Get Out

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agcohn

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Just saw this, and I thought that it was a great movie. Very entertaining. Creepy AF, but hilarious as well. Really great cast.

Highly recommended to see in theaters, as the audience reactions are priceless.
 
I agree. The cast was great. It was also a refreshing story. And yes, the comic relief character (his friend) was awesome. The comic relief written into the story was in just the right places. My daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

Steve
 
Not bad at all. Outstanding: acting - music - mood. I thought the story was a touch weak, meaning it started going downhill (for me) once the reveal started. You could say it was a third act problem, but it was already wobbly by the second act. The way I see it - FANTASTIC first act, - Wobbly second act - Weak third act. This, I guess is the perennial problem with most films - the third act problem. You set up a great situation, pulls you in fantastic at establishing, but then it can't quite deliver, or live up to the set up. Because in some ways of course, it is easier to "set up" - f.ex. a man is in a cage full of hungry lions and he's bleeding and he's handcuffed to the floor. Great set up, because everyone is at the edge of the seat - "how does he get out of it"... and the answers given by filmmakers are what brings it all down "it was a dream", "the zookeeper was passing by with a gun", "he has magic powers" and so on - usually, a disappointment. It's very, very hard to deliver satisfactorily. The films that do, are rightly seen as classics and masterpieces. But if you don't deliver, well, then it comes down to how great was the setup - if the setup was epic, then sometimes audiences forgive and the film is a success (commercially if nothing else). This film delivered on the setup in spades, so that somewhat compensated for the weakish (IMHO) resolution. Of course, I don't want to be politically incorrect, but a big part of the success of this film is that horror rarely features African Americans as the main protagonists and so that is somewhat fresh. So good on the filmmakers for putting together a smart movie. Is it a masterpiece? No. But it's solid enough and has some very very strong aspects (acting, music, etc.). Anyhow, that's my take, fwiw.
 
I liked everything about the film...cinematography, acting design...the whole look of the film BUT some weakness in the story...he became alarmed far to quickly in the film...after that I was a bit distracted, but I liked this very different take on the "Guess who's coming for dinner" theme...and as with everything, Keener just shines in all roles!
 
fboonzaier said:
...he became alarmed far to quickly in the film...after that I was a bit distracted, but I liked this very different take on the "Guess who's coming for dinner" theme...
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I think that was largely intentional, because he was paranoid from the start about how her parents would react to him being black... so his senses were amplified to the weirdness, and as it just got weirder and weirder, his paranoia was amplified.

I thought that the Guardian's review described it pretty well: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/06/get-out-movie-jordan-peele-trump
 
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