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You know, I got to be honest, I still like this one.
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I still like it a lot. Like is what above A5?
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Like it's the average person likes it, but there's so much
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wrong with this film that I don't actually have a long list
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of what's wrong with this film. I think it works as a stand
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alone really. Like it could be its own thing,
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which it is. It is its own thing.
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We don't see Krasinski at all tenuously connected to the
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second one by like. Yeah, with with Henri, the yeah,
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Jaiman Hansu character. I guess he's in a couple of
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scenes instead of just the end. I think he's in like 3 or 4
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scenes, he shows up multiple times that are kind of
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surprising, just like why are you here again?
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But then the end on the boat, I'm like, well that makes sense.
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Yeah, yeah, trying to think of didn't really split it into X
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this time. I kind of just watched it
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because it's maybe there's a a bit more attention to dialogue
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because I think the first one worked well without dialogue for
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most of it. Like the people were signing to
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each other and that's still development.
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That's still stuff that you're reading and watching at the same
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time when you just have body language to go off of.
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I think it makes it a lot harder with this.
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If they were signing in this one, then maybe they would get
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away with less dialogue. So I don't know if I still
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understand much about the second main character.
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Eric. Eric.
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Like I'm I'm sure if it was real life, something catastrophic
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happened and you just met up with a stranger you would know
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as much as them about like who they are.
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But this is the movie. Give me more.
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I mean, Eric is the part of the movie I probably like the least.
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And like for me, this movie feels like an HR Oreo where you
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have a compliment, a negative and a compliment.
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That's what that's that's where I'm at on this movie.
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But I don't I don't want to get into it till we fully get into
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it. In fact, I might cut my whole.
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Thing no, cue the creepy music. Kick us off because cue the
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creepy music. Yeah, I think knowing it's the
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the final current act of the quiet places, I think I ended it
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actually wanting a little more. Like give me, give me one more
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day one, but make it fully dialogue to tell me, like give
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me the helicopter pilot and give me people like World War Z.
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Give me those people trying to overcome this thing instead of
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survive this thing. Hello and welcome to Potato Chip
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Pictures, the movie franchise review Podcast.
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My name is B Sammy Davis. Hello again, I am Justin.
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And today we are looking at the final movie currently in A Quiet
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Place, that franchise we have been looking at.
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We're looking at 2020 fours. A Quiet Place, Day one directed
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by Michael Sarnovsky, screenplay by Michael Sarnovsky and story
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by Michael Sarnovsky and John Krasinski, 'cause this is still
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his baby. A budget of 67,000,006 million,
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more than the last movie but the most so far, with a return of
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262 million, which is the lowest so far.
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I never memorized the numbers so I'm always waiting to see.
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I mean the most. If you if you open up this
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country. No, I like, I, I feel like an
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yes, maybe that effort is required, but also like it's a
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surprise if you were to talk to anybody that's just average
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person watching it be like, Oh, well, it cost them a lot more
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and it made them a lot less. I do think the the shine has
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worn off of it. I'm, I'm going to say $6 million
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is not a lot more. I feel like the jump from A
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Quiet Place to A Quiet Place Part 2, where A Quiet Place was
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17,000,000 and then A Quiet Place Part 2 was 61 million.
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That's a huge jump. And that one did make
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significantly less. This one was a little jump and
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only made a little less, but they are going in the wrong
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direction. If if box office return is the
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most important thing, then they're going in the wrong
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direction. But I'm going to say right off
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the bat, I like this movie. I like this movie a lot.
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I'm still into it. Why?
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Well, for me, I feel like I can relate to well, I don't know if
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I can say relate, but I certainly feel what's going on
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with our main characters much more in this one than I have in
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the previous two. In the previous two, I've always
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been frustrated with with the family, but I still found it
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compelling. Here I'm watching someone who I
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look at as a normal person who's dying.
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Yeah, you know. The right, the right motivation
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for oh, this is let's see how we ride out the end of the world
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when you're on. Absolutely.
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And Lupita Nyong'o, I believe, is.
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Is, I believe is your last. Name.
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I think she's brilliant and I think she was perfect casting
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for this movie because oh boy does she make me feel a lot of
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feelings throughout this movie. I get very sad.
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I get very hopeful. Like she really, she really
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carries this whole thing. And then I think it's got a very
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weak middle, bogged down by the other main character known as
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Eric. I feel like if I had any major
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criticism most of it is around Eric.
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But let's get into it because I am going to say the beginning
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isn't perfect. I I'm impressed that it only
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takes 10 minutes for the invasion to begin, but at the
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same time it only took like 5 minutes for the last movies day
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one. It was happening right then.
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I think those are valid points. I, I think Eric, actor wise and
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character wise was maybe more complicated to flesh out with
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just a couple of dialogue pieces here and there.
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Like I, I try to put myself in those shoes and be, oh, your,
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your family is an entire different country and you're
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just here going to school, working a job.
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Yeah. And.
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Not even doing what you want to be doing.
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Yeah, So it's I don't know what I would.
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Yeah, maybe he's supposed to be feeling the same dread.
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And what would you call it? What's the word optimistic,
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Pessimistic out view of oh, we could live through this because
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eventually he's like, yeah, yeah, you're right.
