I think we probably should
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
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, 27 February 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
SPOILERS FOR A COUPLE OF MOVIES
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
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
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, 27 February 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
my audience's reaction to the cop car pulling up was profound
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
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.
― na (NA), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
can't think of direct precedents for some reason but it is definitely not a new cliche
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
SPOILERSit 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?
― na (NA), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 February 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link
and then "man I told you not to go up there," roaring laughter
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 February 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
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
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:09 (seven years ago) link
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)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
there's only one particularly gooey scene
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's certainly not DON'T BREATHE, the last horror movie i saw theatrically. awful, way too gross...
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 February 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
...though frankly that also had one incredible moment of audience reaction
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link
If yer not in NYC you may want to replicate this Peele-programmed series:
... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?!
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link
well there's obviously an influence/spin there.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link
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)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
or the original Stepfather
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
the parents reminded me of the parents in HEATHERS ("Oh, you.")
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 February 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
There's a reason why The 'Burbs is included.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
it feels potentially like a horror movie that people who don't watch horror movies will like
True in my case.
― JRN, Monday, 27 February 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Monday, 27 February 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
lmao http://www.thewrap.com/armond-white-ruins-get-out-100-rotten-tomatoes-jordan-peele/
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
hahahaha classic
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:50 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
So I had to double check and yes, he DID love Norbit:
http://www.nypress.com/norbit-well-fat-suited/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link
lol @ Armond calling "Sweet Sweetback" a "comedy"
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link
it's that among other things
ppl caring about perfect RT scores -- ah internet + movies = DOOMSDAY
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
Whites review was ridiculous in many ways regardless.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:10 (seven years ago) link
I fucking hate rotten tomatoes so much
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:12 (seven years ago) link
I just read Armond's pan of Fences, which RT somehow lists as "fresh"
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:14 (seven years ago) link
congrats to armond on managing to write something dumb and grossly offensive even by the standards of national review
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
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.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
not really 'scary' but I'm hard to scare so I'm not a good metric for that
― 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.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:44 (seven years ago) link
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.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:52 (seven years ago) link
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.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:55 (seven years ago) link
*one of my favorites
that was the creepiest line for me
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:57 (seven years ago) link
her not noticing the commotion due to listening to (I've Had) the Time of My Life on headphones was funny as hell too
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:59 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of Eddie Murphy the film's title is taken from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IH6IeiLtts
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 01:02 (seven years ago) link
This was so good.
― Fiddle Catstro (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 March 2017 04:14 (seven years ago) link
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.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 March 2017 04:19 (seven years ago) link
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.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 March 2017 04:20 (seven years ago) link
this movie is soooo good
― k3vin k., Thursday, 2 March 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 March 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 3 March 2017 01:56 (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), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:01 (seven years ago) link
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
i linked to that series way up dere about a year ago
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
I probably had you blocked at the time, sorry
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
I wonder if JP's seen Society.
― Simon H., Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
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.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 22 February 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
Meantime, next year...
pic.twitter.com/6j43s9YC8e— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) May 9, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
Awesome
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
Is the last OG good?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
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
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 07:09 (five years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 9 November 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
Surprised so many people liked the TSA guy so much
it really was a different experience seeing this in theaters
― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 November 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
His YouTube show is a major misfire on every level
― Number None, Sunday, 17 February 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
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.
― calumy (rip van wanko), Monday, 18 February 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
I only just watched it. I liked it though!
― kinder, Monday, 18 February 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 March 2019 02:48 (five years ago) link
I'll let y'all know next week.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2019 02:54 (five years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 14 March 2019 02:55 (five years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:00 (five years ago) link
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.)
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
will also say the trailers are too long/give too much away - then again I haven't seen it
― flappy bird, Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:15 (five years ago) link
early festival reviews were SUPER positive so I'm approaching this with some excitement
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 14 March 2019 04:31 (five years ago) link
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.
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
― Number None, Thursday, 14 March 2019 07:46 (five years ago) link
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.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 14 March 2019 08:37 (five years ago) link
he curated several weeks of "black horror movies" at BAM when get out was hot; his taste was solid and smart
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
I think Us looks scary and amazing. I can't wait to see it.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
yeah, i'm all in for this one
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
deeper he gets into genre the better imo
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
otm
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
All of this is good to know--clearly he's doing exactly what he wants to.
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
This was fine. Illogical ending.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 02:59 (five years ago) link
Perhaps a new thread?
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link
US by jordan peele
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 March 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
Finally watched this yesterday. I liked it a lot! Cracking up at TSA guy. I look forward to seeing Us in two years time.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Friday, 29 March 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
Noe *this* is a trailer:
What’s a bad miracle? pic.twitter.com/x37K3Inwk7— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) February 13, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 February 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
Now, not Noe, lol. Noe is a different animal.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 February 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
Holy shit that’s a trailer
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 13 February 2022 20:50 (two years ago) link
THAT is what a trailer should do: get you hype without a diagram of what the movie is.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 13 February 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link
yeah it looks so good & i have no idea what it is lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 February 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
EXACTLY.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 February 2022 01:11 (two years ago) link
us's rabbit teaser wasn't quite enough. this is good.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 14 February 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
Is it aliens? Is it Eldritch abominations? Is it environmental catastrophe?
Perhaps… it’s all three.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 14 February 2022 03:53 (two years ago) link
yes to nope
― Roz, Monday, 14 February 2022 04:11 (two years ago) link
Looks good
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 February 2022 05:01 (two years ago) link
looks great, i just hope peele isn't going shyamalan on us
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:38 (two years ago) link
hope it's more of a film theory thing than plot twist thing
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Monday, 4 September 2023 03:49 (six months ago) link