US movie!

Evil doppelgangers kill a family.

They are dead already and don't know it.

Bad link

Someone buys a zoo.

dint care for his first movie, so over rated.

adoption runs amok and spells are sent to affect trump....yea!

Stinky linky OP

It simply ends in tears.

[quote] voodoo jor jor jar jar

Meesa Jar Jar Binks! Meesa in dis movie!

[quote] US movie!

What is US?

the star was movie dat hids it face in shames.

Here you go. As soon as it opens there should be one for it.

I saw it today. It was ok, but I still have a bunch of unanswered questions.

Saw it today. Creepy as fuck.

So the family have evil doppelgängers who attacks them on vacation while I’m the same town Lupita once visited as a child.

It turns out that EVERYONE has an evil doppelgänger who have been living underground until now.

The black family overcomes their doppelgängers and drives away.

But! A flashback scene!

It turns out that Lupita’s character was whacked on the head as a child and the evil doppelgänger took her place. The double has been pretending to be Lupita all along. The whole thing is a plan hatched by Real Lupita to get revenge.

Is it true this was based on a true story?

It's based on an old Twilight Zone episode called "Mirror Image."

R15, is she pretending all along, or is it more like a repressed memory?

It came across as repressed memory, but is, I believe, intentionally left vague.

R15 thank you! I just needed to know the story, R17 thank you for the reference, I can't watch US but I can watch an old episode of Twillight zone!

it was kinda good. same old same old.....lousy script and direction. bozo acting....

It looks like a sequel might happen.

This was some overhyped garbage. I loved Get Out but now I feel like Jordan Peele is going to be another M. Night. This movie was so convoluted and I left with more questions than answers. Also, sacrificing common sense for laughs was atrocious. The scene where they are fighting over who drives based on body count while the clones are chasing them almost made me throw something at the screen. If horror has taught us anything, it is that blacks in movies are always the ones who run. Clearly Peele forgets this. The dad at one point wants to just hide out in the windowed vacation home where the clones of his friends have already breached and murdered.

The funny black dad was tiring after awhile.

More ponderous than profound. ("We. Are . . . Americans"). Lots of obvious shout outs to other movies (the opening shots and the twins from "The Shining," the driving away final scene from "The Birds," etc.). Too many fucking rabbits.

Lots of plotline dead ends (if Lupita is really a soulless Red, then why are her children apparently normal and what's the point of doing the Red Hands Across America if there are no humans still alive to see it).

It's an entertaining movie and worth the admission price but WAY over-hyped.

Jordan Peel is the new M. Night Shyamalan!

A hilariously written non-spoiler scene description

[quote]This film was also riddled with things that Black people would never do. When the doubles were standing outside of the beach house holding hands in a very creepy way, we would never go outside and investigate. That’s not the people that we are, we are stay inside type of people. The way he went outside and very properly and polite asking what they want was not it. Then when they continued to stand there and not move and he went back into the house to call the cops and then get a bat to go back outside. But when he went back outside which is way out of the norm for Black people he was still very proper and polite. You do not bring a bat to a gun/knife and in this case a scissor fight. Fast forward to when the doubles had entered the house, why did everyone but the husband not realize that they were doubles of them. He kept thinking they wanted his money.

[quote]Lots of plotline dead ends (if Lupita is really a soulless Red, then why are her children apparently normal and what's the point of doing the Red Hands Across America if there are no humans still alive to see it).

There were helicopters flying over at the end. So, there were probably other survivors and if they were a good amount of cops and military people still alive they are probably plotting to take out the Reds doing Hands Across America.

Red’s voice was freaky.

There was a subtle to The Lost Boys at the beginning when little Adelaide’s mother mentions that they were filming something at the beach. Lost Boys filmed mostly night shoots at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in 1986.

The guy who played young Adelaide’s dad is going to be playing Candyman in the upcoming Jordan Peele-produced remake.

So were the evil clones a nationwide thing, or just in that town?

Were there any trans or lezzies?