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We should go get that pizza like something to try for so that
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it's not just this is the end. If I make an A loud enough
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noise, I'm dead. Genuinely, I think the only
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connective tissue between Samira I'm looking at.
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Just like the Wikipedia to see the character names.
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I will not remember most of these characters.
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Sam. Lupita Nyong'o plays Samira.
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I think the only connective tissue between Samira and Eric
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is that they both need a service animal.
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It's just that Eric doesn't know it yet.
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The cat is the only thing that connects them and and I'll be
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honest, I I heard someone criticize the movie saying that
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Ruben the nurse probably should have been the male lead for the
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whole movie but they needed a kill so they they got a kill
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with Reuben the nurse. But I like up until he's gone.
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I'm I really agree. I think he should have been the
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whole movie with Samira. I know, I think it's a
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interesting choice to kind of swap because there's the baggage
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that Reuben would have already known everything about Sam, but
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I think that that's. Why it didn't sound right?
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I think it's compelling in that sense that they would he would
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understand and then also maybe come to grips with this.
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This is the end. There is no day 2 for most of
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these characters. Like this entire city. 2 boats
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get away and even they end up messed up in the second.
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Which I will say is my probably my third big criticism.
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My second big criticism is going to be most of the middle of the
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movie. And that's kind of the movie
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killer for me. Like, this movie would be an 8
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or a nine if it weren't for the middle of this movie.
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But then my, my, my minor criticism is that Henri told
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this story about how on the day, there were seven boats at the
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dock, but the people smell panicking.
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OK, yeah, there were 12 boats at the dock, and what, two of them
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got away? But he tells the story of the
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panic and the creatures coming in and things just going bad.
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And we didn't get to see that in this movie.
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And I think what sucks is that in my head I was like, oh, we
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are going to see it because I saw the Tom Cruise War of the
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Worlds recently and that one has a boat panic scene.
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It's so I mean that that boat panic scene is like just hopeful
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enough, like all right, they're making it to the river and then
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everything, all of the creatures are in the river and it's it's
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not, it's not freedom and escape.
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It is capture and. It is one of the best scenes in
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that movie and it's so good that I thought it was in A Quiet
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Place day one. I kept waiting for that scene
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and it never came. I think the middle is a blur for
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me 'cause it's the, well, I mean skip over the first good spot,
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but the good initial part of act one versus act.
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Yeah, let's, let's get into Act 1 so that we can get to the blur
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of Act 2, because Act one, I think, I think it sets up Sam
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really well. We get to see her hopelessness.
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We get to see her relationship with others, including Ruben,
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her nurse, who is clearly a peer.
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But she is very much aware that he is not a peer.
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But I don't think he is aware of it.
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He's like, I work with all these old people and then I've got one
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person who is my age, like, yeah, I thought I could connect
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with this person. Yeah, I can't tell exactly what
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else he plays that actor, but oh, he's the guy from
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Hereditary. OK, just the beard threw me off.
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Yeah, the beard really does change his look, but for the
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better. I think it makes him look like
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an adult. Sure, yeah, I've watched
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Hereditary, but the yeah, the pure feeling.
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I, I think I was expecting him to be the companion, the the
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survivor because I was questioning myself when I was
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watching it. Like this guy has a beard and I
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felt like the main guy on the poster was this guy from like
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Stranger Things and whatnot. So eventually he shows up.
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I think I one amazing part that I like that kind of has a
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drawback is the helicopters telling everyone to be quiet and
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shelter in place. The main character, Sam, goes to
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chase after a cat and they make noise and like a creature barges
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in. The helicopter flying overhead
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kind of saves them and we see a Stampede of these creatures,
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which makes so much sense in the they follow loud things and then
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that that is a great feeling of they're chasing something.
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Who knows if they can reach a helicopter, but our characters
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are going to be out of danger. Exactly, as long as the
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helicopters are there, we are relatively safe.
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But I, I got to go backwards a little bit and say I absolutely
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love the impact when it's just meteors falling to the the
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earth, that it's like explosions and there's chaos and confusion.
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And then we see the immediate aftermath with all the dust and
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people screaming and then just disappearing.
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Like I thought this was a brilliant way to introduce our
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monsters. If you've watched the 1st 2
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movies, you know what what has happened, but if you're coming
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in here as a new audience member, what a way to introduce
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the creature. Oh man.
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I think it works better if you are brand new to it because like
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the behavior kind of feels like it changes.
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Like they were never sneaky and grabbing people.
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They were like charging headlong and slashing people.
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So it's a little different, but I'm.
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Going to say in the last movie we didn't get to see any
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impacts, we only got to see them in their charging phase.
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I'm going to say the impact with the earth probably stunned them.
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So I'm willing to accept a more lethargic or sneaky way of
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capturing things. But there's also so much smoke
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that we don't really see what's happening until it starts to
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clear. Yeah, they could have been hit
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from the side or something. Yeah, so I for me personally, 10
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out of 10 on the impact and the introduction to the creatures.
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I just love that chaos. I love, I love being in the
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middle of it there. I remember in the 90s, there
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were so many disaster movies that seemed to cut away from the
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disaster. And I was like, I want to see it
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like keep the camera rolling. Something's happening.
