wow what a time to be a horror fan I'm not even a huge horror fan but you know
what I'm gonna come over and join you guys because these smart high-quality
productions are not only impressive but wildly entertaining I'm talking about
get out it and now a quiet place and you know what I'm gonna throw 10 Cloverfield
Lane and split in there too and you know who produced a quiet place Michael
freakin Bay he actually produces a lot of horror movies he's behind the purge
franchise now he does that one with Jason Blum and you might think well it's
all blum but this is Bay you know you know Bay's the main producer here
through his company Platinum Dunes so clearly creatively there's more to him
than meets the eye but the person who is really going to benefit from this movie
as they should is Jim from the office he's directing he's co-writing he's
co-starring and well I wouldn't say he's an auteur director I wasn't aware of his
creative vision so much while watching the movie but after having seen it you
realize his ability to deliver a slick complete and profound horror package
that's right profound is mighty impressive and I would actually put his
movie on par with those other films I just listed and I hope that it enjoys
the same success and recognition and I think it will because the buzz from this
for this movie coming out of South by Southwest where it premiered has been
anything but quiet however when the movie starts you're going to think that
I have lied to you because the first half of this film is super slow and by
the time John Krasinski and his real-life wife Emily Blunt were slow
dancing in silence I was like those South by Southwest people lied to me but
then after the movie is over you might think well I don't care how good the
second half is grace that first half should have been so boring but here's
the thing you realize that slow quiet first half of the movie was to prepare
you for the roller-coaster ride that is the second half of the movie which is
honestly one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen I know I don't
have a high threshold for being able to take scares to be honest with you
but this is this movie I couldn't even look at the screen most of the time I
was like I'm just gonna listen to it I was so scared I can't stress
how much this movie had me in its grip and I loved it I had a very good time
now for instance I couldn't understand how this family was able to keep quiet
especially from the jump scares in the movie like John Krasinski was like oh
I'm gonna go look out this window and see if there's a monster outside of it
now I was like how are you gonna keep from screaming when his head pops up
right I mean I would just have duck I would just duck and cover and like a
little hole and be like what I don't hear them anymore
I'll come out this family had amazing self-control I mean I guess under the
circumstances they had to but I mean the movie really really will make you think
could I keep quiet these circumstances but again that's how much it got me now
why is the movie so successful why is it self to have fine well I have three
reasons that I think is the answer now the first is that the monsters that are
hunting them are not only very well designed but also fairly well realized
VFX wise this movie costs just 17 million to make and I'm convinced that a
very large portion of that was spent on visual effects they are in the caliber
of the highest blockbuster and like you really get to see them on screen - this
isn't like oh there's a monster elbow I mean they do that too but eventually
like you get full monster and well some of their behavior doesn't make sense
when you think about it and we'll discuss it in the spoiler review it
never occurred to me while I was watching the movie I was really
impressed and blown away I mean it was great stuff and even now that I realized
some problems with it I still wouldn't take points off the movie because it
didn't occur to me while I was watching it was really good alright then - this
movie uses the domino effect brilliantly like a seemingly small mistake triggers
a series of increasingly bigger ones and bigger problems very much like real life
this family made a lot of mistakes we'll talk about the family momentarily so the
first half is a lot about setting up those dominoes to fall for the second
half so think about that setting up dominoes boring watching them
all fall quickly exciting that's how you have to feel about the first half of the
movie they needed to do the work now three the quiet the quiet actually works
because I think it pulls you in closer to the story it's like when someone's
like come closer and then they go boo and you jump because you know
put you in that in that moment I think that's why I think that's what amplifies
the scares because you think about it you're like I've seen scary movies kind
of in the same vein before where monsters are chasing people around and
on a farm but the quiet I think just makes everything so much more heightened
so you're more vulnerable to eventually being scared out of your damn mind
now luckily nobody in my theater because it was a press screening and they had
security watching us like hawks not to have our phones on so nobody made any
noise but there was a crucial moment during the movie when John Krasinski and
