Jordan Peele to Get Out!

[Kane52630]

My non spoiler review

Spoiler

I really enjoyed the hell out of it. When you consider the trailer and Jordan Peele's name, you'd think this will be a long Key & Peele sketch that was leaning on parody. However, this is actually a competently made horror/comedy that doesn't get lazy on the characters and has something to say. Daniel Kaluuya did a great job as the lead and you can buy his chemistry with Allison Williams. As for Lil Rel who plays Daniel's best friend, he kinda stole the show as the comic relief. The story has some layers to it, it's not just simply a horror/comedy film even though you can predict some of its beats. Overall, this is one of the better horror/comedies that was able to keep it balanced the entire time and also it's just a lot of fun.

9/10

 

[Kane52630]

To those who have seen it, [BLACKOUT]TS motherf***in A![/BLACKOUT]

 

[Galactus10]

I wanna see this.

Hope it's as clever as Peele can be, my gut feeling is this was a lightning in a bottle idea he got and then forged into reality. I didn't think Keanu was very good so hopefully this is one of the justifications for branching out and doing his own thing.

I still enjoy a good racial satire, so we'll see how layered this thing is.

 

[Kane52630]

I didn't think Keanu was good either, but this is solid.

 

[SuperBatman]

So psyched! I'll see this on Monday.

(Is it too much to hope for a trailer to It being attached?)

Probably since their different Studios

Looking at Rotten Tomatoes this is at 100% with 65 Fresh Reviews. That's impressive looks like this is a movie I need to check out.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

Got my tickets for tonight. I'm pretty pumped for this one.

 

[Drizzle]

The trailer caught my attention but with the unanimous praise this thing is getting, I might just check this out in theaters.

 

[Incarnadine]

85/0 RT now. That's the longest streak without a bad review for a wide release I've ever seen. The best I recall before that was Inside Out which went 84/0 before its first negative review in its 85th review.

 

[TheVileOne]

Solid, fun entertaining horror/suspense thriller. Worth watching at least once in the theater if you like these types of films. A couple fun subversions and surprising twists.

 

[weezerspider]

Good borderline great.

 

[Incarnadine]

93/0 now. After much looking, the only movie I can find with a longer perfect record is Boyhood which was 109/0 before its first negative review.

 

[Incarnadine]

And it has now hit a perfect 100/0

 

[BeserkerHilf]

and it's now at that magical 109th fresh review:

 

[Kane52630]

Watching the trailer again, there's two scenes that didn't make it to the movie...

Spoiler

 

[BoredGuy]

I didn't think Keanu was good either, but this is solid.

I thought Keanu was good but not great
like one of their less funny or overly drawn out skits

 

[Octoberist]

I think Keanu was directed by their usual director from their show, and he just had a slight problem with the tone and consistency of the jokes. Bored guy is right - it felt like a lesser of their skits, which is a shame. Not an awful movie but could've been...sharper.

 

[DrCosmic]

Watching the trailer again, there's two scenes that didn't make it to the movie...

Spoiler

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I was wondering what the heck was up with that helmet.

This movie was genuinely scary. We were tense the whole time, which is actually pretty crazy because the film starts kinda slow, but the beats are so well paced, and the mood set so well by the opening sequences, it seems to build to a slow realization, so that when it hits, it doesn't seem like a twist it's just kind of a horrified, almost train-wreck like feeling.

There is perhaps something to be said in that the first Black-centric truly horror film is also a comedy and also a social commentary. The balance makes it come off more as a thriller, really. I think if I had gone in expecting a thriller I would have enjoyed it even more.

 

[Incarnadine]

115/0 now.

It looks like the RT record holder is Toy Story 2 which is a perfect 163/163. Today that would be an extremely low number of reviews for a major release blockbuster, that type of movie gets 300-400 reviews now.

 

[terry78]

It's a very thought provoking satire. Feels like something they would've made in the 70s.

 

[Incarnadine]

I just saw the budget for this was just $4.5m and it did $1.8m in previews, which points to a $30m opening (maybe higher if it explodes even more because people will be curious after seeing the rating). This movie will be profitable after its opening day.

 

[kickass]

Dying to see this. My buddy who works at a movie theatre told me both showings were sold out for it last night (and funny enough, there were little to no black people in attendance lol).

 

[terry78]

That doesn't shock me. I hate to even say it but it might be a tad too woke for some black folks.

 

[Sithborg]

Guess I'm going to have to see it over spring break. Something rated that highly needs to be seen.

 

[Incarnadine]

124/0 now, but it looks like everyone's favorite contrarian critic, Armond White, has given it a bad review which will hit RT soon.
He gives virtually every high rated movie a bad review while praising crap.
He hated Rogue One, La La Land, Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Loving, and many other Fresh movies, but he liked Assassins Creed.

 

[DrCosmic]

That doesn't shock me. I hate to even say it but it might be a tad too woke for some black folks.

I kinda agree. There's a LOT of subtext in this movie, some of it is absolutely INSANE.

KILLER SPOILERS (seriously, go watch the movie first)

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The bait is that you think that these White folks want to enslave Black people, but no, they want to BE Black people. Which is kinda the bait and switch of society (that Dear White People also touched on well). The premise of the film is essentially high tech Blackface, and it is horrifying for the same reasons, but now focused on one person's literal experience instead of something happening on a cultural level. The implications that this movie touches on, the idea that there is something superior about Black folks genetically, that there is something about the Black "eye" that simply can't be shared, that the reality of experiencing that inferiority can affect White families for generations, I mean... geez. This is aside from the stuff that the movie digs in on. I mean, I was genuinely scared of White people this morning, like I just watched Birds during migration season or something. "Does that person want to erase me? That one?"

Even the end when the cop pulls up and no matter how colorblind anyone can pretend to be, they know what any cop would do in that situation, and it's actually the most profound and subversive way to show an audience how scary police brutality is. I mean... what kinda movie is it where you can be rooting for an innocent man and still be "Whew, glad that wasn't the cops!"

I could probably go on, but it's also probably best I stop here. Lest I get to woke.