A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

[BetterButter]

 

[aghst]

Never saw either film but both grossed hundreds of millions, way above expectations, especially the first one.

Interesting premise but if the monsters can hear you, would side language be enough when you can make involuntary noises -- your digestive system or sneeze and coughs?

Or just getting winded for some reason and gasping for air?

 

[Book Junkie]

Watch the first movie. They address all of that.

[Anela]

I saw the first one on my birthday in 2018, and I loved it. 

I doubt I'll be going to the theatres this time, but I do want to see this. 

[Bastet]

I thought the first one quite good for something with some distracting plot holes, but haven't even got around to the second one yet as most I know found it a letdown.  Maybe I'll wait until this streams on something I have and watch all three.

[BetterButter]

 

[Macbeth1966]

I am very interested in this movie - but will wait for streaming.  Loved the 1st one.  And the 2nd one started on how it all began on day 1 - then jumped forward where the 1st one ended.  

And as I watched the 2nd movie - I just wanted to see it from day 1's perspective.

[Affogato]

On 2/8/2024 at 7:21 AM, aghst said:

Never saw either film but both grossed hundreds of millions, way above expectations, especially the first one.

Interesting premise but if the monsters can hear you, would side language be enough when you can make involuntary noises -- your digestive system or sneeze and coughs?

Or just getting winded for some reason and gasping for air?

 

I only saw the first. It is more about being a parent and having to keep the kids safe and all the extra trials and fears children bring with them. 

[AimingforYoko]

For a movie about an alien invasion of NYC, I was surprised how small the story was. For anybody looking for answers about why they invaded, how they overwhelmed everything so quickly, or how quickly we figured out they hunt by sound, they're going to be disappointed. This isn't that movie.

This was about human connection and determining the course of one's life...with an alien invasion as the backdrop. I liked it, I don't know if everyone will.

[Harvey]

It’s a prequel that doesn’t actually teach us anything new. We barely see anything that happens on day one. It takes place in New York but it could’ve been any random city. What a waste of New York.

I was hoping this movie would do a better job at showing the world’s first response to the invasion and how humans learned about the monster’s tendencies. I felt the movie was marketed as a prequel but it very much felt like a solo movie that takes place in the quiet place universe. It was an okay movie on its own, but it was a little misleading to call it “day one.”

[Cobalt Stargazer]

On 6/29/2024 at 3:37 PM, Harvey said:

It’s a prequel that doesn’t actually teach us anything new. We barely see anything that happens on day one. It takes place in New York but it could’ve been any random city. What a waste of New York.

Ultimately I don't believe these movies are about the actual invasion, though. It's not like Alien, where the creatures have some semblance of intelligence and the ability to plan. These are not perfect organisms, since despite their size and their destructive capabilities they're blind and they can't swim. The hearing might compensate, but notice how they gather on the shore while the boats with the refugees sail quietly past. However much they may have evolved, water kills them.

Here in particular, it's about Sam's determination to go home one last time, before the cancer that's killing her finishes the job. Her only friend seemed to be Frodo the cat, since she had a more than slightly prickly relationship with the caregiver from the hospice. Her reluctant decision to help Eric make his way through the increasingly ruined city is because he has the chance to survive, but all Sam wants is to live long enough to re-visit the place where she was the happiest. And maybe go out on her own terms, if that final scene is anything to go by.

[Hanahope]

At least Joseph Quinn got to survive this movie. :)

 

[jah1986]

I enjoyed it for what it was. I don't think we'll ever know who the aliens were or why they came to earth. I liked that Sam went out on her terms and that Frodo lived. It was a bit of continuity to have Djimon Hounsou's character be on the boat at the end, as he's the man on the island when the family arrive in Part Two.

[Kel Varnsen]

Watched it tonight and like the other two, it was good enough where when you are in the moment watching the movies you don't really notice all the plot holes. In this case Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn gave really great performances (especially with so little speaking). That basically made the movie good. Although the shot of the jets taking out all the Manhattan bridges was really good as well.

Although I still have trouble accepting that the aliens could be so successful. Like if so many were on the beach attracted to the boat at the end, set up a boat on a beach somewhere and when the aliens show up, bomb the shit out of them. I mean we know they are bullet proof, but are they giant bomb proof?

[paramitch]

I thought it was an incredibly unique and creative take on a story in the series, and beautifully written and acted.

I loved Lupita's performance (she's incredible), loved the understated tension and sadness, and loved the relationship between the two survivors. And the world's best, most patient cat.

I ultimately thought it was a genuinely moving and oddly beautiful film -- so more than a throwaway monster movie. It actually had something to say about connections (among humans, and among humans and animals), and about life and death.

I loved it. One of the best movies of the year for me -- in a very quiet way. (No pun intended.)