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A Quiet Place
Can you survive in a world where a single sound could mean your demise? This week on the We Recommend podcast, we tackle the spine-chilling horror film "A Quiet Place" and analyze its unique concept of a near-silent dystopia. We recount our personal experiences of watching the film, whether in a theater or the comfort of our homes, and discuss how this quiet backdrop amplifies the suspense for both characters and viewers alike. The Abbott family's meticulous survival strategies, from soundproofing their home to leveraging sound as a distraction, are put under the microscope, adding layers of tension, particularly for the deaf daughter, Reagan.
John Krasinski’s unexpected leap into the horror genre takes center stage as we dissect his transformation from newfound fatherhood to crafting a family-centric storyline. Krasinski's exceptional performance and directorial prowess are highlighted through specific scenes that emphasize the film's tension and character dynamics. We also explore the casting of Emily Blunt and how the family's use of sign language serves as both a survival tactic and a poignant detail that enriches the narrative.
In our final segment, we focus on the film's most gripping and emotional moments, from Lee's dedication to Reagan’s ear implant to Evelyn's heart-wrenching childbirth scene amidst an alien onslaught. The family's dynamics are thoroughly analyzed, shedding light on the constant peril they face and the emotional depth of their relationships. As we wrap up, we share our thoughts on the sequel and our anticipation for "A Quiet Place: Day One." Join us for a suspenseful and insightful discussion on one of the most original horror films in recent memory.
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Can you survive in a world where a single sound could mean your demise? This week on the We Recommend podcast, we tackle the spine-chilling horror film "A Quiet Place" and analyze its unique concept of a near-silent dystopia. We recount our personal experiences of watching the film, whether in a theater or the comfort of our homes, and discuss how this quiet backdrop amplifies the suspense for both characters and viewers alike. The Abbott family's meticulous survival strategies, from soundproofing their home to leveraging sound as a distraction, are put under the microscope, adding layers of tension, particularly for the deaf daughter, Reagan.
John Krasinski’s unexpected leap into the horror genre takes center stage as we dissect his transformation from newfound fatherhood to crafting a family-centric storyline. Krasinski's exceptional performance and directorial prowess are highlighted through specific scenes that emphasize the film's tension and character dynamics. We also explore the casting of Emily Blunt and how the family's use of sign language serves as both a survival tactic and a poignant detail that enriches the narrative.
In our final segment, we focus on the film's most gripping and emotional moments, from Lee's dedication to Reagan’s ear implant to Evelyn's heart-wrenching childbirth scene amidst an alien onslaught. The family's dynamics are thoroughly analyzed, shedding light on the constant peril they face and the emotional depth of their relationships. As we wrap up, we share our thoughts on the sequel and our anticipation for "A Quiet Place: Day One." Join us for a suspenseful and insightful discussion on one of the most original horror films in recent memory.
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Music produced by Joey Prosser. X @mrjoeyprosser
#AQuietPlace #AQuietPlaceDayOne #JohnKrasinski #EmilyBlunt
Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse and I'm Jason Shh, Because this week we recommend A Quiet Place. So that's like the only quote I could. Yeah, there aren't a lot of tokens. I mean I can sign language. I can't, but I can. You can pretend Nobody can see us. So did you. When was the first time you saw it? Did you see it in theater, at home?
Speaker 3:I don't know, probably at home, probably at home. Yeah, that was fucking scary, it was really original. Yeah, that was fucking scary, it was really original.
Speaker 1:Yeah, isn't it nice. Wow, it's an original idea. How crazy is that? And guess what? It worked and made money and now it's its own franchise. Hey, let's do that more. You know, Sounds like a good idea.
Speaker 3:I kept thinking of him as Jim from the Office, though it is weird.
Speaker 1:And I feel like in this movie he doesn't do that much really. He just kind of stands around and stares. No snarky cutaways yeah he doesn't look at the camera at all and I'm like who are you? But I saw this in theater and it rules in theater Like nobody was chewing popcorn. It was somehow the quietest theater?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you have to be quiet.
Speaker 1:It's like if you're allowed in a theater while watching this. Everybody's so pissed off.
Speaker 3:My wife walked in the room and I was panicked because she was making noise. Stop rocking to die Get out of here Like wait, it's just a movie.
Speaker 1:It's very hard to watch at home because it's a very quiet movie and my dog barks at every little thing, so it's like, all right, let's watch a quiet place you don't sacrifice snake.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry. Oh, dude, all dogs are dead. You'd have to sit in this world.
Speaker 1:It's like in this movie. When I see a raccoon I'm like man. That thing's got to die, right.
Speaker 1:I mean there's no way these raccoons have no idea Fallen through. Seen the second one? Yes, man, the second one rules. I completely forgot about the ending to this one. It's much louder. The second one is I'm like, wow, they really didn't go quiet place on this one, just because there's so much about using sound to distract and everything. Yes, which actually brings me to a point I want to make. Man, you, you really feel like if they lived here this long, they should have more distractions right Around the house to distract the monsters away.
Speaker 2:Oh, I see what you're saying, instead of just the one firework.
Speaker 1:I was like, once you put off the fireworks I was like why didn't you do more fireworks? Yeah, you need way more distractions than this.
Speaker 3:That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1:And also. Like alarm horn or something Like this movie. And the kids, it's like guys, like the one boy who is this scared of every little thing on the history of the planet right now. He's just like. Every time you look at him he's like just like shivering in fear. It's like he's but cornered squirrel. He's like he's the better kid in this movie because he doesn't want to move or do anything which is the appropriate kid.
Speaker 1:Then you have the little boy at the beginning that you know doesn't make it, and it's like he knows to be quiet but he's not being quiet. He's running around this whole store wanting a little rocket thing. It's like why just stop? And then you got the daughter, who feels bad, which I understand, because she is the reason the other kid died, because you just didn't have to give him the freaking toy right, well, he grabbed the batteries, but it's like why just just don't let him have it?
Speaker 1:just make a rocket with sticks or something, I don't know, draw some more, but then she's, she's all like defiant, wanting to go and out and do stuff, but it's like you can't hear man, like that stinks, but it's like it's very dangerous for you because throughout both movies, every time I'm like dude, this really stinks. That she cannot hear, because she needs to hear. They're constantly monsters like getting near her in both movies and I'm like turn around, it's like golly.
Speaker 3:I feel so bad for them. This would be a scary place to live, but like carrying all that sand for miles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, where did they get the sand?
Speaker 3:There's a beach nearby.
Speaker 1:Is there.
Speaker 3:There's a really nice beach.
Speaker 1:They should live near that beach because I feel like that's better. There's oceans, you're not gonna I can still swim and there's, of course, the question of why don't they live near that waterfall? Oh yeah, but I mean you'd have to like build a house and stuff, so that would suck.
Speaker 1:so I do understand that. But I'm like I would just hang out every day in that waterfall. I'll be, be like I'll just we'll go home later. You know, it's actually not super chill out tonight, so I'll just make a fire and we'll just live by the water Forever, forever. I mean, that'd be my plan. But they have a nice little cozy setup there, don't they? I love it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're really adapted to the farming lifestyle.
Speaker 1:It's like they're making that one room for the baby noise-proof.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah. Do that Even like a noise-proof modem, whatever the thing that spins around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like why doesn't every room like that, like your entire house, at this point, should be?
Speaker 3:completely soundproof. I feel like, yeah, you'd hope so I don't know.
Speaker 1:But man, I think this movie rips. It is so suspenseful. Yeah, it's great and it's it's not too bad with jump scares there are a few. The second one goes jump scare heavy, but just like the use of sound in this movie, so fun, just the cutting in and out of it. And then whenever you go into the ears of the monsters it's like yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 1:His skull opens up and why do you think like the monsters mess with electricity? Because the lights flicker every time that they come around. The tvs towards the end go all staticky they're.
