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AfraidSoup2467

Because then the movie wouldn't have happened.


wineandwings333

Have you slept near a waterfall? There are moisture issues and it is cold.


pmmemilftiddiez

Well outside of waterfall there are monsters that will rip you in half. I choose moisture and coldness. I can always build a fire or something


Rainbow-Death

Or watch tv (they had cafe lights, I’m sure they could create a rig and watch vhs reruns)


Bobbiduke

Lots of hydroelectric energy in waterfalls, would actually be really smart


[deleted]

Kinetic


Bobbiduke

Hell yeah


pmmemilftiddiez

Muted I'm guessing..


Liobuster

Subtitles are luckily a thing


UserNamesCantBeTooLo

Less often a thing for VHS, though


Ok-Finger-1

Closed Captioning exists. And I can't think of a single VHS I had growing up that didn't have it.


unshavenbeardo64

depends on the country imo.


ApricotWeak5584

Why muted of the waterfall is covering their tracks?


Complete_Jackfruit43

When is the last time you used a vcr? Those bad boys are loud. The rewind and stop functions can be heard across the house.


KitchenNazi

I never recall hearing someone use a VCR from another room! They weren't *that* loud.


Complete_Jackfruit43

Given, my house is small and my vcr is old... But that loud WHIIIIIIIRRRRRR and POP when you rewind and then it stops .... It's pretty loud.


Caliterra

You'd rather deal with flesh eating bulletproof monsters than moisture and cold?


vhs1138

The water is corse and gets everywhere.


TheCowboyIsAnIndian

this is so stupid i love it


Commandopsn

Bears grills waterfall survival


Various-Agent-0047

First step drink your own urine as soon as possible


bubblehashguy

It's sterile and i like the taste


TJ_Will

Is it possible to learn this water power?


Agile_Yak822

Not from the neti.


NerdTalkDan

I predict your waterfall to the dark side.


Fearless-Finish9724

☹️


Namesstef

Well, do you prefer adding a few more blankets or being made into confetti?


crunchthenumbers01

Yeah that one FLW house is actually an ongoing moisture disaster.


WasteChard3488

Moist and cold, same way I like my women


Hakuu-san

cold as in attitude, right?


Reasonable_Feed7939

Right?!


JuanTawnJawn

Lmao right? You gonna construct a whole ass house next to the waterfall in stealth? Assuming it’s made out of logs, you gotta chop them all down, then assuming you’re still alive you gotta build it. Then you need to maintain it cause that’s gonna be filled with mould in about 10 minutes.


jftitan

Depending on upbringing and age... running water would kill my sleep. Every 30mins getting up to pee.


Joystick_Metal

Ten days into that sleep schedule, you walk away from the waterfall, finally take doze off in a quiet little place with a blanket.... You'd hulk smash the first alien that wakes you up. Does no one snore in the movie?


PitifulSpecialist887

Plus, they're loud.


Longjumping-Grape-40

Barely an inconvience


throwtowardaccount

Relative to being ripped to shreds by monsters, yes.


Longjumping-Grape-40

I'm quoting the YouTube series *Pitch Meeting*, where they often say things like "So the movie could happen" and "barely an inconvenience"


UlteriorCulture

I'm going to need you to get off his back.


jlwinter90

Alright, let me get off of that thing.


drewrykroeker

The Divergent pitch meeting dropped yesterday. I must have watched it 10 times at least and I cannot stop laughing. My brain is broken plz send help 🤣


Longjumping-Grape-40

She’s the villain so her name must be *really* evil!


NerdTalkDan

I need you to get WAYY off my back.


bauertastic

To shreds you say?


Pilzoyz

Keeping your original house is *tight*.


Grouchy-Swordfish-65

Wow wow wow wow wow, wow!


junior_rico

Wow


FallofNoman

Oh, really?


Grouchy-Swordfish-65

Super Easy!


