The Quiet Place movies are proof that movies don't need to be unique, they just need to be good. All three movies are nearly identical in tone, plot, cinematography, and premise, and yet, because the emotional core of the film is intact, each new installment is more than worth a watch.
One tiny disagreement is that Day One seems to have unique undertones about how people dealt with 9/11. You can see it in the visuals of the dust of the -collapsed towers- aliens arriving and how quickly groups of strangers came together in solidarity, coupled with the brief use of the military to deal with the immediate threat. Other than that, yeah, they're basically all the same movie, just each done perfectly enough that we don't care.
@@TheWhiteDragon3 I agree with you absolutely but i also think people underestimate the inherent human need to gather with and protect your fellow man when push comes to shove. Obviously we live in a trying, divided time but if something like this happened today you pretty quickly stop caring about the details and start realizing that people's people and people's gotta survive.
@@Pawtism_Legacy Agreed, has enough similarities as the first 2. but it's uniqueness from the first 2 could definitely be a jumping-off point to warrant an expansion. hopefully, not to just milk it to death but to tell more meaningful stories.
another thing people seem to forget is that this is a prequel: it's before everything else, so not knowing the "rules" is to be expected for those who are now living through it at the start.
Some people don't seem to realize that the characters in a book/movie/videogame/whatever sometimes don't have access to the same information the reader/viewer/gamer/whatever has in any given piece of media. I've seen people get mad because character a didn't automatically know what character b discovered at the otherside of the planet.
the complaints i saw about this movie was that they knew TOO much about the rules. people wanted to see them flailing to figure it out a bit more, and didn’t like that it focused on a character who didn’t have to spend time figuring out that sound was what attracts the monsters, and was instead just told it pretty much right off the bat.
@@mars_mallow_ Which is a bit silly because this movie establishes very quickly that flailing to figure out the rule = you die. You don't get to scream and then live to learn from your mistake. You see someone else scream and promptly get deleted, & you put 2 and 2 together. That's the only way to make it through the initial invasion, unless you get very lucky. The entire story would be way less engaging if Sam made a noise early on and got saved by plot armor.
As someone whose cat passed away a few years ago, Sam's farewell letter about taking care of Frodo got me GOOD. I was my cat's favorite person, and if I had to involuntarily leave my cat behind, I would 100% make sure that my cat was taken care of. They truly are the best.
This one part at the end is so small but I still love it; in most horror/disaster movies whenever people are escaping and they see one person trying to catch up the answer is almost always “no leave him we gotta go!” But here they see someone is running to the boat, actually STOP the boat, and when he jumps into the water you can hear everyone on the boat shouting words of encouragement. In this scenario I guess it’s easier to stop and tell someone to keep going because they’re on a boat that’s already away from land, but after being stuck in this nightmare for a couple days most people would just be like “let’s just go already!” Especially when they’re still somewhat in the danger zone
That's kind of a running theme through the whole series isn't it? That the end of the world doesn't (and can’t) stop you from being human. That's the point of Sam’s arc. Her world is ending (due to illness) and she responded by cutting out everything that makes her happy (her humanity). She stopped writing poetry, stopped reading, and isolated herself in an empty hospice room far away from her friends and community. On the road to get pizza we see her reengaging w/ the things that once gave her joy - she picks up a book to read, writes some lines for a poem, and seeks out a reminder of her family & community.
Most movies forget that in scenarios like these humans return to solid pack behavior. The people on that boat being lit up and happy over seeing another person make it is more than realistic.
@ and since this was still in the early days things haven’t gone all walking dead yet where no one trusts anyone and there isn’t any “every man for himself” or people just being terrible like we saw on the docks in the second movie
@@NtoTheM Not really, as evidenced by shitloads of real life history, in a disaster, generally the majority are preoccupied with themselves. Look at the Titanic, only one boat returned to pickup survivors, and most were launched underloaded, people dont care about other people especially when their life is on the line lol.
My film teacher had us watch this in class and use it to analyze story structure because it's so simple with its story but it does it so effectively and plainly that it's a great example of why story structures like the aptly named Save the Cat are studied so much. This story knows what it wants to be about - a dying woman going to get the last slice of pizza - and it doesn't stray from that path. It never tries to trick you or thinks it's smarter than you, and because of that it's one of the most effortless horror movies to watch. Even the jumpscares respect the audience, like the one at 8:30 that I noticed when watching it in class and I KNEW you'd point out. It didn't hide the aliens, it just didn't draw attention to them until it was important.
I might have to watch it again but yeah it’s utterly visceral. The storytelling is subjective just like the previous two films. There’s great emphasis on character development that drives the story forward and making it feel organic. Simple yet effective and we as an audience are emotionally invested in the characters and their dilemma.
This movie is an instant 10/10 because the cat survives. Also, main actress Lupita was terrified of cats before this movie, but because of her amazing furry costars, she ended up adopting her own cat that she constantly shows off on her Instagram!
At first I liked the Cinema Sins guy better, but I’ve completely flipped. Finding the joys and wonders in cinema fill me with so much more happiness compared to nitpicking.
I found cinema sins first I think in elementary school or middle school, idk. So part of it was just “oh cool a RUclips channel from my childhood”. I figured it was all satire and he didn’t actually hate every movie, it was all jokes and didn’t actually represent how he felt about it. At some point I found cinema wins and it was “oh cool the same thing but the opposite!” Even though neither channels are how I prefer to watch movie content, I prefer videos and video essays that break down certain topics rather than videos talking about the good or bad, I’ve realized that if I’m going to watch this stuff. Shouldn’t I be watching the guy who enjoys what he does instead of the guy who picks apart something for the sake of picking it apart? Recently I watched a video that pointed out that Cinema sins makes things up when he can’t find something bad to say about a movie and his channel is about making money more than anything and that’s when it clicked and I realized I should’ve been watching this guy instead.
Oh, me too - I just watched it in Paramount+ tonight with my husband and I was crying so hard at the end I couldn’t answer whatever question he was asking me. Absolutely brilliant storytelling and poignant acting.
Same. I decided to watch on a open air theatre, I can tell you that the summer-y, vibe-y feeling of the beginning was completely gone after the first 10 minutes. By then time we were leaving you could only see sombre (and somewhat damp) faces.
Having been in the kind of pain she endured throughout the movie, both with medication and in situations where I had to beg for it and was denied.... this movie was hard. I've also lived most of my life in Death's shadow and it only gets longer and darker for me... Yet the movie decided to focus on what matters to someone... when life doen't... at The End. Truly breathtaking ❤
@@sagesigman8269 I could not agree more. This movie just tore at my heart. Two good people, utter strangers, who forged a bond of friendship for their mutual survival. I cried when Sam gave Eric her cat, knowing that they would both survive through her sacrifice. And at the end, she knew she had fulfilled her life’s purpose and could end her life in peace. Beautiful story.
Loved this analysis! One thing I wanted to add is about the consistency throughout the movie regarding what seems to trigger Eric's panic attacks. Our very first time seeing him, he is emerging from a water-filled subway entrance, gasping for air and terrified. The two panic attacks we see also involve water. First when they're wading through the water underground past the Death Angel and then again when he realizes he's going to have to jump into the river and swim to the boat to survive. I think they're trying to 'show not tell' that he is terrified of water now because of his initial experience when the aliens first arrived. And there's a deleted scene where he implies he left England because his father couldn't accept that Eric is gay, but that he was so lonely living in NYC that he was about to attempt suicide in the subway right when the aliens arrived - which made him realize he still wants to live. So I think the panic attacks have an added layer of the water reminding him how close he was to death but how much he really doesn't want to die anymore. Just really great storytelling in subtle ways throughout the entire movie!
Great story telling except for literally everything else revolving around the main bads that would never grow to be as big a threat past the first 3 days
Little late but I watched this with my wife in the cinema and we were the ONLY ones in there which certainly added to the experience. Namely, all the incredibly tense scenes with the Aliens being broken by seeing the cat and saying "oh he's such a good baby boy!"
A lesser film might have had Sam and Eric get together romantically, but fortunately, that's not what happens here. Their platonic bond is solid, and to add a romantic plot would be unnecessary.
And that's the problem with so many movies they try to forces romantic relationships, which is cool but in A LOT of movies I noticed it's so unnecessary.
@@M_Oates I agree plus it was sad enough without him talking about wanting to end his life due to his family not accepting him. That being said I still thought it was a beautiful movie.
Even growing up as a kid, I noticed and ranted to my mother about it when romantic plots were unnecessary. Especially growing up queer in a heteronormative world, that stuff aggravated me even more so
I absolutely love this and just how terrifying it makes the angels. They're not senseless, violence-driven creatures, they have at least the basic intelligence of any wild predator and understand when to hide and when to attack. Who knows how many other people tried to jump off that dock and were brutally killed?