Nationwide, R32. They were part of a government experiment that backfired.

Thank you r34. I think I'll wait for On Demand for this one. I liked Get Out, but wish I hadn't paid to see it in a theater. I thought it would be a bit better than it actually was, because of all the hype it got. Sounds like US is the same deal.

I'm overdue for a scary movie, I'm going to bite the bullet and go see it. Besides, it looks like it's a fairly popular one anyway.

I enjoyed Get Out but I’m glad that I didn’t pay to see it in a theatre. It wasn’t THAT good.

R32 Also, in the beginning of the movie there was that screen text that mentioned that there is a lot of unused underground systems like sewers, tunnels, and mineshafts. So it was implied that clones were everywhere, but in the underground.

The movie was complete shit!

The NY Times loved it.

Yeah, most of the critics like it.

The critics loved it. I saw one review that said it was the best horror movie of all time. I knew that was total BS before I even saw the movie. I honestly feel that critics are afraid to say that it's a piece of shit because of what r39 said. They don't want to seem racist and we are grading black people on a curve. I think it's really doing us a disservice. I am a black filmmaker and I have written scripts that I've stalled on because there are too many unanswered questions and I don't want to cheat the audience. It seems like I might get a pass in today's world. Maybe I should go and revisit some of my old crap.

[quote]The critics loved it. I saw one review that said it was the best horror movie of all time.

Which reviewer said that?

How does it compare to Mulholland Drive?

It's a good movie, but am not sure why people are falling all over themselves and hyping it up to such an extreme. "Get Out" borrowed a lot from The Stepford Wives, and Us borrows a lot from a Twilight Zone episode, so I can't get behind the idea that Jordan Peele is the new Alfred Hitchcock.

was elizabeth moss good in it?? please talk about her role/performance.

[quote]This film was also riddled with things that Black people would never do. When the doubles were standing outside of the beach house holding hands in a very creepy way, we would never go outside and investigate. That’s not the people that we are, we are stay inside type of people.

Jordan Peele, when will you understand what black people are really like?

r43, it may have been one of those headlines I saw from Vox or something. I can't find it now.

It thought Get Out was criminally overrated. No desire to see this. I love Lupita though.

Can you imagine Datalounge Red?

She is excellent, R46. She's very funny and horrifyingly creepy in turns.

R51 I agree--and I typically don't much like her.

R51 I agree. Her scenes at the vacation house were pretty good.

This is a movie that needed unique African American humor to make it entertaining. Winston and Lupita are obviously not American black and it shows in the mannierism and the way they acted/took on this script. This would have been classic had it been a REAL hysterical black family going through the creepy doppelganger shit

The movie is...interesting.

The socialism allegory is compelling.

[quote]It's a good movie, but am not sure why people are falling all over themselves and hyping it up to such an extreme. "Get Out" borrowed a lot from The Stepford Wives, and Us borrows a lot from a Twilight Zone episode, so I can't get behind the idea that Jordan Peele is the new Alfred Hitchcock.

This is how I feel too. I enjoyed the movie, but I don't get all the extreme hype.

Plot holes galore, but it wasn't horrible--just overhyped.

We care about Jordan Peele's wife because.....?

It sounds like what r54 wanted to see was "Tyler Perry Presents a Madea Family Doppelgänger Attack."

Once again: the film was directed and written by an actual American black man. His vision of African-American life is absolutely no more nor less "authentic" to the American Black Experience than what YOU wanted to see. Lupita and Winston did not write their own parts.

Hopefully, Peele won't go down the Judd Apatow or Tim Burton route of casting his wife in most of his upcoming movies. I sort of got why Burton put his ex in his movies. She's a decent actress. Apatow shoving Leslie Mann in most of his movies was annoying as fuck.