Speaker 3:They're putting out a frequency with their heads, is that it? I think?
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Because that's why they interacted with the earpiece man. Do you think they can hear ghosts?
Speaker 1:Probably. I don't know if you watch ghost shows, but they have like things called spirit boxes and things like that that can just hear very light sounds. It's like do you think if there's just like a bunch of them at a haunted house just being like?
Speaker 3:where are they? Yeah, he's got to live near a nightmare, and that's why he's killing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, oh, yeah, let me get into something. I have some fun ones, so Give me some of them. Juicy pants, yeah, hit them back for you, jason, let's go. John Krasinski played the monster in a motion capture suit. Okay, I'm not gonna do that. John Krasinski played the monster in a motion capture suit, so the final design of the monster in A Quiet Place wasn't nailed down until well into post-production. On the set, john Krasinski himself played the monster in a motion capture suit. In the first few test greetings, audiences were laughing and the producers were panicking, worrying that something about the movie's terror wasn't clicking. However, as it turned out, they were just laughing because the CGI was unfinished and in some shots there was no CGI at all and Krasinski could still be seen playing a monster in a motion capture suit. The test audiences responded a lot better when the effects were on or finished. I want to see that cut, just like yeah with his giant beard.
Speaker 3:Just the overall green suit thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know, that's awesome. I didn't realize he did that actually until looking at facts for this movie and I was like, oh, it's like now I need to go back and re-watch it, just to be like, well, did he walk like john krasinski? Was he on stilts? He?
Speaker 2:had to be right something like that.
Speaker 1:Well, it's kind of like um when like it's still. Uh, what's his name? Benedict cumberbatch played smalg smalg in uh the hobbit movie. Every time you see it, you just see him, and it's like this rules.
Speaker 3:But he's doing that like into just doing the voice over.
Speaker 1:Well, he does the voice, but he also did like the motion capture for the as much as he could. So I guess mainly for his face, gotcha, because I mean that dragon looked identical to Benedict Cumberbatch, who already doesn't look like an actual human.
Speaker 3:He's an alien-looking guy. Benedict Cumberdragon.
Speaker 1:So I guess the kid that played Reagan the little girl, what's her name?
Speaker 3:God, I didn't think any of them had names.
Speaker 1:Oh, they don't. It's just at the end of the credits. I'll give them names, but they don't say them at all. So whenever I do, I'll respond their actual names when we go through the notes.
Speaker 3:Your name becomes like an ear, like a baseball signal.
Speaker 1:And then I'm not making fun.
Speaker 3:I don't mean to make fun of hand sign language.
Speaker 1:I mean I'll be quick.
Speaker 2:It's like you just make on the left ear is one kid tug on the right ear is one kid.
Speaker 1:Wiggle the nose is another kid no more talking ever, yeah, um, so I guess melissa millicent simmons. She plays reagan. I came up with the idea of changing the uh at the end. He was just supposed to say I love you, and then he screams and then gets attacked john krasinski's character. But she came up with the ideas I have always loved you. Apparently it made john krasinski cry, wow it is a very touching moment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because she didn't think he loved him anymore yeah since you know and it's like which is the whole crux of the whole movie and most of the stuff wouldn't happen if he just said he loved her more and try to calm her down and being less of a brooding you know, lead character.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I thought it was funny that every time, even though they live in this world, every time like a monster showed up, he always like did the shush sign with his finger yeah.
Speaker 1:Like yeah, we know yeah we know it's been like 472 days. It's like we got it, dad, Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3:I guess it was just the instinct.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the movie theaters were upset with a movie because people bought less popcorn, oh right, while watching it, because everybody was so self-conscious about eating popcorn, which is how theaters make all their money is off the concessions. Yeah, I thought it was very funny.
Speaker 3:That is pretty good yeah, they're pissed. What are?
Speaker 1:we going to do with all this popcorn?
Speaker 2:Holy crap.
Speaker 1:We need a loud blockbuster, not this crap. Maybe that's why the second movie is much louder. Yes, it's like people got to eat, people got to eat. And in the pivotal scene where Emily Blunt's character is giving birth, apparently she just nailed it in one take and, according to John Krasinski, as soon as he called, cut Blunt dropped the character instantly and asked the crew members what everyone's having for lunch.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean you ask any pregnant woman to give birth again they're gonna be like fuck you, yeah, we're doing this in one take. So when paramount first acquired the script for a quiet place, executives considered slotting it into their cloverfield franchise. That's cool. Uh, paramount previously turned unrelated scripts named the seller and good god particle into 10 cloverfield. That's cool. So glad they didn't add it to the Cloverfield franchise, just because that franchise needs to figure out what the fuck it's doing.
Speaker 3:What cloverfield, yes because, yeah, it didn't make any sense.
Speaker 1:The first two are great. And then they do the god particle movie, the one where they're in space, and it's like, what are we doing? I did not see the god particle one. It came out after the immediately came out after the immediately came out after the Superbowl between the Eagles and Patriots Cause the commercial came on in the middle of it and it showed that it was Cloverfield and I was like, oh my God, a Cloverfield movie. And this is what is me. My wife, dakota and Tyler were there. We're all watching the Superbowl. We're like, so y'all staying and we're watching that afterwards. Then it ended up being kind of a disappointment because they couldn't figure out if they wanted to be a Cloverfield movie or just some random movie in space, which is very annoying. That's kind of annoying and it's just like I don't want that mystique to be put on this good movie, you know.
Speaker 3:So it's like let's just finish it.
Speaker 1:Just stank off my movie. Get your stank off my damn movie. So John Krasinski was initially reluctant to do a horror movie. He almost decided against making this movie. He was about to begin shooting the first season of the Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan for Amazon. He was reluctant to do a horror movie, feeling that the genre was outside his wheelhouse. However, when the premise of A Quiet Place was described to him and he realized that it was a story about a family, he decided it was a movie he wanted to make and signed on immediately. And having recently become a father himself, he connected with the fears and anxieties of the Abbott family, bodied by the alien creatures roaming the earth.
Speaker 1:So yeah, he didn't want to do horror movies. It is pretty weird to see John Krasinski in a horror movie, because when it first came out I was like wait, is he like a little horror hound? It's like he loves horror movies. No, he doesn't like them.
Speaker 3:I guess he did pretty good, but he did really good. I was really impressed with his performance.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty great and outside the two Quiet Place movies, I think he's done four total movies directed. I think he's directed four. The others aren't good. Oh, you have If, which is Imaginary Friends, and I think it's like.
Speaker 3:Promised. Land which is some sort of Like Drop Dead Fred, what Is it like that? Man that would be a better movie.
Speaker 1:I'd watch the remake of that. No, you can't because the lead actor that passed away, which sucks. Did you know the actor was going to play Peeves in the Harry Potter movies? No, but he was too funny and kept making all the kids laugh, so they kicked him off the set and they took his character out.
Speaker 3:What a dick.
Speaker 1:I guess there is some footage of him, but I don't know where. I don't know how to watch it.
Speaker 3:I'm like that sucks because that guy is so funny.
Speaker 1:I mean hella annoying in that movie Drop Dead Fred, but also hysterical and great. All right, bro you ready to hop into this film? Sure, let's do it.
Speaker 1:All right, we're going to do this in all whispers. Okay, it's going to be a very whisper-filled podcast. It's going to be the easiest thing for me to edit ever so there'll be no mic bleed. But for me to edit ever so, there'll be no mic bleed. But just kidding, because on day 89 we see a family quietly tiptoeing barefoot through an empty store of a ghost town. As they're going through, you mainly see Reagan and the first little kid first. I think his name was Bo. I have no idea. Bo in the house, bo from, it's a joke from Papa.
