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Was there any after credit? Can't imagine that was.
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Yeah, I don't think there was. I I watched all of it.
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I don't remember there being one.
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Thing. It was a very tight 30 minutes
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or 90 minutes, thirty minutes each act.
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It's a very tight 90 minutes strike all that I said.
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I agree. I think this is one of those
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movies where you can really point to it as what you can do
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with less. And one of my favorite movies in
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this genre of tiny cast, huge stakes is a movie called Hush
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about a deaf woman alone in a cabin in the woods and a killer
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shows up one night. And it's really kind of, I mean,
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it's a suspense, it's kind of a, it's in the horror vein, but
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maybe not horrifying and it's. Yeah.
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Exactly, it's so good and this movie feels almost like an the
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other side of the coin in terms of a really great concept with
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sound. Yeah, I think I missed a little
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bit of the I missed hearing people talk in a movie.
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So did that for me. Worked that way.
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Hello and welcome to Potato Chip Pictures, the movie franchise
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review Podcast. I am B Sammy Davis.
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Hello, and I'm Justin. And today we are reviewing A
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Quiet Place, the first movie in the franchise called A Quiet
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Place. Appropriate.
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Yeah, exactly. It's our spooky month of of
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October. We are in the first week of it.
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Why not do a nice trilogy for the spooky months and we'll
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start with 20 eighteens A Quiet Place, directed by John
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Krasinski, screenplay by Scott Beck, Brian Woods and John
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Krasinski. The story was from Scott Beck
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and Brian Woods and I I should have looked it up.
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I don't know if that's like a a short story that existed and
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then it was turned into a movie, but those are the people who
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wrote the story that's that's important.
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That's important. Did they did they do Part 2?
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Let's see. Maybe.
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Oh, OK. We will get to it as we get to
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it. Part 3.
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Did they do Part 3? No, no.
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No. They they contributed as the
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launching off point for this franchise in terms of writing.
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John Krasinski kind of really made this his baby afterwards
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and we will see that. But for now, let's talk budget.
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We have $17 million in 2018. That is nothing.
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That seems very little. That's like a 1980s James Bond
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maybe. Let me, let me see that.
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Calculator. Yeah.
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Inflation. I didn't write down the budgets
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of the James Bond ones and I'm not going to clickety clack
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until I find it, but nonetheless, in 2018, $17
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million is genuinely, I mean, it's more than an indie film or
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an independent film, but you we are still talking pennies to
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make a movie. But it returned $341 million, so
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not too. Shabby.
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Thank you. That was deserved.
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It's a good movie. I mostly agree with you.
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I mostly agree. With you, Boo, no.
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There's we're we're going to get to the one thing that angers me
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to no end and the other thing that just kind of irks me.
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But I also want to say a silent, near silent film in 2018 is
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brilliant. Like in terms of taking a risk
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and trying something that is incredible.
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And then I, I really do love the monsters in terms of a creature
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feature. I'm having a good time.
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I. Like I love that they you get
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several clear shots at a very still uncertain moment.
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And it's like I the for 17, I feel like 2 million must have
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been for the these effects to make them look nice, to make
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them lit nice. Yeah, and I I was going to say
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even more, I would say fully like 5 million, close to 1/3 of
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the budget cause for an A low budget horror movie, these are
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really good looking creatures. Yes, there's CG, we can tell
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they're CG. There are moments where they
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don't look great, but. Sometimes I want my monsters not
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to actually feel real. Sometimes I want Jaws to look
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like a puppet, you know? Sometimes I want to say, OK,
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we're OK. This is all made-up.
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Yeah. Well, why don't you take it
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away? Take us into the movie.
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I mostly took it in 30 minute slices because actually at 30
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minutes each there's a nice little low.
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We get the nice clear three acts of a simple movie.
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And I think you're right to the point of it being a silent
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movie. It for the most part it makes
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you have to watch it. Sometimes I try to get context
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while I'm working on something else and have the movie on to
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the side and you can't compare it to something that's not
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related at all. I tried to do the same with the
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Cartoon Network series Samurai Jack, where mostly they never
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talk. And.
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You can't follow it if you don't stare at it.
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It's a fantastic series, my favorite, but you can't just
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ignore it, which I think probably translated into
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success. Success going to the theatre.
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You're there to watch the movie. There's nothing else going on.
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It is dark. Like you can't have anything
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else going on. You get kicked out or you
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should. Yeah.
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Should agreed. So the entire like let me check
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my notes. The 1st 30 minutes I don't think
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we get any speech because they they sometimes they kind of
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whisper as they're signing and the the the signs are captioned
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on screen. You'll get Mumbles and whispers
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just barely. Like it's silent in my office
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where I'm watching it and I could not make out if it matched
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what they were trying to say. It's more mouth sounds, like
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barely exhaling and just lipping the words and you're hearing the
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tongue moving around. So if it creep, like if it
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grosses you out, then maybe turn it down a little bit.
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But to me it's fascinating because like, yeah, how do you
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get speech out of breath and mouth sounds?
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Yeah, we are mostly not treated to knowing what sort of alien or
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how it arrived. I I watched it and I don't think
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I understood how these how this post apocalyptic world happened,
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which I think gets spelled out in the in the sequels, but I
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don't know, I never watched them.
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So maybe everything will make less sense after the sequels try
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to make it concrete because you you can't just make things
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concrete in the lore without screwing up what you didn't have
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to worry about in the first first movie.
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I. Do like that you have to kind of
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read the headlines of, you know, newspapers that are blowing
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around and I I had it I had to look it up because I don't
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remember, but they tell us this is day 89 so we're less than
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three months into the apocalypse and it.
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Is empty. The family were following one of
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the children is deaf and so I imagine they learn their sign
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language for that. But the I think she's the
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oldest, can't quite tell her age.
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I imagine a teenager. Second is sick.
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We're at a medicine pharmacy, pharmacy get medicine for him.
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And the third kid is probably 5, maybe 6, and it is quiet and
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tense until they leave because they're all trying not to make
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any noise. I think the only way you could
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not know that this movie was about noise is if you didn't
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catch any of the trailers or posters.
