As a long-time listener of the film reroll, I am always excited to see the company attempt new mechanics and daring feats to push the over-saturated format that is actual-play podcasts.

However, my first impression on their latest episode "A Quiet Place", brought only scepticism. My frank assessment was that, while certainly daring, this fresh expression of the medium didn't work. The lack of engagement was insurmountable, mostly due to the core mechanic canibalizing the usual light hearted commentary.

While wistfully listening to idle breaths and the rare roll of the dice, I found myself stranded on an island of contemplation in a sea of distraughtfulness. "How could such a visionary group take such a foreseeable and avoidable misstep?" I asked myself, while making a humble sandcastle of disappointment. But just then, my sunburn, which is a metaphor for my enlightenment, snapped me out of my stupor.

What analogous story element within the narrative of "A Quiet Place" can only engage when the characters make noise? The monsters. This was the first episode where the audience too we're assigned a role by Paulo.

While listening, we want the characters to make noise, to endanger themselves so we may feast on conflict. We care not about the well-being of the those at risk, we want only death.

It became clear that Paulo and the group were making a statement about the relationship of themselves to the audience. We are the monsters, the performers are the characters.

We crave mistakes by the performers so we can consume their embarrassment as entertainment. We are an omnipresent force that creators feel they must appease, always asking for more and more episodes like starving beasts.

The philosophical persecution of the audience cuts to the bone like a really really sharp knife.

This combative dynamic between creator and consumer goes deeper, however.

This is an episode where the artists unyeildingly commit to their expression of motif and theme, and it's unarguably the least entertaining, at least on a surface level.

Their uncompromising creative freedom directly caused an unbearable listening experience. Our entertainment and their artistic integrity are conflicting motivations. This morose theme was stated loud and clear in this eye-opening piece.

This format-pushing commentary begs the audience to self-reflect, to reconsider what it means to be a consumer of online content in the 21st century.

Brava, Film Reroll, you never fail to

Just creating a little discussion.

A quiet place was originally going to be a Cloverfield film, but it was then decided to be its own thing. It definitely feels like a Cloverfield installment and I sometimes wonder what the ARG would have been like.

News broadcasts of the attacks on day 1? What kind of websites would the ARG have featured?

I also like to ponder the idea of what it would have been titled. Maybe "silence in the Cloverfield".

Hear me out. This is going to be long.

The monsters in “A Quiet Place” are definitely the same monsters that are in the movie “Tremors.”

For those who don’t know because they stopped watching this series in 1990, there are 5 Tremors films (none of which star Kevin Bacon after the 1st film). The monsters in the first film were underground giant worms that had thick, armored skin and hunted by sound. They had large beak-like jaws that could tear through prey and manmade objects. They were dubbed Graboids by the townsfolk.

In the second film, we learn that the monsters actually evolve into a second stage called Shriekers that hunt above ground using infrared/heat signatures. The Shriekers multiply quickly by eating large amounts of food and reproducing asexually. They make a shrieking noise as they hunt, hence the name.

In the third film, they evolve again into a third stage that has wings. The monsters now fly around by shooting chemicals out of their anus and igniting them like a rocket. The monsters have appropriately been named “Ass-Blasters.” I’m not making this up. The Ass-Blasters fly so that they can go lay Graboid eggs at a distance, as well as hunt efficiently. They, too, sense prey with infrared.

In the fourth film, we see that the Graboids actually have a pre-worm baby stage called Dirt Dragons that hunt by jumping out of the ground onto their prey.

So, the known life-cycle of the Graboid goes: Dirt Dragon > Graboid > Shrieker > Ass-Blaster. As a caveat, the Graboids in the fifth film reside in Africa and show slightly different traits than the Graboids of the first film. Burt claims that these traits are more suitable to their environment and that they are more evolved.

The common threads between all stages of the Graboid life-cycle is that they exhibit:

1. Great speed (30+ mph).
2. Amazing strength. They can tear through buildings, metals, cars, etc.
3. An unpredictable evolutionary cycle that adapts to their environment.
4. A way to hunt that does not involve sight whatsoever.
5. Expanding skin flaps on their head that expose their sensory organs and act as armored plating.
6. Thick skin that nullifies most human weapons.
7. Sharp claws/jaws/mandibles that can tear through steel.
8. And the tendencies of a carnivorous ambush predator. They are known to lay in wait until they hear a noise or see a heat signature.

