Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the six hundred and twenty second
episode of the Geeverers podcast. More importantly, the Quiet Place or sorry,
I guess it's a quiet place stay one, not the quiet Place, not
quiet place. So I have to fix out layer for sceal reasons. But
I am the clown prints of Noises tressed now and I'm joined by I'm the
puppeteer Dylan Moss, the felion at Taylor Field. What was that hand signal
you're throwing up there? What does that have to do with feelin I like
the rhyme stream of felion field that, Yeah, does it really your feeling
name? I got three cats, So there you go. Why stop there?
Yesterday, Chiman, We are here to review a quiet Place day one,
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to the field, what did you think about this movie? Give you?
Give you like a like an elevator, pitch on your thoughts on the last
two in case no one's heard them, and then I'll see this movie right
here in a non spoiler fashion, which we're gonna do non spoilers for about
fifteen to twenty minutes. We'll give an ad break. That will be your
chance to fall out if you haven't seen it, or you can come back
layer at any point, go pad tailer. I liked the first one because
I just remember not knowing what we were getting into when I saw the trailers
for it. I wasn't sure. This is like a paranormal, spiritual thing.
And I really like John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, so getting both of
them in that film was really something that I quite enjoyed, and just how
it unfolded and how they didn't reveal exactly what they were dealing with, it
was still kind of mysterious. I like that, And then always the second
one is a direct continuation and they kind of highlight things a little bit more,
but it's more so focused just on Okay, how we're dealing with these
things, and showing a little bit more of the world beyond just this family
living in this small little bubble of the of a lifestyle, I guess,
and we get a little bit more expansive. So I really, I really
do like those two films, and I think that they do a great job
at not just throwing the monster in there as being just directly like in your
line of sight, like this is what you're dealing with. Well, it
definitely is visually like boom right there. They have so much any scenes with
these creatures that are in your peripheral vision and just the way that they skulk
around. I just really appreciate how they make them unique and they don't just
shoehorn them in for the sake of like, oh, we have a monster
here, We're gonna make this the main, the main, big cheese.
We're gonna just put this in every single scene of the movie to try and
sell this movie. It's none of that. It's just it's almost like they
understand that they don't have a huge budget. I'm not even sure what the
budget was for the films, but I can appreciate that they didn't rely on
trinning out millions of dollars to just pump out tons of CGI creatures. And
while the creatures are CGI, they look really, really good, and I
think that they can really use the money to make them look good in those
brief scenes. Again, those scenes that have the monsters are in your peripheral
vision and it's just very tense and and they're very like close ups too.
Right, I feel like getting into this movie, this movie, you see
them more so like their whole but I general and just the amount you see
them, Yeah, for sure. So here you go. So the first
man, good on them. First movie budget seventeen million, but like to
your point, I feel like that's the movie you see them the least,
right, Like I feel like it's not until over halfway so you get a
clean look at them. So budget seventeen million, box office three hundred and
forty one million, and then the next one was and geez, a jump
of fifty five to sixty one million. So they got that sequel money and
that was a box office of three hundred million, but that also came out
in the middle of COVID. We're like kind of around then, so like
obviously the box is a little reduced. And then for day one the budgets
sixty seven million, so that's kind of in line too and good yeah two
and three were the same first one seventeen so it's ok, pretty impressive.
Yeah, okay, Yeah, So I this has just been a real big
surprise. I'm quite at times blown away that we're we've come this far.
I mean, there's a game for a quiet place that's that's coming out,
and just where we're at now with this this franchise, in this universe.
It's really quite something. And there's obviously there's another Quiet Place movie that is
on the way, Quiet Place three, So I'm really really happy to see
where we've gone. And this movie really took me by surprise because it felt
very different from the previous two and it had things in it where the trailers
made me think we were going to be kind of getting more of the same,
and not that that necessarily is bad because I like these creatures. I
like kind of getting to know more about the origin here, and I feel
like this movie, while it has moments that are slow and long, I
think that it has a very I was trying to think of the word on
my way home that describes this. It has a enduring but hopeful something that
is there the word yet now it's a tough wor if it's tough work.
For if you dropped this word into a game of scrabble, you'd win the
game, let me tell you. But I don't know that word. So
I just I think that this this movie just has something a little bit of
a spark to it that is, like I said, enduring and just very
positive. And I like that it was a really nice quality that was mingled
in here on top of the fact that it's it's tackling different tribulations on top
of what we've seen already in the previous films. So I think that it's
it's nice that well, we're already familiar with these creatures and familiar with this
universe, there's still so much that we get to explore and so much new
things that we get to see and things that the trailers, which I'm glad
that the trailers didn't show a lot of the things in here with our main
character and with other things too that unfolded, because I think that there's certain
things that developed in the story that was it was a nice surprise, and
it was just it was a good a good journey, and there was there
were some scenes which had me like like on the edge of my seat.
But yeah, no, I'm I'm very happy with this movie and I definitely
recommend it, mister muss mm hmm, my hmm. Sorry, but that
pre brief history with these movies is uh, yeah, I really enjoyed the
first one. As Taylor mentioned, like a lot of surprises came with it,
and also yeah, like the John Krasinski angle of like I've only seen
this guy in the office, and you know, I love him there,
but he's the racketing he's acting what's going on here? And uh yeah,
I really really enjoyed the movie, really great stuff there, and then the
sequel just did not do it for me. I could not even tell you
why anymore, but it just did not impact me in a big way.
You have to go back to our golden geeks of that year, I think
because I didn't join in on the review, but I remember, so.
Yeah, just it just didn't work for whatever reason for me. But I've
been pretty pretty excited for this one just because of the trailers I thought were
really well done. And yeah, I overall had a really good time with
this movie. I think it. Uh, it definitely went through some waves.
I'm not going to say a rollercoaster because it wasn't that drastic, but
definitely some waves where you know, the start of it is kind of what
you expect. We get into the action pretty quick and all that stuff is
fun, and then I feel like there is some pacing issue that say,
like just in the middle of the movie in general, there's some weird pacing.
I was feeling like, man, there's some weird writing going on with
some characters here. But then I think when we kind of get to I
guess the third act, I feel like it actually does come together in a
big way where there's a couple couple reveals that kind of come together, or
I'm starting to understand these characters on it in a deeper way. Even though
there isn't a ton of dialogue, there is more than I guess I even
expected to some extent, but it started to come together, and I think
by the end of it, it actually tells like a pretty good story with
some with a nice metaphor for I guess. I won't say what, but
I'll just say a nice metaphor that I think comes together in the end for
me. So I'll talk about that in the spoilers section. I think maybe
my biggest disappointment here is I'm just gonna have to be complete opposite of Taylor.