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Yeah, you'd be surprised. You'd be delighted at the end of
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the movie, having picked this blindly.
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But oh. Yeah, Oh my gosh, I would love
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to sit down next to someone who has never heard this, heard of
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this movie, and just watch it with them.
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Like, I don't want to watch them watch the movie.
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I just want to watch it with them.
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And then afterwards be like, so what'd you think?
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Like, because yeah, like I knew what it was about before I went
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to see it. Like it had been advertised
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pretty heavily at least felt like.
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It to my. Version of the Internet, yeah.
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But yeah, I. So I was ready to watch it.
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I enjoyed it. And I imagined with your oldest
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daughter being deaf, I imagine that all of the children have
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been taught sign language from infancy, 'cause I mean, we, we
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try to teach. A little sign language, yeah.
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You know, give us the the word, the simple words to communicate
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so you're not just screaming. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, I think the selection of the horror theme of You Can't
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Speak and the inclusion of a family made it very easy to
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spend every minute making these characters interact.
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They're they're forced to you. You can't like you have body
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language, but if they're not watching you, you can't say
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anything to a person. And that's the first 30 minutes
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includes the, the brother interacting with the youngest or
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the the sister interacting with the youngest, the the oldest
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brother getting medicine from his mom and the dad kind of
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getting really tense because the youngest is going to do
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something. But they're all around together.
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And it's all forcing the the connections to be present.
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Like sometimes when people act and they just say the script
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words like there's no connection happening.
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Like you want there to be connection, but it's so I think
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it's so focused on this little family that that's the payoff.
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Like all of it is, is the reaction and the attitudes and
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the perspectives all merging together to make you not want
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them to die. But man, the the 1st 89 days get
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them to a moment where their youngest doesn't quite think
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through the consequences. And it oh boy, here's minor
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frustration #1 this is the smallest, this is the lowest
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level of frustration. This kid has survived 3 months
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in the apocalypse when literally everyone else in the town except
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for like a few select people, but most people that he has ever
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known are now gone and dead and for some reason he has forgotten
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that batteries always generate noise.
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Oh my gosh, it's so frustrating to watch it.
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It's also frustrating that Reagan gives him the rocket ship
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but doesn't like enforce that the batteries are no can't go
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with it. Yeah.
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Like, yeah, I. Think the only bit of
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information that the youngest kind of conveys is oh, here's a
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chalk drawing of a rocket to get us out of here.
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I can always assume that he's three months of just tired of
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whatever this is versus what the first four years of his life
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were. So my inner frustration I can
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agree with. I think it it serves the grief
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purpose of the loss in the family.
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OK it. Demonstrates stakes immediately,
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I think. They do it well later on, the
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parents talk about it and it's just so it just hangs over the
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movie as it needs to like that's family's trying to survive.
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And I do think in the 1st 30 minutes the that we get to day
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472 a year, a year later, I couldn't really tell if John
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Krasinski was burning the mementos because they don't show
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him, put him in the fire. But he's looking at them, at the
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fire and we don't see that he leaves them to the side.
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But I'm like grief, yes, but don't, don't burn it, no.
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I I can't believe that he burned them, but maybe he did like,
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because I remember that too. I was like, that's so weird that
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like, OK, I can fine, you've got a fire.
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The monsters are blind. They're not going to see your
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fire. And a fire that high is quiet.
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They're not going to hear your fire.
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So I'm like OK, fine, but and then I was like maybe he's using
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it for light? But I agree.
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Like, I don't remember him putting it away and I kind of
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thought he put it in the fire, but then I watched it to be.
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Like, did he? Yeah.
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Like, why would you? He wouldn't.
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But I mean, grief does things to you.
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So I couldn't, couldn't really tell.
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But I did know that I didn't notice the other fires when I
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first watched this forever ago. There's other people that also
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light fires at night time in the tree line and I'm like, Oh well,
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those are the other people that have survived this long.
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And I think that's the next. Movie what it is?
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I think this is a demonstration of life at this point, so if a
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fire doesn't come up at night, your neighbors might be dead.
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Like, yeah, that's. That's the vibe that I got, so I
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did like that as well. And who knows, maybe, maybe
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small town mountain folk, some of whom have enough land to
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farm. Maybe they could do it.
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They could survive the apocalypse, and maybe the
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monsters don't quietly. Yeah.
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Like maybe maybe the denser the population area was, the more
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the monsters stay there. Maybe the ones that are here are
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just kind of aimlessly wandering, as it were.
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That's where I like, man, when we get to a little further first
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act, we see that this family is now expecting.
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And it's like, that seems like the most optimistic thing to do
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in a dystopian world. Holy cow.
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And. That's where we get to my movie
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Killer, yeah. Oh.
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Man, I thought, well, when I watched this in 2018, like maybe
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maybe I was just in a bad mood. Like maybe I'm more optimistic
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now. My kids are older.
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Like I've, you know, I'm, I'm, I've got a better view of
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parenthood at this point in my life.
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I'm still furious. I'm still so angry that their
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four year old, who could think things through better than a,
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you know, a newborn, demonstrated that he could not
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keep quiet for three months and now they're going to attempt to
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bring in a new that worm. Yeah.
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I, I, I chalked it up kind of on the positive side because it's
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not making a sound. It's hopeless like this.
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This world ends. If these things didn't actually
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have a weakness, like this is world ending and like, but yeah,
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still. Oh, that is a that is a rough
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world to have a baby. Yeah, like I can't, I can't
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imagine. Like the the only thing that I
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could possibly think of is that maybe they've they've run out of
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condoms and they don't know how to time.
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Her. Cycle maybe, maybe it's an
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accidental pregnancy and you don't exactly have abortion
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clinics at the end of the world. So.
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So I will OK, I can give it that they they never tell us
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explicitly because by. The time.
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The family would have had that conversation.
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We're, you know, months, months. Yeah, I we're, we're using, not
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explicitly. I'm also like you, you said
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Reagan earlier and I was like, who's that?
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Like, I don't think the names are ever said, but Reagan.
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'S was. Maybe I don't.
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I thought they. Signed Reagan a couple of times.
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Maybe I didn't know the names are Lee, Evelyn, Marcus, Bo and
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Reagan. I don't know which one.