@@burgerfanman I don't think it was just hiding cause there a few that come from the beach, though it still shows the intelligence of the angels as it determined that it would be faster to go under rather than over
1:25 Putting on a transdermal analgesic patch is such a simple thing to focus on but it reminds us how a lot of us take for granted that 1) we are healthy, and 2) we have consistent access to medicine and painkillers. Especially in a disaster scenario where the supply chain is wrecked and it’s not safe to go out. It’s scary how little it would take to lose so much of our modern innovations.
I love how you defend the "inconsistencies" of the death angels' hearing. I watched Film Theory's video on "a quiet place", and they showed how the death angels usually ignore sounds you'd find in nature, like running water, or fire, or leaves rustling.
I love the creativity of the Death Angels using their kills as the “feed” for their actual food source: a weird fungus-thing. I’m not sure if this was the creators’ specific inspiration, but it really reminds me of how leafcutter ants “farm” special fungi to eat based on the leaves they cut up.
@CraigCR yeah? For multiple astronomical units? Go look how long it takes for light, LIGHT, to travel ONE astronomical unit then try abd justify it with that bs again I also love how i indicated that it would be phsyically impossible and you have nothing else but 7 other morons who think thats a cop out Oh and people who want to be stupid
The way I see the generator scene is the generator drew the death angle to the position and the tearing of the shirt caused it to hone in on the guy’s position
Really love that final rant, people also forget that it's not about avoiding getting heard by the aliens, it's minimizing the risk that an alien hears them. That means that yeah sometimes a shirt can rip and an alien is close-by enough (or whatever else) to hear it, but other times it might be too far away, get overshadowed by different sounds, etc.
The way I immediately paused and fled to the comments to see who else caught that diss towards the LOML pizza 😤 Edit: nvm, homeboy has a favorite pizza spot he brings up around 15:27
This movie is always going to be special to me. I saw it actually in New York, staying in a hotel 1 Street over from the theatre where it all starts. Coming out of the cinema into the busy loud streets was surreal tbh. Thinking just "yep we'd be screwed"
Gotta admit, admit, loved the whole video, but that little rant about lore at the end was one of my favorite parts to be honest. I've had similar feelings watching reviews for a wide range of things and it's great to see it's shared in a place like this.
Negativity and nit picking are why I left that other "Everything" channel and came here. Lee really does understand that any movie can be someone's favorite. Like for me I know that it's a "bad" movie but Street Fighter (1994) will always be a favorite of mine and I rewatch it constantly.
I will note that the rant highlighted a REALLY good moment that CinemaWins missed - when the big guy does its super hearing thing and opens its head, the sound switches from what Eric is hearing to what the monster is hearing... It CAN hear Eric's heartbeat, but can't pinpoint where he is because of the background noise (it's a very cool moment)
I am fine with people not liking this movie, I personally loved it and watching this video brings me the same amount of huge joy like when I first saw it in cinema. People are saying it's a genuinely horrible film with the plot holes, which some I can agree on; humans are bloody ass good at killing things, and will throw ALL FORCE to get rid of threats. So, at least in some areas where the meteors hit maybe their military discovered high-frequencies kill them, get rid of majority of population but can't actually tell other impacted areas or something. Either way, people really dislike movies if not everything makes sense. Which I can agree, logic helps with movies. Like the guy said; having good actors helps movies a whole ton. I also loved the way he describes bears being chill or rude. Sometimes, 100% realism doesn't make a movie good. I always say "Every single dragon you see on screen, is likely wrong. Very wrong, not realistic, won't work. Something that large with x + muscle mass with miniature wings won't fly." But that does not stop me from loving httyd, it's amazing. I also will like to add most people who genuinely hate this film wants everything perfect, or don't like horror movies, or don't understand the emotional aspects of it that makes it great. Either way I still love the movies even if parts obviously cannot align with how things would work if it really happened. (No judgement to people who don't like it, however)
This must be a hard film to watch for cat lovers, they'd be worrying about Frodo the entire time. Also, Lupita Nyong'o was apparently petrified of cats prior to filming, but grew to adore her two feline costars who played Frodo. 😻
I did not read sam's med box at the beginning of the movie so when Eric got it for her and I realized it was fentanyl it really hit home how bad her pain is, yet she still went through a lot of the movie with nothing.
One of my favorite things about this movie is how it doesn't do the whole "Noble man sacrifices himself to save the damsel in distress." Instead, they do the exact opposite. Sam ends up sacrificing herself and saving Eric... and Frodo the cat 😁
@@Minecraft_at_Night Based off of the definition of "Damsel" literally the first movie in this franchise would qualify. Lee Abbot was a noble man who sacrificed himself to save his daughter.
Such a difficult watch for me, I lost my wife 10 years 1 month and 1 day ago to cancer and she was a beautiful petite black woman and passed at only 34, so seeing Lupita in this role brings back so many bitter sweet memories 😢 But as much as it's difficult, it's also hard to look away. 😊😢😊😢
I know am a random internet stranger,...but I hope you two genuinely enjoyed each other and I hope you were able to offer some peace and solace in her finally days May God/universe (i don't know if you're religious or not) continues to bless and guide into peace and happiness
9:28 I don’t know any movies about animals surviving an apocalypse but I do know a webcomic called Scurry, about mice surviving during what seems to be a nuclear winter.
After playing through Road Ahead it has really made me a fan of this franchise and the Death Angels have quickly became my 3rd favourite alien monster in cinema
8:17 yeah, and if you’ve got a big cluster of people all walking in one direction, you can tiptoe as lightly as you want, but it’s gonna make some sound.
I remember seeing the crowd get bigger in theaters, and HEARING the collective noise slowly get louder and nearly panicking because I knew they were gonna hear it. It was the calm before the storm, and it was BRILLIANTLY done.
As an owner of 5 cats I can safely say they would all die within 10 minutes of the start. Also, I got so stressed at the beggining of the movie thinking the cat would die horribly I had to pause to look up whether he dies or not.
Here's a thought, would it really be accurate to call this universe post apocalyptic? First two movies are set in the countryside and day one is set in, well, the first couple of days. We dont know the status of everywhere else, there's possibly a huge number of people living on islands after evacuating. Hell, maybe Hawaii was untouched for all we know
For islands, I feel that they would still experience a lot of apocalyptic symptoms. Hawaii has to import a lot of food and goods daily. I think that could be a cool concept for a short film but idk if it would work for the main movie series due to the lack of death angels.
That's something I've also wondered about apocalypse stories. We have all this media showing us how regular people survive and adapt... well, where are the professionals in all of this? Where are the survival experts? Where are the Marines and SEALs and other highly trained combat forces? Hell, where are the Boy Scouts? One of the first things any military is going to do is share information about a new foe, and one of the first things the world will figure out about the Death Angels is that they're attracted to sound; therefore, one of the first things that will happen is the militaries of the world will figure out how to exploit that advantage; like as not using distractions, such as disposable radios. I think it would end up being not dissimilar to the first part of the "Last of Us" game, where we saw a large pocket of human survivors essentially being corralled by a military organization. Once militaries figure out what to do, they would start doing it, and that probably includes - as you mentioned - relocating people and supplies to islands, like Hawai'i. Though, while the engineer in me would genuinely love to see a story about a group of humans using cleverness to overcome a superior foe (or maybe I just remember when the 90's were a thing), I recognize that the more compelling stories tend to lean more heavily on tragedy.
I’d say yes, in how the Planet of the Apes universe has movies explaining how Apes got smart and Humans became primal. In each movie after Rise-, they go into detail on how the humans are going through great lengths to keep in contact with each other, possibly implying apes hadn’t taken over as much in curtain locations.
Boats would be an interesting option. Sure, they can be loud, but they also can be away from land. Oceans and other bodies of water can be loud, drowning out other sounds.
This film is a fine addition to a good film series. The acting and writing are always far better than the lower quality standards usually seen in monster flicks. This film also showed us what the alien invasion would be like in a large, noisy city instead of a relatively quiet small town. It even subverts the "final girl" trope by making the main protagonist terminally ill. I really like that these films are shown from the perspective of ordinary people caught up in something horrible instead of the perspective of scientists or soldiers trying to stop the aliens. It reminds me of Cloverfield in that regard and I also liked that film a lot. The filmmakers of these films recognize that the monsters aren't the important focus in monster flicks but that it's the people just trying to survive who make the film interesting and worth watching instead of just one graphic kill after another. I hope this film series continues and also hope that the quality stays high throughout.
