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Post by moonman157 on Apr 10, 2018 18:13:01 GMT
Absolute shit. Literally every single attempt to induce fear is a jump scare. How the standards for horror have fallen so far that this laughable tripe can be so acclaimed is beyond me.
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Post by FrancescoAbides on Apr 10, 2018 18:28:52 GMT
Absolute shit. Literally every single attempt to induce fear is a jump scare. How the standards for horror have fallen so far that this laughable tripe can be so acclaimed is beyond me. Give me good examples of great horror movies then. C'mon MoonMan aka Racist Meme, enligthen us with your knowledge
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Post by moonman157 on Apr 10, 2018 18:49:59 GMT
Absolute shit. Literally every single attempt to induce fear is a jump scare. How the standards for horror have fallen so far that this laughable tripe can be so acclaimed is beyond me. Give me good examples of great horror movies then. C'mon MoonMan aka Racist Meme, enligthen us with your knowledge MoonMan is a racist meme? You wot mate? You don't need to get so defensive about this crappy little movie but if you absolutely need some recommendations you could check these out: Onibaba, Vampyr, Candyman, Black Christmas, Polanski's apartment trilogy, Suspiria, The Innocents, Don't Look Now, etc. Any of these might set you on the right path.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2018 18:59:40 GMT
Give me good examples of great horror movies then. C'mon MoonMan aka Racist Meme, enligthen us with your knowledge MoonMan is a racist meme? You wot mate? You don't need to get so defensive about this crappy little movie but if you absolutely need some recommendations you could check these out: Onibaba, Vampyr, Candyman, Black Christmas, Polanski's apartment trilogy, Suspiria, The Innocents, Don't Look Now, etc. Any of these might set you on the right path. Swap out Candyman for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and this is a fantastic lineup.
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Post by FrancescoAbides on Apr 10, 2018 20:01:56 GMT
Give me good examples of great horror movies then. C'mon MoonMan aka Racist Meme, enligthen us with your knowledge MoonMan is a racist meme? You wot mate? You don't need to get so defensive about this crappy little movie but if you absolutely need some recommendations you could check these out: Onibaba, Vampyr, Candyman, Black Christmas, Polanski's apartment trilogy, Suspiria, The Innocents, Don't Look Now, etc. Any of these might set you on the right path. just teasing, relax MoonMan Don't Look Now scared the shit out of me when I was a kid, great stuff
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Post by notacrook on Apr 10, 2018 22:49:27 GMT
Very solid little film. I can't imagine it staying with me for very long, and I wasn't a fan of how it chose to go out, but it's an uncommonly smart and relentlessly suspenseful ride. Krasinki's direction was fantastic, and Emily Blunt continues her ascension into my very favourite actresses. Full review: letterboxd.com/g_stephenson/film/a-quiet-place-2018/
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Post by wilcinema on Apr 11, 2018 7:22:48 GMT
What can I say? I loved the hell out of it. Emily made my heart beat. And I think I'm going to see it again this weekend.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 11, 2018 9:23:33 GMT
I liked it but its more a film of great atmosphere and silence and tone than anything else - some of its silly which is never good in horror - this is becoming kind of weird where films with a few scares are called "horror" or worse "horror classics" when they are really more horror for people who don't like the genre really - or who are responding to something else than the trappings of horror. It's that people are responding more to the non-horror angles of it - the "heart" of it than the scares - they are responding to what it's NOT (gory etc).
It's a 7/10 movie to me, which is fine, but there's nothing in it as genuinely great as the best of the 2000s - stuff you can't shake off - It Follows or The Witch or The Babadook or especially in comparison The Descent (original UK ending thanks) which function as a true genre horror (maybe less so in The Babadook), are all far more thematically profound, logical and believable. I mean I'm comparing it to the best recent horror which is unfair but in that comparison it doesn't stand........otherwise, 7/10.
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Post by moonman157 on Apr 11, 2018 22:50:15 GMT
MoonMan is a racist meme? You wot mate? You don't need to get so defensive about this crappy little movie but if you absolutely need some recommendations you could check these out: Onibaba, Vampyr, Candyman, Black Christmas, Polanski's apartment trilogy, Suspiria, The Innocents, Don't Look Now, etc. Any of these might set you on the right path. Candyman? Mate ya got absolutely shit taste, of course a masterpiece is going to escape your untrained eyes
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Post by Viced on Apr 12, 2018 0:53:47 GMT
Definitely overhyped.
I agree with moonman that the jump scares were ridiculous... I mean, this has the worst jump scare I have ever seen (the hand on the shower door-- I cringed). It was pretty easy to see mostly every jump scare coming a mile away too...