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Marcus dies. Bo dies Bo.
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Dies see I I did not know their names, but since they're the
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only. Characters.
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It's the wiki, and I'm sure the cast tells us like if we look at
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the list of casts. But yeah, I don't know if they
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ever say the names out loud because I'm thinking about the
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river scene and I don't remember them saying Reagan's name out
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loud. I think they say.
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Have you talked to her about it? Yeah, which in normal life, if
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it was just your family, you wouldn't really have to identify
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names. Oh, yeah.
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It's one of the more believable moments because they're just
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like, yeah, that's probably how my family would have done it.
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If two of my family members are in a fight to the point where
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they don't even want to hear the other person's name, you'll just
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use the pronoun yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, first act, I
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understand that it's to get to know the family and the stakes
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and the the drama that's happening against the the end of
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the world. I do think I don't get as much
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from Lee. I guess the dad, I've, I didn't,
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I think it's it's kind of a plot point that the daughter is
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unsure if her dad loves her because he doesn't say it.
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And it's like I don't, I can't understand that I can.
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Yeah. Like, it's like I can empathize,
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but I'm also like, this is the end of the world, and you are.
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You are. Yes.
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You're trying to protect them. Like, you could die the next
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time you accidentally fart. Yeah.
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So. You should let.
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It out too loud. Yeah, I I agree with you.
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And I can definitely see that tension.
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Yeah. Like, I can totally understand
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where there's this dark shadow of blame where, like, you know
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that it's nobody's fault, but you also know whose fault it is.
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Like, and even though she could not have known that the kid,
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that Beau the kid would pick up the batteries, she still gave
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the shuttle when dad said no. And so like, she went over dad's
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head and none of this would have happened if they had only
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listened to dad. And Dang it, Dad is always
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right. And that's the other vibe we
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get. And he has that energy for the
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whole movie where he is the protector, and next in line is
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his son, who must also learn to become a protector.
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And his daughter must learn to become a keeper of the house.
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So he always leaves her behind. Yeah.
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Never lets her know little bit of those lives.
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Yep. It's like, well, I understand
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we're at the end of the world and nobody's nobody's around to
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be like, well, you know, she could learn how to operate the
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gun and whatnot. And yeah, that's maybe that's
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just this family's beliefs and it's served them this long.
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They've survived well over a year of the apocalypse, so I
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think they could argue that they are doing just fine.
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But it is one of those things where it kind of frustrates me
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in this movie. This this family and their
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reluctance to get with the times baby.
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Yeah, I think it's like I feel like the movie itself stands on
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its own merits of post apocalypse surviving monsters
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that hunt you down from sound like the that sort of critique
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didn't change my review as much my rating, but it was like, Oh
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yeah, I sincere your basic levels too.
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I'm going to keep going back to it.
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This is my Goldfinger. This is that movie where, like,
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I should like it a whole lot more, but they're just these
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minor things that irritate me so much.
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And they're all put together and most of them come together in
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the finale of this movie. So, like, it just irks me
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personally. But I'm always going to say I
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love these creatures and I love this premise.
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And as, as I was just making sure we weren't missing anything
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big, I realized there's that dinner scene where, you know,
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the kids are playing Monopoly and one of them accidentally
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knocks over, I think Reagan, maybe the brother.
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But one of them knocks over the lamp of fire starts.
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And everybody like, panics. And then they, like, go still
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and silent. And then we do hear a sound, but
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it's just raccoons. Like, oh, man, it's such a tense
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moment. And it really is indicative of
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some of the best qualities of this movie where it is so tense
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in a lot of places. I think the the stakes are high,
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but then you see that like if you're just quiet, you can build
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this entire thing where you were living.
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And if you stay quiet, you can continue enjoying this thing
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that you've built. So when it's when you
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accidentally make a lot of noise, you could just lose
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everything in 30 seconds if these things find you.
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So it's. Yeah, and you have to think
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about construction as well. Like you cannot make new above
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ground structures because there's almost no way to make
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anything without noise. So you need to always be working
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underground, but then you have to be careful about how much
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noise you're making there. And they live pretty close to
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the mountains, so I imagine they don't have soft ground that they
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can just dig into silently. I imagine they've got a lot of
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rocks and boulders. Yeah, I, I most of the stuff
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that they had I felt like was pre apocalypse.
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So I was like, well, I don't think they built too much, but
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they did drag stuff to the place to soundproof it.
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But. Left their windows, you know, so
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you could see outside I. Think the fence structure and
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their lighting system. There are some like post
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apocalyptic preparations on the outside that had to be made and
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the only way I can imagine them doing anything that would have
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required nailing would have been during like a thunderstorm and
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then you're outside in a thunderstorm, like trying to
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nail things together or drag big heavy sheets of metal.
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See that'll that will bring up my main criticism.
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I think in the not to skip too much.
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The second act, the father and the son go to forage and get
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things from the stream and there's a waterfall that they
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can talk at. And then they get a good.
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They focus on the plot of what's the drama of the blame.
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And meanwhile, I'm wondering about the monster rules.
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Because it makes sense. If you're next to something
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loud, you can talk because the loud thing isn't going to.
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What isn't going to give you away is going to cover for you.
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But if the loud thing is happening, why aren't the
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monsters coming to the loud thing?
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Do they eventually know that the loud thing exists in the space
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that they were at? That's the vibe I got.
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I again I don't think they said it explicitly but my
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understanding. OK and this is a head cannon.
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There's nothing that would have been confirmed to us.
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I get the engineered species vibe from this creature where it
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is sent to be a a plague upon a life, or at least an intelligent
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life, because I was. Well, yeah, I don't think we
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heard a lot of birds in that movie.
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So I think birds are also. Yeah, it's only the quiet
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animals, the non verbal animals that have survived as it were.
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And so I think that if you had a very loud noise compared to a
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quiet noise, and you're in engineered to do this, I think
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you would go after the very big loud noise because that might be
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an army putting up a resistance against your own kind.
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And therefore you must squash the ability to fight back before
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going after the quieter noises. And if there's a loud noise
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that's constant, like a waterfall, and every time you go
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to check on it, there's nothing to kill.
