What made Get Out great for you and this one just enjoyable?
I suppose for me, Invisible Man GOAT for me from having been on the receiving end of the heroine’s situation. The invisibility aspect elevated the otherwise visceral experience of surviving and escaping domestic abuse.
GO also GOAT so equally curious about why this one resonated with you as much as why TIM didn’t.
For me this was sci-fi with a horror twist, and enjoyable entertainment. But Get Out had a lot to say about racism that was perfectly integrated into the storyline, and for me that elevates it over a film based on domestic abuse that didn’t really explore that part of the story and unwittingly portrayed it as the domain of the freak/genius rather than of normal everyday people that we know it to be.
Interesting!
Did you happen to catch Peele’s follow-up Us?
Yes, and I thought it was another interesting and very ambitious film that maybe didn’t reach the peak of Get Out.
How about you?
Fascinating but didn’t stick with me like Get Out. I’ve seen GO several times, read infinite analysis, watched a bunch of videos, got the BR just to hear the feature commentary. There’s something about GO that plays into the whole “wtf is even happening, I doubt the nature of reality” experience I love in stories. I get that every time from GO, even knowing all of the twists.
But with US, I felt more like yep, I got it. Very well made.
We should put Get Out up on the watch party thread. Sounds like you might have a lot to say.
Man what happened to John Candy
Drugs. And food. Which, for him, was a drug.
“Hey Eugene, I know you’re trying to rock the cool dude vibes with the aviators and the chest hair, but your entire career is going to be defined by being… not that.”
I don’t know where to post this amazing thread but here seems ok.
https://twitter.com/raeloverde/status/1340241445496659968?s=21
There is more character development in the first 8 minutes of rote disaster movie Greenland than in all 2.5 hours of Tenet.
Got a bit bored with the other stuff I was watching, so I gave “Braven” on Netflix a shot (featuring Khal Drogo/Aquaman guy). It has some nice Alaska? landscape porn, and the main bad guy is Wolcott from Deadwood. That said, it was as goddamn atrocious as I imagine any of those Nick Cage direct to video movies I have never watched being.
I’ll spoiler this part I guess, but you should take my word for it and avoid this. The main dramatic element is that Aquaman’s father is declining mentally so Aquaman takes him to a secluded cabin to have the hard talk with him about how he [the father] was going to have to be supervised. Well, the bad guys stashed some drugs in the cabin the night before yadda yadda yadda Wolcott kills his father at the end. So like, bonus! The central moral question of how to care for your aging parent is solved by a drug dealer killing him. Also his wife is some larping archer but ofc manages to take down a spec ops merc.
It ain’t about how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can GET hit and keep moving forward.
Surprised to see a monologue from Rocky 6 in a very popular best monologue compilation lol, but this is pretty good!!
I’m sorry, they have Freaky on there but not Scare Me?
Hard pass.
That’s a movie that doesn’t get talked about much these days. Maybe that means it’s time for another AmWay-driven plot.
I seriously love that movie.
Well that’s just silly.
I’m pretty sure your post is the first mention of that movie in over a decade
You make me happy. I like to put easter eggs in my writing whenever I can, even my silly nothing posts like that, and I was secretly hoping but not really thinking anyone would catch that reference. I was peddling VHS tapes at Blockbuster when this gem was released. It brings back fond memories.
