get out (2017, dir. jordan peele)

so this was good! just a very well-constructed thriller that synthesizes a lot of established works in horror and suspense that also function as allegories about racism (included in peele's recent bam showcase were night of the living dead and candyman) or are just total showcases of conspiracy and dread (imo stepford wives and the '70s invasion of the body snatchers are present, and the finale feels like an inverse funny games in the best possible way) into a movie that's also literally about racism, appropriation, miscegenation, microaggression, etc. hard to determine if this is necessarily a trend or just an observation about horror movies recently finding non-traditional audiences, but it feels potentially like a horror movie that people who don't watch horror movies will like a la babadook/it follows etc. but feels stronger than most of those bc the metaphor, though just as transparent, is much richer. (it's also a pretty funny movie, like there is literally a character who serves entirely as comic relief.) at first i was sort of underwhelmed with the cinematography, everything felt kinda drained of color (maybe on purpose) but about halfway through it settles into some very pretty kubrickian asymmetries. the score also rules

this was surprisingly controversial in my circles. I really enjoyed it. the cast is great. with some very smart casting choices I won't get into for reasons.

i really liked it. great job of building tension, really creepy performances (especially the groundskeeper and maid but also all the party guests). my main quibbles were i could have done without the comic relief (dude was funny but the tonal shifts whenever he appeared were abrupt) and it kind of falls apart in the action scenes a bit (but this is a very common issue with high-concept horror/thriller movies).

currently sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, guess I should go see it

are we doing spoilers on this thread or no

I think we probably should

actually scratch my babadook/it follows categorization upthread, the recent horror film this resembles most is the invitation imo

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what was funniest to me is that it very closely parallels the not as good A Cure for Wellness which came out the previous week - our hero hits a deer, then ends up in an idyllic, very white place where everyone is freakishly content, led by a friendly patriarch, discovers the seamy underbelly (and in both cases the truth evokes creepy eugenics shit and racial pseudoscience), there's a supernatural dimension to both revelations, the hero is rendered immobile during a key expository sequence, in the end the hero gets out alive with the help of their only ally after killing off the mad scientist and burning the place to the ground

obviously a lot of those are just general genre touchstones but there were some amusing similarities to me

one of the best theater going experiences I've had in years. multiple applause breaks, cheering, people cracking jokes and the crowd laughing at them, total silence when it was tense.... an amazing experience, and a great great movie.

my audience's reaction to the cop car pulling up was profound

i feel like i've seen a bunch of horror/thriller movies that start with the hero hitting an animal with their car (including the aforementioned "the invitation"). i think it's a new cliche. but it works well with the backstory in this case.

can't think of direct precedents for some reason but it is definitely not a new cliche

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it was pretty tightly plotted, but i wasn't sure why he kept asking rose for the car keys even after he knew she was involved in the plot. maybe he thought she was just hypnotized too, but even then, why would she be able to give him the keys?

my audience's reaction to the cop car pulling up was profound

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, February 27, 2017 3:02 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUDE. it was incredible

and then "man I told you not to go up there," roaring laughter

Horror is not my genre, esp the gory kind, so I'll hold off til i can watch this at home. If yer not in NYC you may want to replicate this Peele-programmed series:

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/jordan-peele

this is really not very violent/gory fwiw (esp by contemporary standards), about as violent as say Under the Skin (which it echoes in some pretty specific ways)

there's only one particularly gooey scene

yeah it's certainly not DON'T BREATHE, the last horror movie i saw theatrically. awful, way too gross...

...though frankly that also had one incredible moment of audience reaction

If yer not in NYC you may want to replicate this Peele-programmed series:

... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?!

well there's obviously an influence/spin there.

besides the more obvious touchstones in his series it reminded me a little of those oddball suburban paranoia horror flicks of the late 80s like Society and Parents (albeit less eccentric)

or the original Stepfather

the parents reminded me of the parents in HEATHERS ("Oh, you.")

There's a reason why The 'Burbs is included.

it feels potentially like a horror movie that people who don't watch horror movies will like

True in my case.

I loved it.

SPOILERD

the asking Rose for the keys thing...at that point I thought it was still possible that she was hypnotized, like maybe she keeps bringing people home and then is hypnotized to forget it. I wasn't sure until the final twist. With hindsight, her not being in on it doesn't make nearly as good a story.

And the cop car showing up at the end was great, I was at a pretty empty showing but that was the loudest it got, and a fun play on the Night of the Living Dead ending.

I am not a horror movie guy, but if more were like this, I would be converted easily. Key & Peele fans will be gratified if not surprised that this works so well. If you are this insightful at working an audience for both laughs and terror, you've got some formidable talent.

lmao http://www.thewrap.com/armond-white-ruins-get-out-100-rotten-tomatoes-jordan-peele/

hahahaha classic

White wrote of Peele’s film: “‘Get Out’ does not rank with America’s notable race comedies — Brian De Palma’s ‘Hi, Mom!’, Ossie Davis’s ‘Gone Are the Days! (Purlie Victorious)’, Robert Downey Sr.’s ‘Putney Swope,’ Melvin Van Peebles’s ‘Sweet Sweetback’, Hal Ashby’s ‘The Landlord,’ Rusty Cundieff’s ‘Fear of a Black Hat,’ or any of the genre spoofs by the Wayans family, … or the recent Eddie Murphy films that are so personal and ingenious, they transcend racial categorization.”

Still taking this in.

So I had to double check and yes, he DID love Norbit:

http://www.nypress.com/norbit-well-fat-suited/

lol @ Armond calling "Sweet Sweetback" a "comedy"

it's that among other things

ppl caring about perfect RT scores -- ah internet + movies = DOOMSDAY

Whites review was ridiculous in many ways regardless.

I fucking hate rotten tomatoes so much

I just read Armond's pan of Fences, which RT somehow lists as "fresh"

congrats to armond on managing to write something dumb and grossly offensive even by the standards of national review

I loved this. the comedy was great. I feel like Peele's plot developments were a bit familiar (I mean it was v similar to the plot of that shit movie The Skeleton Key which wasn't exactly original when it came out) but twists weren't the point really.