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I think eventually you learn that some things are just noisy
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by nature. Yeah, I that was only a little
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bit of like, but how does that work if you they're attracted by
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new and only loud noises, but they'll remember that it was
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super noisy over this way. We don't have to go back this
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way. So, I mean, I think I've
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remember criticisms from the back of of the past People like,
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just live next to the waterfall, yeah.
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Like, just, you know, start digging out the back of the
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waterfall and live there, right these noisy as you want to be.
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But yeah, that, that is a valid criticism.
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And it's strange that no one has set up camp near the waterfall.
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Yeah. Oh, well, I think if the first
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act gives us a lot of information on the family,
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second act gives us the the action of, well, how are you
33:18
going to have the baby? Because it feels like there's
33:19
only a couple of questions in this movie.
33:22
How do you? Survive.
33:23
Oh, you're pregnant? How do you have that baby?
33:25
Oh, the monsters are still around.
33:28
How do we beat them so we get to answer these questions and that
33:33
for $17 million, I think they nailed.
33:38
They get to figure out the weakness with help from the the
33:45
family help or optimism. Like the dad is making these
33:51
earpieces for his daughter because he loves her, wants her
33:54
to be safe. Dad will never tell you he loves
34:01
you, but he'll always show you he loves you by not ever showing
34:07
you he loves you. Just bringing you these busted
34:10
cochlear implants and be like, hey, try this one.
34:13
Hey, try this one. Yeah.
34:16
Yeah, it's waterfall. They come back, but by that
34:21
time, the mom has stepped on a nail that she pulled up.
34:25
Yeah. I was going to say.
34:26
So we skipped, We kind of shuffled things like the quiet
34:32
moment of them being at home during the day, including like
34:37
the dad and Reagan talking to each other a little bit and the
34:44
mother saying, oh, I'm going to. I'm due in three weeks.
34:47
We've got plenty of time. Let's, you know, we got to pace
34:52
ourselves. We've got to do things the right
34:54
way and make sure everything is set up, but let's not panic.
34:58
And then they're planning their day.
35:01
And that's when we have our first big in family fight where
35:05
Reagan wants to go with dad to learn how to provide for the
35:08
family and the brother definitely does not want to go
35:14
with dad to learn how to provide for the family.
35:18
But Dad knows best. And even mom is like, you know
35:21
what? Maybe you should take Reagan
35:25
like no dad knows best. Yeah, and.
35:32
So the family splits up from here, which I also OK,
35:39
frustrated at the family totally by them splitting up at this
35:43
point, like everybody needs their own space.
35:46
We're not in immediate danger because, again, the baby's not
35:50
due for three weeks and we've survived for like over a year
35:55
and a half with only one death. So like, we're doing all right.
36:00
Yeah, I agree. It's it does feel like a nice
36:05
long interval before they have additional action.
36:12
Yeah. I mean, it's kind of the mom who
36:15
creates all the drama that that picks up.
36:18
Like Reagan's out being reminiscent of her baby brother.
36:24
She. I thought she didn't run away,
36:26
and now I'm like, well, she kind of ran away, but she just went
36:29
to the grave marker. Yeah.
36:32
So just to put some stuff there. And so I, yeah, at first I was
36:37
like, oh, is she packing to leave?
36:40
But when she showed up at the grave and started leaving stuff,
36:43
I was like, OK, she was just taking a a trip saying.
36:47
Sorry again for what happened. So, yeah, like everybody's
36:54
having their moments. Like, so to this movie's credit,
36:58
I can fully buy that at this point, this point in particular,
37:05
everyone is off guard because they think their guard is
37:08
perfect. You know what I mean?
37:11
It's that. It's that freaking nail keep.
37:14
It quiet for most of the time we need to yeah, the nail that kind
37:19
of just has to exist for problems to start.
37:24
It doesn't make sense that it's on the paint spot.
37:27
Like you would totally remove that nail but.
37:31
Absolutely. And the fact that she we have
37:34
to. So the reason the nail comes up
37:36
is because she gets a laundry bag stuck on it, and she's just
37:40
pulling on it. Like you have to know that it is
37:44
stuck on something. So go backwards, figure out what
37:48
it's stuck on, and make sure that that's not a future
37:51
problem. But I guess we got to let our
37:54
guards down like we got. To yeah, it has nobody.
37:59
'S perfect and this movie has to take us to that point where
38:02
nobody's perfect, we have. To we have to get the monsters
38:05
close to the people, so they have to be accidentally loud,
38:10
which that's the that's the assumption going into this
38:14
movie. They're going to confront the
38:15
monsters, and somehow, through their human pluckiness, they're
38:20
just gonna make it happen. You know, you might have some
38:24
opinions on whether it's because Dad knows best, that's how they
38:27
make it through, or if that's the assumption, then the end of
38:34
the movie. Do you like or dislike?
38:36
We'll get there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:39
I. Want to.
38:40
I want to get to another love hate moment in the movie.
38:45
I love the fact that this moment really sticks with me.
38:50
It's it's one of those moments that I think of more than the
38:54
rest of the movie, but I know what movie it's from every time
38:59
I think about it. And that is the return trip of
39:03
father and son where they're happily bringing the fish home
39:08
and they see a neighbor in the woods or, you know, just nearby.
39:14
And it gets very silent, very tense for a moment.
39:21
The part I hate is the fact that the neighbor who has been
39:25
surviving for a year and a half and only now lost his wife,
39:31
decides he doesn't care about other people.
39:35
And especially the fact that, like, he waited until there were
39:40
witnesses before he made a noise like, oh, so I think about it
39:46
the most. It kind of makes me angry, but
39:49
oh boy does it stick with me. Yeah.
39:57
What do I think about it? I mean, I don't know where
40:01
you're thinking it's from. I do know that it's effective in
40:06
being a surprise, like, oh, remember that other people.
40:12
Though they might be able to help you might just endanger you
40:16
because of the human emotion they can't hold back.
40:20
I do question. She got killed by one of the
40:24
things. Where's the thing that ran away?
40:27
OK. Yeah.
