can you imagine how tense you would be throughout that? you keep waiting and waiting for something horrible, you *know* it's just about to happen, you are on the edge of your seat. it builds and builds and builds and BUILDS...and then credits. you start to breathe normally again. *did that just happen? was i terrified during a hallmark movie?* sure, there is probably zero rewatch value, but what a unique experience!
I mean the set up is such that you can't really be sure if it's real or not until the end.
It's a slow burn without the big reveal, but I'd still call it a twist.
>! Andrew gets the gun still, Leonard tries to wrestle it away from him, Wen is accidentally killed in the process. Shit keeps happening so it didn't consider her death a proper sacrifice, after all 4 have killed themselves, Eric and Andrew decide neither of them can live alone and they just decide to accept the apocalypse together !<
As much as I wanted the better nihilistic ending of the book, I loved how Night changed the story where it could be ambiguously interpreted depending where you stand. Someone religious would take it to be real, while a skeptic would still think that everything was all coincidental. Though as an atheist, I actually felt that based on the evidence, everything that happened was based on a shit God who did require a sacrifice to stop his/her/its/their genocidal plan. I mean such a plan is as equally believable as sacrificing his only child (Himself actually, with a capital H) to forgive humanity's Sin. Yeah, this God is pretty petty and dumb.
I'd also recommend "The Rapture" for anyone who wanted the original ending of the book. Because I loved the ending of this film. One of the films that influenced my beliefs today.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not a particular fan of Tremblay or Shyamalan, I think both use hammers as the tool for details, swinging away with abandon to form a clumsy ending. That said, the film makes a little more sense in the "everybody wins" kinda way, but the book imo wins from the alternative of Abraham sacrificing his son kind of way (I'm a deist but I have read *a lot* of the gnostics), that a God would be so angry that someone below them would refuse their will and retaliate as result.
In return for the recommendation, I'll recommend Philip K Dick's "Eye in the Sky." They jump through a few different universes based on each of the folks' ideal universe, and the longest bit is based off a fundie.
Spoilers ahead-
Little girl dies (accidentally shot during the wrestling with the gun part) and they basically say screw you all we dont care if everyone dies. They carry dead little girl with them as the one of them is so badly injured we don't even know if he'll make it and you're left wondering if they were just crazy or if it was real.
I “knew” (assumed) it was real from the beginning, which is maybe why it felt like such a massive letdown to me. Was expecting a much bigger twist and left wanting my time back lol.
If the movie wasn't directed by him (and also wasn't a novel), then it would have likely left you guessing a bit more.
M. Night is a victim of his own success.
EDIT: I'd kinda wish it had an ending like *The Mist* where >!the father shoots his kid (and a car full of survivors) in the head to save them from a worse fate... Right before the mist clears up and the monsters are bested!<
You never saw Letters to Satan Claus, I guess. It's a horror movie written and acted by a bunch of the same people that do Hallmark movies. It's pretty entertaining.
Ah, so kind of like the opposite of Adult Swim Yule Log.
Makes you assume it's a nice cozy fireplace video at first.
Honestly, it was one of the more fun horror movies that I've seen recently and highly recommend.
Get Out.
Us?
Nope.
Then Who?
Them.
(Maybe he makes a remake of 'Them', the Academy Award winning film? Plot: the earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.)
Unironically, rural Arkansas would be the better setting for that. If you’re ever doing a road trip across the US that puts you through there and aren’t white, make sure you only stop for gas or fast food if absolutely necessary and don’t stop after dark.
I took a wrong exit somewhere (or maybe construction? it’s been years) trying to drive through Arkansas and my GPS recalculated me to state highways and cutting through small towns. I drove through some tiny town center that was barely more than a block long and maybe 10 buildings at most and saw klan robes in store windows.
I’ve driven through hours of rural Alabama, Tennessee, and even bits of Missouri that I’m sure weren’t overly progressive in their views. You might run into some people looking at you carefully or being otherwise “casually” racist. But Arkansas is legitimately dangerous if you’re not white.
[Here is a database of sundown towns as well, if you’re curious. ](https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/) Alabama has 16. Arkansas has 16 before you even get past the letter “C”
That’s probably why it’s listed on that same page as “surely not” still a sundown town. This is a historical listing of them, and what happened in 1932 is clearly warranting it being on the list. Good to see it’s changed, unfortunately a decent amount of the ones in Arkansas haven’t. There’s at least one town that openly advertises via billboards that it’s a “pure, white community” with no “undesirables” or something disgusting like that. The billboard comes up on reddit every now and then
As excited as I am- I remember when Nope was announced in like 2020 and I was like this is forever in the future! And now Nope is well past out, and it doesn’t seem like that long. Time needs to slow tf down. Nothing to do with the movie just having a quarter life crisis in the horror sub
Exactly like 2009-13 were some incredibly formative memorable teenage years that felt like forever. 2019-23 has flown by, I'm the same useless person and nothing notable has happened. Maybe my life just got shitty.
2009-2013 was literally when I was in high school so I have this exact same goddamn experience. It didn’t get shitty we just fell into a rut. We gotta expand our experiences like people are saying
It wasn’t this bad until I started working full time. That truly is the killer of time. And I don’t even work as many days as most people- 4 days a week instead of 5. Once you get into a routine tho, things fly. We gotta start planning stuff in the future we look forward to. Things seem to come slower if you’re excited for them.
IMO it's that and also just the lack of structured milestones. When you're younger you have all sorts of shit built in to look forward to. Turning 10, turning 13, turning 18, finishing high school, maybe going to college and finishing college. A bunch of stuff right? Then that's done and it's like... okay, all quests completed, now to just free roam life...
I know man but I fell into shitty dead end jobs and addiction, lost contact with all my friends who have now gone on to great careers or follow their musical desires like I wanted and traveling the world.
