History Headscratchers / AQuietPlace

* It brings the [[WarOfTheWorlds War of the Worlds]] into memory, with a random John, who also happens to be the [[PlotArmor main protagonist]], [[spoiler: is the only one (amongst all the American military) to spot the aliens' weakness in a convenient moment]]. Apart from that, it's pretty unbelievable that in 2018/2019 literally no one would think about such a solution. Distribution of it shouldn't really be problematic, either — it'd be so crucial that it'd be worth sacrifice, although still: Morse code? aircraft with a big banner? Doable!

** Well, we do know that they can swim as, [[spoiler: towards the end, during the scene with Evelyn and the baby in their safehouse]], one did go underwater and there's the fact that they can survive a long time without needing to breath for a long time, so them getting there wouldn't be too much a of problem (though some probably did get picked off by much bigger creatures)but it's possible that the asteroid had actually broken apart and one part landed elsewhere.

How did the monsters get to the rest of the world beyond the Americas in the first place if there is only one confirmed meteorite landing in Mexico? Being the apex predator means nothing if you can't fly or swim across the ocean without getting eaten by orcas or sharks. Was it shown in the movie that they can do so? Or was there a second and third meteor landing in the other land masses (especially coastal areas like Great Britain, Australia, Japan and other islands) that we don't know about?

[[WMG: '''The consistency of the creatures' powerful hearing''']]

[[WMG: '''People joke, but what if you had to fart in this world?''']]

[[WMG: '''Weakness - was it really that hard to figure out?''']]

[[WMG: '''The monster's reaction''']]

[[WMG: '''Parental neglect''']]

[[WMG: '''Marching order''']]

[[WMG: '''All that maize''']]

[[WMG: '''Muffling sounds''']]

[[WMG: '''Having babies in such world?''']]

[[WMG: '''Who were the old couple?''']]

[[WMG: '''Get some damn rugs!''']]

[[WMG: '''The truck scene''']]

[[WMG: '''Why not draw them out?''']]

[[WMG: '''Why attack the monster?''']]

[[WMG: '''How many monsters?''']]

*** Also, the direct area around the farm is roamed by just tree of those things. That's still enough to desert a small town and all the surroundings, meaning a single monster is enough to put effective end of a population of what? Few hundreds? Thousand? Even if it won't kill those people, it will simply displace them or force into hiding. There are over seven ''billion'' of humans worldwide and suddenly agriculture beyond very simplistic subsistence farming is rendered impossible, not to mention any sort of mechanization (not counting few exceptions, farming machines are really damn loud, especially things like threshers). [[CruelAndUnusualDeath So what those seven billions are going to eat]]?

[[WMG: '''Of all the places the family could have located their home...''']]

[[WMG: '''How do the monsters navigate?''']]

[[WMG: '''Luring monsters''']]

[[WMG: '''Aren't the creatures extremely easy to fool?''']]

[[WMG: '''Why not have a remote control to activate a distraction alarm?''']]

** It’s not that they don’t like noise; rather, they use their incredibly acute hearing to hunt their prey. There’s no food in space (or, at least, nothing that hasn’t evolved to keep its mouth shut,) so Earth suits them nicely.

Why do the aliens insist on staying on Earth in the first place if it's such a loud planet? There is no sound in space. GO BACK TO SPACE!!

Very minor point, but why didn't they set up a system where as well as being able to flick a switch to change the color of the lights, there was another one that could be used to activate a loud alarm some way away from the house and barn? Lee has obviously got the electrical and general knowledge to do it, and it would mean nobody had to go run off to set off the fireworks.

*** Well, they could have done that but that still would take away from other resources. That and I think the monsters would pick up on it eventually (think the seen with the egg timer).

*** If my memory serves, Lee said that the sounds have to be of a certain volume to attract them, so, slight creaks here and there probably won't attract them, likewise, when the nail got pulled up, it made a noise but we didn't see/hear any monsters rushing towards the house.

** You could, however, easily split the rocks, have them separated by a soft material, or just have one big rock. Or two, for two pockets. I know what the fireworks ended up being used for, nonetheless: why not use them as a disturbance? The point is not to kill them, as that was deemed impossible [[spoiler: until the film's last scene]], but to get them away from you. Accidentally broke a glass lamp? No problem, just launch fireworks 2 kilometres away not to put your entire household in peril.