I love when universe introduce creatures and for the most part they're all the same and then at some point BAM some ridiculously sized or different looking version pops up. It makes sense to have a much bigger one, there are massive humans compared to some and I'm sure the death angels are the same
I actually like to think that was a nest and the larger Death Angel was like a Queen of sorts. That's why that specific area had a odder colour, and why the fungus was specifically growing there
I love the way you explain the whole lore thing, that just because certain characters find an answer that doesn't mean it's the only answer or even the correct one. Another good example of this is The Walking Dead. At least the game made by ttg, idk much about the series or comics. In S1, Lee and Clementine learned to avoid walkers by smearing a walker's guts and bloods all over their body, and Clementine taught that to the other survivors in S2, 3, and 4. But then in the Michonne spinoff, we see the way Michonne avoiding the walkers is by using them as a sort of meat shield. Cutting their lower jaw so they won't bite her and then tying them with a rope, kinda like a guiding animal. And the in S4 Clementine met James, a guy who managed to live among the walkers by using a walker face as his mask. On the side note, the death angels actually know the concept of liquid since we see one in the first movie drinking and then slowly swimming. But that's not a plot hole. The water was very shallow and it knows that. It walks under the water, just like hippo. It was also ready to go under the water. Meanwhile the ones that we've seen in Part 2 and Day One weren't ready. Although, it was weird seeing the them not jumping to the water at the climax of Day One. But overall, I absolutely love this series
20:43 I know what next week's EGA video is going to be & I'm looking forward to it! Here's a list of suggestions to consider for future EGA videos: -The Wild Robot -Deadpool & Wolverine -Star Wars: Clone Wars (2008 Film) -The Lost World: Jurassic Park -Isle of Dogs -The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Extended Edition) -Ice Age -The Wizard of Oz -James & the Giant Peach -Night at the Museum
i watched this in cinema and the stampedes genuinely terrified me, i've also never held my breath more when watching a movie, and there was a guy in front of me that couldn't stop making noise clearly for disability reasons, but it distressed me so much that the ending genuinely made me sob, we had to go to the arcade next door to the cinema to calm me down, absolutely terrifying and heart wrenching, i loved it
One thing that always bothered me was people saying "Oh, a quiet place... of getting pizza". I went with a friend to watch the movie and we both understood the value that a simple slice of pizza had for Sam and seeing people judge it for that and calling it mid just gives me a tick in the eye
People kinda hate on these because they got popular immediately (also people love nitpicking movies instead of enjoying/thinking forward a bit) and I'm glad you point out a lot of the full panic reactions that people have to fight against to survive. While I may not 100% agree on some points, you articulate your view so well however I cannot believe you think pizza is MID?!
I watched an entire 38 video with the person talking why the movie sucked, and the franchise itself... primarily with how "THIS CANNOT HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE!! NOOO IT WON'T WORK IN REAL LIFE!" type of thing. They mainly talked about the hearing being inconsistent, that the military would destroy the Death Angels (agree to disagree, we're ahh violent with stupid crazy bullets n weapons) what if parts don't make sense and rationality? I suppose thinking past those irritating thoughts of: "How do they drown in water, but not die in space?", "Why can an axe kill it but not bullets?" or "Why don't their insides turn to mush with shockwaves?" People also hate this movie because they may not understand the emotional symbolisms. In that area yes it was bloody amazing I had the biggest obsession over it. it wasn't really a mad movie, sure some logic parts may fall flat with the stereotypical "Danger in New York, everyone dies no military destroy! Weak baby weapons :c" but honestly, nah. It's good. Like I always say, it's a darn movie. Fictional. Some things don't gotta make sense! Like how the Red Death in HTTYD Flies (Because I know for sure that thing is ass heavy)
Watching this with my mom in theaters as I started my Chemo was an experience I won’t forget. We had no idea going in that the main character was going to be in hospice and we were just crying at every moment. And I think the movie is just so beautiful. And it makes me so sad when people hate on this movie for not being Day One apocalyptic enough. When they gave us something so much more and hits so hard for people like me and people with crippling anxiety like Joseph Quinn.
this movie had me in violent tears by the end, lupita's character really hit home to me because my mother is sick too. she's got one of those diseases that in a situation like this she wouldn't survive. just the hopelessness that the characters who were already on borrowed time are presented with and how much more unfair it is for them. even if she escaped she wouldn't have much longer regardless. just heartbreaking.
Oh great, I cried when I saw this film on a flight last month, and now I've cried again watching this flipping video... And yes, this might be* the best one! *is
Just came from a flight, I cried thrice watching and got so hooked I let the movie play all the way to the credits even when people were leaving the plane already
A bit of simple but really good symbolism that I noticed watching this in theaters but that the video doesn't mention: at 1:30, you can see what Sam sees looking out the window: Manhattan, her home, with a cemetery between her and it. It's a straight-laced but deeply effective visual statement to how distant Sam feels not just from being alive in general, but from HER life as a New Yorker, and how her impending death is cutting her off from what she had. I went to watch this movie on a whim (had a morning meeting and an evening shift at my job and didn't want to do the commute twice so I hit up a nearby theater to fill time instead), and this shot was the first thing that really got me to switch my brain from "this is a time-killer" to "this is a movie I want to watch." I also respect the heck out of your tangent at the end. A lot of people are super into the Death Angel lore and as a lorehound myself I do respect it, but to me the aliens in this series have always been plot devices meant to facilitate the character storytelling, rather than being the center of storytelling themselves. The concept of being a terminally ill person at the cusp of an apocalypse - a survival horror story in which the protagonist cannot and does not expect to survive - was way more interesting and moving to me than the alien minutiae, because it fundamentally changes the stakes of the story from what we're used to from the genre. Super good stuff. Loved this film and loved the video; always glad to see an EGA about a film I really enjoyed watching.
That walking scene still makes me angry. They said “go to the bayside there’s a boat don’t miss it.” I was like okay let’s go that way, and then all these people came walking out, like okay let’s go. Then I heard how loud it became, like all of y’all haven’t been in a school hallway before!
As if school hallways are quiet? For me after elementary school (where teachers would literally line their class up single file and lead them around) school hallways were always loud af 💀 Unless you don't mean passing period, but walking through the hallways in between classes instead, which is only quiet because there *aren't* crowds of people walking through them.
The first movie was about a family working together to survive, the second one was about finding people who lost everything and them learning to work with people again and not just themselves, and the third movie was about a person who’s been alone for some time once again learning to work with people but also being able to enjoy themselves and know the people they worked with will survive and continue to live
So I raise you Blaze Pizza; best quick fire-baked pizza in the country. Other than that, I think what made this movie good is that the characters were so opposite each other it was insane. The Abbots could thrive in their ways because they’d lived it for years, but Sam, and the movie, sort of reveled in this ever-hovering sense of death. And Eric was someone desperate, anxious, to be alive. So he gave her life, both mentally and physically (with the meds) and she then let him take her (Frodo) and her dad (the sweater) to safety.
So stoked for this one my dude! Thank you for the calling out of just how ridiculous a lot of people are about things in movies being “consistent” and if there’s the tiniest of what they perceive to be a “plot hole” &/or any deviation of the way they quantify aspects of lore they lose their freaking minds over it, it’s sad really, movies should be experienced not nitpicked to death…I swear some people seem to go to see a movie for the sole purpose of looking for “mistakes” especially when sequels are concerned ffs! 🤦♀️😮💨👍😉
Also…somehow forgot to add that…this was another awesome video my dude!😉👍 I recently started to go back thru your older content and I cannot believe it’s been that long that I’ve been watching these vids!🤷♀️
I’ve only watched this movie once since my original viewing in theaters - same with all of the movies in the series- because as with the first, the way I cried so hard was too much for me. Such simple story lines but such masterful pieces about humanity and love. Ugh so damn good.
I saw this with my brother and my heart sunk when he bought up that Eric was on the same boat as Henri and most likely ended up on the same island where they all got attacked
I watched this movie on a flight recently and I must say, this franchise has seriously impressed me now. The first movie was a great horror blockbuster, but I never thought it needed a sequel. The ending was good enough to send the message that, yes, the monsters CAN be killed, the people CAN survive and win. The sequel was equally as entertaining, and gave the series a good ending. I was excited when I found out that they were making a prequel movie in the city, whereas the first two were in the country, but knew deep down it would’ve been so easy for them to screw it up, but they didn’t. This movie was so damn good, and I would go so far as to say it’s my favorite of the three. Lupita crushed the role of Sam, the monsters had a much larger presence than in the first two, and there was a compelling story of a terminally ill cancer patient wanting to live out her final days in her home rather than run any further. Also, this movie might have the single greatest ending of any movie ever. The timing of the monsters landing signifying Sam’s death perfectly with the beat of feeling good was so satisfying and I rewatched it like 5 times. Its even cooler when you remember that Sam’s father played jazz, so she was raised with it, then she ended with it.
My cat-loving anxiety could not watch this, I tried multiple times but every time Frodo went missing or had a close call I had to turn it off and hold my own cat for half an hour lol, I appreciate you doing this so I can watch a clipped version at least.
I love, LOVE the Quiet Place series. Hearing more of the themes and teachings the film was going for just makes me smile and even nearly tear up. I love the Aliens. I adore the designs, I adore the fact that, despite having weaknesses and being physical and stuff, they're still horrifying and dangerous to deal with. Also THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for discussing the hearing thing everyone argues about. I myself adore the fact that louder noises masking smaller ones idea that you showed with the generator and fabric ripping. It very much makes sense when being described and even shown. I hope they make more films and I can't wait to see that world expand to new heights.
