RIKKI POYNTER: Hello, welcome back to this channel.
Hello from Zane as well.
Well, again, today is the highly awaited
Film Fridays for A Quiet Place II.
We're gonna go over the good, the weird,
and not really bad, more just OK.
If you haven't seen my video of A Quiet Place from a few years ago,
I will have that link up here and a card as
well as down below in the description box.
A link and card to the Film Fridays playlist so you can check out other
films and TV shows that I've talked about will be listed as well.
Let me get the very first thought out of the way.
And that's the fact that I thought that A Quiet Place
II was just a little bit superior to the first one.
I think in the video that I did about the first Quiet Place,
I talked about how (INAUDIBLE) I wanted there to be a back
story 'cause that's what the first movie was missing.
And we do get the back story in this.
The back story is a little bit weird, a little bit awkward,
and I feel a little bit too short.
Firstly, because the back story is supposed to be like
a little prequel that everybody would be younger.
Millicent and the older of the two boys, they look to be around the same
age anyways 'cause they're old enough to pretty much look the same.
But the little toddler, you remember the little toddler
that dies in the very beginning of the first movie?
Well, he aged two years.
So, instead of looking younger or being younger
in the prequel part of the film,
he is older and looks to be about the same age as the rest of them.
Hi, editing me from the future.
So, I just found out while editing that the original
Beau Abbot is played by Cade Woodward.
And then for A Quiet Place II, his little brother,
Dean Woodward plays Beau for the little back story prequel bit.
So, they do get somebody younger.
It's just not the guy, it's just not the kid from before.
So, it is a little bit weird.
Not much you can do about it if you want
the same actors to be a part of it.
There was a theory that I had for most of the movie that they actually
had another child now around the same age as everybody.
And then he died in that day.
He got eaten, he got killed and they just didn't
wanna mention it in the first movie.
And then they would bring that up when Emmett is talking about his kids.
Well, when it comes to toddler, I don't know,
he's had a babysitter somewhere during a baseball game.
And they eventually brought him.
I don't know.
But know what Emmett talks about, the fact that his kids were in.
There's no mention about that child of the Abbotts.
Oh, that's when you realize, 'OK,
that's definitely supposed to be the same kid.'
It's not the end of the world.
It's not the biggest issue ever just because it is so short.
He really doesn't have many lines from what I remember,
and it ends so abruptly anyways that it just doesn't really matter.
But if you're really paying attention, it gets a little bit confusing.
But it still felt like that back story wasn't enough.
There wasn't enough back story in the back story.
Like instead of going from back story to back to present day,
I would have liked to see a little bit of something
in the middle right after that day that a bunch of
other people like trying to figure things out,
get situated rather than go ahead and fast
forward back to over a year later.
It was just missing something, just a little bit more.
But there is a third film coming out March 2023.
And it's not supposed to feature the same
characters as the first two films.
So, they're gonna probably go over a whole hearing family.
So, maybe we'll get something in that third film.
Also, if you watch a video on what I would
like to see from the third film,
let me know and I'll get something up.
Let's talk about ASL versus English in the movie.
In the first Quiet Place, very, very little was spoken in the film.
It's about the same really for the second one.
The main issue is there's a couple of issues.
One, I've talked about this before.
The signing is not always in frame.
You don't need to be doing close-ups of everybody's hands,
which wouldn't make sense anyway if you did,
because the face is part of the language, after all.
But a lot of the times, it's just the hands are cut out,
the signing is cut out.
And it's like never do that.
I know some directors probably think of it as
a less aesthetically pleasing or whatever.
I don't know the reason behind it,
or they're just not who we're thinking about it anyways.
But if you're gonna have people signing,
put in the frame and then this part is outside of the movie.
But John, John, John, why is it when you're uploading clips or videos,
interviews, whatever on social media,
even the trailer that was uploaded to your social media,
you don't caption it.
You have a deaf person in this film playing a role.
Yay, but you need to caption all the content
that you put out because all your
content is inaccessible to the person it's supposed to be accessible to.
They are part of your film, they worked with you.
Why are you leaving your cast member out?
Also, there's the issue of the ASL in the films are only captioned,
only open-captioned in the theaters and then the spoken parts are not.
And so us, the audience is having to deal with
the captive view or the reading glasses,
depending on what's available at the cinema.
What is the point of not captioning the spoken English?