You feel like they the trailers didn't show things and you got some good
surprises. I feel like most of the action sequences were really kind of like
the best stuff was in the trailer, and I didn't feel super surprised by
what I was seeing just because a lot of like even the big moments that
we're building up to in individual scenes of like Okay, the tensions building,
what's gonna happen, Here's gonna happen here? I knew what was gonna happen
because I've seen these trailers before, and also unfortunately that this movie trailer played
it like every movie I've seen in the last like three months. I feel
like I've seen these trailers like so many times, which is not something I
love to have happened. But and it is a shorter movie too. It's
not like one of those ones like the trailer. Yeah, it's not like
the trailer shows and the like. I feel like if it's two hours plus,
you're like, okay, there's probably lots we haven't seen, but it
is just around I think it's just over an hour and a half. So
it's not like it's for today's standards like what a block like I think it
was what twenty twenty two when we had like this and we had like John
Wick or say not this, like The Batman John Wick. We had like
that run of six months of like three hour movies. So for a blog
or something in that vein, it's kind of on the smaller scale. So
yeah, yeah, so overall I did really enjoy it. I think by
the end, like those issues I had with pacing and character stuff really did
kind of resolve themselves. And I think because it is a short movie,
like you said, like when I had that sequence when the pacing was weaker,
it's like, oh, yeah, well that wasn't really that long when
you compare it to these, yeah, these three hour long movies as you're
talking about, And yeah, Lupita and Joseph Quinn like really great, really
really great. Here. Obviously a lot of this movie is I mean,
there is a lot of dialogue too, but a lot of it is just
facial reactions or like, goddamn, the reflections off their eyes in this movie
are just like top tier. So yeah, I had a really good time
with it. When it's all said to done, I don't know, I
don't know where it would go in my ranking. Definitely above two, but
I don't think I've ever rewatched the first one either, so it's a little
fall. I do feel like I remember it pretty well, but I should
give that a rewatch. But hard for me to say which one's my favorite
of the two. I wanted to do that before this, and I honestly,
I just for completely forgot. I was at the gym this morning at
five am. I'm like, oh, I'm meant to rewatch all the time,
right, But I still want it because it's just like it's like especially
the first one, like you said, I don't think I've ever rewatched it,
but I remember loving that one. Even the second one too when we
saw it was at the drive and so like, I still really enjoyed that
movie, but there's times where the drive and like there's a quality too that's
great, but then there's other quality like the sound that is not great when
you're the drive in. So I feel like I've never properly seen the movie,
and you know, mister Oppenheimer's in there. So maybe this is a
prequel, So maybe I will watch those in the coming weeks or so,
as like the sequels. So yeah, this one's very interesting. I think
the best way I would describe it because I think that it kind of feels
like there's a few I think there's like three things that kind of feels like
the first one is like they had multiple short stories or short story ideas,
but they're like, well, also we can't do like a bit. We're
not gonna get the budget for that, and we're not gonna people are gonna
go out to pay to see like a twenty five minute Quiet Place, So
what do we do? There's other parts of it feel like it's an anthology
show where it's if it was like, oh this, I can'meraer HMO used
to the show where it was like room something, and it was always each
episode took place in this room, and it's always something bad had happened in
this room. And that's what this feels like. It is the same characters.
Don't get me wrong, but I feel like lots of equations. You
could swap out the characters and put different ones there and it would work the
other one I feel like, And it's an odd thing to say for The
Quiet Place, but the best way I would describe this movie is kind of
like a slice of life in the Quiet Place universe. Now I know one
and two I guess are that, but I feel like that is almost like
the more main campaign with the family they're working on, like those satellites or
radios that take a bunch of them out right, Like it feels way more
main campaign of like we could this could kill all the things, or this
could save us, or this is this island that could save us all.
There's always this big ejective where this is like a very minor ejective other than
just surviving the Especially your main character has a very minor goal important to her,
but very minor goals. That's why it feels like a side quest.
It feels a lot like I can't I think it was episode four, whatever
that episode was, with Bill and Frank and last of us to meet.
That's what it feels like, where you got Joel and Ellie. That's the
main campaign in the main mission, but then we take this great little detour
to see their life. And that's what this feels like. Where it's not
oh, we found a virus or it's not like you get to see it's
myerspoils. You get to see, of course, like the i'd say the
day like the day one, but it's not like you're with astronauts or the
government and they're explaining what's going on. It's not that it's not like the
origin really per se. It's just here's the town and this is when everything
went to crap, right, and the rest of the story is much more
personal, and I wasn't expecting that. I don't know why. I was
expecting this to give us the answer of how to kill these things, which
I don't even remember they have a name or something. I wasn't expecting that,
but I thought, oh, they might weave it into some sort of
main continuity of working with certain characters down the line or with the government.
But no, it's it's really just about these two people trying to survive the
situation. And yeah, Lapita, I've always said, like it's her pew
Emma Stone, Like to me, those are like the trendy right now for
the female actors. They're like those are the best of the best. And
she can like just you look in the past for years, like just from
like twelve years of slave us and this if they always feel like a different
person does not feel like Leapita. You know, it's crazy social voice in
this movie. I've never heard that voice. Yeah, yeah, because I
try to think of awesome, Like God shouldn't selling that us In Black Panther,
she's a different accent, so it's it's crazy, but yeah, she
does great. Joseph Quinn again, he's a guy that like I'm happy because
I feel like stranger things happen. I've told about the newscats and then I
think people got sick of them because like that any character got really popular.
But I'm happy to see that it's not just oh, he had one good
role and maybe that was it. Like this role is completely different than the
any role, and I feel he's fantastic in a tough role. At times,
he could play a character that could be on the verge of being annoying,
but it doesn't go that route. But you could see the twister would
go that everyone be like, I hate this character, this character brought them
be down and yeah again, like I already we see here law on the
MSUO, but this just gets me even more excited for him as Johnny Storm.
Fantastic for this performance is like nothing I imagine other than one seeing that
Johnny Storm would be like. But I just think from this and Stranger Things,
he's the same thing as a pe, like we're seeing his versatility.
And there's other people in here. Classic Giman Hunts's in here for like a
cup of coffee as usual, Alex Wolfe was in here from Hereditary, so
you got that going on. But so It took me a few minutes to
get used to the look of him in here, just weird Beard. We
were talking about the Carcassan mass like where do we know this guy from?
Like, well, hereditary, there's Jamanji. But those two they really anchored
and they did a great job. You couldn't ask for two better anchors.
So yeah, this is a good one. I don't know. That's why
I need to rewatch them. I don't think we go above number one two.
I need to rewatch just because I don't remember, because I did,
Like I think I still had like the eight point five to nine realm.
I just feel like I remember that one a little less, where the first
one had so many kind of iconic moments with the fire truck kid and the
pregnancy and Krasinski and the waterfall, Like there's I feel like almost every twenty
minutes in the first quiet place, there's a scene or like, oh no,
that's the I think that's the second one, right where she steps on
a nail. Or is that the first one? That's the first one?
Yeah, that's I mean right, Like I think all the big moments are
of the first one, where the second one I just kind of Remember Killy
Murphy's a shady guy and he ends up being a good guy. You know
so and I was a quiet place too though. Had that great opening of
Day one at Krasinski's house. Remember when they're playing the baseball game. That
was That was fantastic. I think they do a good job here that dread
of what I want. The trailer of the Day one, the events going
on, I think they nail that. I think there's a few I guess
my critiques of why you know spoil it's not gonna be a perfect score is
one another reason why I will rewatch him. I felt like this relayed way
more on a relied way more on jump scares, and to the point where
I was like getting annoyed with it, like there is one that I don't
care it's my spore, it's like a dream secrets. I'm like, get
that out of here, don't. We don't need that there. And that's
where I feel like, because to Taylor's point, the first one they don't
show them that much, and the second one they show them more. This
feels like the most we've ever seen them. So I felt like they were
like, oh, well, are they like not that they're not scary anymore,
But what new can we do with these things? Because they're gonna be
in like the Broad Daylight and we're gonna see them so much in this movie.