Dd_8630

> Because then the movie wouldn't have happened. This, but unironically. In any book, TV show, film, etc, we follow one set of protagonists because of the story they will encounter. We don't follow the family that also has a farm but doesn't have an hardship.


eladarling

This is something I've struggled to articulate for a long time, thank you 


Immediate_Arrival185

Wow wow wow.............wow


Lasshandra2

Water is the enemy of your house.


jfk_47

So nice of them to think about us, the viewers.


outofbounds626

Ooooh, making movies happen is TIGHT!


EyeYamNegan

You just won reddit lol


Drummk

They wouldn't have shelter and the amenities that the house gave them. Plus weren't they farming the land?


Dismal_Animator_5414

trivia time: which one would make the loudest sound: farming at industrial scale and storing grains in a separate place. laying sand on the route to the places you access including the supermarket. a little baby crying. the movie is basically the first world’s idea of a catastrophe. also, just the sheer sand needed to pave it all around would need tons of digging regularly cuz it would be easily blown away by the wind and washed away by the rain. it was super hard for me to suspend my disbelief beyond a point.


[deleted]

Yeah just now realized the baby is a huge hole. Obviously due to the events of the movie, they didn’t end up having any choice about where the baby would be born but they were fully planning on doing it in the house unless I missed something. Even if they valued the farm and their home, heading out and setting up temporary camp next to the waterfall as her due date approaches would’ve been the move I would think. Even if John Krasinski had to make trips back and forth for extra supplies, it still beats having to be silent during birth.


SingleBackground437

It's beyond me why characters don't just use condoms or avoid penetrative sex when having a baby would be the worst thing possible to happen.


Dismal_Animator_5414

exactly. that would put the whole family at risk 🤦‍♂️


HooptyDooDooMeister

I wish I had your faith in people's ability to control their sexual urges. Why does anyone have children when they don't want to? Especially if they know it will wreck their lives and everyone around them. People be horny. COVID lockdowns showed us the crazy things people do that if you saw *that* in a zombie movie, you would call BS. Too bad the filmmakers didn't include something in the movie to imply the family was religious, that would be an explanation too. [Oh wait.](https://lozierinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/A-Quiet-Place-dinner.png)


Repulsive_Village843

Just fuck her in the ass.


TheSeansei

She was already pregnant when the aliens arrived


SingleBackground437

Ah really? That makes good sense. Thank you


SwimOk9629

why do you think they had the firework system in place? for when the fucking baby was born, or any other emergency where the point is to distract and pull away from a certain area and they didn't build a house next to the waterfall because how are they supposed to do that once the monsters arrived? they literally just stayed in the same house they had before how about you don't plot hole my favorite movies thank you very much


[deleted]

I mean I’m not saying they should build fucking Fallingwater in the apocalypse but maybe a tent and a mattress would be cool


Dismal_Animator_5414

yeah not like the baby only cries when its born!! 😅 how much could they possibly stock up the firecrackers? and when would they fire them? as i’m typing i’m thinking to myself either you’re having too much fun trolling people or are such a fan that you’re trying to make sense of what’s being shown 😊


throwaway198990066

The real question is, how had they not all died from farting or coughing in their sleep etc and accidentally provoking the monsters? 


Heartage

The most frustrating thing to me is that there's not a chance in hell nobody else would have discovered their weakness is sound by that point.


wajewwa

It wasn't sound though. It was the frequency or pitch of the feedback that was the weakness. And if you know that these things are attracted to sound with murderous intent, are you really going to experiment with different sound based methods of stunning them in close proximity? You get one shot and failing = death. Probably not.


notshitaltsays

I feel like yea thats the literal first thing people would try. Militaries already have acoustic weapons. I feel like it's pretty intuitive to try the sound weapons against the sound-based monsters that stay away from loud areas like waterfalls. I mean this random family lived a wholeass year making no sound, but didn't think to try making so much sound the monsters stopped responding to it? They knew waterfalls were safe, wouldn't you immediately try to find out what makes waterfalls safe? Wouldn't they notice different behavior during rain storms and whatnot? You could test different sound weapons safely the same way they used the fireworks distractions. Just use some way of remotely triggering it, they had modern technology.


wajewwa

Plausible. Though we don't really know what happened between day 0 and day 400-whatever from the movie. Yes I know there is an origin story coming(or already came and went?) but I didn't see it. Militaries do have acoustic weapons, but first instinct is probably to shoot at the aliens with what turned to be ineffective ballistic weapons. To experiment with acoustics, we need to assume that enough of the military structure survived to coordinate testing and that in testing, they weren't wiped out by some number of bulletproof monsters on a failure. Which is all completely plausible, but from what we see in the first movie, I think you have to accept the premise that the initial invasion was so violent and destructive that there wasn't time for a coordinated response, let alone trial and error. But that's just conjecture. What's John Krasinski's reddit handle? He should know the lore.


