What is up bros?
Welcome to the All Bros Podcast.
I'm Caleb.
And I'm Jonathan.
And we are a couple of bros on a mission to give you guys the most detailed movie reviews
out there with as little bias as possible.
This week on the podcast, we have a few items that we're going to be discussing in Weekly
Watch.
And then, yeah, we don't have a whole lot in Weekly Watch, but we'll, or at least I
don't think unless you just watch the ridiculous amount of shit.
No, I just watched one movie.
I kick myself for not watching the connected one, but I'll have it watched by next week.
And then, yeah, so after that, we'll be getting right into our headliner, which will be breaking
down A Quiet Place Day One.
You know, it's okay.
So sorry, really quickly.
You said I don't know why it just popped into my head.
But you know, you sang when we're breaking down, frickin', there is an interview with
Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn where they're asking, they were asking her like, what's
the name of the monsters in A Quiet Place movies?
And do you know the name?
Aren't they Death Angels?
Yeah.
So she didn't know that.
And her, no, her best excuse ever.
She's like, well, it was day one.
We didn't know.
That is the best response that you could ever come up with or excuse.
Perfect.
Oh, shit.
That's funny.
All right.
Well, with that, let's say we get on into this week's episode.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's do it.
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First up, we got Weekly Watch.
It took me a second to find that overlay, but anyway, yeah.
Weekly Watch, it was a bit of a slow week for me.
The movie that I, or the movies that I watched were all watched between yesterday and today.
I like it.
Yeah.
I've been watching shows a little bit more often.
I just finished my, or this season of my adventures with Superman, which freaking dope, freaking
dope.
This whole season, they introduced Supergirl.
And the outfit for Supergirl is sick.
So it's basically like, I'm freaking flaunting about it.
It's something new and original, but it's not.
It's basically like Superman's suit in the show, how it is now.
At least the clothing-wise.
But her cape is what's freaking blowing me away.
Her cape's more like a shawl.
So it kind of has a really long scarf, so it's kind of draped around her front.
And then she has her logo.
And then she has a normal cape.
I don't know.
It just makes her stand out so much from Superman.
And I'm glad that they didn't throw her in a tiny skirt as they put her in pants and
a full-blown jumpsuit.
And I dig it.
I dig it a lot.
So yeah, phenomenal season ender.
So I watched that.
Then what else did I watch?
Oh, I finished the Acolyte, which that show was such bullshit.
Yeah, I've heard that it sucked.
Yeah.
I would have sworn up and down, up, down, left, and right, that there was going to be
more of that lightsaber whip that I was talking about, either last week or the week before.
There was nothing else.
Everything about that freaking lightsaber whip was in the freaking trailer.
They showed it one time in the show, and that was it.
I'm like, this is bullshit.
And then you have to freaking ruin just the fun of Samuel L. Jackson being the only person
to have a purple lightsaber by giving her a freaking purple lightsaber whip.
Yeah, that's bullshit.
Yeah.
So she's freaking...
The ending was dumb.
It was freaking dumb.
Your disappointment there just reminds me of the disappointment in The Force Awakens
when you have that stormtrooper with that badass freaking sword or whatever that you
can flip out.
Oh, like the battle baton?
Yeah, that's what it is.
Yeah, but he's the only one that uses it, and he only does it in that one scene.
You never see it throughout the rest of the trilogy.
Yeah.
You see it in the games.
Okay, that's cool.
At least there's that.
And we played Fallen Order, like you had some stormtroopers that had that.
Why couldn't they have done that in the movies, goddammit?
And then...
Yeah, so it was freaking dumb.
And then I knew that they were going to do some bullshit cameo at the end, and I was
so not there for it, dude.
I was already livid on how the show ended.
I'm like, I swear, if they freaking wrangle one more freaking person into this, I'm going
to be pissed.
And then she walks into these chambers and kneels down in front of Yoda.
I'm like, goddammit!
Now I'm trying to think who it is.
It's Yoda.
Oh, my bad.
Sorry.
That was the cameo.
Dude, I don't know why.
My brain process is, oh, Yoda was a previous cameo, and so he's already been there.
And then there was another cameo that you were talking about.
So they had a cameo.
Do you remember the Jedi Council, the Jedi with the really tall, cone-like head?
Yes.
Okay.
So he was an early cameo, and you get to see a younger version of him, which was kind of
cool, but just kind of ruins some stuff that's in canon with that character.
Because he was made aware that there is a not Jedi Force user somewhere, and they had
suspicions that it might be a Sith.
And so he makes this comment in the prequels where he's just like, oh, well, the Sith haven't
been around for this many years, and all this bullshit.
And so anyway, it ruined that canon.
And so I'm like, I don't even want them to tease anyone else.
And so they tease frickin' puppet Yoda.
And I'm like, damn it.
What the fuck?
It's really crazy that that show had a higher budget than The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
That's insane to me.
That is absolutely insane to me.
Because those two shows, not counting season three of Mando, is it three or four?
It's three.
Okay, yeah.
Whichever the most recent season is, that one was a little meh.
But frickin' the first two seasons of Mando and season one of, I mean, I'm assuming there's
not going to be more seasons, but you know what I mean.
And then frickin' Obi-Wan was the shit.
It was so frickin' good, dude.
I think that the struggle with Star Wars or what they're trying to do, trying to go outside
of the Skywalker's, you need to find something interesting to go out to.
Yep.
The reason we like all the stuff right now is because it ties into a story we already
know really frickin' well.
But you don't have a hook on the outskirts of this shit other than what Mando's doing.
But even Mando's still within the Skywalker threshold.
I'm like, you're trying to go outside of the frickin' Star Wars stories.
Find something interesting for us to be tuned in on.
At least I don't think it's that hard.
It seems like it is.
Yeah.
I would love, absolutely love it just to get a character that I don't feel like we know
enough about.
Yoda.
You still have the frickin' fan base that's like, ooh, we get Yoda's before story?
Because Yoda's been through some shit.
I want to see a legitimate young Yoda coming up as a Padawan.
You have 900 years of time to play with.
And then that's even, that's pre-frickin' Anakin.
Yeah, it's true.
So I mean, in all realities, you got maybe like, what, 850 years to play with?
Yeah, he's not quite a playground.
Just give us Yoda, dude.
Yeah.
But yeah, so anyway, that show was a bit of a letdown and I tried to stick it through.
I tried to give it a chance.
Didn't work.
The viewership definitely showed that from what I saw.
Did it take like a huge dive?
I don't think it, because when I watch Movie Math with Beyond the Trailer, she does like,
I think the Nielsen top 10 is like, what does like streaming services and numbers and stuff?
I don't think in, I mean, because they haven't gotten the numbers for the last couple episodes,
but so far, none of the episodes have even reached the top 10.
Doesn't surprise me.
Yeah.
So it's bad.
It was a letdown, dude.
It was a huge fricking letdown.
And like I said, all you're missing is just showing us something that's interesting enough
to keep us watching.
Yeah.
And honestly, like Yoda is it.
Yoda is it.
He is the way.
But like hell, if you, even if you didn't want to go with, like, let's just say you didn't
want to go with like a super alien type character like Yoda.
Like, let's just say like that was just completely out of the question.
You know, the Mandalorian did good.
You know that fricking Jedi shit does good.
Why don't you give us the fricking backstory or more of the backstory to the dark saber?
Yeah, that's true.
Because the dark saber has this super cool origin story of a Mandalorian becoming a Jedi
and creating the dark saber.
And then it's just the history behind that.
Like that would be fricking sick to watch, too.
Like a new Mandalorian show with a fricking where he's a Jedi.
That would be the shit.
I haven't I've only seen season one and even I agree that'd be the shit.
It'd be so good.
It'd be so fricking good.
What else did I watch?
Oh, I bet.
I've been watching Exploding Kitties, our kittens on Netflix.
What?
It's called Exploding Kittens on Netflix.
It's like it's based off of that card game.
Like you.
I haven't ever heard of a card game called Exploding Kittens.
Okay.
Let me make sure that that's what it's called.
Yeah, it's called Exploding Kittens.
The like it's a card game.
It's more.
Let me see the rules.
Hold on.
Yeah.
So it's a it's a game called Exploding Kittens.
So players draw cards until someone draws an exploding kitten, at which point they explode
and they are out of the game.