It's like, well, let's have them jump scare a lot and too
me. I just I didn't need that. And then there's a few little
plot moments where I just go, I understand, I get the characters' motivation
somewhat, but I just it's a leap of logic for me to for you
to go do this thing and put your life at risk. And it happens
kind of multiple times, especially one really agregious one, or I feel like
they just need a set piece to happen, So they just have this constant
plot device that keeps pushing them to danger. And it's kind of got a
little old after a while. But nothing a major negative. So overall I
really liked it. I would recommend it to really anybody unless you don't like
horror. Like the good thing is you legitimately don't need to see those other
two. It has nothing, Like I said, as far as tying in
nothing, you could watch this on its own, and it's its own movie.
There's no reason to see quiet place one or two. So yeah,
I really enjoyed it and it's I think a good win for this year.
So I'm excited to see what ranks in the future. So mm hmm.
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So yeah, where do we want to start with the Actually I want
to ask you say one thing. I was surprised when some of the trailers
done the whole stuff of like the bridge blowing up and everything like that I
thought, like the first act of this movie, a lot of the moments
that were happening, we're gonna happen more in the middle to the end.
So that's one thing that was refreshing to me that I for especially because I
got more to night time. There's lots of cuts of characters just getting hit
and then they go unconscious, so that progresses time a lot quicker. But
a lot of those moments in the first act I thought we're gonna actually happen
a bit later downline, Like even the stuff with Joseph Quinn, it was
I thought it was gonna go event Quinn jam and Huntsu nighttime stuff. But
so I did like that where I feel like, okay, they mix it
up a little bit of the trailers from instead of a A to B point.
So yeah, I that was something that surprised me. I think it
is an odd choice, which is that you know, pretty quick, we
have like the opening sequence you introduce to your character, and then we're we're
in New York. We have you know, a little puppet show, and
then that's when everything starts going down the first time. But then yeah,
we take a break for like a half an hour and then we get to
the point when she goes through all these adventures sh hands up back, she's
walking down the street with a million other people, and then it's like almost
that day one sequence again. And so I thought that was a bit of
a strange pacing choice. I also just felt like, man, with these
people really all travel in a pack like this together, Like I mean,
I'm not trying to backseat quiet place, but like I would not walk along
that side alongside especially people are yeah once sneeze exactly. People are so loud,
people with their chairs and bringing their suitcases and just stepping on glass and
stuff like, There's no way I would stand there. So that maybe stood
out a bit to me. But I just felt like that was something that
felt a little bit forced so that we could get another one of those sequences.
And I wonder why that choice was made to like I guess they just
for the pacing of it. So there wasn't just like a half an hour
of crazy action at the beginning, and said, it's like, oh,
here's fifteen minutes of intense action of like the inciting event, and then you
get another fifteen minutes of it later. So I kind of understand why it
was done, but I think it was a bit goofy or a bit clumsy
the way it was put together. I'm with you. I understand why it's
done, but I wonder I'd love to see a version where it is just
one scene, and that could be a lot, But I feel like there's
some movies, especially maybe like war movies, that you have a long sequence
that is very intense and very heavy, but then they take such a line.
And maybe it's also they just didn't want they wanted some character moments,
and they worried that for the if they did all the action and then a
lot of that characters off the middle, people might check out because it's almost
too much talking, too much. Because I felt like, not that I
didn't feel like our here to enjoy it, but I feel like there's some
people that came there more for like the roller, almost more for like the
haunted house aspect of the first one, and I think this has that,
but I think there's a lot of long breaks of that, So maybe that's
why too. They just felt like people might disengage with it, which I
wouldn't, but I understand what they're going for for the main appeal, So
yeah, and I think part of it too, is like when we get
into that second inciting event, that was like, okay, once again,
we're getting a lot of scenes from the trailers that I've seen multiple times where
she goes onto the car and the guys like, hell, you help me,
And we talked about the trailer, it's like what do you want her
to do? So maybe that was part of it too, that it was
a bit of like, Okay, I I kind of know what to expect
here, and so the intensity of it wasn't quite the same, although I
mean, put me in a theater and blast loud ass sounds at me,
like I'm my body's always gonna be shocked by that. So yes, I
was still I was still tense, for sure, but maybe not as intense
as I could have been if I didn't know that those sequences were gonna pop
up again at some point. Then I feel like the last maybe even the
second half of the movie, I feel like they really didn't show much of
any of that stuff in the Trap. So that was when we got into
a bit more surprise territory, which was nice. Definitely, the ending,
like that whole third act, like the escape and everything that was nice to
not show any of that, but yeah, no, so it's I I
agree where I found it odd to the pacing and I always remember, like
I kind of forgot like how much there is dialogue in the movies, but
they don't talk, so it is odd, and this is a Meggets movie.
It's just like a just how I'm feeling because I actually, I guess
this is something to say. I didn't see Quiet Place one theater because I
think that's around the time Gwen was born. And then two I saw in
the driveway or the drive and other time the driveway, so driveway place.
Yeah, sure, So this is the first one I saw in movies,
and it's like, it's so odd to have extend like twenty minute sequences with
almost no sounds whatsoever, and you're in a theater where it's supposed to be.
You know, that's a selling point, right, So that was an
odd experience for me. But it was the guy next to me just the
loudest popcorn eater of Dead Day one, So that huge fart a couple of
miles back too. Yeah, it was not the most pull of tailor here.
It was not the most ideal theater situation there was multiple groups of teens
in front of me with like their phones on it like full brightness. That's
why you're staying out of the crowd when everyone's hurtled together, right. I
liked some people are like, oh, I like a good theater experience when
everyone's I like a nice empty theater. I want to be like bo is
afraid. I want to be the only guy in that whole theater to live.
Yeah, he's experiencing your lego to moment Dylan's is gonna look back with
his shirt older few rows back. So I didn't didn't get a whiff of
it, but it definitely the monsters would have been, which apparently are called
death Angels. The death Angels would have taken it down and a terrible name.
I'm sorry, Yeah, something a bit more I don't know, scary
even, but yeah, so it's one of those Like even though the beginning
the first act has a bit weird pacing, I think when the day one
stuff happens, I'm all fine with the actual meaning Lapena's character and like the
cancer ward and the show, like, I think that's all nice and everything,
and they build like enough for me to care about Alex Wolf and their
relationship if it's like an awkward they're friends, but he is kind of her
caretaker, So I think that was But yeah, the Day one stuff,
it is like the day one break, Day one and then like another long
break. And it's tough too because I feel like, because these movies get
so quiet, I guess that's my point is you'll get these loud sequences and
then you just come to a screeching halt where nothing's happening in the movie.
And sometimes it goes on for a while. And that's not a negative thing,
it's just it's just odd sometimes when you have such long sequences. But
uh, no, I think the actual Day one stuff, I think that
was good. I think there was a couple of moments in the very beginning
they didn't show us as far as like the bus and like every I love
the sequence. So, like I said, maybe they did have this in
Trada, but it's the very first one where all the dust is around and
you're just gonna see little glimpses of people or the thing and it's just getting
taken out, taken out and everything like that. So uh and then yeah,
we got to meet Jim and Hunt Sue and he just I guess saved
her. I guess, And I was about it, you know, he
was like, I'm not sure if he's there for a sequel bait because he's
there at the beginning, then he goes away, and I just gonna look
over at Taylor because I was like, and luckily came back at the end.
But I was like, did I miss something? Like where did Jamond
Hunts who go? But no, she just uh, she just left.
So she left for her pizza quest, you know, yeah, which fair
enough. It's like I do get it in that route where we tunnel is
in the car if the world goes to crap, like your pharmaceutical drugs are
not going to be be being reproduced or produced at all, so you're if
you have any type of sickness. Well she was in hospice too, right,
that's where like you're at the end of the road. Yes, the
thing, Yeah, that's true, right, so it's like you there's not
much left. That's one thing I did like. The main objective was she
wanted to get pizza. And and I can't remember the character's name. I'll
have to look it up, but what was Josep Quinn's name? Eric?