I 100% believe that Day One is the best movie in the Trilogy. If it came out before Part I & Part II, almost everyone would agree. This is actually my favorite movie & has been since it came out, but I’m still deciding if The Wild Robot will take its place soon.
you'll probably never read this but you mentioned watching animals in an apocalypse living their lives. You should check out the movie "Flow". It's an animated movie with no dialogue about animals trying to survive after a flood.
Enforced Method Acting (from TV Tropes): Joseph Quinn didn't show Lupita Nyong'o the card trick he was going to do until the day of filming *so that her reaction would be more natural.*
not constantly hearing someone judge movies in an incredibly insulting voice and hearing loud dings and bams, i was flabbergasted when i first found Cinema Wins
I love that this movie has an invalid for a protagonist. Not once does Eric see Sam as a liability for her illness cuz he's just as much a liablility as her but in a different way. They cover each other's weaknesses
I'm not sure if you meant that John made this movie too, but just so you know, he didn't. It was another director, that I can't remember the name of right now, and I'm too lazy to look up because I'm on my phone. But it wasn't John.
19:34 i don't think I've ever agreed more with a "rant" about modern film criticism. Like yeah rules about the universe of a movie matter and we expect writers to have thought about it all the way through. So the slightest bit of inconsistenty can be distracting. We are so locked into lore but yeah IT DOESN'T matter in the real world.
I honestly think Joseph Quinn’s rising star and the Winona Ryder Renaissance are the best things to come from Stranger Things (I know he was acting in stuff before it, but he really made a mark in ST). I love his big, sad eyes. They’re so expressive.
The Cloverfield vibes, the personal struggles, and that egg scene made this one of the best films of the year. The egg farm scene is one of the craziest movie scenes this year as this is the first time you see this in the franchise and it is grotesque. The subway scene in it also reminded me of Fallout 3 when you go in the metro systems and it's flooded and creatures ot other dangers roam about. The subway scene is like Cloverfield's too. Paramount has great monsters in their creature features.
I’m glad you mentioned the out of nowhere GIANT DEATH ANGEL! And I really hope that it not only comes back but is explained if there’s ever a 4th A Quiet Place.
That scene with them all cowering in the theater was very realistic. We have a natural instinct to stay quiet when there is something dangerous outside. Even the young people. Watching it reminded me of my experience with a terrorist attack, where I too was stuck in an auditorium wondering if the bad guy was going to break in any second. None of us made a sound. Combine this with the 9/11 imagery of New Yorkers covered in ash and dust (I grew up in NYC), and that part of the film made me really emotional. If you want to know what going through major trauma is like, this film portrays it really well.
I can honestly say this movie made me absolutely terrified of the monsters. The sound design and general design on them this movie was the best! Joe and Lupita were phenomenal!!
We saw in the first movie that the military stood NO chance, literally declaring, we can’t save you, but the movies choice of showing the destroyed tanks littered everywhere really hammers the nail in the coffin, an abrams armour is thick, and I mean thick, and the death angels claws being able to go right through the frontal armour, shows even more just how strong they truley are
As always stellar content!❤ Your insights and dives into these movies are always welcome. I especially love your bit at the end, I too feel like people spend more time trying to point out where movies are mistaken or where they have broken some hard set rule that people have built up in their own heads, rather than actually enjoying the stories and artwork that has been created. This hurts not only their enjoyment, but I feel as though it chips away at our social consciousness as a whole. So thank you for always being that light that is so necessary and so rare❤
Yeah, I don't get nitpicking about the Angels either when the first movie literally answers the questions. When the Death Angel first enters the house in A Quiet Place and goes after the egg timer, we can hear its perspective, and we learn two things; one, _it can hear the timer._ It simply chooses not to react until two; it becomes a sudden, loud sound. This one scene basically explains Death Angel hearing. They can hear heartbeats as easily as they can hear waterfalls- but they're _consistent_ noises. Angels use consistent noises to navigate, and because attacking every consistent noise would be a colossal waste of energy, so even when it hears a human heartbeat it does not attack. It's only when there's an inconsistent noise- that same human screaming for instance- that it recognizes prey and launches an attack.
Kind of disappointed you didn't mention continuity with Part 2. The island's leader mentions several boats arriving at the dock during the initial invasion, only for two to ever leave. And in Day 1 we get a shot of all the boats, but later only see one (presumably with the other leaving for a different island)
im so glad to finally watch a video that talks about the good things in a movie. it exhausts me watching so many film criticisms, especially when it comes to movies that I like.
Had the pleasure of watching this in it's world premiere. It's simple, in a good way. Like, it doesn't try to reach an insane level of grandeur nor is it cliche & formulaic. It's a story about a dying woman using her final days to live.
A Quiet Place: Day One was my first horror movie I saw in theatres and it's still my favorite horror movie to date. I love how you can pinpoint exactly what I love about movies and also a ton of other details that I can't quite pick up on.
I really appreciated the rant about "lore" towards the end, because that's exactly how I feel about lore in storytelling, and it's also the thing I've tried to explain before to friends that are sticklers about lore in storytelling and nitpick tiby things and I just want to scream at them "It doesn't matter! That's not what the story is about!" And it just never really seems to stick, so I always appreciate it when other people acknowledge that lore consistency is low-priority when it comes to telling a story, and should always be secondary to what makes sense for a character.
The Quiet Place movies are proof that movies don't need to be unique, they just need to be good. All three movies are nearly identical in tone, plot, cinematography, and premise, and yet, because the emotional core of the film is intact, each new installment is more than worth a watch.
Yeah the plot wasn’t super complex but I enjoyed it a lot because it was just good
One tiny disagreement is that Day One seems to have unique undertones about how people dealt with 9/11. You can see it in the visuals of the dust of the -collapsed towers- aliens arriving and how quickly groups of strangers came together in solidarity, coupled with the brief use of the military to deal with the immediate threat. Other than that, yeah, they're basically all the same movie, just each done perfectly enough that we don't care.
@@TheWhiteDragon3 I agree with you absolutely but i also think people underestimate the inherent human need to gather with and protect your fellow man when push comes to shove. Obviously we live in a trying, divided time but if something like this happened today you pretty quickly stop caring about the details and start realizing that people's people and people's gotta survive.
Day One was different than the others with a different feeling.
@@Pawtism_Legacy Agreed, has enough similarities as the first 2. but it's uniqueness from the first 2 could definitely be a jumping-off point to warrant an expansion. hopefully, not to just milk it to death but to tell more meaningful stories.
another thing people seem to forget is that this is a prequel: it's before everything else, so not knowing the "rules" is to be expected for those who are now living through it at the start.
Some people don't seem to realize that the characters in a book/movie/videogame/whatever sometimes don't have access to the same information the reader/viewer/gamer/whatever has in any given piece of media. I've seen people get mad because character a didn't automatically know what character b discovered at the otherside of the planet.
the complaints i saw about this movie was that they knew TOO much about the rules. people wanted to see them flailing to figure it out a bit more, and didn’t like that it focused on a character who didn’t have to spend time figuring out that sound was what attracts the monsters, and was instead just told it pretty much right off the bat.
@@ranwolf7650yeah a lot of people see dramatic irony and think “oh the character must be dumb”
@@mars_mallow_ Which is a bit silly because this movie establishes very quickly that flailing to figure out the rule = you die. You don't get to scream and then live to learn from your mistake. You see someone else scream and promptly get deleted, & you put 2 and 2 together. That's the only way to make it through the initial invasion, unless you get very lucky.
The entire story would be way less engaging if Sam made a noise early on and got saved by plot armor.
@ literally!! that’s what i was thinking!!
As someone whose cat passed away a few years ago, Sam's farewell letter about taking care of Frodo got me GOOD. I was my cat's favorite person, and if I had to involuntarily leave my cat behind, I would 100% make sure that my cat was taken care of. They truly are the best.
You were your cat’s favourite person. Didn’t know the cat had other bffs 😂😂😂
@@master-of-mind5881and tell me how does it feel to be nothing and noones favourite person?
I also lost my cat last year 😭 this movie rly hit me
My cat died a month ago and it left a hole in my heart.
This one part at the end is so small but I still love it; in most horror/disaster movies whenever people are escaping and they see one person trying to catch up the answer is almost always “no leave him we gotta go!”
But here they see someone is running to the boat, actually STOP the boat, and when he jumps into the water you can hear everyone on the boat shouting words of encouragement. In this scenario I guess it’s easier to stop and tell someone to keep going because they’re on a boat that’s already away from land, but after being stuck in this nightmare for a couple days most people would just be like “let’s just go already!” Especially when they’re still somewhat in the danger zone
That's kind of a running theme through the whole series isn't it? That the end of the world doesn't (and can’t) stop you from being human.
