A Quiet Place Review - YMS 

My response to the criticism of this review: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jy-eDZkhljg.html

The worst part was I couldn't finish my popcorn because half the time it was so quiet everyone would have heard it crunching.

i like how you slowly shifted from calling him John Kransinski to jim

My favorite scene was when Jim from the Office said "Golly gee, this place sure is quiet"

Honestly, the biggest problem I had with this movie is that the concept of the monsters makes absolutely no sense as portrayed. They are completely blind, hunt entirely by sound, and also clearly lack any form of sound-sense to serve an equivalent function as eyes, such as bat's echolocation or a whale's sonar, and yet again and again and again they are shown to be effortlessly running through forests, navigating houses, etc. without any difficulty whatsoever? How? They can't see! They have no way of knowing if they are about to run headlong into something or trip. Far from being these unstoppable killing machines, in actuality these aliens should have been pretty much completely harmless.

I find it hard to believe the military couldnt think of a single way to take out the creatures. They couldnt place some loudspeaker somewhere and place a bunch of mines around it?

Having a deaf girl helps explain why they know sign language, but wow, I would think a deaf person isn't going to know how much noise they're making most of the time and would in fact be in constant danger.

17:31 Honestly the idea of permanently keeping the song Despacito blaring as loud as possible while on a constant loop to distract the creatures sounds like a worse type of hell than what the movie even presented.

You know what annoyed me with this movie? The fact that the aliens having super-tough skin made them impossible to defeat for earths entire military force. "Oh, we can't shoot it so we have absolutely no way of fighting them!" Okay, so tasers, weaponized gas, SONIC WEAPONRY THAT EXISTS TODAY. THE FACT THAT ELECTRICAL WIRING MAKES SIMILAR NOISE AS THE COCHLEAR IMPLANT! You'd think the military fighting for the survival of mankind would go a bit further than "Fuck, guns don't hurt. Better give up then."

So, none of the characters in this movie ever had to sneeze even once?

What bothered me about the nail scene was that the woman didn't bother to investigate what the bag was caught on. Like seriously, if I was hauling a bag up stairs and it got caught on something, I'd want to see what caused it.

I like how the mom never bothers to get rid of the nail or prevent it from hurting anyone else. I would have loved it if the kids stepped on it too at the end.

When she shot the monster at the end, someone in my theater yelled "why didn't they do that to begin with?" and everyone laughed. As someone that enjoyed it, there are still so many inconsistencies and conveniences.

When the kids were on top of the grain silo and they were like, "We need to let Dad know we're up here," I was like, "just wave the flashlight around. The monsters are blind, they can't see it, so just wave the flashlight around until your Dad sees it."

Wouldn't it super obvious that the monsters that have extremely good hearing would be weak to high frequencies. I feel we'd figure it out in a few weeks if not days/hours.

Yms review format : Good parts = bullet points Bad parts = essay time

Grain actually forms air pockets that people can sink in. The door distributes weight to prevent this. It's one of the few things they actually thought through.

Sometimes stairs like that are made upside down so the nails point up and get exposed as the wood weathers. Trust me it'd take a real Dingaling to do that, like the Dingaling who built my house for instance.

I know I'm probably not the first person to say this, but grain entrapment is an actual thing

Death by drowning in grain is more common than you would think. I live in a farming region, and we've lost some kids to it. By going horizontal on the grain, it makes it harder for you to sink in one specific place. It's like how they recommend to slide yourself back onto ice if you fall into a frozen lake instead of getting back on your feet. Also, the girl finds out that her ear device is their weakness in the same scene--the monster gets too close and the device goes off. Lastly, it wasnt the radio hooked up to the system--it was simply just a general speaker system which she held her ear device up to.

