Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-27 (Thursday)

In article <v5n7l5$3goq7$1@dont-email.me>,
 Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

A Quiet Place: Day One (theatrical) Prequel and third movie in the Quite
place franchise. This one shows the events of the Aliens arrival on
Earth. One of the things I hate about zombie apocalypse movies where
the Earth is overrun by zombies is there's no plausible way that the
zombies could overtake humanity. Similarly one of the things that
bugged my about the Quiet Place movies is there was never a plausible
way the aliens could overtake humanity.

If there were a lot of these things, I could see them doing it. They're
too big, strong, and fast to fight with individual troops, assuming
humanity could even muster the troops fast enough, but they're not large
enough to take on with things like missiles and nukes, at least not
without nuking a large part of humanity along with them.

I would like to see how tanks fare against them. Are they strong enough
to defeat a tank's armor and/or overturn it? Because if not, that's
about the only thing that could stand toe-to-toe with one long enough to
put effective fire on it.

This movie promised to deliver
that answer. Instead the aliens show up. The main character hits her
head or something and is unconscious for a few *hours* at best, then
when she awakes the aliens have already overtaken humanity. There are
millions of people in New York City yet they all magically disappeared
per plot. And now somehow the entire city is totally silent except for
when the plot demands someone make a sound then that's the only sound.
And the aliens who were no where to be found suddenly all converge on
that location. I was really expecting more from this movie but it's
more of the same. But I guess fans of the first two who aren't
expecting any real answers should like it.

My problem with the whole premise of the franchise is that these aliens
seem to instantly home in on any sound so long as the sound is made by a
person. Nature is naturally full of all sorts of sounds, which you would
think would constantly drive the creatures nuts trying to attack and
kill the birds that are flying overhead cawing or the ocean breakers
crashing on the shoreline or the trees rubbing together in the wind. But
none of that bothers or attracts them. The moment a human so much as
snaps a twig underfoot, suddenly these beasts are streaking toward them
to attack.

I wish Clod was still around to explain how sound works like electricity
and the aliens are only attracted to artificial sound, not natural sound.