The Reel Rejects - A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:29 It's going to turn me on. You have to like cat noise. Ladies and gentlemen, for listening to us on Apple and Spotify, we just watched a super boring film. You have tissues over there. Give me. No. No. I like when women cry.

Starting point is 00:01:53 Idiot. Oh, my God. It's so stupid. Oh, my God. Terror is crying because she didn't get good pizza. Once that happened, she came an emotional wreck. I became undone. I can't handle this.

Starting point is 00:02:18 This whole movie, she's wanted warm pizza. Get shitty pizza. basic cheese not even pineapple with no garlic butter no ranch marinerous sauce a terrible way to go not even a Pepsi

Starting point is 00:02:39 I never drink I haven't had a Pepsi it sounds like 10 years old I'm like also Pepsi no everybody drinks Coke yeah Coke is the number one brand anyway Tara that's someone who clearly doesn't remember the quiet place movies. Holy crap.

Starting point is 00:03:00 What did you think of right? I explained it to her on the phone. Like, yeah, it's a quiet place. It's like the prequels. And she's like, I think I saw one of them. I know that I saw probably the first one. And I don't like, I don't remember. Clearly.

Starting point is 00:03:16 Yeah. Long COVID-Eft me up, y'all. This movie was fantastic. From the beginning. beginning to the very end, it keeps you on the edge of your seat. They get into action right away. Her relationship with the guy in the beginning, the nurse guy, was great. I felt their chemistry.

Starting point is 00:03:39 And then Eric comes along. You feel their chemistry. Like, they're casting and who they had in this as actors who actually said words out loud. You believe everything, but also you believe them even when they're not talking. You can feel the chemistry. And that's so important in a film. Because if we didn't feel it, it wouldn't make it as good. Oh, my God.

Starting point is 00:04:02 And the cat, man. The cat is, like, so great. It's just like in John Wick, in the one with Halle Berry, where they have the dogs, it's like such, it's so, yeah. But this one, they have a cat. And, like, we don't get to see many movies with cats that are in it, where it's like, oh, and it just killed me that she, you know, obviously wants her cat to have a long, great life. and she sends him off and the way that this ended was poetry that was poetry that was beautiful it was a beautiful beautiful movie it was so great like the first i know you don't remember them i barely remember them i remember like the beginning and end of each of them because it's all there is to really

Starting point is 00:04:46 remember when you've only seen them one time yeah but i do recall them because they're more in the like i think they're like midwest territory so they're more woodsy kind of films. And so they're like it's called Quiet Place and it does embody more of that quiet woodsy nature atmosphere and it's smaller cast and everything. And so it's a very different vibe than this one where this is, you know, big city scale. It's called Quiet Place Day 1 with this. It feels like takes over like what, three days, three or four days, something like that?

Starting point is 00:05:20 Yeah, seems like it. Takes over a few day span and I think it's a good step to like. like, okay, we're going to focus on a new character. We're going to go to a bigger terrain. It's going to be a little bit more roller coaster. But in the last half, I was like, you know, they really, you could tell, like, in terms of writing, they, I forgot the director's day, but he, he really cares about the characters. Yeah. I was thinking that in like the last 30, 30 minutes when it's all about getting her the medicine, getting her to have the pizza, the jazz experience, and giving her a great memory a way to say goodbye.

Starting point is 00:05:55 yeah and find joy again after feeling so bitter towards her last days i thought was so beautiful and character driven and was main like they can barely speak in this movie right due to the circumstances totally so it's all just mainly visual uh whether that be through like the body language of their performances which are both great from josephwin and the pita nongo they were both excellent and i did like the big stakes horror i don't know where i rank this because i barely or the other two because yeah like I did I did kind of want that there's only one thing I wanted from the movie that I don't feel like they they really gave us was I wanted to see a little bit more of the the panic when destruction is happening and then people trying to figure out like how do we

Starting point is 00:06:44 how do we yeah you know how do we dodge them or in some of the word so they have to figure out how to be quiet yeah and I wish that was like the one like you do get a brief moment with the helicopter zipping by and it's like going in and out like don't make sounds or something i don't know what they say right um but i feel like there was a missed opportunity for so for a really great um tension moment and on like high body count whatever right but other than that little skip over the adventure was solid and i i was really enthralled by the i think the visual effects were amazing they were awesome the thing that i don't remember from the first one even i don't remember much. I do remember a truck. John Krasinski and his wife, okay? Something to do with a truck