By the way it's depicted in the movie, the creatures get attracted to '''any''' sound above a certain threshold — even a single axe drop makes their will to destroy a source of greater noise disappear (in this case: an inside (!) of a pickup), at least temporarily. It must have not been rocket science even as early as the military was still involved, but we somehow got to the point of a largely-deserted globe and the Abbotts surviving in their farm estate. After brief reflection, the nature of the monsters raises a fundamental question: did anybody ever need to die? Taking the aforementioned children-stuck-inside-the-truck scene as an example: according to the in-universe logic, a single axe ''throw'' instead of the axe ''drop'' would be more than enough to save the father and his offspring. Hell, we saw the family's preparation for potential intruders with fireworks — which worked, by the way. Would it be so hard, therefore, to set up numerous ''traps'' of such a kind? They could potentially be launched from the electronic center in the basement, to which, during the main events, Evelyn had access to. General advice to everyone would be to always have a handful of rocks in one's pocket — just in case! — to throw them away, making some noise elsewhere. [[TooDumbToLive Too easy, right?]]

* The general inconsistency throughout the film is one of the most annoying things about it in my humble opinion. The creatures appear whenever they should — according to screenwriters, not the in-universe logic. A broken glass lamp is a minor example from the first part of the movie, but in its climax the monsters get more nit-picky. [[https://i.imgur.com/wHMJBZm.png According to Lee's believable research]], there are 3 of them ''in Area'', but only 1 shows up when everything's going down. They don't get dragged in by fireworks (!), a moving vehicle (certainly a rarity in such circumstances) or even a very loud breaking through a silo wall by their comrade. They do, however, catch the bait after the magnified audio feedback virtually kills him. All in all, by the way it's portrayed on screen, the remaining 2 creatures for some reason ignore at least 3 [[BerserkButton triggers]], but once they hear something that will eventually turn out to be their doom, they go on the run. I fail to see the logic in this.

** The rocks idea wouldn't work because the aliens would hear them rattling around in their pockets. On the note of the fireworks, that was supposed to work for one time [[spoiler: when the baby was born]]. Likewise, setting up multiple traps of that kind would divert resources from more important things, that, and it would have been pointless since [[spoiler: the aliens can only seem to only take damage when their ear canals are fully exposed]], in which case that would have just exacerbated things, as it wouldn't kill them.

By the way it's depicted in the movie, the creatures get attracted to '''any''' sound above a certain threshold — even a single axe drop makes their will to destroy a source of greater noise disappear (in this case: an inside (!) of a pickup), at least temporarily. It must have not been rocket science even as early as the military was still involved, but we somehow got to the point of a largely-deserted globe and the Abbotts surviving in their farm estate. After brief reflection, the nature of the monsters raises a fundamental question: did anybody ever need to die? Taking the aforementioned children-stuck-inside-the-truck scene as an example: according to the in-universe logic, a single axe ''throw'' instead of the axe ''drop'' would be more than enough to save the father and his offspring. Hell, we saw the family's preparation for potential intruders with fireworks — which worked, by the way. Would it be so hard, therefore, to set up numerous ''traps'' of such a kind? They could potentially be launched from the electronic center in the basement, to which, during the main events, Evelyn had access to. General advice to everyone would be to always have a handful of rocks in one's pocket — just in case! — to throw them away, making some noise elsewhere. [[TooDumbToLive Too easy, right?]]

* Why didn't Lee follow the kids to the truck? He could have hid with them, and for that matter how did the monster know he was there? He didn't make much noise before it hit him.

* It's been stated that the aliens arrived on an asteroid that struck somewhere in Mexico, but how many of them were there? Lee has been trying to contact other countries and it looks like he's made it as far as Japan, but no reply. How have the monsters managed to infest every part of the world so quickly? Earth appears to be a ghost town by Day 89! How large was this asteroid, and how many monsters were on it?

* [[https://i.imgur.com/UYCyNJB.jpg They must have tried...]] I guess you can compare the creatures' armour with Darwin's ability from [[Film/XMenFirstClass X-Men: First Class]] in that it really cannot be bothered how much firepower you throw against them — they're not gonna be broken.

