Thought this was just okay. Great idea, kind of mechanical/predictable in execution. Some nicely creepy moments, but far too restrained, overall. Wanted shunting, got TSA-dude ex machina.
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:04 (seven years ago) link
would agree that it was kinda predictable -- the only real surprise to me was that rosie was actually in on it, and not hypnotized herself. and as someone said upthread, this was the better dramatic choice
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:08 (seven years ago) link
Was fun seeing it with an appreciative opening night audience, though.
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link
Jordan PeeleVerified account @JordanPeele 8m8 minutes agoMore Btw, 'Get Out' isn't a Redbox, Vod, itunes movie. If you don't see it with the theater energy, you'll miss the full intended experience. 🙏🏾
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:12 (seven years ago) link
Agree that Rosie being involved makes more sense - not just dramatically, but thematically, too.
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
Also kind of sneakily fulfills one of my longtime horror wants: Texas Chainsaw-style murder family not as snaggletoothed rural grotesques, but rather spit-polished liberal gentry.
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:19 (seven years ago) link
A Mother Jones article even asked, “Are the U.S. dietary guidelines on milk racist?” citing a study that shows not every ethnic group, African Americans in particular, requires the three glasses of milk per day that the federal government recommends to combat osteoporosis.nobody "requires" any fucking milk, there are other ways to get calcium
― example (crüt), Thursday, March 2, 2017 9:01 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
supplemental calcium/vitamin D, milk or not, doesn't even prevent fractures in average-risk adults so this recommendation is stupid even if it's not "racist". cow's milk is basically useless calories
― k3vin k., Friday, 3 March 2017 02:43 (seven years ago) link
milk is fucking disgusting
― flappy bird, Friday, 3 March 2017 04:09 (seven years ago) link
good on creal tho
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Friday, 3 March 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
ehh
almond milk tho
― flappy bird, Friday, 3 March 2017 06:03 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/837764902798315520
dang
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 3 March 2017 20:47 (seven years ago) link
idgi
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 March 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
rose was googling "top ncaa prospects" at the end of the movie
― k3vin k., Friday, 3 March 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
Went to see this with my 12-year-old today. Hit the 11 o'clock showing, so we didn't get the full-theater effect, although there were a few voices telling him "don't go in there" when he saw the little door. I enjoyed it though. My son did too. I was actually pleasantly surprised that he didn't fade out during the first hour, since it's a little slow-building.
― how's life, Saturday, 4 March 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
This was exceptional.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 4 March 2017 23:45 (seven years ago) link
Good movie but the trailer basically gave 75% of it away, and because I go to the Alamo Drafthouse, I've seen the trailer like a dozen fuckin times
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:14 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the movie felt like the extended version of the trailer.
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:17 (seven years ago) link
that's...nevermind.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:18 (seven years ago) link
the movie didn't really hinge on the whole 'twist' tho, like I mean I still found the movie plenty unsettling even though I figured out what was about to happen halfway through.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:21 (seven years ago) link
One thing that's cool is that, even though it has a unique/transgressive subject matter, it really did have the rhythm and feel and plot devices of a traditional horror film without any winky-winky tropey-wopey Cabin in the Woods meta horseshit
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:26 (seven years ago) link
Like, take out the metaphor, and it would still be a good horror film
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:28 (seven years ago) link
yeah I did like that the humor was rooted in what was happening and not of the "lol we're laughing at ourselves SCREAM" variety
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:29 (seven years ago) link
plus as said many times making the villains a (supposedly) liberal family rather than some caricature rednecks was a nice touch.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:30 (seven years ago) link
he said that he wanted to make a really good horror film. because he loves horror films.
― scott seward, Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:30 (seven years ago) link
x-post
― scott seward, Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:31 (seven years ago) link
so in regards to their 'slave' vessels, I'm assuming the film is suggesting the family members all play a part? as at the beginning, someone in a car abducts LaKeith Stanfield.
have to give it to Rose, though, hell of an investment she has to make every time, dating guys for like 4-5 months and actually having to invest in them before selling them out.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:39 (seven years ago) link
also poor Daniel Kaluuya just has no luck with women between this and Black Mirror, eh?
Caleb Landry Jones seems to play predominately creepy characters too, between this supporting role and the part he played in The Last Exorcism
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:41 (seven years ago) link
and also Antiviral iirc
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 March 2017 06:49 (seven years ago) link
http://io9.gizmodo.com/get-out-almost-had-a-much-bleaker-ending-according-to-1792959724
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 5 March 2017 07:18 (seven years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, March 5, 2017 12:26 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i liked cabin in the woods but totally agree -- i liked how straight this was
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 5 March 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
The car was the brothers. I assume he was the one with the knight mask.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 5 March 2017 13:08 (seven years ago) link
ok but, how did his TSA friend find him at the end? or was that intentionally left as a plot hole for him to be able to make that joke?
― flopson, Sunday, 5 March 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
would think that a friend would leave an address that they're going to be at in case something goes wrong but idk.
the scene w/ Rose "acting" on the phone with TSA guy with steel, emotionless expression was classic. kind of illustrates how good she got at it.
and by acknowledging how weird her family was acting re: race, rather than pretending it wasn't happening, was easier to sucker him into trusting her...even AFTER he found those pics.
btw, did anybody catch that moment with the maid in the kitchen and Steenburgen standing next to her where she had this vacant, almost "wax figure" look on her face, like she was being 'reprogrammed'? that was beyond "fingers up your spine" to me.
I pretty much had a feeling that the help was going to be somehow connected to the souls of the dude's dead parents as soon as he said "after they died, I just couldn't let them go"...
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 March 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
― dan selzer, Sunday, March 5, 2017 8:08 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that makes sense. I guess Rose has decided getting into 5 month relationships is the stealthier way to do it.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 March 2017 15:02 (seven years ago) link
he asked 'how did you find me?' though
― flopson, Sunday, 5 March 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
yeah you're right.
I did kind of wonder about that myself but the last line was funny enough that I kinda figured "magic".
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 March 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
It's a movie
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 5 March 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
just wondering if i had missed something, cuz the rest of the movie was so tightly plotted. but i guess it was for the (very funny!) joke
― flopson, Sunday, 5 March 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
Where was the CGI deer skeleton from the trailer?!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 5 March 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, March 5, 2017 10:13 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
aw no wonder I couldn't find the details of this in the newspapers
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 March 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
deer skeleton was the scariest part of the trailer! Wtf
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 5 March 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
this is like when Tropic Thunder didn't actually have the "you make my pee pee maker tingle" line from the trailer
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 5 March 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
Lots of stuff in the trailer that weren't in the movie.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 5 March 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
saw this yesterday, was pretty great. the whooping and applause in the theater definitely was a net benefit to the experience
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
Haven't read the thread, because just saw this, and thought it was great. Maybe, I dunno, 5% too crazy? But the rest was ace, and there were all sorts of incredible beats rooted in real world horror, not fantastic stuff. I've heard all his usual comparisons - Rosemary's Baby and Stepford Wives - but I thought it was like "The Invitation" mixed with "White Dog."
I also love that the title (even though it is uttered in the movie) makes me think of the Eddie Murphy haunted house bit.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
Well, remember, she's looking for vessels for these people for life!
I liked the key exchange a lot. The way it was delivered was increasingly like a plea, he was desperate not to believe this crazy scheme.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
guess I should watch this eh
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
peer pressure, the pop narcotic.
I dislike audience participation movies aside from comedies, so i'll wait til i can watch this alone
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link