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And this one did it for us, so. Yeah, that's mostly the theater,
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because then they hear, she goes back in and hears a radio like
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giving coordinates I guess for the.
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Yeah, someone's someone's got headphones.
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It's the dumbest jump scare. It's it's Anri's wife.
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And then I think it's Sam who comes up behind her and she
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freaks out. And I'm like, do you think these
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creatures are going to tap you? And furthermore, do you think
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jumping is going to be a safe move?
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Just frightened. I didn't realize that was Andres
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wife really. It's the same lady that's in the
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theatre with them. Oh man, I also love the puppet
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show. Oh my gosh, I got emotional
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watching the puppet show. I I also did it does it does
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give her a beat of character just before the crisis falls.
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So it's like even before aliens are here, she's she's got a
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struggle and it's like, oh, flying then then just plummeting
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to your death. Or, I mean, it's not, it's not
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exactly that, but a little pops and.
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We later learned she was, you know, a rising star in the world
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of poetry. She's a published author.
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And then she gets terminal cancer.
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Like, it does feel like a pretty strong metaphor.
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But yeah, it it was a beautiful, quiet moment that really
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impacted me in in a surprising way, But eventually.
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So Sam stays at the theater for a long time and I'm sitting here
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thinking about it. And the first act is really
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mostly in the theater. Like, you've got obviously the
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opening sequences and you got the outdoors with the invasion,
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and then they spend all that time in the theater until that
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freaking generator turns on. Yeah, I don't remember if they
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talk at all. I feel like they do communicate
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a little bit. Oh, she writes on paper saying
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that I'm going for pizza and. Yep.
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But no, don't worry, I'm going for pizza.
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Like, it makes sense. She's this is the last stop on
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the train. She I think is so very valid to
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like, even if you weren't on Hospice, it's like the the
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running away from these aliens that seem just so overpowered.
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Yeah, would be like the drive to stay alive.
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But also man. Can't imagine.
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Yeah, I find her character so fascinating because she in her
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eyes, and she said it in a really beautiful poem later on
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in this movie that like, she's dead.
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She's always been told she has this amount of time to live and
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she's at it. She is at the end.
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And like for her, yes the aliens are scary and she does try to
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survive for a while, but after the the scene with the crowd, I
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I don't know if if she has any more hope in her.
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I think she only stays alive to help helpless people, you know?
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Yeah, 'cause she. Helps two of them.
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The generator we kind of already said that Reuben turns it off,
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but I don't think we said that Reuben gets killed by a creature
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that's hanging out waiting to grab him like an alien from.
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Well, and that's the thing, I don't think it is hanging out.
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I think it's charging and he rips his shirt and like doesn't
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move. I'm so frustrated because like
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he should have immediately started moving towards the door
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or moving in some direction just not being where he was when the
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noise was made. So he goes out like a chump.
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I don't. I don't like it.
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I don't like it at all. I can stand by that, I think.
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Yeah, I'm trying to trying to find when the when the well
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happens. So there's the fountain, not the
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well with the little kids. And then there's the OK, so she
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leaves. They I got to get them.
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My plot is straight. They have the rooftop scene
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where they watch the bridges get blown up.
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Henri kills a dude for panicking, because screw that
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dude for panicking. I mean, he was probably going to
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get him killed if he kept panicking, but yeah, that's
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rough. Like, Oh yeah, that's.
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That's another brutal scene. Then we get the generator and
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then she decides to leave and we get to the fountain.
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And it she gets some Food First, because then she has food to the
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fountain. I like the kids, but I don't
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like that she is directly underneath the helicopters when
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they start going through. Yeah, you just showed us that
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the bad guys will chase the helicopters.
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Yes. So she's got to get away.
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We've got some tension going on. She does get away and then we
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get to the the death. Watch Yeah.
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Yes, and it might be my favorite part of the opening.
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Well, I I'm, I don't even know if I would say maybe this is the
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end of act one, but it feels hard to say that there are acts
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in this movie. You know what I mean?
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Yeah, yeah, 'cause I think this would start the second act.
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I would say just 'cause it. We're about to get Eric, but.
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And maybe I'm just I'm so bitter about Eric, I want to call him
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the start of the second act. But I think I think you would
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you make a a strong. I think this should be the start
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of the second act, the March to safety where?
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To somewhere like I assume that that like, do we hear they're
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supposed to go to somewhere? Yeah, they're heading South to
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the docks to get on the boats. That was what the helicopter
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told us as it was flying overhead.
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They were like, we are flying north so we can draw the
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monsters away. You go South, get to the docks.
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We're going to try to keep as many of them chasing us as
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possible. Maybe you should have gotten
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more helicopters to do that. Yes, it seems like you.
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Probably should have done this in waves, but it's a striking
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image. I don't know if I love the idea
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of Sam walking in the middle of the crowd against the flow of
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traffic. Like, I get it, you want the the
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image for the camera, but that's not practical.
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Like that's not what I would do as a human being.
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I would go as far to the outside of the crowd and then make my
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way N you know, but it looks good on camera.
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I think it's, I didn't really clock it as needing to be
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different, but yeah, logically it would be easier to get
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through a crowd on the sides I assume.
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Yeah, I don't know. I I haven't tried to go against
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a crowd for a. Like honestly, if you just
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stayed in one spot, wouldn't you also be quieter and let people
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go around you? You won't be going anywhere but.
