Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-27 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:22:15 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 23:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e002e2df62ba26153ff9300713432629"; logging-data="3705232"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+IPj4t1DOkeRwVKe66dHBOGEb6GDaqK6I=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:DfvqBCpWcY0Btwp/h067FiJlV7k= Bytes: 4061 On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:14:42 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: >In article , > Arthur Lipscomb 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. If so imagine setting up a swarm of drones flying around. Going to be hard to track down the humans when there are many drones buzzing around in the air where the aliens could see/hear them but not be able to reach them.