You're already captioning most of the film
anyways because most of it is in ASL.
You could take the extra couple of minutes
to open caption the other stuff too.
OK, takes a little bit longer than a couple of minutes,
but you've already done it for most of the film anyways.
Why is it not available?
Why is it only important to be accessible to the hearing
audience when there's deaf content rolled out?
But when the hearing part is not accessible,
what is the English I'm going for here?
It just doesn't make sense to not also caption the spoken part.
What is your deaf audience supposed to be doing?
So, a lot of people actually ended up showing up for the first film
and then this film without the captive view because they're like,
'OK, well, we don't need it because everything
is so open-captioned with the ASL,'
but then they're like, 'What the hell is going on here
because the spoken English part isn't captioned.'
But now let's talk about why I feel like A Quiet
Place II is superior to the first one.
And this is deaf bias here.
But the hero of the entire film is deaf.
Nobody else mattered.
Nobody else was doing anything OK?
Emmett helped.
Emmett, the hearing man, helped.
But Regan won.
Regan won.
Most of Hollywood is so 'oh, those poor deaf people,
those poor deaf people, we have to fix them.
There are gonna have bad things done to them, dah, dah, dah.'
And there very few Hollywood and mainstream-run deaf plot things that we
have like us acted out by hearing folks, not just actors themselves.
So, to have a deaf character played by an actual
deaf actor when the whole entire movie
and so the world at least that day for at least a little while,
is absolutely amazing.
I felt so happy watching this movie because of that.
And all the deaf teenagers that are gonna be watching
this are gonna have somebody to look
up to when they see that film and when they see
the ending where she saves the whole day,
where she saves at least that little area that has access to
the radio that they went to or has access to the radio station.
I actually really like seeing, Regan, the deaf teenage girl and Emmett,
a hearing man who has no ASL knowledge whatsoever except
for the sign for "dive" which worked out so well,
which was very important in this movie, actually.
You wouldn't think that generally, but here it was.
I actually really liked seeing them work together.
This whole thing just goes to show that deaf
people know what they're talking about.
We know how to make things accessible for the both
of us and how to make things go smoothly.
So, like, every time when I'm out and I'm
trying to have accessible conversation
with a hearing person and they just wanna make it ten times harder,
but I'm the one to be like, 'No, do it this way,
and we will be just fine.' This was perfect.
Emmett's getting frustrated and all of
that 'cause he's like, 'Well, great.
That's girl's deaf.
She can't hear me.
And I don't know any signing, but it just worked out so well.'
Emmett does do what hearing people tend to do
and that's like either not enunciate properly.
And I don't mean over enunciate and talk like this,
which doesn't work at all.
OK, it doesn't.
Please don't do that.
But when he looks like he's mumbling,
you're not really thinking about it.
She says, 'Hey, you need to enunciate properly, talk normally,
but also enunciate well enough so that I can understand you.'
And then sometimes, he's moving his face or he's
looking down instead of looking at her.
She's like, 'Hello, look at me.'
When she actually grabs his face and then moves it, I laughed.
I laughed, and that the hero was probably one
of my favorite parts of the whole film.
In the beginning of the movie, he learns to sign for "dive" because
I can't really remember why he's asking about it.
I think it has something to do with the baseball game,
but I can't remember.
It's been a minute since I've seen the film.
That came in handy when what, over a year later,
he actually remembers it and they were being kidnapped by these like,
what's the word I'm looking for?
Is vigilantes the word that I'm looking for?
Oh, no.
This is like the outcasted people, the survivors,
the outcasted survivors and they were kidnapping Regan and Emmett.
They were about to kill Emmett and I had a feeling
they were gonna use Regan but I stopped then.
I want to compare A Quiet Place with The Silence.
Again, I want to compare II Quiet Place II with The Silence.
I think that would make a very interesting video because that
whole bit right there where they were getting kidnapped,
reminds me of something in The Silence and
I think it would be interesting to talk about.
But that one sign became so useful and he was able to
kill them or the monsters were able to kill them,
the bad guys, and then they were on their way.
It was nice to see Regan prove Emmett wrong
because you just know that Emmett's like,
'Great, I'm stuck with this deaf teenage girl.
She's probably gonna get us killed as she's not gonna be able to
do what she wanted to do because he was very hesitant at first.'
You know, he's like, 'No, we gotta go back.