Unless they diffuse the kittens with a laser pointer or catnip sandwich, or they use powerful
action cards to move or avoid the exploding kitten.
It's like Uno, except there are I think that says goats, goats, magical enchiladas and
kittens that can kill you.
You can relocate Exploding Kittens to the top of the draw pile and blow somebody up.
Last player left alive wins.
Okay, well, first of all, this is animal violence and I will not stand for it, especially against
kittens.
Second of all, what what the fuck kind of rules is this shit?
It seems fun.
Like when all is said and done, it seems like it'd be an interesting time.
Fair enough.
But I mean, this company has a shit ton of games and Exploding Kittens is the like the
more popular one.
And so you have like cards that diffuse and like different powers to like move the exploding
kitten around.
Yeah, you have attack cards, see the future cards, favor cards, nope cards.
What the fuck is this shit?
Yeah.
So anyway, they made a show about it.
And it is hilarious.
So because they cats, isn't it?
No, no, no, no, it's not.
There's no explode.
They call it Exploding Kittens because it's the it's based off of the like the I feel
like it's based off of the animation.
Like the art style is based off of like the card game.
Okay.
But I think the the whole story is it's like completely original.
Okay, so there are no exploding kittens as I haven't seen any.
All right.
But no, it is.
It is a it's it's pretty funny.
Like it's not like the funniest.
It's like it's an adult animation show.
It's not the funniest adult animated show that I've watched.
It's good, though.
It's got some funny shit.
So they're like there's a board of directors in heaven and they decide that God is kind
of too too nonchalant with his relationship with humans.
And so they're like, well, we just want you to go and like reconnect with with the humans.
So we want you to go to earth and like answer a few prayers.
And then he's like, yeah, I'm not doing that.
And they're like, okay, well, fine.
How about this?
All you have to do is answer one prayer and like it's an easy one.
Just reconnect this family.
And he's just like, all right, fine.
And then like right before they send him and he's just he's like, all right, so I go down
as myself, reconnect this family, come back up, be like all good in the world.
And he's like, they're like, yeah, except you won't be going as yourself.
And he's like, what does that mean?
And then they blast him to earth and turn him into a cat.
And he's like, oh, he's a white cat with like a big, bushy beard.
And he calls himself Godcat.
Geez.
And he lands on earth.
Someone comes and picks are like a frickin like animal control comes and like picks him
up.
And then he realizes that the animal control person is the person that made the prayer
for like to connect his family.
And he's like, oh, cool.
And then he goes and like, like basically teleports in front of her while she's driving
and is like, I am the almighty, like it's the funny like it's so absurd.
And so anyway, he's like trying to connect this family and it's super funny.
And he's voiced funny enough by the guy who played Lucifer in the Lucifer show.
Do you ever see that one?
I did not.
It was like CW.
He's like a like a club owner and in LA.
I think I've seen like foot like I think I've seen some clips of it.
So I know you're talking about but I'm not like remembering the voice very well.
Okay.
So anyway, he so that the actor that played Lucifer in that is playing God in this.
It's that something that I find really funny too.
And then the person that or the the daughter of Satan that took over as CEO of hell isn't
evil enough for the board of directors in hell.
So they sent her up to earth to become more evil.
And they're like, yeah, well, we heard that heaven was sending God down as a cat and that
seems to be working out for them.
So we're going to do the same thing to you.
And she's like, what?
And they blast her up to earth and she's like gets turned into a cat too.
But she's a cat with like big old horns and stuff for years.
And it's funny.
Okay.
Now my question is, is she a white cat as well?
Or is she a black cat?
She's a black cat.
I called it.
How did I know?
Okay.
This is just giving me freaking it's just reminding me of that one episode in the Ted
series when he thinks that he's he's God or Jesus.
I can't remember.
But like frickin when God what is the trucks name that Dennis when he's like saying the
prayer and like Ted's just saying you're welcome.
It's been my pleasure.
Do you remember that?
Yeah.
It is actually exactly like that.
Like that.
That whole vibe.
Because they'll be talking like when he first goes into this like like the the animal control
like chick takes her or actually he just kind of like appears at her house.
Like she puts him in a cage and everything and he's like man screw this and then tell
like teleports himself to her house.
And then she walks in the door and she's like God damn it.
And he's just like I will not like it's jokes like that.
Like that make me laugh.
OK.
Yeah.
That's actually then like the little girl like because there's a boy and a girl in his
family the girl takes him and she's just like so what's the deal with like bees and he's
just like what I thought they'd look cute and he says and then I like design them realize
that like realize that they couldn't frickin fly on their own.
So I gave him a little like magic boost and like the way he talks about creation and stuff
and how like the human being like human body is like the most perfect specimen and they're
like OK well what about this and he's like you know what I was a little drunk that day
and he's like not all my my ideas are heavy hitters like so what.
And I don't know it's a it's a show that's kind of I've dug I've dug the dude actually
I'm convinced I'm not in this shit to my list.
Sounds like a blast.
It's funny.
It is some it's some good shit.
What's it called again.
Exploding kittens.
It's like I think it's in the top 10 of watch shows on Netflix right now.
It's really quickly.
I got to add that.
I'm sorry.
But yeah it's funny.
It is.
It's a good time and it's a little sacrilegious but I dig it.
Like oh so hell hell is becoming too overpopulated so they have to open up like are basically
have to occupy these different places to like make more room for hell.
And one of the places that they that they expanded to is Sea World.
Oh my God.
And they're like walking through Sea World and they're just like yeah so this is Christopher
Columbus he's a whale and like going through all like the bad people in hell and then they
have I think they go through like a family of sharks or something and they're like yeah
and these sharks are the Manson family.
And then she's trying to like get them to behave because they've been like bushwhacking
people and they're just like you're drawing too much attention to us like you need to
stop doing this and and everything and they're just like well this is hell.
It can't get much worse and then she's just like Sea World Cincinnati Sea World like all
these landlocked Sea Worlds and she's like you think it can't get worse it can get so
much worse.
They're just like geez like okay.
Oh that's amazing.
It's it like I said I've been digging it and it's it's it's funny it gets like it's not
like I said not the funniest thing in the world but it does get some good freaking laughs
out of me.
All right.
I think those sneak attack ones like like freaking Ted.
Yeah.
Like it's like that kind of same humor.
I think I think Ted is more consistently like out loud like laugh out loud funny.
This one's like it's inconsistent but the jokes hit pretty hard.
Okay.
Oh yeah.
I look forward to watching it honestly.
Yeah.
So anyway that's what I watched in shows this week getting into.
Gosh we should just start adding shows dude.
I'd be down like honestly like yeah.
I'd be hard to give it a rating because it's like fair.
We will figure something out.
Okay.
We'll figure something out.
Anyway the movies I've watched this week I just finished Mulan today.
A fantastic movie.
It holds up incredibly well.
The early songs like the the the first few songs might not.
So this is I think this is the first time that I've watched this movie with subtitles
and I was actually paying attention to them and they say some outlandish things.
I'm like this feels a little uncomfy and then they get into Mulan's a hero and everything
and I'm like okay cool cool cool cool.
So it like it eases up but the beginning is a little like what the shit because it's like
I never really paid attention to the lyrics until this viewing at least not like I could
hum it.
I could hum all the songs.
There's some dialogue in the songs.
I couldn't freaking place for shit.
But anyway I had a good time with it.
I'm giving this a five dollar Tuesday.
I think there's still some scenes that would look really cool on the big screen.
And then the next one I watched was Treasure Planet.
Turn this on for Iris for the first time yesterday.
She loved it and like she loved this the space pirate deal and so yeah we were we were digging
that and this movie holds up so well.
The animation dude is just out of this world and I thought the the story was kick ass.
I thought like it's the story I feel is like super classic pirate themes.
It's just like oh we found this map.
We're gonna go find the treasure and treasure is booby trapped.
Like it's it's classic in that sense but I think adding the space elements to it helps
it so much.
Like it just it takes it from like a fairly average story to just like super memorable.
And that's I feel like that's what they what what storytellers should do.
They should take something that's already kind of like exciting and classic and just
find some way to incorporate an element that just makes it stand out.
Yes absolutely.
Yeah so I'm giving this one a full price because if this ever if this ever comes to theaters
again or like a I don't know nostalgia viewing or whatever you can bet your ass I'm on I'm
gonna be in that that screening.