Speaker 2:John's. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nobody will cut it. So and you see, like the little kid Bo, just running around as fast as you can through this place and it's like why is no one just holding this kid the entire time? At least he's barefoot Right and we see the family's mother, evelyn she's played by Emily Blunt carefully looking through a cluster of uncollected prescription bottles for her eldest son, marcus, who is sick and the most fragile kid in the history of the planet.
Speaker 3:Did you see what?
Speaker 1:she got. I didn't. I didn't see what it was. I'm assuming it was an antibiotic or something, or maybe just some sort of medicine.
Speaker 3:Fancy medicine Xanax.
Speaker 1:And it's like I understand that you don't want to carry a bunch of prescription bottles because you know I understand that you don't want to carry a bunch of prescription bottles because you know, rattle, rattle, but maybe take like two or three at a time and just like hold them on each hand and just like slowly walk back, wrap them in a cloth.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because like this just ain't working, lady, you guys got to try to come back here as little as possible.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know, why don't you just take everything?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so Evelyn gives marcus the medication. Use a sign language to reassure her deaf daughter, reagan, that her brother is okay. Reagan then checks on her younger brother, bo, who is drawing a picture of a rock on the floor, and he signs rocket, that's how we'll get away. Reagan's like we ain't ever getting away and then climbs a mostly empty shelf in the store and reaches for a space shuttle toy.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, it's kind of like the NASA space shuttle.
Speaker 1:And what I like is in the second movie when John Krasinski, at the very beginning, on day one goes into the same store and you see like the rocket ship and stuff, oh cool. I was like ah pointed at the TV. But the toy falls from the shelf and luckily Reagan's able to catch it, getting the exact same amount. I was like ah. Pointed at the TV. I'm like ah, but the toy falls from the shelf and luckily Reagan's able to catch it Meanwhile the family.
Speaker 1:I know it's just like oh my God, terrible Saved everyone's life.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:It's like thank you God, she was paying attention Way to go parents the parents aren't ever paying attention to these kids. They give them a really long leash. Meanwhile, the family's father, lee, played by John Krasinski, has scavenged some electronics for a radio which will boost his signal, as well as cutting some pliers for Reagan. Evelyn signs their family. It will be dark soon and they prepare to leave when looks of horror comes across their faces. Bo has the electronic space shuttle toy in his hands, which Lee carefully takes from him, removing that battery. Everybody says what I love about this. It's kind of when we talk about Steven Spielberg in the War of the Worlds, I feel like John Krasinski did a great job at giving a Spielberg look, but instead of being amazed, it was always terror in this movie because it was always like something happened.
Speaker 1:Slow turn to camera. It's so intense. A gaped mouth, it's like wow, it's great. He signs to his youngest son it's too loud. As the family departs, Reagan sneaks the toy back to Bo and then grabs the batteries on his way out because Bo isn't smart.
Speaker 2:He's got a death wish.
Speaker 1:And you should have kept the batteries and just I don't know, just thrown them over the bridge so the kid would never got them as you walked. You should have never just sat them next to him on the counter. The Abbots are silently walking back home on a trail of sand they've created. As they come to a walking bridge, they suddenly hear the electronic sound of a space shuttle toy from Bo, who is pulling up to the rear. A horrified Lee races back toward his son, but it's too late.
Speaker 1:An alien creature quickly seizes and kills Bo wow, terrible and it's just like dude Bo you've been quiet this whole time, so you know that you're supposed to be quiet. Why did you do terrible? And it's just like dude Bo. You've been quiet this whole time, so you know that you're supposed to be quiet. Why did you do this? That's why I'm not having kids. He probably didn't know this specific reason. When we have an alien invasion, I'm like you stay outside now.
Speaker 1:Good luck, kid but what I really like about this part is the terrified look on his mom's face so you kind of get the perspective from what Reagan hears, which is nothing, and so everybody kind of turns around and is like no and then she's just like what's going on, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1:and slowly turns and sees what's happening oh, beautiful, perfect, it's such a good like. And then she's just like what's going on, what are you talking about? And then slowly turns and sees what's happening oh, beautiful, perfect, it's such a good like. The way that they use the fact that she can't hear, they really do a great job with it. Oh, it's crazy. I hate that they have to give her and like put her in some of the stupidest situations to get there, but like, hell, yeah, that's so good, I don't know. This is very effective and striking when you can't hear what's supposed to be happening and then, of of course, all of a sudden, all the sound comes in at once and it's like ah, it's a very satisfying way to do jump scares, I find because it's like, oh, it's part of the movie, yeah, because it builds up so much tension it's not just random people.
Speaker 1:Just because you can't with her, she can't hear, so you can't just be like, hey, I'm, I'm coming right behind you, don't worry. Like I'm not here to scare you, like they do in a bunch of horror movies, where people just pop out of rooms and be like, hey, it's like why would you do that? Why wouldn't?
Speaker 3:you just say, hey, I'm right here, by the way, they need one of those sticky hands, hands, yeah, just like throw at her face like hey, hey, turn around, listen monster but then we cut to day four 472.
Speaker 1:The abbots are home on their family farm. Lee is in the basement of the farmhouse where he set up in it a surveillance system of cameras and monitors, as well as radios and electronics which he uses the hope to contacting other survivors. You also see a bunch of like newspaper clippings and stuff.
Speaker 1:He's studying the monsters yeah and you see all the things where it's like stay in your home quarantine, don't go outside, don't make noise. What's the weakness? And then you get these very, very detailed and smart whiteboard writings like blind attack, sound and armor. What is the weakness With like weakness circled in red and it's like did you have to write this?
Speaker 3:This is a big project.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like man, you haven't came up with any of that.
Speaker 3:It's like you had to write this down to remember this is quite a thinker, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then we see Marcus, the other little kid. He wants to you see him practicing driving.
Speaker 3:Sure that won't come in handy later I wonder how he tells him apart, because it says there's three in the area, like do they have them?
Speaker 1:yeah, how do you know they got them, unless they just see them? Yeah yeah, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3:I mean, they've, they watch their patterns.
Speaker 1:I guess it's just like hey, I'm gonna throw something loud over there and we'll see how many come over. I guess I don't know. Oh yeah, so evelyn, meanwhile, is in the cellar where she hangs a baby toy. She's cracked it, crafted. Evelyn is pregnant. She sets up an oxygen tank which is connected to an infant breathing mat mask. It sits next to a covered, soundproof baby crib. I don't understand. It's like you got to use condoms, man.
Speaker 2:After a hands attack.
Speaker 1:Like you got to. You got to learn how to pull out. John, Life finds a way. It's like I know. I know you love your wife, but y'all can't I can't be just pumping inside her you know it's like, let's see, because it's 472. So well, it's been doing's see, because it's 472. So yeah, they've been doing it a while well after, I mean, even if it's golly, why? How do you have a kid?
Speaker 2:how do you accidentally have a?
Speaker 1:kid. In this situation I'd be like we're just not having sex, I don't know. Here's some toys to use for masturbation.
Speaker 3:Maybe, in a fucked up way, they were trying to replace the one that got killed you know, replace the one that got killed. Babies cry man. Yes, you yell when you give birth. That's why they built that tiny little coffin.
Speaker 1:I don't know, man, you got two kids. They're already a handful in itself. Constantly not listening and freaking out.
Speaker 3:But anyway. So it's got to be hard growing up in a post-apocalypse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, terrible. At least they have Monopoly.
Speaker 3:Oh fuck, no man. Monopoly ruins, it kills your family. That's what Marcus is trying to burn down the house. He's just so pissed off.
Speaker 1:Ah, pass Go.
Speaker 2:God dang it.
