Ty Watches "A Quiet Place"

This past weekend my wife and I had a date night and we decided to go to dinner and a movie. The movie we chose was “A Quiet Place”. We both like John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. My wife loves horror movies. I like horror movies as long as they’re well made. I’m not a fan of jump scare, cheap scares and loud music scares. But, give me a movie like “Get Out”, “The Shining” or now, “A Quiet Place”, and I will gladly take the scary stuff that comes along with the movie. I was also intrigued because I have only seen John Krasinski in dramadey’s, comedies or on “The Office”, the most recognizable of all his roles. I wanted to see how he did with a different genre. And no, I don’t consider that stupid ass Michael Bay soldier movie he did as branching out. Michael Bay is a lousy movie maker.

As I said, I was intrigued that he was in a straight up horror movie, and that he directed it himself. I also adore Emily Blunt. She won me over in “ Edge of Tomorrow”, and I’ve been a fan of hers ever since. Add the fact that they’re real life husband and wife, and I was fully on board for this movie. I’m going to try to be as spoiler free with my review as possible because I really feel like people need to see this movie, and they should see it in a theater if you can.

The movie opens on a card that says “Day 87”. There has clearly been some kind of disaster that has brought earth to some kind of apocalypse. We see a family in a run down drug store searching for medicine. The first thing I noticed was all the silence. One of the daughters is deaf, so I just assumed that the family chose to use sign language as opposed to talking. But, we get to see some newspaper clippings that say stuff like, “they hunt by sound”, or, “hide underground”. So, we are led to believe that there is some kind of monster/alien that hunts by sound. Again, this is not a spoiler, it is in the trailers. We then see the family living in a country house, and they do use sign language, but it is used for safety. Krasinski is the husband, Blunt is the wife, and they have 3 kids.

Now, for the one spoiler, while in the drug store, the youngest boy wants a toy rocket, but his dad tells him no, that it is too loud. But, behind her parent’s backs, the deaf daughter gives her brother the toy. He grabs the batteries, and as they are walking home, he turns on the toy. He is eaten by one of the monster/aliens before he can be saved. We then jump to about a year later, and the family is still living in silence. The daughter thinks her dad doesn’t love her and blames her, the other son is terrified to go outside and the wife is pregnant again. We get 2 more days for the rest of the movie.

Now, I do not want to spoil anything else, so I’m going to abandon the plot from here. Instead, I want to talk about why I thought this movie was so great. The use of silence and sound is amazing. The way they use the sound for the characters who can hear, they cut to the deaf daughter and we hear nothing is brilliant. The scares are real and terrifying. I was holding my wife’s hand, she was holding mine too, and we both would squeeze hard when we got scared. The alien/monsters looked creepy,  it also cool as hell. I totally bought that something like this could be real. The story,  much like the alien/monster, was believable. Something like this could happen in the future. I fully believe that. Not only was the movie scary, it was sad too, especially for parents. My wife cried multiple times and I teared up a few times myself. The setting was perfect. The very few lines of dialogue were perfectly placed. The relationships were very real, especially Blunt and Krasinski. It was just a wonderful, well made movie. I cannot recommend this movie enough.

“A Quiet Place” is a movie everyone should see. Even if you don’t like scary/thriller movies, you will like this movie. It is unique. It is original. It is so well made. I find it bizarre that very few critics have it a bad review. Thus movie is amazing. Go see it. I saw it 2 days ago, and I still think about it at least 3-4 times a day. That’s the sign of a well thought out, and well made movie. “A Quiet Place” is a must see movie. I’m glad I saw it, and I hope I’ve convinced some of you to see it too. What a tremendous movie. It was great.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. The last time he saw an alien that was plausible was the time he caught a few moments of "Family Matters". That Steve Urkel is not of our world.

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