Starting point is 00:07:26 and a kid dies, maybe. I don't know. But what I will tell you is that I don't believe that they showed us the actual fucking stranger things, creatures. Like with the mouth and they did? With the mouth that looked like it. They did? Oh my gosh. Because in this one, it reminded me so much of alien close-up shots. Like when it lit up and it opens its mouth, it's insanely scary. There was a lot of jump scares in this that, like, I was like, I'm going to have a heart attack. You definitely get more here because there's a bigger quantity of them. And, like, this is, like, much more of a, you know, adventure, blockbuster, big stakes, alien invasion. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:07 But, you know, it's still toned down. It's not like military is coming in and fucking guns blazing and shit. It's still, like, a little bit more toned down than your average sci-fi. It's not like War of the Worlds, you know, or Independence Day on that scale. my god yeah it's it still feels like appropriately contained for what this franchise is famous for which is you got to keep your mouth shut in the midst of chaos yeah and i thought they did a pretty i think they did a really good job with it yeah the monsters were effectively scary they were that was wild the way they move and like when you would see them on the building that was awesome

Starting point is 00:08:45 there was one super dope master shot from up above when they were were all crawling up the buildings and that was that just gave us a real sense of the environment and I really like they didn't use a ton of those we didn't need it we needed that one that looked terrifying yeah and that was it they and then they they played with our emotions and revealing them and that was that was great how they did it I remember in the last one in the first movie there was this big thing that people debated about which was I'm sorry I just don't know something he's just deciding to dust right now Dusty?

Starting point is 00:09:21 Do you notice how dusty? This thing is insanely dusty. Holy crap. You need wipes. I know. That is a really dusty soundboard. Oh, my God. This is not good.

Starting point is 00:09:32 It's bad. It's not good. It's bad. In the first movie, there's like this big waterfall where they can get near and then they can make a lot of noises if they want to. And everyone's like, why don't they move near the waterfall? Oh, right. And they never moved near the waterfall.

Starting point is 00:09:46 Yeah. They're like, why don't they move near the waterfall? Yeah. I would just live under the waterfall. fall like those two kids had the right idea living in the fountain there and you know based off of the rules of what the especially the first movies established you just it's easy to put for some reason because of the kind of movies those are especially the first one it's easier to poke holes in the logic of like what if you fart like how much you know there's like so there's no totally it's

Starting point is 00:10:11 impossible like this is the most impossible situation like it seems like you you step on a leaf a little too hard. You're going to get attacked. So how the hell do you possibly survive? But for some reason in this, because it feels more blockbuster level, I feel like they're able to get away a little bit more with the suspension of disbelief in certain scenes. Yeah. Like what he's like crawling in the and the freaking cat like when they're like on the harvest. Right. Yeah. And then it's like it cuts to and he's just back and giving him the medicine. He's just back. He's just back. He got away. Yeah. Yeah. Like yeah. We didn't need to really see his whole. process and getting back, although I don't, I don't know how entertaining it would have been because

Starting point is 00:10:52 it's like, well, how does he get out of it? Do they feast? Does he slowly climb down the thing with the cat and then tiptoe out? I mean, I do have questions. How did he get out of that? Yeah, I think that way, but you're, you're right about that because like that would, that was a tough situation for his character to get out of. And I am curious how he did it, but I assume the same way he got up there. He went down that way and tiptoed out of there. Yeah. I'm surprise that creature didn't pick up on him at all. Yeah. Reject Nation, as a business owner, I'm actually terrible at tracking finances, believe it or not.

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Starting point is 00:13:29 kill a cat in this this movie's dead to me and I'm just so happy that he is safe and purring it's insanely unrealistic the way the cat is I know like he's so quiet And he's so chill. He sees the crazy thing and he's just like, whatever. Like, he just was chilling, staring at the stranger things creature. But the movie has the moment where when Joseph Quinn, Eric, pops out of the water and he's making eye contact with the cat. Yeah. There's something almost spiritually angelic about the cat.