Speaker 1:Man, you couldn't play Trouble Little pop thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, sucks, sorry, yeah, sucks, sorry, yeah. Did that have ones here? Or is that just trouble? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Oh sorry, no sorry, you rolled the dice yourself, fucking boggle Welcome to Game Board Talk Games not to play.
Speaker 3:Yeah, around monsters.
Speaker 1:So Lee has moved up to the top of the grain silo where he looks through pictures of Bo. He also lights a fire and we see survivors around him doing the same, which is pretty cool. That was kind of a cool idea. Yeah, evelyn asked Reagan to tell her father that dinner is ready, which she reluctantly does. After a silent prayer they eat quiet foods on leaves of lettuce instead of plates. Afterwards Reagan and Marcus play Monopoly. When he accidentally knocks over a lantern which sets the rug on fire. I like the Monopoly pieces are all quiet little.
Speaker 3:Yes, they're all knitted but they couldn't like.
Speaker 1:But there is no knitted dice, so they still had to roll the dice on the carpet I thought I had misremembered this scene.
Speaker 3:I thought he rolled them on the table or on the board on accident. But yeah, no, something even worse a giant lamp breaking glass my heat was on that fire.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were ready for it.
Speaker 3:Amos could do that a lot.
Speaker 1:Also I should say, because I kind of skipped over, that Evelyn is or Reagan's reluctant to ask the father to come for dinner because she thinks that Lee, the father is upset at her for giving the toy and she super brains herself and is just constantly feeling bad about it and thinks her father hates her and only likes the other kid, which I guess it's just because he's kind of harder on her and he doesn't want her to go into the basement for some reason.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't get that. Yeah, I don't know. It seemed like everything could have been solved if you just work together with your kid with the hearing aid thing, I mean he didn't have.
Speaker 3:what else was down there? There was nothing to know he didn't want her to know about.
Speaker 1:He didn't want to see the newspaper clippings. Yeah, hey, she's already seen this monster kill one of her brothers. I think she's past that now, I know. Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3:The whole movie would have been fine if she just didn't watching so much porn on every single screen, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like silent porn.
Speaker 3:Which is silent movies, like from Black and White.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So Lee quickly puts it out the fire and quietly wait for the consequences. It seems as though they've dodged a bullet, but then hear a loud noise on the roof. Turns out it's just going to end up being a raccoon. They think they're all safe.
Speaker 3:This happens to me all the time. You know, you just hear raccoons outside, they just fall. They fall from the trees above our house and land on our roof.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 3:It sounds like something like a meteor. Yeah, it's so loud.
Speaker 1:I don't understand why the monsters didn't immediately attack, though that was a really loud sound. Well, they came around him though, yeah eventually, like whenever the raccoons were just walking away and then it ends up smashing one like poor raccoon, yeah you got obliterated yeah um so uh, they're all like really overweight. Yeah I know, they've just been eating everybody's trash, these things are great, probably eating humans.
Speaker 3:They're so cute and then they're like oh it was a snack.
Speaker 1:The other Rikings is like I told you you should shut up. So yeah, lee heads down to the basement to work on her ear implant, which will hopefully help his daughter hear. Evelyn comes down where they share a smile instead of earbuds as they slow dance the Neil Young song Harvest Moon, and it's reminiscent of when he danced with Pam for the first time outside of the office, in the office. What, for real, yeah, did they do the same thing.
Speaker 1:Well, they like listen to an iPod and they just kind of slowly like sway together and I'm like, wow, they're just doing the office right here, which I'm pretty sure I did. Read that John Krasinski. Yeah, I got some, uh, inspiration from that scene from the office.
Speaker 3:Oh, no shit yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like wow. I hope he wasn't thinking about Jenna Fisher, emily Blunt.
Speaker 3:Talk to your boy. I was so angry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so then it's the next day, day 473, while Lee is pouring down some more sand on their walking path, which seems super annoying because you can only take one bag at a time. Where are you getting the sand? Where the hell are you getting the sand? Can you carry two bags at a time? I guess you don't want to get it done super fast, because then you know you wouldn't have anything else to do or you could be using this time to soundproof your house every day.
Speaker 3:I guess I can see it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's gotta take, and which later in the other movies, like whenever you see how far out they put the sand, it's pretty crazy, because then it gets to the point where they stop to the end of the sand and they're all like crap. Now we gotta walk on leaves yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 3:Did it all the way to town yeah it's gotta be like a mile, so cool though it's such a great visual of it, with fucking seashells in it stepping on them, broken beer bottles and shit it's like dang post apocalypse people still littering out here wild.
Speaker 1:So while Lee is pouring down more oh, already did that Evelyn is in the cellar checking her blood pressure. Her due date is just a couple weeks away, we see, and it's like oh, jesus Christ. So stressful.
Speaker 3:So do you think she was maybe a doctor or something?
Speaker 1:No, I think they just kind of I don't know what they probably ended up doing, just assume they probably ended up doing, just assume they probably have a bunch of survival books and just well, she had three kids, so I'm pretty sure she was probably just like I kind of get what, what the what the process is.
Speaker 3:It seemed like she knew quite a bit about medicine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, stuff, you know I guess they just had to learn it. I don't know nothing you can do. So she places a stethoscope to her abdomen, revealing a strong, healthy heartbeat. Reagan enters the house, being careful to walk on all the marked parts of the floor which don't creak, and wants to be quiet punches it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it wants to go down to the basement but her dad stops her for some reason. He's added added small amplifiers from a stereo to her new implant and wants to put them on reagan, but she stops him and signs that they never work. It's like dude, just try it real quick you could be done with your dad so quick just be like.
Speaker 1:It never worked. It's like here, just try. It didn't work okay, I'll take it back, just humor him for one second, yeah it's just she's being an angsty kid, you know, because she got her son dead or kid kid dead, her brother dead. Jesus Lee is super disheartened about this, hands them to her instead and starts to set out on an excursion. He wants Marcus to come with him, but the boy is scared and doesn't want to go, because Marcus is the most fragile kid in the history of the planet.
Speaker 2:He's really smart. Yeah, he's smart Like nah, dad.
Speaker 1:But then, like Evelyn tells, tells him it's like you have to go because you're gonna have to do this one day, so you need to learn how to do it. It's like I don't know. Let the kid grow up a couple more years.
Speaker 1:He's obviously not in the right headspace right now he's literally getting over oh, I know it's 99, yeah, it's like a year and a half before, wasn't it day 89 to day 473. Yeah, something like that. Little under a year or a little over a year. So, yeah, he doesn't want to go. Instead, it's Reagan who wants to go, but Lee tells her to stay and take care of her mom. She runs to her room and tries on the new implant processor when they don't work. She's completely devastated. But it's true, it'd probably be better if Marcus went with him, because he could protect Marcus and show him things and Reagan could help protect the mom who needs help, as we will see through the next few scenes someone, some kid, needed to stay with her because so many bad things happens because no one else is with her and it's like why didn't you just stay and protect your mom?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sucks, ah sucks. So anyways, regan packs a bag which includes her cutting pliers and a wrapped object from her dresser, then leaves the farm. The wrapped object is the toy rocket. It's the space shuttle.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's going to visit her dead brother. Yeah, so sad. Rip well, she's pretty like she's really smart.
Speaker 1:She clips the the sound yeah, so they can light up out of respect, that's cool pour out one for the homie Bo yeah, pour out some orange juice. She drinks a lot of Hennessy yeah she just walks, walks in the middle of the forest with two 40s. Come at me, you motherfuckers.
Speaker 2:It's for my homies in Bruges.
Speaker 1:So Lee is taken to his son to a river where he teaches him that making small sounds is okay as long as louder sounds are nearby During. While all this is happening we also get kind of cutbacks to Evelyn as well, and because how we figure out small sounds are okay around like rivers and stuff is because he catches a fish and drops it. Of course the kid doesn't help, he's just immediately like I'm running away.