I liked the cheesy over the top horror moments like the evil latin music while Bradley Whitford was ...uhh....doing something that I won't reveal.

not really 'scary' but I'm hard to scare so I'm not a good metric for that

one of the best theater going experiences I've had in years. multiple applause breaks, cheering, people cracking jokes and the crowd laughing at them, total silence when it was tense.... an amazing experience, and a great great movie.

― flappy bird, Monday, February 27, 2017 2:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah the audience was howling at the TSA guy throughout. it was one of the few times I enjoyed being in a packed theatre.

i really liked this a lot. there were echoes of a lot of other horror films (one that kept coming to mind was "house of the devil," which had a similar scene where the main character has an important revelation through stumbling on some old photographs) but it all felt surprising and fresh. i saw it a couple days ago and i'm still thinking about it a lot, which is unusual for me.

spoiler

rose's sudden change was really chilling, she dragged that scene out just long enough where i genuinely wasn't sure whether she was in on it or not, and then that ice-cold delivery of that single line: "you know i can't give you the keys." creepiest scene in the movie for me.

yeah I loved that. I was fairly certain given the reveal a moment prior but her transition (and then her subsequent acting job on the phone call) were chilling.

her "you were my favorite" and kiss blow too.

*one of my favorites

that was the creepiest line for me

her not noticing the commotion due to listening to (I've Had) the Time of My Life on headphones was funny as hell too

Speaking of Eddie Murphy the film's title is taken from this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IH6IeiLtts

This was so good.

the Jeffrey Dahmer sequence w/ the TSA guy is perhaps the most I've laughed in a movie theatre in eons. the whole theatre was roaring to where I almost couldn't hear dialogue.

kind of nice to see horror with actual comedy as the moments of levity rather than the stilted laughs you typically see in horror films.

this movie is soooo good

a whole article on that milk scene http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-get-out-milk-horror-jordan-peele-allison-williams-20170301-story.html

actually scratch my babadook/it follows categorization upthread, the recent horror film this resembles most is the invitation imo

― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Monday, February 27, 2017 1:19 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in many ways, yes, but not quite tonally similar -- no laughs in the invitation

anyway this fuckin ruled, so so good

i was all set to see it solo (as, like, the only guy in the theater the ticket guy told me) but then a row of college students sat behind me. at first i was annoyed because they were chatty but then once the movie started they actually improved it. relieved laughs at the comedy, silence when it was tense, hollers when it was scary.

this is not a knock but: the whole thing really felt like a K&P sketch elongated and taken seriously.

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

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.

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

Was fun seeing it with an appreciative opening night audience, though.

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Agree that Rosie being involved makes more sense - not just dramatically, but thematically, too.

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.

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

milk is fucking disgusting

good on creal tho

ehh

almond milk tho

https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/837764902798315520

dang

idgi

rose was googling "top ncaa prospects" at the end of the movie

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.

This was exceptional.

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

Yeah, the movie felt like the extended version of the trailer.

that's...nevermind.

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.

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

Like, take out the metaphor, and it would still be a good horror film

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

plus as said many times making the villains a (supposedly) liberal family rather than some caricature rednecks was a nice touch.

he said that he wanted to make a really good horror film. because he loves horror films.

x-post

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.

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

and also Antiviral iirc

http://io9.gizmodo.com/get-out-almost-had-a-much-bleaker-ending-according-to-1792959724

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, 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

The car was the brothers. I assume he was the one with the knight mask.

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?

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"...

The car was the brothers. I assume he was the one with the knight mask.

― 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.

would think that a friend would leave an address that they're going to be at in case something goes wrong but idk.

he asked 'how did you find me?' though

yeah you're right.

I did kind of wonder about that myself but the last line was funny enough that I kinda figured "magic".

It's a movie

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

Where was the CGI deer skeleton from the trailer?!

It's a movie

― 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

deer skeleton was the scariest part of the trailer! Wtf

this is like when Tropic Thunder didn't actually have the "you make my pee pee maker tingle" line from the trailer

Lots of stuff in the trailer that weren't in the movie.

Lots of stuff in the trailer that weren't in the movie.

saw this yesterday, was pretty great. the whooping and applause in the theater definitely was a net benefit to the experience

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.

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.

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.

guess I should watch this eh

peer pressure, the pop narcotic.

I dislike audience participation movies aside from comedies, so i'll wait til i can watch this alone

it's a comedy!!

That's not what a lot of reviews say!

(ie horror with a comedic edge)

You're a horror with a comedic edge.

peer pressure, the pop narcotic.

keep sucking the helium of those Dennis Perrin tweets, pops

fuck movies

honestly to me it's the opposite, the horror (while very real) is very situational and based on the awkward/difficult social situations chris finds himself in, which are almost always played up for laughs

fuck movies

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3:37 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't love "rap music" i love "hip hop"

xpost Yeah, there are not many scares and there's not much blood or anything, but there is a general air of uneasy intensity rooted in character interaction, which is amplified by real world issues of race.

So I think definitely falls closer to the "satire" end of the spectrum.

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

not really true! whole milk has protein, fat, b vitamins

i mean "useless calories" part

sorry i haven't even seen this film yet i don't know why i am commenting. i should "get out"

can't think of much i care less about than what ALS and morbz think of this movie

Re: a bleaker ending, I was convinced that (remember there are SPOILERS IN THIS THREAD AND IN THIS POST):

When the car pulled up at the end it would be the cop from the beginning, who would then shoot him, a la Night of the Living Dead.

Milk is pretty gross as an adult, but (fortified) milk and potatoes alone can provide you with enough nutrition, at least for a while.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2828/could-i-survive-on-nothing-but-potatoes-and-milk

can't think of much i care less about than what ALS and morbz think of this movie

― na (NA), Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:58 PM (fourteen minutes ago)

just you wait!

i predict that alfred is lightly impressed but unenthusiastic and morbs starts another thread about a spielberg movie

btw i like this movie less the more i think about it (it really, really doesn't function as a "horror," why all the cutaways during the climax, etc.) but still glad it exists

It was (imo) basically like an episode of Black Mirror if Black Mirror was good.

but what is "horror"?

idk man it's like a feeling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94

...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.