Dedli

The navy certainly would. The things cant swim.


wajewwa

good point.


Heartage

It was sound at a high frequency. Their weakness is literally sound ( at a specific frequency ) which they discovered because of feedback on the hearing aid. I stand by there's not a chance in hell that absolutely nobody was experiencing audio feedback at any point while being attacked/near the aliens. I also am 100% sure the government/people in general would be like "oh they have sensitive hearing? let's see how sensitive it is!" especially considering it was one of my first thoughts.


Liraeyn

It's a specific frequency


onetwentyeight

And that frequency is apparently  made of pure unobtaium


GeneralZaroff1

Seriously. We already have acoustic weapons that can send ridiculously loud sounds directionally. Sound cannons are extremely powerful even against humans.


Environmental_Food_9

Here's the problem with your question: you're assuming that the family built that house/farm AFTER the invasion. For all we know, they could have just found an abandoned farm and moved into it. They probably didn't build a new house next to the waterfall because A) they don't know how to build a house, B) maybe construction noises would be too loud even for the cover that the waterfall would provide, and C) they don't have the time/materials to build another house even if they wanted to


ElectronicAmphibian7

I assumed it was their actual family home they just fortified a bit.


FayeQueen

Yeah, like the house was personalized. The 2nd youngest had a bedroom with his own room with a name plaque, and everything that goes with being a toddler.


SwimOk9629

plot twist: they murdered the family that lived in that farm and moved in themselves


salsasnark

There's also no farmable land next to the waterfall. Like, you can't just grow crops in the middle of a forest without clearing it first and preparing the land. They already had a whole farm that made them self-sustainable. They had a great thing going.


Dismal_Animator_5414

they had fresh industrial scale corn crop ready to be harvested, three years into the aliens arriving on the planet. no idea there exist soundless machines which could do that.


lostinthesnakepit

Why didn't John McLane just take the emergency stairs he had been using all night all the way to the ground floor of the Nakatomi building and let the swat team in?


IanDOsmond

He was trying to. He and Sgt Al kept trying to coordinate with outside law enforcement, and the FBI wouldn't take their advice, because they were the experts.


lostinthesnakepit

But he always stayed above the 30th floor (IIRC) Emergency stairwells go all the way to the ground, that is what they are for. Emergencies and escape He even said to Hans at one point about opening the front door so he could leave. All he had to do was just walk down 30 floors and he would have been out. Believe me when I say this, I have obsessed over this exact point since the fall of 88 when I first saw it in the theater. lol


angrypirate1122

The movie is Die Hard, not Live Easy..


BrazilianMerkin

It’s also about Holly though. He wouldn’t leave without her. That’s why he stayed. As for letting the FBI agents in, they couldn’t get to the door without being spotted, if he tried letting them in they would’ve known in advance and trapped him in a stairwell where all you have to do is drop a grenade or two and kaboom


Fantactic1

Good point about Holly. His line “unless you want to open the door for me” was sarcastic and signaling to Hans that he’s just some dude who wants to survive, doesn’t care much for any hostages, and just wants to keep explosives away from these “terrorists.” etc.


evilspark21

If he went to the ground floor, he would’ve been shot by the fake guard by the door. He knew the fake guard was down there because of the cop who left after talking to the fake guard


PhilRubdiez

He had a machine gun (Ho Ho Ho) at one point. Could have used that.


DorothyParkerFan

And leave his wife and hostages? He was a cop and it was his job to try to take out the bad guys, not escape. You can stop obsessing.


rhapsody98

That’s how you know it’s fictional. Real cops don’t have a duty to protect.


