A Quiet Place Part II 2021
Seen in the Dolby room at an AMC, the loud, big-screen return they'd been waiting for.
The Big Picture · Discussion · Review
We Went Back to the Movies to See ‘A Quiet Place Part II’! And It Rocked.
June 1, 2021/ 69 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Sean and Amanda's first trips back to an actual theater since the shutdown, then a full spoiler dive on 'A Quiet Place Part II': the bear traps, the oxygen math, whether the sequel earns its scale.
5 films across 2 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
Back at the Moviesfirst trips back since the shutdown
In the Heights 2021
Caught at a Warner Bros. lot screening room; gets its own movie-musical episode in a couple weeks.
Spiral: From the Book of Saw 2021
The eighth or ninth 'Saw' movie, not well reviewed, but a tight 93 minutes with Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson. Fun on an IMAX screen anyway.
A Quiet Place Part IIspoilers from here on
A Quiet Place Part II 2021
A prequel-cold-open into a direct pickup from the first film's cliffhanger. More alien than the original, but Krasinski keeps the scale mostly contained to one family, plus Cillian Murphy's grieving survivor and a boat chase with a mute Scoot McNairy. The oxygen-canister math for the newborn is the whole podcast's real source of anxiety. Held to theaters exclusively for 45 days before Paramount+, a shorter window than Krasinski and Emily Blunt reportedly wanted.
A Quiet Place 2018
The standalone original: five characters, a clean ending, the benchmark the sequel keeps getting measured against.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Paramount's shuffled slate Coming 2 AmericaThe Trial of the Chicago 7Without RemorseThe LovebirdsTop GunTop Gun: Maverick
Reopening comps Godzilla vs. KongTenet
Spielberg's fingerprints JawsJurassic Park
Also namechecked Brief Interviews with Hideous MenThe IrishmanCruellaF9The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do ItThe SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the RunThe Rugrats Movie
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
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