R61 Peele is mixed, his mom is white and he grew up in the white suburbs. He's said he didn't have any black friends growing up. He only hung out with whites. Hell he even married a white woman.

why is scientologist miss moss in the movie? which I thought was boring as dried cow dung ….

sad when this is considered a GOOD horror movie. good god

I didn't want to pay to see this thing, and it hasn't even opened here in Mexico, but I was right to watch this thing for free in shitty quality. This movie is seriously absurd, american critics must be terrified to be called racists to not call out how dumb this movie is.

I'm guessing the point of the film is that soulless, evil Red is the living proof that the clones aren't any lesser since she's just like any other "normal" human being and ended up replacing the real her as a child. I really liked Nyong'o's acting, her dialogues as Red are the only reason I kept watching HOWEVER her scary voice gives the plot twist away and it ruined the twist. I'd already seen "Who flew over the cuckoo's nest" and know that being strangled can damage the voice irreversably and in the trailer you can see Lupita as a child being estrangled. There's also a Simpson episode about Bart's evil twin where Bart's is actually the perverse twin. Surprising my ass. It's also ridiculous that Red didn't try to comeback to the real world after she got rid of the handcuffs.

The whole sequence where they are at Elisabeth Moss' house was so preposterous and served no purpouse but draw the lenght of this film even further. It would have been more interesting if Red had stolen Good Lupita's son after their first encounter and left the rest of the family to distract/kill them, that way it could also be implied that what she wants is a real child not an evil copy. It was also VERY absurd that Lupita's husband let her go all alone in rescue of their child, what kind of man does that?

I will add that the only moment in which I was truly terrified was in the flashback when we see how Lupita's child doppleganger leaves her for dead in the underworld.

R61, a Tyler Perry horror movie would at least make me laugh!

Us was dull and Lupita and Winston's performances were too mannered, dull, and dry

So there was a whole secret government operation to clone everybody in America, which took place in underground tunnels the length of the entire country, and none of this was discovered in 30-plus years?

[quote] I'd already seen "Who flew over the cuckoo's nest"

That's one of my favorite films, right up there with "One is Afraid of Virginia Woolf."

I want to know what the "Tethered" were going to do once the Hands Across America thing was over. I don't think they put much thought into their plan.

Thanks for themoviespoiler.com link above! Just what I needed! Now, I feel like I saw it without actually watching it.

Was Hands Across America a transcendent event in american culture? it seems like such a random thing to reference and ends up adding nothing to the film...

I was very young at the time, but Hands Across America came and went. It didn't have a lasting impact.

It was also terrifying when Red told the family about her nasty child birth with no one to help her.

Hands Across America was considered a failure because the fundraising goal wasn't met and it was an expensive event to organize and host.

My take for the reference in the movie was that the real Adelaide had been seeing the Hands Across America commercials and other things on TV. When she was left underground, she may not have known or realized that Hands Across America was a failure. But, the memories of the commercials and the event may stuck in her head and she may have believed that staging a similar event would be the Tethered people "uniting for cause" aka getting revenge on the people on the surface.

70m debut

Hans Across America was also a failure because there were so many vast stretches of land where no one joined hands. ]Nobody really wanted to station themselves in the Nevada desert of across the cornfields of Nebraska.

I would have made a better short film, very disappointed

I was born in 1985 and I learned about Hands Across America in elementary school when a teacher talked about all those 80s events that were used to raise money for homeless or hunger causes. VH1's I Love the 80s shows did a segment on it and I remember the panelists talked about how the event failed and how some people really thought it was going to be an event where they could mingle with celebrities.

When I came home from the movies on Friday, I googled Hands Across America and of course, a bunch of articles about Us came up. I got chuckle from this article.

^^ I also looked at Hands Across America videos on youtube and tons "I'm here because of Us" comments have flooded the comment sections.

[quote]I was born in 1985

You’re a CHILD!

[Quote] The guy who played young Adelaide’s dad is going to be playing Candyman in the upcoming Jordan Peele-produced remake.

I guess it's time I finally watched the original.

^You’ve never seen it?? You’re in for a wild ride.

R83 nope! I only just watched Wishmaster recently. I got some catching up to do lol.

dud, half of the audience left midway thru.

