get out (2017, dir. jordan peele)

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.