I'm not a huge horror movie fan (haven't seen one since 1408), but this premise sounded interesting enough and having John and Emily in it sealed the deal. Sadly, it didn't live up to the expectations; the suspense just didn't hold for me. Here's a few things that annoyed me about it, maybe some of you agree:
- The kid in the beginning - I get that he is a kid and this situation is new, but surely if everything around you is still and silent and you have probably been told many times that you will die if you make a noise - and he still goes on to play with the toy? I found it hard to feel sorry for his death. And why wasn't he allowed the toy without the batteries in the first place. It was like day 9 or something and he is only little, the fact that there was little to no supervision on him in a possibly noisy shop just didn't make sense
- The wife getting pregnant - it's unlikely they ran out of condoms already, so the kid was probably somewhat planned to 'replace' the one who died. Yes, they took all the precautions they could, but how incredibly risky is it for the wife and the entire family to bring a child to this Earth!? As bad as it sounds, the greater good and more sensible thing would've been to terminate the pregnancy (there was a shop with pills, there would've been SOS there somewhere). I mean she will have to endure a lot pain, the kid will cry, there are no doctors around for if anything goes wrong etc.
- Why wasn't the girl allowed to go along? The mother didn't seem to miss her at all in her activities. And why would the husband go just two weeks before the due date in incredibly risky conditions.
- Candles in an underground room with no additional air supply?
- So apparently they can talk/make noise if something noisier is nearby - yet they decide to live and spend their days in the middle of nothingness rather than the waterfall. And this seemed news to the boy - how? The kid was aware of the fireworks plans aka what is louder takes precedence
- The creatures hate sound - surely it would be logical to assume that sound might be their weakness and that's why they hate it. In general, even after 1.5 years of living with them, there was no real precautions against them other than 'don't make noise'
- There seemed to be no logic in their comings. They can't see yet they came for the kid after the sound had ended yet they specifically searched for Emily though she at that point made no sound
- Why didn't they try to team up with the other remaining people? Or was that what the old man screaming scene was supposed to be about?
- Even the plates are cloth, but then there are picture frames and lanterns hanging?
- I get the no shoes rule, but socks?
Contestado por chessu
el 13 de abril de 2018 a las 21:45
Such a wonderful sense of humour!
Contestado por Renovatio
el 14 de abril de 2018 a las 09:05
In relation to the original post...
It must be very dissapointing for you to watch most horror movies, thrillers, romance and probably sci-fi movies given this level of nit-pickery...
I'd suggest allowing yourself to suspend disbelief a bit more... It is fiction and the real world is just as messy, idiotic and inexplicable...
Contestado por Melanie
el 15 de abril de 2018 a las 10:08
Great responses!! I felt terrible for the little boy in the beginning because he is just a kid and a very young kid that no matter how many times you tell him something is sooo serious he won't understand. I thought the girl being deaf was pretty obvious as to why she couldn't go lol 🤣
Contestado por .wojtek
el 19 de junio de 2018 a las 00:45
I love sci-fi (due to it's very off-set bacground), was a fan of romance but thrillers and especially horrors I can't bear - the sheer level of illogicality and stupid is simply too much (yes, I was forced to watch this 'production')
Contestado por Purplehearts
el 30 de junio de 2018 a las 07:55
Everything you listed is only half of all the problems in this movie. There just isn’t any excuse for it either other than the movie was made for mindless entertainment.
Contestado por NorthernLad
el 17 de julio de 2018 a las 22:52
I thought it was completely an irresponsible thing for the two adults of the film to do...try to have a crying baby in the midst of such a nightmare.
Contestado por Renovatio
el 1 de agosto de 2018 a las 17:45
Without such 'irresponsibility' we wouldn't have survived as a species as this was exactly ehat our anscestors had to deal with in the wild thousands of years ago...
Contestado por NorthernLad
el 4 de agosto de 2018 a las 22:34
This! All this...you can't compare what our ancestors went through to what the characters were facing in the movie.
Contestado por Renovatio
el 5 de agosto de 2018 a las 07:05
Our ancestors had to face predatory animals in nature, most of which use thier superior sense of hearing and physicality to hunt.... Wolves, lions, etc... in the night... Anyone who has gone hunting or on Safari would recognise the dynamic...
Human life spans were short and we had to procreate more because of the hostile environment in order to ensure survival of the tribe... As is the case in the movie, jn a post society, post apocalypse world... It would be 'irresponsible' not to procreate...
I guess we have a different perspective on this...
Contestado por Alfred
el 4 de noviembre de 2018 a las 23:43
"1408" is a movie, it is very well known. If you knew this and attempted humor, you failed. :)
Contestado por Alfred
el 4 de noviembre de 2018 a las 23:50
Yeah, I had a lot of issues with this movie too... besides the first two-thirds being extremely boring.
But here is a factual mistake: That Ford Pickup's parking brake.
By seeing the hood and grille, that is a 1987 to 1991 Ford pickup. (And yes, it is a "grille" not a "grill" - I worked in a factory that molds and paints or chrome plates those things.) I knew of the hideous change to the front of the hood began in 1987 because my Dad had an 1986 F-150. And I did know that ugly front end ended in 91 or 92 and I checked, it ended with the 1991 model year. But that part doesn't really matter. I don't know about the really old ones, such as before 1978 or so, but none of them since have had a hand-operated parking brake in the middle of the floor on that transmission hump. Since the late 70s, and maybe earlier, the parking brake in a Ford pickup has been a foot-operated style with a hand operated release... both are way over to the left of all the other pedals. Anyway, I don't know why people make movies with such obvious mistakes. You don't have to be a Ford fan or a "car person" to not know this. It isn't like they didn't use one of the most common vehicles on the road.
Contestado por Daddie0
el 2 de marzo de 2019 a las 02:44
Yeah, CinemaSins is going to have a field day with this one.
Oh, and the list you made isn't near complete...that said I enjoyed the film (and I don't agree that it's "mindless entertainment!" :)
Contestado por Daddie0
el 2 de marzo de 2019 a las 02:54
Nevermind...they already did! And only 72...not bad!
Contestado por Daddie0
el 2 de marzo de 2019 a las 03:11
Congratulations! I believe you just won the internet with one of the most esoteric and tangential factual errors in movie history. Well done! :D
Contestado por MrCharmingMan
el 30 de octubre de 2019 a las 00:57
I agree with everything you stated. This movie was awful, yet it got a lot more praise than Bird Box which I thought was superior, since many compare the two movies.
I agree the kid getting killed in the beginning did nothing for me just showed me how stupid he was.
The old man screaming and getting killed was pointless. Did the old man not know he was supposed to be quiet? Or was it more suicidal since he no longer wanted to live? No one cared that he died either.
I'll even be so bold as to say I didn't even care when John Krasinski died either he's not a good actor at all, Emily Blunt is a powerful actress but John just doesn't sell me at all. So when he martyrs him self off to save his kids I was like so cliche and boring.
What gets me is they are already making part 2. Who the F wants to see part 2 when barely anything even happened in part 1????