Red wants to buy the world a coke.

is there some big theme or socio economic message? or whut? aint that director big on that?

Couldn't see a thing in the night time shots, so much black, hard to tel whts what. more light plz

Don't watch it home alone

scared my tits off

lol only on DL could someone born in '85 be considered young.

I saw it yesterday. It was so full of plot holes it was ridiculous. I totally agree with posters up thread who wondered what the end game was with the clones joining hands, So, after finally deciding to escape the tunnels and kill their doppelgangers, they all just passively stand there holding hands? WHY??? Also, after we find out what they are (clones that seem mentally impaired, without even the ability to speak) how does that explain how the the 2 black kid doppelgangers seem to have super-human power? (Like when they are getting ready to run the girl down but she somehow JUMPS UP ONTO THE CAR? ) Also agree with poster who asked why the real Adelaide didn't simply leave the tunnels during all those years. Also, why did the clones have to east raw rabbits? That made absolutely no sense at all. Sorry but this movie is stupid.

hey, he is providing lots o jobs for the ethnics. is a good thing!

Nobody in all of America discovered this massive secret nationwide underground project, that was going on for decades? Even for a sci-fi/horror movie, that's really stretching plausibility.

So do the doubles follow the original where ever they go ? Do the tunnel go everywhere ? If I fly across country, do they walk there ?

I was so hoping this movie would be great. It just wasn't scary. Plus the out of place humor didn't work.

why scientology lady miss moss in it????

R95 She needed practice playing a mentally impaired person before she shoots the Rosemary Kennedy biopic.

Here's another thing: if Adelaide was really the clone, how did she learn how to speak? If clones were able to learn to speak, why didn't they learn to speak from the real child Adelaide when she was left in the tunnels?

R97 There was a brief flashback that the clone had where she was in a therapist office and the parents were talking to the therapist who believed that "Adelaide" had PTSD. I think the clone remained silent when she first took Adelaide's place and the parents couldn't figure it out and they took her to therapists and others and maybe somehow secretly the clone learned to speak. When she started speaking, the parents dropped the whole beach incident and went on. I do think it's dumb that the real Adelaide couldn't teach the clones underground to speak.

The scenes of the white couple's clones made me wonder if the clones somehow had access underground to TV or movies. The Elisabeth Moss clone knew how to put on lipstick and she seemed to have fun trying on high heels and other things. The white guy clone also took off the guy's bathrobe and was wearing it.

There are tons of problems with the movie. I've seen several reddit threads where people bring up the plot holes. I'm sure if the IMDB boards were still around, there would be dozens of plot hole threads. I remember the IMDB threads for The Village plot holes/problems were fun reads. Jordan Peele isn't going to get called by critics or media journalists on the plot holes.

R54

[quote]This is a movie that needed unique African American humor to make it entertaining. Winston and Lupita are obviously not American black and it shows in the mannierism and the way they acted/took on this script.

Regina King and Derek Luke?

I felt the same about John Boyega in DETROIT.

I was thinking Chris Tucker and Niecy Nash. That would've been hilarious.

If the cast and director had been white I think critics would've been a lot more, um, critical of this movie.

R97. THe real Adelaide was smart but shy and quiet to begin with. She doesn’t speak at all at the carnival other than she wants the number 11 micheal Jackson shirt. After they switch the teathered A is in the real world and completely stops talking because she can’t but the real A was always quiet so they think she experienced trauma when she went missing. They get her into dance. White The teathered Ade is actually better at than the real Ade. The real teathered in the underground aren’t meant to speak but see that the real Ade can speak and is smarter and other worldly. They make her their leader, she then sienna the rest of her life plotting an uprising for the teathered to kill all their doppelgangers and then link hands like in hands across America. Also the teathered Ade is the one we meet first. She is likeable and a good mother. We know the twist is Red is the real Ade and teathered Ade is the now human Ade. Which makes the point. Why can’t the teathered experience consciousness and live full complete lives. They are being held down and not give. The opportunities. So, the point being if teathered Ade blended into the human world, maybe the teathered and US or U.S. are really not as different from eachother as we think. The mister is part of all of US

Lil Rel Howery who played the best friend in Get Out should have played the husband in this movie.