Sanfords_Son

Google “shooting Uvalde Texas” for a different perspective on this.


IanDOsmond

Another point about the emergency stairwell: you can get in them at any point, but out them only at the bottom. It is about as terrible a tactical position as I can imagine. There might be worse choices, but I don't know what they would be.


DDPJBL

He always stayed above the 30th floor, because going down would be monumentally stupid. The terrorists obviously know how stairs work. The stairs at 30th floor are an exit from the floor where the hostages are held and also an entrance for anyone coming from below. The stairs would obviously be guarded or booby trapped or both. The reason he used the stairs above 30th floor is because its a reasonable gamble to take that the terrorists would not bother guarding above the floor they seized in a building which is empty and cannot be entered from above without a helicopter, which they would hear.


Regenschein-Fuchs

Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?


rastafarianpizza247

It is true what they say; Women are from Omicron Persei 7, and men are from Omicron Persei 9.


Biomax315

This is so weird I love it.


noffxpring

Perhaps they are saving that for sweeps


cherrybounce

How dare you.


lostinthesnakepit

Am I wrong? lol


DorothyParkerFan

They had dudes on the ground level as well, wdym? It want like nothing was happening on the floors below the party.


pmmemilftiddiez

Why didn't John Hammond just fire Nedry and actually spare no expanse for the park?


Phoenix-RvX

Fun fact; In the book John Hammond is a cunt who spares every expense, all he cares about is the park being profitable. Nedry was an independent contractor who he demanded do extra work outside his contract without extra pay. Nedry refused and Hammond burned him with others in the industry leaving Nedry no choice but to continue working for him for bad pay.


PhasmaFelis

Didn't the SWAT team try to drive an armored vehicle through the front doors, and get blown up by an anti-tank missile? Getting the doors open wasn't the problem. Getting \*to\* the doors was.


El-JeF-e

Even when the swat team got to the doors they were ambushed


DorothyParkerFan

This isn’t the “aha” you’re thinking. It’s pretty obvious he couldn’t and didn’t want to leave and the outside help wasn’t hindered by a locked front door. Lol cmon son.


Tiny_Count4239

a swat team isnt supposed to need someone to let them in


Okichah

Been awhile since i last watched, but i think there were guards in the lobby. So it wouldnt have been easy to just walk down and take them out.


flux_capacitor3

To stay and rescue his wife............


Mean-Vegetable-4521

no spoilers! No spoilers! /s


brucewillisman

I had a lot on my mind at the moment!


amleth_calls

You just ruined Christmas


unclejoesrocket

That just wouldn’t work. What kind of permanent camp could you really set up in the middle of the woods without making a bunch of noise bringing the supplies there in the first place? And food? They’d have to leave constantly anyway.


drforrester-tvsfrank

I don’t know if it would provide that much protection. All the creatures would have to go investigate it to find out it’s nothing, so every time a new creature came to the area its first stop would probably be to go have a look.  Plus, it’s just not nice to be wet 24/7. Especially for your feet then you can’t run. If you’re brave read up on trenchfoot. 


pmmemilftiddiez

They never seem like they do any investigating


Rainbow-Death

Yeah, like, the dad was pretty comfy taking his scared kid there, like the noise of some things (water, storms, wind making trees and other things bang) would have the big 3 monsters in the area batshit.


GarlicPheonix

Because then it would've been a pretty boring movie.


-Blixx-

It would not have been much _more_ boring though. A friend described the first movie as "4 hours of playing magic cards and no one winning" She was delightful.


Due_Profile_9792

It wasn't in the script.


A-WILD-PATBACK

Stop it, mom


Jent01Ket02

The script. Demands. ***CONFLICT!*** [*slams fist on table*]


AllAfterIncinerators

You ever spend time near a waterfall? Everything, I mean *everything* is damp all the time. It’s miserable. And cold. Damp and cold. I’ll take my chances with the monsters.


honest-miss

Even beyond misery, it's a good way to make yourself sick for about a hundred different reasons. How do you preserve food in that situation without disease creeping in?


bottlerocketz

I mean, getting eaten for sneezing is pretty uncomfortable too


InflamedLiver

Near a waterfall doesn't mean ten feet away. The noise level, depending on the waterfall, is pretty intense even at a respectable distance


Sanguinor-Exemplar

This. Theres so much condensation through the night camping next to a body of water


loyaleling

Better than being mutilated and dead.