Eric Eric and Eddie. There you go that he just was afraid to be
alone, even though there's lots of people around throughout this movie, so he
could have like, you know, glowed on to them, but he at
the beginning just didn't want to be alone. And then they build this connection,
and I thought that felt like a genuine connection as well too throughout the
movie. I bought that. So yeah, I mean, I found him
such a surprising character because in the I mean in the trailers, you don't
really get a vibe. But what either of those characters are gonna be like,
I don't think Lupita says anything. I didn't know if she would even
speak in this movie at all. It's why it's surprised me when she did
talk. But yeah, I because he pops out of the sewer or the
subway rather, he's like drowning. He pops out of the subway and he's
wearing like business attires. I'm like, okay, I guess he's like a
businessman that's just popping out here. And then he just follows the cat around.
He's, uh yeah, follows the cat to Lapida and then he's just
following her around. And it was it took me a while to understand what
was going on with him, but I think to me that was one of
the better kind of metaphors of comparisons between them, and then just like a
metaphor outside of the movie in general, was just this this angle of anxiety.
And he's clearly an anxious guy. He's on his own, he doesn't
have any family, he doesn't have anywhere to go, and so the fact
that her service animal could sense in him this anxiety immediately and just like comforted
him in that moment, and that's why he was so attached to the cat,
which then led to, you know, being more attached to her and
wanting to stick with her. Like I think that stuff works so well,
but I didn't really understand what was going on when it first happened. It
took me until like even when I was walking back from walking home from the
movie that I was like piecing it together of why exactly he was being so
creepy and following her around, because he was really just some nervous, goofy
little guy at the end of the day, which I don't know, I
didn't expect him to be that kind of character, so especially with the attire
he's wearing. I think that just shows how much like biases we have.
He's like, he's a businessman, business suit and all that, and so
I just expected him to have a very different personality than he did. But
I liked that subversion of the expectation. And I did like that he almost
was like an animal or cat or dog for at the beginning, because like
there's a few months where she would think, she like they spend that night
in her house, and she like quietly packs up, and then she looks
behind him and he's just like standing there like kind of like solemn, like,
oh, you caught me falling. But it's just like you can't can't
get rid of them. So, Tay, what do you think about some
of these Day one events? You weren't speaking one of those, Well,
I mean I feel like the uh, some of the groupings and stuff.
I know, it's natural human instinct just for people to group up together,
and it's still you get to think survival and let that kind of overcome your
your natural human instinct. But when you see some of the other things that
unfolded with like their LaPuta's main object to just get the pizza. I that
was something that was very grounding, and it just kind of pulls you out
from this being necessarily like a whole world ending scenario. It's just it feels
much more grounded in just the New York City and just with what this person
is doing. And it reminds you too, Okay, this person's not really
looking out to survive, like they're trying to live to get to their goal,
but we have to remind ourselves, Oh, this person is terminally ill.
They're not going to make it. And again it's grounding. And I
think you mentioned a lot of interesting points there with Eric's character, Dylan,
I didn't make that connection until now, and you said that it's the cat
being kind of drawn to helping him kind of calm down in his stress.
And the cat always appears in each one of those moments, whether it's the
pharmacy or he's just popping up breathing for air or whatnot. And just again,
he should stack away, he should stay away from water two times,
having some bad situation two times. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Well,
yeah he's redeemed the third time he came. He came back, so there's
that. But yeah, he's he was an interesting character and I liked I
liked him. He's just falling Lapedio around and he just he didn't want to
be alone. He was afraid, and he the actor man, he really
wow, he blew my mind. I mean, I've yeah, I'm just
I'm really really hyped on his performance. He did a really really good job
and just you really felt emotional and really was just invested in him in his
journey. Again, Lapito was fantastic as well, both of them. Their
chemistry together was great. I really liked the dynamic and their relationship, and
I loved how he was just like really there, Like I almost felt like
I've realizes that he messed up when they were in the tunnel and when they
got out and he's like, Okay, what meds do you need? And
then he went to go get those meds and it was just a really nice
moment. And the way that whole scene in the bar where he's doing the
card trick and what I loved all of that. It was just such an
unexpected thing to pull you out of everything. And while all the stuff like
you're right, Dylan, the action sequences from the trailer were definitely the majority
of all of them in this movie. I don't maybe I'm miss but I
don't recall her being revealed to be like a cancer patient. No, they
just show I don't think they've showed me that that she just has the two
gone and that's anything. Right that we had debated maybe on a trailer breakdown
that we thought it maybe a service animal, so like maybe we could have
inferred something there, But I don't think that was maybe the only detail.
Okay, I don't think it's on that cast, because I agree to Tay
you that. Yeah, you made a good point that I didn't think about.
But I mean service animal can be for like anything, it doesn't.
Yeah, yeah, I mean she's Yeah, no, of course, I
just I just didn't even think about, like even with the connection with him
the cat, I didn't even think about that too. So no, it's
a it's a good point. Mm hmm. Yeah, I think that that
being her kind of story narrative was very interesting. I wasn't expecting it whatsoever.
And again it changes up the dynamic here of how things unfold. But
yeah, you you make a point, Travis, with there being different kind
of like short story ideas almost because all of a sudden she's here and she's
got this little girl and this this her older brother by this fountain and what's
going on there. They get shuffled into the crowd really quick, so it's
like a small side kind of tangent, and then it gets rectified pretty quickly.
But I like how there's familiar things that are exposed in this world,
where it's the fountain with the water noise going off so you can talk a
little bit, or it's the rain and the thunder when they're kicking the doors
down, like lots of little things. And it just made me think as
well, that man, a video game in this world, I could see
it doing really really well a lot of like timed events, I hope.
So yeah, I was like, the sound mechanics could be really hard to
get right, That's what I was thinking. Yeah, because I was thinking
about that today because I know that trailer. I hadn't washed it, but
that trailer came out last week and I was like, this could be a
cool game, but it's like that also their game playing that trailer. By
the way, I didn't end up checking it. I didn't. I didn't
see the trailer either. I didn't see the trailer there you go. So
I just knew the games coming, I thought the same thing of like the
concept of course, like yeah, let's make a quiet place game. But
it's also like that must be extremely hard. Like I feel like the people
that made hell Blade, like that's the blueprint right there, right to do
and that's not even exactly to do that, but they're so big onto the
sound design and that having a big thing, and feel like you would have
to go sit down at them and be like, hey, give us a
couple of tricks of the trade, because we got to do a whole game
around this, right. But I think, like said, there is something
of like a time and with the Lightning, and I did like those sequences.
I like the sequences when they just both scream because obviously a terrible day.
And I also think for me because she saves him multiple times, I
feel like they do grow a connection. But with the meds with the pizza,
I feel like he just he does know, but I mean, like
legitimly, he's just like, hey, this character who has been good to
me is or this person has been good to me is on borow time,
and I want to try and give them the best sent off as possible because
he she multiple times brings up the boat thing. Right at the end he
does decide to go to the boat, it's not always gonna stay here.