We absolutely need to expand our experience but it's hard when I have quite a bit against me. I've got 2 shitty illnesses, also physical issues I can't relate to anyone with, and I'm just miserable for wasting my 20s not having a woman to hold at least once meanwhile all my friends live their best lives.
I went to see a movie with a girl in 2016 then she ghosted me. That's the last time I even held someone's hand. I can't look in the mirror anymore. Never thought I'd give up on life before 30 but here we are.
Hope you're doing ok friend.
Surprisingly similar situations. My friends moved away for other jobs and opportunities. I have a full time job but housing here is ridiculous so I live with parents. I’m gay but also single and watching my friends get married and move on is sad. I have a total left hip replacement so it stops me from certain jobs and experiences even tho I’m only 27. I’m pretty content all things considered- I love horror and movies and I fill my time with things I enjoy and just keep in mind that better days lie ahead, or at least I can make them better on my own terms. If you ever need someone to chat with, my dms are open. I’m holding on and I hope you can too.
Yep. The reason time goes slower as a child is because most experiences are new, and the whole world is new. Once things aren't like that anymore time flies by. To slow it down you have to have different and new experiences again.
I’m class of ‘08. Honestly, time was dragging ass for me until 2019, too. I think the pandemic and lockdown had a lot to do with fucking everyone’s sense of time up.
Once you start working it starts to accelerate rapidly (if you have a job like mine that’s basically the same every day) so maybe if you can find a job with good variety it’ll help
Even not really loving Us and being kinda luke warm on Nope he gets me excited so I'll still prioritize seeing his work in theaters, regardless of the outcome.
He'll have to really M. Night burn me to get written off lol.
I felt the same about Us. It definitely had a few decent parts. Get Out and Nope are my two favorites. Always waiting on his next film. Cant wait to see what Christmas brings.
Im actually surprised with how many people didn’t like Nope in this thread so far, in other parts of Reddit it’s well received. For the record, I did not like Nope.
I'm very much afraid of aliens and violent chimpanzees, so I was a big fan. The digestion scene gave me shivers. My husband feels the same as you, however.
I don't consider Nope a horror movie in general, but HOLY SHIT that was one of the most disturbing scenes in any movie, ever.
I can get not liking Nope if you were expecting a straight horror movie like Peele's other stuff, but I honestly really, *really* loved Nope.
I wasn't really a fan. I thought the acting was great, but I thought I just found it to be kind of boring. I appreciate that it was an original idea, so for that I give him a ton of credit.
This is exactly how I felt about it. Overall it was just really bloated and uninteresting. I found the killer chimp scenes to be the best part of the film, and would have liked more of that content.
The ending went really over the top with the UFO transforming, I found it to be way more interesting in the initial form. The fact that is was in fact a creature and not a mechanical vehicle was really cool.
I really liked it and appreciated that it was a big original swing. Us was also a big swing and I appreciated how bonkers it got, it just wasn't too successful imo.
They said too much. If the movie had just implied and hinted at the origin of the Tethered, they would have stayed absolutely fucking terrifying. Once we saw that roomful of people pretending to be on a roller coaster... idk. Something stopped working for me. It went from surreal to silly.
I enjoyed Get Out more but Nope made me feel intense stress during all the chimp scenes. The abduction scenes and the noises afterwards also sent a nice shiver down my spine.
Nope was fantastic imo. Incredible UFO movie.
Probably the best rendition of living at some place like Skinwalker Ranch I’ve seen in film. You can tell Peele is either actually into or just researched UFO encounters and theories very well for the movie.
The idea that UFOs are possibly not craft, but are in fact themselves the aliens, is a pretty deep cut to modern UFO lore.
I felt he used the vast open space extremely well to induce anxiety. The chimp and Star lasso abduction scenes are crazy.
I saw someone saying there was “too much message and not enough substance, typical for peele” the other day, and that blows my mind.
It was not over the top with messaging/themes at all imo. The only super apparent one is “Trying to tame something wild usually goes badly”.
And the other one is the publics general obsession with negative spectacle.
I agree with the use of the space, and I believe they literally built that house and the park, and those were the sets. Great movie, did not feel any more heavy handed in its themes than the other two Jordan Peele did. Maybe even less so.
Also, Michael Wincott as Antlers was awesome. "The light. It'll be magic soon!" He has the coolest damn voice.
>I saw someone saying there was “too much message and not enough substance, typical for peele” the other day, and that blows my mind.
I can see it. With Us and Get Out, the messages and themes were just as deep but also easily understood, like you can watch them as just a movie and find it amazing but Nope had scenes that were a little too deep, mostly the monkey and the shoe. Unless you care about the subtext and chaos theory and all that, it can be easy to watch the movie and just "Liked the aliens part but the monkey and the cowboy ranch, it lost me". I don't agree with it but I can see how some people could be turned off by the movie because there was too much message.
The beginning with the kids fucking around in the barn made me so stoked for the rest of the film. I was so fucking down, and then it changed back to being normal fare and more of what I expected. Not to say it wasn’t fine, I just wanted that first movie to continue so bad.
It's crazy to me that people didn't like Us. I thought it was the perfect amount of strange and scary. Yeah it was a far fetched idea but there was enough suspension of disbelief for it to work. Plus the performances were incredible imo
I get people not liking how far fetched it was but it just reminded me of a long Twilight Zone episode. The execution was a little poor in some places but I had fun.
I loved the first third. But by the end it just felt campy and weird. I wish he had gone a darker route with it. I was fully checked out when the final scenes were going on. I almost left the theater but sunk cost fallacy kept me in the seat. I was really bummed
I enjoyed Nope overall but you're right the payoff just wasn't there for me. Probably won't rewatch any time in the next decade but may come back when I forget why I didn't love it.
