Originally posted by Lestov16
Nah. This is Peele's best film, followed by Get Out, and lastly Us.
I didn't hate or even dislike Nope, just thought it was kinda okay to decent. I've certainly seen worse monster flicks.
Thor 4 had a few good/funny scenes and Jane Thor was nice to look at, but largely a borefest. If someone liked Thor 4 and they're over 15, they should kick themselves in their assholes.
I thought this film was brilliant on every level. I do concede that Us was probably a more entertaining film, but I felt this one was more ambitious and had better characters and themes, even if it was somewhat more of a slow burn. This film was 1987-Predator level in terms of how memorable its characters were. Even characters who were only in two second scenes, such as Jupes family and the unseen cast of Gordy's Home were fascinating. It's like Spielberg-level Awe with Tarantino-level-pacing and Scorcese-level wit. Just a smorgasbord of cinematic wonder imo. Get Out was worthy of all of its Oscars, and I thought Us was somewhat pretentious and nonsensical, but this movie? At the very least E.T./BTTF level, and at most Library Of Congress worthy imo.
Originally posted by Lestov16
I thought this film was brilliant on every level. I do concede thatUsGet Out was probably a more entertaining film, but I felt this one was more ambitious and had better characters and themes, even if it was somewhat more of a slow burn. This film was 1987-Predator level in terms of how memorable its characters were. Even characters who were only in two second scenes, such as Jupes family and the unseen cast of Gordy's Home were fascinating. It's like Spielberg-level awe with Cameron-level cinematography, Carpenter-level Lovecraftian horror, Tarantino-level-pacing/characters and Scorcese-level wit. Just a smorgasbord of cinematic wonder imo. Get Out was worthy of all of its Oscars, and I thought Us was somewhat pretentious and nonsensical, but this movie? At the very least E.T./BTTF level, and at most Library Of Congress worthy imo.
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Get Out was kinda brilliant too me, with great characters, imo. But I'm glad you loved this, you got your full 2hr and 15mins worth of entertainment.
Oh, the woman in the audience with the f***ed up face, was she connected to the chimp rampage? Or was that just something weird and not connected to anytime else?
During the Gordy attack scene, Gordy is heard tearing the face off an unconscious girl whose upper half is offscreen. During the Star Lasso scene, Jupe introduces her as Mary Jo Elliot, his former childhood infatuation. She is the last person seen inside Gordy's stomach, screaming under the horse skull, and her wheelchair rains down over the Haywood farm during the blood storm scene. In a bit arguable foreshadowing, Jupe calls her his "childhood crush" possibly alluding to Jean Jacket's method of digestive compression.
Originally posted by marcssands14
There's gonna be Directors Cut with a birthday episode of Gordys Home. I actually found his story scarier than the actual film and wouldn't mind a movie about him and what led up to his snap
Nothing led up to his snap. That's the point. A simple balloon pop turned Gordy from a harmlessly domesticated stage animal into a mercilessly savage beast. Just like the infamous Siegfried and Roy tiger bite incident, which the film directly references. The underlying theme is the Lovecraftian notion that humans can not tame the chaotic forces of nature.
I love how
Spoiler:
Gordy's rampage being instigated by the balloon popping is foreshadowing for how Jean Jacket finally defeated. Even the first lines of the film are foreshadowing. "Got to keep our heads up out the clouds on this one". Also at the very beginning you can hear the radio DJ talking about some missing hikers outside Agua Dulche, and it is presumably from these hikers that the nickel fell which killed Haywood Sr., as well as other falling debris which caused a traffic accident which the DJ mentions.
I watched this.
Needed more Keith David for sure.
The film was okay. I agree that it needed some more interesting writing, and perhaps creature design. I mean, I guess it's a stylistic choice going for something more elegant instead of monstery. I won't fault it for that. But yes, I agree that Gordy was the more terrifying and quite frankly interesting story. With some suspension of disbelief it was a pretty fun watch.
I do admire Peele's control over the craft. He's a talented filmmaker. I just wish he would take on some help with writing. It could greatly improve his films. Get Out is a damn near flawless film and it seems he'll never top it.
RLM helped me appreciate NOPE a little more.
I also noticed a little bit of an M. Night Shyamalan vibe...
I didn't hate it, and in fact I enjoyed most of it, despite being a slow-paced film. It's just a lot more vague than a typical blockbuster. It's probably hard to market a film like this that has an appearance of being a crowd-pleasing blockbuster, but isn't really. It's much more indie and odd...
This was trash. The plot was trash. The characters were trash. The chemistry was trash. Emerald Haywood is the most trash character in any film this year.
The shot of the horse shit was emblematic because that's what this film was. Horse shit.
The sound design was awesome though. And the blood rain scene was good.
The rest of it was trash.
Guff.
It would've been time better spent had I stayed home watching the sycophantic crap on TV about The Queen.