So I just like that he was going, Okay, well, I don't
want this person to die alone, and if they are gonna die alone,
like at least their last few days can be something good and the pizza the
bar. And that's the only time where I was like, Okay, I'm
excited to see his joining storm because I think he was very fun and charismatic
in that scene when he's not even talking, it's just his facials and his
motions and stuff. So I think that was again, they had such a
cool dynamic of they're not even together that long, and it changes multiple times
throughout the movie in a natural way. So it was very well written that
too. Together Yeah, I found too. I think there was like a
nice comparison between like she just had this kind of constant pain and obviously she
needed meds for all sorts of reasons, but she also had like that patch
that would pretty much cool like the actual pain symptoms she would experience on the
minti mint basis, And obviously, as you mentioned, he goes and gets
that which cools it down. But I Also I feel like there's a nice
comparison there between that pain, which is almost just like similar to the noise,
like the constant noise of New York, and then like the noise that
is created by these creatures, which is like an nice comparison of like how
they they can only seek by sound and there's always like these quiet moments when
they strike, but then they're just like the loudest fucking things ever. So
it's kind of like this opposite, uh too. But yeah, I thought
also like the just opening of the movie when it was like in New York
City, there's a constant degree of ninety decibels whatever it is, which is
like a constant scream, which is like that's a that's like a nice horror
movie type of line right there. But then I think it also just kind
of compared nicely to the anxiety of his character and then like the pain of
her character less anxiety in her start more so like just the constant pain.
So yeah, I just I feel like there's a lot of really nice through
lines on those those things. Did you guys take it? Because it's one
thing that you know, I like to look in the meanings and the themes
and the deeper thoughts. I didn't the puppet. I didn't figure out,
like what was why was she getting so emotional over that? Does anyone have
anything for it? Because she at first she's annoyed to be at the show,
and then they do this whole thing and I actually like the scene.
The music's good and I love the contraption with the balloon and the kids are
having a good time. But then she starts to actively get upset about it,
and I didn't know. I couldn't draw the line of from her story
and what she's dealing with to the pupp in that performance. I don't know
if it's just like in general, just feeling down, but I feel like
it's triggered by that. But I didn't know, so hmm. I wish
I had something cool and smart to say, but I don't think I have
a I don't think I have a theory for that. I mean, the
only thing is during that scene, just the he's blowing up the balloon,
he's going around for a while and then like the balloon pops, which is
very similar to like when all the shit goes down with the other song.
But yeah, I don't know if I I guess i'd have to watch that
again because like, maybe I didn't get that from her performance there, but
maybe I just missed that. Yeah, maybe I read too much and I
just thought she got upset and she did leave. Now she went to go
leave to get pizza. But no, I just wondering. But nice scene,
and I think the movie does that more than the other Quiet Places where
they'll just that the bar scene. There's probably another one in there. They'll
just take about four to five minutes to do something. It reminds me very
much of Stuff and The Last of Us or video games where it is just
like, oh, you and Joel are at the zoo looking at this thing
and you're learning about giraftes or something. Right Like, it felt like it
did that in this movie, and I think for the most part it worked
for me. So m hm, you guys are mentioning the the water earlier.
I think they did a good job because I don't remember. I don't
remember it ever raining in Quiet Place one or two, I don't think.
So they just found that waterfall. That's it about it. Okay, I
forget the waterfall scene. Yeah, that's where they got to scream and talk
and stuff. He brings the kids there every once in a while because it's
like the rain, like Tara saying, like it's a con constant noise presser.
Yeah, I gotta I gotta watch that again, because I really liked
how much they just emphasize the power of water all over the place in this,
Like obviously the the like borders of New York City, like New York
is really perfect for the pict like I guess for the setting of this,
because it almost is just like this giant moat and that's like the safe squat,
and obviously they took out the bridges, and then there's the sequence of
the subway he pops out of a separate subway that's full of water, but
then like the fountain where the kids are hiding under, and then like yeah,
the various like rain sequences and using that as a suppressed I just feel
like they really displayed how in like multiple ways water is just like the way
around these things and wherever whatever planet they come from, must not have anything
like this because they're clearly not adapted to it in any any sort of way.
Just is their their their crux. I guess, Well, it seems
like they like to resign in more of like a hot, humid kind of
temper temperate type guess. And I just say that based on the construction site
where you see the fires going on and whatever it was that they were yeah
doing, and the caw to that that's interesting because I think that's a smart
thing where you go, okay, like it's a quiet place. One and
two have elements of discovering how can we kill all these things? I think
this is smart the get to like it's funny we're doing the alien retrospective right
now, and I feel like as the same thing when those films go later
on, they try to introduce more lore things and we talk ablled every week
of you know, what works and what doesn't. But I think this was
a smart thing where it's just something little where it feels like they are kind
of somehow producing their own type of food. Because at first I thought,
okay, it is an alien thing where it's like babies, children's offsprings,
but it wasn't. It's this thing that looks very sim of their skin,
you know, whatever palette that it breaks open and they eat it. So
that's why I was wondering if it's something like I know, this might sound
gross. But the way our body like when we eat stuff, when we
get rid of stuff we don't need, nutrients and minerals we don't need.
I wonder if that happens with these aliens. But it's like they it takes
that, like it distributes the stuff you do need and then they can re
eat it. I don't know, because I didn't. That didn't look like
something that was just like on like obviously they were on ships our meteors,
but it's not something they took with them, like, oh, here's our
food we brought from planet X. You know. Yeah, I guess as
that was going on, like that was one where the one of the spot
where the meteor crash, and so they're going back to it because it had
Yeah, I guess maybe, Yeah, I guess that because yeah, if
we have to think about like, okay, well, why did these things
get sent the way they did, Like was it just random chance or were
they sent like this? And therefore it makes sense that the thing they were
sent on also you know, contains nutrients as you mentioned that they they need.
But yeah, my first instinct when I saw it was that this is
like an egg that they finded me too. Yeah, but then it very
quickly it was not the case because they ripped it to shreds. So yeah,
I guess that must be what it is, and that would make sense
for why that area was so on fire. I just thought, like,
hey, they're just smashing through buildings, so it would make sense. But
yeah, I guess that that is. That is an interesting angle to it.
Yeah, and I like that. I like, yeah, I love
that. It's like a sminy, a small, tiny, little lord detail
and you kind of have to take a guess or you know, make a
theory or this is time to go hit up the reddit forums and see what
other people are discussing. And it's not the main plot point of all I
get these eggs or nutrients or destroym or something. It's just like this was
going on. So I don't know, I've really thought it was a Taylor.
You know, in the video, this guy's fading quick and private Chatty
just says, I'm gonna go get his zoo right now. It's late night
for the new dad. But yes, I think that's the smart way,
in the same way of I always hope that how many quiet places we get,
like I think we've talked about with alien It's like, I think whatever
they reveal of why these things would have came to Earth would be disappointed.
So I hope it never really gets revealed. It just stays that way.
And same thing with this egg thing, like I don't need an answer.
I'm fine with it being like, Okay, it's some sort of because I
feel like that works from the human perspective too. I guess it would make
sense to get answer if we fall main characters that are like scientists or something,
right, But if it's just this guy who was I think he's trying
to be a lawyer, right, was that what he's trying to be?
I don't expect he should not have some side objective of like, well,
I found these eggs, and if we do this, like no, he
just wants to get out of there and they're already like that. To me,
that was something where I think you did something a little bit more on
why his connection with the cat. I thought that was still one jump too
many for me for him to climb up this scaffold to get this cat,
especially because my issue is that every time they lose the cat, the cat
always just finds them. So it's like every time it's been okay, And
I just thought that that happened. And I think there's one or two other
scenes too where the cat is like the inciting incident of how they get in
this trouble, Like the cat runs away into a room and goes there.