Hell yeah.
Yeah the soundtrack goes so hard.
I think that activates like your inner emo like emo kid.
It's so true.
So so true.
But yeah it's it's dope.
It's dope.
But yeah movie wise that's all I really watched.
So next is you.
Me.
Yeah so my plan was to watch Saving Mr. Banks and Mary Poppins this week.
I unfortunately did not get to watch Mary Poppins Mary Poppins in its entirety.
I only got 20 minutes in and then something came up and I wasn't able to return to it.
But I will definitely have it finished by next week.
So there's a spoiler or I guess yeah spoiler alert for my next week's weekly watch.
But anyway Saving Mr. Banks I love coming back to this movie every single time that
I get a chance to.
This is one of my favorite films of all time.
It is in my top three favorite films of all time.
Just from the cast to the story.
I know they had to change some things when it comes to telling the story of Walt Disney
and Peele Travers because even though like I think I found this out with this latest
rewatch looking at the IMDB actually for a lot of the making of Mary Poppins Walt Disney
wasn't present.
He wasn't at the studio.
He was actually away.
So it was mostly Dick and Bob Sherman and Don DeGrawdi that dealt with Peele Travers
more so than Walt Disney.
But you know.
It was deceiving.
A little bit.
But you know what.
I don't care because I love this movie so much and Tom Hanks is amazing as Walt Disney.
Wasn't she still not happy with the movie.
No.
Yeah she was she was not from from what I've read after she watched it.
I think she tried to go up to Walt Disney and be like show her distaste for it.
And he just like shrugged her off and he's just like it's done Pamela like like the movies
released there's nothing you can do and just walked away.
Yeah that's horseshit dude.
Especially when especially with like the connection I know she had to like Mary Poppins.
Yeah like that.
That's some shady Disney shit right there.
And this feels freaking icky on Disney's part to company got a company.
That's bullshit.
I understand that she like I think people just need to know if you sell the rights or
anything like movie rights specifically to a company and they just butcher your shit
that's kind of the risk that you're taking.
And I feel like that's just something that people don't understand.
It's funny you bring that up because in real life she had already signed the movie rights
before she went to Walt Disney Studios.
So you know in the movie she hasn't signed the contract yet but she comes to be wowed
by you know the Sherman Brothers and the story and all that stuff.
Whereas in real life she had already signed the contract Walt Disney had it in hand and
she was just coming down to I guess just see how the story was going to be told in the
movies.
So I mean I guess in real life she could bitch and complain all she wanted to but Disney
could do whatever the hell he wanted and he had his signature.
He had the rights.
Yep.
This feels like that.
Like just that information alone makes this movie feel icky.
It will never feel icky for me.
I'm sorry.
I love this movie too much.
It's a good movie but this feels like Disney's saving face.
Oh yeah they absolutely do.
Well yeah they're not going to make a movie that it's just like you know what people walk
on people walking on theories being like Walt Disney what a jerk.
Disney does not want to do that.
Fair enough dude.
At this point they could and there's like not a single thing that people would do about
it.
Like they could watch.
I honestly feel like they could release a documentary basically outing all of the shady
dealings that Walt Disney did in his lifetime and like even some of like the shady dealings
that happened after.
And I don't think anyone would bat an eye.
I would.
I know like that you might but would that stop you from watching Disney movies.
Okay no.
Would it stop you from like buying Disney blu-rays.
No.
You see my point.
Yeah.
You son of a bitch.
Anyway getting back to to to this movie which to me is a masterpiece.
This movie is the perfect companion I guess to Mary Poppins because if you watch this
I feel you got to watch Mary Poppins right after.
Like come on.
But just like yeah I love this movie so much.
I cry every single time that they the Sherman Brothers show Let's Go Flag height to peel
Travers like it.
I can't speak enough good about this movie.
So because I saw this movie in theaters when it came out in 2013 it still gets a full price
ticket from me.
Yeah I I freaking love this movie and for all you people that haven't seen saving Mr.
Banks get your asses on Disney Plus and watch it now.
That's a good one.
I don't know man the way that you were talking I don't know if you do like saving Mr. Banks.
Listen I do like it.
I do but you got to admit that them kind of like rewriting the whole story of what went
down with her.
Still shady.
Okay I got two reasons for it.
Company got a company and Hollywood got Hollywood.
It's very rare.
Suck a nut.
True but it's very rare when Hollywood decides to tell a true life story or what they'll
say based on a true story that everything is going to be exactly the way it was.
They're going to sugarcoat some stuff.
That's just how it is.
If they don't tickets ain't going to sell.
I don't necessarily know about that.
I feel like they should be able like if I feel like there should be a rule in place
where they should let us know exactly how historically accurate something is where with
this movie it should say it should be loosely based on a true story versus something else
that's a little bit more I don't know realistic or something that something I can't think
of anything off the top of my head but something that follows history a little bit more to
the letter should be that should state based heavily on a true story.
Like another thing I'm remembering is I saw that Let's Go Fly a Kite was not the song
that won her over.
It was actually Feed the Birds.
What Yeah yeah yeah Feed the Birds won Peele Travers over not Let's Go Fly a Kite.
What the shit.
I mean hey Feed the Birds is a great song.
That chick is weird.
Oh man of all the songs of all the songs like it was freaking Feed the Birds.
Yep yeah it was Feed the Birds.
Oh man that doesn't even reach top five Mary Poppins songs.
What?
That's bullshit.
I'd have to listen to it again but I would yeah are you kidding me?
Let me see.
Okay just in no particular order I would say obviously Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
That's a freaking duh.
Yeah.
Let's Go Fly a Kite, Spoonful Sugar, Step in Time and Chim Chim Tree.
Top five.
Feed the Birds not on that.
Hopefully if you even want to go further down the list I would say Sister Suffragette, Jolly
Holiday, Life I Lead, the British Bank, Fidelity, Fiduciary Bank.
Are you kidding me?
Feed the Birds?
Get the hell out of here.
That's nonsense.
Oh shit.
God damn.
Anyway.
Well now we know Caleb does not like Feed the Birds.
I do like Feed the Birds.
I'm not saying it's a bad song.
I'm just saying that's the song that won you over.
I mean like you said though.
Out of all the other bangers.
I mean like you said though, Peele Travers was kind of out there.
She was nuts.
Yeah.
You know what Disney?
You do you.
This chick's crazy.
I got one more thing.
Freaking when they decided to bring Mary Poppins to Broadway, they approached Peele Travers
about it.
As long as no one that had anything to do with the original movie is brought in, I'm
good with this.
Shut up.
So that meant the Sherman Brothers were not able to write any new music for the Broadway
musical which is bullshit because the Sherman Brothers were amazing and may they both rest
in peace.
Dude.
Are you?
She's out of her mind.
Yeah.
So yeah.
Nobody associated with the original movie that was a huge freaking hit to many.
I don't want anyone involved with making that to touch this Broadway play.
Go to hell.
Oh man.
I mean you got me all worked up over freaking Mary Poppins.
Sorry.
I never thought I'd hear you say those words.
I know.
Freaking hell.
Oh shit.
That's some funny shit though.
But yeah, that's all that I watched this week.
Let's do a fun discussion though.
Yeah.
All right.
Well with that.
Let's say we move on to this week's headliner.
Let's do it.
Hell yeah.
Alrighty moving on to this week's headliner.
We will be breaking down a quiet place day one.
Yeah.
We switched over to the horror background just to get us into the mindset.
But completely spaced what I was going to say next.
Anyway if you guys are unfamiliar with our breakdown system, we have split movies into
eight different categories that we individually score to come to a final all bros letter grade.
The eight categories that we score are story, writing, acting, character development, effects,
music, costumes, and then we give our own personal score at the very end.
Basically with horror, thriller, or anything along those lines, we will shift character
development to logic.
Do you feel like that applies here?
I mean, I mean I feel like the Angos character did have character development, but I'll let
you make that call.
That's where I'm a little like on the fence.
Yeah.
So this is like there are certain like movie genres where we'll shift our categories and
this is it's horror and then animated are the ones that get shifts.
And so this one, this one's tough because it could walk both lines like where she went
through a lot or a little, but let's keep character development.
I think it's it had enough of it to warrant doing character development.