75% crazy enough, imo. The low-key, unsettling, real world horror supplies about 80 minutes of creepy-funny build-up, but the final act plays things a bit too safe.

Feel the same way about the ending, Peele offered up some alternate endings that might have been more transgressive, less crowd pleasing

The more I think about it the more ridiculous it is (spoilers): if Grandma and mad genius grandpa had their brains or essence or whatever transferred to two new people, why would they want to spend their extended and/or reincarnated lives doing menial labor as maids and workmen, especially surrounded by people who know exactly what they did? Didn't bother me at the time so it doesn't really hurt my take-away, but still. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a throwaway line in there I missed or can't remember, referencing Grandpa's all-enveloping love doing yard work or Grandma's love of taking care of people. Or something like that.

Why would a Grandmother want to spend her time making ice tea and serving it to her kids and grandkid? Why would a grandfather, who'd been an athlete in the 30s, want to spend time doing manual labor flexing a strong young body? Sounds like what my grandparents would be doing. We also don't know how much was an act for Chris. There's a moment when the party starts where "grandpa" is greeting the guests and they hug in way that struck me as more friendly than you'd expect from the "help".

And Morbs, just go see the movie already. We saw it opening weekend at the theater in Astoria in the early afternoon and the theater was empty.

Xpost Good point! Also, they were all mad scientist lunatics, so that seems like an OK motivating factor by itself.

Sorry, it's a terrible compulsion: how did he get the cotton in his ears?

Wait, never mind, he could chew on his wrists so he could make it down/up there.

So many little things it looks like I didn't even catch. Like, weird flaw or not, he was literally saved by picking cotton! Or even though I recognized the background "a mind is a terrible thing to waste" infomercial, for some reason I forgot it was for the United Negro College Fund, which makes it even more clever/insidious.

I thought that by removing the cotton he loosened the bindings enough to squeeze his hands out and back in.

His head could reach the bonds so I assume he could reach down and insert the cotton in his ears.

^^^ that

i was a little annoyed that he took the cotton out when he did though because like duh the mom was still out there with her teacup, dude

sooooo fuckin good

this was well worth breaking a 15-month streak of no movies in the theater.

i'm glad allison williams was game for this role, i don't know of many other actresses who could have flipped on the ice queen switch so effortlessly.

allison williams is a p great actress tbh

i had no idea. like everyone else in this, she was perfectly cast for the role

This was terrific until the predictable if satisfying ending

^^ 100% agreed, though i think it was the right decision to end on an up note

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),

he looks like a young pre-AA Steve Bannon

i didn't think the ending was predictable at all!

i think it was the right decision to end on an up note

― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:25 AM (forty-five minutes ago

it's undoubtedly helped the film's word of mouth / box office

yeah i was fully expecting the cops to shoot him or for him to go to jail or something, evil prevails, etc

well the great thing about the ending is that the movie has its cake and eats it too -- it gets the big payoff of a happy ending while also giving you the momentary horror of a cop showing up to see a black man next to a white woman in distress, and i think that's really all the ending really needed to work. the movie ending with chris being shot or arrested would have felt macabre and unnecessary given what he had just gone thru. also i think there's a nice subtle message in the end about being absolved not by authority but by your friends.

in a sense i think you could almost think about the movie having two endings w/o there actually being an "alternate ending" or whatever. it forces you to ruminate on what would have happened had a real cop showed up in that moment w/o actually having to show it on screen.

one thing i really liked about this movie is that it was laugh out loud funny w/o resorting to being meta or ironic about the genre conventions of horror films. allison williams searching "top NCAA prospects" had me howling in the theater.

in a sense i think you could almost think about the movie having two endings w/o there actually being an "alternate ending" or whatever. it forces you to ruminate on what would have happened had a real cop showed up in that moment w/o actually having to show it on screen.

― J0rdan S., Saturday, March 18, 2017 12:25 PM (three minutes ago)

this is a great point, one i hadn't really considered

Not sure it's a happy ending! He's still covered in blood and is responsible for three deaths. I'm not sure how he talks his way out of it, even with a TSA pal.

I was the only person who laughed at the NCAA joke. My audience was uncomfortable through most of it.

well it's certainly a happier ending than the alternative. and if cops went to the house they'd find the surgery room in the basement, they'd track down the missing friend previously dismissed in the movie and be able to snap him out of hypnotization etc. it's entirely plausible chris comes out the other end as the hero.

Watching Chris standing over the body of a dying white woman, I thought about Eric Foner's Reconstruction, which I finished last Wednesday and its recounting of what happened to black men accused of murdering a white woman.

that NCAA joke, complete with creepy geometric Kubrick-esque framing, had me dying

So many other subtle things people have pointed out to me. Like, I didn't get it at the time, even in immediate retrospect, that all the guests were sizing him up for their own selfish purposes. Do you play golf? You must be great in bed. With the right training you could be a MMA guy. And so on. And that's why they were bidding. I know, obvious, but at the time, like I said, just seemed like more weirdness. The brainwashed guy he recognized, for example, in passing it's noted that he was a prominent jazz musician. I wonder if that is why he was chosen?

The more I think about it, the more I think the happy ("happy") ending is in a sense an ironic subversion of expectations.

The "you're leaving...without me *sob*" moment a brilliant piece of strategy in that he is clearly considering it cos "NO relationship is worth THIS" but she wins him back to where he "realizes" that 'you're all i got'.

Of course that to me makes the ending a lot sadder. It's true for him to the point where he can't even kill her after she tried to blow his head off. These "she's not what you think" movies often forget to consider that after the protag has escaped, he has to process the end of a serious relationship too. This one didn't labor on that but it was there.

it's funny when people act like peele copped out by not having chris get killed by a cop at the end when that's already basically the ending of the most famous horror movie with a black protagonist and that one was made 50 years ago

in mentioning the film's overall predictability (subtleties notwithstanding) and somewhat disappointing ending, I'm not referring to the last few minutes, but rather the whole third act. it's suspenseful, well acted and clever, but i wanted things to get a whole lot wilder. like society-style. i mean, even the relatively staid rosemary's baby goes farther, gets weirder. but my tastes in horror don't square with peele's aims and certainly wouldn't have helped the film's commercial prospects...

xp i was straight up afraid he was gonna do that ending as I watching it! really glad he didn't

He originally did.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/get-out-almost-had-a-much-bleaker-ending-according-to-1792959724

it's amazing how many npr-ish white people i know went to see/can't wait to see Get Out and i know for a fact they would never go see a horror movie otherwise in a million years. it's the white liberal feel good movie of the season! i mean my father-in-law's wife really wants to see it and she hates horror movies with a passion. she hates most popular things. she's nice though. she once asked me why people watch horror movies.

