A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

I would have very much preferred ambiguity versus exposition establishing the monsters are invulnerable. EMP + zerglings is more than enough to fuck civilization beyond repair. Making it a plot point that they absolutely cannot be stopped makes their unimpressive displays in the grain silo or trying to get in to a pick up truck non-congruent.

Then you get the big reveal where they have vulnerability 50/sonic. No one tried really loudness versus the blind things with super hearing? Really?

If you just keep it to "all electronics got fried we don't know what the fuck is happening, we've got a couple rules we survive by" I think the film would have been better.

But then what is the point of the movie if the Big Bad cant be killed ?

wamphyr said:

But then what is the point of the movie if the Big Bad cant be killed ?

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We get to look at Emily Blunt for 2 hours

So this is part 2 of......7, where Krasinski directs his wife through a movie series, ala Resident Evil? I mean, Emily Blunt is clearly superior to Milla in nearly every way, but it is starting to feel like that.

I agree with all Arbitrary's points, but enjoyed the first for what it was. I thought the sacrifice at the end a little contrived for effect but I guess Krasinski didn't want to be in the sequel(s), just behind the camera.

I had to turn the first one off half way through, the suspense was too much.

I only just saw the first movie last night, liked it a lot as a film that did and covered so much in such a basic location and a single premise . Very good at ramping up the suspense.

A co-worker that I was talking to, a fan of the film also mentioned that the trailer for the sequel is out.

Having seen it now, I'm not too positive about it. It's the over-used trope of: "world order has collapsed due to 'event' , so the one's who survive are cunts"

So unless I hear really good things, I'll wait till it's on a stream.

Gamma Rays said:

I only just saw the first movie last night, liked it a lot as a film that did and covered so much in such a basic location and a single premise . Very good at ramping up the suspense.

A co-worker that I was talking to, a fan of the film also mentioned that the trailer for the sequel is out.

Having seen it now, I'm not too positive about it. It's the over-used trope of: "world order has collapsed due to 'event' , so the one's who survive are cunts"

So unless I hear really good things, I'll wait till it's on a stream.

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I hadn't even watched the trailer until you said this and yeah, it looks way less interesting than I was expecting. The flashback action scenes have a very War of the Worldsy look to them and then it looks to transition in to something inspired by McCormac's The Road. I liked both the book and movie for The Road quite a lot but "man was the real monster all along" is an ancient goddamn trope.

I'd prefer action schlock where they're carrying around a electro-static megaphone contraption and wrecking house. That's what I thought they were carrying at first too, a portable megaphone thing. Nope, just the baby. Then after blowing up a bunch of monsters they take down a group of evil survivors with science and then link up with the military setting the stage for part three where it's nonstop apocalyptic action.

I will say if that baby ends up headless on a spit a la The Road than I will consider a Red Box rental.

Not sure why that's your beef with the movie. Their whole lifestyle was trying to maintain as much of a normal family life as possible with all the shenanigans going on. Having a baby would be a part of that, and they had thoroughly prepped for the noise, just like everything else.

BoozeCube said:

The fact that they even were stupid enough to get pregnant in the first place made the first one dumb as fuck. Oh shit there are monsters who are attracted to sound, let's bring in a screaming fucking baby. Pants on head refuckingtarded.

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Good luck holding onto your load when inside Emily.

I was thinking about the sex thing too. I figure that's something you could do during a thunder storm, dem creatures aint going to hear you. Let loose and fuck like crazy.