The mom went through the quickest labor ever

Thank god someone else has some common sense. My first question a few minutes in was "can you drown out the noise you make with natural noise? Why not live by the ocean or something?" And then they ACTUALLY explain that YES you CAN do that and you're free to scream at the top of your lungs as long as you're near loud natural noise. So WHY in the world are the main characters not exploiting that? They know that they can! Never before has a solution to the problem the characters are facing been more blatant than in this movie. If the monsters track you by sound, the last place you want to be is a quiet place. You want to be in the noisiest place possible. However, as for the guns thing, I think the movie made it pretty clear that the monsters' exoskeleton was impenetrable to bullets. On the wall by the whiteboard there are several articles and headlines saying that the monsters are invincible. And so what I think the movie meant to imply was that hitting the monster with a barrage of high pitched sound would disorient them and also reveal their video game weak point. Then you could attack the weak point for massive damage. I still don't buy that the monsters managed to destroy society before someone figured that out, but the suspension of disbelief for that is MUCH less than the disbelief that the characters aren't using the river to their advantage more. I, like you, was totally distracted throughout the entire movie by that fact and it really did ruin the experience a bit. I did think Emily Blunt did a phenomenal job acting though. For example, her face when the little boy turned on the toy rocket ship really sold how grave of a mistake it was.

"A Quiet Place" will do for sound what "Jaws" did for the ocean.

"Don't make noise. We have to be safe." Also parents: - leaves batteries on the counter next to the toy - leaves the youngest child in the care of their deaf daughter - deaf daughter walks *in* *front* of him, despite having no possible way to supervise him at that point Super contrived.

My family calls this movie “The Nail” cause that was literally the scariest and most suspenseful part

Fun Fact: Drowning in grain silos does happen and is a legitimate danger. It is a phenomena called Grain Entrapment which can happen even in unconstrained piles of grain if they are large enough. Not sure if its quite as quicksand like as shown, but its a thing.

The Office Season 10 Jim and Pam move into Shrute farms before an alien invasion begins and now must live in a post apocalyptic world

Deaf people would be the first to die in this scenario. Remember that deaf guy telling the story about how he loudly farted everywhere because nobody ever told him it made noise until his first gf told him when he was in his mid 20'?

I like how pretty early on the world discovered that the monsters have super sensitive hearing... and don't even try high pitch noises.

*sees review is 22 minutes* Whoo boy...

"How did the monster get underwater?" You see the monster dive underneath the water when she wakes up.

I didn't like it but the corn bit did make sense, they didn't sink the second time because they spread their body out, surface area innit.

So the whole movie was pretty much that one scene from monsters university then

I very much don’t understand why they were having another baby. There were pharmacies so they could definitely get birth control methods(if it was me, I would have used pill+condom). Based on my knowledge of human baby, they are incredibly good at crying. Why would you take the risk??

Hey my dude, nice video. With grain in a granary there can be a "bubble" of air or rotten / insect eaten grain. So grain can collapse and suffocate people. Sometimes the grain can be 100% solid and it would be kind of like walking in snow, u don't sink in. So if the "bubble collapsed" then the rest of the grain could potentially be stable. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_entrapment

The grain drowning thing is very real. Many farmers die each year from suffocating in grain.

The fact that no one figured out loud sounds hurt this thing is moronic. We literally have anti riot weapons that make loud noises! This thing would have lasted five minutes!

The director said that they wore no shoes so that they can feel out for anything that would make noise, whereas in shoes they would just put all their weight onto something without noticing, like leaves

I can t watch anything with John Krazinski without thinking about Jim Halpert

I agree with almost all of what you said, except for one thing. The monsters have armor plating; the noise from the cochlear implant made them open up the plating on their heads and revealed their weak spots, allowing guns to become effective. One does have to wonder why that makes them open their plating to reveal their weak spots (presumably eardrums). Wouldn't they close up even tighter to protect themselves from the sound?

"can you not just tie some towels to your shoes?" oh man i laughed at that one. Hope i get meet adam after the apololypse one day, living in a mud hut down by the river with towel feet so he can fart as he pleases.