That's the point of Sam’s arc. Her world is ending (due to illness) and she responded by cutting out everything that makes her happy (her humanity). She stopped writing poetry, stopped reading, and isolated herself in an empty hospice room far away from her friends and community. On the road to get pizza we see her reengaging w/ the things that once gave her joy - she picks up a book to read, writes some lines for a poem, and seeks out a reminder of her family & community.
Most movies forget that in scenarios like these humans return to solid pack behavior.
The people on that boat being lit up and happy over seeing another person make it is more than realistic.
@ and since this was still in the early days things haven’t gone all walking dead yet where no one trusts anyone and there isn’t any “every man for himself” or people just being terrible like we saw on the docks in the second movie
@@NtoTheM Not really, as evidenced by shitloads of real life history, in a disaster, generally the majority are preoccupied with themselves.
Look at the Titanic, only one boat returned to pickup survivors, and most were launched underloaded, people dont care about other people especially when their life is on the line lol.
My film teacher had us watch this in class and use it to analyze story structure because it's so simple with its story but it does it so effectively and plainly that it's a great example of why story structures like the aptly named Save the Cat are studied so much. This story knows what it wants to be about - a dying woman going to get the last slice of pizza - and it doesn't stray from that path.
It never tries to trick you or thinks it's smarter than you, and because of that it's one of the most effortless horror movies to watch. Even the jumpscares respect the audience, like the one at 8:30 that I noticed when watching it in class and I KNEW you'd point out. It didn't hide the aliens, it just didn't draw attention to them until it was important.
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I might have to watch it again but yeah it’s utterly visceral. The storytelling is subjective just like the previous two films. There’s great emphasis on character development that drives the story forward and making it feel organic. Simple yet effective and we as an audience are emotionally invested in the characters and their dilemma.
This movie is an instant 10/10 because the cat survives.
Also, main actress Lupita was terrified of cats before this movie, but because of her amazing furry costars, she ended up adopting her own cat that she constantly shows off on her Instagram!
At first I liked the Cinema Sins guy better, but I’ve completely flipped. Finding the joys and wonders in cinema fill me with so much more happiness compared to nitpicking.
At first the cinema sins guy actually pointed out mistakes and such, now hes just pointing out cliches that arent actually cliches
I found cinema sins first I think in elementary school or middle school, idk. So part of it was just “oh cool a RUclips channel from my childhood”. I figured it was all satire and he didn’t actually hate every movie, it was all jokes and didn’t actually represent how he felt about it. At some point I found cinema wins and it was “oh cool the same thing but the opposite!” Even though neither channels are how I prefer to watch movie content, I prefer videos and video essays that break down certain topics rather than videos talking about the good or bad, I’ve realized that if I’m going to watch this stuff. Shouldn’t I be watching the guy who enjoys what he does instead of the guy who picks apart something for the sake of picking it apart? Recently I watched a video that pointed out that Cinema sins makes things up when he can’t find something bad to say about a movie and his channel is about making money more than anything and that’s when it clicked and I realized I should’ve been watching this guy instead.
I could hear people crying along with me while in the theater. Part 1 and 2 were emotional, but Day One had me sobbing😭
Oh, me too - I just watched it in Paramount+ tonight with my husband and I was crying so hard at the end I couldn’t answer whatever question he was asking me. Absolutely brilliant storytelling and poignant acting.
Same. I decided to watch on a open air theatre, I can tell you that the summer-y, vibe-y feeling of the beginning was completely gone after the first 10 minutes. By then time we were leaving you could only see sombre (and somewhat damp) faces.
Man. Being in Withdraw AND Pain during a horrific experience like this would make it 100000000x more brutal.
Having been in the kind of pain she endured throughout the movie, both with medication and in situations where I had to beg for it and was denied.... this movie was hard.
I've also lived most of my life in Death's shadow and it only gets longer and darker for me...
Yet the movie decided to focus on what matters to someone... when life doen't... at The End.
Truly breathtaking ❤
@@sagesigman8269 I could not agree more. This movie just tore at my heart. Two good people, utter strangers, who forged a bond of friendship for their mutual survival. I cried when Sam gave Eric her cat, knowing that they would both survive through her sacrifice. And at the end, she knew she had fulfilled her life’s purpose and could end her life in peace. Beautiful story.
Loved this analysis! One thing I wanted to add is about the consistency throughout the movie regarding what seems to trigger Eric's panic attacks.
Our very first time seeing him, he is emerging from a water-filled subway entrance, gasping for air and terrified. The two panic attacks we see also involve water. First when they're wading through the water underground past the Death Angel and then again when he realizes he's going to have to jump into the river and swim to the boat to survive. I think they're trying to 'show not tell' that he is terrified of water now because of his initial experience when the aliens first arrived.
And there's a deleted scene where he implies he left England because his father couldn't accept that Eric is gay, but that he was so lonely living in NYC that he was about to attempt suicide in the subway right when the aliens arrived - which made him realize he still wants to live. So I think the panic attacks have an added layer of the water reminding him how close he was to death but how much he really doesn't want to die anymore.
Just really great storytelling in subtle ways throughout the entire movie!
I am honestly so mad they cut that scene. I haven't seen it yet but the description alone adds so much to his actions.
Great story telling except for literally everything else revolving around the main bads that would never grow to be as big a threat past the first 3 days
@@DS-wl5pk Yeah, right. Because civilization would just restart after a couple of weeks like nothing happened
@@DS-wl5pk We can barely hold society together during covid. No way could we survive
Every second that Frodo wasnt in screen, I was going "where kitty? kitty ok? show kitty".
Little late but I watched this with my wife in the cinema and we were the ONLY ones in there which certainly added to the experience. Namely, all the incredibly tense scenes with the Aliens being broken by seeing the cat and saying "oh he's such a good baby boy!"
Lol same! My husband and I the entire time were like, "where's the cat?? Is he ok?? Oh there he is thank god"
A lesser film might have had Sam and Eric get together romantically, but fortunately, that's not what happens here. Their platonic bond is solid, and to add a romantic plot would be unnecessary.
This is so important!!!
Also there is a deleted scene in which he explains that his parents haven’t accepted that he’s gay.
And that's the problem with so many movies they try to forces romantic relationships, which is cool but in A LOT of movies I noticed it's so unnecessary.
@@M_Oates I agree plus it was sad enough without him talking about wanting to end his life due to his family not accepting him. That being said I still thought it was a beautiful movie.
Even growing up as a kid, I noticed and ranted to my mother about it when romantic plots were unnecessary. Especially growing up queer in a heteronormative world, that stuff aggravated me even more so
16:25 going back to the angels showing up from where you least expect there is one underneath the dock reaching for Eric and Frodo
Oh Daaaaang I've seen it 3 times and never noticed.....I'm blind I guess
I absolutely love this and just how terrifying it makes the angels. They're not senseless, violence-driven creatures, they have at least the basic intelligence of any wild predator and understand when to hide and when to attack. Who knows how many other people tried to jump off that dock and were brutally killed?
@@burgerfanman I don't think it was just hiding cause there a few that come from the beach, though it still shows the intelligence of the angels as it determined that it would be faster to go under rather than over
also again, confirms what Big Cinema said about the death angels and that infestation aesthetic
1:25 Putting on a transdermal analgesic patch is such a simple thing to focus on but it reminds us how a lot of us take for granted that 1) we are healthy, and 2) we have consistent access to medicine and painkillers. Especially in a disaster scenario where the supply chain is wrecked and it’s not safe to go out. It’s scary how little it would take to lose so much of our modern innovations.
Worth noting that it's a transdermal, not a topical, so it'd be even harder to recreate without technology.
I love how you defend the "inconsistencies" of the death angels' hearing. I watched Film Theory's video on "a quiet place", and they showed how the death angels usually ignore sounds you'd find in nature, like running water, or fire, or leaves rustling.
I love the creativity of the Death Angels using their kills as the “feed” for their actual food source: a weird fungus-thing. I’m not sure if this was the creators’ specific inspiration, but it really reminds me of how leafcutter ants “farm” special fungi to eat based on the leaves they cut up.
Wdym,...they kill the humans,...decompose/transform em,...then eat em?...
Because if so,...that is beyond gnarly
No, its pretty dumb
How did they survive in space so long?
@@DS-wl5pksuspended animation? Hibernation?
@CraigCR yeah? For multiple astronomical units? Go look how long it takes for light, LIGHT, to travel ONE astronomical unit then try abd justify it with that bs again
I also love how i indicated that it would be phsyically impossible and you have nothing else but 7 other morons who think thats a cop out
Oh and people who want to be stupid
@@DS-wl5pk Listen buddy, if you try to continue caring that much for logic, you'll end up being the most hated person in the world. Stop caring
The way I see the generator scene is the generator drew the death angle to the position and the tearing of the shirt caused it to hone in on the guy’s position
Thats kinda what CinemaWins said.
