get out (2017, dir. jordan peele)

...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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Btw, 'Get Out' isn't a Redbox, Vod, itunes movie. If you don't see it with the theater energy, you'll miss the full intended experience. 🙏🏾

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.

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.