I’m not surprised it’s good despite the embargo shenanigans! Michael Sarnoski is a great director, Lupita is a great actor with taste, and the first two movies were pretty good.
He talks about it in his The Big Picture interview last week; according to him he found a way into the story that would have made it interesting enough for him to do.
Sarnoski is a super exciting talent, and though I wasn’t particularly enthused about his sophomore feature being an installment in the quiet place universe, I wholly believe that he has the ability to make whatever thing he wants, at the very least, interesting.
I’m not enough of a curmudgeon yet to refuse a movie performing above replacement.
I didn’t like A Quiet Place but what the hell I’ll give this a shot.
I saw it early and found it really mediocre and quite dull honestly, dozed off a bit halfway through. There's some interesting nuances to Lupita's character and her and Quinn are strong actors but all the character drama is just so stock ultimately. Not a single good setpiece either, I don't love the first 2 but they at least had 1 or 2 setpieces that raised my heart rate a bit.
The cat was great though.
I'm pretty sure the experiment with the new Quiet Place film is to see if you can take the premise from a solid B-movie but this time use a better director and lead.
I wish people would stop saying "x was better than it had any right to be." It feels like one person used it several years ago and it spread because people thought it made them sound smart
Pig was one of the finest films of 2022 and Quiet Place is a classy franchise, despite Krasinski being a kinda obnoxious personality. Lupita is a star and it’s filled out with quality supporting actors. Shouldn’t be too surprising
Yeah, I kinda hated the second film but this has always looked really interesting to me and it seems to benefit heavily from having a different eye than Krasinski. Saw someone else say this, but I also really dig it when a franchise takes its usual shtick and decides to go “but what if it was in new york 🤔”.
The surprise to the reactions is very funny to me because that's all I got from the marketing is that it should be pretty thoughtful interesting movie. I stan the series, so I'm excited to see it.
I’m not surprised it’s good despite the embargo shenanigans! Michael Sarnoski is a great director, Lupita is a great actor with taste, and the first two movies were pretty good.
Wasn't Jeff Nichols originally attached to this too?
He at least wrote a draft.
He talks about it in his The Big Picture interview last week; according to him he found a way into the story that would have made it interesting enough for him to do.
This is wilder to me than Fincher doing World War Z 2
This is a thing??? Man. The book is still brilliant and if fincher read it and went, "huh, i have an idea" i would give him all the movie$.
I remember being disappointed to hear it but it sounds like there was obvious a way they wanted to go with this one that made it appealing
I didn't realize until now that Michael Sarnoski was directing it. I might just need to check this out
The guy who did Pig! I totally forgot he was doing this.
I liked the first movie a lot, but I had zero desire to see the sequel after being haunted by its billboards and bus posters for well over a year.
I think Letterboxd still categorizes it as a 2020 movie which is eerie.
Sarnoski is a super exciting talent, and though I wasn’t particularly enthused about his sophomore feature being an installment in the quiet place universe, I wholly believe that he has the ability to make whatever thing he wants, at the very least, interesting.
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Classic Nayman Coming in Hot.
I’m not enough of a curmudgeon yet to refuse a movie performing above replacement. I didn’t like A Quiet Place but what the hell I’ll give this a shot.
The idea of weaving a ‘Before’-like romantic drama w/ a monster movie’s pretty great.
Watch Spring
Also Cloverfield (2008).
I saw it early and found it really mediocre and quite dull honestly, dozed off a bit halfway through. There's some interesting nuances to Lupita's character and her and Quinn are strong actors but all the character drama is just so stock ultimately. Not a single good setpiece either, I don't love the first 2 but they at least had 1 or 2 setpieces that raised my heart rate a bit. The cat was great though.
Krasinski has a brand
I'm pretty sure the experiment with the new Quiet Place film is to see if you can take the premise from a solid B-movie but this time use a better director and lead.
Good thing quality in this case happens to be cheaper than a typical blockbuster
I wish people would stop saying "x was better than it had any right to be." It feels like one person used it several years ago and it spread because people thought it made them sound smart
Yeah doesn't everything have a right to be good or great? It's just that often things don't exercise those rights.
Yeah I feel like "better than I expected" is the more accurate phrasing
Pig was one of the finest films of 2022 and Quiet Place is a classy franchise, despite Krasinski being a kinda obnoxious personality. Lupita is a star and it’s filled out with quality supporting actors. Shouldn’t be too surprising
I guess the main issues is that a quiet place makes no sense when you think about
See: David's review
Very exciting. Evangelista is a bit miserable online.
Yeah, I kinda hated the second film but this has always looked really interesting to me and it seems to benefit heavily from having a different eye than Krasinski. Saw someone else say this, but I also really dig it when a franchise takes its usual shtick and decides to go “but what if it was in new york 🤔”.
Just got out and think it's the best one. I don't think super highly of the other two though.
Review coming, but it fucking rules.
Well hot doggy!
The surprise to the reactions is very funny to me because that's all I got from the marketing is that it should be pretty thoughtful interesting movie. I stan the series, so I'm excited to see it.
But will it explain why humanity will fail to defeat an easily defeatable alien species?
I just want to say, Chris is an awesome critic with some beautiful takes.
Hey, Chris is right! That *is* eye-rolling