Speaker 3:I thought he was going to like smack its head on the rock. Yeah, that's what I was like. Why?
Speaker 1:didn't you smack it, hurry up. Man they're really good at catching fish, though, like hit a bunch of fish. All those traps, that was cool fish looked so good when they brought it out on those leaves yeah, it makes you want to buy a survival book. Yeah, right um, but yeah, the kids seem to be like I'm out of here, they're gonna hear it.
Speaker 1:It's like no you can make small sound. Um, while this is happening, evelyn is doing laundry and she's walking up the stairs and catches it on a nails and it points it straight up live now? I don't know how this nail was hammered into this why was there to begin with?
Speaker 3:why?
Speaker 1:is it in the middle of the stair and why was it pointed up instead of being nailed down? We don't know, but it's excellent and I absolutely love that they did it in this movie. It rules. Oh, it sucks so bad yeah um, and now they're next to lee and marcus, are next to a waterfall and can speak freely to each other without fear of being hurt. They like, do they like yell, woo and stuff? I'm like okay, but now we might be pushing it, so let's just chill out.
Speaker 3:Have you ever fucking stepped on anything like that?
Speaker 1:oh no, I've stepped on a no. Not all the way through like that, that's rough.
Speaker 3:I on a, jumped out of a pool and landed on a piece of rebar it was sticking out of the ground, oh Jesus and went through the bottom of my foot. It didn't go all the way through the rebar, but, golly, that sucks so bad, it's huge.
Speaker 1:With rebar. There is something that like I think about often and a couple of my friends when I was in high school we were playing football and at one of the guy's house we're just kind of playing like three on or like one on one, and somebody was constant quarterback and so I was going out to like defend a pass against this guy and I fell down. But as I was stumbling I saw like that for some reason they had rebar just in the ground sticking straight up and I'm just like, luckily I saw it and I was like kind of fell the other way.
Speaker 1:And I was like I could have died. You would have died, you would have been paled. Jesus Christ, that one sucks. That's constantly something I've thought about throughout my life. Since then, even though it's like 15 years later, you'd be like oh hole in the face, jesse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, holy Jesse, I don't have to worry about the holes in my wisdom teeth right now. Marcus asked his dad why he didn't let Reagan come and if he blames her for what happened to Bo because she blames herself when he says it's no one's fault Marcus tells him if he still loves her. He should tell her. You've not been telling your kid you love her. What is wrong with you, bro?
Speaker 1:You know actually now I'm not as upset about what the kids do I'm actually getting more upset about what john like a problem say man, they needed therapy. Too bad they can't talk, nope.
Speaker 1:so during this conversation, reagan has arrived at the walking bridge where a makeshift memorial has been constructed for bow. She wraps the object from dresser, which ends up being the space shuttle. She uses pliers to cut the lights out or cuts the sound out, so it just lights up. On the way back home, lee and Marcus are startled by an old man coming out of the woods and then notices the dead body of his wife on the ground nearby. He snaps yeah, lee. Lee implores the old man to stay silent, but instead he lets out a primal scream. And before that, marcus walks by in the woods and sees this house and he's petrified of this house. I'm like Marcus, you can't be scared of every little thing, it's just a house man. Why are you? Just because he's like the old house shaking. I'm like dude, you're just walking by this house. You had to walk by it when you got here.
Speaker 3:The guy was pretty scary looking, but I didn't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that kid was terrifying.
Speaker 3:I meant like the old guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's what I meant.
Speaker 3:He was the scream he did. Yeah, it was really cool because it looks like it was just so.
Speaker 1:And why did his wife die?
Speaker 3:He looks like she got attacked by a monster.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right. That's right. I was looking away for a second during that scene. I just thought she like died.
Speaker 3:Her stomach was all bloody, like right here, same place that.
Speaker 1:Jim Gotcha Get stabbed. Yeah man, I can't believe I missed that part. I'm such an idiot. So Lee grabs Marcus and runs as the man is quickly scooped up and killed by an alien. Rip For that old man randomly in the woods. Old man they're so fast and scary. I know they're impossible. You can't even drive away from them.
Speaker 3:I thought at first they were going under the ground, but they're just right on top. Yeah, low to the ground, just low, and they're just running as fast as they can. The perfect predator, yeah.
Speaker 1:Remind me of like the Hulk in the Incredible Hulk movies, because they can just run so fast and jump like crazy.
Speaker 3:Yeah that's wild how they make them jump through the air, yeah, and they just stab.
Speaker 1:They're completely impenetrable, so they can just run and do anything that they want. Evelyn Waters breaks Bum, bum, bum. She heads down to the basement and pails her foot on the exposed nail coming up from the stair. Brutal, excellent, amazing, hurts my foot every time I see it.
Speaker 3:How does she not scream? I don't know, she's really not screaming she's so good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's wild. Ah man. Like the amount of suspense for whenever you just see her walking down the stairs. It's like no, don't please let this happen to someone else, not the one person it doesn't even happen. You can't wait for it to happen once you introduce a Nell standing straight up on the stairs you have to see it in the second act.
Speaker 3:I thought it would be funny if she just kept stepping on it like the monster steps on it they. Going up and down the stairs Like the monster steps on it, because they constantly go up and down the stairs more, and every time it's like man.
Speaker 1:these other people don't know that there's a nail sticking up. By the end of the movie, everybody's walking with a limp because they all keep stepping on the nails. The dad's the last one to do it. Be like, why didn't anybody tell me this? We have nails. Someone needs to say something.
Speaker 3:You guys have been down here all fucking day.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So she manages not to scream out but drops the picture frame she was holding which draws an alien into the house, and Evelyn pulls her foot off the nail, switches on the red lights which run across the property and serve as a warning signal, and Switches on the red lights which run across the property and serve as a wording signal and searches the shelves for a mechanical kitchen timer. That's pretty cool. She's smart, she's the smartest person in the movie.
Speaker 3:So the lights? Were they separate lights?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess they had it like on a certain. They had like two different lights yeah. And that was the emergency lights. And I read that the the lights emanate a noise and I guess they didn't really show in the movie but just from like some behind the scenes stuff I read those lights emit like a little bit of a buzz and it's supposed to distract the um the monsters doesn't seem to work well, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3:I guess it seems like it would just draw them in well, and they're already there.
Speaker 1:so I guess they're just like what the fuck ever?
Speaker 3:I guess it might confuse them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what it's kind of supposed to do confuse them, but they didn't seem to really care about it because they constantly kept making a lot of noise. So the alien slowly walks down the stairs into the basement, listening for any evidence of life.
Speaker 3:It shows you inside of its head yeah, it's so good, it's like an ear. This whole scene just rules.
Speaker 1:The whole pregnancy scene just goes. Yeah, it's terrifying. When the timer goes off, the alien attacks it. As Evelyn runs upstairs she sees another alien in the front yard just kind of slowly walks behind her. Evelyn goes upstairs into the bathroom and sinks into the tub. She starts to give birth as alien comes upstairs.
Speaker 3:It's got blood coming out of her running into the thing and never says anything about their like sense of their other senses yeah, I don't think they have any they don't smell. They just maybe not. Their face is just ears.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is so I guess. Another thing that I read is the fact that the baby doesn't immediately come out screaming and stuff, so I guess the fact that she was bleeding there's like a certain certain term, they call it.
Speaker 1:But man, I really shouldn't have brought this up, because I can't remember any of the terms, but I guess, because of the lack of blood loss, the baby isn't going to come out. It comes out like tired and sleeping, I guess, which causes both of them to fall asleep and is why the baby isn't immediately crying after giving birth.
Speaker 2:Ah but that was interesting.
Speaker 1:I thought, like they really thought a lot of things out in this movie, that's going to be terrifying, yeah, but they had that room, that was kind of cool. Yeah, the basement and the barn, yeah, yeah, days on it and it didn't work at all. Immediately dies.