@ a bit
6:23
Really love that final rant, people also forget that it's not about avoiding getting heard by the aliens, it's minimizing the risk that an alien hears them. That means that yeah sometimes a shirt can rip and an alien is close-by enough (or whatever else) to hear it, but other times it might be too far away, get overshadowed by different sounds, etc.
10:51 Pizza is what? mid? Are you good bro? we boutta fight?
A slightly more violent interpretation of my exact thoughts. Pizza is wonderful.
If he thinks pizza is mid he just hasn't been eating good pizza
The way I immediately paused and fled to the comments to see who else caught that diss towards the LOML pizza 😤
Edit: nvm, homeboy has a favorite pizza spot he brings up around 15:27
@@thomaslemos2240 absolutely 100% same lol
I thought I was the only one that heard that. He doesn’t understand the love of pizza unless he’s lactose intolerant
This movie is always going to be special to me.
I saw it actually in New York, staying in a hotel 1 Street over from the theatre where it all starts. Coming out of the cinema into the busy loud streets was surreal tbh.
Thinking just "yep we'd be screwed"
Especially because you finally realize what the movie meant by,..the constant 90 decibels really does feel like a constant scream
Gotta admit, admit, loved the whole video, but that little rant about lore at the end was one of my favorite parts to be honest. I've had similar feelings watching reviews for a wide range of things and it's great to see it's shared in a place like this.
Negativity and nit picking are why I left that other "Everything" channel and came here. Lee really does understand that any movie can be someone's favorite. Like for me I know that it's a "bad" movie but Street Fighter (1994) will always be a favorite of mine and I rewatch it constantly.
I will note that the rant highlighted a REALLY good moment that CinemaWins missed - when the big guy does its super hearing thing and opens its head, the sound switches from what Eric is hearing to what the monster is hearing... It CAN hear Eric's heartbeat, but can't pinpoint where he is because of the background noise (it's a very cool moment)
I am fine with people not liking this movie, I personally loved it and watching this video brings me the same amount of huge joy like when I first saw it in cinema. People are saying it's a genuinely horrible film with the plot holes, which some I can agree on; humans are bloody ass good at killing things, and will throw ALL FORCE to get rid of threats. So, at least in some areas where the meteors hit maybe their military discovered high-frequencies kill them, get rid of majority of population but can't actually tell other impacted areas or something.
Either way, people really dislike movies if not everything makes sense. Which I can agree, logic helps with movies. Like the guy said; having good actors helps movies a whole ton. I also loved the way he describes bears being chill or rude. Sometimes, 100% realism doesn't make a movie good. I always say "Every single dragon you see on screen, is likely wrong. Very wrong, not realistic, won't work. Something that large with x + muscle mass with miniature wings won't fly." But that does not stop me from loving httyd, it's amazing.
I also will like to add most people who genuinely hate this film wants everything perfect, or don't like horror movies, or don't understand the emotional aspects of it that makes it great. Either way I still love the movies even if parts obviously cannot align with how things would work if it really happened. (No judgement to people who don't like it, however)
This must be a hard film to watch for cat lovers, they'd be worrying about Frodo the entire time. Also, Lupita Nyong'o was apparently petrified of cats prior to filming, but grew to adore her two feline costars who played Frodo. 😻
She also went on to adopt a cat named YoYo! Her feline costars completely changed her view on cats! It’s so adorable.
It was a harrowing experience for sure, though I couldn't help but notice how well trained the cat(s) were. Extremely good kitties
That's so sweet!❤
Thats what the website does the dog die is for, look that up beforehand and then you can watch it worry free!
The entire time I was watching it, I was like, “where is the cat, is he okay?”
I did not read sam's med box at the beginning of the movie so when Eric got it for her and I realized it was fentanyl it really hit home how bad her pain is, yet she still went through a lot of the movie with nothing.
One of my favorite things about this movie is how it doesn't do the whole "Noble man sacrifices himself to save the damsel in distress." Instead, they do the exact opposite. Sam ends up sacrificing herself and saving Eric... and Frodo the cat 😁
"Noble man sacrifices himself to save the damsel in distress."
They haven't made any films like that in over a decade
@@Minecraft_at_Night Based off of the definition of "Damsel" literally the first movie in this franchise would qualify.
Lee Abbot was a noble man who sacrificed himself to save his daughter.
@@Minecraft_at_Night sure bud
Such a difficult watch for me, I lost my wife 10 years 1 month and 1 day ago to cancer and she was a beautiful petite black woman and passed at only 34, so seeing Lupita in this role brings back so many bitter sweet memories 😢
But as much as it's difficult, it's also hard to look away. 😊😢😊😢
I know am a random internet stranger,...but I hope you two genuinely enjoyed each other and I hope you were able to offer some peace and solace in her finally days
May God/universe (i don't know if you're religious or not) continues to bless and guide into peace and happiness
I’m sorry for your loss.
9:28 I don’t know any movies about animals surviving an apocalypse but I do know a webcomic called Scurry, about mice surviving during what seems to be a nuclear winter.
God that last scene FUCKED ME UP dude, so incredible and there couldn't have been a more perfect song. So good.
After playing through Road Ahead it has really made me a fan of this franchise and the Death Angels have quickly became my 3rd favourite alien monster in cinema
Out of curiosity what is yours list looking like?
@@GennyTheWolf
1. The transformers
2. The Xenomorph
3. The Death Angels
4. The Predator
5. The Thing
6. King Ghidorah
7. Thanos
8. Rancor
@@ukotoa1639very respectable list!
@@ukotoa1639decent list. I also recommend the Bioraptors from _Pitch Black._
@@ukotoa1639 as someone who makes random list for random things..i love this so fuckin much
This one was BY FAR my favorite of the trilogy so far. The pacing, acting, atmosphere, score, and story are all done beautifully.
8:17 yeah, and if you’ve got a big cluster of people all walking in one direction, you can tiptoe as lightly as you want, but it’s gonna make some sound.
I remember seeing the crowd get bigger in theaters, and HEARING the collective noise slowly get louder and nearly panicking because I knew they were gonna hear it. It was the calm before the storm, and it was BRILLIANTLY done.
As an owner of 5 cats I can safely say they would all die within 10 minutes of the start.
Also, I got so stressed at the beggining of the movie thinking the cat would die horribly I had to pause to look up whether he dies or not.
11:20 I've seen this movie so many times and every time Erik reads "but not now..." I get chills.
Just READING it here gave me chills 😭😭
Here's a thought, would it really be accurate to call this universe post apocalyptic?
First two movies are set in the countryside and day one is set in, well, the first couple of days.
We dont know the status of everywhere else, there's possibly a huge number of people living on islands after evacuating. Hell, maybe Hawaii was untouched for all we know
For islands, I feel that they would still experience a lot of apocalyptic symptoms. Hawaii has to import a lot of food and goods daily. I think that could be a cool concept for a short film but idk if it would work for the main movie series due to the lack of death angels.
That's something I've also wondered about apocalypse stories. We have all this media showing us how regular people survive and adapt... well, where are the professionals in all of this? Where are the survival experts? Where are the Marines and SEALs and other highly trained combat forces? Hell, where are the Boy Scouts? One of the first things any military is going to do is share information about a new foe, and one of the first things the world will figure out about the Death Angels is that they're attracted to sound; therefore, one of the first things that will happen is the militaries of the world will figure out how to exploit that advantage; like as not using distractions, such as disposable radios.
I think it would end up being not dissimilar to the first part of the "Last of Us" game, where we saw a large pocket of human survivors essentially being corralled by a military organization. Once militaries figure out what to do, they would start doing it, and that probably includes - as you mentioned - relocating people and supplies to islands, like Hawai'i.
Though, while the engineer in me would genuinely love to see a story about a group of humans using cleverness to overcome a superior foe (or maybe I just remember when the 90's were a thing), I recognize that the more compelling stories tend to lean more heavily on tragedy.
I’d say yes, in how the Planet of the Apes universe has movies explaining how Apes got smart and Humans became primal. In each movie after Rise-, they go into detail on how the humans are going through great lengths to keep in contact with each other, possibly implying apes hadn’t taken over as much in curtain locations.
Boats would be an interesting option. Sure, they can be loud, but they also can be away from land. Oceans and other bodies of water can be loud, drowning out other sounds.
well i guess its just apocalyptic not pre or post current
This film is a fine addition to a good film series. The acting and writing are always far better than the lower quality standards usually seen in monster flicks. This film also showed us what the alien invasion would be like in a large, noisy city instead of a relatively quiet small town. It even subverts the "final girl" trope by making the main protagonist terminally ill. I really like that these films are shown from the perspective of ordinary people caught up in something horrible instead of the perspective of scientists or soldiers trying to stop the aliens. It reminds me of Cloverfield in that regard and I also liked that film a lot. The filmmakers of these films recognize that the monsters aren't the important focus in monster flicks but that it's the people just trying to survive who make the film interesting and worth watching instead of just one graphic kill after another. I hope this film series continues and also hope that the quality stays high throughout.
