A Quiet Place: Day One

Agent Coulson

Trailer just dropped..

Discover why our world went quiet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPY7J-flzE8

crushproof

Now that looks like my kind of movie.

pixelburp

Oh wow they're really gonna try and grind this idea into the dirt, eh?

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121736647#Comment_121736647

Ya I wasn't entirely sold on the second one one if I'm honest.

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121736647#Comment_121736647

A prequel looks interesting here

aidanodr

Of course ( for those who maybe unaware ) - This is a prequel to the 2018 A QUIET PLACE starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7cc5t7tv8&t=2s

And then A QUIET PLACE 2 from 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpdDN9d9Jio

bodhrandude

looking at that first trailer gave me an Aphex Twin vibe with his Elephant Song with the looped scream.

Citizen Six

Meh

noahungry

I had no idea about this. The trailer doesn't look bad, hope they won't ruin it. The first movie was great. The second, as it usually happens, not as good, but okay.

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121757295#Comment_121757295

How could anyone be unaware of that given both films are featured in the trailer??? And y'know, the name being a bit of a dead giveaway too.

Agent Coulson

New trailer

June 28th release date.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjx-iHGXk9Q&ab_channel=ParamountPictures

Mr Crispy

Ignore.

bodhrandude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122116714#Comment_122116714

Looking forward to that.

AMKC

Seen this Trailer yesterday in the cinema. Looks good.

silverharp

I saw a bus ad for this and thought "interesting", its out soon, then I watched the trailer and went to "not sure" going by the later movies the humans obviously lose the first round and the whole society breaks down/cities destroyed has been done a million times, you can kind of play out in your mind without seeing it Im sure it will do well but it all looks a bit samey

https://youtu.be/gjx-iHGXk9Q?si=1jbdIJTSNe4JXJpe

Man Vs ManUre

Would the US army not be able to defeat these aliens?? All the aliens seem to do is jump around and squish people. Plus they are blind as bats. They don’t seem to have any weapons and only have their natural killing abilities. Also I am not sure if they have much of a brain, which is strange as aliens do normally have big head and brain.

silverharp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122298434#Comment_122298434

a soft reboot with Gerard Butler and I'd be curious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122298434#Comment_122298434

The US army couldn't even defeat the Taliban or in Vietnam.

gmisk

Couple of actual reviews coming in now generally positive!

Heading to see it Saturday morning.

Mr Crispy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122309595#Comment_122309595

Yeah, have seen a couple of outlets calling it the best in the series!

El Duda

https://twitter.com/TheMovieBadger/status/1806314848227135878

😀 Yay!

johnny_ultimate

This is quite a bit better than it has any right to be. It's not great or anything, but it's a lot better than a studio-mandated franchise prequel has any right to be.

Michael Sarnoski was an intriguing choice for the film, and you can actually see a fair bit of the work he did on Pig here. It's not anywhere near as good as that film, but unlike most films of this ilk it has a proper script with pathos and emotion. Indeed, it's almost better seen as a character study that takes place during a horror film than a horror film in and of itself. That's not to say there isn't good set piece sequences and tension, but the focus is very much on the characters as the catastrophe unfolds - unlike the other two films which are much more focused on the survival aspect. It's not particularly surprising or radical, but it's very well executed within its story constraints.

Having a character we know is dying from the first scene is a surprisingly impactful way to change the stakes of this kind of film in an intriguing way. It always helps when you have an actress as talented Lupita Nyong'o on board, of course.

Also: things would've been a lot easier had they not insisted on dragging around that adorable yet suicidal cat :P

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122314669#Comment_122314669

I saw it today I was surprised how much I enjoyed it, some good set pieces but a lot of character work. Probably the weakest of the three films but that is a high bar for me.

lupita nyong'o was terrific.

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I found her whole arc pretty heartbreaking, I did shed a little tear towards the end.

Joseph Quinn was also solid, he is a really good actor too hopefully see him in more things. Good chemistry.

Frodo the cat was a scene stealer.

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At points I thought the cat wasnt real...he just kept popping up, on their dangerous journey (goes with the name i guess). He was an adorable little git though to be fair lol.

I would give it a very solid 7.5 out of 10.

Fysh

I saw this at the weekend and it's a weird beast. We all know it's a prequel, and a studio-mandated one at that. And yet, as johnny_ultimate says, it's got performances and characters with much more nuance and depth than a film like this has any business enjoying.

A frustrating thing for me, then, was that after the initial landing/attack scene, the set pieces were kinda meh. And, for something that's using a set of rules established already in previous films, there's some frankly silly rubber-banding of what counts as "enough noise to draw attention", particularly when the film opens with a quote about the average noise level in NYC. Like, tearing fabric from a shirt is loud enough but not the sound of running footsteps, that sort of thing. If you draw attention to it, you'd best make sure you are internally consistent in how you do it.

And look, I knew what film I was going to see. This isn't me trying to be clever or above actually enjoying a film like this - quite the reverse! The performances from the core cast and writing were such a cut above what you all too often get in a film like this that the contrast to the set-piece bits was that bit more obvious, and thus more frustrating.