I think there was a concerted PR effort to convince non-horror film fans to see it. I think there are indeed just a lot of horror films people don't see because they're horror films, and while it might have taken NPR to convince them to see a movie because it's Important Satire About the Way Things Are, I think it also took NPR and its adjuncts to convince people to see something marketed as a horror movie, period. I mean, even the trailer doesn't exactly make Get Out look like anything other than a typical horror movie.

yeah i wasn't originally interested in seeing it

it's almost like "a horror movie" is incredibly poor shorthand for what it is

That's how it was marketed and advertised, though.

and anyone who did three seconds of reading about it came to realize that there was more going on

Reading? I think you're thinking of a different medium. We have movies so we don't have to read.

The trailer made this look absolutely ridiculous, but people seem to love it

it's almost like "a horror movie" is incredibly poor shorthand for what it is

― call all destroyer, Saturday, March 18, 2017 8:39 PM (forty-two minutes ago)

horror's a broad genre, especially these days. get out fits in pretty comfortably.

i'm not very invested in horror movies as a genre, but the trailer for this (which i saw months ago) piqued my interest immediately. (i *am* a fan of david lynch and rosemary's baby, though.)

btw, there was a group of late-middle-age NPR-ish white people behind me in the theater, one of whom quipped as the end credits rolled: "guess the moral of the story is, stay away from the in-laws!"

well the great thing about the ending is that the movie has its cake and eats it too -- it gets the big payoff of a happy ending while also giving you the momentary horror of a cop showing up to see a black man next to a white woman in distress, and i think that's really all the ending really needed to work. the movie ending with chris being shot or arrested would have felt macabre and unnecessary given what he had just gone thru ... in a sense i think you could almost think about the movie having two endings w/o there actually being an "alternate ending" or whatever. it forces you to ruminate on what would have happened had a real cop showed up in that moment w/o actually having to show it on screen.

― J0rdan S., Saturday, March 18, 2017 3:25 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM

yeah

yeah the trailer definitely made me want to see it, knowing that Peele directed helped a lot, too - but I never would've seen it if I hadn't gone to the only theater around here that plays horror movies regularly (stuff like Don't Breathe, The Bye Bye Man, etc.). Glad I saw it on opening weekend, wouldn't have known about it otherwise.

I dug this, Partially because it was uncanny as fuck particularly in that 70s way that they don't really do anymore.

I wonder what Mark Fisher would have written about it.

According to IMDb:

Keegan-Michael Key, who is known for collaborating with Jordan Peele, portrays one of the "Top NCAA Prospects" that Rose searches online for.

Also, the music/scoring in this was dope and I hope it gets more attention.

Don't have much to add to what everyone's already said other than what a headfuck that the first music we hear is Flanagan and Allen, such an unlikely, perfect introduction.

saw this again yesterday. just as dope second time around. didn't notice much additional the second time other than the "help" had very visible, pronounced brain surgery scars at the end that weren't visible earlier in the movie, which I didn't notice the first time.

no creepier scene to me than the bingo scene tho

They all wore hats or wigs

not saying it was continuity issue, just that I figured either they concealed it earlier in the film or that somehow Chris just was hypnotized out of seeing it.

"concealed" like w/ makeup or wigs as you say etc etc

this movie was great. clever how so much of the horror movie tension of the first half was just racial tension. I saw it in a full theater here in Vietnam and almost none of the jokes got laughter, but I guess a lot of it relies on knowing the racial climate of the US. in fact, it's kind of a weird movie to make it into theaters here except that it's ostensibly a horror movie, and those are very popular in Vietnam

That's an absolutely fascinating take. Really! I wonder if that's how it's playing out elsewhere in Asia. So horror is a big Vietnamese thing, you say?

yeah Ned, we get pretty much every horror, action, or animated film from the US. Those types of movies tend to translate well across cultures. Horror films are very popular here, and I think in other Asian countries too (Korean horror films play here frequently).

occasionally we get dramas and comedies like Hell or High Water - theater was empty was I saw that - and Dumb and Dumber 2. American movies are competing against Vietnamese, Korean, and Chinese movies here so I think the stuff that requires more cultural knowledge of the US tends to be rare. Which makes Get Out pretty unusual, but hey, I feel lucky that I got to see it here

i wasn't sure why he kept asking rose for the car keys even after he knew she was involved in the plot.

I feel like if you're in a relationship with someone it's super-hard to believe that they've been lying to you! I read this as: he's hoping against hope that, despite what he knows, she actually truly cares for him and will save him in his hour of need, the whole thing couldn't have been completely fake -- could it??

yeah the tension in his voice there wasn't just "i'm being threatened by your parents and doofy looking brother", it was also 'please don't betray me too, Rose'

he's probably hoping she's an unwitting participant, either brainwashed into it herself or forced against her will etc

saw this at the cinema last night. so good. the balance was perfect. as a satire/comment on racism aside, it worked brilliantly as a horror in its own right. Not so much jump-scares as jump-laughs, as in how some of the most effective humorous moments came out of nowhere.

my audience's reaction to the cop car pulling up was profound

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, February 27, 2017 3:02 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

AFAIK UK cinema audiences don't tend to be as 'responsive' as US audiences, but yes there was a notable 'oh shit fuck shit' feeling running through the cinema when this happened.

in the London cinema where I saw it, the audience cheered at the reveal in that scene

in the London cinema where I saw it, the audience cheered at the reveal in that scene

― Neil S

Me too! It's not impossible we were at the same screening...