40:29
Well, and on top of that, had he been digging that grave all day
40:35
or just after the two of them left to go, you know, foraging
40:43
and fishing like because I assume they they traveled
40:48
through. His.
40:50
Property, yeah. And.
40:52
He's got it is a shallow grave, but he did dig a grave and he's
40:57
an older man. You know, I don't know.
41:02
That's that's that's where I'm at.
41:03
I'm like, there are a lot of questions in my mind, but I also
41:07
find it interesting that we've been conditioned.
41:11
You mentioned we're in the post apocalypse.
41:14
We, you don't know, you know who you can trust.
41:17
And that is what every post apocalyptic piece of media has
41:22
taught us that humans are unpredictable.
41:25
And so part of you is like, is this a stranger?
41:28
Is this someone who has just showed up out of the blue?
41:32
But then we get the vibe that no, this is a neighbor because
41:37
he's not like freaking out. He's just telling him to be
41:40
quiet. And it's, I don't know if he.
41:43
Knows him, but. Yeah.
41:45
Maybe it's it's possible? I always take it as they know
41:50
each other, but you're right, they don't have a way of
41:54
communicating other than sign land.
41:57
We don't know if. This old man knows it.
41:59
Yeah, like maybe in. Some cutscenes or something,
42:03
yeah. Maybe.
42:04
And we don't even need that information, truly.
42:07
Like really, all we need to know is there's a dead lady, there's
42:12
an old man, he's done doing what he needed to do, and he's not
42:18
willing to keep going without her.
42:21
And he's chosen the moment when there are witnesses to scream.
42:29
Yeah, but it again, it's the one I think about.
42:33
So I I cannot deny that it lives friend free in my Yeah, It's
42:39
it's there. It it exists.
42:41
And it's my most thought about moment in this entire movie.
42:46
Yeah, it's a quick scene. I think it gives a little bit
42:52
better view of the monsters until later.
42:55
I think it What do you what do you compare it to being from?
43:00
I feel like you have a movie in your mind of.
43:04
I would honestly ever since Prometheus I would say the
43:09
Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise.
43:13
Like because Prometheus as a spiritual successor that
43:19
eventually became part of the franchise, it suggests that the
43:24
engineers not only created life but they also created the means
43:28
to its destruction. And that is a genetically
43:33
engineered super monster that will hunt and kill everything
43:38
and just reproduce until there is nothing left on the planet.
43:42
And eventually maybe they will die off and maybe one day the
43:45
engineers will return and reseed the planet and try again.
43:51
And so even though we don't get anything that suggests that here
43:55
we've got things falling from the sky, crashing down.
44:00
I also think of the movie Attack the Block, the British movie
44:04
with heard of it, aliens that crash down from the sky.
44:09
They are great aliens. I would highly recommend Attack
44:12
the Block. Such a dope movie.
44:16
Go for it. So that's that's where I would
44:18
put the creatures in this one if I had to compare them to
44:22
anything, but they are their own unique thing.
44:25
They kind of look like the creature from Stranger Things
44:31
season 1. Obviously a different head, but
44:35
just long and skinny. It's going to call.
44:37
It the Necronomicon, but that's not the name of the monster,
44:40
it's something. Yep, it's a something, it's ADND
44:44
monster name that I can't think of.
44:46
Yeah, something it's it's kind of distressing that I have
44:52
forgotten such a an iconic creature's name.
44:56
But yeah, visually I might compare it to that, but
45:01
conceptually, I'd probably put it somewhere in the category of
45:05
Xenomorph or attack the block Alien.
45:10
Yeah. So the nail, I almost said the
45:15
nail caused the water to break, but no, the water broke all on
45:20
its own. She was just living her life.
45:22
Oh, yeah. And it happened I think.
45:26
It happened. I'm trying to remember if it was
45:28
right before she was got hit by the nail.
45:30
I assume, yeah. It was right before because she
45:33
was going to the basement likely to change the lights or
45:39
something, you know, because you need a means of non verbal
45:42
communication and the basement is the command center of the
45:47
house. So she's hobbling down the
45:49
basement, likely walking sidestep and she goes right into
45:54
that nail and it looks painful. She.
45:57
Acted very crap out of getting stabbed with the nail.
46:01
I was like, well, she didn't get stabbed, but man, she, she, she
46:05
seems like she stepped on a nail.
46:07
And she barely makes a noise. She makes a noise, but she
46:11
barely makes a noise. But it's clumsiness.
46:15
It really does it in, you know, grabbing at the wall and
46:19
knocking over something to make a glass shattering noise.
46:24
And thus begins the creatures drawing near.
46:28
And oh boy, this movie gets pretty intense pretty fast.
46:35
There's a lot of moving parts. The whole family has to get
46:39
home. Like, oh boy, it gets very
46:43
interesting, I think. The last what, 15-10 minutes of
46:49
the second act, she gets chased by the monster.
46:55
She has to hide from the monster, the shot of her feet
46:58
creeping down in the tub. And then you see some blood from
47:01
the baby starting to come. Like that shot is just perfectly
47:09
tense and horrible because like, you're about to have a baby and
47:16
you need to stay quiet and that seems impossible, therefore
47:21
you're going to die. But we're rooting for you not
47:24
to. It mashes it all together very
47:27
well. Oh yeah, it is intense.
47:32
And you know, everybody does eventually get home and
47:37
everybody makes their way to their different action stations.
47:43
But every time we come back to mom, it's like, wow, how is she
47:50
going to have a baby and keep that baby quiet?
47:54
And like, oh boy, that's my stress point.
47:58
I'm like, you're in the wrong place.
48:00
You're in the the upstairs, not in the downstairs.
48:04
Like, and I know you didn't have a choice because you had to get
48:07
out of the house, but I genuinely think you should have
48:10
tried for the barn as quietly as you could.
48:14
I know you're going through labor and that sucks.
48:17
I, I can't speak to the pain. I don't know if I could keep my
48:21
mouth shut under I've been in in intense pain and I could not
48:27
keep my mouth shut like it was waves of pain.
48:29
That was enough for me to like, like, moan and go.
48:34
Enough for the monster to come get me.
48:36
Exactly so it reminded. Me of the she wanted to go to
48:41
the bar and like, yeah, that's where the the baby stuff is.