I love when universe introduce creatures and for the most part they're all the same and then at some point BAM some ridiculously sized or different looking version pops up. It makes sense to have a much bigger one, there are massive humans compared to some and I'm sure the death angels are the same
I actually like to think that was a nest and the larger Death Angel was like a Queen of sorts. That's why that specific area had a odder colour, and why the fungus was specifically growing there
Lupita niyongo has been KILLING it in her career over the last decade. Hope she keeps getting great roles like this.
I love the way you explain the whole lore thing, that just because certain characters find an answer that doesn't mean it's the only answer or even the correct one. Another good example of this is The Walking Dead. At least the game made by ttg, idk much about the series or comics.
In S1, Lee and Clementine learned to avoid walkers by smearing a walker's guts and bloods all over their body, and Clementine taught that to the other survivors in S2, 3, and 4. But then in the Michonne spinoff, we see the way Michonne avoiding the walkers is by using them as a sort of meat shield. Cutting their lower jaw so they won't bite her and then tying them with a rope, kinda like a guiding animal. And the in S4 Clementine met James, a guy who managed to live among the walkers by using a walker face as his mask.
On the side note, the death angels actually know the concept of liquid since we see one in the first movie drinking and then slowly swimming. But that's not a plot hole. The water was very shallow and it knows that. It walks under the water, just like hippo. It was also ready to go under the water. Meanwhile the ones that we've seen in Part 2 and Day One weren't ready. Although, it was weird seeing the them not jumping to the water at the climax of Day One. But overall, I absolutely love this series
This is actually crazy, I just finished watching this film for the first time less than 5 minutes ago and then I see this, so excited for this!
The algorithm hard at work
Dude, enjoy!!
Still processing the ending and then watching this is wild
Honestly, best movie of the series so far. They're all great, but this one is my favorite
20:43 I know what next week's EGA video is going to be & I'm looking forward to it! Here's a list of suggestions to consider for future EGA videos:
-The Wild Robot
-Deadpool & Wolverine
-Star Wars: Clone Wars (2008 Film)
-The Lost World: Jurassic Park
-Isle of Dogs
-The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Extended Edition)
-Ice Age
-The Wizard of Oz
-James & the Giant Peach
-Night at the Museum
20:44 WHAT THIS? WHAT THIS? I can’t believe my eyes I must be dreaming!
Joseph Quinn being able to go toe-to-toe with Lupita says everything about his talent.
i watched this in cinema and the stampedes genuinely terrified me, i've also never held my breath more when watching a movie, and there was a guy in front of me that couldn't stop making noise clearly for disability reasons, but it distressed me so much that the ending genuinely made me sob, we had to go to the arcade next door to the cinema to calm me down, absolutely terrifying and heart wrenching, i loved it
I didn’t even notice the death Angel in the corner until you said it 😭 😭 I love the details these movies have
One thing that always bothered me was people saying "Oh, a quiet place... of getting pizza". I went with a friend to watch the movie and we both understood the value that a simple slice of pizza had for Sam and seeing people judge it for that and calling it mid just gives me a tick in the eye
I really liked this film, the horror parts were a setting and back drop to a story about life and memories and human connection and I loved it.
People kinda hate on these because they got popular immediately (also people love nitpicking movies instead of enjoying/thinking forward a bit) and I'm glad you point out a lot of the full panic reactions that people have to fight against to survive. While I may not 100% agree on some points, you articulate your view so well however I cannot believe you think pizza is MID?!
I watched an entire 38 video with the person talking why the movie sucked, and the franchise itself... primarily with how "THIS CANNOT HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE!! NOOO IT WON'T WORK IN REAL LIFE!" type of thing. They mainly talked about the hearing being inconsistent, that the military would destroy the Death Angels (agree to disagree, we're ahh violent with stupid crazy bullets n weapons)
what if parts don't make sense and rationality? I suppose thinking past those irritating thoughts of: "How do they drown in water, but not die in space?", "Why can an axe kill it but not bullets?" or "Why don't their insides turn to mush with shockwaves?"
People also hate this movie because they may not understand the emotional symbolisms. In that area yes it was bloody amazing I had the biggest obsession over it. it wasn't really a mad movie, sure some logic parts may fall flat with the stereotypical "Danger in New York, everyone dies no military destroy! Weak baby weapons :c" but honestly, nah. It's good. Like I always say, it's a darn movie. Fictional. Some things don't gotta make sense! Like how the Red Death in HTTYD Flies (Because I know for sure that thing is ass heavy)
Watching this with my mom in theaters as I started my Chemo was an experience I won’t forget. We had no idea going in that the main character was going to be in hospice and we were just crying at every moment. And I think the movie is just so beautiful. And it makes me so sad when people hate on this movie for not being Day One apocalyptic enough. When they gave us something so much more and hits so hard for people like me and people with crippling anxiety like Joseph Quinn.
this movie had me in violent tears by the end, lupita's character really hit home to me because my mother is sick too. she's got one of those diseases that in a situation like this she wouldn't survive. just the hopelessness that the characters who were already on borrowed time are presented with and how much more unfair it is for them. even if she escaped she wouldn't have much longer regardless. just heartbreaking.
Oh great, I cried when I saw this film on a flight last month, and now I've cried again watching this flipping video...
And yes, this might be* the best one!
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Just came from a flight, I cried thrice watching and got so hooked I let the movie play all the way to the credits even when people were leaving the plane already
One simple limitation does wonders for creative writing, and the best part about this series is how it conveys stories without telling us.
This movie series is shaping up to be my all time favourite. They are SO good in every aspect.
A bit of simple but really good symbolism that I noticed watching this in theaters but that the video doesn't mention: at 1:30, you can see what Sam sees looking out the window: Manhattan, her home, with a cemetery between her and it. It's a straight-laced but deeply effective visual statement to how distant Sam feels not just from being alive in general, but from HER life as a New Yorker, and how her impending death is cutting her off from what she had.
I went to watch this movie on a whim (had a morning meeting and an evening shift at my job and didn't want to do the commute twice so I hit up a nearby theater to fill time instead), and this shot was the first thing that really got me to switch my brain from "this is a time-killer" to "this is a movie I want to watch."
I also respect the heck out of your tangent at the end. A lot of people are super into the Death Angel lore and as a lorehound myself I do respect it, but to me the aliens in this series have always been plot devices meant to facilitate the character storytelling, rather than being the center of storytelling themselves. The concept of being a terminally ill person at the cusp of an apocalypse - a survival horror story in which the protagonist cannot and does not expect to survive - was way more interesting and moving to me than the alien minutiae, because it fundamentally changes the stakes of the story from what we're used to from the genre.
Super good stuff. Loved this film and loved the video; always glad to see an EGA about a film I really enjoyed watching.
That walking scene still makes me angry. They said “go to the bayside there’s a boat don’t miss it.” I was like okay let’s go that way, and then all these people came walking out, like okay let’s go. Then I heard how loud it became, like all of y’all haven’t been in a school hallway before!
As if school hallways are quiet? For me after elementary school (where teachers would literally line their class up single file and lead them around) school hallways were always loud af 💀
Unless you don't mean passing period, but walking through the hallways in between classes instead, which is only quiet because there *aren't* crowds of people walking through them.
That end of film needle drop is one of the best I’ve ever seen.
The first movie was about a family working together to survive, the second one was about finding people who lost everything and them learning to work with people again and not just themselves, and the third movie was about a person who’s been alone for some time once again learning to work with people but also being able to enjoy themselves and know the people they worked with will survive and continue to live
So I raise you Blaze Pizza; best quick fire-baked pizza in the country.
Other than that, I think what made this movie good is that the characters were so opposite each other it was insane. The Abbots could thrive in their ways because they’d lived it for years, but Sam, and the movie, sort of reveled in this ever-hovering sense of death. And Eric was someone desperate, anxious, to be alive. So he gave her life, both mentally and physically (with the meds) and she then let him take her (Frodo) and her dad (the sweater) to safety.
So stoked for this one my dude! Thank you for the calling out of just how ridiculous a lot of people are about things in movies being “consistent” and if there’s the tiniest of what they perceive to be a “plot hole” &/or any deviation of the way they quantify aspects of lore they lose their freaking minds over it, it’s sad really, movies should be experienced not nitpicked to death…I swear some people seem to go to see a movie for the sole purpose of looking for “mistakes” especially when sequels are concerned ffs! 🤦♀️😮💨👍😉
Also…somehow forgot to add that…this was another awesome video my dude!😉👍 I recently started to go back thru your older content and I cannot believe it’s been that long that I’ve been watching these vids!🤷♀️
I’ve only watched this movie once since my original viewing in theaters - same with all of the movies in the series- because as with the first, the way I cried so hard was too much for me. Such simple story lines but such masterful pieces about humanity and love. Ugh so damn good.
