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A Quiet Place Review

What I liked: This is a solid monster movie. So if you have been looking for the next Creature from the Black Lagoon, where it takes the super fast, super perceptive, super strong monster an hour and a half to eat three people and a raccoon, look no further. This film does an excellent job of playing on stress. The best comparison I can make is to a syllabus. You know exactly what is coming and exactly how it will happen, but you have no choice but wait the entire semester for it to happen. This makes normal things, like going up and down stairs, stressful. It also makes you wish the monsters would just hurry up already. Because the monsters have highly acute hearing the main characters communicate predominantly in sign language. The actress who plays the deaf daughter is actually deaf which is pretty cool. Several parents I know will feel vindicated to learn that noisy toys are the ultimate downfall in the movie. You have been right all along. Similarly, I have spent enough time on video calls to suspect that the monsters' weakness may be universal.

What I didn't: I am left with several important questions after watching this movie. If you have a sound proof basement why wouldn't you live in it all the time? Why not just set up a perimeter of wind chimes and totally confuse the monsters? We see the monsters being monsterous and very active in day and night, do the monsters sleep? Where did the monsters come from? They are blind with super good hearing, this suggests they came out of a cave. But they are also huge, which usually doesn't work great in caves. Maybe this is the aftermath of Journey to the Center of the Earth. I also feel like there are enough noisy things that are not edible that maybe the monsters would die from eating trains or at least learn to distinguish between loud not delicious things and less loud delicious things. Does each country only have one Ham radio station, I was under the impression that there were more. Does corn really work like quicksand?

Who should watch this? People not stressing about finals who wish they were. People who like monsters or post-apocalyptic scenarios.

Would I watch it again? It is very different so it was good to see what people have been talking about, but monster movies aren't my genre, so once was enough.
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  1. Sarah ChowMay 8, 2018 at 1:09 PM

    I frequently wish I were stressing about finals. At last there's a movie to do that for me! Or my nightmares.

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