{"id":1517,"date":"2024-07-05T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:10:26","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-a-quiet-place-day-one-and-a-sort-of-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/05\/movie-pass-adventures-a-quiet-place-day-one-and-a-sort-of-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: A Quiet Place: Day One and a (sort of) milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:39,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/dogwelder&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250611231454\\\/https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/dogwelder\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 09:30:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-10 04:42:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-19 23:21:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-28 15:11:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-03 15:45:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-08 02:33:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 17:52:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-19 03:25:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-23 06:41:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 08:05:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 02:23:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 07:22:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 18:10:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-30 04:40:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-05 02:35:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 15:42:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-16 20:03:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 18:20:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 20:29:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 02:11:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 09:05:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 08:24:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 10:48:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 20:56:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 00:55:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 05:52:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 05:52:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/a-quiet-place-day-one.jpg\" alt=\"A Quiet Place: Day One movie bar\" class=\"wp-image-1518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/a-quiet-place-day-one.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/a-quiet-place-day-one-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/a-quiet-place-day-one-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First, the milestone: According to <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/dogwelder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letterboxd<\/a>, this was my 100th movie of the year. However, it counts shorts as films, and I&#8217;ve seen a bunch of those. It also counts each repeat viewing, and I had a couple of those. The actual number of full-length movies I&#8217;ve seen at least once this year is closer to 80, and the number of full-length films I had never seen before this year is around 75. Still: Close enough to celebrate. Yay for too much time at the movies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the movie: It&#8217;s fine. Lupita Nyong&#8217;o is wonderful as usual, but she can&#8217;t do anything about the inescapable challenges of making the third film in a franchise (particularly a sequel). It can&#8217;t just rehash the first movie, but it can&#8217;t add anything that contradicts it. So we get new &#8220;secret&#8221; facts about the creatures and how the government responded to the noise monsters. Some of them make sense, but others make it hard to understand why they couldn&#8217;t actually solve the problem.  Here&#8217;s the solution I came up with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<spoiler class=\"spoiler-1550155013\">Build noisy rafts.  Float them close enough to the shore that the sound monsters can get on,  then send them sailing and sink them. <\/spoiler>\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t\t\tjQuery(document).ready(function($) {\n\t\t\t\t\t$(\".spoiler-1550155013\").spoilerAlert({max : 4, partial : 2});\n\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, maybe cats are magical?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>False advertising: many places shown are quite loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}