Sorry, it's a terrible compulsion: how did he get the cotton in his ears?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
Wait, never mind, he could chew on his wrists so he could make it down/up there.
So many little things it looks like I didn't even catch. Like, weird flaw or not, he was literally saved by picking cotton! Or even though I recognized the background "a mind is a terrible thing to waste" infomercial, for some reason I forgot it was for the United Negro College Fund, which makes it even more clever/insidious.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
I thought that by removing the cotton he loosened the bindings enough to squeeze his hands out and back in.
― MrDasher, Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link
His head could reach the bonds so I assume he could reach down and insert the cotton in his ears.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
^^^ that
i was a little annoyed that he took the cotton out when he did though because like duh the mom was still out there with her teacup, dude
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 9 March 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
sooooo fuckin good
― Nhex, Sunday, 12 March 2017 06:24 (seven years ago) link
this was well worth breaking a 15-month streak of no movies in the theater.
i'm glad allison williams was game for this role, i don't know of many other actresses who could have flipped on the ice queen switch so effortlessly.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 18 March 2017 02:50 (seven years ago) link
allison williams is a p great actress tbh
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 18 March 2017 07:21 (seven years ago) link
i had no idea. like everyone else in this, she was perfectly cast for the role
― Nhex, Saturday, 18 March 2017 07:51 (seven years ago) link
This was terrific until the predictable if satisfying ending
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 March 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link
^^ 100% agreed, though i think it was the right decision to end on an up note
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Saturday, 18 March 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
Caleb Landry Jones seems to play predominately creepy characters too, between this supporting role and the part he played in The Last Exorcism
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal),
he looks like a young pre-AA Steve Bannon
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
i didn't think the ending was predictable at all!
― k3vin k., Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
i think it was the right decision to end on an up note
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:25 AM (forty-five minutes ago
it's undoubtedly helped the film's word of mouth / box office
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
yeah i was fully expecting the cops to shoot him or for him to go to jail or something, evil prevails, etc
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
well the great thing about the ending is that the movie has its cake and eats it too -- it gets the big payoff of a happy ending while also giving you the momentary horror of a cop showing up to see a black man next to a white woman in distress, and i think that's really all the ending really needed to work. the movie ending with chris being shot or arrested would have felt macabre and unnecessary given what he had just gone thru. also i think there's a nice subtle message in the end about being absolved not by authority but by your friends.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:23 (seven years ago) link
in a sense i think you could almost think about the movie having two endings w/o there actually being an "alternate ending" or whatever. it forces you to ruminate on what would have happened had a real cop showed up in that moment w/o actually having to show it on screen.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
one thing i really liked about this movie is that it was laugh out loud funny w/o resorting to being meta or ironic about the genre conventions of horror films. allison williams searching "top NCAA prospects" had me howling in the theater.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Saturday, March 18, 2017 12:25 PM (three minutes ago)
this is a great point, one i hadn't really considered
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
Not sure it's a happy ending! He's still covered in blood and is responsible for three deaths. I'm not sure how he talks his way out of it, even with a TSA pal.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
I was the only person who laughed at the NCAA joke. My audience was uncomfortable through most of it.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
well it's certainly a happier ending than the alternative. and if cops went to the house they'd find the surgery room in the basement, they'd track down the missing friend previously dismissed in the movie and be able to snap him out of hypnotization etc. it's entirely plausible chris comes out the other end as the hero.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
Watching Chris standing over the body of a dying white woman, I thought about Eric Foner's Reconstruction, which I finished last Wednesday and its recounting of what happened to black men accused of murdering a white woman.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:43 (seven years ago) link
that NCAA joke, complete with creepy geometric Kubrick-esque framing, had me dying
― Nhex, Saturday, 18 March 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
So many other subtle things people have pointed out to me. Like, I didn't get it at the time, even in immediate retrospect, that all the guests were sizing him up for their own selfish purposes. Do you play golf? You must be great in bed. With the right training you could be a MMA guy. And so on. And that's why they were bidding. I know, obvious, but at the time, like I said, just seemed like more weirdness. The brainwashed guy he recognized, for example, in passing it's noted that he was a prominent jazz musician. I wonder if that is why he was chosen?
The more I think about it, the more I think the happy ("happy") ending is in a sense an ironic subversion of expectations.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 March 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link
The "you're leaving...without me *sob*" moment a brilliant piece of strategy in that he is clearly considering it cos "NO relationship is worth THIS" but she wins him back to where he "realizes" that 'you're all i got'.
Of course that to me makes the ending a lot sadder. It's true for him to the point where he can't even kill her after she tried to blow his head off. These "she's not what you think" movies often forget to consider that after the protag has escaped, he has to process the end of a serious relationship too. This one didn't labor on that but it was there.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 March 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
it's funny when people act like peele copped out by not having chris get killed by a cop at the end when that's already basically the ending of the most famous horror movie with a black protagonist and that one was made 50 years ago
― na (NA), Saturday, 18 March 2017 23:19 (seven years ago) link
in mentioning the film's overall predictability (subtleties notwithstanding) and somewhat disappointing ending, I'm not referring to the last few minutes, but rather the whole third act. it's suspenseful, well acted and clever, but i wanted things to get a whole lot wilder. like society-style. i mean, even the relatively staid rosemary's baby goes farther, gets weirder. but my tastes in horror don't square with peele's aims and certainly wouldn't have helped the film's commercial prospects...
