A Quiet Place / YMMV

Award Snub: Emily Blunt garnered acclaim for her performance, including a Screen Actor Guild nom, but was unfortunately left out come Academy Award announcement morning. Of course, Blunt could've gotten out because of another acclaimed performance to split nominations, and she didn’t even get a nom for that one, either.
Estrogen Brigade: Not pronounced, but many fans have noticed that Krasinski's general rugged good looks in this movie, such as his beard and broad shoulders, make him a perfect example of a hunk here. That he's playing a Papa Wolf only emphasizes it.
Fanfic Fuel:
- The alien invasion has impacted the entire world. How are the people beyond the Abbott's community dealing with the invasion?
- What was life like for the Abbotts before the invasion began? And what happened on "Day 0?"
- How would the invasion impact your own life?
He Really Can Act: Many critics and even audience members have been very impressed by John Krasinski in the film — both as the director and as the father — especially considering how he's still best known as Jim Halpert.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- Mary Poppins Returns is another film released in 2018 featuring a bathtub scene for Emily Blunt. The two scenes got jokingly compared - as this involves protecting a child, while the one in Mary Poppins has her seemingly not caring that a child has disappeared via the bath.
  - Reached Memetic Mutation thanks to A Quiet Place: The Musical.
- Alongside the movies mentioned under Dueling Works, the Oscar winner for Best Short Film that year was The Silent Child - also about a deaf child, and using similar sound techniques to convey that.
Hype Backlash: Some who've seen the film don’t think it warranted the acclaim it got, which only seemed to lessen their opinions on it.
Inferred Holocaust: The general After the End atmosphere implies that billions of people are dead. Especially since the main reason the Abbots survived is because they have a deaf daughter and were able to communicate through sign language anyway.
Memetic Mutation:
- Inevitably, the idea behind the movie quickly led to comments such as "I would never last two seconds in this movie," and asking about how the characters would deal with bodily functions.
- Fans of The Office had a field day due to John Krasinski being the lead role, leading to mash-ups of the film and the series. The most common example being the pre-credits gag from Episode 11 of Season 8, "Trivia."
Narm: The old man's wildly contorting expressions of grief are either appropriately tragic and anguished or downright hilarious (he's trying to prevent himself from screaming because his wife has just been killed, but still).
Older Than They Think: A character performing a Heroic Sacrifice by screaming to draw blind monsters away from another character had been done in the climax of The Descent Part 2.
Paranoia Fuel: That making a sound can be a death sentence. It's almost impossible to live your life without making some. The moment you inevitably make one, it's only a matter of time before an alien will slash you alive.
Ron the Death Eater: Both of the older Abbott children unfortunately get this.
- A lot of commenters online believe that Regan is an Enfant Terrible who murdered her own little brother in cold blood, then spent the entire film spitting in the face of her loving father until she gets him killed. In reality, she's a young girl who made a horrible mistake that she lives with every day (and indeed, she grieves for the accidental death of her brother every day of her life), and her surly nature is because she has a disability in a horrible world and feels like she's a burden on her family because of it. Overall, she's a child, and makes mistakes like a child would, but she's doing her best.
- The entries in this wiki itself describes Marcus as a sniveling, screaming, incompetent buffoon who does nothing but cause problems for his family. He's not: He's a sickly young boy (younger than Regan) who knows his limits, and keeps out of physical work. He frightens easily, yes, but nearly every single child on the planet does. His disputes with Regan over how to handle certain situations are always framed as Both Sides Have a Point, as running away isn't always the worst thing. Most notably, the moment that everyone points to as his supreme moment of "cowardice" is when he slinks behind water heaters as the aliens charge at his mother and sister. He's doing this because A: His mother ordered him to, B: They have the weapons and he doesn't, and most importantly, C: He is keeping his baby brother out of harm's way for the battle that's about to commence, so the baby won't alert the aliens.
Shocking Moments: Almost all of the Super Bowl trailer, but especially the beginning where it's implied the monster is part of an invading alien force.
Signature Scene: Evelyn stepping on an exposed nail on the basement stairs. It especially got attention for how in a movie full of dangerous aliens, the scariest scene is instead something so mundane precisely because you know it could very well happen to you, and made all the more impactful by our uneasily waiting for about an hour knowing someone would step on it at some point.
They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Some fans of the source novel The Silence (2019) was based on had assumed when they saw the first teaser ad for A Quiet Place that the title of the former's film adaptation had been changed^note. Since The Silence was filmed first, they have assumed Krasinski's film was a deliberate ripoff, even though the script had been in development since 2015, and disparaged it.
Visual Effects of Awesome: For such a small budget, the visual effects for the monsters look fantastic. Given the visual effects company is Industrial Light & Magic, this isn't surprising. There's also the fact that the monsters spend most of the film "offscreen," or only there for a split-second.
What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?:
- Some have speculated director John Krasinski was going for a political allegory, where people are attacked for using their voices. Both Krasinski and Emily Blunt have said that wasn't the intention, but they enjoy that audience are leaving the movie talking about "deep stuff."
- A New Yorker article accused the film of exhibiting regressive politics because the humans are white gun-owners who must remain silent and the monsters are all dark-skinned. It's rather obvious that this is not what the filmmakers intended.

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