Speaker 3:So the intercut with but was it flooding because they put the put the timer up there on it?
Speaker 1:So it's flooding, because I guess the monster ends up hitting like the whatever water line that's in there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I thought that's because she put the timer on it.
Speaker 1:I don't know because this?
Speaker 1:was the basement of their house. This is all in the barn it happens. So we see Lee, who has returned home and is horrified to see that the red lights have been switched on. He signs the word rocket to his son, then tells him I need you to make a louder sound, team rocket. And tells him he can do it. Lee grabs a shotgun as Marcus sprints to a designated area and lights a fuse which sets off a series of fireworks. And then you get the because during this whole time, uh, she's giving birth and everyone's trying not to scream and as the fireworks goes off, she just lets out this like huge scream like hell yeah, yes, finally has a chance to let it out finally, you, can you imagine what the other people are thinking?
Speaker 3:they're like oh fuck like what the hell?
Speaker 1:something is not going well over there.
Speaker 3:They're fucking dead. Let's stay here, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:We're not helping. Obviously it seems like they're doing a lot, yeah.
Speaker 1:So Lee searches the house and walks into the bathroom where he sees an empty bathtub covered in his wife's blood. He kind of starts to weep, he starts to he, he believes that Evelyn is dead. Then discovers that she is safe and hiding in the shower with her new baby boy.
Speaker 3:She's with Leonardo DiCaprio in the shower.
Speaker 1:Dude, what the most dramatic way. Why not just be?
Speaker 2:like, especially if she does it loud.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like just open the door, I'm in here Instead of I'd have that jump scare, and it's a great visual. Marcus, meanwhile, is walking back towards the house. When he hears an alien, he makes a run for it into the cornfield but runs straight into a tractor wheel, knocking himself unconscious. I put my notes like man. This kid that was that sucks. He just is bad at this. Corn is a very loud vegetable. It's the worst. It's the worst possible field to run into in this corner, because even if you make it out alive from this monster, that's going to make a lot of noise.
Speaker 3:now you've got spiders and bugs all over you too, and you're lost yeah.
Speaker 1:Now you have a concussion because you didn't look straight ahead. And why did they have a?
Speaker 3:tractor.
Speaker 1:I think it was just there.
Speaker 3:Do you think that they moved into this house?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think they People got killed and they.
Speaker 1:I don't know, maybe they lived there.
Speaker 3:It seems like the family got killed while they were farming and then Potentially yeah, Anyone else with the tractor be there Could be, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Because they don't seem like they're farmers.
Speaker 1:Maybe they were just a farm family, I don't know, and this was their place. So Lee has taken Evelyn to the cellar and placed his new son into the soundproof crib and an alien heard the baby cry, because the baby's kind of like getting a little restless. Then we see Reagan has returned home and notices the beam of Marcus's flashlight coming out of the cornfield, but cannot hear the alien coming up behind her because slowly an alien is coming out of the cornfield. It's great this scene rules, I'm so terrified.
Speaker 1:As the movie, as the alien moves closer, Reagan's implant processor starts producing a high-pitched feedback which distresses the alien, causing it to run off.
Speaker 3:Yeah it makes its face all wobbly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, man, like when it faces, when it faces does that where? Stretching out all the time. It makes me want to like stretch out. I don't know it. Just I don't know if this is like a type of phobia, but if it is, I have it, I think when I see like the ones, like with the billion eyes, yeah, or like holes, like holes in your skin and stuff people like can't stand that, that doesn't bother me, but something about the way, just the way that the tissue inside of its head stretches I'm like, it makes me want to like stretch out my
Speaker 1:fingers and hands. So Evelyn thinks about Bo because she wakes up after taking a nap. Evelyn thinks about Bo and regrets that she didn't carry him on that fateful day Back when he, like Bo, straight up dead Before getting some much needed sleep. Uh, she makes lee promise that he will protect their children. He's like I'll do it, I can do it. I ain't saving reagan, though I don't love her. Um, reagan ends up finding marcus and they retreat to the top of the grain silo yeah, this part terrifies me like drowning.
Speaker 1:I know and like in, the worst thing is like I'm going to drown in corn Really, because I feel like it'd take a lot longer to drown in corn and probably water. I feel like water would be over pretty soon.
Speaker 3:Like I feel like you're going to suffocate a little bit. Doesn't there have to be like some kind of displacement from underneath, like that suction effect?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. That's what I understand. I don't know how that works. I guess it's kind of like quicksand the more you're trying to get out, the more it kind of sucks you in, because the grain's replacing the emptiness Right. That's what I would assume.
Speaker 3:So let's explore corn some more, the ways to diet a corn silo. We just need to fall into a silo.
Speaker 1:I guess. Silo, I guess.
Speaker 3:Or on a farm in general.
Speaker 1:It actually seems kind of cool. It'd be kind of fun to be on top of a giant silo and then, like standing on top of all the corn, just be like, oh, fair enough.
Speaker 3:And swimming in like Scrooge McDuck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Scrooge McDuck, and then like oh, I'm hungry.
Speaker 3:Oh, it doesn't work like that. My neck's broken.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So Lee leaves to look for the kids as we see water rushing down into the cellar on top of the silo. Marcus signs don't worry, he'll come for us, but Regan checks her head and she's like dad hates me, he'll only come for you and leave me up here. Probably later Evelyn wakes to find that the cellar has completely flooded.
Speaker 2:Elmer flooded. That's a different one is it?
Speaker 1:that's the big one isn't that Elmer Fudd in the pig? Hold up. No, elmer fudd's the he's the dude, he's the guy that's like wabbit season.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wabbit was a flask. Who does?
Speaker 1:who does? That's awful. We'll have to look that up later. So, um, evelyn finds the flood water in the cellar. On top of this, an alien has climbed down inside the room and the baby is sleeping in the soundproof again.
Speaker 3:Her water broke again.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Thank God we have this gushing dude.
Speaker 1:And she sees that the baby is sleeping in the soundproof crib, but the top is open. I love this scene, though, Like the red is great the way the monster looks inside the water as he like dives underneath and he like slips in there.
Speaker 3:It's so good. Maybe it can't swim Nope, yeah. Maybe it can't swim no, it can totally swim.
Speaker 1:They can, but we do find out in the second one they can't swim at all.
Speaker 3:Oh, so he wasn't really swimming. Yeah, he's just kind of walking around on his hand.
Speaker 1:He's just like cleaning his ear hole, his head holes. Evelyn carefully picks up her baby and slinks to the back of the cellar behind a waterfall flooding the room. It stops. It's hard to hear because the water it's kind of like the waterfall we saw earlier cool, they set it up.
Speaker 1:They're setting everything up so beautifully. Back with marcus and reagan. Reagan is growing impatient and doesn't think lee will come for her. Only marcus, apparently. But marcus falls into the corn silo. Reagan, he's gonna protect both of y'all. He's not just gonna come get one kid, say screw off other girl kid. Like he's not gonna come up. It's like no, you stay, I'm taking this kid instead.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can call her whatever, I don't care Go on.
Speaker 1:Hey, if you're out there and you're a parent, talk to your kids, okay, tell them, you love them so they don't turn out.
Speaker 1:He's slowly drowning in the grain, though. The alien in the cellar with Evelyn is drawn out by the noise Lee's out searching for the kid. It passes Lee and he's like, oh shit. And then the hatch breaks away completely and falls into the silo. Just missing Marcus Reagan yeah, terrifying. Reagan herself jumps into the silo and successfully saves her brother by pushing the hatch towards him so he can grab a hold of it.
Speaker 3:Sort of another Leonardo DiCaprio reference. Yeah, from.