If this was any more horror esque, I probably would say logic.
Fair.
Yeah.
Okay.
So anyway, if you have not seen A Quiet Place Day One, we are going to be spoiling this
movie and it's not one that you're going to want spoiled for you.
Yeah.
It is a good movie.
Like just getting spoilers for our show out of the way.
It is good.
So if you have not watched it, definitely go check it out.
Otherwise, if you listen beyond this point and anything is spoiled for you, too bad.
Yeah.
So we'll be posting that spoiler warning now.
Since we are kicking off our favorite segment that we like to call Reading with Rose.
So without further ado, Rose, you want to take it away?
Absolutely.
All right.
Samara Sam, a pessimistic, terminally ill cancer patient, lives at a hospice outside
New York City with her cat Frodo.
Ruben, a nurse, convinces a reluctant Sam to join a group outing to a marionette show
in Manhattan.
Okay, yeah, it was this freaking the boys.
Yeah, that's good.
The shit out of me.
Dude, same here, same here.
And I knew it was coming and I still freaking jumped out of my seat.
Dude, I knew it was coming, too.
It's just like the whole thing was kind of like.
It was the music that did me.
Same way.
Yeah, I kind of got caught up and I was like, oh yeah.
And then I'm like, God damn it.
Oh
Man
All right
While in the city the group notices meteor like objects falling from the sky shortly afterwards hostile
extraterrestrial creatures attack the gathered crowd and pass her by
In the ensuing chaos Sam is knocked unconscious
Sam later wakes up inside the puppet theater with Frodo and other survivors including Henry who signals her to remain quiet
Announcements from military helicopters warn civilians to stay silent and hidden under hidden until the authorities can rescue them
Sam then witnesses fighter jets bombing and destroying the bridges leading out of Manhattan preventing the creatures from leaving the island
One of the survivors begins to panic and Henry accidentally kills him in the process of trying to keep him silent
The power grid cuts out that night causing the blue causing the building's emergency generator to noisily activate
Ruben turns it off but attracts a creature that kills him on hearing his shirt rip
It is strawed Sam takes Frodo and leaves for Harlem
The military announces it is preparing to evacuate the civilians by boat from South Street Seaport as the creatures
are unable to swim
Groups of people start leaving buildings toward
Sorry, yeah people wow groups of people start leaving buildings towards the evacuation point
But the volume of their crowded movement alerts the creatures who attack them and cause a stampede
Sam flees in the opposite direction and is separated from Frodo
Eric an English law student escapes a flooded subway station and encounters Frodo
Following him back to Sam. She attempts to convince Eric to go south to the evacuation point
But Eric is in shock and follows Sam back to her back to her apartment instead
While there Eric learns Sam is an acclaimed and published poet
The next morning Sam leaves alone for Harlem, but Eric finds her and they continue their journey together
Sam and Eric accidentally alert the creatures and flee into a flooded subway
With no other way out the pair are forced to wade through the deep waters eventually waking a dormant creature
That pursues them but drowns while they escape Sam falls unconscious after the ordeal
They end up in a ruined church and while Sam rests Eric ventures out alone to get pain medication for her from a pharmacy
He then rescues Frodo from a construction site discovering a group of creatures led by a larger one
Feeding on the remains of an organic egg-like pod Sam tells Eric that as a child she used to watch her late father
Play jazz at a club in Harlem and would get pizza with him at Patsy's afterward
Something Sam always wanted to do before she died
Eric fulfills Sam's wish by taking her to the club collecting pizza from another store and performing a magic car trick to cheer her up
Eric and Sam see boats in the river filled with survivors escape in Manhattan
As the two leave together creatures start to congregate along the shore
Sam gives Eric her jacket and Frodo and then runs off to distract creatures
By smashing car windows as a result car alarms activate which attracts the creatures away from the coastline
Meanwhile Eric and Frodo jump into the water and are pulled up into a boat by Henry
Eric then finds a note in the jacket written by Sam telling him to take care of Frodo and thanking him for reminding her to live
Sam walks into a deserted street as she listens to Nina Simone's feeling good on her ipod
Accepting her imminent death Sam smiles as she unplugs her earphones and lets the song blare causing a nearby creature to suddenly appear behind her
Dude, that was some hardcore shit right there
I did absolutely oh
Man
Dude this movie did the origin of a crazy event, right?
It really did
Because I remember looking it up like if if you needed to see the first two
Quiet Place movies, I think it was the first two
I needed to see the first two Quiet Place movies to understand and understand this one because you know, I I hadn't
Um, but they said, you know what you'd be fine since this is a prequel
Honestly, i'm glad that I had not seen the previous two because I think I enjoyed this one a little more
because of that
Honestly, I think I enjoyed it more
Having seen I so I I haven't seen the second one yet
Yeah, um, but I haven't seen the first and I think I enjoyed it more with the backstory
of the
I I guess I mean that
Because this is my
This is my first experience with a Quiet Place film. It gets me jazzed to see the the other two
So it peaks my interest in the franchise. It's not like oh
Yeah, this is boring as shit. I'm done. Yeah, dude. There was a lot of stuff in this that like
kind of as
It called back to the first
or just like different things that they were able to figure out from the first like
like the rain, uh and
Like waterfall like the fountain
It was it's because John krasinski's character takes one of his kids to the waterfall where they can speak freely
like at whatever volume and they can like yell and
I love that they timed their like yelling like getting their like anger out by yelling
They timed it perfectly with like the thunder
That was super super cool, dude. That was
An emotional punch. Yeah, yeah, that was crazy
Oh man dude just getting into the story here this
It feels like
It felt
It felt like good like anytime that we get like a prequel or a sequel I I look for the necessity
of it and
While I feel like they set up the first two movies
Well enough where we didn't really need this backstory. I'm glad we got it. It's like they they made it
a necessary part of the
I guess the trilogy now
But just the i'll just say franchise because who knows how how far they'll take this
Oh, yeah, dude for how profitable profitable these movies are
Yeah, definitely expect this franchise to continue
Yeah, and I feel like they could do super interesting stuff with it. They made
This like the the like the day one as
One as interesting as they possibly could
Yeah, like they put
these creatures that hunt down sound
in the
loudest city in america
Such a smart idea
Yeah, which is perfect. And then you just get like these haunting scenes of just
dead silent
Um
like
walkways and stuff like
of streets just being abandoned and
It's nuts, dude. It is absolutely nuts and they did such a good job
with it and
I felt like they gave us a really interesting story to go along with it too where
This woman who's already been
basically sentenced to death
with her
uh cancer diagnosis it like
Just being like what do I want to do before I die like she like she more or less like
You can almost like see it or make like see how she accepts it just that i'm going to die
Because of like
And this event isn't going to help my chances
So, you know what? I'm going out with a bang like i'm doing everything that I
have wanted to do
and
That was awesome
Yeah, it was like just the way they went about that was so cool like I loved it
Like such a good interesting story
No, it really was um
Like like you said, um, you know prequels and sequels have to
Make sense. They have to mean something. And yeah, this one definitely
Does a great job at showing why it needs to exist. Um
I feel some prequels haven't done the greatest job with that. Um
I think first one that comes to mind because you know, we didn't really need it was like dumb and dumber when harry met loyd
Um, yeah, that was ridiculous
um, I I feel a um
Uh prequel that I feel just because like you got to really see the inner workings of the nffa
Um, I thought the first purge was actually a pretty decent, uh decent prequel
um
I feel like this movie might have done it a bit better than the first purge though
Oh, yeah, I can definitely agree with you there
um
but like I when i'm thinking of like, you know, like when it like when it comes like the same genre
of what prequel I can like
Match this up against
I I think the first purge but yeah, I definitely agree with you the quiet place day one does do it
A bit better than the first purge
Yeah
But
Man and this is just getting into
How this was directed to
the
The scenes that were supposed to be tense were so tense
They did so good at at making you feel that that
anxiety
Just like oh no, like when she's walking through the crowd and she's like
Noticing all these people like stepping like really close to each other dragging stuff. I'm like dude
Absolutely the hell not
I would take an ex like
An extra long route just to avoid crowds like that
I'm like human beings can do only
one thing and that's be loud
and giant like that
and
Yeah, like the only one that wasn't shocked that the creature was there was freaking her and me
Yeah, and then you get the
Dude what pissed me off so bad
Were the people that were freaking like screaming? Yeah, like the dude who freaking like under the car like
grabbed her underneath the car
And was like, hey, I'm like, what was plan a sir?
