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Annoyingly ill-defined “monsters”

posted 6 years ago by BrunoAntony (1198)
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One of the worst things about this film was how poorly defined the monsters and their abilities were.

* They are invisible, but they still cast a shadow and looking at them makes you suicidal.

* Wait, looking at them doesn’t just make you suicidal... it can also make you a clever psychopath (who can create a cover story and form an armed gang) who forces survivors to look at the monsters.

* The monsters need people to act as their proxies and make survivors look at them, presumably because the monsters are intangible. And yet they still have weight (one shakes a large car and sets off its sensors), make noise (wind howling), can imitate voices (in the woods) and manipulate gravity (the way the leaves and dirt lift)?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

This seems to be the trend now in such movies - do not show the aliens and reveal as little as possible.

[–] MNRebecca (773) 6 years ago

Heh heh. I finished two hours after you. The monsters don’t turn people into psychopaths. Psychopaths are immune to the monsters. But I don’t think we are told why psychopaths choose to serve the monsters.

[–] ManToTrust (1663) 6 years ago

They are not monsters, they are demons.

[–] not_a_virus.exe (1267) 6 years ago

seriously. at least a quiet place made their monsters actually feel like a real threat. these things were just magic. whats so fun about that? all these powers, no weaknesses, can pretty much do anything they want, and are invisible? lazy as hell.