But I was into it enough once I started ignoring all the implausibilities and other stupid shit. Blunt is great, the kids are great... Krasinski has his moments.
6ish/10 for me
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Apr 12, 2018 2:15:23 GMT
I like it a lot, and Blunt is perfection as always, but there was quite a bit of room to be stronger. For it being so praised for a supposed total absence of exposition, it bothered me that there had to be a whole scene of him explaining to the kid "Yo, if we stand next to loud water, they totally can't hear us." Also seems awfully risky to unexpectedly jump out and grab your children when they go near the basement. They might, you know, scream.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 12, 2018 10:59:27 GMT
It's very, very good, like 9/10 good.
The cast are king here, and Krasinski is the king of the cast. I had my small niggles with it, but at the same time, they mostly stem from the fact that it regularly dipped into the cliche bag of horror tricks, but show me a horror from the last 20-30 years that doesn't.
I'll be shocked if this isn't winning my sound awards, and threatening to be in my ensemble line up at years end.
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Post by harlequinade on Apr 13, 2018 17:31:21 GMT
Definitely overhyped. I agree with moonman that the jump scares were ridiculous... I mean, this has the worst jump scare I have ever seen (the hand on the shower door-- I cringed). It was pretty easy to see mostly every jump scare coming a mile away too... But I was into it enough once I started ignoring all the implausibilities and other stupid shit. Blunt is great, the kids are great... Krasinski has his moments. 6ish/10 for me lol yeah that hand moment! And it stopped a really good acting moment from Krasinski...the cheap moments like that really brought the movie down
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Post by cheesecake on Apr 14, 2018 16:32:49 GMT
I reaaalllly liked it. Thankfully I had stayed away from spoilers, plot, word of mouth and the hype as much as possible. Amazing use of sound design and memorable set decoration. The build of tension was palpable and I thought the score was fantastic. It was a fun blend of Alien/Signs/Jurassic Park and it took the ‘trying to quietly hide from a monster’ trope to a whole other level. Sure, there are some plot issues, but over all I thought it worked and it did well to make us invest in the characters.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Apr 16, 2018 0:03:59 GMT
Nah...the performances were good but the more I think about the story the more idiotic it becomes. So many conveniences and plot holes. And the creature design was so cliche...come to think the film was just cliche after cliche only packed in 'shhh!' gimmick. What were the plot holes?
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Apr 16, 2018 0:16:32 GMT
Saw this today and definitely loved it. Great job by everyone involved. On top of the great atmosphere and suspense, it had more emotional depth that I expected.
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Post by JangoB on Apr 16, 2018 19:05:17 GMT
This is both a film and a test of how modern day audience members and theatres are. Do the audience members care about the other people watching the movie and/or about the movie's concept? Are multiplexes technically fit to show movies like this in terms of sound and all that? Hopefully for all of you the answers to these questions were positive. My experience was different. The people in the theatre broke pretty much every 'rule' of moviegoing (and ironically they decided to do this with a film that requires silence). Constantly blabbering, commenting, not turning phones off, talking on those phones, chewing crispy stuff, making noises with the bags filled with that crispy stuff...it was moviegoing hell. Most of the tension for me wasn't caused by the filmmaking but rather by my anticipation of how the audience would bother me next. It's like they collectively decided to say 'fuck you' to anyone who was trying to get into the atmosphere of the film. Times like this are when I kinda start thinking that maybe the Netflix invasion is okay. Anyway, the film itself...it's fine. Maybe I would've had a different reaction with a different crowd but on the other hand I think that this certain detachment made me see the film more clearly. The concept of it is pretty interesting but I think it dealt with that concept in a pretty standard genre way without really doing anything that special with it. Let's be honest, we've all seen scenes like these a hundred times before in horror/sci-fi/thriller movies - scenes where characters have to silently crawl around to avoid some being that's hunting them. It's just that this film is almost entirely comprised of scenes like that. And it's pretty fun. But also quite cliched in places and sometimes even a tad stupid. For instance, the nail - am I seriously meant to believe that during all this goddamn time Krasinski didn't bother to remove/bend a nail that was so glaringly sticking from a stair? I mean, I understand that genre movies need to have these little ideas to create tense situations but they could've thought that through more carefully. Or what about those newspapers - 'IT'S SOUND' and all that. Who the heck printed them in the world of this movie? Were they instantly killed afterwards? What about that stupid scenes with the old dude? What about the monsters looking like any other monster from a creature flick from the last couple of years? But yeah, overall I enjoyed it. Is it heavily reliant on jump scares? Sure, but they're kinda among the main attractions here so I guess I didn't mind them as much. It's just that I hoped for it to be smarter in terms of its scares. It sure wasn't any kind of masterpiece (the overreaction is ridiculous) but it was okay. Real fine performance from Emily Blunt too. Krasinski did an okay job directing but his performance...man, something was just a little phony about it in certain places. For example, the way he makes the 'Shhh' gesture with his hand a couple of times in the film seemed SO actorly, SO Hollywood-performancy and SO not real. It was just off. But he was fine otherwise. As was the film.