And um, oh what's the dude the henry or jamon hound sue
Like when he was like but they were on the roof and they saw the freaking jets blowing up
the
The thing that felt weird to me because i'm like didn't you like isn't that one chick listening to reports?
Stating where these creatures have been found and these creatures aren't only being found on this island
And then they and then she goes upstairs and then they bomb the
The the gates and i'm like too little too late
Yeah, no wrong
Um, but no when they go up and they see the military blowing up the gates and you see that one dude come out and he's like
like having a panic attack and then
he like henry like grabs his face and smashes him on the ground and he's just like
Shut your mouth shut your mouth and he's like fighting and like I do not understand that level of things
Panic like what do you think is going to come up screaming that?
Like I mean, I just I guess it just depends on the person. Yeah
Dude, I would have thrown him off the roof
Geez
God damn
I'd like legitimately dude
We're in a state of emergency where these creatures that can hunt down the slightest of sounds
are
Hunting us essentially and you come up here
And you come up here where my wife and children are and decide to scream bloody murder because we're gonna die
like
No, you sir are taking a trip
very quickly to the
to the street
And that's honestly what I was I thought he was going to do and what I was hoping he was going to do
But the fact that he just bam like knocks the dude out
freaking mike tyson's that that bitch I
i'm like
respect
I would have personally thrown him off
Like we don't need that bitch on our team
So you would have thrown him off just so you wouldn't have to see him die
And so the blood isn't on your hands
What?
Well, no, because when because he beats him to beats him to death, doesn't he?
No, he just like freaking haymakers him and knocks his ass out
So I thought it said he beat him to death beat him to death
It was one punch. It was that yeah, it says killed him one of the survivors begins to panic and henry accidentally kills him
Then he kills him really in one hit then yeah, because that like that was one hit
I mean that was a hard that was a hard hit though. Yeah, dude, like I said, he freaking mike tyson that bitch
Yeah, but yeah you you put my family at risk
you are taking a quick trip to the to the street and no it's not because
Uh, i'm i'm not wanting to be the one that kills him
Like I said, i'm throwing him off the roof
It's you're putting my family in danger these bitches are going to follow screaming
Guess where you're going
Away from the clan gonna land safely on a car, right? Hopefully he lands safely on his neck
jeez
Yeah, and then it's like the creatures come they figure
I don't know like
My whole goal would be to avoid the creatures coming at all
Yeah, fair and so if
If the dude screams like that like the way that he did
I'm immediately throwing his ass over making sure he's screaming on the way down so they chase him to the street
Oh shit
Just imagine as he's falling silent you're just shouting now you shut the hell up
Yeah, he's dead silent the way down like you bitch
Then yeah, then I hope he hits a car and then the alarms go off and then
gets
eight
but
Yeah, I don't play or I will not play around in a situation like that
Oh, man
Like you better keep your shit together or you are going over
The ledge like I would I would strap a loud toy to your back
And toss you over like wow I am not playing
Oh shit all right
Dude with my kids there, are you kidding? No, that's yeah. No, that's fair. No
Yeah, I know anything for iris and Levi so you completely get that
Yeah
but uh
Yeah
The the the story was sam though just kind of
Trying to live her best life while going through this madness was was
kind of great
It was um
I especially liked when eric comes into the picture which I did not expect eric to enter the picture so late
I thought he would would have been
I know I was like dude, where the hell is this dude? Yeah, but you know what it worked out well for the story. Um
But it you know, I'm genuinely
Surprised he didn't get bushwhacked when he came up out of the water though, dude, seriously. I'm like you were being so loud, sir
Um
But just seeing him and sam's
interactions at the beginning of when they first meet to the end when
She asked him to take care of his cat of her cat and you know, thanks him for showing her
What it meant to live?
Again
Is it it's such a great freaking character arc. I loved watching it throughout
Yeah, it was fantastic
and
Dude the freaking lengths they went to for that damn cat
I would have done the same. Frodo is adorable. You are out of your mind and have zero survival instincts
Dude like her I would do anything for my cat alexander
I would I would do anything for that cat
Listen, I would do a lot for my animals
Or any pets that i've had
I am not dying for them
Depends on the situation if you're getting hunted down for noise. Yeah, alexander's surviving on me
You think your cat's surviving? Yep. Yeah, I
They're gonna kill me and then he's gonna live
Crazy
But this story had really good
Flow it was a short movie only an hour and a half. Yeah, but
Honestly, I think I think it would have
If it felt short, but I felt like it needed to be short
I don't think you're gonna draw on this story out much longer. Yeah, considering it's day one
You didn't really need it to be like two and a half hours. Yeah, so I think
If they can keep that up with any future installments where they just make it as long as it needs to be
Like have at it
Like freaking pump those those out like i'll watch an hour and a half movie. Yeah same here
I
I don't know
Yeah, same here. Um
Yeah, the story was was solid I loved sam's whole backstory the
Just the the overall tragedy of everything that was happening was there's a lot to take in sometimes but yeah it was
It had a really good flow
Perfect length i'd i'd say
Like it had a lot going for it
so i'm i'm pretty high on this story like i'm
not quite in the 90s, but i'm like
88 like I thought it was just that good
Man, I think I got a match there. Yeah. All right. Next up we got writing
The writing was was pretty
Good too. I feel it's pretty on point. Yeah, it was it was minimal because obviously
Yeah, but I think what they were able to throw in with like sam's poetry. I loved her like
everything shit
poem at the beginning
Freaking died. Yeah, that was great
um
but yeah the um, I loved how they were able to like add some like
I don't know. It felt comedic to me a little bit like when uh, what's his what his name is eric
Yeah, yeah when eric was kicking down the are attempting to kick down the door
Like I thought that was so funny because they're just both like looking up into the corner
and then they see the flash and then he goes like
to kick it
I thought that was funny
I'm, sorry would have been really funny if he broke his foot
Or broke his leg when doing that that just in this he can't scream, but he just sees so much pain in his face
Yeah, i'm glad that they kind of
I threw in something that was a little comedic. It wasn't like
Like laugh out loud funny, but I got a good little like okay. This is like a lighthearted situation. Yeah
Um, yeah, I mean the the the letter was great
Yeah, that eric got at the end. That was really sweet
Yeah, I agree with her. You better take care of frodo
Yeah, and I know other than like people making bad decisions
Like dude that one chick in the middle of the street yelling
And then yeah, he's like help me help me
Yeah, i'm just like and then she gets my freaking yeah, she gets freaking taken out and i'm like, yeah
Sucks to suck dude straight up all I could think was um
That scene in monsters inc when the two monsters, um, they tell slowly, you know like good luck
And the one good guy is just like go get him. Mr. Sullivan. Stop ben. You're making him lose his focus. Oh, sorry
Shut up. You're making it worse
Just that just that line just shut up you're making it worse and that's all that came to my head
Yeah, i'm like no your loved one is as good as dead sweetheart like shut up. Yeah
I will say though. I was sad that alex wolf's character died so fast
that was
Rough, but I think that really like enhanced the stakes
It is true. It just made it feel like not everyone's
Invincible and I think you have to do that
I think you have to take some characters that are very likable and I think especially in horror
Like I think you got to bushwhack them just show them like hey, no one's safe here
Yeah, that's true. Like this is like it's kind of how I felt with um
like the hunt
where they had all these like really big names get taken out of the
The freaking cast list immediately. Oh, yeah
I'm like dude, this is this is how you freaking build it because then it's like oh you're taking this person out
No one is safe
Yeah
That's a good point
Yeah, but I uh
I dug the writing. I'm putting it a little bit lower and I know that's probably a dickhead move
uh
Just because there wasn't that much writing. I know you can like write situations
But I think it's not like too much lower. Like i'm still high 80s
or
Maybe more mid. Yeah, I think i'm mid 80s. So like 86
Son of a bitch. That's what I was at too
I
know I thought
They were able to do really well with all the scenes and tension like
All everything that they were trying to achieve in terms of how you were feeling
really good
dude freaking um
I I love seeing these movies and theaters
But I hate it because freaking every single because you know
Like usually when I go watch a movie my hands are folded in front of me or sometimes, you know, I'll fold
um
you know, i'll fold my hands together and I felt bad every single time that I had to move my arms or anything
because you've
I feel it echoes more than it does in a regular movie
Dude with these movies specifically. Yeah, dude
Imagine that a million times worse in freaking quite the first quiet place
I don't know man. Have you have you watched that one yet? No, this is my first quiet place movie, dude
the entire
movie
dead silent
now one word is spoken like the a couple things are
Okay
but
There's like uh, I I it's been a while since i've seen it, but I want to say there's like
three or four
Statements in the entire movie
The rest of it every every conversation is in sign language. That's pretty cool though
like all main conversations are in sign language
and
Then there's like an additional three to four scenes of noise
Huh?
