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.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
I saw Keanu on a plane and enjoyed it, was able to rewind the bit I'd napped through
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
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:
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:31 (six 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 (six years ago) link
Awesome
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link
Is the last OG good?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:23 (six 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 (six 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 (eight months ago) link