A Quiet Place (2018)'s comments - page 2

I did have a major problem with Evelyn (Emily Blunt) getting pregnant *after* these events began, for three big reasons: 1. Why bring another child into this alien-infested world? 2. …Especially after they already lost a child to the aliens. 3. A baby CAN NOT be silenced (nor can the mother giving birth). And what’s most frustrating about this, is that this issue could have been fixed SO EASILY, by simply having Evelyn be pregnant at the beginning of the film, which starts at 89 days since the alien invasion - so make her four-months pregnant. Then make the follow-up scene 5 months later (instead of a year) and boom, having the baby totally makes sense; couldn’t be helped - it also makes perfect sense why the time jump (to get to the birth, which is an AMAZING scene, granted). This is a no-brainer, and even if they needed to do reshoots to fix this, it’s literally two locations to do so (grocery store and bridge). That *almost* ruined the movie for me. The other unforgivably-stupid thing the parents do is in the beginning, when they decide to walk in FRONT of their youngest child to make sure he keeps quiet. (and for the record, I’m a parent. ;-)

In the last act it felt a lot like all the stops were artificially pulled out for the sake of making it scarier (the water in the basement, the silo), but then they distracted from the real tension (the baby, mainly, but also their grief).

the fast and loose way the creatures responded to noise, why he dropped the axe instead of using it for a last stand, and why the daughter didn’t figure out the power of her cochlear implant one incident sooner (in the truck). After some of the great subtext in contemporary horror movies lately, I also wasn’t sure whether this had any.

the ending with the father dying while he could have easily saved himself, kind of ruined the movie for me

Bene, la donna era incinta. Visto che nei pressi di un forte rumore (come una cascata o un ruscello) l'ulteriore rumore risulta mascherato, perché non si sono trasferiti in queste zone rumorose ben prima del parto? Poi sarebbe stato troppo facile, eh.

The firework sequence was immensely gratifying.

The army could've just used some sort of noise emitters and kill everything that comes to it. There's many more similar examples. Also the ending was out of character. Evelyn just lost her husband but is pumped to go kill the rest of the monsters like nothing happened; to avenge her husband I guess. As someone else pointed out, it's too American which does not fit what came before.