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Movies: A Quiet Place
Jan. 4th, 2020 05:47 pmWatched A Quiet Place tonight. It's been out for a while, but I didn't manage to get around to it until now - saw that there's a trailer for a sequel, and figured there's no time like the present.
Interesting concept, and for the most part I liked the execution as well. The idea of monsters that are drawn to sound is pretty neat, as is silence being essential to survival. One of the central characters is Deaf, and sign language is used by all characters in the film - it's the only safe way to communicate - and I thought that was a neat change from the typical survival/apocalypse story.
I like the glimpses we get at the world here - through the newspapers, the clippings, the fire beacons. We don't know what exactly the creatures are or where they come from, but I feel like we don't need to know.
Visually, I liked it a lot - I might need to poke around and see if I can find anything on the cinematographic decisions, because whatever they did here with the filming choices, I appreciated it. Wouldn't say it's unique in this regard, but it's a very good-looking film.
The one issue that I had was that we saw too much of the monsters. That's a common complaint in horror, hardly unique to this film in particular, but there we are. Kind of have mixed feelings about that actually, because the design for the monsters (aliens?) is pretty interesting, but as a horror film it would be scarier if we got less of a good look at the monster, I think.
As for the sequel, here's the trailer: A Quiet Place 2.
Not sure what I think of it. The first film is not the kind that really needs a sequel or could benefit from one, and there are some things about it that make me suspect it might fall into some apocalypse tropes that I don't typically like... but I'm still kind of curious anyway. For me, I'll probably wait until the library gets it.
Have any of you seen the first one? Thoughts? Opinions on the sequel? I'm interested. :)
Interesting concept, and for the most part I liked the execution as well. The idea of monsters that are drawn to sound is pretty neat, as is silence being essential to survival. One of the central characters is Deaf, and sign language is used by all characters in the film - it's the only safe way to communicate - and I thought that was a neat change from the typical survival/apocalypse story.
I like the glimpses we get at the world here - through the newspapers, the clippings, the fire beacons. We don't know what exactly the creatures are or where they come from, but I feel like we don't need to know.
Visually, I liked it a lot - I might need to poke around and see if I can find anything on the cinematographic decisions, because whatever they did here with the filming choices, I appreciated it. Wouldn't say it's unique in this regard, but it's a very good-looking film.
The one issue that I had was that we saw too much of the monsters. That's a common complaint in horror, hardly unique to this film in particular, but there we are. Kind of have mixed feelings about that actually, because the design for the monsters (aliens?) is pretty interesting, but as a horror film it would be scarier if we got less of a good look at the monster, I think.
As for the sequel, here's the trailer: A Quiet Place 2.
Not sure what I think of it. The first film is not the kind that really needs a sequel or could benefit from one, and there are some things about it that make me suspect it might fall into some apocalypse tropes that I don't typically like... but I'm still kind of curious anyway. For me, I'll probably wait until the library gets it.
Have any of you seen the first one? Thoughts? Opinions on the sequel? I'm interested. :)
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