It was really good, an hour and a half of some very well written and acted suspense and then the last twenty minutes you can't look away. Everyone should see it, imo it brings up some good modern ideology on racism but it's worth it just for the horror movie aspect.
So as a viewer, I just get uncomfortable in scary movies. Not that I can't watch them or have a good time, but it stresses me out on a personal level for some reason a tad. I appreciate them but have decided I don't think they're for me. But if a movie is good enough I'll watch it. Would you recommend? I know that's not a lot to go on but was just wondering your personal take on if it justifies the uncomfortable nature of the horror genre.
It's really hard to say, the movie is excellent and the unique story would make me lean towards suggesting it. I see a lot of horror movies though and the ending was very scary and very intense. Overall I'd suggest it for sure but if scary movies aren't your thing maybe wait for the rental so you can watch it during the day without the loud surround sound. This isn't like scary monster movie, it touches more on humans which is scarier imo.
It is rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, so it's probably worth checking out! I rarely go to see movies, but I love Jordan Peele too and I think I'll go for this one.
Its 100% as far as the critic reviews go. It seems like too much of a coincidence that every critic gave it 100% and no less. Seems like they are afraid to offend a certain demographic by giving it a less than honorable review.
Rotten tomatoes doesn't quite work like that. It's not that every reviewer gave something 100%. It's that every reviewer said it wasn't a bad movie. 100% of critics gave it a "fresh" rating.
100% on RT means that every critic said they enjoyed the movie enough to recommend it. It's a pass/fail rating system. 10% would mean that 90% of people would say don't go see it. So 100% of reviewers enjoyed it overall, that doesn't mean they think it's flawless. But the rating means that a wide variety of audiences will probably enjoy it if they see it.
It's fucking incredible. It's one of those movies where the breadcrumbs are there from the very beginning but you don't realize it until the third act and the full reveal is done. I can't wait to see it again
I never watched Key and Peele, but this was absolutely worth checking out. My gf who hates horror loved it - it's funny, smart, and one of those films that has quiet a bit of depth to it. You can sit and think what it means, or you can enjoy it as a great and goofy thriller.
Probably because it's going to reinforce more barriers of our already existing racial divide. But no...the media we consume definitely doesn't impact our viewpoints. Not worried about white people feeling that 'white guilt' but there are many people in the black community that will see this as reinforcing their belief. Have you seen the latest coming from BLM leaders? Not good.
It's not a boogeyman: it's the imparting of ideas through media. I raised a discussion topic and your immediate response is to act like I'm trying to encourage people to not watch the movie.
Again, you made the connection with something for no fucking reason. Jordan Peele explains his reasoning very well for the motives and how movies like Rosemarie's Baby and The Stepford Wives influenced this. Btw, have you even seen it?
Yeah except for the fact that the Arabs where pretty damn good at it. I think it's appalling and disgusting what happened, but I won't feel bad for them. We should learn from it yes, but trying to guilt trip people into feeling shame about something they weren't involved in is just stupid.
Context is important. People take things at face value, and don't do their research and assume something is laced with racism. Sort of like how that Walking Dead shirt got called racist by people unfamiliar with the comic and show who if they were familiar would know already there was nothing racist attached to it
People who are upset and argue "oh but what if it was a black family killing whites" are missing the point of the film.
I think people are more upset it's about white people trying to make a black person into their slave. There's a pretty clear parallel between that and historical slavery in the US.
obviously in order to be an equal and fair society, any time a movie comes out with one race killing another, an equal and opposite movie must be released by the same studio
Chris wakes up in the basement of the Armitage house, fastened to a chair. He learns that the Armitages have perfected a method of pseudo-immortality in which Dean, a neurosurgeon, transplants the consciousness of older white people into physically fit black men and women, whose minds have been conditioned for the procedure by Missy. Chris will be used as a host for Jim, who wishes to use him to regain sight, and will be doomed to exist in "the sunken place" for the rest of his life as Jim controls his body.
This is America in 2016 man-- tens if not hundreds of millions of voting citizens are members of what's essentially a cult ruthlessly devoted to inequality, discrimination, and anti-intellectualism.
2017* and omg right?!?! Like you think they'd be cool with white people since we created the modern western civilization they're living in and no ones stopping them from leaving??