“Jim and his son” wow the office reboot really is bizarre

Yes but have you seen the masterpiece Truth or Dare

13:13 I lost it when you put that girl on the door and labeled it “monster”

The weakness of the aliens bothered me the most. I had one of those mosquito ringtones and would play them in crowded rooms just to watch the kiddos look around confused while the adults had no idea what they were talking about. The moment that someone noticed they were attracted to sound, someone would IMMEDIATELY test to see if a dog whistle worked against them. Seriously, if dogs go apeshit from that sound, pretty sure it would work for aliens too. That was as annoying as the first Easter egg in Ready Player One.

Adam just hates good movies like Boss Baby

The reason grain entrapment happens is because of voids (air pockets) that occur from basic physics and can crust over for some more structural integrity. Once they break. Watch out. You're covered in seconds. Once the pockets are filled, then obviously the flow would stop and there would be plenty of structural integrity. That part seems pretty real. The rest of the criticisms I get. There seems to be a real misunderstanding of how sound works in this movie. Like creaks from basement stairs can be heard by these monsters? Then you're already dead because they can hear your heartbeat.

Reading some of these comments gave me a twitch. I’ll say this, though; you should be watching movie reviews to get a different perspective, not to validate your feelings.

How can they run effortlessly through the woods and not collide with trees? Do they emit some sort of noise for echolocation? They're blind, so they must. but, wouldn't that also help them find the humans?

Playing constant noise over the speakers wouldn't work. The monsters would come to the noise and destroy it. They can't destroy a river, so they eventually ignore it (or they recognize water and learn that it's not food). A lot of good points by Adam but some could use a bit more thinking through.

Regarding the "why didn't the use the secret, soundproof room?", I think there was a scene showing him actually finishing it. So I don't think they actually had a soundproof room yet.

My theater audience laughed out loud when John Krasinski put the baby inside the box. Also when did John Krasinski and Emily Blunt have time to bang? Did they do it by the waterfall?

I didn’t like how the Aliens were defying the laws of nature. Chitin has its limits. Armour Piercing Rounds can break ANYTHING and if this creature’s Chitin wasn’t broken on the outside it WOULD STILL DIE!!! Air bubbles form underneath tough Chitin if projectiles hit it hard enough and would kill the “Angel Of Death” pretty quickly.

I was disappointed at how underutilized the visuals are for the actual storytelling. This could play out as a practically silent movie where the cinematographer could really go nuts on visual cues, colors, visual symbolism and so on to really have a unique modern silent film. Also, the music could have been used a lot better if they hadn't brought on Marco Beltrami (a composer whose only score I can remember one bit of was from the original Scream) and instead a composer who actually portrays complex moods in unique ways, even if it was Trent Reznor, Clint Mansell, or Jon Brion, the movie would benefit from a more talented composer. The film itself is fine, there were some tense moments but mostly it just strikes me as one big missed opportunity. Maybe the studio would have had a harder time selling something that wasn't so safe and by the numbers, or maybe Kraczinski being a new director either resulted in him not being allowed to be ambitious or being too afraid to be ambitious. Either way, I saw this movie twice (only because two different people I know wanted to see it) and I'm likely never gonna watch it again, it's pretty dull once the novelty wears thin.

The monsters can hear something dropping from a mile away... yet they can’t hear a persons heartbeat when they’re next to them 🤨🧐

*Has to be quiet* *Gets new hearing aid* *Snaps fingers repeatedly*

Little known fact, where the movie is set is actually on schrute farms after Dwight had passed. Jim moved there to honor his friend Dwight and because Dwight literally had thousands of dollars of canned goods and beats. If you want another fact, Mose was secretly the monster the entire time.

"It's popular so that must be why he hates it" -insecure people everywhere

I agree with everything you said for the most part about what you disliked in the film. Except the part about how the deaf girl figured out their weakness. Besides the cornfield scene where the creature runs away from her, there is a scene in the corn silo where the kids witness the creature running away from the noise caused by her hearing aid.

me: *carefully pays attention for when adam calls him jim*

wouldn't the loud noises of the guns the military would be consistently shooting at them be too loud for them?