I had the pleasure of visiting Stratford Westfield to see it!

Angel Vue for me... It has obviously had a rousing effect on the people of North/East London.

I can report excitable audiences at Covent Garden Odeon, too.

A few people went "yes!" at Glasgow cineworld, including me

after running for nearly two months in the suburbs, our art house theater is picking up Get Out on Friday. Don't know if it's worth seeing again but psyched that it's playing in the city.

My friend and I saw this in a smaller semi-rep house, so there were maybe eight people in the theatre. I wasn't unhappy about that.

My wife and I finally got to this tonight. The kid at the box office said, "I've heard that's really good." We said we'd heard so too. He said, "We're all surprised it's stayed here so long. A lot of other movies opened after it and they're already gone." (Bear in mind this is in East Tennessee.)

Really good movie. So many smart moves in it, everything works on multiple levels.

it was uncanny as fuck particularly in that 70s way that they don't really do anymore

i also loved the jump scare when he's going out for a smoke and the maid passes by. it only happens once but it pays off throughout the rest of the film - if it happened once it could happen again. everything gets amped up a notch.

is that the bit that's nicked from Exorcist 3? There is a bit like that in the film.

homage, sorry, not nicked

Though I doubt it, it would be hilarious is Peele was drawing from Exorcist 3 for inspiration.

it's this bit i'm referring to. it is def referenced in Get Out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH8ynu0jRvY

jebus!

there's definitely an echo of Zodiac's use of Hurdy Gurdy Man at the beginning with the Flanagan And Alan. that thing where you take an innocent song that has already has a hint of eerieness, but turn into something diabolical. that and the car driving around in the darkness.
brrr..

http://www.avclub.com/article/heres-extremely-depressing-alternate-ending-get-ou-255574

Crap, looks like it's gone.

The more I think about it the more ridiculous it is (spoilers): if Grandma and mad genius grandpa had their brains or essence or whatever transferred to two new people, why would they want to spend their extended and/or reincarnated lives doing menial labor as maids and workmen, especially surrounded by people who know exactly what they did? Didn't bother me at the time so it doesn't really hurt my take-away, but still. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a throwaway line in there I missed or can't remember, referencing Grandpa's all-enveloping love doing yard work or Grandma's love of taking care of people. Or something like that.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, March 9, 2017 7:43 AM (two months ago) Bookmark

grandpa likes pretending he's jesse owens

Grandmas love taking care of their families, no doubt. My grandma is nearly 100 years old and we have trouble stopping her from cleaning the kitchen.

Weren't they just putting on that act for the new guy

there's a lot of stuff in this film that doesn't make narrative sense. like why would they go to the trouble of having the daughter charm so many men to take back to the house and then go through the rigmarole of having him stay over on holiday only to end up resorting to violent measures to bodysnatch him? Surely they could just go around kidnapping people (like in the opening scene)? That said, it's not something that concerns me much since the whole thing is an analogous satirical comedy

i think a combination of wanting to know the person well and them having to be susceptible to the hypnosis -- they mentioned how the creepy son's more brutal tactics made it more difficult for them.

it felt to me that one of the unspoken things was that for all of the shiny equipment and neat informercials and dreams of being reinvigorated the surgery totally sucked, producing these weird stilted zombies that everyone just decides to accept are the people whose brain is in there.

Totally

I thought the first half of this was a masterpiece of tension building and discomfort and the second half (roughly speaking, that is; I divide the film at the point when the mystery starts becoming clear) was an enjoyably bonkers horror flick, executed well enough that I was neither disappointed by the tonal shift, nor all that bothered by some of the illogic of the scheme. Fantastic performances all around, including Stephen Root in his pair of scenes, which no one has mentioned yet. I don't even mind the ending, and I agree with what was said upthread about how the conclusion allows the audience to consider the alternative ending while providing the more satisfying ending at the same time. A few awkwardly staged moments of action and some laughably bad CGI in two specific instances aside, Peele's direction is impressively crafty and artful; I look forward to seeing what he does next.

I thought the tension building was flawed - it built really fast and stayed there, some ebb and flow would have been more effective I thought.

yes we needed to see how the white family "got their powers"

will be disappointed if Allison Williams doesn't get murdered somewhere along the line

film delivered

this guy

https://geeksofcolor.co/2017/09/21/jordan-peele-developing-a-nazi-hunting-tv-drama/

that Ron Stallworth story is very intriguing, I'll be looking forward to that.

I know that this is such a lame thing to ask but how jump-scare heavy is this film? Because it sounds great and I'm realizing I actually like horror stuff but tbh I don't like the idea of shit popping out at me

Very few if any, I believe. I mean, there's some startling shit that happens, but not anything like THE BOOGEYMAN HE FLY AT YOU FACE.

There is only one that I can recall, it's pretty good tho

good horror doesn't rely on jump-scares. like exclamation marks, used liberally they're a form of bad style

There are one or two jump scares in this, probably because they are required these days, but it's pretty modest on that front. It's more a psychological tightening the screws thriller, albeit not a terribly atmospheric one. Just a general vibe of weirdness that grows and grows.

Sometimes good horror movies use jump scares well. Bad horror movies often use lots of jump scares for lack of anything else. I feel like people being very concerned about them is somewhat of a recent meme.

Well, I think it's more people becoming extremely self aware that they are always accompanied by fail-safe orchestral stabs and loud noises. It's not the scare that's cliched, it's the lack of confidence in the scares.

it's a meme now? i was on that tip before it was cool yall

I say that because my teenage son, who mostly speaks in grunts and memes, will occasionally say things like "I heard that movie was bad - jump scares."

i rarely go and see horror movies in theaters these days because the quiet quiet quiet BOO LOUD NOISE shit done x20 is totally nerve fraying and basically the opposite of fun for me

Get Out wasn't bad in this respect iirc

I only watch movies if there's a jump scare but it's ok because it's just a cat so you can relax no wait another jump scare this time it's actually the killer!

oh no, a good jump scare done well is amazing. a film full of them is the worst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp_8h-AbQ98

there's a few jump scares in this film, not excessive

usually waht scares me about jump scares are the 17 year olds who shriek in my ear when they happen

fool me into thinkin i like a movie and then get home and realize I was only scared cos people were rupturing my ear drums

i have always hated jump scares, they're totally unpleasant and cheap

if I ever make a horror movie, anytime anyone stops to look at or behind anything, they will be immediately killed, then licked by a passing cat a few beats later

jump scares are a lazy trope but worse are the current crop of Catholic-guilt demons-among-us horror films because basically all it is = invincible malevolent forces shapeshifting into whatever they feel like for 2 hours with no ground rules and no Argento-like visual treatery to make it worthwhile.

