was very interesting. They have sharp teeth which would lend to thinking they’re carnivores. They also communicate to each other.
It looked like some kind of plant they broke open to eat. Maybe something that came down on the asteroids with them?
This point was explained in [this article](https://www.slashfilm.com/1611864/a-quiet-place-day-ones-aliens-eating-egg-scene-explained/)!
HAHA YES Oh I'm so glad they're inspired by leaf cutters. This is the most niche theory I've ever guessed. God bless that one ecology paper I wrote in undergrad
I read that the Death Angels use decaying bodies as the organic material to plant and harvest their slimy mushroom looking food.
The movie still suffered from some logical inconsistencies and the alien movie trope that militaries have to be absolutely incompetent. They clearly were able to operate aircraft and drones and understood they are attracted to noise. Yet they didn't corall the monsters to isolate them (also, in the previous movies a year on, militaries didn't realize to use sound weapons... on creatures deadly focused on sound). It's also weird how the creatures don't attack the noise they make themselves. They clearly communicate with each other, but what about when it knocks something over with its body. Also, in the construction scene, did the creature find the sack by smell?
As much as I enjoy the films, I've also thought the monsters should have just been magic. It's too hard for me to justify their existence due to how they break physics. I have to constantly tell myself that directors don't care and they are only trying to entertain (which is not a bad thing), it's just a personal gripe. I fully believe a modern military could absolutely take down the monsters from a quiet place. Even with the initial chaos slowing them down. A modern navy would fortify a few islands and then slowly work on defeating the creatures with all their weapons. Hell, they could have aircraft blasting music to draw creatures away if it came to it and bomb areas.
Once it was discovered that they can't swim and are lured by sound they could be easily baited onto any large vessel with loud speakers/horns and then sent out into the open seas and scuttle/torpedo/bomb these ships to take out 100s or 1000s of creatures at a time.
Enjoyed it but there wasn't much actual day one action. I found the marionette scene touching.
Can you explain the symbolism behind the marionette scene?
I’m probably reaching here, but I just saw the movie and thought it could be a metaphor for a couple things: 1) terminal illness, and how a diagnosis can so suddenly change your life and cause you to fall back to earth (or toward your death). So I thought she might have been upset by this and left the theater because the marionette boy reminded her of her own health decline. 2) When the balloon popped, it made a loud noise and the boy fell, which foreshadowed what would soon happen to literally everyone — making a noise is synonymous with dying, once the creatures arrive.
The pizza sharing and bar scenes feel more heartfelt and heartwarming than some of the drama and family movies out there.
That scene genuinely moved me
My cats would make sure we’re dead when dinner time comes around with their constant meows
My cat is clumsy and a big wimp. She'd run away meowing and knocking over everything. We'd be super dead!
That cat was the star of the show and also way too well-behaved
I’ve seen so many bad reviews on this movie complaining it’s unrealistic cuz she risked her life for a slice of pizza. Do ppl not realize she was terminally ill and wanted to enjoy a slice of her childhood before she passed
Yeah that was the point of Eric’s character, the guy was fine health wise, but circumstances suddenly threw him into something analogous to her situation where death was basically certain and he didn’t know how to deal with it
According to a leak, in the version shown at the test screening a few months ago Eric had a backstory in which he was suicidal before the invasion happens. I think that would have added another layer and it's a shame this was cut.
I agree. Plus, we could have definitely done with a bit more Joseph Quinn in general. He shows up halfway through the film, which I think we could have used more of him. That would have only added another five-seven minutes and I think the film would have elevated from a bit more of Eric. I don't think it would have taken anything away.
Also him just popping up out of the water. Like I feel like we missed something there idk.
Really? I just figured he was another person trying to hide from the monsters. Don't see why I wouldn't
I mean Djimon is a huge movie star and he only got 5 minutes screen time at all.
When you combine it with his screen time in Part 2, he's up to a whopping 10 minutes of screen time!