So I wish they only did it one time, and especially I can understand
if it goes into a room, but literally this is like one when he
looks up, there's like you can see things there. It's like looking like
a home base as like, and I get you want to get that cat.
But they climb that scaffold was something and I guess another thing we've seen
it before. But they tried to do like a bigger zoom in on the
innerds of the aliens. And I enjoyed that because I feel like they're doing
their best job to make it look very almost kind of fish like, like
more gills and stuff or insect like. So I like that wasn't just like
I don't know, just bigger variants too, right, Like that one that
lifted its head up when he was on the beam, that was like that
was the big cheese. He was top dog. Yeah, he was huge.
And then I agree with you. I think I think that scaffold scene
was a little clumsy, and even though I think post movie I like it
more than when I was in the theater watchings because of these When I thought
about this a bit more, I still think, yeah, I've seen is
a little clumsy and it's you know, very much there because they want to
get also that little bit of lore dump. Yeah, a little additional info,
So it makes sense why they did it. But yeah, I think
could have been a little cleaner. And this thene bugged me, like this
isn't this isn't really a negative in the movie, but it did take me
out of it. Just gotta want to think about it. If you guys
were in this situation, they they were when they get in the water and
they swim down that thing. Now, granted, one thing I can't remember
because we were on a different track. Taylor brought up something with water,
and that's one thing I liked that this thing like drowned very easily. So
again it's like they probably have like very little to no experience with water if
at all, at their planet. Because I would just think the size I
would be able to maybe go a little longer than our human characters, but
it didn't it was just like, well, I mean, I think the
big thing with it is that once they're underwater. Uh. I think about
when you're underwater and how poorly you can hear. You can't figure anything out.
And obviously we usually swim in like environments when it's light so we can
see. But if they're under there, they can't see, and their ears,
their ear thing heads are getting filled with water. They're probably just completely
lost. I don't even know how to get out of their environment. And
so I think it's more so that than like, I don't know, water
is just so powerful, it's super effective against them. It's more just that,
yeah, they just can't locate themselves and yeah, just trap get trapped
and die. But to me, I thought that was a bold move from
our characters. As far as I get the idea, you go in the
water, there's some ambient noise and you can walk, but I just feel
like if they could hear him breathe when he went ough and then that they
heard him right away one because they're walking for us, one bad step,
one splash. I just felt like it was a very I felt like the
risk versus reward situation. Again, our characters live to get made on the
other end. But to me in the real world, I just thought,
like other than to escape, to get to the boat, to go in
this water, I feel like it's water's very loud at times, so I
feel like you can make some noise. I had heard that like government message
at that point that was, you know that that loud speaker and the helicopter
or whatever. That was just like water is their weakness or whatever you say,
So maybe that's what they were thinking. But also like behind them in
that really tight subway station, I mean there was one right behind them,
so I feel like it was kind of a split second decision too at some
point. But yeah, I don't know, I can see where you're coming
from for sure. Some good shots and though in there. And I love
that shot of when they do hear the noise and then it's the thing on
the roof like climbing and running to him. That was really good. I
enjoyed. I enjoyed that aspect. And now that they like shot a flashlight
and one's kind of like I think sleeping or just kind of chilling. But
uh, those were I prefer that. Again, was not a fan of
I feel like, especially the first half the movie had tons of jumps,
scary, especially the day one stuff. It's like, I don't need this.
The World's going to ship like is already scary enough, but I think
they were hidden that those sounds a little too much for me here for me
to enjoy it. But I absolutely love the cat in this movie, which
in the credits it looks like there's two cats O doing the acting there.
I couldn't tell when it was Cgi versus one is real, that's just how
good it looked. Yeah, your cat was amazing, amazing acting there.
So shout outs to uh so there's that cat Frodo. I forget what his
actual name is. I'm sure he's not on IMDb, but shout outs to
that guy. We'll get them for I would take this cat and it's acting
over the Argyle cat any day of the week. Mostly mostly is it better
than Garfield though, which just came out. I am seen it, so
I'll say it's better than the original Garfield. I guess that's Chris Pratt acting.
So how good do you feel about Chris Pratt's acting? That would answer
that question. I guess we're gonna have to have a golden geeks ar guy
al Garfield. This he had best Animal, we should have done it and
what it was twenty nineteen with when cats came out did Yeah, but if
we do best Animal like next year we got Crypto the super Dog and Superman
and stuff, and Rocket just is gonna be the fucking Meryl Streep of that
category anytime Rocket's in there. But no, we gotta do real animals.
But where else we want to go? Here he's always great, But yeah,
I was surprised how little him and Alex Wolf were both and this.
I thought Alex Wolf would bite it in the first act, but I thought
he might be still in like a little more, and uh, he didn't.
He's had an interesting career since Jamon Jiniretarry, you know, I thought
I just didn't think. I thought this was He's not a big actor,
I guess, but I just still thought it was too small role for him.
I was like, I feel like he's she should be booking more gigs
than this, unless it's just like, hey, I just really want me
be in Quiet Place movie. We got this one character. Cool, I'll
do it, sobody, that's it. But I just was expecting more.
So, Yeah, that's my theory. He was an Oppenheimer two member for
like a se right we have. Yeah, I also am in the same
boat. Of course, I wish he had kind of taken off a little
bit more since since that great Hereditary performance. He actually lasted longer than I
expected because I forgot he was in this. I mean, I know we
talked about it, yeah, previously, but I don't think he was ever
in a trailer, right, so or maybe he was in the background or
something. I didn't recognize him. So he was in it more than I
thought. And then Gian, I guess he was in it about the exact
amount I thought he would be, you know, Dan the Jiaman Huntsu thing.
Yeah, I didn't think he'd be on the main quest with them.
I didn't. I didn't think he would live. I thought he would get
taken out, I guess probably early on. So I was surprised about that,
and I would be down to see him brought back again. I think
if they do, yeah, if they do a sequel, like even if
he's not the main character, just have him pop up. He just becomes
like the turk of like the quiet place and everything for like a soon or
two. I don't know. I mean, I even be down if he
was the star. But I think what he what he does here is good.
Like that moment when he has to accidentally kill the guy to save the
rest of them. I think the emotion of that was well done, and
the way he keeps looking back over his shoulder to see if his son was
watching was was good. He's I mean, he's a good actor, so
he's good even in these small, small roles. I thought he'd be a
little bit more, and again because the trailers, I thought he'd be a
third act character, So I thought he'd be a character that might like guide
them to someone to help them out. That sequence from the trailer would be
much later on. Yes, so I agree with you there. I thought
he was gonna die earlier on, before we got to Eric. I thought
he was Eric was Gonne his replacement, which he kind of was, except
they just did kind of kill him off. But yeah, he was.
He was good, and he was there to save Eric at the end and
was probably wondering like why do you have that woman's cat and clothes, like,
especially yeah, the cat. I thought they would have said something about
that, but they didn't. But they didn't. Yeah, one of the
interesting career. Jamond Hunts, who has you know, he's just this is
like what he always does. He comes in a movie for like ten minutes,
is always good, and then he just disappears. He never has like
a big role like he does a couple in his past. It's just it's
so funny, like the generation of geek. First wise, what's like his
his movie? What's his blood Diamond? It's him never seen blood. Yeah,
that put him on the map, and that because he's a supporting I
can picture him on the Yeah movie. And I think he got nominated for
an Oscar too, but that was the one that put him on the map
map and then now he's just relegated to like this ten minute guy. Is
that a starring role or a supporting in that one? It's it's a it's
a strong supporting. Leo's definitely the star the number two or yeah, definitely.
