1. Who woulda thunk Jim from the Office would be the horror writer/director I would be most looking forward to? I’m really interested to see what he comes up with next, because I like the fact that these monsters landed from outer space and simply started tearing up everything. No master plan. No higher purpose. Just violent pests. Sometimes a movie can just be an enjoyable experience based on the characters and how they react to their situations.
2. Since we’re on that — I got into an argument with a guy about how no world-building happened between the first and second movie. If you go into A Quiet Place II needing to know further details about the world at large, then you will be disappointed, because these are not those kinds of movies. Essentially this is a Very Tense Family Drama — the first was about parenting, and the second is about the independence of the children (mostly the daughter, because the son is completely burdensome). We’re watching character development with the backdrop of an apocalyptic horror movie.
3. Emily Blunt can do anything. I will watch anything with Emily Blunt in it. If Emily Blunt is doing a dramatic reading of a Bell South telephone book from 1987, I will have a ticket to the show.
4. What’s wrong with the marina people and why do they look like that? Of all the unanswered questions in this world of A Quiet Place, that is the one I’m most looking forward to getting an answer to in the next one.
5. Horror movies just refuse to let Black people be great!
6. If we are in an apocalyptic world where our safety depends on how quiet we can be and you show me a BABY IN A BOX, my reaction is not “aww, how cute, of course I’ll help you.” Does that make me a sociopath? I’m not risking my life for A BABY. I know my worth and what I can bring to society. I don’t know if that baby will grow up to be a doctor or an axe murderer. What if that baby gets me killed and then ends up working at GameStop? Was it worth it???
7. When are we getting Miss Millicent Simmonds in some more movies? I think she has such a unique face for Hollywood and I really enjoyed her in Wonderstruck.
8. When the movie started, we had this guy behind us talking to the screen. You know those people who just have to be heard, who think they’re so amusing that people want to hear their running commentary of every single thing. I honestly thought about leaving, because I knew from the first installment that part of the tension of the film would be the contrast between silence and horror movie noise. But he stopped talking. That’s how good it was. He forgot that he wanted to be talking through it and didn’t make a sound for the rest of the movie after a certain point. If you can make annoying people focus, you have made a good film.
Score: 7.5/10
Leave a Reply