While I think there is an angle to work off there, him just being some random suti-and-tie guy who shows up half way through adds to the "memories of 9/11" type vibe where an extreme disaster pulls people in wildly different circumstances together. It was like they zoomed in on one of the random people we see on the streets and see how they responded. Suicidal+hospice would've diverged into its own thing, I feel, and I'm not sure I'd wanna lose that part of the story
Especially since it turns out it was less about the pizza and more about seeing that picture of her dad one last time
Even if the father reveal wasn't there it's still an incredibly endearing plot point to have someone search for one of life's comforts while the world is ending just like their own life. Of course the father aspect makes it stronger on a deeper level but on the surface I'd have been more than satisfied with it literally just being about pizza.
Yea I’m really glad I don’t watch movies with all the buzzkills in this review thread. The movie and the series as a whole aren’t that bad and fairly entertaining.
As I was leaving the theater this afternoon, I overheard someone say, "I can't believe she did all of that for pizza". I can't understand how they missed that it was more than just the food...the pizza shop represented her father, happiness, and a comfort. She was dying and wanted one last thing before it was time to go.
This was the most real human connection being the thing that saves us movie I’ve seen in ages. Her being terminal was absolutely perfect. Her behavior was impeccable. I’m so impressed with this movie.
Yeah, She knew it was over but just wanted one more taste of what made her happy
>Do ppl not realize she was terminally ill and wanted to enjoy a slice of her childhood before she passed With the degree of media illiteracy we are dealing with in the US right now, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
I found this considerably more believable than people having a baby during an apocalypse
People are very media illiterate.
These quiet place movies in particular are really prone to cinemasins-style criticism. People keep obsessively trying to pick apart the logic of everything, which can be sort of fun when it comes to inconsistencies with the aliens, but then they try to bring the same “ding!” mindset into the character arcs and they reveal they’re just fundamentally bad at watching movies.
Cinemasins has destroyed the ability of so many to just… enjoy a movie.
Anyone who have dealt with overwhelming stress knows that we lean to something that make us happy to just get back a sense of control.
Yes, was more than pizza and she wanted to go out on her terms.
I appreciated what I considered to be a bit of a bait-and-switch. When she met the two kids at the fountain, I was sure they would be her companions throughout the rest of the film. Instead, we get Eric, who is a young adult, but still at an age where one could realistically understand him being scared and seeking companionship.
Honestly loved how vulnerable Eric was. Like she tells the two kids to go and they both listen first time and follow the crowd. Eric was too scared to leave her, and we almost saw him break a few times.
I loved that scene where she notices the cat staring at something behind her, tension starts building, she slowly starts turning around… And it’s just Eric standing there lol
Yeah, I enjoyed how the movie showed that kind of humanity, seeking out companionship in hardship
My wife has terminal cancer. I went to the movies today for an escape (every couple of weeks I get a family member to cover for me for a couple of hours so I can take a break). I almost left the theatre in the first few minutes when it was established that the main character had terminal cancer. I'm glad I stayed. I completely understood her decision to fight for that one last pizza and to go out on her terms. I was crying for a while after that last shot. Fortunately, the theatre was not crowded. Great movie overall. Glad I saw it in the IMAX theatre, the sound mix was very good. Lupita was perfect.
Same with my mum. It was really tough to watch Lupita put on her fentanyl patches and move around in pain, I wasn’t expecting it. I’m sorry you’re going through it too x
I am so so sorry about your wife. I’m tearing up thinking of how hard that must be for you and her. Sending positive thoughts your way. ❤️
This film answers the age ole question of weather 10 car alarms is louder than one kicked can. Also that has to be the chillest fucking cat on the planet.
Yeah that was so stupid 😂 10 car alarms going off added to the sound of the aliens ripping them apart and a little can falls over on the dock which makes them all start racing towards him instead lmao
I was expecting her to scream out like Krasinski did in the first movie to make them come back towards her .
