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A QUIET PLACE (2018)

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Frayed Knot Sep 01 2018 06:38 PM

The aliens have shown up and they're not at all nice. The good news is that they're blind. The bad is that they hunt by sound and they're very good at it. ' They're fast, they're vicious, and they'll rip your lungs out, Jim. So one has to be vewy, vewy, qwiet. Fortunately the featured family in this film knows sign language due to having a deaf daughter. But, as you can imagine, it's not so easy to raise young children under those circumstances. Y'know what's even tougher? Giving birth under those circumstances! John Krasinski and Emily Blunt stretch their skills to play a married couple. Basically the movie is them, couple of young 'uns, and a few ugly lookin' critters. In English and Sign Language with English subtitles, although the amount of dialog in this one makes JEREMIAH JOHNSON sound downright chatty. 90 minutes

Vic Sage Sep 11 2018 08:43 AM Re: A QUIET PLACE (2018)

i don't usually watch horror films, but this one sounded unique so i gave it a try. I'm glad i did. For a largely dialogue-free movie, the use of sound is powerful. and Emily Blunt is ALWAYS a good idea. I'm not familiar with Kraczinski (i didn't watch THE OFFICE), but i thought he gave a strong performance, too. kid actors are kid actors. I liked the post-apocalyptic premise, though it has some logical leaps that films of this type often have, but it was successful, overall, in creating a world and depicting a family surviving in that world. So successful, in fact, that there is a scene with a nail protruding from a basement stair while a barefoot pregnant woman is running away from aliens that made me leave the room. It reminded me of INTO THE FOREST (2015), where Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood (in her pre-Westworld days) are sisters surviving in a family cabin off the grid when the world loses power. That was a more interesting film, in that it didn't feel the need to define the cause of the energy loss or introduce SF elements like aliens; when these young women are left in a powerless world, the natural predators are men. But given its limitations, QUIET PLACE is eerie, unsettling and evocative.

Frayed Knot Sep 11 2018 01:28 PM Re: A QUIET PLACE (2018)

i don't usually watch horror films, but this one sounded unique so i gave it a try. -- Yup I'm glad i did. -- Yup

Edgy MD Sep 11 2018 02:42 PM Re: A QUIET PLACE (2018)

I'd totally get myself and my family killed with an ill-timed fart.

Vic Sage Sep 13 2018 01:55 PM Re: A QUIET PLACE (2018)

Edgy MD wrote: I'd totally get myself and my family killed with an ill-timed fart. what constitutes a WELL-timed fart?

Benjamin Grimm Sep 13 2018 02:01 PM Re: A QUIET PLACE (2018)

One that goes undetected, I guess. Is this a horror film? I haven't seen it yet, but I had the impression it was more sci-fi than horror.

Frayed Knot Sep 13 2018 02:43 PM Re: A QUIET PLACE (2018)

I guess you could label it a sci-fi film since it involves aliens and a post-apocalyptic near-future. But that's mostly just the set-up; the plot plays out more like a horror flick: Are they in the house? ... will this maneuver buy us some time? ... How can they be killed?...

Edgy MD Sep 13 2018 09:19 PM Re: A QUIET PLACE (2018)

Vic Sage wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'd totally get myself and my family killed with an ill-timed fart. what constitutes a WELL-timed fart? Oh, your life has only been half-lived.