Speaker 1:Titanic. John Grimaldi loves Titanic. Took everything he got from that movie.
Speaker 3:Oh man. And then when that other fucking monster jumps in there, yeah, awful Like, why didn't it start sinking?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, I guess because they're stronger. Yeah, I don't know, I guess because they're stronger, I don't know. Long legs, I guess. But so she starts to sink into the grain. Marcus climbs onto the hatch and pulls out a sister to safety. Reagan and Marcus both sit safely atop the silo door, but then they hear a crash on top of the silo. The alien from the flooded cellar jumps into the silo as the kids cover themselves with a hatch door, they essentially seem like they're going to die because their claws go through the thick door. So they look like they're about to die, until Reagan's implant starts going off once again and you hear the piercing feedback, and it also hurts her ears.
Speaker 3:Her head, I guess, forcing the alien to crash. Could she just take it off and turn it on?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we figure that out later. But this forces the alien to crash outside of the silo. Evelyn, now safe, is searching for the three of them, so we see her walk out. Reagan and Marcus crawl out of the silo and reunite with Lee, who is near, but so is the alien. Reagan and Marcus run to hide in a truck. Lee grabs an axe and is quickly attacked by the alien, which causes Marcus to scream, just tosses him around like a doll.
Speaker 3:I know it's like bam. Of course the kids just could not hold in their scream. Oh, they were trying to save their dad. Yeah, I mean, it makes sense.
Speaker 1:Upon hearing this Alien heads for the truck and starts ripping it open. This time, when Reagan's implant starts its piercing feedback, she turns it off. It's like lady, put things together. You're supposed to be the smart kid, but she didn't see how it happened the first time.
Speaker 3:She didn't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she just wasn't putting it together, right, and it is one of those things where it's like, well, obviously I know I'm watching the movie um, but yeah.
Speaker 1:So now the alien is just going ham on the truck. Uh, lee, who is super injured, makes eye contact with his daughter and signs I love you, I've always loved you, and it's real sad. Um, he then lets out a yell to sacrifice himself and save the kids. How long do you think he worked on that yell? I don't know, probably not too long. I feel like he's like I gotta look at myself in the mirror and yell and just so I can get the perfect.
Speaker 1:Like I gotta yell where I still look handsome it also has to be dramatic enough, and I also have to be able to cry while doing it that's a handsome yell you got there, sir, hey, hey. So quite a yell on you. You're the most handsome man I've ever seen yell. So they put the truck into neutral and row back.
Speaker 3:I thought they started it right Because they were driving no he just I think he just takes off the.
Speaker 1:Did the roll start? Yeah, he just he takes the E all start. Yeah, he just. He takes the e-brake I don't know if it was the e-brake or stick shift and just like pushes it down and then all of a sudden starts rolling back. They roll back to the house where they reunite with their mother, evelyn, and the kids hear the alien approaching, so they retreat back into the house and head down to the basement because these aliens. Reagan, who was never allowed down there, sees for the first time the evidence of all the work her father put into repairing and creating her implant and it's like why didn't you just let her down? There Seems like she is pretty grateful for everything you did and it would have been nice for her to see all this.
Speaker 2:You should let both your kids down there.
Speaker 3:They should all see what's going on down here. There's really no reason not to want to go down there.
Speaker 1:The camera turns, this is like a huge naked woman, just like poster on in the wall and it's like oh, that's why, like a fat head, yeah.
Speaker 3:Wall poster it's like.
Speaker 1:Why do you have a giant nude picture of pamela?
Speaker 2:anderson in here, honey.
Speaker 1:It's like look, let me have this, we can't talk who was the other guy?
Speaker 3:he's got one of them too. What the guy from uh baywatch that was? Oh yeah, he's just like a hasselhoff mania. He's a hasselhoff a whole hasselhead.
Speaker 1:That's what she has in her her uh baby room. That's all. She just has a naked picture of david hasselhoff his faces and that's their hall pass.
Speaker 3:That's like the one person that they can have sex with if baby room. That's all. She just has a naked picture of David Hasselhoff. His little face is knitted.
Speaker 1:That's their hall pass. That's like the one person that they can have sex with if they ever meet. They're just like I hope they're not dead. But yeah, so Reagan's super overwhelmed with emotion. And then, all of a sudden, the lights start to flicker. The alien walks down into the basement and has them cornered, because this alien just will not leave this basement alone he's hungry?
Speaker 1:I guess yeah, because they eat everything yeah and then this is where, like, this whole section is like 10 minutes and it's like them, just reagan just taking as long as possible to figure everything out and to do everything. Reagan scans a hidden written scribbling from her dad which reads what? What is their weakness?
Speaker 3:That's why he has it written on a book, just so she could read it.
Speaker 1:Wow, mind blowing, yeah. Then takes a quick glance at the hearing aids on his workbench and bam, she switches on her implant, creating feedback and causing the alien to shudder. Reagan then amplifies the feedback by holding the processor up against the microphone, like your head's going crazy's awesome.
Speaker 3:It's great such a cool moment.
Speaker 1:Yeah and then all the superpower almost yeah and then this is when evelyn grabs lee's shotgun it's like I have an idea now blows its head into pieces. And then we're coming to the end of the movie. When they see on the surveillance monitors that the little little alien has seemingly brought every alien around to their home, reagan turns up the speakers while Evelyn pumps his shotgun. She's kind of got like a side smile, going on like let's fucking do it. Yeah, and then that's. It Ends with a cock with a gun.
Speaker 3:I wanted to see her go.
Speaker 1:Resident Evil 2 on these bitches yeah, I know, and then they cut to. It immediately starts here with the next movie and you don't see that and she just puts the shotgun away. Well, she does carry it with her and you do see her kill one and it is a really dope moment in the second one. But yeah, that's the end of the movie. It rules such a great suspenseful movie.
Speaker 3:Love it. It was fun. I didn't want my kids to watch it, but I think they probably could. Yeah, it's not too bloody, really.
Speaker 1:Yeah Right, I mean they'll probably enjoy the kids, and this is every time the kid makes a mistake. You're like you don't do that. If this happens, you don't do what they're doing. Hey, if you're mad at me, then just sign language at me, Okay, and let's just let's, let's talk this out, let's all be, even though they're like teenagers, so you know it's not going to work. They don't want to tell me anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah they don't Not at all. All right, the fine. It's where we talk about the good of the film, which is something that we like. The bad, something we didn't like. The ugly, something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well. What you got, bro, for the good.
Speaker 3:I just thought it was a really interesting take on, maybe, the life of a person with hearing impairment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's definitely a great idea to have that in there.
Speaker 3:It just intensifies the fear. So much for everyone else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like the whole time, Anytime she was doing something away from everybody else, just like walking in the woods Completely alone.
Speaker 3:I just kept turning to Natalie.
Speaker 1:I'm like she can't hear. How will she know if something's?
Speaker 3:coming up behind her. She is food.
Speaker 1:She needs someone with her and she does this a lot in the second movie, where she's traveling alone and I'm like you can't hear though your head's got to be on a swivel here, lady, because she constantly never is checking her like sides or behind her. I'm like you got to constantly be on the lookout you gotta be turning around every few steps.
Speaker 1:You have no idea if you accidentally stepped on like a bunch of leaves and there was one nearby For me. I put the good as the premise and the suspense. Love a good suspense of a movie.
Speaker 2:I like feeling bad for an entire movie.
Speaker 1:essentially, I want to be nervous so much anxiety? Yeah, I love it um. What do you? What do you got for the bad?
Speaker 3:uh, I don't know nothing really. I just put uh, uh kids, oh yeah it's like emotions too emotional.
Speaker 1:They just don't understand. When you just gotta chill out, you just gotta let the hormones and everything push that down.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know you have to bury it deep down you entered a world that just sucks. I'm sorry there's still humans, though they have to be. They can't be robots.