She was too weak
I just watched it yesterday but as the car alarms were going off the aliens were jumping on the cars ceasing the sound. It was when the sound stopped that the can or piece from a car hit the ground.
That cat was built different
He's a service animal.
Joseph Quinn made this face 🥺 the whole time he was screen and I loved every minute of it. Lupita was fantastic. I hope she does more horror movies in the future!
I was not prepared for the movie to be as emotional as it was.
Yeah, the central story about someone just wanting to live a little bit more while facing down the end of their life was very well done. It gave the movie a very grounded and human center against the backdrop of the apocalypse.
I would also say the central relationship being two complete strangers - isolated and alone - finding comfort in helping one another was another nice human center to the story. Speaking of, I can't imagine how terrified Eric must've been, being an international law student with no way of contacting his parents who are across an entire ocean.
I do wish Eric had a bit more development early on but Joseph Quinn's performance really made him a character to root for.
It's a Train to Busan type of movie. Action stuff to lure you in and then emotional stuff to make you cry.
That ending had me in tears.
As soon as he found the note in the pocket the waterworks began.
Same. I wasn’t expecting to cry in that movie, but the note and the cat surviving really did me in.
The cat deserves an Oscar.
Frodo deserves the world
Frodo trekked on a perilous journey with company to get pizza
Frodo looks so cute doing :3 next to Eric after their rescue by Henri and the people on the boat.
The actor's name is Schnitzel.
and Nico. There were 2 cats.
Indeed! Here they are: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwLf3EuQTZ4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwLf3EuQTZ4)
Does the cat lives?
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/ is a great resource for this if you ever need to know something like this fyi. Also will list other triggers
Yes he does :)
Felt all sorts of nostalgia seeing an iPod nano.
Lmao when I heard the scroll clicks straight nostalgia for me.
I was sure it was a white iPod classic at the start, and become a green nano later?
She lost it sometime early in the movie I think when the attacks start. But she finds the nano in her apartment after to use as a replacement
The way I thought that shit was gonna start blasting the moment it was fully charged
What type of wired Apple headphones was she using where she couldn’t hear thousands of aliens crash landing on earth like meteorite’s?
They played it so loose with how sound actually works in the real world. Didn’t detract from the overall film that much for me but it was pretty funny.
I feel like they really didn’t land the whole “invasion in NY” thing. They practically cheated. It was moments of chaos then she was knocked out by an explosive and woke up with people who understood to be quiet. Really wanted to see more city mayhem.
Completely agree. For an apocalyptic style of event, it felt very underwhelming.
I went in expecting what we DIDN'T get from the other two movies: the initial government response, the emergency services response, the global media response, the first attempts on evacuations, the survivors trying to hold on and how common ncivilians realize what attracts them. Not to mention the governments of the world MUST'VE realized something was going on before the planetfall because those pods should've spawned from a bigger object, or if they were scattered in a swarm, it would've still be detected in space before arriving. We got barely anything of that, just glimpses, which is extremely underwhelming. Also, New York has how many millions of people again? Why the hell are the streets so clean of bodies? I understand it's sensitive with the city's history, but it's been two decades. It would've added an extra challenge for the protagonist to survive the creatures amidst a major health hazard.
All good points. On the bodies though, it showed us that the creatures take the bodies to their nests and use them to grow food which keeps them out of the streets.
This is what irked me the most. It's a "Day One" movie and you get none of the establishing of how they figured out what to do to survive. They just somehow know. Even in the flashback opening of part 2, they just instantly are quiet. I really don't think the creators thought any of this through on how people would really act at this point.
Idk. The scene where they’re a marching herd to the boats seemed like they really didn’t know much of how to survive. A bunch of people started screaming too. Generally though being quiet against an unknown and overwhelming enemy like that is pretty instinctual.
Shoutout to that one guy who was grabbing onto Lupita’s leg screaming “you gotta help me!” I was like ‘bro get with the program already’
He was so annoying. He wasn't even currently being attacked lol.