But the rest of the movie the majority of it is dead ass quiet
Like no scores. No nothing
just
Dead silent and so it makes the noise like the sounds
That much louder
Like I was trying to eat popcorn when I was watching like we
I should have known I should have freaking known like hindsight's 2020
but
I was trying to like eat popcorn. I was picking like one out at a time and just
And it felt like it was like ringing through the damn theater and I was like, I can't do that
So me and beryl like we I don't think we even like
Touched our popcorn
Uh, I can't remember if it was for the first or second, but my buddy michael
Um said that like during one of the like quietest moments
I mean, I mean, I guess that's like every moment a person freaking
Cracked a can of soda open
dude
Freaking assholes, right? Like come on you get one
You don't get to do that multiple times
And if it's different people you should know better
You don't get to do that more than once like if someone if there's a quiet moment and someone pops a soda
Guess what you don't get to do
You don't get to drink your soda
Yep
Yeah, dude
I like I remember during the whole that whole experience like I even had a drink and I was being so careful not to get to the bottom
like I would like
Like this is how I would check if I had like fluids. I would I would tilt it to the side
And then tilt it back a little bit and then see if I could feel the the shifted weight
And then I was like, okay
I think I can and I just take a tiny little sip and then it was like then like it would
I would feel like, you know, like the difference between like
Liquids and air. Yeah, and I would get to that point where it was air and I'd stop and then I'd like
Slowly let it go back down to the bottom
Like so the fluid was at the bottom and then I lift my straw up and then I'd like inhale that like little bit of
liquid
I
Was so careful because it was it made me antsy
I'm like
There was a um
A mother and her daughter. Well, okay
Like the the daughter was all grown up and then her her mother mother was you know getting up there and she was elderly
Getting up there and she was elderly
But freaking the elderly woman like during one of the most quietest moments had to move her straw
And so forget hearing that go up and down
Dead silent. I had to freaking bite my tongue from laughing. Oh my gosh
That's fantastic
Uh, but
Yeah, 86 86 feels fair when it comes to
The writing though, you know, especially like it wasn't like anything outstanding
the dialogue but
Dude
I know john krasinski had stuff to do with this one. Okay. He's a producer. Okay
Yeah
All right moving on over to acting
uh
first up we got
Lupita neongo who played samira?
We got joseph quinn who plays eric?
And then we have alex wolf who played reuben
Very small cast
So obviously our top three is
These three I beg to differ my number one is actually frodo. It's going to frodo the cat
But
she
I'm assuming we have the same number one two
Oh, yeah. Yeah joseph quinn and or lapid and neongo and then just I was like dude, are you kidding me?
No, sorry reverse that
Yeah
freaking
Lupita knocked it out of the park dude, just everything that she was trying to pull off and
Dude, how what do they do to make her look so sickly and power makeup?
Probably I mean damn dude, like every time she was on screen. I'm like, is she okay?
Seriously
I don't want to have to worry about you. I know
Like it was it was every scene dude, like she like she'd take
I'm I'm I recognize now that she was wearing baggier clothes specifically to hide her physique
but
I feel like there were scenes where she wasn't wearing like
Her her sweater and i'm like gosh you
Like you're really taking this cancer patient thing a little far
Or the movie is or someone's taking it a little too little too dedicated to the role here lapida just a little bit
but
Yeah
but
Yeah, she freaking killed it
And then amazing. Yeah, and then joseph quinn. It was interesting because this is like I think the first
Other movie or i've seen him in outside of stranger things
So I never finished all of stranger things season four and so like I feel like this is my like
Real like first time seeing him and it's in in his entirety of a performance and I thought he was fantastic. He like
I'm really excited to see him as johnny storm
Dude, i'm pumped. I think he's gonna kill it. Yeah, no 100 freaking did you see the uh, red carpet interview with him for a quiet place?
day one
With no
So there was an interviewer and i'm just like why why would you ask him this?
She goes up to him. She's like can you just make my heart happy and say I think her name was like monica or something
But she goes, can you please say monica wake up?
And you can tell that his face is just like oh my god
And he's like, of course I can
monica wake up
It felt like no I he wasn't giving like that much energy early I feel he was trying
But probably gets asked that by everyone
but like
What did he like it because he looks at the camera after she asked that
And it's just like like his soul left
Yeah, no exactly. He's like, are you freaking kidding me?
Man
Dude, I thought you're
I know
I
Dude, and it's just gonna get worse when he's the human torch
Oh, everyone in their mother is gonna ask him to say flame on
I'm shocked that a lot of people don't ask chris evans to do that
Because I felt the way he said it was iconic
It was pretty good
but
I don't know. I think he he's set himself apart as captain america so well
That people won't that's a good point. Whereas I think joseph quinn
I mean, hopefully it's good. He is banking on people
Recognizing him as the human torch
Yeah
I
I really like this this dude like yeah, he's he's a really good actor and i'm glad that he's uh,
He's coming up in the industry. Yeah
Man fantastic four is
I i I need to see more stuff from fantastic four, dude
I I I yeah, I I need to see a first trailer. That's what I need
I I just want to hear like
I don't even need a trailer like I need a
I just want set photos
You're just like I need to see them in their suits actually see them in their suits. Yeah
Like I
I have no doubts about any of them, but I the only two that i'm worried about
Is the thing
Fair and then i'm i'm worried about him a little bit, but when he's all flamed up, okay
Yeah, that that's fair like because I know I I hope that they
They go like they try to distinguish
His look from
Chris evans look because I mean if you try to copy it, it's going to look exactly the same
So i'm wondering how they're how far they're going to go
To distinguish distinguishing the two
Yeah
And if they don't I i'd be very happy with that
No
But yeah, anyway, we're getting completely off topic here
His
His eric was was super sweet, dude. Yeah, like he was just a super kind-hearted dude
Like and you could feel when he was following her at first. I was like a little creepy
but I don't know something about his face just kind of like
Eased my mind
Yeah, like he has a very like trusting innocent face
Yeah, he does
Like it almost looked like he was like a lost puppy and i'm like you can't help but trust the the puppy
Giving her those big old puppy dog guys
Yeah, but I thought that was funny and then then this dude
I felt so bad for him. No, seriously when his shirt ripped my heart just sunk. You're just like, ah fuck
I was like, oh my god
Dude
I knew what the freaking death angels did like they don't eat people do they?
Dude you're asking the wrong person, is the only one i've seen
It's the are they either it's they're just eliminating the sound or they're eating people and I don't know if they're eating people
I'll tell you what though, it's so crazy looking at Alex Wolfe and then just thinking back
to when we were kids with the Naked Brothers Band.
It's just so, it's just so weird.
What?
Yeah.
Well, you didn't know that?
Yeah.
This is Alex from the Naked Brothers Band, the little kid on the drums.
What?
I think it's in Caleb's mind.
Oh my gosh.
That's why he looks so freaking familiar.
Yep.
Dude.
Whoa.
Yeah.
That's nuts.
Right?
What a freaking like, like blow up my brain, dude.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
That's wild.
I'm not going to be able to get over that for a good long while.
Oh man.
Anyway what'd you think of him?
I thought he was great.
I wish it, like we discussed earlier, I wish he was in the room, the movie more, but I
completely understand why he wasn't.
It made, like you said, the stakes higher.
So excuse me.
So for that case, I appreciate the death, I guess, but considering it's Alex Wolf, I
was sad to see him, see him die.
Because I, I mean, I don't really see much from Nate Wolf, his older brother, but I feel
Alex is actually a really good actor.
He is.