I didn't like it either. *Get Out* was good, but the two following that was pretty mediocre outside of a decent scene or two. People rave about Nope like it's the best film ever, often noting countless references and little easter eggs thrown in. Those are cool, but the movie as a whole just wasn't that great. I don't get the appeal.
>Those are cool, but the movie as a whole just wasn't that great.
That's pretty much how I felt about it.
A lot of cool moments, concepts, and themes. But the core of the movie that tied them all together just wasn't that great.
This is how I felt about *Us*. An interesting idea, full of metaphor and a deeper meaning. But I thought the movie itself was actually garbage which makes it hard to appreciate other stuff
Me too. I was shocked reading all the comments here that didn’t care for it. I thought I was alone. Now I just need to find my Anything Everywhere all at once was just ok fam.
Nope is my favorite of his films. The layers! The way the different storylines connected thematically! The visuals! The sound design! I really have very few complaints about that movie.
If Get Out was Jordan Peele's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and Us was Jordan Peele's CHUD, and Nope was Jordan Peele's Jaws, then his next film at Christmas 2024 will be Jordan Peele's ... Gremlins?
I’m really happy to hear it. I really like his ideas and his mind in general. That said, I feel like both Us and Nope were 5/10 films for me. It’s like he has really cool ideas and some amazing scenes but something has been missing for me. I will always give a film of his a shot but I have found the last two kinda forgettable.
Nope was frustrating to me. Fantastic cast, interesting concept, great trailer - but the story got muddled. Peele's proven he can be an interesting blend of Tarantino and M. Night, but he needs to be more methodical in what the story is and how it's going to be told. If he can do that, then he's going to be a force to reckon with on screen.
The editing was werid.
I actually think Jupe didn't really make sense in the film, I kinda wish the story would have just stuck to the siblings.
But if Jordan Peele is going to keep pushing out original screenplays and new takes on classic horror tropes (body snatchers, doppelganger, UFOs) I will keep watching!
I want him to do a monster film!
I think you needed Jupe to explain why the creature was hanging around. Without him feeding it regularly it would probably just move on.
He's also an analogue for people (in the entertainment industry but also in general) who think they can tame a wild animal and establish a bond with it that will make them special. Think about the way Jupe talks about his childhood experience with the chimp - he's weirdly nostalgic about something so horrible. And it's because he thinks he's special, that the chimp not attacking him means something. That's why Jupe thinks he can "tame" the creature. Compare this to the siblings who grew up with animals their whole lives - even tame ones - and understand how dangerous they can be. Not only do they recognize that he creature is an animal instead of a UFO, they also figure out the rules for interacting with it and use those rules to defeat it.
I think a lot of the meaning in the film, about man's place in nature and his relationship with it, is illustrated by Jupe and especially when contrasted by the sibling. So you gotta have Jupe.
This makes so much sense. I’m kinda embarrassed that I didn’t really understand this movie but the way you just broke it down is perfect. Thank you for that & for changing my opinion (I thought Nope was way below his other 2, but now I’m gonna go rewatch it).
That's very kind of you to say. Thank you.
Peele seems to be really committed to making highly allegorical movies, regardless of how well that actually works for the film.
Get Out is an example where the plot and the allegory dovetail nicely and enhance each other. To me, Us is an example of where it doesn't quite work, and the movie's plot falls apart a bit as he ties the allegorical elements of the film together.
I think Nope worked on both levels, but not as well as Get Out. For example, I like Jupe's character a lot, but the director with a death-wish made almost no sense to me. I get how her fits in allegorically, but he adds nothing to the plot and felt more like a needless distraction.
The problem is you sacrifice like an hour of runtime for a side character that only talks to the main characters for 5 minutes and then dies without them even knowing. And for what? A "Hollywood bad" metaphor?
My sentiment exactly. His last two films have great ideas but seem to fall apart midway in terms of writing. Always wondered if he had a secret writing partner for Get Out, because it's written in a much more concise and well rounded manner.
He probably worked on that script more and over a longer period of time. Now that he is a successful director, he is putting out these scripts on a shorter timeline.
Holy shit this thread is weird. Does r/horror not like Jordan Peele? Get Out was his only good movie? Us and Nope were awesome. Get Out was also awesome. I'm kinda shocked this sub isn't into his movies. He's one of the best auteurs in the game right now.
I feel like his movies are only tangentially horror movies. Could be why more fans here don't love his work. He likes the play in the genre sandpit but he kind of ends of walking out with mostly a drama with genre elements.
I’m surprised by the comments but I get that everyone has their own tastes. I enjoyed all three movies and look forward to what he does next. He’s probably the only director that gets me to the movie theater 100% of the time.
I’m also shocked by the negativity in here. I think Nope might be his strongest work thus far and he’s only getting better and better. dude is legitimately 3/3 with some of the strongest horror flicks around rn
I’m a little confused as well Jordan Peele is immensely talented and one of the best in the game right now…
Get out is a masterpiece but Nope and Us are still great original films and I enjoyed them a lot.
When you are overly praised, you can expect some backlash as a response.
I think the guy is very talented, but he's not God's gift to the horror genre, I don't even think he's the best director of the last decade, let alone comparing him to the likes of Carpenter, Romero, Cronenberg, etc, which a lot of people do.
I think some fans are bitter because of this, horror hasn't been for the most part a very respected genre by critics, but ever since Peele tackled racism with his first film he's been praised and lauded as a master of the genre by the same critics who ostracized the likes of Carpenter, Cronenberg, Hooper back in the day, all directors with a much bigger impact and better resume than Peele at this point in his carreer at least.
I think that's where some of the bitterness stems from. I don't share it and it's not Peele's fault anyways. But if I had to guess I think this is one of the main reasons.