48:45
The slight thing that I've enjoyed in most of the series
48:49
franchises has been when things happen simultaneously and you
48:55
see her get out of the basement, go to the front door and stop
48:58
because there's a monster out there.
48:59
You can't really see it. It moves and she turns around
49:03
and goes up the stairs and it cuts to the dead and sun outside
49:06
and you see the monster walking into the house and it's like,
49:10
it's right now, this is all happening right now.
49:12
This may happen. Yeah, I like that a lot.
49:18
I love that they have the fireworks because again, I think
49:24
that points to an engineered creature that would go towards
49:29
battle in order to back up its allies because you have to take
49:34
out an armed resistance before you go after just any noise you
49:39
hear, you know? Otherwise you'll just get picked
49:42
off 1 by 1. I my my criticism of the pause
49:48
between Act 2 and 3 is the fact that it's just it.
49:52
It has to happen perfectly for them to survive.
49:58
Oh, all of our soundproofing made it so the monster didn't
50:01
come down and get us and the baby is fine and she's been kind
50:05
of knocked out because she just gave birth, but it's
50:09
everything's fine. As soon as they managed to get
50:12
the baby quiet and it's boxed, but it's air like it has to
50:17
happen so they don't die. But it also felt a little like,
50:21
well, this is a brand new baby. It's to be this quiet seems
50:28
impossible, but we're at a movie theater and we are suspending
50:33
that disbelief. The and frankly, like you said,
50:38
this is a tight hour and a half, but I am going to get a bit MIT
50:42
picky here. I don't like the corn, the sea
50:46
of corn that they almost drowned in and I don't like the flooded
50:50
basement. I don't think I buy either of
50:54
them. OK the corn, fine, they climb up
50:58
to the top. But why are they moving around
51:01
so much? This is a big echoey space.
51:03
Why aren't they smart enough to just sit still and wait?
51:07
And like you know if you're quiet the things will eventually
51:11
leave. You can slowly move to a
51:13
position where both of you are able to watch both directions to
51:17
see when it's safe. But they just, they keep moving
51:20
around and then they fall inside of it and I get so mad at that
51:25
whole section. And then how does the dad not
51:28
hear the water dripping in this? He's walking right?
51:34
Yeah, so those are the two things that really, really
51:38
bother me about this ending. But otherwise I I'm fully on
51:43
board with the entire third act. Like those two moments irk me.
51:49
But the rest of it is high density, really good, silent,
51:56
mostly storytelling. Which is why they.
52:00
Needed the break to have the parents actually talk and oh
52:04
this, this basement is perfectly soundproof.
52:06
Let's resolve our stuff before the third act starts.
52:11
Yeah, yeah. Which I, I gave him credit for.
52:14
Like, yeah, I would feel like, oh, I could have picked up my
52:19
baby. Like, hell yeah, I would.
52:21
I would 100% feel that. And yeah, so I, I think that
52:30
both actors do a good job of, of living that character's little
52:34
arc. I think, I think Emily Vaughn is
52:38
amazing. Like stepping on a fake nail and
52:42
Oh yeah, doing that, I'm like, wow, that's that feels real.
52:48
Believed all of it. I believed her as the mother for
52:50
this entire movie. I had minor qualms with John
52:57
Krasinski. I don't love the sacrifice, but
53:00
at the same time, it's totally in line with how I picture the
53:05
character, so I'm fine with that.
53:08
Yeah. OK, so we start to get to what's
53:14
going to save this family. And that is one of Dad's happy
53:19
accidents because he was tinkering with all these
53:25
cochlear implants. And I don't know why Reagan
53:29
decides to put one in, but she does.
53:33
And oh boy, does it hurt her ears.
53:38
But she can definitely hear it, which I think is what she keeps
53:42
coming back to the fact that there is a deafening noise, the
53:46
fact that her a deaf girl could experience a deafening noise.
53:53
So that I find believable. It just so happens and she does
53:57
not see this through the pain. But that deafening noise also
54:01
hurts our monsters. They.
54:04
Have Heidi. That's I can I could I could see
54:08
the lore being feasible of oh, they they are superheroes, but
54:18
there's a sacrifice towards the like normal quiet, like
54:25
hypersensitive to the noises, like to a point of weakness, but
54:33
maybe it's a little fuzzy or low lower down it it doesn't.
54:39
I bought it. Yeah, it doesn't line and
54:41
sinker. It doesn't help that that's
54:43
like, well, it here's the static, but it can't hear
54:47
breathing like you can hear the TV's but like.
54:52
OK, here's where I'm at. I, I think, OK, I know there is
54:58
a resonance like a frequency that can disrupt a lot of
55:05
machinery. Not all that that would be
55:07
ridiculous, but it, you can, you can hit certain machines with
55:10
certain frequencies and disrupt their functionality.
55:15
I also saw, I think it was last year, but it, I don't remember
55:21
when I I just remember there were protesters on the street in
55:26
some European country and their military turned on this sound
55:32
cannon and in seconds the streets were cleared.
55:36
Because you can hurt people with sound, even sounds that they
55:42
cannot hear, you know, just the, the frequency of the sound.
55:46
And so I think I was fully on board with a creature that is
55:49
hyper focused on sound as its only means of interacting with
55:55
the world. I I yeah, you could definitely
55:59
hurt it with sound like you have to.
56:03
I'm going to credit your dislike of the Russian water because,
56:07
and I have it going on the side and he flashes the light towards
56:12
that side of the barn. It is.
56:15
It's. Pewing water.
56:19
I don't know how it like the monster must have kind of
56:22
ransacked that part, but yeah, he.
56:25
Rushed it somehow so. Oh yeah, failure on that part.
56:28
No way. You miss it.
56:29
That's second favorite shot of the movie.
56:32
The water rushing and Emily Blunt with the baby on one side
56:36
and the creature on the other side.
56:41
Such a good looking shot. It's.