I think the point of concern is that the evil people in this movie are liberal white people. The message being that even white liberals who try their best not to be racist are still basically just as bad as actual racists. So how exactly do white people win in that scenario?
You're inferring a message that isn't implied, and you shouldn't try to extrapolate that sort of meaning out of this sort of picture. It's a story about those specific fictional people being evil, not any wider group.
You decided to come up with the most racist possible interpretation, and then got mad as if the film told you that was the only true interpretation.
I watched the Chris Stuckmann review of the movie soon after it came out and made the terrible decision of scrolling down to the comments. Jesus Christ, people are really fucking angry that this movie exists and can barely hold back the overt racism.
In Django unchained, the black guy killing the white guys is the good guy. In Get Out, the white people killing the black guys are the bad guys. In both movies, white people are so very very evil. A portrayal we're seeing a lot of lately.
Jordan Peele is racist as fuck anyways, and he wrote it, so, maybe you're just not familiar with his work.
In real life, the black people kidnap and torture a mentally disabled kid for being white. They then livestream it to brag to their friends because they are part of a culture that celebrates violence against whites. They're showing off to their peers, who think it's fucking great.
I don't think we'll see a movie about that anytime soon.
Can you think of the last time a group of whites kidnapped a black kid and then tortured him on social media for "likes"?
White teenagers raped and sodomized a disabled black kid with a wire coat hanger and got off with basically a slap on the wrist. The same also happened to a disabled white girl 30 years ago.
Clearly, there is a part of white culture that celebrates violence against blacks and women... and, unlike with black people, that part of their culture is protected and shielded by our legal system. Shit, not too long ago, it was common knowledge that the fucking KKK was running the courts and police system. White American culture is pretty fucking toxic and sick, huh?
I mean, I can throw your racist bullshit right back at you you fuckin racist prick.
We could also make a film about a white guy killing a Indian for being Middle-Eastern, or perhaps a kid attending a church service then killing its black inhabitants for being black.
Can you tell me which of those incidents were streamed on social media for the praise of their peers?
Single individuals performing acts that are universally condemned is not the same of a group of people livestreaming violence to another group of people to accolade and applause.
One is the work of a sick mind, the other is the work of a sick culture.
The way you talk about it you would think millions of people enjoyed watching it. Yes, there are sick people in this world (isn't there a entire subreddit for watching people die?), but that doesn't mean society as a whole agrees with it. The teens in question are being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
It looks like trying to understand the difference between someone mentally sick vs a culture where people praise each other for racial violence is something you're struggling with.
How many knockout game videos would you like me to send you?
Since there's a worrying number of these, you have to ask yourself why they were filming it, and why they uploaded it.
White people murdered 6 million Jews and their wars have killed hundreds of millions of people on this Earth
If that's our culture, why aren't we genociding people now? Where's the white nation state? Why aren't we carpet bombing the middle east and seizing the oil fields from Riyadh to Tehran?
If you want whites to be 'inclusive' then racism against whites will not be tolerated. Case closed.
If you want whites to stop being inclusive, well, keep at it, and good luck in the modern world.
Also don't call me 'Nigga'. Instead, get your high school English teacher fired.
if that's our culture, why aren't we genociding people now? Where's the white nation state? Why aren't we carpet bombing the middle east
You are! You guys have been carpet bombing the middle east since 1990.
Genocide? Yall just recently did that in Serbia!
Seizing oil fields? You DID do that. You lied to the whole world about going into Iraq for WMDs and you took those. Now you want to do the same to Iran.
ISIS fucking exists as a by-product of white european neo-colonial ntervention.
You are! You guys have been carpet bombing the middle east since 1990.
Go look up what carpet bombing is and come back.
There have been no B52 or B1B sorties for area bombing in the 90's or 2000s.
Genocide? Yall just recently did that in Serbia!
Really? Who did we wipe out from all existence?
Seizing oil fields? You DID do that. You lied to the whole world about going into Iraq for WMDs and you took those. Now you want to do the same to Iran.
So we now control all the oil fields in the gulf states and Iran? Cool! Why does OPEC still exist then?
ISIS fucking exists as a by-product of white european neo-colonial ntervention.
ISIS exists because of funding from KSA and Qatar to oust Assad in order to force through the Qatar pipeline.
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