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More likely to make noise if you're walking against the
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crowd. I'll be like, shouldn't you just
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feel like if you start panicking and you're already heading
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South, you would keep heading South mostly?
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Yeah, and clearly none of these people Red Dune, because they're
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they're all walking rhythmically and eventually enough people
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making that much noise draws some of the aliens in.
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And I love it. It's it's mayhem, it's
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devastation. I think they do go back to the
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regular amount of blood everywhere.
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Like it's it feels more like a horror movie.
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So when you can see the monster, it kind of doesn't do as much,
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but you see the results and consequences of being cut then
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OK. See, there is one crystal clear
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kill that I think is so effective.
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And it's like right after the Stampede, there's this lady in
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the middle of the street screaming for some person, and
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then an alien charges at her and Spears her with his arm.
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And it's so gruesome, but at the same time, it's so great.
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Sam gets separated from the cat, Frodo, and the camera decides to
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follow Frodo because we got to meet my least favorite character
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of the movie, the one who's going to be responsible for, for
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me, the worst part of the movie. Like, I just don't love most of
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this middle. I just don't like it as much.
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I think yeah, I would. I would agree.
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I think it at least it follows them on their journey.
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I think there's a couple of high points of screaming with the
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lightning makes. Sense Yeah, the apartment is the
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high point for. Sure.
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Yeah. And I kind of feel like I want
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more back story of coming out of a flooded subway like.
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Yes, Oh my gosh, his introduction.
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Because floating out of a subway like where are you the only
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person making it out of there? Should there be more bodies in
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this water? Is that too much?
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Why is? It flooded.
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Why was he in there when it was flooded?
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I was just thinking like the asteroids maybe hit something
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but like to flood a subway I feel like that would take like
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water on top of the ground as well as water underground to.
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And especially because later on we're going to go into the
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subways and they are not flooded.
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But I don't know the topography of New York Island.
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So I don't know if maybe like the middle of the island is
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higher up in elevation. I don't know.
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I'm very confused about the flooded subway.
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I think it's a traumatic almost dying way to introduce him where
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if he had just been climbing out of a subway and like he wouldn't
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have seen the cat and bond with the cat in that moment to make.
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It I also realized that we get a foreshadowing of his panic in
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the water because he is breathing quickly and
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desperately trying to get away. I was just annoyed at how much
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noise he was making without any consequence.
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Yeah, the varying levels of the creatures having good hearing in
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this one. Shirt tearing running after it.
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They've got sniper precision with a shirt tear, but somehow
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Eric gets to be noisy for so much of this movie and no one
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cares. I like that they at least tried
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to cover it in the beginning where they're talking behind a
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sheet of rain and it's like, OK, like that's that's fine.
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If it was raining and loud, the creatures that can only hear
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things would not really hear you.
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OK. They go back to her apartment
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first, right? Because he eventually.
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Yeah. I want to go with.
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You she tries to get rid of Eric.
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She's like, go South, don't go with me.
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But he's like, no, I'm I'm going with you.
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The cat told me to, I guess. Essentially, yes.
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So he's doing his thing, which is just following her around and
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I'm not bothered by that so much.
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And it does lead us to the apartment, which like you said,
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really was the standout quiet moment of this middle area.
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We could finally got to see more about Sam.
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We get to learn a little bit about her.
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Hear that heart wrenching poem. Oh, my gosh, You guys got to
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understand, I don't like poetry. And that poem wrecked me.
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But yeah, she doesn't have any of her medication and her pain
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medication is wearing off quickly.
31:30
I don't know how they get to the church because I know they leave
31:34
the apartment. The church is at the end of the
31:42
flooded subway because there's a hole that they crawl out of.
31:46
But I curious, these people, I feel like there's other people
31:50
in that church. Are they all dead?
31:53
Are they all quiet? They're all quiet.
31:58
They better be. I had almost completely blocked
32:02
out the subway sequence from my brain.
32:05
They get chased in above ground into the subway.
32:10
They get through the subway because there's another bad guy
32:14
in there, and they get out of there because those creatures
32:17
can't swim and they don't know how to not breathe in water.
32:21
Yep. I of that whole sequence, the
32:25
best thing was the dormant alien.
32:31
I know, I know that the Internet calls them death angels, but
32:34
nowhere in the text are they called that.
32:38
So I'm always going to call them the aliens.
32:41
Yeah. I don't know where death angels
32:43
necessarily comes from. I mean.
32:46
Yeah. If we want to start talking
32:49
about the text, I would be curious to see other people's
32:54
attempts to maybe dress it up a bit more instead of just a
32:58
monster movie. Like, what is it like not being
33:03
able to speak for fear of a monster just come in and killing
33:06
you outright? Like does that have any mirrors
33:11
in today? Is that a like, is this a
33:14
allegory for something? You could maybe make the the
33:17
suggestion, but just as a typical monster movie.
33:24
I don't know that Mindy called death Angels.
33:27
Like why angels? That makes no sense.
33:34
I don't get it. It's like the death part makes
33:37
sense. They bring death, but why
33:39
angels? Because they don't have wings,
33:42
they don't have Halos like they don't have 1000 eyes like the
33:47
biblical description of an Angel.