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Saturday, 18 March 2017 23:29 (seven years ago) link
xp i was straight up afraid he was gonna do that ending as I watching it! really glad he didn't
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 March 2017 01:11 (seven years ago) link
He originally did.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/get-out-almost-had-a-much-bleaker-ending-according-to-1792959724
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 March 2017 01:51 (seven years ago) link
it's amazing how many npr-ish white people i know went to see/can't wait to see Get Out and i know for a fact they would never go see a horror movie otherwise in a million years. it's the white liberal feel good movie of the season! i mean my father-in-law's wife really wants to see it and she hates horror movies with a passion. she hates most popular things. she's nice though. she once asked me why people watch horror movies.
I think there was a concerted PR effort to convince non-horror film fans to see it. I think there are indeed just a lot of horror films people don't see because they're horror films, and while it might have taken NPR to convince them to see a movie because it's Important Satire About the Way Things Are, I think it also took NPR and its adjuncts to convince people to see something marketed as a horror movie, period. I mean, even the trailer doesn't exactly make Get Out look like anything other than a typical horror movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 March 2017 02:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah i wasn't originally interested in seeing it
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 March 2017 02:21 (seven years ago) link
it's almost like "a horror movie" is incredibly poor shorthand for what it is
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 19 March 2017 03:39 (seven years ago) link
That's how it was marketed and advertised, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 March 2017 04:01 (seven years ago) link
and anyone who did three seconds of reading about it came to realize that there was more going on
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 19 March 2017 04:07 (seven years ago) link
Reading? I think you're thinking of a different medium. We have movies so we don't have to read.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 March 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link
The trailer made this look absolutely ridiculous, but people seem to love it
― Josefa, Sunday, 19 March 2017 04:20 (seven years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Saturday, March 18, 2017 8:39 PM (forty-two minutes ago)
horror's a broad genre, especially these days. get out fits in pretty comfortably.
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Sunday, 19 March 2017 04:23 (seven years ago) link
i'm not very invested in horror movies as a genre, but the trailer for this (which i saw months ago) piqued my interest immediately. (i *am* a fan of david lynch and rosemary's baby, though.)
btw, there was a group of late-middle-age NPR-ish white people behind me in the theater, one of whom quipped as the end credits rolled: "guess the moral of the story is, stay away from the in-laws!"
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Sunday, 19 March 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
well the great thing about the ending is that the movie has its cake and eats it too -- it gets the big payoff of a happy ending while also giving you the momentary horror of a cop showing up to see a black man next to a white woman in distress, and i think that's really all the ending really needed to work. the movie ending with chris being shot or arrested would have felt macabre and unnecessary given what he had just gone thru ... in a sense i think you could almost think about the movie having two endings w/o there actually being an "alternate ending" or whatever. it forces you to ruminate on what would have happened had a real cop showed up in that moment w/o actually having to show it on screen.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, March 18, 2017 3:25 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM
― flopson, Sunday, 19 March 2017 20:47 (seven years ago) link
yeah
― k3vin k., Sunday, 19 March 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
yeah the trailer definitely made me want to see it, knowing that Peele directed helped a lot, too - but I never would've seen it if I hadn't gone to the only theater around here that plays horror movies regularly (stuff like Don't Breathe, The Bye Bye Man, etc.). Glad I saw it on opening weekend, wouldn't have known about it otherwise.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 19 March 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
I dug this, Partially because it was uncanny as fuck particularly in that 70s way that they don't really do anymore.
I wonder what Mark Fisher would have written about it.
― International House of Hot Takes (kingfish), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
According to IMDb:
Keegan-Michael Key, who is known for collaborating with Jordan Peele, portrays one of the "Top NCAA Prospects" that Rose searches online for.
Also, the music/scoring in this was dope and I hope it gets more attention.
― International House of Hot Takes (kingfish), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 22:55 (seven years ago) link
Don't have much to add to what everyone's already said other than what a headfuck that the first music we hear is Flanagan and Allen, such an unlikely, perfect introduction.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link
saw this again yesterday. just as dope second time around. didn't notice much additional the second time other than the "help" had very visible, pronounced brain surgery scars at the end that weren't visible earlier in the movie, which I didn't notice the first time.
no creepier scene to me than the bingo scene tho
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
They all wore hats or wigs
― Moodles, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
not saying it was continuity issue, just that I figured either they concealed it earlier in the film or that somehow Chris just was hypnotized out of seeing it.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 6 April 2017 00:26 (seven years ago) link
"concealed" like w/ makeup or wigs as you say etc etc
this movie was great. clever how so much of the horror movie tension of the first half was just racial tension. I saw it in a full theater here in Vietnam and almost none of the jokes got laughter, but I guess a lot of it relies on knowing the racial climate of the US. in fact, it's kind of a weird movie to make it into theaters here except that it's ostensibly a horror movie, and those are very popular in Vietnam
― Vinnie, Friday, 7 April 2017 11:24 (seven years ago) link