Emily Blunt were actually able to have a conversation and a whispered
conversation and some people outside the theater decided to have really loud
discussion I mean it wasn't their fault they didn't know it was playing inside
and I think you know they were just talking normal normal voice well
actually they were a little bit loud but you know a regular movie had been
playing inside our theater it wouldn't have been a problem but here they were
kind of like background noise during this crucial moment so I worry about
people having a good viewing experience with this movie like going into it I
thought it would be fun if people made jokes and chimed in and said a bunch of
stuff during the beginning of the movie but now that I think about how important
it is to get you to that place to experience the the second half maybe
that one to keep you keep that from happening so I think that if you when
you go into this movie and I of course highly recommend that you do you might
want to consider a matinee or even a morning show and maybe even paying extra
for a premium theater just doing whatever you can to make sure you're
with an audience that's going to appreciate this and want to have the
experience as it's meant to be and not you know mess it up just because you
know they're not taking it too seriously so that in addition to this movie being
terrifying here's another warning for you it is extremely sad Wow like it
actually made me burst into tears what's really surprised me I was like am
i crying what does I didn't like the family very much but in fact I almost
was like this is too sad like I was really sad but you know what if you're
gonna list it if John Krasinski can elicit that kind of emotional reaction
for me again for characters I did not really like well then I have to say
kudos to him now why didn't I like the family again no spoilers but they not
only did they make like we're in a horror movie mistakes like if they
didn't make mistakes there'd be no movie obviously right you know like oh yeah
and they did everything perfectly good job family but all
so there are very bland and devoid of defined personalities like so often you
know one thing I'll say to you is that you know there's an argument about what
child can do what chores on the farm and it there do they seem to be dividing it
along gender lines and you would think that you know in a modern film you know
this is supposed to take place in the near future that the daughter would be
like really post-apocalyptic gender rules are you kidding me with this you
know look like the only people practically left on earth who cares
don't worry I didn't spoil anything so you know you would think that the
conversations never went to that kind of real personal level like the characters
didn't feel like real people in many ways and then also for instance emily
Blunt's character at the beginning of the movies pregnant so again not a
spoiler and you're like well why would anyone have a baby in this situation but
they never discussed the pros and cons like I would have loved for them to be
like maybe this is a John Connor baby and we hate we have to have it you know
but the you know the more we'll talk about this all a lot in the spoiler
review but thinking about it after I saw the movie last night I think that maybe
that was intentional as well though to make the family more ciphers so you can
imagine yourself in this situation and I did do that as I said I was like could I
stay quiet in this situation and I think maybe giving them more personality would
have made the experience less intimate and kept the audience at more of a
distance so I'm still breaking this movie down in my head as to why it
worked so well why it's so effective but what I am sure of is that it is
incredible it is an incredibly well-constructed movie like Wow
probably not since inception has a film been able to manipulate me emotionally
and mentally to exactly where it wants me now inception for instance made me
question reality for a few days that's impressive but I didn't love the film
because ultimately I thought it relied on cheap tricks
but a quiet place I think because maybe it's a smaller film it created such an
emotional intimate experience and it both terrified and made me very sad that
it really got me I think this is just a really well made film
I mean crits like almost like a magic trick I'm not impressed with that so
yeah don't miss this movie it's very special
and protect your movie going experience with this really think ahead be like
this family how are you gonna make sure that you learn oh you're in an audience
it stays quiet I almost wished they would make an announcement being like
you might be tempted to chime in but you got to trust the movie and go with it or
you're not gonna really experience it the way it's meant to you're not gonna
you're not gonna be able to experience that magic trick and yes John Krasinski
is definitely a triple threat to keep an eye on going forward
hey Jim I'm so happy for him look for awhile like he wasn't gonna make it
let's see how his uh his uh Jack Ryan serious is on Amazon but anyway that's
my review of a quiet place be sure to share your own thoughts down below if
you've seen the movie do not spoil it please again what people experienced
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