* The general inconsistency throughout the film is one of the most annoying things about it in my humble opinion. The creatures appear whenever they should — according to screenwriters, not the in-universe logic. A broken glass lamp is a minor example from the first part of the movie, but in its climax the monsters get more nit-picky. [[https://i.imgur.com/wHMJBZm.png According to Lee's believable research]], there are 3 of them in ''in Area'', but only one shows up when everything's going down. They don't get dragged in by fireworks (!), a moving vehicle (certainly a rarity in such circumstances) or even a very loud breaking through a silo wall by their comrade. They do, however, catch the bait after the magnified audio feedback virtually kills him. All in all, by the way it's portrayed on screen, the remaining 2 creatures for some reason ignore at least 3 [[BerserkButton triggers]], but once they hear something that will eventually turn out to be their doom, they go on the run. I fail to see the logic in this.

* [[https://i.imgur.com/UYCyNJB.jpg They must have tried...]]

** Well, they navigate by sound, however, it possible they probably have some level of sensory hairs located on the outside of it's body to feel around.

[[WMG: Luring monsters]]
Why didn't the military just lure the monsters with a powerful siren and then drop a MOAB or something like that onto the whole lot?

[[WMG: Of all the places the family could have located their home...]]

** Indeed, they would have likely done it after the end of the movie — the main issue was that apparently no one knew up until its climax (which isn't entirely believable, as the discussion above showcases). Furthermore, by 2018/2019 people must have already seen [[WorldWarZ World War Z]]!

* It's established that Lee thinks there are three monsters out there. We see cars and whatnot around. Why not load up with shotguns, climb on top of the roof or other high structure, have one of the kids put a Pantera CD in the car and crank up the volume then hide underneath while the parents play target practice with the onrushing monsters? Or alternatively, put a boom box in the middle of a barn or house or something, trap the monsters inside, then light it on fire? I know these plans have their problems, but both seem more practical than "Live your entire life silently and hope they don't kill you."
** It is also established the monsters come with NighInvulnerability that made them laugh at military-grade weapons ([[https://i.imgur.com/UYCyNJB.jpg as mentioned on a tabloid paper]] ), so a hunting shotgun won't do anything at all to them without exposing their weakness (which was unknown until the very end of the story). But simply drawing them out is an option that Lee apparently never considered.
** Drawing them out with no idea what their weakness might be sounds like a very stupid plan in this situation unless you have absolutely no other options and believe the end is imminent.
** There are three monsters and two adults. The kids probably can't handle a gun (no silencers means no target practice), and the parents seem to be decent shots but there's nothing to suggest they're experts. Drawing the creatures out runs the risk of all three showing up at once and outnumbering the two parents.
** It's possible Lee was planning something like that once he figured out their weaknesses.

* The entire scene seems to be very far-fetched to me. How did the creature attack Lee in the first place when he was just standing there, doing rather nothing out of order? Second, ok, it heard him — why wasn't he killed right away, like pretty much anything else prior to that? For an unknown reason it seemed to take a more ''elegant'' approach, treating family's [[PapaWolf Papa Wolf]] like its nemesis. Third, alright, Lee survived — why did Marcus reveal himself then? Of course it was a very emotional moment, but we as the viewers are led to believe that without making any sound you can avoid the monsters, so even after the father was wounded — as long as everyone keeps ''relative'' quiet — this whole situation could have been prevented. Fourth, is the creature really able to hear the axe dropping to the ground while it's clearly loudly messing with the truck? Perhaps the sound might have been recorded as external, thus drawing the attention, but it still ''sounds'' unlikely. Finally, fifth, why would it leave the still-standing truck, allegedly a source of greater noise, for something as delicate as an axe drop? Doesn't make too much sense from a predatory point of view.

** Well, they navigate by sound, however, it possible they probably have some level of sensory hairs located on the outside of it's body to feel around.

They are clearly not using sonar or echolocation (if they were, they'd find everyone without issue), and yet they are able to not just navigate through a forest, but the halls of a house without any problem.

** Lee mentioned that the sounds have to be of a certain threshold to attract them or, rather, set them off. Unless they're breathing louder than usual and raspily, the breathing might not attract them. In terms of the raccoon, it did make some hissing and squeaking noises before the monsters got it, thus why the monster got it.
** The creature that got the raccoon seemed to be rather close to it, hiding within the nearby corn. As for what threshold of sound might attract them, best to be safe and stay as quiet as possible.