Fixed it sorry

[R97]. THe real Adelaide was smart but shy and quiet to begin with. She doesn’t speak at all at the carnival other than she wants the number 11 micheal Jackson shirt. After they switch the teathered A is in the real world and completely stops talking because she can’t talk but the real A was always quiet so they think she experienced heavy trauma when she went missing. She has to learn to talk and mimick so she just observes. They get her into dance. The teathered Ade is actually better at dance than the real Ade. The real teathered in the underground aren’t meant to speak but see that the real Ade can speak and is smarter and she’s deemed other worldly like a God. They make her their leader, she then spends the rest of her life plotting an uprising for the teathered to kill all their doppelgangers and then link hands like in hands across America. So they can be the new America. The underground takes over the above.

Also the teathered Ade is the one we meet first. She is likeable and a good mother. We know the twist is Red is the real Ade and teathered Ade is the now human Ade. Which makes the point. Why can’t the teathered experience consciousness and live full complete lives. They are being held down and not give the opportunities to live full lives. Their lives are just shadow lives of the ones above. So, the point being if teathered Ade blended into the human world, maybe the teathered and US or U.S. are really not as different from eachother as we think. The monster is part of all of US but we don’t want to except that we could be equal to the teathered. Above ground people must be better and higher evolved- Why? We know through Ade/Red they can be interchangeable.

One of the articles that talks about the failures of Hands Across America and why it might have been used in Us. The article shows a picture of Liza Minelli and Yoko Ono in NYC and a guy in a red or orange jumpsuit is shown in the background.

r85 didn't see Us and is full of shit

Peele said he saw the hands across America commercial on YouTube and it freaked him out, he then created the 1986 timeline and incorporated the freaky hands across America commercial and human chain into the movie.

I wasn't sure what I thought of it, but any movie that keeps you thinking about it after you've seen it, is good. Very well acted, racist trash can't claim Lupita Nyong'o isn't talented anymore, not credibly anyway. I think I'm more satisfied with it than I was with Get Out. Jordan Peele seems like just the right person to helm the Twilight Zone reboot.

[quote]any movie that keeps you thinking about it after you've seen it, is good.

Really? Often, but certainly not always.

I've been generous in saying the movie wasn't bad, but the truth is that it wasn't good.

I'm glad I watched a camera torrent of the movie and didn't waste my money. I'm sure the critics will love it though, which is sad.

R110 I had never used one of those but it wasn't that awful and it helped me decide if I should spend money to go see it. "No" was the answer.

Isn't it also a bit coincidental that Red knew when her above ground counterpart would return back to Santa Cruz? What if she had relocated to Europe for work and never returned? Red Hands across America would have definitely been impossible. Also, was the leather glove that they all wear ever explained?

Is it very gory? (probably with scissors :(

Probably fuckin garbage, but since its you know who directing I'm sure its "brilliant". r26 is that supposed to be a compliment or an insult?

I read that the 1 glove is a reference to MJ.

Adelaide Wilson!

[quote]I read that the 1 glove is a reference to MJ.

People should boycott this movie because of the glove reference and the Thriller shirt.

R112. Yes it’s coincidental. 11:11 means synchronicity. The frisbee perfectly over the circle. . They are teathered to each other. Ade said she sensed that whoever was in the house of mirrors in 1986 was coming for her. They both knew it would happen eventually. The ultimate showdown. fight dance scene was epic.

Peele should have given Corey Feldman a cameo like he did Anna Farris in Keanu, which by the way Anna in Keanu cameo is one of the best in any movie.

Has anyone pointed out how absurd is that the clones living underground with limited resources could somehow all get dressed in matching red jumpsuits before they come out?

Leslie Mann’s voice is the worst.

None of my black friends like it.