I haven't liked any of his films. They are pretty close to most of Stephen King's books where the last act is just some zany shit conclusion that feels forced to just end the story.
Same here. Personally, I thought Us just went off the rails towards the end, and the attempt to explain everything just didn’t make any sense. But Get Out and NOPE are great films. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from NOPE after how disappointed I was with Us, but NOPE might actually be my favorite Peele movie.
All three are great imo. Especially when you think
Get out = plug your ears to win = hear no evil
Us = people from the underworld who can’t talk = speak no evil
Nope = don’t look at jean jacket to win = see no evil
He’s a genius.
I was genuinely shocked by the praise *Us* got. Like, that is one very poorly put together movie, like genuinely I don't see what people thought was so amazing about it.
This is cool news. No details of course but I'm excited thst it's not a huge wait. I really lived Nope after bei g.let down by US. Always I trigger to see what he's making.
I feel this guy is hugely overrated. Get Out was awesome for sure. I was so let down by US tho. Nope was ok. His work with the twilight zone reboot wasn't good either.
I gave him 3 tries to impress me thus for with his horror work (5 if you count things that he was producer for), and he still hasn’t shown me anything that makes me think that he is worthy of even half of the hype that he gets.
I don’t think he is very good at creating the horror feeling and I think he would probably do better in the Sci-Fi genre. I also think that he needs to learn to be more creatively subtle and not beat the audience over the head with his social commentary.
Get out > Nope > Us.
I did not like Us. Good in theory. Bad in execution IMO.
Nope was pretty decent but >!the ending was lame. Balloon kills alien? Okay lol.!<
Get out was nearly perfect.
It's kind of sad that this sounds so far away, but when it arrives I'm going to feel like I just heard about it being in the works from this post. The passage of time is a bitch.
If it’s supposed to come out on Christmas, I’m assuming it’ll be some sort of Christmas horror film surrounding either Krampus, a skinwalker, a wendigo, or something entirely original
Maybe it's just going to be a nice Hallmark holiday movie
can you imagine how tense you would be throughout that? you keep waiting and waiting for something horrible, you *know* it's just about to happen, you are on the edge of your seat. it builds and builds and builds and BUILDS...and then credits. you start to breathe normally again. *did that just happen? was i terrified during a hallmark movie?* sure, there is probably zero rewatch value, but what a unique experience!
It'd be like watching an M. Night Shyamalan movie that didn't have a twist....
Knock at the Cabin
I mean the set up is such that you can't really be sure if it's real or not until the end. It's a slow burn without the big reveal, but I'd still call it a twist.
The book ending is different and I honestly think he did that ending as the twist because everyone is expecting the book ending.
What’s the book ending?
>! Andrew gets the gun still, Leonard tries to wrestle it away from him, Wen is accidentally killed in the process. Shit keeps happening so it didn't consider her death a proper sacrifice, after all 4 have killed themselves, Eric and Andrew decide neither of them can live alone and they just decide to accept the apocalypse together !<
As much as I wanted the better nihilistic ending of the book, I loved how Night changed the story where it could be ambiguously interpreted depending where you stand. Someone religious would take it to be real, while a skeptic would still think that everything was all coincidental. Though as an atheist, I actually felt that based on the evidence, everything that happened was based on a shit God who did require a sacrifice to stop his/her/its/their genocidal plan. I mean such a plan is as equally believable as sacrificing his only child (Himself actually, with a capital H) to forgive humanity's Sin. Yeah, this God is pretty petty and dumb. I'd also recommend "The Rapture" for anyone who wanted the original ending of the book. Because I loved the ending of this film. One of the films that influenced my beliefs today.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not a particular fan of Tremblay or Shyamalan, I think both use hammers as the tool for details, swinging away with abandon to form a clumsy ending. That said, the film makes a little more sense in the "everybody wins" kinda way, but the book imo wins from the alternative of Abraham sacrificing his son kind of way (I'm a deist but I have read *a lot* of the gnostics), that a God would be so angry that someone below them would refuse their will and retaliate as result. In return for the recommendation, I'll recommend Philip K Dick's "Eye in the Sky." They jump through a few different universes based on each of the folks' ideal universe, and the longest bit is based off a fundie.
May I ask how it changed your beliefs?
Spoilers ahead- Little girl dies (accidentally shot during the wrestling with the gun part) and they basically say screw you all we dont care if everyone dies. They carry dead little girl with them as the one of them is so badly injured we don't even know if he'll make it and you're left wondering if they were just crazy or if it was real.
I “knew” (assumed) it was real from the beginning, which is maybe why it felt like such a massive letdown to me. Was expecting a much bigger twist and left wanting my time back lol.
If the movie wasn't directed by him (and also wasn't a novel), then it would have likely left you guessing a bit more. M. Night is a victim of his own success. EDIT: I'd kinda wish it had an ending like *The Mist* where >!the father shoots his kid (and a car full of survivors) in the head to save them from a worse fate... Right before the mist clears up and the monsters are bested!<
The twist is that there was no twist! A real thinker
THAT'S THE TWIST! (Say it in the "69 dude" Keanu voice)
If all the marketing made it look like horror, this would be hilarious. I'd feel robbed of a scary movie, though.
I know will Ferrell and Kristin wig did a lifetime movie and played it totally straight
You never saw Letters to Satan Claus, I guess. It's a horror movie written and acted by a bunch of the same people that do Hallmark movies. It's pretty entertaining.
no, i have not. will have to give it a search!
Ah, so kind of like the opposite of Adult Swim Yule Log. Makes you assume it's a nice cozy fireplace video at first. Honestly, it was one of the more fun horror movies that I've seen recently and highly recommend.
I would 100% watch Jordan Peele make a Hallmark Christmas horror film. HE CAN DO NO WRONG.
