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[spoilers] A Quiet Place (Rant) (lemmy.sdf.org)
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I finally just got around to watching this, and I have a couple things on my mind...

First of all, why oh why would you have another baby, knowing that to do so puts them in danger, as well as the rest of your family?

The girl was a liability the whole time. By my count, she:

  • got her littlest brother killed
  • almost got her other brother killed at least twice
  • left her pregnant and due mother alone, during which she almost got killed
  • made choices that led to her father getting killed
  • got a raccoon killed

Cool concept, annoying characters. Where was all the sand coming from? Won't watch again.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Ridley Scott did it best in his Alien. The bugger is quite vulnerable to bullets and blades, but you really, really don't want to put a hole in it if you're either close range or trapped in a spaceship with one. And all the arsenal in the world still doesn't guarantee success if they're swarming you and using the environment to their advantage.

Making something invulnerable to weapons is an easy way out, making something so that you don't want to use weapons on it is much harder, but much more rewarding.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, acid that strongly corrosive as part of the xenomorph's circulatory system is hard to believe, but if you concede that, agreed.