A Quiet Place

We do know from newspaper clippings in the original movie that they were essentially bulletproof and the military was almost helpless.

Huh. That's true. It's not until the frequency causes them so much pain that their weak spots are exposed that bullets can do anything.

I would expect heavier artillery to have some effect though. But then I remembered that they survived the crash landings onto earth, so even missile and shots from tanks (which would probably get torn up before they could take a shot) and gunships (which would have the advantage of being able to attack from a distance) might not work.

....are we sure this isn't some kind of invasion? Like, these guys are being sent in as a vanguard force?

Because they're hilariously sensitive to sound, and can track you down if you make the tiniest noise.

They will then utterly kill you when they find you for making that noise.

They can tank every single damn weapon we have.

And they landed literally everywhere on the damn planet.

The Death Angels seem more like deliberately created weapons than anything natural.

Maybe you just figured out where next year's Part III could go? God knows I didn't.

The director explained in interviews back during the first film that they're just alien animals, their planet exploded and Earth was unfortunate enough to be in the path of one of the chunks

Yeah, I know that...but they seem a little....too much of a hard counter for us.

Every tactic we have is useless. The very use of those tactics draws them to us before we can use them, and they can hunt and find us wherever we go.

To say nothing of the fact that they don't actually kill us for food, so they have all this energy, and never seem to get tired, meaning we can't even practically outlast them.

That natural planet must have been named !@#$% those humans.

Yeah, it really makes you wonder what kind of planet they came from that they would need to be these hyper-lethal predators.

Also, something I remembered; the island in Part 2 showed that the government did figure out that they couldn't swim and tried to evacuate people, but the sound of the boats attracted the aliens and they couldn't get very many there before society collapsed.

Was likely not some information that went out to people before then, either.

I heard that it wasn't just that. people started fighting to get on the boats and that noise is what attracted them.

I wonder what happened to stuff like Helicopters? Flight would be an advantage. The biggest issue is you'd have to land eventually.

I mean, airfields are very loud.

And yeah, the chaos of boarding attracted them.

Edited by theLibrarian on Feb 9th 2024 at 10:52:30 AM

I actually saw the first movie in theaters, also my first horror movie on the big screen. Since the movie focused on sounds, I brought earplugs to lessen the intensity (and I heard the movie cranked up the sounds a bit) along with a Pikachu plush to hug (Hey, I may be grown, but I'm still easily startled); then three years later, mom and I saw the "Quiet Place" double feature (which was also the first movie I'd seen since our theater shut down a year before due to the pandemic); she hadn't seen the first one yet at the time, but she also had her heart rate thing on her Apple Watch turned on, so of course there were several jumps. She actually contacted one of the filmmakers on Twitter, and had a bit of a laugh with them with the experience.

I remember when the first movie came out someone I followed on Twitter mentioned that a loud noise (I think someone's phone went off) happened after the movie was over in the theater and everybody jumped.

Found this at my local theatre:

Genuinely thought that was a subway staircase at first and was about to say ooooof.

This is a fun poster, probably the most humor I've ever seen for this franchise.

Hey, that poster's in my theater too!

Edited by wooden-ladybug93 on Apr 19th 2024 at 3:07:57 AM