Speaker 1:They'll suck but you'd live. You kids aren't ever leaving the soundproof room. I can't know, Did you live? I just feel like I don't know. You kids aren't ever leaving the soundproof room. I can't trust you anymore.
Speaker 3:Lock the door. The house that we used to rent here, close by where we live now, had a lock on the back room, back bedroom, but it was on the outside. What the fuck they were locking someone in that room.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, do you know?
Speaker 3:who? Yes, I do know who it was. It was their daughter. Their grown adult daughter. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I hope that's still not the case. No, they died. Oh, the parents did, the parents did. Oh, thank goodness, that's um. Wow, I hope that person's okay. I'm sure there's some sort of that's terrifying, some sort of. She's probably got some problems now. Trust issues Maybe always Abuse has probably been going on there. That's not good. Wow, so I have something that aged the worst, the fact that I just learned that. All right, what do you got for the ugly? Something that didn't age.
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know Nothing really there's nothing really.
Speaker 1:This John Krasinski decided to do a child movie Fuck Monopoly. Love Monopoly. It's my favorite game. I'm so good at it.
Speaker 3:Fuck Monopoly. It ruins friendships and tears families apart and kills you.
Speaker 1:I just like when I play Monopoly. I just love the trade, Like when you trade with people.
Speaker 3:Yeah, love the trade, like when you trade with people. Yeah, I feel like I'm so good at that. Yeah, I love it. I guess that is a fun part of it.
Speaker 1:But ultimately, you must destroy everyone. Yeah, something interesting. I've never been. I've never been like the first person out of monopoly oh shit yeah, yeah, I've always been pretty good. I'm usually able to like the person that I know is about to lose. I'm like, hey, let's team up, let's, let's go into business together and it usually works Nice. And now I have, like Dakota and Natalie, just probably screaming at their speakers, Just being like you just cheat, you're cheating All you do is cheat.
Speaker 1:Everybody thinks I cheated at board games. I don't cheat. I did it when I was a kid. Just play the angles. It's like look, I just cutthroat, I want to win.
Speaker 3:I know this is exactly what I'm talking about, yeah.
Speaker 1:It is wild how people get mad at Monopoly. I'm like it's just a board game.
Speaker 3:We got to calm down here, I know everybody wants to win, but that's only be one.
Speaker 1:It's just a board game. Sometimes you gotta be fine with second or third place or playing as me last place. So what do you got as something that did age well.
Speaker 3:I don't know, just this franchise has aged pretty well, I mean.
Speaker 1:I like their new movies. Original content, you know, original ideas.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this idea of silence being, or like making noise being, your enemy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And the monster is like its strongest. You know, its strength is its biggest weakness too, so that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we just need more IP like this, like original IP. You know, let's get some good stuff out here and guess what? If their movies are good, most people end up watching them.
Speaker 2:That's not even the case anymore, but this was before COVID, and they'll bring their own fucking popcorn. Yeah.
Speaker 1:God, but there's nothing better than theater popcorn.
Speaker 2:Oh, I can't wait to get these.
Speaker 1:I can't wait for my holes to heal. I'm going to eat some damn popcorn.
Speaker 3:It's going to shove it, it's they get sick.
Speaker 1:I already have like a whole day planned for whenever I'm like okay, I think my mouth is good to chew normal food. I'm going to wake up super early, I'm going to get some Starbucks right, I'm going to get like the double smoked sandwich and then, soon as a burger joint opens, probably about I'll probably just do Sonic. You know something quick and that opens at like 10 am when they do lunch.
Speaker 3:That's the first burger possible.
Speaker 1:And then probably around one or two I'm going to go to. I may go down and get some pizza, just in Murfreesboro, to eat that whole thing, and then for dinner I don't know maybe some Mexican food, maybe like a nice giant burrito, hell yeah, and then I'm going to eat just some ice cream and. Reese's that has so much just chunky stuff in it that I can chew on.
Speaker 3:I bought the kids chocolate last night and they fucking hated it. Like it was a type of Kit Kat that was flavored like donuts.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 3:And these kids don't turn away sugar Did it taste bad. I thought it was okay.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like Donuts, a weird flavor to put in a candy. I feel like I know, but they are Like it doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 3:I don't understand how you do it. Find more for me, motherfuckers. Yeah, gotcha, now you know what candy to buy.
Speaker 1:All right, so we're going to head to our second category. Alright, so we're going to head to our second category. It's double feature. It's where we pick a movie that goes well with this movie.
Speaker 3:You got anything? Yeah, I was thinking about this, do you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the movie that I decided to choose just because I was reading the notes about Cloverfield, I chose Cloverfield. I was like just the first movie as a double feature Because they got the little creatures that fall off the Cloverfield monster.
Speaker 3:I know monster movies, love them and it's so different.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And it's kind of like Godzilla.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and if you're tired of hearing silence, you can watch Cloverfield, where it's loud the whole time. Yeah, always, though you might throw up because you know shaky cam, but I love it oh.
Speaker 3:All right, what do you got, bro Bird Box? Hell yeah, the blind movie.
Speaker 1:They're like they made a movie where people, where the monsters can't see. Well, we're going to make a movie where, if we see, the monsters get us or something I don't quite remember the movie what the fuck?
Speaker 2:are they, I don't even remember, really.
Speaker 3:I don't think they ever showed it right. They just had drawings that people made of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's like I don't know. I really probably need to rewatch that. I remember everybody loving that movie it was crazy.
Speaker 3:I thought it was pretty good, I just didn't think. Going down the river blindfolded yeah death sentence, man, you can't look like at all ever.
Speaker 1:I need to rewatch it just try to remember what's it about. And they did like a Bird Box Barcelona. I didn't see that one. It's great. I love like three B's, three B's in the title of that movie alliteration's nice yes, alright, so that's the end of this, our discussion on A Quiet Place coming out perfectly timed with the new one, a Quiet Place day one. Look, yeah, can't wait to eventually watch that.
Speaker 3:I wonder if they're going to show anything about like their and how they got there and like their intentions.
Speaker 1:Well, they should have any well, the how they got there was like a meteor, I guess, because in the second one at the start, like that, you just see a giant meteor coming down and everybody's like. I love in the second one because when the meteor's coming down everybody's like keeps asking people what's going on. Like especially john krasinski's character keeps getting asked what's going on.
Speaker 3:He's like I don't know how would I know? I see the same thing. I work on a fucking paper there's a giant meteor coming down.
Speaker 1:What do you want me to do? I don't know that, I don't know. Run the beginning, the beginning of a quiet place. Part two is a straight up masterpiece like the first 10 minutes is amazing.
Speaker 3:You should just watch watch the beginning, I didn't watch it again.
Speaker 1:The whole movie is great. Yeah, the kids are insanely infuriating in the second one even worse than this one Like they are terrible in that second one. It's. The worst part of the movie is that. It's like God dang it kids.
Speaker 3:I wish I could just make some noise so I could beat the shit out of these kids.
Speaker 1:But make sure to join us next week because we're going to be doing an episode on the movie X, because Maxine comes out the same weekend that our episode is going to be releasing. So we're celebrating it. What's X? X is a horror movie. You haven't seen it. I think I have maybe it's the one where you got a group of people that are going to film a porno.
Speaker 1:And then you got the two old people in the houses. You cool with doing that? By the way, yeah, I've seen it. Okay, it kind of rules and it's gross and it's great. But yeah, we're going to do that film to celebrate Maxine coming out. It's going to be two straight horror movies and then we'll take a break from horror movies so that maybe Jason can watch some of these movies with his kids while we do it, or we'll have to do like a palate cleanser and do a Pixar movie or something.
Speaker 2:Maybe Toy Story I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 3:I don't know.
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