Yeah. So I know, someone give Chiman into a Giman retro.
What I want is get Jimon in some cool a twenty four horror movie.
That's what I want. Have him lead that. That's what I'm pitching a
twenty This is kind of taking him down that road. A little bit film
was there maybe. Yeah, one very random thing at the start of this
movie, when it was still like the studios plane, there's one of the
studios. One of the studios is is Platinum Dune, which I hadn't heard
of, and I thought that was like, oh, really the aliens planet.
At first, I thought we were going full backstory and this is like
their home planet. And I'm like, wow, titles drop of the planet
Platinum Dude, this is their home plan. I guess it would make sense.
Yeah, that's Michael for five five whole seconds, but ye quickly came
back to reality. That's Michael Bay's production company. But I guess that makes
sense because he had seen The Transformers and then he did a lot of the
horror remakes in this after watching the Transformers one trailer. I'm not seeing that
movie either. Oh yeah, I'm not a fan of that trip. But
I think as I think we tell the newscasts, I think that one is
more gear towards like the kitties and stuff. But I think that is a
Bayless one, though I don't think he's a part of this. Yeah,
Dunes, no planet. There was a surprise amount. There was like a
bird logo. There's Platinum Dunes. There's Paramount, there was Sunday Night,
there was another. I was like, how many people? How many these
companies are because usually you get their a lot of independent movies, right,
because like we don't have the fun thing, so let's get a bunch of
people on the Boss Quiet Place. I think just Paramount, not Krasinski.
I don't think he owns it. I think he's gonna always get like money
as like a credit for creating it. And he did the sacs and he
still wrote on this. He got a story by credit. I don't know
if he was a screenplay but I can't. But is that just a case
where like all the Alien movies have like the original writers. No, that
would be that would be more so there, so the two of those would
be like characters based on like from Ridley Scott or the EP like an executive
producer, but a story by means like he pitched some of this, like
I don't know what portion, but he definitely did. Like with the kids,
I bet with the fountains, yeah, I think Johnski kind of moment
there. Yeah, so and I could see maybe the lower stuff too,
because maybe they'll go to him be like, hey, we don't want to
step on your toes, like you know, what could we add here?
What could we not? And even the day one stuff that could be like
hey, what do you envision this? And I think that was a good
choice too, because I know we get lots of movie he's in New York,
But as we talked about when we did do the trailers to see it
in a bigger city, I think that worked. And even though again we
saw this also the trailers, I still really like the sequence of them in
the city when it was like foggy and everything. I thought that was well
done. So again, lots of lots of good sequences. I don't know
if there's like a scene. I'll have to wait till I rewatched. I
don't know if there's like a scene on here. And I have for Golden
Geese is like that was the scene, but I think it's for me.
It's the pizza, the pizza scene, the magic Okay, yeah, I
could get that, yeah, But as far as the big set pieces,
I don't think I have anything. It's buch of good. Don't think.
I don't think there is one for me. I felt like the ending sequence
when he's running off the dock I actually felt like that was maybe too quick,
Like I don't know what they would have done to extended it, but
I think, you know, not every movie, I guess needs a huge
act three action sequence, but it still did feel a bit too quick,
and it was really fun, and you know, it was surprising because it
wasn't in the trailers as well, really interesting. I like love the idea
of heard his running around smashing windows, activating car alarms. That was really
fun. That end sequence there actually like I'm glad this wasn't the trailers,
but I would I don't know if I would nom at you know, when
Golden Geeks rolls around, but just the whole scene of just the boat honking
its horn and you just see a herd of these things death angels just walking
along the shore, just staring at it, and they're just they're stalking it
slowly. That was terrifying due with that horn. It's like that scene and
I am legend when the zombies or vampires are just like looking through the beam
of sunlight, just waiting for that to shrink and you can chase down.
Yeah. No, I thought that the third act have a bit more to
it, and it is one of these things that obviously they run in quiet
place one and two, but I feel like there's a lot more running in
this because it was the Day one event. And it always confuses me where
the peda can go and hit a bunch of windows and be running and they
won't catch her, But Joseph Quinn will kick one can and he will run
down the exactly where he is, and that happens through all and I don't
think that really takes like a big point off of the movie, but majority
of the movie, this happens a lot where sometimes I feel like when they
run, they track them, and then sometimes when they run, they don't
track them at all. So I feel like it's a very kind of iffy
thing going on. But again it's just yeah, I guess the one I
mean, because obviously they didn't go down the route where she gets killed there,
but she was totally fine if she did, And I think maybe that's
a bit of a difference where she was okay, you know, she wasn't
trying to She's just trying to stay alive for a little bit longer, but
it wasn't to be all end all. She's just trying to save him in
that moment, and I think it's my last note note that I have to
bring up that I always talking about this Taylor mass in the car, and
Taylor was the other side of it. So for me, I thought,
for sure the ending that we got of her gen Joseph Quinn eric to the
boat and her gonna like kind of take her own life while there, I
thought, Okay, that's one hundreds of the route we're going. I just
thought, and I'm not gonna say it's better, but maybe my mind's a
little bit better. I thought I was gonna end with her playing the piano
because they talk about the piano so important to her dad. They had that
whole scene where she's like touching the piano but she won't hit a note on
her or anything like that. So I thought for sure she was gonna go
back and just whale on that thing and that's when it would get her.
But no, they went with the the iPod route, so I was surprised.
I thought the piano would have hit a bit more emotionally better to tie
to the Dad not saying the other scene was bad, because I think it
was a fun that they timed the creature like dropping right when the beat dropped
there, so I think that was still still good. But I thought that
was like a tad bit of a missed opportunity, but nonetheless still like,
I think I was satisfied with that ending. And I don't know if that's
a better way to die, because I'm sure it's still painful, but I
don't know. I think you go quickly. I hope, I hope.
What if they like, you know, they split you in like half,
like diagonally wise and there you've seen enough people get absolutely just one shot that
she was probably feeling pretty safe about it. But no, I think that's
a that's a fair criticism. I think that the piano stuff maybe did feel
a little underwhelming, but I did really like that ending. As you mentioned,
like early, much earlier on in this reviewers, I love that this
journey for her is just like the quest for pizza, but like that has
so much more meaning to it, And at first for me, I was
like, really, like that's her motivation, but as the movie goes along,
you really understand like the deeper meaning behind it in connection with her her
family and her dad, and then even just like I feel like they were
playing too at the end of the movie, how she's like going back to
her neighborhood that she grew up in and she remembers it as like a kid,
fondly and like it was like quiet, and it's like peaceful in this
place. It's like sunny at that moment too, that she can go back
there and it's quiet now. And I don't know, I think it was
just really really well done, really nice, nice sequence in general. I
also love, yeah, just the the angle from her of like the start
of this movie, she's in the hospice. They're doing that like round table
thing, they're all talking. She shares her poem, yeah, and she's
just like, I hate this guy. I hate this place, this guy
smells, this guy sucks, this guy's music sucks. And she's walking the
hall and he's like, you know, that was kind of mean, and
she's like, yeah, I'm an asshole, and like she's just very open
about that and it's like a jokey, but it's still like, yeah,
she is still being kind of mean. You know, given her circumstance,
she can do whatever she wants. But I love that underneath that she was
still clearly a really good person. She spent so much time to make sure
that Eric was comforted with the sweater, leaving the note, giving him the
cat, helping her out, and then helping the kids too when she didn't
need to, Like she was very selfless in that way. She had less
to lose than other people because she was on deathbed anyway. But I still
thought that was like an nice angle to it, that she had that rough
exterior but that soft core underneath. No, I agree. I think they
they for an hour and a half, they flushed her out to like the
perfect amount where he felt it was well round, and I still understood the
character motivations and them, so I think they did a good job. And
again what I was gonna say my last point is I did like when they
got to the pizza place and it's just completely destroyed, and it just almost
felt like a heartbreak of that moment of man, this journey was really for
like the only thing that was keep her going, which is like just wants
to die by at least going this pizza place. But then I love that
they bring it back around. They find this different place, pizza place just
writes the name of the box, gives it to our very very fun moment.