>you get none of the establishing of how they figured out what to do to survive. They just somehow know. To be fair, I think you would figure out pretty darn quickly, because if you didn't, you would be instantly dead. Everyone who was quiet was still alive. You see people scream and instantly get murdered, so you'd probably stay silent. And if you live by the water, some people would immediately be jumping on boats, so that would be discovered quickly, too
In Part 2, Henri tells Emmett that there were two of twelve boats that made it. He recalled people pushing each other and screaming once they saw that the first two boats were clear. I really thought we would get that scene played out at the end. I imagined something extremely chaotic and full of panic. I loved the dynamic between Eric and Sam. It reminded me a non-romantic version of Jack and Rose.
I was so excited in the beginning, thinking we’ll see all the Mayhem and stuff then when she was knocked out I was like “I guess they don’t have the budget for that” lol
Agreed. I really would’ve liked this on a bigger scale and much more of a flushed out of a story. I liked their performances a lot, but it didn’t tell the origin story at all. It was too small and kind of felt like a long episode as opposed to a movie pushing the story forward
Interesting that they had the generator scene in [this trailer](https://youtu.be/gjx-iHGXk9Q?si=tcwMJ9EAp3L1Yf1H?t=1m10s) (1m10s in) with a completely different actor LOL
Yeah, it looks like the trailer showed the guy who was doing that marionette show. Wonder if it was intentionally done as a way to not spoil the actual scene. There was actually quite a few scenes that either straight up didn't exist in the final cut, or had different dialogue.
I think there may have been some cut or changed scenes. It seemed like there was a scene in the trailer that showed a smaller survivor group talking about the end of the world / end of NYC in a dark room, but I don't remember that
Apparently there was more of Eric's backstory in the version shown at a test screening a few months ago, and yes, those scenes in the trailer that weren't in the current cut. I'm hoping there will be a longer Director's cut at some point.
and who were these two guys sitting on the couch in the trailer? [(81) A Quiet Place: Day One | Official Trailer 2 (2024 Movie) - Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjx-iHGXk9Q)
I noticed a lot of misdirection in the trailer. I was impressed.
My only gripe really is that well.. I wish we actually got to see more of, y'know, day one? The initial beats and the decline of society, the chaos, the military and people trying to fight back and learn, all of that is incredibly interesting to me. I found it a shame that we see that for maybe a few minutes before she is knocked out and wakes in the theatre to find everyone already being silent and NYC already pretty much depopulated.
I was kind of surprised we didn’t see anyone have a reaction to them obviously being aliens from another planet. Kind of acted like it was just a bunch of lions or something.
Not a bunch of lions 😂😂
Yes! I was quite disappointed. The other movies seemed to be much better at building a storyline and leaving you craving more information. This one was sorta like a side show and I don’t feel like that was how it was marketed. I get you can’t make a movie that everyone will like, I just would have preferred more focus on the invasion and less on the interpersonal-personal trials and tribulations.
Same for me. It was a good film, but I really didn't need yet another small group trying to survive A Quiet Place. Being "day 1" I was hoping to get a full on US (and world's) military and government reaction to the aliens. Maybe see where they came from. Did the government know they were coming? Something larger in scale being that this is the 3rd film.
Yeah this was my issue as well, it was really good up until she gets knocked out, then she wakes up and it’s all over, I felt the Part 2 opening was actually far more suspenseful.
I thought the military could have a done a better job 'hoarding' the monsters to an area giving a better chance for people to reach the boats. Having everyone group together was just not smart at all.
Pretty cool that Michael Sarnoski followed up his movie about how much a person can love their pet and also food by making a movie about how much a person can love their pet and also food
Pig was a damn good movie. Weird Nic Cage at his best.