I mean, he was in that, the M. Night Shyamalan movie, old.
Yeah.
And he was in the two newest Jumanji's.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
So he's, he's a really good actor.
Yeah.
Really good.
So where are you sitting with the acting score?
Like solely basing it off of, you know, just Lupita and, oh shit, Joseph.
Sorry.
I, both of them are great actors by themselves, but put them together and I just loved their
chemistry so much, especially when he is like they're, they're at the, her, what was it?
Her grandpa's.
I think it was her dad's.
Her dad's.
Okay.
Where he used to play music and see, you know, to like, you know, like get her in, you know,
like the mood, you know, brighten up her spirits.
He does that whole car trick.
And like when she, you know, he does like, you know, like when she pulls like the car,
when she pulls the card and like she surprised and like the expression that he gives like
a huge, like, like out there, like very, um, that's the word, uh, vibrant, like enthusiastic.
There we go.
Thank you.
Enthusiastic.
Like what a magician would do is it was like fricking awesome.
I loved it.
Um, so like acting, I'm gonna actually, I'm gonna crack a 90, no 90 for acting.
Funny enough, I also cracked a 90.
Son of a bitch.
Well I'm actually a little higher at 92.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
I was like, I swear to God, man, if we're, if we're like, I mean, I'm not going to be
mad, but if we're like the same score all across the board, that's just going to be
insane.
That'd be funny.
All right.
Next up we got character development, which this is obviously going to be done on, uh,
Sam and kind of how her whole story went.
She, she starts off this movie kind of like done with life.
Like she's just more or less, yeah, waiting for her day to die.
And then like something sparks in her with like the pizza and she gets like super excited
for that.
And then once that's kind of like busted, like she, it's, it feels like I, what I liked
about it is we don't really get her motivations for doing any, like anything that she's doing
until Eric comes into the picture.
Yeah.
Because she, it just feels like she's aimlessly wandering.
Like it, not aimlessly, like it feels like she has a goal.
Yeah.
It's she, she has a location in mind.
It's just, she doesn't express it obvious, like, and so once you kind of find out what,
where she's going and Eric's like, Oh, where are you going?
And she's like, I'm going to go get a pizza.
Just like, okay, why?
And then the way that it unfolded as to why she was going to do that was done so good.
It really was.
Yeah.
When especially when, you know, she walks in first and you see her looking all around,
you know, at the picture is like, frigging, I almost started tearing up.
Yeah, man.
And you felt like just the heartbreak of her, like seeing the place and it's just burnt
to shit.
Yeah.
And it was, it's like devastating.
Cause you're just like, she went through this like grand adventure just for it to not pan
out and it, it sucked.
I was right, like I'm the emotional roller coaster with her and I was just like, man.
And then Eric comes in with the save goes to a different pizza joint, like writes the
name of the pizza joint on the blocks and everything.
I'm like, you're a freaking gem, dude.
And then, I don't know, like you just see like a new spark of lifeturk cause it's like,
what is, what's keeping her going?
And you just, you're like, I feel like that's a question you're asking yourself throughout
a majority of this, this film.
Cause like, what, like, where's she going with this?
Where's she going?
And then once it's like all revealed and it's revealed within like, say the last half hour
at least.
Yeah.
I would say that.
Yeah.
And so they do really well with like, just kind of keeping that to themselves until it
eventually comes out and I loved it.
Yeah.
Same here.
Like keep, keep hold of your secrets.
And I feel like that's going to enhance my viewing experience next time because then
I'm going to watch it with that context.
And then that, I feel like that's just going to hit so much different.
Yeah.
So it's just got an instant rewatchability factor there.
You know, I will, um, oh, sorry.
No, no, no.
I was just saying she, she has a good, good character growth that's kept hidden.
No, yeah.
It absolutely is.
Um, I want, I want your opinion really quickly.
Um, so have you ever had New York style pizza?
Never.
Neither have I.
I would want to, but I would want to, you know, actually go to New York to experience
that.
I would buy some shit that claims to be it in the fricking like frozen food section.
Um, but, um, so I was watching the office today and there's a scene where to, uh, pay
Michael back for what he did for Pam Pam.
I've never heard of this because she's in New York.
He's in, um, Pennsylvania, right?
Yeah.
Pennsylvania Scranton.
Yeah.
Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
She mails a slice of New York pizza to him just in like a flat envelope.
And when he pulls it out, I'm just like, that is the most disgusting looking pizza I think
I've ever seen.
I'm like, who in their right mind would want to eat a mailed piece of pizza?
Friggin Michael Scott, that's who.
Yeah, you know, fair enough.
Like I get it, you know, it's, it's not going to take any time at all for it to be mailed
from, you know, New York to Pennsylvania.
Cause you know, they, they are close, but just, no, no, absolutely not.
So gross, dude.
I've had no, no desire to travel to New York or Chicago, which supposedly has the best
pizza ever.
I mean, I want to go to Chicago, Illinois, but for different reasons.
Yeah.
But those reasons, gross.
Yep.
Yes, we do.
Yeah.
But to try pizza, not one of those reasons.
Yeah.
True.
Um, yeah.
I mean, there's, there's a lot of other places that I would rather travel to try different
foods.
I feel like, I don't know, maybe I'm missing out on like really good pizza, but it's like,
I have a desire to go check out foods at other places.
Like I want, I want fricking Italian pasta from Italy.
Oh yeah.
Absolutely.
I want traditional sushi from Japan.
Like I want, I want the foods that places are like known for.
I want Belgium waffles from Belgium.
Yeah.
I think that are those actually like Belgian or are those?
I was just trying to make a joke.
No, but like, is that either going to be bad or German pancakes from Germany?
Yeah.
It's like, I just want those foods that are like, people are like known for, like, I don't
know.
Like I would love to have like a beer from Germany.
Oh dude.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Like it's not, I don't drink, but that's, if I was ever in Germany, I would.
I would try it once and shit face in Germany.
I'm sorry.
You're getting shit faced.
So, yeah, sorry, man.
You're carrying me home.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Then like, I don't know, Canadian maple syrup.
I would love to have that like, so like genuine, like just fresh from the tree.
Like that's, that's the shit like that.
I want to try.
It's like for me, like pizza is not on that list for, of like, oh my gosh, need to try
these foods.
Fair enough.
I would have McDonald's spaghetti is on, is that on that list?
Oh, not even a little bit.
I forget where it's at.
I think it's in Norway or no, I actually don't know.
Gross.
Yeah.
I think spaghetti is the thing.
Wait, really quickly.
Let me find where you can get it.
Yeah.
I'm trying to think of like something else.
Oh, like I would love to have like a whiskey from Ireland.
Oh, yeah.
Let's see.
McDonald's spaghetti.
Where can you get it?
I don't know.
Eventually when I'm like an actual adult, like I, I want to try all these, all these
things.
Like I'd love to try them.
I also have like this, this feeling that I would, I would travel to like one of these
places and be like, this is it.
This is it for me.
Like I am staying here.
The Philippines.
That's, that's where you can get McDonald's spaghetti.
That's disgusting.
And the Philippines is not somewhere I would want to go.
Yeah.
You know, same here.
Dude, my cousin, my cousin fricking served a mission in, in the Philippines and he got
sexually assaulted.
Yes.
He has a reasons like that.
I also have some bad, bad experiences with certain family members that came from the
Philippines.
So, yeah, yeah.
It was like these fricking women that were trying to have American babies.
There he's like, like back off.
And he's like, you, you've never been in like a good fight until you fought a fricking Filipino
woman.
She's I'm like, dude, damn.
Oh man.
But yeah, New York style pizzas.
It doesn't even crack my like top 20.
Damn.
I'd say it cracked my top 10.
Fair enough.
I would between the two Chicago, New York, I'd rather try Chicago.
All right.
Like a Chicago deep dish.
Like I would, I would that's higher on my list than New York style pizza.
Fair enough.
That's fair.
Anyway, getting back on track.
I feel Sam had some good character moments and yes, it was revealed very slowly and progressively
like what her end game was, but it was still good.
Like it just added like a lot more context to everything.
And we I didn't need a whole lot of backstory, especially for this because it's like I think
if I was focusing too much on what like her her goal, I wouldn't have been able to just
kind of enjoy or just experience what was happening in the world.
So I'm kind of glad that that they went about it that way, where it was just very slow,
like, oh, this is some some growth.
