Jordan Peele to Get Out!

[Jekecy]

Seeing this with black audiences is one of the greatest cinematic experiences, people please find your nearest hood and grant yourself this gift.

 

[Boom]

Saw this tonight with a predominantly black crowd.

Great film, and the audience's participation throughout was hilarious.

 

[terry78]

Yes, this is a movie to go see what black folk. It's just gonna be uncomfortable for everyone else, lol.

 

[DeadStroke]

Seeing this with black audiences is one of the greatest cinematic experiences, people please find your nearest hood and grant yourself this gift.

Saw this tonight with a predominantly black crowd.

Great film, and the audience's participation throughout was hilarious.

Yes, this is a movie to go see what black folk. It's just gonna be uncomfortable for everyone else, lol.

The first time I saw it the suspense stood out the most. Mostly because you could hear a pin drop. Very unnerving.

The second time I saw it the humor stood out the most and that mostly came from the audience.

One of the few times I've been in the theater where the entire audience clapped at the end.

I think this is one of those movies you can get a different reaction each time you see it.

Too bad Peele isn't into doing genre films. I wanted him to direct Black Adam!

 

[Filmfan93]

So, what is the whole fuzz about? I've seen the trailer at my local theater at least 3 times and that trailer is very weird. I have no idea what this film is about. Is it good plot-wise?

 

[TheComicbookKid]

So, what is the whole fuzz about? I've seen the trailer at my local theater at least 3 times and that trailer is very weird. I have no idea what this film is about. Is it good plot-wise?

At it's base it's a thriller-comedy about race relations, but I don't know how this will play to UK audiences.

With something like Hot Fuzz, it was making fun of action movies in general. This might be a bit too Americanized that it will play flat. IDK.

 

[DeadStroke]

At it's base it's a thriller-comedy about race relations, but I don't know how this will play to UK audiences.

With something like Hot Fuzz, it was making fun of action movies in general. This might be a bit too Americanized that it will play flat. IDK.

Very interested in how it plays in the UK.

I think Peele's script is sharper than most Edgar Wright's scripts. However, Edgar knows how to elevate material with his camera work. Peele while good is no Edgar Wright in that regard. So it could very well fall flat for them. I hope not.

It will be very interesting if they find the Rod character hilarious or tonally a distraction. Tough to tell if they get all the nuances from the social commentary.

 

[Boom]

I thought Rod was perfectly believable as a character. Nothing about him felt forced to me.

 

[Warhammer]

I hate to be on the same side as Armond White lol but I didn't particularly enjoy it.

First the positive, strong performances and well directed. Peele really was able to create tension and mood. I found it to be a little too mean spirited and seemed to lose it's satirical wit in the third act. I mean people in the audience were cheering each time one of the Armitages were killed. While I was rooting for the protagonist to get out of the house, I didn't quite understand that type of response. It sort of reminded me of when Dave Chapelle canceled his show because someone laughed too hard one of his racial jokes.

I also felt that some of what it was doing was a little bit too on the nose and sometimes it seemed muddled. For instance, the blind man isn't racist but still takes advantage of his position in this cult to subjugate these black men who are being taken and used.

As someone who is White and Latino I always find it odd that we often look and discuss race as a dichotomy between white and black in this country. Which is why I was hesitant in seeing this movie because I was worried that it would look at it through that type of lens.

Damn son.

 

[summerteeth]

Really? They treated these men and woman like cattle(ie a slave auction.)

If he'd just got out of there, he'd basically been leaving them to simply find another person to be their cattle.

The last time I remember seeing an audience response like that was QT's Death Proof where Stuntman Mike, someone who treated women as inferior, got what was coming to him when the women beat him to a pulp.

You misunderstood what I was saying. I'm not saying they didn't deserve to die, I just was more concerned with him getting out safely that's where my head was at. It wasn't at I hope all these people die, not that they didn't deserve it.

Death Proof is actually a great example of why I have such a problem with the third act of this film. I mean Tarantino and Russell do such a great job taking something horrifying and allowing you to gleefully take part in it. Seeing Kurt Russell's macho man break down into high pitched squealing, the whole scene plays over the top and plays comically. The final act of Get Out lacks any of that up until Chris' friend shows up in the TSA car. I'm not sure if we are supposed to laugh at the fact that someone gets bludgeoned by a bocce ball but that didn't get any laughs in my theatre. The film loses it's wit and humor in that final act that had been a strength throughout. I don't feel like I was supposed to laugh during those deaths and really nobody else did.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Very interested in how it plays in the UK.

I think Peele's script is sharper than most Edgar Wright's scripts. However, Edgar knows how to elevate material with his camera work. Peele while good is no Edgar Wright in that regard. So it could very well fall flat for them. I hope not.

I think on a simpler level, the race dynamics (at least based on my understanding from watching a lot of PBS/BBC stuff) stuff might feel like them watching an example as a third party instead of "oh, yeah. I can relate."

The way there was one Asian guy at the party probably wouldn't ring any bells to them as if it were an Indian or Pakistani.

Or the feeling of walking in an unfamiliar suburb as a black man was in the beginning.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

You misunderstood what I was saying. I'm not saying they didn't deserve to die, I just was more concerned with him getting out safely that's where my head was at. It wasn't at I hope all these people die, not that they didn't deserve it.

While I wasn't expecting the deer head thing. I think Peele did a good job showing him only directly going after the family members that could hurt him.
The son physically, the father physically, and the mom with the trigger. He didn't go out his way to attack the grandmother, grandfather, or Rose. Even going as far as to try and save the grandmother even though he knew what she was.

Contrast that with something like Django where he just wrecked shop cause all of them had to pay.

 

[thejon93rd]

JERK ALERT! Get Out gets its first negative review from film critic extraordinaire Mr. Armond White.

 

[terry78]

If you've ever dated a white person and you're not white obviously, it hits a weird nerve. Just subconsciously giving side eye, haha.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

This movie's extraordinary box office run so far is happening because it is such a well put together film. And the secret ingredient is the humor. It is an instant horror classic.

 

[kickass]

Saw it, liked it, I'd give it an 8/10! I thought the girlfriend was insanely gorgeous and likeable and I loved the mom as well. I actually feel like the main star could have been a bit better actually. But all in all it was a lot of fun. I wonder how a movie with evil black folks meeting their son's white girlfriend would pan out?

 

[terry78]

That would never happen. Unless they were just adamant whitey haters.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Bernie and Ashton covered that already.

 

[coreymb16]

I have read some newer box office numbers that Get Out actually made $28.32m this past weekend! One of the smallest (if not the smallest) for a horror movie. This is nothing short of amazing! Logan also increased about $3m from its earlier estimates. Truly awesome weekend for these movies.

 

[DeadStroke]

Just had a UK screening. Most responded to the concept/thriller aspect. The humor not as much.

 

[chaseter]

So this is basically The Skeleton Key without voodoo...

 

[Kane52630]

 

[scarlet-witch]

Get Out is going to pass the $100M mark domestically today.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Its $$$ box office is great news, so pleased its doing well.

 

[gwynplaine]

Really liked this film. Very impressive directorial debut. I wasn't familiar with Daniel Kaluuya and thought he was great and totally carried the film. I also like how between this and Cabin in the Woods, Bradley Whitford is carving himself a nice little place in modern horror films. Great performances all around, I dug Stephen Root too, I like when comedians do horror or drama lol.