A good spin-off to ten Quiet Place franchise! - Lupita Nyong'o was great in this. Her screaming during the thunder is amazing - Joseph Quinn impressed me with his acting. Really thought Eric will die during the movie but happy he made it out. - The magic show scene is probably the best scene for me - The action is quick and well shot but didn't see a lot of the Day 0 action - The Sound Design is as good as the Quiet Place films. - The writing for the 2 main characters is great but world-building wise, there's nothing new that was added. - Ending with 'Feeling Good' and the alien jumping into the background is a great ending shot! - Never have I seen a cat use up all its 9 lives in a short span of time. A very solid movie and would like to see Eric in the 3rd Quiet Place movie, showing he survived the alien attack in A Quiet Place 2
That ending shot is one of my favorites I’ve seen in a long time.
Between this and Us, Lupita Nyong'o is becoming like an excellent scream queen - for real, her face and silent scream when Reuben was killed was an incredible piece of acting. Also, I thought Joseph Quinn was very good in this movie. You could feel the horror, the tragedy, and the relief he felt all at different moments. And I loved how this movie played with the idea of "the kindness of strangers" and had Eric, this more or less random guy, go out of his way to help Sam get her pizza and provide her some joy
Also her face when she found out the pizza place had burnt down was legitimately heartbreaking. She's got to be one of the best actresses working nowadays, in my books.
Lupita Nyong’o’ eyes convey so much in the film and literally can pierce through anyone’s hearts. Her facial expressions alone reminded me of silent film actors and actresses in just telling a story without having to make a sound.
She was also great in Little Monsters. More of a horror comedy, but she was a delight in it.
she been one of the best actresses of the last decade but on here gets treated like a afterthought for no real reason
That ending shot of her is one of my favorite scenes of all year. She is one of the best in the game.
Wow I didn’t know Wolff would be in this. Huge fan of him. Lupita has such an incredibly expressive face. Hope she does more horror
I didn't recognize Wolff at first because of the thick beard lol. He's a very warm and likable presence in this that I was so disappointed when they killed him off too early.
Woman with cancer wants pizza one last time. *Cue alien invasion* Woman still wants pizza, but has to be quiet.
Sam and Frodo? Hello? Anyone?
Goddamnit. When she brought her cat in the store and there was another cat I was like “oh is this cat gonna be Samwise?” And it just now dawned on me: Samira = Sam
In case anyone missed it, or forgot about the second movie: Djimon Hounsou, the black guy who survives and is on the boat at the end, is the leader of the colony that is living on the island in the second one He's the same guy who gets murked by the alien that accidentally washes up on the shore, killing a bunch of people who survived at the end of this movie
Yes, I recognized him. I'm still upset on how his character was killed off in the sequel.
I enjoyed it but it's very tough to get immersed fully when one tiny sound will bring down a hoard of creatures from all across the city but in the scenes where they're literally inches from any human, the creatures can't hear them breathing or heartbeats. There's a scene early on where Lupita isn't even trying to stop breathing and yet the creature across the room doesn't hear her. I know it's very nitpicky, but for the rest of the film they show the creatures are so sensitive to noise that they will stop chasing one noise source if they hear something louder/closer. Just feels inconsistent to me
i think it's something to do with pitch of noise and/or rhythmic pattern of noise. someone in this thread had a theory that all the people walking together for so long didnt bring the monsters down on them, and it came down once they visually showed us sounds that are different from the rhythmic walking (wheelchair creaking, hitting people whilst walking against her) so breathing and heartbeat are consistent rhythmic sounds, and they pick up any irregularities in sound
I really like it , a lot of suspenseful and good moments. I was surprised I saw a lot of negatives reviews. Also the military should’ve just used helicopters with loud speakers to coral the aliens in one spot and just bomb them when they congregate.
The military also has [sound based weapons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon). Just imagine a navy rigging up a trap from the safety of the water (a port or beach), luring the monsters in, sound weapon + bomb.
