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Old 06-11-18, 12:40 PM
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The Silence (2019, D: Leonetti) S: Tucci, Shipka, Otto -- Netflix

The horror The Silence focuses on a family trying to survive in a remote quiet place terrorized by a deadly, primeval species that hunt by sound.
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Story follows the terrifying tale of Ally, a deaf teenager, and her family whose world is turned upside down by a deadly and primeval force. In the fields near her New Jersey home, a colony of bats are attacked by a parasitic insect and soon morph into a new lethal species called Vesps. As the blind, winged creatures quickly grow, spread and attack the human population, Ally’s heightened senses become her strength. She can feel when the Vesps are close and realizes that even the slightest noise summons them in huge numbers. She and her family seek refuge in the woods where they must live in total silence. Amidst the creature chaos, they learn that humans can be just as dangerous when they are fighting to survive.
So, yeah, sounds like (no pun intended) A Quiet Place.

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When the world is under attack from terrifying creatures who hunt their human prey by sound, 16-year old Ally Andrews (Kiernan Shipka), who lost her hearing at 13, and her family seek refuge in a remote haven. But they discover a sinister cult who are eager to exploit Ally’s heightened senses. Based on the acclaimed novel, THE SILENCE is directed by John R. Leonetti (ANNABELLE) and stars Stanley Tucci, Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto, John Corbett, Kate Trotter and Kyle Breitkopf.

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It probably sucks, but Stanley Tucci, so I’m in.
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This is up today.
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Watching this now. At about a half hour in, make sure you have closed captions on.
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It was okay. Decent performances. I liked the family dynamic. The characters weren't too annoying, so I cared enough about what happened. Not great, but there’s way worse stuff on Netflix, i.e. Open House — yikes.
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Is Netflix doing the Hallmark Channel thing with Shipka? Like just randomly throw her into every other project?
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Re: The Silence (2019, D: Leonetti) S: Tucci, Shipka, Otto -- Netflix

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Is Netflix doing the Hallmark Channel thing with Shipka? Like just randomly throw her into every other project?
Every project is one TV show and two movies?
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Originally Posted by dex14
Every project is one TV show and two movies?
...Yes.

Yeah I got nothing.
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It amazes me that obvious rip offs and cash grabs like this don’t end up with studios being sued. It makes me think of stuff like Transmorphers.
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I thought Tucci was great as the bad guy in Shazam!, so I'm definitely up for this.
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That was Mark Strong.
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Re: The Silence (2019, D: Leonetti) S: Tucci, Shipka, Otto -- Netflix

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It was okay. Decent performances. I liked the family dynamic. The characters weren't too annoying, so I cared enough about what happened. Not great, but there’s way worse stuff on Netflix, i.e. Open House — yikes.
Does it come off like a ripoff of A Quiet Place, or is there some originality here?
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The only thing that’s different is the family knows sign language, because their daughter has been going deaf, so they have more of an advantage of surviving on that front. There’s also another strange subplot that develops. But no, it’s not terribly different. Pretty much a rip off.
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The only thing that’s different is the family knows sign language, because their daughter has been going deaf, so they have more of an advantage of surviving on that front. There’s also another strange subplot that develops. But no, it’s not terribly different. Pretty much a rip off.
They knew sign language in A Quiet Place as well.
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Yeah but that wasn’t because a character was already deaf. Not defending this movie at all.
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Yeah but that wasn’t because a character was already deaf.
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The family had a deaf daughter from the start. So yeah, they knew sign language because a character was already deaf.
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Yeah but that wasn’t because a character was already deaf. Not defending this movie at all.
Their daughter was, that's why she had coechuler implants and how they all knew sign language. And it came back into play as Krasinski was always hunting for batteries.

At least that's how it usually works in real life.
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I thought it was stupid that the characters were speaking to each other in sign language even when the girl wasn't around and they were in places where the creatures couldn't hear them
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I was having a senior moment. For that, I am sorry.
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Re: The Silence (2019, D: Leonetti) S: Tucci, Shipka, Otto -- Netflix

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I thought it was stupid that the characters were speaking to each other in sign language even when the girl wasn't around and they were in places where the creatures couldn't hear them
I would imagine either it was that way in the book or the on-set ASL advisor said that is what happens with families with a deaf member. You may not be aware you're doing it because it's ingrained.
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In my defense, I should have elaborated more that the story doesn’t start out the same as A Quiet Place. The characters in this movie are developed BEFORE the creatures start coming, as opposed to just dropping the characters into the post-Apocalypse world. So anyway, it’s highly unoriginal.
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Re: The Silence (2019, D: Leonetti) S: Tucci, Shipka, Otto -- Netflix

Even if A Quiet Place never existed I don't think this one would have achieved anything close to the same success with this concept. I didn't hate it, but I found it more silly than scary.

They promoted this saying that the fact that the daughter was deaf gave the family a special advantage, but aside from the sign language aspect I didn't see this executed in any way.
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If anything, her deafness seemed to be a disadvantage at times because she wasn't always aware of the noises she was making. The silliest moment was when she was watching her boyfriend on the video chat thing and had the sound blaring on her tablet, yet just a short time later in the movie a phone going off is a major panic moment.


I felt like they took the things I found stupid with A Quiet Place and mixed them with the things I find ridiculous with The Walking Dead.
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For the former, I never understood wanting to go someplace completely quiet when you should go to a place noise adjacent so your basic living noises aren't heard. For the latter, it's amusing that it seems like it was only a week or so since the attacks started yet this group of cultist people has already formed, went full psycho, and are looking for fertile girls, presumably to repopulate the earth. I can see people banding together to rob and loot people for supplies in a short time span, but these people were already in full on crazy ass cult mode.
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Re: The Silence (2019, D: Leonetti) S: Tucci, Shipka, Otto -- Netflix

Wasn't crazy about this one. The acting was o.k. and there was some suspense here and there. But those creatures! So they were basically

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pterodactyls ?
Yawn. And they showed them way too soon and way too often. Nothing menacing about them at all. This also came out after "A Quiet Place" too soon.

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