get out (2017, dir. jordan peele)

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.

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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.

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.