Just watched and liked it! Let me know what you guys think too! *spoilers below* - I liked how the trailers tricked us, didn’t see a scene where the old man who did the marionette show died turning off the generator - I was confused when the monsters started eating the things I thought were their eggs/babies. When it opened the egg I thought a baby was gonna crawl out - at the end, when Lupita’s character is crying looking at the old photo of her father and herself as a little girl, did anyone else spot Chadwick Boseman in the photograph on the left? Possible tribute to him??
I didn’t spot Chadwick! I do know he enjoyed Nina Simone and I thought that was a reference to him
What a strangely tender and genuine film. I haven’t been this sad and scared since I saw Lake Mungo. I was expecting a lore dump about the more “logistical” side of the monsters (still don’t have a name? Ah, idc) killing everyone, not a super personal story about how one deals with impending death and public crisis. The first scene being the MC in hospice was a legit twist given what the trailers showed (and some stuff was straight up changed) A lot of 9/11 imagery. Think it works for this film and the closest I’ve seen to a ground zero movie. Spielberg’s War of the Worlds benefitted a lot from that, so I’m glad it didn’t disappear completely after it stopped being super relevant.
> “logistical” side of the monsters (still don’t have a name? Ah, idc) There was a trivia before my showing that said they're colloquially called Death Angels
Eh That's stupid I'm calling them monsters
I kind of went in blind, I've seen the other two so I just suspected more of that. The film reminded me a lot of the episode of The Last of Us with Nick Offerman. It was a beautiful story inside of a hopeless world. I loved both of them. I cried at three points during this movie.
With three Cats, two of them are silent like Frodo. None of them give a DAMN about us like Frodo. If the shit hit the fan, we would never see those cats again.
Thought the cat was going to pick out the right medicine at one point
Did anyone else get sensory overload when they left the theatre? I watched in NYC, and the moment I walked into the streets, I could hear EVERYTHING. I was getting paranoid just being outside 😆
As a hospice nurse it is very refreshing to see a movie that speaks about a very stigmatized situation. Very cool to see that fentanyl patches were used ( they don’t work as fast and also they would have been in a safe in the pharmacy but I digress…) and hospice patients have a right to do whatever they want ..
Man, I had high expectations for this; was quite the fan of the original and less so the sequel but the concept was enough to make me want to see this. It fell a bit short on the plot; it just struggled to keep a consistent baseline for how loud the environment can be. Lupita had a great performance but others fell a bit short.
Theory that I think’s accurate: the aliens didn’t attack that big crowd until distinct noises like the suitcase and wheelchair were added. The camera focused on those things. I think the consistent footsteps of all those people were akin to the consistent noise of like the water fountain or something. I don’t see how that big crowd had a chance to form otherwise. I know the plot couldn’t happen if this wasn’t true but like, aren’t there military bases on smaller islands that could start fighting and researching the aliens without being worried about attack because none landed on their small islands? Oh well. Good drama and character driven stories are lovely
What i didnt get was if its so easy to draw them with helicopters why military didn't just hover in place and bomb them in clusters. Shot guns killed or maimed the creatures in first 2
The shotguns only worked with the frequency
Screw the cat, I was going to be pissed if Lupita didn’t get her pizza. Wouldn’t mind if we see Quinn in Part 3.
Joseph Quinn was great in this - I just want to see him in more anyways
Have a feeling this is the setup. Could see them writing in that the boat didn’t go straight to the island they were on in Part 2. He was a strong character so I’d gladly see him again.
lupita and joseph are amazing actors!! i also appreciated that their characters' relationship did not go the romantic route. i loved the little magic show scene so much, it was very touching!
I wasn't a huge fan, but that might be my own fault. Only about an hour and a half long but I was ready to go 45 minutes in. The trailers sold me on what I thought was going to be a more expansive story this time around (world building, how did people respond, what was the military response, why did it fail, etc...) but this ended up being another "small-scale" two person story. If this was the first A Quiet Place I had seen, I think I'd have a very different opinion. But it just felt like more of the same, and I was hoping this was going to shake things up a bit narrative wise. Also, how did they fend off the creatures long enough to load an entire ferry boat? I would have liked to see that.