56:43
Minorly marred by the fact that the monster slips into this, I
56:48
don't know, knee deep water and swishes around without making
56:53
any movement. It it was for the scare factor,
56:57
but I was like, oh, you shouldn't be able to fit under
57:00
the water that gracefully. You can't see anything that's
57:03
floating. But yeah, like you can see a
57:06
fish when it moves under the water, like, and everything
57:09
makes a ripple. And, you know, maybe they just
57:12
didn't think about it or didn't animate it.
57:16
Yeah, it's not the best, but it doesn't anger me.
57:20
And again, it leads to an iconic shot, something that looks great
57:25
on a, a wallpaper on a monitor. True.
57:31
Yeah, I'm trying to remember, oh, that monster goes to the
57:37
grain silo because that's where the dead, because that's where
57:40
they're. Making all the noise because the
57:42
kids fell into the grain silo. So then we get the sacrifice of
57:47
the dad. He signs I love you to his
57:50
daughter, which is the closest. She'll get to hearing it, I
57:54
guess. It's his tragic, but it's also
57:58
like, well, yeah, I guess that's the that's the the death that we
58:06
can handle happening the character.
58:11
I believe it, you know, the the so-called protector of the
58:16
family, of course, would be the the one to sacrifice himself.
58:19
And so yeah, I'm I, I buy it. I don't love the scream.
58:24
It just might not be one of movies best screams, but
58:29
whatever. Yeah, I mean, go along with the
58:34
old man's scream and the screams from what else were we watching?
58:39
Oh, our one of our future series was like, this is just not a
58:45
good yell. Like there's we're, we're
58:50
getting to the point. Of franchises where we're going
58:54
to start hearing yells and that's going to be one of the
58:57
things we think about in movies where like why'd they do the
59:00
yell like that and this is the director of the movie like who's
59:05
going to tell the actor to do it differently it.
59:09
Was not the worst, but it was not memorable that I could.
59:14
But you know the Wilhelm scheme, like that's one you can hear
59:18
anywhere. And then?
59:20
I'm going to say, and this is this is me being a butt.
59:24
This is me being a butt for the second time.
59:28
Reagan killed someone in the family because right after her
59:32
dad dies, she puts it together that maybe she can use this
59:37
noise to hurt the monsters. Like, maybe, like, I don't know
59:41
why she tries it again, but she turns it on after her dad is
59:45
dead and the monsters leave the kids alone.
59:49
And so I'm like Reagan, you could have saved your dad just
59:54
like could have saved your baby brother.
1:00:00
Yeah, yeah. I'm curious how much how much
1:00:04
reference the second movie makes to this one because as a whole,
1:00:08
by itself, I am happy to leave it where it ends.
1:00:13
Oh yeah. She uses her little implant to
1:00:16
what would you call it, disorient and stun the monster,
1:00:20
but also like open up its armour head plates.
1:00:23
So when it kind of collects itself and comes, Adam, Emily
1:00:27
Blunt shoots it with the shotgun and they they win.
1:00:31
Yeah. The sound won't kill it, but you
1:00:34
know the sound will hurt it. Yeah.
1:00:37
Then you can use some good old American firepower.
1:00:40
Dig around. So when the last 30 seconds is
1:00:46
them watching the screens as monsters flock, maybe it just
1:00:50
it's just two. I feel like when I first watched
1:00:52
it I was like. There's a.
1:00:54
Million coming, but I think it's only two on the screen 'cause
1:00:58
they killed one. It's 3 words out there, so I.
1:01:01
I don't think it's like all of them showing up.
1:01:04
It's I think there are a couple of new ones, but it's not more
1:01:08
than the seven that we saw on the whiteboard, I think.
1:01:12
I don't, I don't remember the exact number, but I do remember
1:01:16
feeling like there are some halfway decent zombie movies
1:01:22
where you're like, you're having a good time.
1:01:24
It's very tense. And then you get to the end of
1:01:27
it and the heroes are ready to fight back.
1:01:30
And those are the ones I don't like the most.
1:01:33
I don't like when they end the movie ready to fight.
1:01:37
I prefer a movie to end. Just grateful to have survived.
1:01:42
Yeah. You know, So no, no, go on this
1:01:44
one 'cause it's not my favorite. Ending.
1:01:48
Exactly. They look at each other like,
1:01:51
let's go save the world. I think that to me is a little
1:01:56
corny. Yeah.
1:01:58
Without there being a second movie, Part 2, whatever.
1:02:02
When I first watched it, I was like, yeah, cool, they'll get to
1:02:07
maybe survive, but it's also a bit of you were pretty
1:02:11
incredibly lucky to get that one, Good luck on the next two.
1:02:17
Do you know your implant is going to work every time?
1:02:20
Do you know how to make another one if this one breaks?
1:02:24
Like found a super weapon but the guy who made it doesn't
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exist anymore. I am kind.
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Of. Excited to watch the second one
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to be like what happens now. Same, I've never seen the second
1:02:39
one. I have seen the third one and
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I'm going to be honest with you, I loved it so much.
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What it was. It was one of my favorite movies
1:02:50
of mine the year. I loved it so much I was like.
1:02:55
Interesting. Wow, I was not expecting that.
1:02:59
Yeah, I, I win it, but I also went into it with extremely low
1:03:04
expectations. So I might be coloring it for
1:03:06
you. You might go into it and you
1:03:07
might hate it, but at the time I was like, all right, well, this
1:03:13
came and went without a, you know, any splash.
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Like nobody ever talked about it.
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I never saw the second one, but this is a prequel.
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I might as well jump back in. And I was like, whoa, that was
1:03:25
great. OK, but we're not talking about
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that one yet. That's two weeks from now.
1:03:32
We're. Wrapping up this one.
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Exactly, and on this podcast we do ratings, not grades.
1:03:39
The primary difference is where you find the average on a
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grading system. You say A7 out of 10 is the
1:03:44
average, and so you try to raise the general grade to to meet
1:03:49
that average. But in a rating, you say A5 out
1:03:54
of 10 is the average because it's the middle.
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So if we say a movie is a 5 out of 10, we're not saying it's
1:03:59
bad, we're saying it's average. We're saying it's right in the
1:04:02
middle. Below that is when you start to
1:04:04
get into the bad territory. Above that is when you get into
1:04:07
the good territory. So with that said, Justin, what
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would you give this movie on a scale of 1 to 10, I mean.