It seems like the kinda movie politically correct white people will lavish praise on just to be polite.

They weren't clones and it wasn't a government experiment. It was more like the way it's always been sort of scenario -for whatever reason everyone has a double and they SHARE a soul. Also the hands across America thing might resonate with an above ground human that was switched with one of the doppelgangers but had a sense of the outside world, which they did not.

Is Lupita officially A-List?

^She has an Oscar, is a 10 for any man who isn't a vile racist and she has talent in spades in an era that's more open to cast black women in leading roles. You tell me...

[quote]is a 10 for any man who isn't a vile racist

I love how someone commented on YouTube for the trailers SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LEAVE WAKANDA lol.

This film has been overpraised. If any other director had delivered this mess, they would’ve been called out for it. Because it’s Jordan Peele, messy is a good thing or they overlook what a mess it is. I’m sure he’ll make better films than this.

CinemaScore: B. with a 25 point difference between critics and audiences at RT.

I don’t remember being scared once. There may have been some suspense. There were certainly moments that lacked clarity, like when the doppelgänger got killed by the boat motor - couldn’t tell what was going on. The twist at the end was worth thinking about - imagine if that story had been told in a linear manner, might’ve been more interesting but Peele seems much more interested cinematic techniques. Fair enough. But people started walking out after an hour and many audience members at my screening found it exasperating and were vocal about it.

For me it was too on the nose. I really wasn’t compelled to think much about it once the credits rolled. Seems very obvious. And what year was it supposed to be that the little kid had on a Jaws t-shirt? Was it summer 1975? A bunch of pop culture references doesn’t make a film substantial. The idea that you have to watch all those other films in order to appreciate this one seems ludicrous.

Lupita is a star but I didn’t really buy the voice.

^*Twist at the end WASN’T worth thinking about.

I also thought Alison Williams was playing the twins.

Oh my word! Another Colored movie!

The New Yorker: Review:"Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement"

What am I not seeing ? It's an okay movie at best. It's true that if this was directed by a white man and starred white actors, it would not be getting these kinds of reviews.

OMG, you guys are so racist.

Lupita is the cover girl of the moment, for them, perhaps a bit hard to live up to all the kudos thrown its way....

Someone answer my question above - how does it compare to Mulholland Drive, as a film?

R136 well I'm pretty sure there's no creepy hobos in it.

R136 one is mulholland drive and one is us

R137 haha except Us had a major creepy hobo? Jeremiah 11:11.

R139 He was hot when he was young

R139 it does?

R132 such bull shit. I expected that from the Times but not The New Yorker.

I wish Siskel and Ebert were still alive to review it.

Whether it's full blown racism or casual racism, either way don't you guys ever get tired is this bullshit. I love the comments about how if this was directed by anyone else that reviewers would have shit on it. Or that this movie gets a pass because a black guy directed it. When are you going to grow up and stop this nonsense? You think everything that involves black people is "lesser than" even when it's not. I would respect you all so much more if you just came out and said that you don't like the movie because it's black focused.

This movie is Peele's "Unbreakable." A good but not great movie after a debut home run. I still remember the immense overpraise for Unbreakable when it premiered. The critic establishment are so desperate to validate the sophomore outing of someone whose first hit they've championed, especially since its a director of color (and only a male director of color; they don't hold female directors of color or female directors period with the same regard).

david lynch movies suck so dam bad

NO ONE is saying they didn't like it because it's "black focused", for God's sake. People are simply calling it out for having a ridiculous plot with more holes than Swiss cheese.

I didn’t like it because it wasn’t scary and it felt really long. 🤷🏽‍♂️

^^and it was too long, yes R148.

r142 I would've expected that from fucking Buzzfeed, never mind the NY Times.

I'm going to watch it with an open mind.

I bet he regrets not using a Purple Rain T-shirt

R143 They would have been falling all over themselves to heap praise on it.

I don't think many people were raging on Peele for the Thriller shirt. One message you can get from the little girl picking the Thriller shirt is that as kids we never know how the real monsters are. That little girl also learned that lesson in a different way.