And then that letter, it felt like completely on character to like didn't feel like like
what she was talking about, like, oh, you've made me know what it's like to live again.
And like that stuff, I was in other instances, like just movies that we've talked about previously.
It's just like, where the shit did that come from?
Like I did not feel that with this at all.
I think it's like I knew exactly where it came from.
I just love the first thing that she has to point out is you better take care of my cat.
Yep.
So in character.
Oh, man.
Where are you at with character development?
I haven't quite cracked nineties, so I would say I'm in like the mid eighties.
So I think I'm in eighty six.
I am a couple points higher than eighty eight.
Hell, yeah.
It was it was real close to cracking in ninety for me.
I just enjoyed her arc that much.
It was simple, but elegantly put together.
All right.
Next up, we got effects.
I mean, the effects on the monsters look freaking bad ass.
It was so good.
Like that freaking close up like, dude, nightmare fuel.
Yeah.
Like, boy, that freaking nuts.
Those those things are disgusting looking.
Yeah, yeah.
Like I think these ones like feel like seeing how they're like, it felt like they were covered
in like rock or like they kind of had like a bark thing, like a tree.
Yeah, it did look like that.
It was creepy, dude.
And then when they open that shit up, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, you know, wild props to the prop department.
Yeah.
Prop and design.
Like, seriously, you guys killed it with that.
The only I think the only issue I really had with them was seeing them in the daylight
when they're like crawling over all like the buildings and stuff that made them feel a
little bit more rubbery.
That's fair.
Yeah, definitely.
I think it's in the movie.
I remember in the trailer when the announcer saying shelter in place and you see them crawling
over that certain building.
I can definitely agree with you.
Yeah, I definitely did look a little rubbery there.
Yeah.
Other I mean, other than that, like the I think they took really good advantage of it
being dark.
And so that just kind of helped with the scary factor.
I'd say the one in the water needed a little bit of work.
No, when I drowned.
Yeah, fair.
So, I mean, there was a little like some finishing touches I feel like they could have done.
But overall, like I was very impressed with the special effects.
Same here.
This is one I'm just because of the rubberiness.
I haven't quite cracked 90.
I'm sitting at like an 89.
I'm gonna be one point below you at an 88.
All right.
Next up, we got music, which obviously there wasn't any in this.
I mean, well, there was the one there was.
Yeah, but that's it.
Yeah, it was that and then the marionette song.
Yeah.
But I think honestly, I'm incorporating the use of silence in this.
And this is so I'm at a solid eight.
I definitely agree with you on that one.
The only issue.
Yeah.
The only issue is I felt the screaming was a bit excessive sometimes, especially with
how like I love that they made certain things louder.
I will say I mean, I feel like the you know, the screaming with this being day one, it
makes sense.
So I feel you can't excuse that a little bit.
I mean, I haven't seen the other two, but this franchise, true, like it's amazing what
they're able to do with silence.
It freaking blows my mind.
It's so freaking cool.
Yeah, it's really good.
Oh, man.
Just like said, tension building, dude, freaking just the tense scenes are just made infinitely
more tense.
Yep.
All right, next up, we got costumes, which for our two main characters was pretty basic.
Yeah.
I just wore a student tie.
Yeah, I'm going to throw a bonus point this movie's way for the the death angels and how
they look.
Okay, that's fair.
It was a really, yeah, super solid design.
I will say Lupita Nyong'o's yellow cardigan, whatever jacket.
I loved that.
That actually looked really good.
And then the fact that she gives it to Eric, I'm like, oh, that's sweet.
Yeah.
I don't know if I'm at a six.
I'll give it seven.
I feel it's a little deserving.
Son of a bitch.
That's what I was thinking too.
All right, next, we got our own personal score.
Who is going first?
I'll go first since I have the the first movies.
Like in my backlog.
Okay, I'm just going to come out.
I'm at an eighty five.
This I know it feels low.
I I enjoyed this movie a lot.
I thought it was just as interesting as the first in a different way, in a different sort
of way.
So I appreciate it for that, where it does distinguish itself between the first and this
one.
I don't have the second one to to go off of.
But yeah, but based off of what like the knowledge I do have, I enjoyed this a lot.
I'd say I have the exact same enjoyment level of the two.
I haven't done a rewatch of the first Quiet Place, and it's probably because I know that
the viewing experience isn't going to be equal.
I mean, it could be a big screen.
Honestly it could be.
But I I enjoyed this movie a lot.
And despite any issues I have with it, like I can let a lot of that go because this was
just killer in terms of of the story that they were able to tell.
And the cast was just ridiculously good.
So yeah, I'm sitting at an eighty five.
Okay.
So I am actually one point higher at an eighty six.
Yeah, I for this being my first Quiet Place movie, I am most definitely interested in
checking out the previous two.
The world building in this movie is insane.
And just one day, like what they were able to do to set up how this whole thing came
about and like where it leads, it's honestly insane.
Like you said, I look forward to watching a Quiet Place and a Quiet Place part two.
The cast was amazing.
Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, both were fantastic in their roles.
Yeah, like this is a really, really good prequel.
And it piqued my interest in this franchise and I can't wait to see more.
So yeah, eighty six.
Hell yeah.
All right, going through these scores real quick.
Starting off with story, we are sitting at an eighty eight.
Writing is at an eighty six.
Acting got a pretty decent bump sitting at a ninety one.
Character development took a little bit of a hit sitting at an eighty seven, but it's
pretty in line with the effects, which are sitting at an eighty eight point five.
The music is sitting at an eight out of ten.
And that's including the silences because the.
The costumes are the are the design for the creatures.
We're giving it this a six out of ten.
And then our personal score ended up averaging out to an eighty five point five.
So with that, the final Albrose letter grade for a Quiet Place day one has come out to
a B plus.
Very nice.
Yes, very well deserved.
Oh, man, so glad it came out to that.
Same here.
Oh, man.
Oh, it's on the lower end.
So our cut off for a B plus is eighty six.
This is sitting at an eighty six point three seven percent.
Oh, damn.
Yeah.
So this puts it on the exact same level as spoiler alert.
I'm trying to remember what spoiler alert was.
That is the one with Jim Parsons.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
Way different movies.
Yeah.
Equal enjoyment in my eyes.
Yeah, no, I agree.
Yeah.
Let's see.
Going.
Let's go what it's above first.
So it is sitting above Captain Marvel.
Fair is above seeing to.
OK, I can accept that.
It is above Spider-Man homecoming.
OK, it's above Nightmare on Elm.
Fair.
And then it is above Mr. Peabody and Sherman bullshit.
Yeah, that was coming.
All right, go in the opposite direction, it is sitting below Evil Dead Rise.
OK, this one might be controversial.
It's below Black Adam.
Oh, hell no.
No.
OK, I bet you it was costumes.
Son of a bitch.
Black Adam's costumes were the shit and there's no arguing that.
I'll argue right now.
I'm kidding.
All right, it is below the Lego Movie 2.
Damn, I didn't know we ranked that one that high.
Yeah.
Shit.
It's not even that much higher, dude.
It's point two percent difference.
All right, let's see.
It is below Haunted Mansion.
All right.
Again, this is B plus is the range where it's either music or costumes can bump these up
or lower them.
Son of a bitch.
Yeah, it's a tough, tough zone, which is why I bring and I bring that up because it is
also below Frozen 2.
OK, that one I can understand because Frozen 2 is a really good sequel.
Yeah, but I don't hate where this is at.
I hate that Black Adam ranks above it, but you know, yeah, that doesn't that doesn't
give me the warm fuzzies, but I'm even OK that it's ranked higher than Mr. Peabody and
sure if we black that on Black Adam, that just no.
If we were to bump up the the costume score to of Quiet Place to like even an eight, it
would probably bump it up above Black Adam.
All right, let's do it.
No.
You're maybe if it deserved it, it does.
Like come on, man.
Like, come on.
No, you don't get to make that argument now.
Freaking bitch all you want, dude.
Oh, man.
All right.
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That's pretty good.
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I keep thinking it's his first is there's going to be like because I keep seeing the
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Hell yeah.
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Deuces.
Peace out.
I don't know.
I'm trying.
I'm trying to change it up, do something different.
But yeah, that's not working.
Yeah, that's not working.