33:50
Why? Don't know.
33:54
Yeah, so I'm always going to call them aliens.
33:57
And I do really like the one that's dormant because it makes
34:04
sense to me. Like maybe it was panicking
34:06
about the water. It found a high up space, but
34:10
then it couldn't go anywhere. And so it's just now they're
34:14
like, what's it going to do? Yeah, that could make sense.
34:18
It's I don't know. How it it at least looks cool?
34:23
Where you're saying here's a a peek into the psyche of an
34:27
alien. I think that kind of flows a
34:30
little bit with the end of the second act where Eric is getting
34:36
Frodo from like a nesting ground for these creatures.
34:40
Well, Eric goes on a solo mission to get medicine.
34:45
It's a it's a valiant thing to do, but yes, it leads us to Eric
34:52
deciding that he needs to rescue Frodo, who has famously
34:57
demonstrated absolutely no need for human rescue or
35:03
intervention. But he believes he has to rescue
35:07
the cat. And he finds himself in a, yeah,
35:10
like in a totally alien world within New York City.
35:17
Oh, and I hate this sequence. I hate it so much.
35:20
And I I should like it because, like you said, it's giving us a
35:24
peek into their back story, or at least, you know, their
35:29
ecology and how these things live.
35:32
Clearly they aren't eating people, but they're using people
35:36
to grow their food. But for real, I there was just
35:42
little chunks in the ground. I wasn't sure if that was people
35:45
or if that was just like mushrooms.
35:50
See, and that's what I I'm getting the fact that well, I'm
35:54
getting my statement that it's people because of the red goo at
35:59
the bottom, but I don't know if we know where that red goo comes
36:03
from. And the mushroom things
36:06
definitely don't have people inside of them.
36:08
They're just like completely alien growths that are near this
36:14
red goo, and the red goo looked like Victor Von Ooze's goo from
36:23
the first Power Rangers movie. Yeah.
36:28
Yeah. So I, I don't know where that
36:30
came from. I heard people saying that that
36:32
was the result of the aliens killing people.
36:36
They were then turning them into the pink goo or feeding them to
36:39
the pink goo. And the pink goo feeds the alien
36:43
mushrooms, and the mushrooms feed the aliens themselves.
36:47
It's a was. There a smile alien there or no
36:50
smile alien. I'm curious.
36:54
Yeah. I don't know.
36:56
I don't. Remember.
36:56
Because there was definitely a big.
36:58
One yeah, that can be 1 foot away from a breathing human and
37:02
not hear them. Yes, a human making so much
37:07
noise on that freaking metal beam.
37:12
The tension of this scene doesn't work in the least.
37:16
It's like you feel like you know he's going to get away, which
37:21
makes it Oh yeah, blah. It's so weak.
37:28
I oh, it's so weak. I just don't like it at all and
37:33
it sucks because it it's the first time we've seen anything
37:38
about the aliens that would give us lore or history or anything
37:45
like that and I hate it. Oh boy do I hate it.
37:48
So 0 out of 10 for that little sequence.
37:53
Gets proto we some. We presume that he finds the
37:58
medicine that is needed. Yeah, like I said, the medicine
38:02
trip Valiant. And had they written a different
38:05
conflict for him, I probably would have liked the character
38:09
of Eric a whole lot more. But instead it was this
38:12
sequence. And then it doesn't even
38:15
resolve. It's just that the alien stops
38:18
looking for him. And I think shortly after that,
38:21
we cut to him returning to the church.
38:24
And it's like, how did he get down?
38:27
How did he get out of the mushroom area?
38:32
Yeah, even Wikipedia is like, oh.
38:34
He discovers a group of creatures, led by a larger one,
38:38
feeding down the remains of an organic egg like Pod.
38:42
Next sentence, Sam tells Eric that as a child, she used to
38:45
watch her late father's face. She asked and cut and seen.
38:50
Goof. Well, the fan wiki is even worse
38:53
because it just says along the way Eric gets Sam Sam's
38:58
medication from her or for her from a nearby pharmacy.
39:02
Sam then tells Eric that she watched her late father play
39:06
Jazz. And like they don't even talk
39:08
about that sequence. They're like, let's just forget
39:11
that that happened. Doesn't impact the story, maybe
39:15
it impacts the franchise, whatever.
39:18
Maybe. Day 2 will be like I.
39:22
Except this movie goes all the way to day four.
39:26
They have multiple days in this day one movie.
39:31
Whatever. Whatever.
39:33
They have to get somewhere. But I think kind of like Star
39:40
Wars. I just wouldn't mind something a
39:43
little different not to be jumping to conclusions Like give
39:51
me give me World War Z on day one.
39:54
Like I want to know if they find out that it's safe on water.
40:00
OK, that that's exactly what the zombies in that movie did.
40:06
Like let's go on a boat and stay safe from the zombies.
40:10
There's problems. But hey, we can talk like
40:13
normal. Exactly.
40:14
We don't have to be silenced. And who knows, maybe Part 3 will
40:19
show the little girl getting picked up by the military that's
40:24
been out to sea. Yeah, I don't know.
40:27
I think that would be the correct step for it.
40:32
You're ready for it to turn into an action franchise and.