Excellent point R154!

Lupita pissed off a disability group because the voice she used for Red.

Oh ffs r156

R156 That was another one of the plot holes IMO. There was NO reason for her to speak like that if she was the real girl, not a clone. Why would she have lost the ability to speak normally?? It was stupid.

I'm sorry, but if this movie were made by a white director with a white leading cast, the critics would've shat all over it.

Boycott this ableist shit. It's literally killing vocally-challenged trans POC.

I haven't seen any TV promos for this in the past few days. I remember with Get Out, there were a bunch of TV commercials after the opening weekend.

R158, the clones are really strong. Red choked Adelaide out, impairing her ability to speak. Then Adelaide was stuck underground with people who barely spoke, except for grunting and screeching. It resulted in a very odd, primitive, strangled-sounding pattern of speaking.

That voice made it impossible to understand her when she was describing the origin of the clones. Was it a government experiment? If so, why would the clones be doing the exact movements as the people above? Was it supernatural?

All this stuff was explained in the film. Were you all asleep?

I hope this isn't the start of more pronoun-titled movies.

!!!!

Xirs, Zhers and Ouis, r165

This wasn't very good. I was really disappointed since I loved Get Out. But Get Out is a much better written film, more focused, tighter, better character development.

Lupita was good but the rest of the cast was meh, but it was more the script than the actors. Winston Duke's character was horribly written. Too much forced humour, too jokey. Get Out had a much better balance of creepiness and humour.

R168 I agree with on Winston Duke's character. I kept wishing that his character would be killed.

Agreed r169. I kept waiting for his character to get serious but every time he opened his mouth, it was some lame joke or one-liner.

I loved this SNL parody

r171 was hilarious

Didn’t laugh. Stupid not funny

The SNL parody is better than the James Corden one.

r144, I made one of those comments and I'M BLACK. I'm about calling things as I see it. Get Out was a great movie. This was not yet Peele gets heralded as the second coming of Christ because white people are so scared of being deemed racist. When Hollywood gets called out for racism, they respond by dishing out accolades for things that often times aren't worthy and all it does is make people resentful. Do you remember Mary J. Blige in the movie Mudbound? She had about two lines and I didn't think she was good in it but she got an Oscar nomination because of the "Oscars So White" problem. Don't assume that just because someone is critical of the movie that they are racist. Now if heaping praise on Peele gets more black filmmakers out there, that's great. My guess is it's going to only encourage a lot of mediocre scripts to be made because Hollywood wants to capitalize on the current fad.

Finally got to see this. I liked it but i do feel that it was overrated. I'm looking forward to seeing what Peele does next though. Also can't get this song out of my head now lol

I absolutely LOVED it.

Saw this big nothing burger of a movie last night. Don’t understand the praise from critics. Some even called Lupita Oscar worthy and claimed that she gave one of the all time great horror performances. She got similar over the top praise for Black Panther.

Serious Question: Does Lupita pay off the critics?

The critics saying that Lupita gave an Oscar worthy performance are probably the same ones who said that about Toni Collette in Hereditary.

R179 Except Toni Collette actually was Oscar worthy in Heredity. Film was leagues ahead of Us too.

Lupita sucks!

I loved US. One of the most original horror movies I've ever seen. She was amazing.

R180 I also thought Hereditary was better than Us.

I thought Lupita did a great job. I also didn't have much trouble understanding what Red was saying. And i didn't find M'Baku annoying.

Finally saw it today. I loved GET OUT and I love Lupita, but what a let down.

I saw “Us,” which is a metaphor of modern America. People who are just like us, outwardly identical, are not what they seem.

When they speak at all, it is to tell us how they’ve been wronged and, as we live a comfortable existence, they’ve suffered with little.

But mostly they don’t talk at all. Mostly they just bellow monstrously.

And kill. They kill because they want to destroy us all.

They want to destroy the world we’ve built and replace us with their own savage world.