Your mom wants you back.' And in the back of his mind,
he's not really saying it out loud, but he's just like,
'And you're gonna get us killed because you're deaf
and not hearing and that can't be a good thing.'
But Regan kicked ass and nobody believed in her.
That's what frustrates me so much, nobody believed in her.
I did.
So, the rest of you suck.
Now let's go over a little bit of the weird of the film.
I guess, with the ehr of film.
So, with this movie, you have your main plot
and then you have like the little subplot.
Regan and Emmett are more of the main plot,
obviously trying to save the community,
save the world from all these monsters.
And then you have the subplot that is with the mom,
the brother and the baby.
The mom, Evelyn is like go get the medicine
because Marcus injured his leg,
stepping into the bear trap.
And during that time, Marcus is stuck in this thing.
I don't know what it's called with the baby,
and they're supposed to not shut it all the way completely.
You need to have this towel where the closure is.
So, that way they can easily take it out because
when you're in there for too long,
you're not gonna be able to breathe and then you're gonna die.
And that becomes like this whole like, oh, my God,
stressful moment for a good portion at the end of the movie.
And while it stressed me out to see it
and I was so happy that everybody survived,
everybody is OK.
I feel like I honestly could have done without it.
It's just now that I think about it two weeks
after seeing I'm not thinking about it.
I haven't thought about it once.
I only thought about Regan and Emmett,
Regan and Emmett and that whole little journey.
The rest of it was kind of like, OK, cool, not cool, but cool.
Did I mention yet that cochlear implant don't make feedback noises?
We're gonna talk about it again anyways,
because I know I didn't talk about it in detail.
Quite a few cochlear implant users were talking about this on Twitter,
not only for this film, but the first film.
Cochlear implants do not make feedback noises like you see in the film.
Actually, I'm pretty sure people were talking about it in
the comments in my first video about the first film.
I feel like these people are thinking of hearing aids,
but because Milicent herself wears a cochlear implant,
they just go with it or didn't they maybe just
not actually know about it, I don't know.
Yeah, but you see in the Wikipedia page about the movies that
the term that's being used is hearing aid, hearing aid, hearing aid,
even YouTubers who have made videos say hearing aid, hearing aid,
hearing aid when really it's a cochlear implant.
I don't expect all hearing people to know about this.
But, yeah, that's just you know, it's just what happens in real life.
Just don't expect a cochlear implant to be actually doing that.
And then the last final thought that I have is
I feel like there's something missing in the film.
One, I feel like it ended too abruptly.
Like I mean, firstly, I was so into the film that I didn't realize that.
Oh, no, that's probably it.
I was so into the film.
The ending happened.
Regan is Woohooing and it ends, that's it.
There's no reaction from other civilians about it.
There's no seeing monsters.
Well, I recall you see a little bit of reaction
from Marcus and I think Evelyn as well,
because obviously Marcus and Emmett were like,
'Oh, my God, this is actually gonna happen.'
So, they hear the radio and they're like,
'Oh, my God, Regan actually did it.'
But I don't recall seeing any reactions from other civilians.
And maybe just taking just another 60 seconds, honestly,
of the other part of the outside world,
just reacting to that sort of thing.
And seeing the monsters be stopped and it's
just a little more of a fade-out thing.
But then again, it's A Quiet Place.
And to me, the abrupt, sudden ending also sort of fits not my
mind going back and forth on what I would prefer and what
I like or don't like or it's not that I don't like it,
it just doesn't feel like to me, it just feels incomplete.
And I'm not the only one that thought this through.
I can't remember if I read it in a comment on Youtube
or did I read it from a Tweet from Kennie JD?
I don't even know.
I cannot remember.
But somebody else had the same feeling.
It doesn't feel complete.
It's feeling like it was rushed or something.
They cut out something that would have been important to the film,
that would have helped gradually get to this point.
And it just doesn't feel right.
It just needed maybe 15 more minutes somewhere right before
that ending and maybe a little minute after that.
And it would have meshed better.
I don't.
Let me know what you think.
But at the end of the day, I enjoyed A Quiet
Place II even more so than the first
one mostly because of the deaf representation
of the kickass deaf representation.
Storywise and the way things flow, I do think A Quiet Place,
the first one is superior,
but there's something about or maybe it's
just the feeling of, I don't know,
there's just something about A Quiet Place II that won't be over.
I don't know.
It's hard to explain, but enough about me.
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