Mm hmm, yeah, very nice. My last nitpick of the people.
There's a lot of dumb people in this movie there is, which is
a very you know, it's a horror movie type trope. I don't know
if you'd call this a horror movie more of a disaster movie. But uh,
I felt like this is my nitpick one because there's a lot of dumber
people. But I feel like they I understand why these people later on set
up in a church, you know, because that's a place of hope and
belief and all this. Yeah, but I also feel like churches, you
know, they're designed, especially churches like that that are huge. They're designed
to be so fucking loud and everything is really echoey, and you know,
so when the preacher's doing his sermon, it just like travels to the room
and people feel like God's talking to them all that stuff. So I feel
like it's a very risky place to set up camp because one person drops a
quarter, it's gonna reverberate through that whole place and probably have the water back
drop too, right, Like you could hear the running water always splashing around
when they're in the church. That might have been an extra Okay, maybe
Dan, some of those sound effects. M Yeah, good call. I
think that was my last note. Actually, same thing here. Shut out
another scene even though it wasn't the trailer. I like when the helicopters are
flying over and you see them just these creatures moving like spiders up the buildings.
I like as well that the helicopters are actually luring these things away from
the waters that people could actually dock and get on the boats. I think
that was a really cool, cool strategy. I like seeing how they were
handling the situation. And so before these things actually make land, you have
the Air Force flying around New York and you have like them preparing. I
just think that's like, obviously she's not going to get the latest memo from
the government on what's going on. But I just think it's interesting and I
like seeing that kind of background stuff of what the world's doing and just have
a regular, average person just living their life and you know, shit's kind
of hitting the fan. Yeah, props to the people in charge there for
really getting getting these things dialed down pretty quick with figuring out how they tick
and how to lure them, and you know, they're not one effecive.
A lot of people die, but I feel like they did pretty good all
things considered, especially in a city like New York. They're so populated for
an event. They probably weren't reroll calling either. Like I know, cops
firefighters are always probably trained for fires, bomb attacks, terrorist attacks, shooting
attacks. I don't Maybe I'm wrong, New York Firefire Department. Let me
know if you're trained for if the talent based monsters, yels just alien in
general, like anything crash for the ground, Like are you trained for that?
If you are great? But you know they did it well mm hmm
anything else? Stay there. Oh, I think that's all I got for
scenes. Give us a rating them. I wish I could run what I
gave the second one because I remember I did the review with you. Yeah,
I was with you. Was it just you and me? Yeah?
Because I was on the drive in? And yeah, Kirklam hasn't seen them.
And then for the first review, you were sitting until Lass's parking.
I was in front of Dylan's house while you and Briggs were reviewing the movie.
I was waiting for my invite. Oh my favorite stories ever? Uh
the drive in it was the first one and then the second one right after
right, but in early viewing of the second one. Isn't that what they
did? I don't remember them showing the first one. That's something I thought
they did show the first one first movie of the Drive, and yes,
yeah it was. It was just it was a good time. I really
enjoyed this movie and it cut me off guard. So my rating I'm gonna
go with it is it's higher uh after it's actually higher. Talking with you
guys, i'd probably go uh. I feel like I go in eight.
I think the down to earth, the grounding humbleness of just these two characters
that are just never would have met each other in any shape or form,
but because the end of the world happened, that it has just brought them
together and they've really helped each other get to where they wanted to be in
their life. At this well in their life, considering it's the end of
the world, I just think that it's it's a it's a really neat,
interesting story and it was really engaging. It's not devoid of having a slow
moments, but there's a lot going on that I can really latch onto and
it's something I would really really like to watch again. Like I said,
in the starting point of this episode. I would highly recommend people go watch
it. And if you didn't watch it and you just want to listen to
all the spoilers, hopefully we convinced you to go and watch it because it's
it's a good time. And I I just pulled up our review or your
review because I wasn't on it. You gave it the second one nine point
five? Did I really you did? That? Was that was young Taylor?
For sure? That was only very young. Your camera was pointing from
a different angle. You had a hat on. Travis had very short hair
in a very red room. He was the gauntlet. Travis was the geek.
First got the champion? Whose boat was it? This is the whole
era? What good days? Gone? A champion? My goodness? Yeah,
I was very frivolous with the numbers back then. That sucks. What
do you want to retroactively change your rating for number two? I would retroactively
change you got to watch it again, though, you don't know if you
watch it again, said Suicide Squad, like it was probably not a ten,
and then we did the cont track. You're like, yeah, there's
still a ten ten ten movies, so yeah, sorry? Did you give
her a view? Taylor or a number on this one, because I remember
did I did? I? Okay, wet over my head already, like
did I cut you off? There? I thought I remember it because I
thought that was lower than you were gonna give it. That's why. So
yeah, still, yeah, I'm I'm somewhere between eight point five and nine
on this, and I feel like, yeah, there's just there's enough like
little things that could detract from it, but you know what, I'm just
gonna drop a nine on it. I'm gonna be optimistic today. I'm gonna
be happy. Yeah, there was little nitpicks here there, but for the
most part, I think I was not expecting how well this movie tackled like
anxiety as like a theme. I think they did a really good job there,
and it really came together some really nice scenes, and like, I
like the runtime. That honestly makes me so happy. How many reviews do
we do we're talking here. There's like a couple things we maybe wanted extended,
but I feel like most of our reviews are like, yeah, he
could have shaved ten fifteen minutes off that, And I feel like this movie
was just the perfect thing. So yeah, I was really pleasantly surprised by
this. Really had a good time, so I'm good with that. That
score. Except for Disney Plus shows, we're never saying, oh, he
could have shaved a few minutes. We're always saying those are the on like,
oh, give us some more, but no, I'll join deal with
the nine. Like I said, I think there's a few moments with the
uh little few pacing jump scares and a few character decisions where I go,
okay, us an their set piece here, But all in all, still
great movie. Rank and high this year as far as what's come out right
now, and uh, yeah, I think it kind of met my expectations
because I had lower expectations, but a couple of trailers that came out were
really good, so that hide them, and I think it met them.
I think the only thing was different was maybe just of how small scale was
in a certain way, but that's something I end up enjoying. So yeah,
n I had tend for myself too, and uh really enjoyed it.
And I'm not sure what's next res franchis. I'm not sure if they do
part three or they decided to do other areas in the world. I think
you gotta be careful that because you don't want to oversaturated. But as of
right now, I've liked all three, so I would still be down for
a fourth whatever it may be, and go from there. So definitely yeah,
yeah, all right, ladyes showing that is it for quiet place.
Let us know on the youtubes, the twitters, Facebook, or the discord,
any of your thoughts, your questions. If it's something a question specific
maybe about this week, can accill maybe next time on a newscast, but
until then I'll not be warring. Mm hmm