So I just got out of #AQuietPlace & boy it was dumb.
Okay good things first. The cinematography, acting, gimmick of very little sound including voices, & concept were all fantastic. There were a few bullshit jump scares, but most of the scenes had good tension.
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5. The nail. The god damn fucking NAIL! Why was that nail even there!? Who puts a nail UP through the middle of a step? Did one of the kids watch Home Alone of their TV that got magical power? Why would you just bend the nail over instead of cutting it off?
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Still going on about that nail. If you are carrying something up stairs & it gets caught, why would you keep pulling on it!? Also why the fuck wouldn't you check to see what it was caught on!!!!???? Okay I'm done talking about the nail.
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6. I loved all of the touches on how these people sound proofed everything. It was one of my favorite things about the movie. The production & props were very good, but why would you hang ANYTHING on a wall? That shit could fall at any minute & kill everyone.
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7. If people knew that these things are basically giant ear crabs wouldn't the very first experiments be to try to make sounds to hurt them? 8. Did I miss them showing speakers in that basement? At the end she uses the radio, but
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a. I don't think they showed that if you unplug the headphones the sound would play through speakers & b. Why the fuck would the speakers be playing what they were TRANSMITTING!? Can this thing hear radio waves? Why didn't it hear all the other transmissions he sent out?
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Yikes. I honestly didn't realize how many problems I had with this movie. There might even be more, but that's all I can think of now. What a mess...
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Hmmm, that's an interesting take, but I'm 90% sure that the ear crabs killed her. The boy looks at the house & isn't their a shot of the door & porch being broken?
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