Jordan Peele’’s 'Us'

YIKES at that script. cannot believe Peele did something so half baked. It is still a good movie because acting and execution but it's nowhere near Get Out. The script is really really lazy
 
As I sit with it more...I might like it more than Get Out. I have to see it again but the last 24 hours it's grown on me even more.

I think horror is actually in a really great place at least in the mainstream. Sure you have a lot of mediocre looking ones, but a lot have been very good. I'm not the biggest horror fan. 1) I just don't like the negative emotion of being scared 2) So many horror movies have too many dumb characters 3) None of the characters are interesting

But in the last couple years Get Out, Us, It, Split, Life, A Quiet Place have all been good to great to me with some really cool filmmaking and actually interested, and for the most part not dumb, characters
 
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That is what I enjoy about Peele's movies. He knows the horror cliches of people doing stupid stuff and basically writes it so that sometimes the characters have no choice but to do things because there's no other option.
 
Damn $70M is surprising for a brand new horror movie that's not a remake or part of a larger franchise. Shows that people like original material from film makers.
 
His rep didn't hurt either.
 
This was a very good movie but I loved Get out more. What I mostly love about Peele's films is that they are scary but at the same time very funny, and they stay with you. I can't stop thinking about it, same happened with Get out. The twist was expected but still well executed. I especially loved the soundtrack and the score.
Everyone was great but Lupita was phenomenal, if she doesn't get a nomination I'll throw some hands. Peele just confirmed that Get out wasn't a fluke and I can't wait to see what he does next.
 
They're probably gonna give him a bigger budget for whatever he does next, even though he probably likes going smaller. Unless he does Gargoyles, fingers crossed.
 
I wasn’t ready for this.

It was gripping from start to finish. I’m not easily unsettled, but I felt unnerved at several points throughout the film. Very, very rarely is a movie able to make my skin crawl, and the fact that it happened as often as it did, and to the extent that it did, speaks to the strength of the production.

I need to see this again. I think there was some commentary that I might have missed (or didn’t fully understand) on first viewing. There’s one line in particular that really stood out to me and I’d like to watch the movie a second time with it in mind to fully grasp what Peele might have been trying to say.

My biggest - and probably only - issue with the film is that there are a few jarring tonal shifts. The film is genuinely funny, and the comedy mostly works, but there were moments where it felt very misplaced.

There isn’t enough praise that I can throw in Lupita Nyong’o’s direction. There wasn’t a single weak link in the cast (not even the children were less than good, and that’s high praise considering the dramatic material they had to work with), but she was THE standout. What a sublime performance. I was blown away by her.

The movies are very different, but for the sake of comparison: I feel like Us reached much greater heights, but Get Out was much more consistent where tone and narrative were concerned.

I’ll need to see it again before deciding on a proper rating, but right now I’m thinking 8.5/10. This will be the film to beat this year. Amazing direction, superb acting, and some damn good scares. I love me some Peele.

EDIT: Actually, there’s one more issue that I have. There’s an explanation about something that I could’ve done without. It doesn’t ruin the movie, but it does make the events surrounding it a little more...mundane, relatively speaking.
 
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What are you talking about?
Whatever you think about the quality of them, his last 2 movies were 100 million dollar grossers domestically and both grossed over 200 mill WW. I don't think he's "trying to be relevant"
 
harlequinade said:
YIKES at that script. cannot believe Peele did something so half baked. It is still a good movie because acting and execution but it's nowhere near Get Out. The script is really really lazy
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Script isn't lazy at all.

Is it as good of a script as Get Out? No. Because that script was darn near perfect and why it deserved the oscar that year.

However, the script here was very good. Not perfect, but not lazy either, lol.

It also helps to see it more than once to catch subtle details in the writing.
 
I was annoyed when Toni Collette got no recognition for Hereditary, but Jesus, Lupita better get some awards love for this. She was crazy good.
 
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I was annoyed when Toni Collette got no recognition for Hereditary, but Jesus, Lupita better get some awards love for this. She was crazy good.
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You could make the case she should be nominated for both performances.

Last time I felt like that was in regards to Nic Cage in Adaptation.

There will probably be a couple better performances than her Adelaide character. However, Red...my word was that brilliant.
 
Saw this tonight and loved it overall. Definitely liked it more than Get Out and Lupita is phenomenal in it. She had better get an Oscar nom for this because it might be her best performance yet. The girl who played her daughter was fantastic too. Winston Duke was kinda funny but if there was a weak link in the cast, it was him. Though maybe I just felt that way because I couldn’t believe what a worthless coward his character turned out to be. Anyway though, it was an overall great film with imagery that stays with you. The score was amazing too. That main theme might be the creepiest theme I’ve heard since Eyes Wide Shut.
 
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Script isn't lazy at all.

Is it as good of a script as Get Out? No. Because that script was darn near perfect and why it deserved the oscar that year.

However, the script here was very good. Not perfect, but not lazy either, lol.

It also helps to see it more than once to catch subtle details in the writing.
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Really? not lazy?
1. What happens to the clone when a real person flies from point A to point B?
2. How do the clones not die of disease or child birth?
3. Why are the tunnels so clean if the experiment is 'abandonded'?
4. Why have Red speculate it was abandoned and not just leave it be without explanation to avoid plot holes?
5. Why would a government just abandon this experiment without getting rid of the clones?
6. Why wasn't the entry to the tunnels guarded?
7. How come this clone was the only one to managed to get out? There was just one power failure in 30 years?
8. Real Adelaide didn't find a way out for 30 years?
9. Why don't the authorities just shoot the clones doing the Hand Across the America thing?

Then you have a whole bunch of people writing weird theories like Jason is a clone even tho it makes no damn sense just because they didn't get the youngest clone was the most feral/most prone to copying. The script is a damn mess

those just off the top of my head. That's about all the time I am willing to spend tying to make sense of this. You have dozens of people online confused not because this is brilliant but because it is filled with gaping holes, inconsistencies and leaps of faith.
 
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