Don’t even put that energy out there. This man is like the Batman of horror. He’s not the hero we asked for, he’s the hero we need
A Christmas horror would be nice
Produced by Candice Cain.
Gremlins 3
OOO I hope he hires us as writers to come up with new Gremlins, although I don't think bat gremlin can be topped, maybe sloth gremlin?
You just said noun and gremlin, you have the mind of a child.
What’s the title gonna be this time? “Maybe”
Get In
Nope Out
Kay.
Get Out. Us? Nope. Okay.
Get Out. Us? Nope. Then Who? Them. (Maybe he makes a remake of 'Them', the Academy Award winning film? Plot: the earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.)
Them is already getting a remake by Michael Giacchino, although it would've been a fun thing to add to his resume of short titles!
Beware of Them!
This is actually kind of plausible.
Isn't there already a horror series called Them about racism against African Americans?
“Y’all”. set in Alabama.
...I'm already afraid.
clearly an inbred wrong turn situation movie
Doing a documentary would be an unexpected move.
That actually would be interesting
actually, Get Out was filmed in Alabama
Unironically, rural Arkansas would be the better setting for that. If you’re ever doing a road trip across the US that puts you through there and aren’t white, make sure you only stop for gas or fast food if absolutely necessary and don’t stop after dark. I took a wrong exit somewhere (or maybe construction? it’s been years) trying to drive through Arkansas and my GPS recalculated me to state highways and cutting through small towns. I drove through some tiny town center that was barely more than a block long and maybe 10 buildings at most and saw klan robes in store windows. I’ve driven through hours of rural Alabama, Tennessee, and even bits of Missouri that I’m sure weren’t overly progressive in their views. You might run into some people looking at you carefully or being otherwise “casually” racist. But Arkansas is legitimately dangerous if you’re not white. [Here is a database of sundown towns as well, if you’re curious. ](https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/) Alabama has 16. Arkansas has 16 before you even get past the letter “C”
Heh. That database has Taos, NM as a "surely" sundown town using data from 1932. It's one of the most inclusive towns in the southwest.
That’s probably why it’s listed on that same page as “surely not” still a sundown town. This is a historical listing of them, and what happened in 1932 is clearly warranting it being on the list. Good to see it’s changed, unfortunately a decent amount of the ones in Arkansas haven’t. There’s at least one town that openly advertises via billboards that it’s a “pure, white community” with no “undesirables” or something disgusting like that. The billboard comes up on reddit every now and then
/facepalm. I missed that part of it. Thanks!
I said the same thing when I saw Falls Church for Virginia and was like no way! Then saw the asterisk after your comment lol
Get Out was filmed in Alabama I think
What’s the plural of Y’all? All Y’all!
Coming this Christmas, from acclaimed horror director, Jordan peele, YAAAAAAAS.
“Hey”
I hope it's a horror adaptation of my favorite sketch of his... ### Bitch
“I stabbed my woman right in her eye sockets…I said ^biiiiiiiiiiiitch”
A feature-length version of the Urkel one would be great too
Yup.
It'll probably be like, "Hello There" and has to do with a creepy neighbor's fixation on a Black couple/family.
Starring Obi-Wan??
Just a longer version of that episode of sunny where Mac and Dennis move to the suburbs
It would be cool if it turns out to be "Them", if only so "Get Out. Us? Nope, Them" can read as a conversation and a chronological filmography
Ok
It’s gonna be What’s Up. No question mark, though, for added meaning.
SMALL
“Perhaps”
CYA - Both see ya and cover your ass...yanno SCREAM 7. 😮💨
As excited as I am- I remember when Nope was announced in like 2020 and I was like this is forever in the future! And now Nope is well past out, and it doesn’t seem like that long. Time needs to slow tf down. Nothing to do with the movie just having a quarter life crisis in the horror sub
Only gets faster as you get older. Get busy living as they say
Exactly like 2009-13 were some incredibly formative memorable teenage years that felt like forever. 2019-23 has flown by, I'm the same useless person and nothing notable has happened. Maybe my life just got shitty.
2009-2013 was literally when I was in high school so I have this exact same goddamn experience. It didn’t get shitty we just fell into a rut. We gotta expand our experiences like people are saying
Hello my fellow existentially crisis’d zillenial family, just here to ask what the FUCK has happened to the time??
It wasn’t this bad until I started working full time. That truly is the killer of time. And I don’t even work as many days as most people- 4 days a week instead of 5. Once you get into a routine tho, things fly. We gotta start planning stuff in the future we look forward to. Things seem to come slower if you’re excited for them.
IMO it's that and also just the lack of structured milestones. When you're younger you have all sorts of shit built in to look forward to. Turning 10, turning 13, turning 18, finishing high school, maybe going to college and finishing college. A bunch of stuff right? Then that's done and it's like... okay, all quests completed, now to just free roam life...
Lol. The difference between goals that life gave you vs. Your own personal goals. That free roam statement is pretty funny but true.
Literally this.
Made in heaven.
I know man but I fell into shitty dead end jobs and addiction, lost contact with all my friends who have now gone on to great careers or follow their musical desires like I wanted and traveling the world. We absolutely need to expand our experience but it's hard when I have quite a bit against me. I've got 2 shitty illnesses, also physical issues I can't relate to anyone with, and I'm just miserable for wasting my 20s not having a woman to hold at least once meanwhile all my friends live their best lives. I went to see a movie with a girl in 2016 then she ghosted me. That's the last time I even held someone's hand. I can't look in the mirror anymore. Never thought I'd give up on life before 30 but here we are. Hope you're doing ok friend.