Annabelle sucked balls.

That's good to hear, thanks everyone! Definitely gonna check this out soon.

Personally I hate jump scares and I've really started to take more of an interest in horror after realizing that good horror films involve much more than obnoxious surprises, but I will admit that I like a well-done jump scare. a good example = the winkys diner scene in mulholland drive.

Oh man there's so much good horror that has no interest whatsoever in making you jump out of your seat and shriek, so much of it.

I finally watched this as part of my year-end catch-up.

The constant ebb and flow of wondering whether these people are for real, or if they're presenting a veneer over something evil, kept me on the edge of my seat. I think the tension of being a fish out of water, this entire white people country club life that the protagonist is dropped into, was really well done. It's a position I've experienced few times, but every part of the party gathering was hitting my fight-or-flight instinct and it's a testament to Peele's writing and directing that it seems so relatable, but he has Chris keeping his cool because this is how life is for him all the damn time. And that's why he's noticing things but navigating through it until we get to that crucial photo reveal.

Seeing the film nominated for comedy categories initially made me irritated, but it's true: it's a dark satire, a comedic allegory. The film itself is completely horror (phone calls with TSA hero buddy notwithstanding) but outside the context of the film's world we recognize satire as humor, although this is a work that makes me really question that.

And yeah, the police car pulling up had me on the edge of my seat but the door swinging open to reveal it says "Transportation Safety" had me cheering.

kept me on the edge of my seat

my literal experience too, from beginning to end

I did enjoy the ads running in trade press telling me to vote for this movie In All Categories Including Best Picture

that is awesome. i think a best picture nom is a v safe bet, and after last year a win isn't implausible either, which is pretty remarkable

happy to hear that people are having the same edge of the seat experience at home as i had in a packed theater on opening weekend

We liked it in Miami!!

So the first 70 minutes or so of this were pretty good. Unfortunately it then becomes a full-blown conventional horror film, ie the dumbest genre. The Plot of the locals, when revealed, didn't really make any kind of sense to me. And I was not scared for a minute -- the most 'horror' in the general sense was probably all the White People Remarks to Chris, cuz you know they've all been said.

Kaluuya was fine (I can't say the same for the endless tics of Allison Williams). My favorite performances were by the TSA friend and Stephen Root.

And have you watched the original bleak ending on the DVD? Much better.

I've seen the alternate ending. I prefer the one Peele used for how my theatrical audience reacted to it (audible relief)

surprised Peele didn't do anything to wrap up the "Logan King/Andre" character arc in a post-credits sequence

Mike D'Angelo generally OTM:

Kaluuya, who was so quietly impressive in Sicario, turns in one of the most expressively reactive performances I can recall, projecting Chris' true emotions—half-pained, half-amused at self-serving proclamations of allyship; dumbfounded by casual overt racism—through a credible scrim of politeness. (Casting a dramatic actor, rather than Key or himself, was an inspired choice on Peele's part. Kaluuya is already my choice to beat for lead male this year.) The big twist, however, kinda defangs the movie. "Why us? Why black people?" Chris asks, and the answer feels *ad hoc*, because race isn't really intrinsic to the (fairly decent, if familiar) horror-movie idea Peele came up with. Elderly or disabled people wanting to inhabit younger, healthier bodies makes perfect sense in any context; there are potentially pointed and discomfiting reasons to demand African-American vessels, but Get Out, surprisingly (given how consistently sharp the setup is), doesn't dig in. I suspect that's because Peele recognized that it's much creepier for the groundskeeper and the maid to be Stepford-y rather than, say, clumsily "black" (i.e. appropriation as possession, which seems like the obvious thematic choice if you're shrewdly taking aim at "the good ones" rather than deplorables). The satire and the horror mesh so weakly that strengthening one inevitably means diminishing the other. And revealing the ostensibly well-meaning white liberals as pure evil, rather than deluded, lets them (me) off the hook.

Whichever ending doesn't matter because the point of the entire movie is embodied in the viewer putting two and two together when the cop car initially shows up

The big twist, however, kinda defangs the movie. "Why us? Why black people?" Chris asks, and the answer feels *ad hoc*, because race isn't really intrinsic to the (fairly decent, if familiar) horror-movie idea Peele came up with. Elderly or disabled people wanting to inhabit younger, healthier bodies makes perfect sense in any context; there are potentially pointed and discomfiting reasons to demand African-American vessels, but Get Out, surprisingly (given how consistently sharp the setup is), doesn't dig in.

idk i think this is kind of backwards or at least i don't think the movie needed to dig in much more than it did, it's p. obvious that the idea was to take white fascination with/appropriation of blackness when convenient to an extreme conclusion. when listening to black ppl talk about this movie the reaction was more "well of course, they're always taking from us."

also deluded vs. evil does nothing for me when one easily leads to the other. clearly in some wacky sense the whites felt they were doing some best of both worlds shit that yes was also very evil.

But the thing is, white appropriation including *black skin* doesn't make sense, because you suddenly acquire what the Asian party guest in the film would call "disadvantages."

Well, I think that's an aspect of the satire, pushed to the extreme. They want to be as black as can be, short of actually *being* black, because to their mind (no pun intended) they're *not* black because they are still themselves.

well, that's not overtly indicated at any point.

Maybe not. But it can be perhaps inferred, and it's an extension of reducing black people down to less than people, just vessels for their attributes or talents.