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Post by JangoB on Apr 16, 2018 19:11:20 GMT
Also, I totally get that even despite the troubled times they were horny, but was having a new kid really the best idea they could come up with? The risk itself should've stopped them from banging.
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Post by alexanderblanchett on Apr 17, 2018 22:43:49 GMT
One of the best Horror thriller in years. It is also one of the most ambitious films of the genre in a very long time. Almost establishing a new genre: The Silent horror thriller, because there is literarily not much to say about the dialogue as it is almost not existing. It contains more sign language than actually spoken words. But this was an interesting effect which actually worked extremely well because so the audience concentrated on the images with with director John Kransinski told the story. He also stars in the male lead role as a father who protects his family from monsters who react on any kind of noise, so they live in total silence. He and his wife Emily Blunt also poetry grieving parents and that is a serious element of the story which gives it a very special touch as well. And if life wouldn't be difficult enough Blunt's character is also pregnant... and besides a child birth which is obviously loud.. the audience permanently asks themselves... how will they prevent the baby from screaming... which comes natural? At least that was one question I had all the time which was one of the factors that kept the film extremely interesting. I had a few issues with some logic holes which is the reason I dont give it a higher rating. Besides John Kransinski and the wonderful performance by Emily Blunt we see another great turn by Millicent Simmonds who works so well with her facial expressions. It got a great score which adds to the sometimes unbearably nervous atmosphere just well. Good film and a future horror classic for sure. 8/10
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Apr 17, 2018 23:02:10 GMT
I’ve found my favorite horror movie of the decade. Hell, maybe longer. I was shaking from Terror the whole time.
AND THANK YOU! Jump scares that weren’t just cheap “Gotchas!”
EDIT: Btw, EAT SH*T, CLOVERFIELD!
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Apr 18, 2018 0:54:29 GMT
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Post by stephen on Apr 18, 2018 19:38:26 GMT
A muscular, confident non-debut from Krasinski. I do kind of wish that we hadn’t seen as much of the creatures as we wind up with (less is more, and the quick flashes we get in the first half of the film are sufficient), but it didn’t rub me as raw as it normally would.
The acting is fairly strong across the board, and I wish there hadn’t been any spoken dialogue in this film; the way that the actors express so much through their emotions and postures is quite impressive. Krasinski and Blunt are strong, but I think the real MVPs of the cast are the kids. Millicent Simmonds anchors the ensemble beautifully, and Noah Jupe perfectly captured the cramping terror that would afflict anyone living in that world.
That said, it’s not faultless. Narratively, I don’t buy the tense relationship between Krasinski and Simmonds’s character. Simmonds thinks that her father resents her for being the cause of the tragedy at the start of the film, but we only ever see Krasinski be good and decent to her and never once bring up the incident (and there’s plausible deniability on Simmonds’s end that they might not ever think it was her fault). If we saw Krasinski as more of a hard-ass, cracking down on any fun they were having and being more of a buzzkill, maybe then I’d understand . . . but the way it’s portrayed, Simmonds looks like she’s in the wrong and yet we’re meant to empathize with her. I also hate how the nail injury is glossed over; I reckon that if they survive the ending, a certain character is getting tetanus and lockjaw (an appropriate disease in that apocalypse). I also wondered why in the hell they weren't more concerned about the impending arrival of the baby. Feels like that would be more of an "event" they would be running drills for.
Also, gotta dock a point because the props department kept printing news articles with typos. "Toyko"? "Indestrucible?"
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Post by Viced on Apr 18, 2018 19:52:47 GMT
A muscular, confident debut from Krasinski. It's the third movie he's directed, brah. I would have expected a fellow Margo Martindale fanbot to know this.
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Post by stephen on Apr 18, 2018 19:54:03 GMT
A muscular, confident debut from Krasinski. It's the third movie he's directed, brah. I would have expected a fellow Margo Martindale fanbot to know this. He directed The Hollars? Huh. Well, okay then. This movie could've used some Margo.
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Post by Viced on Apr 18, 2018 20:12:27 GMT
It's the third movie he's directed, brah. I would have expected a fellow Margo Martindale fanbot to know this. He directed The Hollars? Huh. Well, okay then. This movie could've used some Margo. Margo as a chatterbox grandma would have made A Quiet Place a masterpiece.
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