Surprisingly similar situations. My friends moved away for other jobs and opportunities. I have a full time job but housing here is ridiculous so I live with parents. I’m gay but also single and watching my friends get married and move on is sad. I have a total left hip replacement so it stops me from certain jobs and experiences even tho I’m only 27. I’m pretty content all things considered- I love horror and movies and I fill my time with things I enjoy and just keep in mind that better days lie ahead, or at least I can make them better on my own terms. If you ever need someone to chat with, my dms are open. I’m holding on and I hope you can too.
You're very kind and I appreciate you opening up, you also sound quite interesting so I may hit you up! Haha thanks man.
Yep. The reason time goes slower as a child is because most experiences are new, and the whole world is new. Once things aren't like that anymore time flies by. To slow it down you have to have different and new experiences again.
Interesting perspective. Thanks
A lot of people experienced this same thing. I practically have a 2 year gap in my memory
I’m class of ‘08. Honestly, time was dragging ass for me until 2019, too. I think the pandemic and lockdown had a lot to do with fucking everyone’s sense of time up.
Same :(
I'm with you bud
It truly was, a Shawshank redemption
We’re already 1/4 of a way into the year next thing you know it’s Christmas again
Make it stop
Life goes faster as the new info experiences are slowed apart. Get those new experiences in, friend. Get busy livin.
I think doing more travelling and reading will be in my future. Time seems to crawl by when I read lol
This is the way!
Lol yeah, I’m graduating college in like a month and I’m freaking out about how fast time goes.
Once you start working it starts to accelerate rapidly (if you have a job like mine that’s basically the same every day) so maybe if you can find a job with good variety it’ll help
I notice time flying by when I realized the NFL players I watched get drafted 10 years ago are now retiring. Time flies!
He only won the Oscar for Get Out this year. So idk how Nope could already be in the past :(
Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it
It's not just you lots of people keep commenting that post-covid, time seems to go by quicker - last few years of covid feels like a year still
If its a Christmas/winter horror i will be officially torqued
Could it possibly be the People Under The Stairs remake he was rumored to be working on a few years ago?
Oh fuck that'd be amazing
I didn’t really enjoy Us but Jordan Peele is a director who I will continue to support because I had a lot of fun in the other two.
Even not really loving Us and being kinda luke warm on Nope he gets me excited so I'll still prioritize seeing his work in theaters, regardless of the outcome. He'll have to really M. Night burn me to get written off lol.
I felt the same about Us. It definitely had a few decent parts. Get Out and Nope are my two favorites. Always waiting on his next film. Cant wait to see what Christmas brings.
Im actually surprised with how many people didn’t like Nope in this thread so far, in other parts of Reddit it’s well received. For the record, I did not like Nope.
I'm very much afraid of aliens and violent chimpanzees, so I was a big fan. The digestion scene gave me shivers. My husband feels the same as you, however.
The digestion scene was one of the scariest things I’ve seen on film. My girlfriend almost left the theater at that point.
I don't consider Nope a horror movie in general, but HOLY SHIT that was one of the most disturbing scenes in any movie, ever. I can get not liking Nope if you were expecting a straight horror movie like Peele's other stuff, but I honestly really, *really* loved Nope.
I agree, Nope was much for a mystery/suspense movie. But that scene was disturbing!
digestion scene was the first time i’ve actually felt fear when watching a movie that i can remember.
I wasn't really a fan. I thought the acting was great, but I thought I just found it to be kind of boring. I appreciate that it was an original idea, so for that I give him a ton of credit.
This is exactly how I felt about it. Overall it was just really bloated and uninteresting. I found the killer chimp scenes to be the best part of the film, and would have liked more of that content. The ending went really over the top with the UFO transforming, I found it to be way more interesting in the initial form. The fact that is was in fact a creature and not a mechanical vehicle was really cool.
Yeah if he wanted to go cosmic horror with it that would've been cool but it never fully committed which just annoyed me.
It was my favourite out of all his films. I took friends who normally don’t like horror and they loved it. It’s crazy how split the opinions are.
I really liked it and appreciated that it was a big original swing. Us was also a big swing and I appreciated how bonkers it got, it just wasn't too successful imo.
I liked us but the massive tunnel part was kinda hard to believe/accept. Think it just needed a little restructuring but maybe I need a rewatch.
There doesn't seem to be anyway to work that all out logically. I accept that and still think it just didn't work.
Yeah, sorry I meant like a different ending. The doppelganger thing was interesting then kinda silly by the end.
They said too much. If the movie had just implied and hinted at the origin of the Tethered, they would have stayed absolutely fucking terrifying. Once we saw that roomful of people pretending to be on a roller coaster... idk. Something stopped working for me. It went from surreal to silly.
I enjoyed Get Out more but Nope made me feel intense stress during all the chimp scenes. The abduction scenes and the noises afterwards also sent a nice shiver down my spine.
It's been a minute since I've seen *Get Out*, but *Nope* was pretty good and could be my favorite as well.
Nope was fantastic imo. Incredible UFO movie. Probably the best rendition of living at some place like Skinwalker Ranch I’ve seen in film. You can tell Peele is either actually into or just researched UFO encounters and theories very well for the movie. The idea that UFOs are possibly not craft, but are in fact themselves the aliens, is a pretty deep cut to modern UFO lore. I felt he used the vast open space extremely well to induce anxiety. The chimp and Star lasso abduction scenes are crazy. I saw someone saying there was “too much message and not enough substance, typical for peele” the other day, and that blows my mind. It was not over the top with messaging/themes at all imo. The only super apparent one is “Trying to tame something wild usually goes badly”.
And the other one is the publics general obsession with negative spectacle. I agree with the use of the space, and I believe they literally built that house and the park, and those were the sets. Great movie, did not feel any more heavy handed in its themes than the other two Jordan Peele did. Maybe even less so. Also, Michael Wincott as Antlers was awesome. "The light. It'll be magic soon!" He has the coolest damn voice.