Having said that, there is one thing that absolutely should have gotten whoever wrote it a clip around the ear and an instruction to try a bit harder:

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the letter from Sam to Eric was a nice touch, but "Thank you for teaching me how to live again"? Geddafugouttahere. And made worse by following that with a closing scene where Sam - a terminal cancer patient who has spent much of the last 24-36 hours with no pain medication, and who now has a box of Fentanyl dermal tabs handy - walks down the street listening to music and then decides that she's going to commit Suicide By Alien Dismemberment, rather than e.g. a blissful overdose. And to make it worse, this is paired with a needle drop of Nina Simone's Feelin' Good.

Thelonious Monk

Just saw it. As a cat lover who's never owned one it felt like he was the star of the show.

One thing I don't get about these aliens is that their only sense on planet earth is hearing but they can't hear a geezer millimeters from them breathing. Their creator effed up there. I liked all 3 leads including the feline.

Overall not great not terrible but worst of the 3.

Also what was up with them eating those egg mushroom things?

gossamerfabric

Proper script, well executed.

ancapailldorcha

Frodo was the breakout character for me. I spent the whole film worried about him.

It's a solid film. I feel like I should have enjoyed it more than I did. All the right ingredients are there.

santana75

Saw this during the week and I thought it was the weakest of the three, so far. I found myself nodding off at times, the characters were just not as engaging as in the two previous films. Lupita Nyoungo is great(as she is in everything) but even she cant stop this from something of a snoozefest. And the guy she teams up with just seems like a pathetic character, which I dont know if this was intentional, to make the woman the strong one and the man the wuss. All in all its ok, but not a patch on the other two.

Spon Farmer

saw this earlier. Very, very good. A little different to the previous two as there was far less scares and tension. Great performances.

Unfortunately I missed a little piece of it - what happened when Eric left Samira at the church to search for medication?

AMKC

So I went and seen this today. Really enjoyed it even do the concet of aliens only going for noise is stupid when they are smart enough to cross whole Galaxy's in Space.

Still excellent acting and not much speaking in it but there is some mostly whispers do.

I would give it 8 out of 10.

Fysh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122339942#Comment_122339942

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He finds a chemist and finds the drugs after a while, then we get a fake jump scare where Frodo turns up out of nowhere. Then as they are walking back to the flat Frodo ducks off into a weird building site area with a broken and flaming gas main, and does the Typical Little Bollix Cat thing of perching himself in a high place while aliens are pacing around, so Eric has to stealthily get close enough to grab Frodo without being heard.

Homelander

It was alright. Definitely not bad, but didn't find it particularly great either - performances were solid, story was OK, but I couldn't really escape from the sense that it was a story that absolutely didn't need telling at all.

I really don't think it's something that lends itself to prequels and spinoffs. It worked perfect in the first movie - the concept was quite original and so well done you didn't really care much about how everything got to that point.

But there is a limit I think before they end up making a mess of it trying to expand and explain something that isn't all that well suited to either.

I'd probably compare it to what Solo is to Star Wars. Decently made, but no-one really asked for it, it adds virtually nothing to the already established franchise, and it's definitely inferior to what inspired it.

So, overall I would say worth a watch, not a bad movie by any means, but wouldn't hold a candle to the other two.

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I also thought the end scene was oddly daft, like it was just shoehorned it for some sort of perceived "cool" factor. Of all the ways she could chose to go, and she would have any choice at her fingertips…..she decides to be casually torn asunder by a carnivorous alien?

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122340482#Comment_122340482

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Thank you.

Is that all? Did the aliens chase them or did Eric see something?

I had the feeling that I had missed something important.

Fysh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122345768#Comment_122345768

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There's a bit that felt like a Setting Up Lore For A Future Film nugget - when Eric finds Frodo in the building site he's licking at some weird fleshy mass, and then we see several aliens come over to start eating the mass, encouraged by a bigger alien that looked like a different type. This bigger alien then hears a sound Eric makes while trying to get Frodo and ambles over to investigate, but its attention is diverted by a different sound and Eric is able to grab Frodo and make a stealthy escape.

Dial Hard

Just back from this and I too hadn't a rashers what was going on in *that * scene. Said to my boyfriend afterwards that I felt like I'd missed about 10 minutes either before or after, it was so "Huh?"

bewareofthedog

Absolute boring crap, felt like TWD when that turned sour. Explained nothing further about the invaders. Also clear woke undertones, the first 3 people in the movie to potentially get someone killed were white men panicking. But pizza…

Dial Hard

The forum charter badly needs an update to ban all use of the word "woke"…

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122340073#Comment_122340073

Yeah the 'noise' concept has always bothered me about these movies. It makes no sense whatsoever.

flasher0030

Watched it last night. Was a bit tired watching it, so I kinda drifted off for little parts of it.

Did the film give any explanation as to how they managed to carry around a cat with them for a day, and the cat didn't make any noises to draw the attention of the monsters - not even one little meow.

I know I'm being a bit silly point out unpracticalities in a monster film. But it kinda grated at me. And why didn't she go with him in the end. Could have set off the car alarms and then made a run for it. If the alarms are anything like the ones around where I live, they go on much longer than the 30 seconds they got in Day One.

The movie was alright. Having watched the other two Quiet Place films, it didn't add anything new. Would have been interesting if it had given some insight as to the motivations of the aliens, or where they came from etc. But it was basically another movie whereby the main characters spent 70% of the movie going around in silence.