I agree, though, from a logical standpoint, talking your way out of a ticket by saying you're not *really* black seems unlikely. I think I got the vibe they were starting an isolated community/commune upstate, a la the werewolf commune in The Howling.

well, that's not overtly indicated at any point.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 3, 2018 10:29 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does it need to be? really?

xpost Yeah, it's noteworthy that they weren't, like, moving to the city or something after taking possession of a black body. They remained where they knew they'd continue to be accepted as 'one of the good ones'.

seems like a dubious transaction; I don't ask much of horror scenarios, but the mechanics needed to be a little more, um, fleshed out.

Also once Chris started kicking ass, I anticipated each of the beats perfectly. It was too rote.

I liked this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBvcngHRTFg

Yeah, it's noteworthy that they weren't, like, moving to the city or something after taking possession of a black body. They remained where they knew they'd continue to be accepted as 'one of the good ones'.

It's not even that--everyone in the community knows the truth, they are accepted because they are literally the same person in a different body. And also staying within the community prevents them from accidental exposure to flashes and stuff without having Keener there to bring them back. What price immortality?

but why would they yearn to be groundskeepers and maids?

I thought maybe they were only groundskeepers and maids and whatnot when outsiders were around?

XP They're not always groundskeepers and maids? Remember, alot of what we see is putting on airs in reverse because of the guest.

Haven't seen this since it came out, but isn't the implication behind Root's character picking Chris that he will continue on in Chris's career as a photographer? Likewise Rose looking at basketball players. The groundskeeper and maid were just who was at hand when they did the switch and they're only performing those jobs while Chris is around

many xps - yea that video was great! thanks for sharing

I didn't see that as them only playing those roles, but actually relishing the ability to do so. Grandmother get's to serve and dote on her kids and grandkids and serve them lemonade? Grandpa gets to do yardwork? Sounds like an ideal retirements scenario for any number of seniors.

also raises less suspicions

I need to rewatch this for sure, but I got the sense that part of the strain that they're under, which allows their real personalities to surface, is in having to act out uncomfortable/unwanted roles. I'd have to agree with Morbz otherwise: why would rich white people used to having servants want to retire as those servants?

Surprised to see Dr Morbz on the side of The Plausibles.

the other part of the equation is that black people who go missing simply don't get as much media attention as white people who go missing - i think that was explained in the film?

why would rich white people used to having servants want to retire as those servants?

Because they weren't actually servants! They were only acting that way for the benefit of Chris, literally the only person there who did not know the truth.

I didn't see that as them only playing those roles, but actually relishing the ability to do so. Grandmother get's to serve and dote on her kids and grandkids and serve them lemonade? Grandpa gets to do yardwork? Sounds like an ideal retirements scenario for any number of seniors.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, January 3, 2018 1:07 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this

xp
yeah i know I said that in my prev post. in this one I was responding to dan selzer saying that they likely "relish" the opportunity to serve lemonade and do yardwork. I don't think that's an egregiously wrong interpretation or anything and I like that the movie doesn't spell everything out, but I think it more likely that when Chris isn't there they're not serving lemonade or doing yardwork at all.

Anyway, I think Morbius asked an interesting question (why would privileged white people want to give up that privilege in order to be black?), and I think the answer is that the form of liberal white racism that Peele is exploring here covets, fetishizes, envies black struggle, which is something they, as white people, cannot ever possess

I thought maybe they were only groundskeepers and maids and whatnot when outsiders were around?

That seems a good intuitive guess, but dammit again, we need to see that, somehow.

Ward, there's a difference between being a Plausible and noting details that seem thematically and narratively sloppy.

idk I thought that was pretty obvious. and rob is otm about this particular set of upper middle class centrist liberals and how they fetishize blackness - "I would've voted for Obama a third time" is a great joke but it also tells us a lot about the kind of people they are.

When Rod the TSA Guy says that something's wrong because dandified Logan King/Andre is "from Brooklyn," that strikes me as a subtle joke about the New Brooklyn, bcz there are plenty of A-A guys in Fort Greene who dress like that.

alison williams drinking milk through a straw, eating dry froot loops & listening to Dirty Dancing .... perfect, hilarious & almost horrifyingly TOO REAL lol, like i felt kinda paranoid/embarrassed at how familiar it was

xp haha yeah that line made me do a double take

This was good

I kinda think that herself might have come up as a known person of interest in the ten or w/ever missing persons cases though.

But this was good

Jordan Peele tells the Hollywood Reporter’s Stephen Galloway that he’s currently writing and plans to direct his next film later this year. “One thing I know is that this is genre; and playing around with the thriller, horror, action, fun genre of intrigue is my favorite. That’s my sweet spot. So I think tonally it should resemble Get Out. That said, I want to make a completely different movie. I want to address something different than race in the next one.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/jordan-peele-reveals-plans-shoot-next-movie-year-1085424

Can't fucking wait

(taking a wild guess here) excited for Peele's gun-culture movie

I hope he's better at other genre mechanics than he was in Act III of GO.

no you don't

i had to look up his filmography to see if he was in Go (1999)

i finally watched this and liked it okay. kinda reminded me of an old tales from the crypt episode or something. wish it had been a little scarier. it definitely felt like a movie made by someone who had never made a thriller/horror movie before. and i'm still more of a Keanu fan. i loved that movie.

Keanu is so sick. Anna Faris omg

those tense close-ups of people talking definitely creepy though. the brother. the grandma. etc.

Keanu was awful, wtf

yeah keanu was pish

I didn't make it through Keanu.

the most literally one-joke / single-sketch-brutally-extended-to-feature-length comedy in recent memory

Haha, I enjoyed Keanu when it came out, but it took me several minutes to figure out why you all were suddenly talking about Keanu Reeves on this thread, which I guess shows how well that film stuck with me.

I saw Keanu on a plane and enjoyed it, was able to rewind the bit I'd napped through

a good oral history on vulture about the film's genesis: http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/making-get-out-jordan-peele.html

includes this nugget:

Peele: I was trying to figure out what genre this movie was, and horror didn’t quite do it. Psychological thriller didn’t do it, and so I thought, Social thriller. The bad guy is society — these things that are innate in all of us, and provide good things, but ultimately prove that humans are always going to be barbaric, to an extent. I think I coined the term social thriller, but I definitely didn’t invent it.