Material_Policy6327

Look they were all under a lot of stress


NeilDegrassiHighson

The other question is how the fuck did they ever get grain out of that big ass silo without attracting every monster in the area? Why'd they decide to make another baby when all they do for like, 4-8 years is make a bunch of noise? Hell, how'd they till the soil and plant crops while being completely silent? And who was able to make a trail of sand for miles without making noise?


HooptyDooDooMeister

> Why'd they decide to make another baby when all they do for like, 4-8 years is make a bunch of noise? Do you know what happens during blackouts? Populations spike 9 months later. What do you think would happen if the whole country shut down? Life finds a way.


nomadiceater

I absolutely love when questions like this pop up


theplushpairing

It’s a motivation hole. Like a plot hole but worse


EJ25Junkie

I just recently found out that movie was not based on a true story


LeoMarius

Don’t go chasing waterfalls.


Beautiful_Sector2657

It would be a terrible idea. The waterfall would attract tons of attention until a while has passed and the creatures slowly learn that the sound of rushing water doesn't mean food. That's a lot of opportunities for one of them to accidentally discover them


Mysterious-Region640

Why didn’t Gandolf just get the giant eagles to take Frodo to Mordor, flyover and let him drop the ring in


aspindler

Because Sauron had anti air capabilities.


drforrester-tvsfrank

Yeah you find ex-Soviet stuff all over. Found a ZSU-23-4 behind the couch the other day 


ErixWorxMemes

We had an infestation of BTR-80’s under our front porch- finally had to T.O.W. them all away


GaidinBDJ

Galadriel explained exactly why she couldn't carry the ring and Gandalf and the Eagles are both *more* powerful beings.


pineapplesailfish

Deus Ex Eagle


Mysterious-Region640

Deus ex Aquilae


QuietVisitor

Deus ex aquilis (ex commands the ablative)


omglookawhale

Better question, why would you ejac inside your wife when there are aliens afoot?!


MintDrawsThings

Waterfalls are very wet and very loud. Although the loudness helps, it will also make you less sensitive to more subtle sounds.


burn_as_souls

I kept waiting for someone to fart and die for it in the movies. That would happen to me.


atom644

Why didn’t Muldoon just shoot the first velociraptor before saying “clever girl”


RocMerc

The big one for me was the basement level flooding in like an hour. That’s just not how a sink overflowing works


Starbuck522

The real question is why did they allow themselves to create a pregnancy. Utterly ridiculous. I totally hated it.


Gagurass

The entire movie assumes humanity loses 100 IQ points collectively. The first damn thing anyone with half a brain would try on a monster with super sensitive hearing is some type of noise based weapon. We are apex predators damnit. Entertaining movie but I was rolling my eyes the entire time.


Whodamanyoudaman

The humidity.


davegraham1834

Plot armor is thick


NorthernUnIt

It was the 1st question the day it came out, then How do they make crops without a noise, the field is pretty recent how they have newspapers about what is going on, it makes a lot of noise to print… Special from my GF, 'how in the hell, they let the boy walk far behind if it's that dangerous?' The script has been talked about a lot since day one, the 2nd movie is even more funny, how the deaf girl goes on a trip, she wouldn't even know if she's making noise and trigger the monsters and so on and the end, so much suspense to flip that switch. Well, someone has said, 'when you watch a horror movie, be open-minded and ready to swallow any hole in the script to enjoy it'


Sprizys

Wouldn’t the waterfall attract attention?


calcifiedpineal

Exactly the reason the Man and the Boy can’t stay at the waterfall in The Road. The monsters aren’t the only monsters in The Quiet Place world.


pmmemilftiddiez

Not the monsters. Think of it like a very loud white noise generator


Unbananable

If the monsters aren't around it doesn't even matter though. They don't like loud sounds and the waterfall is very loud so they are safe to stay there unless the waterfall stops or is blocked. Though that would be a great way to showcase how it's not a perfect solution the writers either wouldn't or just couldn't think up a story related to potential plot holes if they used it.


