A Quiet Place: Day One
Hear how it all began.
As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.
Wokeness: 60%
Overall Score: 40%
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Michaels
A quietly woke film
This is the third "A Quiet Place" film, a prequel. I have a soft spot for movies with almost no dialog, so I liked this. However, a prequel should not rush over the confusion that would occur on day one of an alien invasion. In particular, learning that the aliens are blind should take some time, but it happens instantly, universally, and without explanation here.
The lead actress, Lupita Nyong'o, is Mexican. Well, she was born in Mexico to Kenyan parents, unmistakably pure African. She has been in many woke movies in recent years, most notably Black Panther "Wakanda". She plays a published intellectual poet. Her character is the brave hero to her white male companion, who inexplicably follows her and can't quite hold it together emotionally, so he is a liability. It's hard to give an accurate woke score with so few characters, but I will give 1 woke point for not even using an American black for the female, 1 woke point for making her the brave one, and 1 woke point for the pathetic white male.
The cat, "Frodo", was a horrible actor. Cats lose their shit over the smallest things, like cucumbers. A weird as hell alien would send any cat flying for cover, and you'd probably never find it again (much less over and over). And a cat would certainly hiss when cornered by an alien monster. Not one hiss! Jonesy was a much better actor.
Still, the opening minutes are beautifully and masterfully filmed. That made a good impression that did not quite make up for fumbling the initial alien kick-off and ultimately losing momentum.
Created: 07-30-2024
Jeff K
Terrible
This is certainly a woke movie, full of girlbossing, misandry, and diversity hires, with the lead character literally an autistic disabled black woman who was most definitely not chosen because she is charismatic, likeable, or a particularly good actor.
The premise of the film had a lot of potential and the introduction captured my interest, but is then completely squandered. This movie has no redeeming value, and toward the end I actually started to feel bad because it got so bad that I got the sense that whoever wrote it had never experienced being a human being, in their life, ever. If you told me an alien species wrote this film after observing a 2024 Ivy League college dormitory for one week, I would believe it.
After seeing it I checked IMDB, fully expecting it to have a score around 3-4, but was shocked to see it in the high 7s.
Edit: evidently the initial shill votes have been overwhelmed by actual audience votes because the score is now a low 6.
Created: 08-01-2024
Tim
Decent Movie
I thought the movie was pretty good. I guess I'm not sure why it would be considered woke other than because the majority of the characters are black. Yes, the black lead is the hero, and the white male was a bit of a puppy dog following her around. But he was a good, decent person who audiences will like. Slight wokeness simply for the fact that the cast was mostly "diverse", but there wasn't any preaching or lessons, or any normalizing of certain lifestyles.
Created: 08-08-2024
Pha-Q woke
A Woke Place Day One
DEI heavy. Very few white people. All blacks are calm, sensible and keep it together during an alien apocalypse. All white people are screaming,
irrational, emotional idiots getting everyone killed. The main male character is a sniveling emotional incompetent moron who constantly screws up almost getting them killed. As others have noted the writing is very poor. The lead is not even American and another
mediocre to bad actor who Hollywood just keeps on casting because of DEI. The cat is laughable. He keeps randomly showing up in some scenes but not in others, then runs away but always comes back. He never makes a single sound. That cat should of disappeared or been killed at the very beginning. Anyone who know cats will recognize this. Apparently the writer thinks you can walk into a random pharmacy and grab fentanyl patches off the shelf. The military is in the streets within minutes of the event. Everybody just instantly knows that the aliens
are blind and not to make noise. That's the other thing, everyone makes so much noise all the time in this one. All the terror, dread and silence from the first two is gone in this one. The aliens seem to have selective hearing, only noticing things when the bad writing wants them too.
The pharmacy scene when it's no longer raining and the cat startles him so he bangs loudly into a shelf but nothing happens. May scenes its
obvious the sound has been removed as the characters are doing things that would make sound but you hear nothing. The main character is so illogical and unlikable right from the start. This is what happens when you hire an unproven director who's done nothing but shorts and low budget indie movies and hand him a 70 million dollar franchise movie.
Created: 08-17-2024