1:04:14
I have the number already, but let's go over some The things
1:04:18
that I enjoy is I kind of enjoy the fact that it forces you to
1:04:25
watch it a la Samurai Jack, where you can't just listen and
1:04:31
kind of hear the the tones and maybe catch some of the body
1:04:35
language. Like if you miss what they sign
1:04:40
when they're signing, you lose some information.
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Because I totally didn't see that it was 3 weeks away because
1:04:46
I was like, oh, maybe he's ready to happen.
1:04:49
I didn't really think about it. I, I, I think the mom character
1:05:00
Evelyn, yeah, Evelyn. I think he was entirely
1:05:06
believable The the talk they have between 2:00 and 3:00 where
1:05:11
it's all about the guilt and just the grief of losing their
1:05:15
youngest back at the beginning. Like it wasn't said until this
1:05:19
part and it's all that you really needed to say.
1:05:23
The fantastic part of like at least relatable on on my side of
1:05:30
I would feel the same way lady drawbacks.
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I think I don't have too many. I was yes to the the what would
1:05:53
you say the perspectives of oh, those guys are going to go
1:05:57
provide and protect these. The girls will do the laundry
1:06:01
and have babies at home. Like I don't want to bring that
1:06:05
in necessarily as like this is say anything about this family
1:06:11
in the apocalypse. But it is a little basic of
1:06:15
like, OK, we don't have to know much more about their
1:06:23
motivations or hear any nuance in their character.
1:06:30
They're just so that's why I like it's nice that mom and oh,
1:06:37
Reagan are wanting to be better prepared and at the end they're
1:06:43
ready to take on the monsters. Like cool.
1:06:48
I give it a 7 1/2. I think this is a much above
1:06:53
average movie because it's, I think it's it hits all of the
1:07:01
the necessities of a almost zombie apocalypse movie.
1:07:08
These monsters are here, everything is gone, but we have
1:07:13
each other and we lose some of those people along the way.
1:07:17
And then we are maybe not in a better place from where we
1:07:22
started, but we've survived. I really like it.
1:07:31
I think that's extremely fair. I genuinely do.
1:07:34
And I'm going to say right now that my score changed twice
1:07:39
throughout the discussion of this movie.
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I'm going to say the thing that that I've already said.
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The number one thing that irks me is the fact that they're even
1:07:51
getting pregnant at this time. Like that's just.
1:07:55
Yeah. It just seems like such a bad
1:07:59
idea. Like Oh my God.
1:08:01
I. Wanted to to be feeling like,
1:08:03
oh, this is optimistic, but this is like crazy optimistic.
1:08:07
You guys, it's a baby. The crazy is the big word there.
1:08:13
And again, the time the family would have had this discussion
1:08:17
would have been six months ago, and we weren't Privy to that
1:08:21
part of the the family's life. So I do to the movies credit, I
1:08:26
do like this minimalistic storytelling where they're like,
1:08:30
this is the world that they live in.
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These are people who do live in America.
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These are people you have met before.
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This is a believable family and I will agree, even though this
1:08:44
family frustrates me to no end, I have met this family.
1:08:49
So have you. This is genuinely middle America
1:08:53
family and I'm so thumbs up to my thumbs down.
1:08:59
But then I have to remember that this movie did more with sound
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than almost any movie that I have watched in the past decade.
1:09:11
And they did almost nothing with sound.
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And that's so incredible. And I love the creatures.
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They don't look all the way believable.
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But as we said before, you don't necessarily want to fully
1:09:25
believe in your monster. You want to have some foot in
1:09:30
reality and 1 foot in fantasy. And yeah, so there the concept
1:09:38
and the creature really carry the day on this.
1:09:42
So I came in at a six, we were talking about it.
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I took it up to a 6.5 and I was sitting here thinking, wow, I'm
1:09:49
going to have a .5. And then we kept talking about
1:09:52
it and I was like, you know, this movie really does a lot.
1:09:56
And even though it makes me mad, like at the same time I'm still
1:10:02
believing it. Like there's never a point where
1:10:04
I'm like, Can you believe this? This is so fake.
1:10:09
Like no, the reason I'm mad is because I'm in their fantasy and
1:10:15
that's why I have to give it a 7.
1:10:18
So you're at a 7.5. I'm at a 7 show average 7.25 but
1:10:26
you know I had to journey to get to my score.
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I was pretty set from the beginning after watching it.
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It was, I know the first time I watched it, I enjoyed it a
1:10:37
second time. I think it was.
1:10:40
It was nicer to kind of think about how we get to the tension
1:10:47
in the stakes, feeling like this family is just trying to survive
1:10:53
this and they kind of successfully do.
1:10:56
They kind of fail like, like it's it does enough.
1:11:03
And I think it it definitely when I'm surprised that other
1:11:07
franchises spending like 50 million and getting like bonkers
1:11:12
money, it's like, how did this movie get that?
1:11:15
Like this one I could see. Yes, yeah, a lot of people would
1:11:19
enjoy this one. And you know, like we both said
1:11:23
at the time, this movie was pretty heavily marketed, at
1:11:27
least to me. Like I again, at this period, I
1:11:31
was not watching television. I was mostly getting my media
1:11:35
from streaming or YouTube. And if there were ads, chances
1:11:39
are they were telling me about a Quiet Place.
1:11:42
And it's been that way every time a movie has come out.
1:11:46
I have been inundated with ads. So this, you know, this is a
1:11:50
franchise that at least right now, is culturally relevant, and
1:11:57
I'm excited for that. They keep telling us that
1:11:59
there's going to be a Part 3 coming, but I don't know if it's
1:12:05
actually happening or not. But movie, yeah.
1:12:09
So the next one is called A Quiet Place Part 2 and that is
1:12:13
because there is a planned Quiet Place part three and four.
1:12:20
What was? But there's a third one.
1:12:21
What's the third one? A quiet.
1:12:23
Place Day 10. OK.
1:12:27
Yeah. So still numbered, but but we're
1:12:31
going back in time for that one, whereas the next one presumably
1:12:35
is going to go forward in time. And as we mentioned earlier,
1:12:41
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1:12:44
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