40:36
Yeah, yeah, yes. And I think you are right to do
40:42
so because frankly, in my head, it peaked as a horror franchise
40:48
in this movie. I feel like this movie had more
40:51
tension than the last one, which had more tension than the last
40:55
one. And I feel like this one
40:58
actually tried to give us jump scares that legitimately got the
41:03
audience to go and make noise. And anytime you shout or make
41:07
noise in this particular franchise, you laugh a little
41:12
bit because you're like, oh, I would have died.
41:15
I'm dead in the apocalypse. But we I agree, we are kind of
41:20
played out of that. This movie was a pretty good
41:22
capstone for a Quiet Place as a horror franchise.
41:27
Let's turn it into a sci-fi action franchise.
41:30
You know I'm ready for that. Yeah, I want to know more about
41:34
the aliens maybe. And I get that movies without
41:41
people don't they can be cool action movies, but that we are
41:46
being sold the story of Sam the not surviving.
41:53
Like, yeah, she. Well, there is the action
42:00
sequence where they're getting he's trying to get to the boat
42:03
and she sacrifices herself to get in there.
42:06
Let's get there. It's exciting.
42:07
I like it. I agree.
42:10
They they make it to Patsy's that she can't get inside.
42:15
Yeah, that's, I guess they find pizza at a different place.
42:20
So they eat the pizza at a different place.
42:22
They have a very cute moment. And that is finally what
42:26
convinces Sam to go South, if not for herself, at least to
42:32
help Eric get away. And I'll be honest, the movie
42:38
wins me back when they get to Patsy's and they have their
42:42
quiet moment of celebration together.
42:45
They have their three or four day old pizza together.
42:51
I'd say 3. And you know what?
42:55
Well I haven't eaten countertop out pizza for that long, but
42:59
I've eaten fridge pizza 3 days. Yeah, fridge pizza for sure, but
43:05
I don't think I would touch four day old counter pizza.
43:10
Maybe there was one in the fridge, I don't know.
43:14
I mean, Sam, I can justify her eating this terrible pizza
43:20
because she's dying anyway, But Eric, I am painfully aware of
43:25
everything that goes into his mouth, whether that's Subway
43:29
water or four day old pizza. Yeah.
43:33
Oh, I feel like you'd be toxic coming out of subway water.
43:36
That would, yeah, pick up. Everything you know it is it's
43:41
AI. It's a beautiful scene
43:42
nonetheless. I really do enjoy the magic show
43:48
I'm this is not a romantic relationship between these two
43:53
characters, and yet it is one of the strongest relationships
43:57
we've had in movies in a long time.
44:00
Oh man do I buy it by the end. Yeah, 'cause I, I feel like, I
44:06
feel it when she's, she's watching them make it the jump.
44:10
Like he's getting chased by 50 monsters and I love how they're
44:15
converging to the only place he can jump.
44:18
So like perfect, perfect direction.
44:21
They, they, they'll, he manages to leap far enough to escape,
44:27
but she gets to watch him because yeah, I mean, if you're
44:30
just quiet and they're focused on something else, like, yeah,
44:33
like that works logically. Just gotta watch out.
44:36
One doesn't run into you from behind by accident.
44:41
Yeah, oh boy, It it was a pretty intense scene watching these
44:46
creatures that are significantly faster than people.
44:50
My only complaint is that they heard that can and well, I guess
44:55
it makes sense. She threw the crowbar away and
44:58
hid, so she was done making noise.
45:04
It's just strange that that little can that he kicked was
45:09
enough for them to hear him and come running back.
45:13
Yeah. But yeah, I'm willing to allow
45:17
it to. Yeah, it looks cool.
45:20
And things that look cool when that's like the D&D rules you.
45:25
Just got to let it happen if it's going to be cool.
45:28
If it's not going to be cool, you got to stop it.
45:32
I really like the image of like 3 or 4 aliens reaching after
45:40
Eric as he's leaping off the dock.
45:45
It's a great image to cap off that sequence.
45:51
And I love that Eric and the cat get to the boat.
45:57
I love that Eric has Sam's cardigan sweater.
46:02
I love that Anri is the one to greet him and he's just cool
46:06
with it. He's like, I've seen that
46:07
sweater. I've seen that cat.
46:09
Are you OK? Like, I would probably be like,
46:13
wait a minute, did you kill that Lady?
46:17
Oh yeah, I enjoy that, that beginning to end because
46:22
they've, they, I don't know if they talk while they're in the
46:26
because they try not to talk, but I felt like they
46:29
communicated a little bit at Patsy's, even though it's
46:33
burned. Out.
46:33
They might have had some whispered conversations, they
46:36
might have written things down. But we know what's going on at
46:39
Patsy's, and we know what's going on with everything else.
46:42
But now Sam is finally alone. She's had her pizza.
46:47
She's rescued 3 people. She rescued two children and
46:52
Eric. Oh, and a cat.
46:54
Like she's rescued 4 living things in the apocalypse.
47:00
That averages to 1 per day. Yeah, did a good.
47:05
Job and then Yep, and she's ready to retire, as it were.
47:12
And I the one and only licensed song of this movie that I can
47:17
remember is Feeling Good by Nina Simone.
