get out (2017, dir. jordan peele)

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.