You know what monster also exhibits every single one of these traits? The monsters from A Quiet Place.

What if the

It's about a family of four that must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you.

I'd be so fucked.

I can copy/paste all ive said thus far on A Quiet Place if interested.

In speaking about the problems I personally had with A Quiet Place, ive gotten tons of replies basically amounting to "its a fictional film, its for entertainment, not for thinking"

Do people really feel that way? I can sort of agree on it being nit-picking in some areas, but does the fictional element really explain away these issues?

The film in question only has one non-realistic thing, and thats the antagonists/creatures. It takes place on earth, so am I wrong in assuming doors and handles and the newspaper making process is the same in this "entirely fictional" world?

Im kind of really just dumbfounded that so many people have stated that I should not question anything because "its fictional, it can work however it wants to work".

It just randomly popped up on YouTube and I got really excited about it. The whole premise of the film is to remain quiet. Which means minimal talking and plenty asl. Of course that's what I hope.

Also I wish I had more hearing loss than I do for films like this because I want to block out that music designed to scare the crap out of you. There are benefits to deafness.

Of course that doesn't happen because theaters have the sound cranked up to 11. I swear it's gotten louder in the last few years.

Just yesterday "A Quiet Place", a new horror film directed by John Krasinski came out. The premise of the film is that there are enemies who are blind but have hyper-sensitive hearing, to the point that if someone were to knock over a lamp or turn on a toy, they would hear from miles away and pursue the sound. What if the mechanics of this monster were replicated into a first person horror survival game? 1. As, the player, making any sound is discouraged. This includes footsteps (louder when running), gunshots, even breathing when the creature is especially close. 2. The environment can work to or against your favor. Different ground types make different footstep noises of varying loudness. Making noises close to louder ambient noises such as a river or generator will mask your own noises. 4. The player can make noises on purpose in order to distract the creature, such as setting a cooking timer to a certain amount of time and then placing it away from themselves. The creatures are highly sensitive to noise, so the player could even yell in close quarters to momentarily stun them, although this should remain a last-ditch survival effort. 5. Permadeath. Every little sound the player makes should instill them with a feeling of overcoming dread and fear.

Thoughts?

Over the next 34 Days r/OscarsDeathRace are hosting a viewing marathon in the run up to the 91st Academy Award Ceremony. This series aims to promote a discussion of this year's nominees and gives subscribers a chance to weigh in on what they've seen, what they liked, and who they think will win. For more information on what we're going to be watching, have a look at the 34 Days of Film thread. For a full list of this year's nominations have a look here and for their availability check this out.

Today's film is A Quiet Place. Tomorrow's film will be Roma. Yesterday's film was Border.

Film: A Quiet Place

Director: John Krasinski

Starring: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds

Trailer: Official Trailer HD

Metacritic: 82

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Nomination Categories: Sound Editing

So I was reading this article and wondered - did A Quiet Place make Horror more palatable to the masses or is it more a thriller than anything? IS modern horror something different than traditional horror?

https://25yearslatersite.com/2018/12/28/the-terrifying-sounds-of-silence-a-quiet-place-is-a-modern-horror-classic/

Life was made in 2016 which the alien thingy in the movie Life came to earth, Both Alien creature in the movie was blind and going after sounds. Both movies used a VARY similar soundtrack.

I guess they finally proved that no shoes is quieter than shoes 😂😂

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I need to tuck myself away and write a research paper. Being in my apartment is too distracting. Preferably west of Broad and north of Washington. I just need to do a lot of typing in a quiet space. My local library doesn't have any quiet spaces, although I haven't yet checked the big main library. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks in advance

Like there two brothers who have been on their own for a while, they lost their parents because they made noise so most of it is them trying not to make noise or they'll disappear or get killed or something. One of the brothers likes drawing or something but breaks his one pencil then later on the other brother finds a pencil in an inconvenient place and ends up gone when he makes noise trying to get it.. saw this about 3 years ago.