Starting point is 00:14:04 Yeah. It just made me buy into how unrealistic it is. Right. Because you're like, okay, the movie. doing something like fantastical about this cat i don't know exactly know what it is right but i'm going to just accept all these ridiculous situations this cat is able to pull off right especially that he found his mom after he found him oh yeah right he found him helped him and then guided him back to to his mom yeah he was just like in the alley like waiting for her just always quiet like

Starting point is 00:14:35 yeah i know what your average cat is like and this cat does not this cat is like the definition of a movie cat. Totally. And even more so, because you don't ever hear it me out. You just hear it per at one point. Never a single meow. And I'm like, he had to be hungry. He only got one can of friskeys. Come on now. This is the only cat in the entire movie. Clearly there's something special about this one cat. Otherwise, this movie filled with cats being like, we got this shit handled. He's got to be quiet. He was just a good cat, therapy cat. Good therapy cat. He can go under water. You put a cat on her water. You put a cat on water cats like they're freaking out they want to kill you

Starting point is 00:15:13 I can't believe how good he was and then like when they obviously that was probably CGI they're not taking the cat under the water I don't think they're taking the cat of the water but even him floating he did have the cat personally in the water when he was like floating unless that was a CGI cat I don't think it was

Starting point is 00:15:29 it all looked practical the cat seemed chill a F yeah I'm sure there's someone in the comments being like actually I don't care how well train of cat is you throw them in an environment this bombastic chaotic the amount of dunking in tunnel water and river water that cat's going to be a little local yeah i agree with that like a hundred percent yeah great cat but a great cat still the best part of the movie yeah undoubtedly still the best

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Starting point is 00:16:17 Like you were, I never heard you like whelped so much into the mic. I know. Like, I guess that's how we know I'm on different meds. I need different meds so I can cry on camera. But also, that just really got me. You know, I, in her giving him, her sweater and then sacrificing herself right after she gives her cat away.

Starting point is 00:16:44 It was all just such a poetic ending. And her calming him down right before she knows she's going to have to go and sacrifice herself doing the alarms, sending him off with a cat and then just seeing her cry and you know that it's her crying because she knows her cat's okay.

Starting point is 00:17:05 I cannot, you guys know me. I'm like, you kill an animal in a film, you can F off. I don't even care if it's a war film. Those horses better not die. I have a hard time. And like, humans, I'm okay with. It's fucked up. But animals are 100% unconditional love.

Starting point is 00:17:21 And I just felt that, you know, her seeing that. And, God, what a great ending of her saying that I'm happy to see that the city like sings again. and she's you know on her last leg even though she doesn't look like she's in a ton of pain but we know she's dying and her just unplugging it what a great what a great ending to the film like that's a poem that she would write absolutely she's choosing her time to go to exactly

Starting point is 00:17:54 talk about the second the hours in that poem too I first met yeah down to the minutes down to I forget what the last line of that was but it is just everything kind of just came to a head in the end and all of her poems kind of led us to that ending. I love how they formed that

Starting point is 00:18:14 relationship between the two of them too. That was one of the biggest surprises of the movie to me because it's such an odd relationship and it's not like romantic in the slightest. It's just like some type of kinship forms over the survival situation. Because it's like she saved him

Starting point is 00:18:30 multiple times from having these panic attacks. He wouldn't have and he was such a lost public. dog when he was first following or he was like okay okay okay you know like he was just he was just lost and you know she she had you know enough empathy and realization in that moment she had to help him he wasn't going to go anywhere by himself but what led him to go somewhere by himself was to save her because i think of the kinship that you were just saying they formed yeah it was beautiful that was a great movie that was great that was great it's so good and we watched it in the

Starting point is 00:19:06 environment this movie was intended to be lights hearing each other in each other's ears the entire time on a television screen there was one point where I was like what is that noise and you were like it's me yeah and I was like what is what you were like I was going oh god yes I thought it was the movie y'all and I was like who the what the Fs had to be quiet oh my god They were making too much noise. Idiot. And I was hoping they could hear me. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:19:37 It changed the outcome. Trust us. We all heard you and it was a terrible noise. I hope the editors mute it. No, man. Blasted. Blasted louder. Anyway, guys, what did you think about a quiet place day one?

Starting point is 00:19:49 Where would you rank this? You want a quiet place day 15? See what New York has evolved into on that? What happened to those kids? What happened to them? Yeah, did they survive? They're on the boat. They are.

Starting point is 00:20:02 They're on the boat. No. No, but we're on the boat. Wasn't paying attention for them. Yeah, they made it to the boat. I thought they were going to get the cat in trouble, so I was like, kill the kids. Kill the kids, because the cat needs to live.

Starting point is 00:20:14 Absolutely. No, not that sweet little girl. She lives forever. I know they're alive. Adults, we had our time. Probably the director's kids or something. I need to read something for my children. Anyway, guys, thank you, Tara, for joining me.

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The Reel Rejects - A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE MOVIE REVIEW!!

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