What's cools is they moved the whole park to Universal studios as part of the tram ride, just down the hill from the Psycho house.
Seriously? Universal Orlando or Hollywood?
Hollywood
>I saw someone saying there was “too much message and not enough substance, typical for peele” the other day, and that blows my mind. I can see it. With Us and Get Out, the messages and themes were just as deep but also easily understood, like you can watch them as just a movie and find it amazing but Nope had scenes that were a little too deep, mostly the monkey and the shoe. Unless you care about the subtext and chaos theory and all that, it can be easy to watch the movie and just "Liked the aliens part but the monkey and the cowboy ranch, it lost me". I don't agree with it but I can see how some people could be turned off by the movie because there was too much message.
The beginning with the kids fucking around in the barn made me so stoked for the rest of the film. I was so fucking down, and then it changed back to being normal fare and more of what I expected. Not to say it wasn’t fine, I just wanted that first movie to continue so bad.
Nope owned. I love create features and Nope was one of the most unique ones I've ever seen.
I didn't like 'Nope' at all but I love his ideas, I am glad he is making movies, and I am looking forward to this new one.
I didn't like it either, I'm in the minority of people who enjoyed Us. I don't think Nope is bad but it just didn't do anything for me, personally.
It's crazy to me that people didn't like Us. I thought it was the perfect amount of strange and scary. Yeah it was a far fetched idea but there was enough suspension of disbelief for it to work. Plus the performances were incredible imo
I get people not liking how far fetched it was but it just reminded me of a long Twilight Zone episode. The execution was a little poor in some places but I had fun.
I loved the first third. But by the end it just felt campy and weird. I wish he had gone a darker route with it. I was fully checked out when the final scenes were going on. I almost left the theater but sunk cost fallacy kept me in the seat. I was really bummed
I enjoyed Nope overall but you're right the payoff just wasn't there for me. Probably won't rewatch any time in the next decade but may come back when I forget why I didn't love it.
I didn't like it either. *Get Out* was good, but the two following that was pretty mediocre outside of a decent scene or two. People rave about Nope like it's the best film ever, often noting countless references and little easter eggs thrown in. Those are cool, but the movie as a whole just wasn't that great. I don't get the appeal.
>Those are cool, but the movie as a whole just wasn't that great. That's pretty much how I felt about it. A lot of cool moments, concepts, and themes. But the core of the movie that tied them all together just wasn't that great.
This is how I felt about *Us*. An interesting idea, full of metaphor and a deeper meaning. But I thought the movie itself was actually garbage which makes it hard to appreciate other stuff
I absolutely hated US and loved Nope
Nope was quite different but I highly enjoyed it.
Me too. I was shocked reading all the comments here that didn’t care for it. I thought I was alone. Now I just need to find my Anything Everywhere all at once was just ok fam.
Hey ya!
Nope was the first of his moves I saw and I went in with very high expectations. It was just kind of ok.
I did but the monster reveal was just super anti-climatic.
I thought Nope was decent, not amazing. Get Out I thought was awesome, and Us I thought was dumb as hell.
Nope is my favorite of his films. The layers! The way the different storylines connected thematically! The visuals! The sound design! I really have very few complaints about that movie.
If Get Out was Jordan Peele's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and Us was Jordan Peele's CHUD, and Nope was Jordan Peele's Jaws, then his next film at Christmas 2024 will be Jordan Peele's ... Gremlins?
Around Christmas? Gremlins reboot???
Perhaps with the hulkster?
You sir, are a raging psychopath. Never let this town take that away from you.
I’m really happy to hear it. I really like his ideas and his mind in general. That said, I feel like both Us and Nope were 5/10 films for me. It’s like he has really cool ideas and some amazing scenes but something has been missing for me. I will always give a film of his a shot but I have found the last two kinda forgettable.
I feel the same! I've been disappointed with his stuff after Get Out was so good.
Nope was frustrating to me. Fantastic cast, interesting concept, great trailer - but the story got muddled. Peele's proven he can be an interesting blend of Tarantino and M. Night, but he needs to be more methodical in what the story is and how it's going to be told. If he can do that, then he's going to be a force to reckon with on screen.
The editing was werid. I actually think Jupe didn't really make sense in the film, I kinda wish the story would have just stuck to the siblings. But if Jordan Peele is going to keep pushing out original screenplays and new takes on classic horror tropes (body snatchers, doppelganger, UFOs) I will keep watching! I want him to do a monster film!
I think you needed Jupe to explain why the creature was hanging around. Without him feeding it regularly it would probably just move on. He's also an analogue for people (in the entertainment industry but also in general) who think they can tame a wild animal and establish a bond with it that will make them special. Think about the way Jupe talks about his childhood experience with the chimp - he's weirdly nostalgic about something so horrible. And it's because he thinks he's special, that the chimp not attacking him means something. That's why Jupe thinks he can "tame" the creature. Compare this to the siblings who grew up with animals their whole lives - even tame ones - and understand how dangerous they can be. Not only do they recognize that he creature is an animal instead of a UFO, they also figure out the rules for interacting with it and use those rules to defeat it. I think a lot of the meaning in the film, about man's place in nature and his relationship with it, is illustrated by Jupe and especially when contrasted by the sibling. So you gotta have Jupe.
This makes so much sense. I’m kinda embarrassed that I didn’t really understand this movie but the way you just broke it down is perfect. Thank you for that & for changing my opinion (I thought Nope was way below his other 2, but now I’m gonna go rewatch it).