I saw this with my brother and my heart sunk when he bought up that Eric was on the same boat as Henri and most likely ended up on the same island where they all got attacked
I watched this movie on a flight recently and I must say, this franchise has seriously impressed me now. The first movie was a great horror blockbuster, but I never thought it needed a sequel. The ending was good enough to send the message that, yes, the monsters CAN be killed, the people CAN survive and win. The sequel was equally as entertaining, and gave the series a good ending. I was excited when I found out that they were making a prequel movie in the city, whereas the first two were in the country, but knew deep down it would’ve been so easy for them to screw it up, but they didn’t. This movie was so damn good, and I would go so far as to say it’s my favorite of the three. Lupita crushed the role of Sam, the monsters had a much larger presence than in the first two, and there was a compelling story of a terminally ill cancer patient wanting to live out her final days in her home rather than run any further. Also, this movie might have the single greatest ending of any movie ever. The timing of the monsters landing signifying Sam’s death perfectly with the beat of feeling good was so satisfying and I rewatched it like 5 times. Its even cooler when you remember that Sam’s father played jazz, so she was raised with it, then she ended with it.
My cat-loving anxiety could not watch this, I tried multiple times but every time Frodo went missing or had a close call I had to turn it off and hold my own cat for half an hour lol, I appreciate you doing this so I can watch a clipped version at least.
I love, LOVE the Quiet Place series. Hearing more of the themes and teachings the film was going for just makes me smile and even nearly tear up.
I love the Aliens. I adore the designs, I adore the fact that, despite having weaknesses and being physical and stuff, they're still horrifying and dangerous to deal with. Also THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for discussing the hearing thing everyone argues about. I myself adore the fact that louder noises masking smaller ones idea that you showed with the generator and fabric ripping. It very much makes sense when being described and even shown.
I hope they make more films and I can't wait to see that world expand to new heights.
I 100% believe that Day One is the best movie in the Trilogy. If it came out before Part I & Part II, almost everyone would agree. This is actually my favorite movie & has been since it came out, but I’m still deciding if The Wild Robot will take its place soon.
you'll probably never read this but you mentioned watching animals in an apocalypse living their lives. You should check out the movie "Flow". It's an animated movie with no dialogue about animals trying to survive after a flood.
Enforced Method Acting (from TV Tropes): Joseph Quinn didn't show Lupita Nyong'o the card trick he was going to do until the day of filming *so that her reaction would be more natural.*
10:46 Those are fighting words my guy
Absolutely 😂
I'm glad this was literally the first comment when I opened the comment section, because HUH!? Pizza is MID!?? That's a crazy take
I might have to unsubscribe after hearing that take
Came to say guy
not constantly hearing someone judge movies in an incredibly insulting voice and hearing loud dings and bams, i was flabbergasted when i first found Cinema Wins
I was really hesitant about a pre-qual but it really impressed me.
I love that this movie has an invalid for a protagonist. Not once does Eric see Sam as a liability for her illness cuz he's just as much a liablility as her but in a different way. They cover each other's weaknesses
This movie blew me away in theaters, as did the other two when I saw them on the big screen, krasinski has really mastered his craft
I'm not sure if you meant that John made this movie too, but just so you know, he didn't. It was another director, that I can't remember the name of right now, and I'm too lazy to look up because I'm on my phone. But it wasn't John.
NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!!!! I cant wait for the next one now! But this was a great movie and a better breakdown!
Speaking of Lupita Nyong'o, I hope you do Wild Robot. I feel like it's going under the radar
19:34 i don't think I've ever agreed more with a "rant" about modern film criticism. Like yeah rules about the universe of a movie matter and we expect writers to have thought about it all the way through. So the slightest bit of inconsistenty can be distracting. We are so locked into lore but yeah IT DOESN'T matter in the real world.
I honestly think Joseph Quinn’s rising star and the Winona Ryder Renaissance are the best things to come from Stranger Things (I know he was acting in stuff before it, but he really made a mark in ST). I love his big, sad eyes. They’re so expressive.
this movie is actually so underrated, i don’t hear people talking about it that much but it’s actually amazing
The Cloverfield vibes, the personal struggles, and that egg scene made this one of the best films of the year. The egg farm scene is one of the craziest movie scenes this year as this is the first time you see this in the franchise and it is grotesque. The subway scene in it also reminded me of Fallout 3 when you go in the metro systems and it's flooded and creatures ot other dangers roam about. The subway scene is like Cloverfield's too. Paramount has great monsters in their creature features.
I’m glad you mentioned the out of nowhere GIANT DEATH ANGEL! And I really hope that it not only comes back but is explained if there’s ever a 4th A Quiet Place.
That scene with them all cowering in the theater was very realistic. We have a natural instinct to stay quiet when there is something dangerous outside. Even the young people.
Watching it reminded me of my experience with a terrorist attack, where I too was stuck in an auditorium wondering if the bad guy was going to break in any second. None of us made a sound.
Combine this with the 9/11 imagery of New Yorkers covered in ash and dust (I grew up in NYC), and that part of the film made me really emotional.
If you want to know what going through major trauma is like, this film portrays it really well.
That final shot in the movie, just perfect.
I can honestly say this movie made me absolutely terrified of the monsters. The sound design and general design on them this movie was the best! Joe and Lupita were phenomenal!!
We saw in the first movie that the military stood NO chance, literally declaring, we can’t save you, but the movies choice of showing the destroyed tanks littered everywhere really hammers the nail in the coffin, an abrams armour is thick, and I mean thick, and the death angels claws being able to go right through the frontal armour, shows even more just how strong they truley are
As always stellar content!❤ Your insights and dives into these movies are always welcome.
I especially love your bit at the end, I too feel like people spend more time trying to point out where movies are mistaken or where they have broken some hard set rule that people have built up in their own heads, rather than actually enjoying the stories and artwork that has been created. This hurts not only their enjoyment, but I feel as though it chips away at our social consciousness as a whole. So thank you for always being that light that is so necessary and so rare❤
I think Eric panicking in the subway tunnel is really a great call back to how afraid he must be after almost drowning in there before!
Yeah, I don't get nitpicking about the Angels either when the first movie literally answers the questions.
When the Death Angel first enters the house in A Quiet Place and goes after the egg timer, we can hear its perspective, and we learn two things; one, _it can hear the timer._ It simply chooses not to react until two; it becomes a sudden, loud sound.
This one scene basically explains Death Angel hearing. They can hear heartbeats as easily as they can hear waterfalls- but they're _consistent_ noises. Angels use consistent noises to navigate, and because attacking every consistent noise would be a colossal waste of energy, so even when it hears a human heartbeat it does not attack. It's only when there's an inconsistent noise- that same human screaming for instance- that it recognizes prey and launches an attack.
Kind of disappointed you didn't mention continuity with Part 2. The island's leader mentions several boats arriving at the dock during the initial invasion, only for two to ever leave. And in Day 1 we get a shot of all the boats, but later only see one (presumably with the other leaving for a different island)
10:50 calling pizza mid is crazy..... I also respect your opinion
im so glad to finally watch a video that talks about the good things in a movie. it exhausts me watching so many film criticisms, especially when it comes to movies that I like.
Just one thing: Cat should get Best Supporting Academy Award.
"Earth didnt break canon" took me out. I wasnt prepared for that.
The atmosphere in these movies is really something else. Even watching the clips, I catch myself holding my breath.
Had the pleasure of watching this in it's world premiere. It's simple, in a good way. Like, it doesn't try to reach an insane level of grandeur nor is it cliche & formulaic. It's a story about a dying woman using her final days to live.
The way she dies by just putting on music. EVEN THE “I feel good” made that moment a million times better.
A Quiet Place: Day One was my first horror movie I saw in theatres and it's still my favorite horror movie to date. I love how you can pinpoint exactly what I love about movies and also a ton of other details that I can't quite pick up on.
I never thought that a channel like CinemaWins would share such a hot take. "All pizza is mid"?!!?! How dare you!
This is such a gorgeous film - beautiful performances, moving story, entertaining suspense. Lupita is exceptional.
I really appreciated the rant about "lore" towards the end, because that's exactly how I feel about lore in storytelling, and it's also the thing I've tried to explain before to friends that are sticklers about lore in storytelling and nitpick tiby things and I just want to scream at them "It doesn't matter! That's not what the story is about!" And it just never really seems to stick, so I always appreciate it when other people acknowledge that lore consistency is low-priority when it comes to telling a story, and should always be secondary to what makes sense for a character.
Breaks my heart at the ending with the literary connection. Frodo crosses the water, but Sam stays behind.
This man‘s Humor is not for everyone, but his positivity and clear love for film is contagious.
lupita n'yongo is just phenomenal, anything she's in is a 100% win. beautiful film