And the color they have chosen to identify themselves? That’s familiar as well.

When asked who they are, the Tethered say, “we’re Americans.”

[quote]Finally got to see this. I liked it but i do feel that it was overrated. I'm looking forward to seeing what Peele does next though. Also can't get this song out of my head now lol

Peele's next project is the Candyman remake which is set to be released next year. I think it will turn out ok.

It has to be better than the Freddy reboot.

Rap means nothing to me. Here’s the song from the movie I can’t get out of MY head.

It was contrived and the plot had more holes than Swiss cheese, but it had a couple of scenes that were pretty good.

Is this the first time someone has made a movie based on a magazine?

Lupita is so overrated. Her voice as Red was so amateurish. I felt like I was watching someone play a spooky witch in a high school play, or Winona Ryder in old age makeup at the beginning of Edward Scissorhands.

I’ll also always unfairly resent her for that Oscar selfie being ruined by her ugly nobody brother.

The whole twist doesn't make sense to me, because then the Lupita Doppelganger learns to love, apparently has a soul, and can dance extremely well. Red wouldn't have lost her soul,.

I respected the movie for trying something more cerebral. It also had some very beautifully directed sequences.

It’s one thing to leave some things open-minded and up to the audience’s interpretation, but if the mass majority of an audience has to google to understand what half the movie met, you’ve fucked up. They should’ve clarified things better in the movie and they should’ve dubbed Lupita’s idiotic and distracting character voice. I get that her vocal chords were fucked with, but a real actress could’ve done something more organic.

I liked this better than the similarly overhyped Pet Sematary remake, but after seeing both films and wasting money on one, I really think modern critics are more into making a political statement with their reviews than a genuine assessment of the quality of the films. They were afraid to praise this as anything other than genius, just as the studio was afraid to step in and ask Peele to fix some of the very flawed pieces of this movie.

Fifteen bucks a ticket is too high for a crapshoot these days and reviews mean nothing. Best to wait for Netflix and make the assessment for yourself...for free.

If US had had a white cast and a white director, it would've been reviewed as a somewhat above-average B horror movie but the major plot holes would've been addressed. Fact. Instead, it was called a work of genius because people were afraid that the tiniest bit of criticism would've labeled them as racists.

For a white director/white cast to make a horror movie that's unanimously praised, it basically has to be Psycho. The stakes are so ridiculously high for whites. Even the excellent Conjuring films didn't get the praise they deserved. If Peele had made those films, and made them with a black cast, they would've been hailed as two of the greatest films ever made.

I don't understand why so many posts above compare this to Lynch's Mulholland Drive when a more comparable example would be Mulholland Falls, a decent but unexceptional film from a few years before. Good talent in front of and behind the camera but nothing extraordinary.

I don't understand all of the complaints about the amount of praise this movie is getting. How many white mediocre directors are there currently working in Hollywood??

You know exactly what’s going on, R203. There aren’t constant breathless articles comparing Ritchie to the next Hitchcock and his sophomore slump didn’t get an article in The New Yorker calling it one of the greatest films of all time...when the grosses were slaughtered in the second week based on bad word of mouth.

R204 so what?? Seems like you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

The point is that movie reviewers are supposed to make an accurate assessment of the movie they saw so that audiences know whether they should pay the exorbitant ticket prices cinemas charge nowadays. Overpraising mediocrity for woke points doesn’t help anyone. It hurts the credibility of the critic, cons the audience out of money, and it also puts well-done, minority-centered films at a disadvantage if audiences become cynical and discount raves as political statements rather than an indicator of genuine quality.

[quote]I liked this better than the similarly overhyped Pet Sematary remake, but after seeing both films and wasting money on one, I really think modern critics are more into making a political statement with their reviews than a genuine assessment of the quality of the films. They were afraid to praise this as anything other than genius, just as the studio was afraid to step in and ask Peele to fix some of the very flawed pieces of this movie.

I also liked it more than the Pet Semtary remake. But, the plot holes in US bugged me later on.