I wouldn't call it stunning, it very well acted and pretty craftily edited, but the twist wasn't mind blowing or anything and instead 'subverting expectations', it just subverted the whole fucking movie cause why not.
It was pretty ok, and frankly if you've seen Dargonz and Capn Marbles, there ain't shit else to watch right now and the "B" score reflects that.
The thing that pissed me off is that the last reveal pokes some damn big holes in the story.
I haven't seen it yet but before it even came out I feel like it was over hyped. "Get Out" was a good movie but I don't feel it revolutionized anything and people seemed to fawn over it for some reason. I am kind of expecting this to go the same way. Where it is good but it isn't "THE BEST MOVIE EVER!"
I mean, I can definitely see why it would resonate with black americans more than other people
i watched it and it made me think a lot, and the acting was fucking sublime, but i didn't find it to be groundbreaking. However, maybe it was just 2artistic4me
Without trying to stir shit up I feel I'd probably have gotten a lot more out of this if I were black.
It was still a pretty great horror film though, and I'm never sorry to see a good film do well.
I will say this as a white dude. When "Get out" originally showed up in theaters. I thought it was a pretty great horror film. But didn't really think beyond that much when it came to the social commentaryundertones in the movie. But awhile back, i took some time to research stuff about African American culture due to Rewatching Boondocks and other shows. I went back and rewatched Get Out given people said it'll resonate more if you're more aware of African American culture and the history of it in the US.
And holy fuck it made the film God-like. Having a perspective and a working knowledge of the history of African American culture and what not, just opened up the Film completely. It is so meticulously constructed, like after the second viewing. I don't think i've seen a Horror movie with that much depth to it since fucking like John Carpenter's "The Thing".
So i'm willing to wager that this film wouldn't exactly resonate well with other people if they aren't exactly aware of that info.
As a mutt flavored person with blue eyes you'll find the road goes both ways; you can get stink face for being too ______ from camp A and not being _____ enough from camp B, so while the 'aliens/weird/unclean/monster among us" motif works, it's also super derailed by the twist.
I saw it the other night and thought it was fantastic! It was like watching a weird Twilight Zone episode. It was just so bizarre, and I’ve never laughed so hard while simultaneously feeling incredibly uncomfortable. I’m a big horror movie watcher, it just felt fresh to me.
I’m a big fan of weird entertainment though. I’m kind of sick of the marvel blockbusters and shit like that.
I liked it a lot too. It wasn't a groundbreaking film but for what it was trying to be, it succeeded in all aspects. It definitely didn't play out how I expected it would in the beginning, and I did like the kind of twisted ending and how the family behaved as time went on. Acting all around was excellent.
I'm pretty sure the article was just saying that the fact it raised so much money was stunning, not the movie itself. I am keen to see it though. I love horror and Get Out's refreshing introduction of comedy to a serious plot worked much better than one might expect.
get out had a pretty narrow audience who could best appreciate it. Black people and white new englanders (ny is honorary new england, jersey too). It basically was directly targeted at us, lol.
Us was a lot of fun. I don't think the twist poked any major holes in anything. It might upend the film if you have too restrictive a view of the plot and too much expectation of what was going on. It's a general slasher film with (what I would call) cosmic horror elements. It presents itself as a lot more ambiguous than Get Out did.
The other thing I think makes these movies stand out is the fact that they're written/directed by Jordan Peele, specifically. Up until Get Out he was really only known as a comedian. Only seen in funny things. So it came as kind of a shock that a comedian on a goofy-ass show was able to make a dang good movie in a different genre.
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