My favorite part was when jim and pam finally got together

You make a few good points, but some of these are stretching pretty far, or forget information that is given to the audience. The sound proof basement is established as something that they didn't know would work, and they built it in hopes that it would work when the baby arrived. I don't think that was a silo hatch waiting to open, I think it was an old silo that gave way to weight because it was old. The grain isn't acting like quicksand, it is acting like grain. They land feet first, and start to sink. When they are on the metal, it displaces all the weight and continues to do so when the monster lands on it. They are no longer at risk of "drowning" but of being crushed by the weight. The water in the basement scene shows the monster come down the stairs, and before she even begins walking through the water, they show the creature lower itself into the water. She wasn't walking slowly for no reason, she was afraid of stepping on a monster that could rip her in half. You missed a bunch of info up to this point that the movie gives the audience to set up future scenes, but this one is the worst because it is shown twice beforehand that the creatures are sensitive to her implant, and that builds to the end of the movie. The whole climax of the film made no sense to you, because you missed important information that the movie gives you? I understand some people stop paying as much attention to a film when they realize they don't like it, but these are your reasons for not liking the film, and most of them are solved by just watching the film. Playing a song would work, like you said, if you are cool with living in a house that is constantly blasting loud music. The waterfall is a place that allows loud noise when you are next to it, like, right next to it. So the recording of the waterfall would have to be loud enough to drown out sound in every room of their house. A very specific frequency hurts them, the feedback loop of that specific frequency played loudly right in front of them incapacitates them momentarily along with also removing the armor plates from its face. When the plates are removed, then they can be killed with guns. Even if guns just worked, with no extra steps, we have no idea how many of these things there are. If you kill one, good luck killing 12 at once. I normally just give you the benefit of a doubt when you miss important info that makes your issue go away, but this has started happening a lot.

I haven't seen the movie so I don't know the exact context behind the grain scene- but grain does actually work a lot like quick sand ! It's called grain entrapment/engulfment , and a lot of the cases of it do involve children. I could ramble on about it, but if you want to learn more on it just google "grain engulfment" and it'll lead to some good resources. Other than that- great video as always Adam !

Heres another thing, if they have speakers on the farm why dont they use those as decoys if monsters approach the house? Monster got in the house? No problem, just set off a speaker out by the silo to lure them away

love that you keep calling John Krasinski, Jim. he will always be Jim from The Office to me as well.

*SPOILER* Agree with most but you’re incorrect on the implant rant. It happened 4 times and every time it noticeably hurt her. The 3rd didn’t repel the monster because she disconnected it, then finally realized it in the radio room(I thought she was a moron because she realized too late and thus was the reason for her dad dying). (1st was in corn field, 2nd was in the silo, 3rd was in the truck). Also bullets don’t work on them, it was first exposed/weakened by the sound that made it vulnerable. Obviously still tons of plot holes

Grain in a Silo actually does behave like Quick Sand. The rest was stupid though, yes.

I thought it was funny that the mom gives birth in like 5 minutes.

Stop disliking things I like Adam. You're not allowed to have a different opinion on things that are popular, you're just a hipster that's trying to be edgy and cool!

Grain silos are legit like that... Not to be trigger happy or anything, my great grandfather died from sinking. So sinking is real, dispersing body weight works, they would sink 100%

as for the waterfall bit, it's really unreasonable to think it would be easy to migrate over to the waterfall and live there forever. they have a farm with plumbing, supplies, food, shelter etc already there. theres no way they could build another house without getting killed while constructing it, and even if they got a tent there without getting killed, they'd have to migrate back to the farm every time to get more food/water which puts them in more unnecessary danger. I do agree about the basement part though, was very stupid to not utilize that more.

I know a fair bit of sign language (having taken three years of it in high school) and I can say that there are gestures to describe sound in the language. You can even add modifiers to express how loud or soft a sound is. There's no excuse as to why the father hasn't told his son that smaller sound can be drowned out with louder sound.

The photoshopped replacement of the actual scenes 👌👌

the room with the mattress was recently made for the upcoming baby. it was shown while they were preparing it. when they go with the baby there he clearly says "it worked", meaning they didn´t try the room beforehand. that´s it byeee.

