I really like it. It’s lowkey camera trickery, but it works well.

It’s almost like these are characters in a horror movie, a genre entirely dependent on human beings not making very good choices? How many times did people go swimming in Jaws exactly?

I don’t know how you get more organic than “this is part of the thing you’re adapting.”

Sure. If we’re ignoring stupid shark things in Jaws because it makes it a better horror movie, then you can follow your own advice and lighten up about whatever stupidity you see in A Quiet Place.

It is if you know anything about sharks.

Gonna stand by it. Jaws doesn’t maintain pure terror all the way through like A Quiet Place does.

DO IT. It’s so good. Well worth nit-picking. I thought it was going to be Signs meets Jaws, but it’s actually just Jaws, and also better than Jaws.

They pretty much lack other senses, I think.

Emily Blunt in all the things!

Yup. Horror sci-fi, the oldest and most celebrated form of sci-fi.

Yeah but you still have to harvest it before it becomes inedible, especially since there aren’t any cows.

It would have rotted—corn is notoriously bad at germinating without human intervention—and it’s clearly planted in rows by a mechanical seed drill of some kind. Again, not the biggest misstep in film history, but if you’re going to bother with making sand-paths so that footsteps don’t make any noise, it’s a piece of…

No way that that corn was planted by hand, nor is it feasible to harvest by hand before the corn rots. It’s not the biggest thing problem for a movie to have by a long shot, but I had a moment where I realized they’d never get any of that food without a tractor.

I was talking about Okoye/W’Kabi’s relationship. In the final version, we get told that they’re lovers over a phone call, and then they aren’t seen together until he betrays Wakanda. So there’s a middle bit missing in that arc.

Okoye And W’Kabi Discuss the Future of Wakanda

I think this might be literally the only thing that could have brought me back to a show I have few feelings about—this is a weird-as-hell thing for spoiler culture.

Isn’t it awesome? It means that the Xenomorph Queen and Ripley are both puppets when they have their big fight—and they’re both fighting because they’re protecting their children. So they’re made into mirrored opposites.

Call me when they get the good James Cameron mecha.

But Roxane Gay?

I’ve been thinking about this all day (for some reason) and I think the answer is to call it The Avengers Tower and call it good and named.