A QUIET PLACE 2 - Thread

[AndyDursin]

You'd think that would be an option!

I get the challenge with this sequel -- the first one was SO good, so confined and "intimate," the options are either to do something different, and "go big", or try to craft a story within the same type of surrounding as the original. Looks like they've gone the former route, but in doing that, the movie looks like BIRD BOX, DAWN OF THE DEAD, or any number of other "apocalypse movies" that show the "day the monsters/zombies/virus/etc. came".

And, of course, the survivors they run into aren't very nice...mostly.

I hope the movie has a lot of other twists -- and I'm still going -- but it looks like it's adhering to a formula we've seen play out many times before, quite unlike its predecessor.

[Monterey Jack]

I still wish they had left the original a "one & done" experience. I'll see this, and hope it can be the Aliens to the original's Alien (quality-wise, not so much in narrative content), but it's hard to think of a movie that was clearly intended to be a one-off getting sequelized where the eventual sequel(s) turned out to be any good.

[AndyDursin]

Part of the mystery in the first movie was that we didn't need the invasion spelled out to us or explained further. This already looks like it's making a big mistake by showing us what didn't need to be shown.

[Monterey Jack]

Part of the mystery in the first movie was that we didn't need the invasion spelled out to us or explained further. This already looks like it's making a big mistake by showing us what didn't need to be shown.

It's like that deleted scene from Aliens that shows Newt's family discovering the derelict ship with the alien eggs. We know basically what happened to the human settlement, so did we need to see that? It's why I prefer the theatrical cut of that film (although I wish the scene with Ripley finding out her daughter grew old and died while she was drifting through space was retained).

Again, I hope this sequel works, but now what was a cool, buzzy film that made money precisely for what it wasn't (i.e. another F/X-crammed bloat-o-thon sequel) has now become Just Another Franchise.

[AndyDursin]

That's how I've always felt about ALIENS also.

Here, what made A QUIET PLACE work was its setting. The lack of dialogue, the simplicity of it, which made the suspense that much stronger. Obviously we don't know what we're getting here -- hopefully the "big moments" are what they're throwing in this marketing -- but from first glance it's everything the first movie wasn't like you said.

To some degree I get it -- we've seen the creatures, they exploited the farmhouse claustrophobia as far as it could go perhaps -- but "bigger and better!" seems to be the 100% wrong tact considering the title of the original.

I don't want to see that family in a glorified CLOVERFIELD sequel...hopefully that's not the avenue they went down.

[Paul MacLean]

I don't want to see that family in a glorified CLOVERFIELD sequel...hopefully that's not the avenue they went down.

And the scene in the car was right out of Bird Box.

[AndyDursin]

I don't want to see that family in a glorified CLOVERFIELD sequel...hopefully that's not the avenue they went down.

And the scene in the car was right out of Bird Box.

Exactly, that's what I wrote a couple of posts up. It looks like any number of "arrival" scenes from a myriad of extraterrestrial invasion/zombie/apocalypse films.

[AndyDursin]

Here goes another one...

[Monterey Jack]

Son Of A BITCH.

[Paul MacLean]

Well, this pandemic is certainly a boon for streaming services.

[Monterey Jack]

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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_quiet_place_part_ii

Reviews are very promising so far.

[AndyDursin]

Seems like they're all good with the only caveat being the ending is apparently just a set up for the next one. I didn't try to get too many spoilers but a few people said it's disappointing, even if the rest of it is solid.

[Monterey Jack]

Seems like they're all good with the only caveat being the ending is apparently just a set up for the next one.

A sad problem with today's franchise filmmaking...no sequel can have an ACTUAL ending anymore, they just hit the "pause button" so they can resume in another year or two. Remember the days when a sequel like Aliens was totally self-contained? Or how you could roll into the latest James Bond, Dirty Harry, Indiana Jones or Die Hard movie, and it didn't even matter if you had seen the previous one(s)? I blame the MCU for this.

[AndyDursin]

Preach to the choir MJ. Somehow James Bond existed for decades and generations of movie-goers who not only didn't care about what happened in the previous movie -- sometimes it helped casual viewers because they could drop in and out of a series -- but were often happy when it wasn't "the same as the last one" too.

When no movie exists in a self-contained world, they can just keep making "episodes" -- the movie doesn't actually end because the series doesn't end. It just keeps making a new entry every 6-12 months.

[Monterey Jack]

Preach to the choir MJ. Somehow James Bond existed for decades and generations of movie-goers who not only didn't care about what happened in the previous movie -- sometimes it helped casual viewers because they could drop in and out of a series -- but were often happy when it wasn't "the same as the last one" too.

The worst thing to happen to the Bond series was the serialization that ensued with the Craig films. Quantum Of Solace, in additon to being terrible, was also incomprehensible to anyone who hadn't seen Casino Royale, which was a first for the series. And Spectre clumsily retconning the previous movies (including the totally unrelated Skyfall) to make them into this overarching "grand scheme" from Blofeld to ruin Bond's life did not work at all. What I want from the series once Craig is out is to make the films A.) light and fun, and B.) to make each one a complete standalone adventure again, just like the old days. It used to be people would come back for a sequel just because they liked the characters and wanted more, now they force a cliffhanger on the viewer to goad them to come back. As much as I liked the John Wick sequels, each one ending with a "it's not over yet" finale grew fairly old with the third, and aren't they shooting the fourth and fifth back-to-back?