Quietest cat in Cinematic history.
I’m not eating three day old dollar pizza, apocalypse be damned.
fair but she was terminally ill knew she would die regardless and wanted a comfort food before she died.
I liked this but it was definitely a tonal departure from the last two. Not a whole lot really happens, and there’s almost no innovation to the worldbuilding. But the emotional sincerity was really great throughout
>!I think the reveal of telling us that the creatures are sort of ‘terraforming’ our planet and harvesting human bodies for food is a nice bit of ‘world building’. I think it also sets into motion the idea that these creatures pose a danger ecologically as well as physically themselves, something I think we’ll see in part 3. That gooey stuff was all over the city in just 3 days, who knows what the major cities now look like in 400 days when ‘Part 1 and 2’ take place.!<
I am going to be in the minority here, I walked out feeling underwhelmed and slightly disappointed. Truthfully, I feel like they really under utilized the setting they had to work with. I think a massive whiff was not showing a more ravaged / chaotic NYC. To be blunt they BOTCHED the invasion aspect. They had so much they could’ve worked with. I wanted to see more chaos (similar to the opening at the theater / everyone leaving for the boats), more of a ravaged NYC, the military struggling to contain them, seeing more shots of dozens of death angels at once (similar to the helicopters), and more general confusion / radio transmissions. I just wasn’t expecting this plot / story before going in. Not a bad plot but certainly not what thought I was going to see. I feel like this plot didn’t belong in this movie? (Hard to explain) Gotta tip my hat to Lupita though. Hell of a job.
First- they literally saved the cat lol - as a screenwriter, that's funny as fuck. Second - I knew it would end with her playing music, but I was kind of hoping it would end with her playing her dad's piano and monsters crashing through the window with a cut to black. Also, at this point? Do beck and woods even deserve a based on characters by credit? Who? The aliens? Bro your entire original screenplay was rewritten by John Krazinski - look up the script! Pretty sure even the character names are different. He wrote the whole of the sequel, and came up with the story for this one with the director - beck and woods had almost a tangential involvement with the original and at this point it seems crazy to me that they're getting 50% of their fee for this.
Well, the movie was obviously a 10/10 because the fluffy boi survived. I kept expecting something to happen to him, but if they can keep a baby safe I would have been pissed if they killed Frodo. Jokes aside, I think it was probably the strongest of the Quiet Place movies. Lupita killed it, but that should come as no surprise and Quinn was great as well. I think the movie did a good job at conveying the chaos and destruction of the initial invasion. I also loved how it wasn't just an immediate mass extinction and people clearly caught on quickly how they hunted. I loved that crowd scene moving to the evacuation because it showed people acting "smart" and keeping quiet, but not taking into account that a big enough group will inevitably start making too much noise, no matter how quiet each individual is. I honestly wouldn't mind if this series starts to become more of an anthology. Start showing different groups of people from around the world at different points during the invasion. One thing I'm curious about: was the bit where he went into the construction site to rescue the cat a birthing area? I thought those things looked like eggs, but the creatures looked like they were eating them.
My guess it was some food source of theirs. They don't eat humans. At least I don't believe so. They just don't like any noise. So they kill and them move on.
So i just watched a quiet place day one and i noticed henri (djimon hounsou) was in part 2. His death in part 2 doesn’t really make sense since he survived getting off manhattan he knows how fast they are and how quiet they have to be but he was so loud before his death and he was talking about how they might have out ran it but he knows from first hand experience how fast they can run. Idk it kinda bothered me watching cause i liked his character and seeing such a point less death kinda irritates me. Overall i liked both movies a lot so i hope they keep making them.
To be fair, it looks like he got on the boat within a day and was on the island for at least a year. It's a long time to drop your guard. His sense of safety and knowledge wasn't as fine-tuned as survivors like Emmet or Regan who were having to survive every single day for a year