Footnoted with:

To coincide with Get Out’s release, Peele curated a selection of classic thrillers that dealt with social issues for BAM: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Rosemary’s Baby made his list, along with Misery, Rear Window, The Shining, Candyman, and more.

This is kind of an interesting list:

• Rosemary's Baby
• Night of The Living Dead
• The People Under The Stairs
• Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
• Get Out
• Funny Games
• Candyman
• Scream
• Rear Window
• The Silence of The Lambs
• Misery
• The Shining
• The 'Burbs

i linked to that series way up dere about a year ago

I probably had you blocked at the time, sorry

I wonder if JP's seen Society.

My buddy's been harping about Society @ me for decades now. It's streaming on Amazon Prime (in the U.S.) so I may finally check it out.

Meantime, next year...

pic.twitter.com/6j43s9YC8e

— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) May 9, 2018

Awesome

Is the last OG good?

I saw the first episode behind someone's head in a bar, with the sound off, which is the only time I have heard of it at all, in any way

Mixed feelings about this, it was very interesting and meticulous but something about the style didnt do it for me. Surprised so many people liked the TSA guy so much, I thought that fell flat. My favorite thing might have been the wonderful theme music by Michael Abels.

The most interesting plot element to me was the chosen life of the grandparents, which rang quite true to me that they might want that lifestyle.

In some of the deleted scenes commentary, Peele suggests the girlfriend has actually been hypnotized. Really? Because that changes a lot. I thought he seemed sarcastic when talking about the original/alternate ending, as if that's the one he really wanted? He talks about an interesting way that it's actually a kind of happy ending even though it's definitely worse in most ways.

Surprised so many people liked the TSA guy so much

it really was a different experience seeing this in theaters

His YouTube show is a major misfire on every level

Finally got around to watching Get Out and did not enjoy it! Am I the only one? Guess I'll read the thread and find out.

I only just watched it. I liked it though!

The Us commercial running looks scary. (Joining It and Them! in the ever-expanding pronoun-horror genre.) I wonder if Jordan Peele wants to make horror films, or if he just had a fluke hit (that had lots else on its mind) and it was hard to turn down all the money that was thrown at him.

I'll let y'all know next week.

I fear it's both. he's not pivoting with this movie, afaik this one had at least a rough draft before Get Out even came out. But I think this one is going to lean harder on horror and people will be disappointed and hold it against him, OR he might've felt compelled to amp up the "social horror" angle post-Get Out. I don't know, I'm really rooting for him because it's so hard to pull off a follow-up to the sort of surprise, semi-fluke hit that Get Out was.

I was somewhat lukewarm on Get Out (while admiring its audacity), so there's a decent chance I'll like this one better. I notice, though, that they use the "From the mind of..." come-on in the trailer, a red flag that makes me think of Cronenberg and Lynch at their silliest.

not that much money! he's sticking with Blumhouse rather than chasing cash

(listened to an interview with Leigh Whanne1 this week where he talked about Blum's extreme resistance to raise his usual $5m budget for Upgrade: Get Out was 4.5, BlacKkKlansman was 15, Upgrade was 16, Us is on wikip at $20m.)

will also say the trailers are too long/give too much away - then again I haven't seen it

early festival reviews were SUPER positive so I'm approaching this with some excitement

I wonder if Jordan Peele wants to make horror films, or if he just had a fluke hit (that had lots else on its mind) and it was hard to turn down all the money that was thrown at him.

Get Out gave Peele options. He was offered BlacKkKlansman, for example (he decided Spike Lee should direct it instead, and he would produce). He was offered big superhero movies (he won’t say which ones). If he’d wanted to make a Get Out sequel, he could have named his price. But really Peele was committed to directing his own, original stories, mostly in the key of horror.

Horror was Peele’s first love, he says. He describes himself as “a scared kid”, but he was also the one who’d tell scary stories around the campfire: “The feeling of hearing an audience go ‘Ooh-hoo-hoo’ and shuddering. I got results. That sort of marked the transition from the scared kid to the guy who lived with the monsters, who could wield the fear.”

Now Peele has come out as a horror nut, he is making up for lost time. Next month, he launches a star-studded reboot of The Twilight Zone for CBS’s All Access streaming service, in which he serves as co-producer and host. He has also got Lovecraft Country – another horror-tinged drama for HBO, co-producing with JJ Abrams.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/09/jordan-peele-on-us-this-is-a-very-different-movie-from-get-out

Yeah, he did an interview on the Nerdist podcast back when Get Out came out and it was evident that he had big horror plans.

he curated several weeks of "black horror movies" at BAM when get out was hot; his taste was solid and smart

I think Us looks scary and amazing. I can't wait to see it.

yeah, i'm all in for this one

deeper he gets into genre the better imo

otm

All of this is good to know--clearly he's doing exactly what he wants to.

This was fine. Illogical ending.

Perhaps a new thread?

US by jordan peele

Finally watched this yesterday. I liked it a lot! Cracking up at TSA guy. I look forward to seeing Us in two years time.

Noe *this* is a trailer:

What’s a bad miracle? pic.twitter.com/x37K3Inwk7

— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) February 13, 2022

Now, not Noe, lol. Noe is a different animal.

Holy shit that’s a trailer

THAT is what a trailer should do: get you hype without a diagram of what the movie is.

yeah it looks so good & i have no idea what it is lmao

EXACTLY.

us's rabbit teaser wasn't quite enough. this is good.

Is it aliens? Is it Eldritch abominations? Is it environmental catastrophe?

Perhaps… it’s all three.

yes to nope

Looks good

looks great, i just hope peele isn't going shyamalan on us

hope it's more of a film theory thing than plot twist thing

the maid in the kitchen and Steenburgen standing next to her

Haw at this. For a split second, I thought maybe Mary Steenburgen had been in this movie.

Shows you what clever casting this was. Catherine Keener in those windows from The Sunken Place after having also starred in "Being John Malkovich". That movie written by Charlie Kaufman, who also wrote "I’m Thinking of Ending Things," a movie about a couple going to visit the parents, who may or not be who they seem, etc.

Mary Steenburgen. I thought she was wonderful in Twister.