A Stupid Place

Rating: 1/10 (8 June 2018)

The basic premise of this movie is some aliens or creature (or something) gets loose on Earth, the creature is super fast and kind of resembles the Licker from Resident Evil, and hunts by sound only, which is super sensitive. Kind of a cool idea, right? It's been done before and done well (read towards end of this review)
The problem with the movie is it's just TOO far fetched, and that's not about the idea, but the characters actions and the environment itself. My major issue with the movie is the Monsters' ONLY sense is sound and namely how that plays into the World they're brought into. They have no smell, no eyes, no heat or echolocation, etc. Just sound. Sound is one of the easiest things to manipulate, humans are absolute pros at doing it, and when things have no smell or eyesight we generally consider that thing disabled or do the humane thing and kill it.
Hell we already have developed various sound tools like an LRAD for military combat straight down to basic stuff like dog whistles. Our military and even civilians have been using sound to manipulate enemies/threats for YEARS. Straight down to THROWING A ****ING ROCK!
*** On a side note, when are we going to see a movie where HUMANS are the evil alien? We heal fast, we eat anything, we have excellent vision/hearing, are intelligent, can blow off our limbs and we keep going, we are pursuit predators, attach various metals/plastic to our bodies for increased combat/mobility effectiveness, etc. This movie should've been about US invading a planet with a mom and dad noise alien and their 3 noise alien kids, and they have to use ultra noise detection to try and hide from us ***
Why is this a problem? Because it basically portrays that these things have wiped out our military and are posing a MAJOR threat to the survival of our race (news clippings, no contact with anyone outside of Lord of the Rings tower lighting, etc.). The family has electricity, food, tons of things at their disposal (even shotguns) yet they use fireworks for distractions, don't set traps using sound, etc.? Don't get me started on PC message: "Women are strong too" and "Men must sacrifice themselves for their family!" and "Disabled people can do STRONG things!" etc. We get it PC Hollywood. Whatever.
Emily Blunt's character might be the most selfish annoying self absorbed ***** in movie history. She ignores her daughter and only seems to spend time with the other son and then gets selfishly pregnant because the 3rd son died, which ultimately puts the other 2 kids + husband in jeopardy. Then puts the guilt trip on the husband to save the 2 kids after she dumps out said spawn. I love when she's crying and saying how she wishes they were better parents. Jeez I dunno, how about NOT HAVING ANOTHER SCREAMING/ZERO AWARENESS FOR 5 YEARS CROTCH TROPHY TO SAVE THE TWO YOU HAVE ALIVE!
Everything is so rushed and unbelievable you stop caring. The film is littered with various plotholes (how do they grow corn, how do they harvest it, how do they have electricity which makes no noise, what happens when you have explosive diarrhea or rip a huge fart in your sleep, what happens when you get nightmares or experience pain (screaming sometimes is involuntary - just like hmm I dunno PREGNANCY), why aren't you setting up speakers with waterfall noise by the house (they have a ton of tech it seems) etc). But oh no no... they use cloth for chess pieces... yep, advanced people here.
I mean as impractical as the aliens were, I was rooting for them to kill off the family. I honestly thought at the end it was going to be some futuristic sci fi thing where new parents are dropped into a biodome and observed by the government/military and they have to survive for like 3 years and if they do they are allowed back into society. Like the end would be some top government agent at the control panel saying: "Clearly not intelligent enough for modern society. Mark the Abbott family as terminated." "It is done, ma'm, every other family is still alive."
I'm sure someone will read this and think, "OK, so tell me how you would've done it then smart guy." I don't have to, there was a movie that was done years ago with basically the same concept that was FAR better and COMPLETELY believable since the environment, monster, character and their reactions based on the resources at hand.
TREMORS (spoilers alert below). Yep. Go watch that film.
Whatever. Rotten Tomatoes is showing some 85% or 95% critic review and somehow this site is showing stuff in the 8s... I swear to God audiences are simply dumb these days.