But Adam, during the shower jump scare, the fire works were going off so the monsters were focusing on them

It's an intriguing movie concept because it creates a scenario where farting loudly has a high probability to kill you, and that's possibly the funniest thing I've ever imagined, especially because how prevalent canned food is in post-apocalyptic scenarios: just imagine the family runs out of fresh supplies eventually and the only readily available foodstuffs are baked beans and spam

I thought the monsters' skin were actually kinda clearly implied to be bullet resistant, the reason Emily Blunt took the shot that she did is because the flesh underneath the creature's face had been exposed due to the loud feedback on the speakers

Quicksand doesnt act like that either. You sink until you reach a level of buoyancy. About chest level. Its a weight displacement thing I believe.

Wow I completely forgot about farts in this movie. I would seriously die so quick, I need my loud farts

A quiet place is those "oh no i gotta be quiet wow the alien/killer/demon is right next to me" scene that ever horror film has for 90 dull minutes

"The creature design was actually pretty cool". I don't know Adum. Look at 13:12. The design looks like a stock photo of a monster.

To be fair the grain would act like that, a decent amount of people die by drowning in grain silos every year in the prairies

Regarding the silo “quick sand:” yes, that’s a real danger and that can really happen if you fall in. Like any large pile of tiny things, there’s enough room and air underneath the grains for them to give way under you and swallow you up if there is enough concentrated weight. My family has owned a farm for several generations, and I’m very aware of how dangerous it can be if you aren’t careful. Google it and you can find articles addressing this as well, and how often it still happens. Also, like someone else answered, it’s like how snowshoes keep you from falling into thick, high drifts of snow. The door displaces the concentrated weight so that there is not enough weight per square area to make the grain underneath it move. ***themoreyouknooooow

Ah the classic “no one in the entire world can figure out the weakness but some random ass kid manages to find it by accident” trope.

What are you talking about with the weakness coming out of nowhere? They telegraphed it so hard and so obviously... I thought the issue was that she took so long to realise it.

as someone whose profile pic is John Krasinski, I feel attacked

As far as the sound proof room, they were still building it. When Krasinski and Blunt went down there with the child it was the first time they even tested it. How would they have courage enough to test it without a baby crying?

Tbf humans can develop feet calloused enough for them not to need shoes, hence how we existed and hunted for so long before the creation of shoes haha

So if screeching noises are the alien's weakness then why didn't the screeching sounds of the military's missiles *and bombs* kill them?

if you're going to do nitpicky YMS reviews on small details like this, maybe wait for the DVD so you can double check if you're right or not.

How exactly would a deaf person be good in this situation? They have no way to tell whether or not anything they do is actually making noise

I love this new cinema sins video

It was written somewhere on the wall or on a newspaper that the aliens have an armor and guns don't work on them. When the girl was using her hearing aid at the end, we saw said armor open up. And thus, allowing for an opening that the bullet can go through.

This review is perfect but for the record there have been deaths in grain silos by suffocation.

The movie was super dumb. I mean come on, they can't see, they are attracted to noise, you can easily trap the monster in a old mine shaft by collapsing the whole thing with explosive after they get in. Humanity would have to be super stupid to be destroyed by blind monsters attracted by noises.

Gee, it's almost like she recognised the ringing sound from her implant as the same one from earlier in the film and she thought "oh shit, that's what that was". She's clearly presented as a bright kid so it didn't take much to put two and two together for her.

I liked the movie so a lot of this seemed like nitpicking, but how did you not mention why he even knocked up the wife anyway? if it was a year after the beginning then they obviously got her pregnant while the monsters were there so like,,, 1. wear a condom because BIRTH IS LOUD and BABIES ARE LOUD or 2. dont bang because SEX IS LOUD

20:01 did you miss the part of the whiteboard that said the monsters had bullet-proof plating? And the plating gets knocked off of it's head because it's injured from the sound and that's how they shoot and kill it? How was that not extremely obvious?

The nail thing.. there is a nail exactly like that in my house in the middle of the attic coming out of the floor and I wonder every single day how this happened. I'm guessing now it's just to get us killed when the monsters come.