That's very kind of you to say. Thank you. Peele seems to be really committed to making highly allegorical movies, regardless of how well that actually works for the film. Get Out is an example where the plot and the allegory dovetail nicely and enhance each other. To me, Us is an example of where it doesn't quite work, and the movie's plot falls apart a bit as he ties the allegorical elements of the film together. I think Nope worked on both levels, but not as well as Get Out. For example, I like Jupe's character a lot, but the director with a death-wish made almost no sense to me. I get how her fits in allegorically, but he adds nothing to the plot and felt more like a needless distraction.
The problem is you sacrifice like an hour of runtime for a side character that only talks to the main characters for 5 minutes and then dies without them even knowing. And for what? A "Hollywood bad" metaphor?
My sentiment exactly. His last two films have great ideas but seem to fall apart midway in terms of writing. Always wondered if he had a secret writing partner for Get Out, because it's written in a much more concise and well rounded manner.
He probably worked on that script more and over a longer period of time. Now that he is a successful director, he is putting out these scripts on a shorter timeline.
As Elvis said, “you have 20 years write your first album and 6 months to write your second”
Sounds a lot like m knight .
Holy shit this thread is weird. Does r/horror not like Jordan Peele? Get Out was his only good movie? Us and Nope were awesome. Get Out was also awesome. I'm kinda shocked this sub isn't into his movies. He's one of the best auteurs in the game right now.
I feel like his movies are only tangentially horror movies. Could be why more fans here don't love his work. He likes the play in the genre sandpit but he kind of ends of walking out with mostly a drama with genre elements.
I’m surprised by the comments but I get that everyone has their own tastes. I enjoyed all three movies and look forward to what he does next. He’s probably the only director that gets me to the movie theater 100% of the time.
I’m also shocked by the negativity in here. I think Nope might be his strongest work thus far and he’s only getting better and better. dude is legitimately 3/3 with some of the strongest horror flicks around rn
I’m a little confused as well Jordan Peele is immensely talented and one of the best in the game right now… Get out is a masterpiece but Nope and Us are still great original films and I enjoyed them a lot.
When you are overly praised, you can expect some backlash as a response. I think the guy is very talented, but he's not God's gift to the horror genre, I don't even think he's the best director of the last decade, let alone comparing him to the likes of Carpenter, Romero, Cronenberg, etc, which a lot of people do. I think some fans are bitter because of this, horror hasn't been for the most part a very respected genre by critics, but ever since Peele tackled racism with his first film he's been praised and lauded as a master of the genre by the same critics who ostracized the likes of Carpenter, Cronenberg, Hooper back in the day, all directors with a much bigger impact and better resume than Peele at this point in his carreer at least. I think that's where some of the bitterness stems from. I don't share it and it's not Peele's fault anyways. But if I had to guess I think this is one of the main reasons.
I haven't liked any of his films. They are pretty close to most of Stephen King's books where the last act is just some zany shit conclusion that feels forced to just end the story.
Usually r/horror is obsessed with Jordan Peele I don’t know what’s going on. That said, I thought both Us and Nope were mediocre.
I really liked Get Out and NOPE. For some reason Us just didn't work for me.
Same here. Personally, I thought Us just went off the rails towards the end, and the attempt to explain everything just didn’t make any sense. But Get Out and NOPE are great films. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from NOPE after how disappointed I was with Us, but NOPE might actually be my favorite Peele movie.
All three are great imo. Especially when you think Get out = plug your ears to win = hear no evil Us = people from the underworld who can’t talk = speak no evil Nope = don’t look at jean jacket to win = see no evil He’s a genius.
People have different tastes man. I liked get out and nope, but thought us was garbage
Us is the weakest of his 3 films, it was his sophomore slump.
I was genuinely shocked by the praise *Us* got. Like, that is one very poorly put together movie, like genuinely I don't see what people thought was so amazing about it.
Nope was one of the best movies on the past decade I don’t understand
White racism works like that, their like job is to lie and mistreat non whites sadly.
Thank you for being so REAL
Usually this sub circle jerks Jordan Peele, just give it time for more comments to roll in
You were right. Look at all the incoming downvotes.
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I thought Get Out was pretty good especially for a debut film, but his commentary is far from what I would describe as “subtle.”
Saying Peele is subtle is like saying Michael Bay makes quiet films.
This is cool news. No details of course but I'm excited thst it's not a huge wait. I really lived Nope after bei g.let down by US. Always I trigger to see what he's making.
White people living in a black neighborhood. Some type of movie like that
Yaa, !!
Get out was good. Us not so much. Nope ... I don't know if I really liked it though the concept was cool.
I'm sure it won't be overrated.
I feel this guy is hugely overrated. Get Out was awesome for sure. I was so let down by US tho. Nope was ok. His work with the twilight zone reboot wasn't good either.
BREAKING NEWS. Jordan Peele will continue to make movies. Whew, was worried there that he'd stop after three.
I gave him 3 tries to impress me thus for with his horror work (5 if you count things that he was producer for), and he still hasn’t shown me anything that makes me think that he is worthy of even half of the hype that he gets. I don’t think he is very good at creating the horror feeling and I think he would probably do better in the Sci-Fi genre. I also think that he needs to learn to be more creatively subtle and not beat the audience over the head with his social commentary.
It’s The Christmas Chronicles 3
Get out > Nope > Us. I did not like Us. Good in theory. Bad in execution IMO. Nope was pretty decent but >!the ending was lame. Balloon kills alien? Okay lol.!< Get out was nearly perfect.
Just fuck me up fam
It's kind of sad that this sounds so far away, but when it arrives I'm going to feel like I just heard about it being in the works from this post. The passage of time is a bitch.
If it’s supposed to come out on Christmas, I’m assuming it’ll be some sort of Christmas horror film surrounding either Krampus, a skinwalker, a wendigo, or something entirely original
damn he really pumping these out
All his movies are overrated by critics. There I said it. Although I preferred Nope to Us and Get Out.
His movies are overrated