47:20
There might be others, but I can't remember them because they
47:23
don't stand out as much as that. That song I'm gonna stood out
47:28
song. Yeah, I have to have to listen
47:30
to it again because I think I was mostly watching to be like,
47:35
well, what is what is her thing? Because she's she's, I would say
47:40
coming to terms with unplugging her thing gonna leave the the
47:48
pizza place wherever she's hanging out and looking at the
47:52
picture of her father. Like that's a I feel like that
47:58
is a great termination of the arc.
48:02
Like every character's going somewhere.
48:08
We get Eric starts off kind of understanding that this lady's
48:13
going to a pizza place in the end of the world.
48:15
And he's like, yeah, I don't want to be alone.
48:17
Let me come because, you know, maybe it just ends at the pizza
48:21
place. But now he's rescued, he's got a
48:24
cat, and he'll eventually get a note from Sam.
48:29
Sam starts off with her. That's why the narration is
48:33
there, because of the note. She, she starts off mad and
48:39
devastated and on Hospice and she gets to get her pizza that
48:45
she gave up her tranquillity to go get initially.
48:49
And mm, hmm, she gets it and she gets to see a picture, a
48:56
personal picture and walk out into the street to end things
49:02
her way. And it's, I feel like the two
49:04
main characters get somewhere else than where they were.
49:10
And I think it's been step by step.
49:17
We've made it there with them. I loved it.
49:24
I think this is one of the strongest endings the franchise
49:27
has ever given us. I think this is the best ending
49:31
the franchise has given us. How?
49:35
Does the second one end? Well the so the first 2 ended
49:38
with and now we're going to fight the aliens and save the
49:42
world. Oh yeah, the the first one was
49:44
the mom shooting and then the second one where this was the
49:47
two kids saving the day. Oh yes.
49:52
And this one ends with Sam unplugging her speakers to start
49:58
making noise and a alien landing nearby.
50:03
And then we cut to credits. We know she's dead.
50:07
If she shows up in this franchise again, I'm going to be
50:11
angry. I do think I of the ways that
50:15
it's been portrayed as a sacrificing your life or ending
50:19
your life in this franchise. I didn't love the screams in the
50:24
first one like I think I get I get the old man scream.
50:28
I don't like the dad sacrificing himself for the kids, kind of,
50:34
but maybe the scream just kind of took me out of it.
50:38
Yeah, it's not the best movie scream.
50:41
Thematically it makes sense, but it's just a bad scream.
50:44
This one is This 1 is a decision by the character to just attract
50:50
the monsters and and be done. Yep, it she knows it's going to
50:57
be quick. It might be painful, but she's
50:59
been living with pain for months, so quick and sudden pain
51:06
is probably preferable to a slow, debilitating pain.
51:12
So yeah, I'll agree with you. It's a stronger ending than the
51:16
other ones because the nobody's heading off to fight the
51:20
monsters. They have escaped the monsters.
51:23
Sometimes it's hopeful when you're going to fight the
51:25
monsters, but I think this one was a nice change of pace.
51:31
I agree. I think it's it was a strong
51:39
ending. I think I think this movie has
51:43
some really incredible moments and then a couple of really
51:48
terrible moments. But for me, I I still love this
51:54
movie. I genuinely think this, this is
51:58
one of those really great prequels that comes along once
52:03
in a while and you're like, oh wow, I didn't know they had that
52:06
in them. Because it's has nothing to do
52:09
with the original movie. Like, yeah, that family had
52:13
their thing. This is a different person in
52:16
the same crisis getting somewhere else.
52:19
Exactly, and that might also be why I liked it.
52:22
It was refreshing to to see a different side of the world.
52:28
Don't have to worry about a baby crying or a preteen teenager
52:34
crying. Yeah, a panicking child.
52:38
I mean, we have some panicking people, but it's OK if we crush
52:41
their head against the wall. That was brutal.
52:45
It was very brutal. Nonetheless.
52:48
On this podcast, we do ratings, not grades.
52:52
The primary difference is where you find the average in a grade.
52:56
You want to say A7 out of 10 is the average, and therefore you
52:59
kind of raise the scores of lower things to kind of get them
53:04
up towards that average. But we say no, A5 out of 10 is
53:09
the middle. That's the average.
53:11
That's the average. And so that's what a rating is.
53:14
We're going to say if a movie is 5 out of 10, that doesn't mean
53:18
it's bad, Doesn't mean it's good either.
53:20
It just means it's right in the middle.
53:21
Below 5 is usually where you find what we think are bad
53:26
movies, and above that is where we find the good movies.
53:28
So with that said Justin, what would you rate this movie on a
53:33
scale of 1 to 10? I think it's tough to the
53:41
average is harder to keep simple when what's the word?
53:51
There's 2 characters in this movie.
53:53
The rest of them, like unfortunately, like they just
53:59
don't matter. And Sam has this is the story of
54:09
her life and her end being interrupted by an alien
54:13
invasion. We still get her life and her
54:18
end regardless of like, if this invasion hadn't happened, I
54:24
think we still would have seen the balloon marionette and
54:28
gotten her pizza. And I think she still would have
54:31
cried the way she cried over pictures of her dad.
54:34
And who knows what happens at the end of that because when he
54:38
invited her, she was like, if I live that long, I feel like she
54:43
already feels like she's not long for the world.