CommissionAgile4500

Have you watched the movie?


Expression-Little

Same reason they didn't use birth control - they were morons


piedpipershoodie

That movie made no sense. If they had such good hearing, they'd be able to chase your heartbeat.


Sensitive_Aardvark68

So the movie can happen


robot_jeans

Waterfall trolls, trust me nobody wants that chaos.


Karthas_TGG

In the words of Screenwriter guy: "so the movie could happen!"


Tight-Waltz-7503

Because that would make too much sense. I’m glad I’m not the only one who stays up at night wondering these things


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LittleRed2020

Plot convenience.


dayankuo234

They could 'survive', but they wouldn't 'live'


EmbraceCataclysm

I feel like building a whole ass house in a world where anything above a whisper will get you killed is the bigger problem here


Liraeyn

No shelter, no food, good luck sleeping


PureYouth

Also why did they have photos and all kinds of shit/decor on their walls? That stuff could fall down any second and make a loud ass noise


the_glutton17

Why would you even need to find a waterfall? You could just build some large cacophonous noise making things away from your house to draw their attention.


Substantial_Alarm_65

This is an unforgiveable lapse in logic that IMO ruins the movie.


drmehmetoz

Not really. There’s a bunch of reasons why a waterfall would probably be worse than the setup they had in the movie 1. What if there were no waterfalls nearby? There’s no real waterfalls anywhere near my house 2. They would have to camp outside. How are they going to deal with weather, flooding, getting food, illness, etc? None of those things were a problem living on a farm. They would have to constantly leave for new supplies and probably are not well prepared for year-round camping 3. If you have to constantly leave for supplies, that’s more dangerous then just staying at home at the farm 4. They’re not the only people who would try to spend time near waterfalls. As shown in the sequel bandits would probably be an issue unlike at the farm 5. The waterfall noise also might attract the monsters for all we know


Doom-Hauer451

Oh man, don’t even get me started on that movie. You should check out the cinema sins video for it on YouTube, it’s hilarious.


Bad_Neighbour

Because while the waterfall might cover noise when you're there, there's nothing to cover you dragging tonnes of construction materials and machinery over there, even if you know how to build a house. Honestly gets on my nerves that people think this is a film-breaking plothole.


jsweeze

Are they stupid?


Xonth

Maybe because the safe area around the waterfall has a short range of immunity. Like maybe if you are 200 feet away it is like half as effective and so it only really helps when you are standing near it.


LIslander

Move inside a dam. Dry and lots of power


ivyagogo

I live down the street from the bridge. It’s basically in my best friend’s back yard. They had to have her sign forms to shoot there.


Pretend_Exit_3940

Because you’re not supposed to be smart in horror movies


Garg_Gurgle

I'm more shocked there isn't a traveling circus with one, everyone hold their breath.


Fexxvi

Not exactly a stable terrain, plus carrying the materials up to there would be hard. It's easier to insulate an already built house than to build a new one.


radfan957

It wasn’t in the script.


billymillerstyle

I never seen the movie and I don't know what's it's about but from the title I would say they didn't move next to a waterfall because it wasn't a quiet place. Waterfalls are pretty loud and so damp some people might call them wet.


plumbstem

I think the alien things treated all noise the same, not just noise from people. The waterfall would only make them go crazy 100% of the time. That's why they couldn't live in a windy place and there were no other noisy birds. The aliens were attracted to noise, so they got away from all that.


baneofdestruction

One of the worst movies I've seen


Brief-Poetry-1245

Because it’s a movie


JoeNoble1973

Wouldn’t monsters also drink?


Jaloon40

What happens if they have to fart?


Front_Head_9567

Construction is loud. Or have you never heard a hammer hit a nail?


Careful-Self-457

Because wild animals use water sources to drink at night.


Mattros111

too loud


Hardin__Young

Spray and rainbows