54:47
With all of that being great and a character that stays
54:55
consistent in the midst of the crisis.
54:59
I love it. Like, great.
55:02
We kind of just get a hanging on character in Eric that kind of
55:10
pulls it back down. I wouldn't say by his acting,
55:15
just by maybe the writing and the motivation.
55:21
I don't know that I the arc of him escaping the subway.
55:28
Like, I don't, I don't really like he could just be in the
55:31
subway for any number of reasons, but he's just kind of
55:36
here in this moment and he gets to survive this moment.
55:43
I don't feel like it's as much stuff for 50% of the characters
55:51
in this movie. He needed more.
55:55
That's what I would say. She makes it a better movie than
56:01
he makes it a worse movie, like in the Balance.
56:04
So it is above average. I will go with 6 1/2.
56:09
I don't know if that's the highest marks I've given this
56:11
franchise or not. You gave the first movie a 7.5.
56:18
OK. That was your highest, that was
56:21
where you were at your peak, and then you gave the last one A5.
56:28
This one gets closer to that one like I think putting it between
56:32
the two, yes. I don't, I don't know that I put
56:37
it higher by the other one just because the impact of the
56:39
original story where you don't have as much baggage.
56:42
I like that this, like this one, is refreshing for it to be doing
56:46
its own thing and makes it closer to 7 1/2.
56:54
Yeah, but I'll stick with what I said and 6 1/2.
57:00
You said what you said. Yeah, you're sticking with it.
57:04
I don't want to be like renegotiating my my measures of
57:11
the previous of the franchise like, oh, this is a 7 when I saw
57:15
it, like, yeah, this one could be better than that, but I'm
57:22
good. I I'm at an 8 same as the last
57:30
one. In fact, I almost feel no, I'm
57:33
changing it back. I'm A7, I'm a seven.
57:36
I've I wanted to be an 8. I can't be an 8 That that that
57:41
mushroom sequence. Like, anytime I want to bring
57:45
this movie up to an 8, I remember, yes, that mushroom
57:52
sequence makes me so angry for how dumb it is that it.
57:58
So I've got to be at A7. I'm staying at A7.
58:02
I I think this movie does some things so well.
58:07
I think this movie is so good and the whole franchise is worth
58:12
checking out. I This movie just angers me so
58:19
much in the middle. And it really is because of
58:23
Eric. Like, gets the medication
58:26
somehow. Yeah, if, and we can't really
58:30
cut Eric because he's critical to the movie.
58:33
I just feel like I had connected with Ruben already, the nurse,
58:38
and so to replace him with a lesser character just kind of
58:45
irks at me. And then on top of that, Eric is
58:48
the leading factor of going into the feeding grounds, the nesting
58:54
area. I don't know what it is.
58:57
It gets called different things by different people.
59:00
It's an eating place. Some people have even Yeah, it's
59:03
mostly a feeding place and and some people have made full
59:06
videos just analyzing that feeding area and I hate it so
59:11
much. It's the lowest point in the
59:15
movie for me. It is the part that really
59:18
bothers me in in. This movie, yes, and here I am
59:22
asking for it. Tell me more in the next movie
59:25
about what's what's discovered. Maybe I just really like World
59:30
War Z. Yeah, and I'm.
59:32
I am with you. I'm a sucker for lore.
59:35
I'm AI Would love to know more about these aliens where they
59:41
come from, why they are here anything.
59:45
It would be fantastic. So I should I should love this
59:49
feeding ground for giving me even a small amount of back
59:55
story, as it were. It's just so out of place for
59:59
the rest of the movie and it's it's what keeps this movie from
1:00:02
going up to an 8. I'm I'm sticking with A7.
1:00:05
I'm I'm there. And with that, that gives us an
1:00:10
average of 6.75, which is. Right in the middle of these two
1:00:17
movies or of the previous two movies.
1:00:21
And I think that's fair. Personally.
1:00:23
I I genuinely do think there's I don't know, this is a good
1:00:29
franchise and we'll get to it next week in the wrap up.
1:00:32
But I yeah, I am interested in talking about all that.
1:00:37
And Speaking of next week, obviously because there is no
1:00:42
Part 3 in the main franchise yet, we are going to do kind of
1:00:48
the the wrap up of the franchise as it stands.
1:00:53
But we're not going to do future wrap UPS like when parts 3 and 4
1:00:58
come out. I don't think maybe we can do
1:01:00
one if there's after part 4 but I don't want to do Part 3 plus
1:01:06
wrap up episode that. Makes sense.
1:01:09
That's a good call. Yeah.
1:01:12
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But you know, I don't, I don't want to, I don't want to force
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people to do anything. Right?
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Exactly. And I can't think of anything
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else to say. So I guess until next week, shut
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up. Goodbye I.
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Feel like I said that alone. Yeah, you did.
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I was not focused, just aliens.
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I mean, I'm sure I would get the explanation in part three.
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If they do it the way I want to do it, they're called Death
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Angels because they actually hit one of The Jets from the Blue
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Angels first and then we just decided to run with it.
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When we saw them on the satellites they they made a a
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Halo like effect with the sun. So we we called them angels and
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then when they started killing everything.
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We would tear that apart. We would hate that.
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But I'm like please can I just know more?