https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/1418224340764614656
Huh!
Yes.
Hmmm..
I was reading it as 7.22.21 and was so confused.
That would have made my day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8fuzj3gck
I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens.
Not Of Planet Earth, apparently.
Peele's The Happening?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMxsTXkXsA8uWOY?format=jpg&name=medium)
Still trying to parse out exactly how I feel about this movie. It's very fun. And the performances are great. There's a strong spine here accenting the legacy of Black craftsmen within Hollywood, it makes for a sturdy thematic thread and I've enjoyed enjoyed spinning that bit of the yarn around in my mind for new angles. I still prefer Us, at the moment.
Ruth De Jong's production design gives this movie a lot of life. Her career in lore-making gives Peele's sparse script a sweet-simple affect.
I hope everyone that dug Old (2021) will have the same sort of good time watching Peele dig deeper into elsewhere-here.
Quote from: WorldForgot on July 22, 2022, 12:56:34 PMI hope everyone that dug Old (2021) will have the same sort of good time watching Peele dig deeper into elsewhere-here.
Are those of us that didn't, doomed...?
Not at all! Different scopes of intention, but you should expect a similar sort of simplicity to its conceit.
https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/1551235779338182656
Didn't love this sadly. Feel conflicted as I did with Us. It's thematically ripe with concepts on trauma filtered through media and exploitation of animals. Cinema as aggressor. But most of all, the film concerns itself with the simultaneous thrill and dangers of spectacle. It's what makes so much of the finale entertaining, but also kinda contradictory.
But mainly, I thought this was only infrequently exciting, unfunny, and thinly characterized. There's no performance on the level of Lupita in Us. The first act is a bit of a slog
Out in the UK now. I found this very boring and disappointing, I'm afraid. The suspense sequences are overblown and unimaginative; the characterisation one-note; the comic relief repartee falls flat. Peele seems to have bet the farm on a clever-dumb, over-extended disgruntled-chimpanzees-and-aggressive-UFOs metaphor about the potentially invasive, wounding quality of being objectified by visual media – implied in the common phrase 'caught on camera', like a worm gets caught on a hook – but without attending to the nuts and bolts scaffolding of genre filmmaking necessary to keep an ambitious thesis from crashing lifelessly to the ground.
This was exhilarating. I'm very stoic about horror movies but the exact moment when the real nature of the threat was revealed, even before Daniel Kaluuya said it explicitly, I had to lean back because of how scared I was of the oncoming thing.
I could say some shit about
"not looking at the camera" type stuff, about the alien being cinema itself
but I don't have to. This was so fucking fun.
This was a fun ride but left me cold. It's thematically rich on paper but felt thematically thin in execution. Daniel Kaluuya had the only performance magnetic enough to work as intended, I think. Kiki Palmer had an explosive first scene, but from there she left very little impression on me. And I needed a lot more Steven Yeun.
I don't know, it just felt like the whole thing was at odds with itself...
Capturing the creature on film was ostensibly the mission, but the way it played out seemed really half-baked to me. Our protagonists are doing it right because it's their story to tell, but the TMZ guy is doing it wrong because he's an interloper. I get that. But Steven Yeun is doing it wrong for other reasons. And the cinematographer is doing it wrong because he's... overzealous or something?
That's just not even remotely close to being as interesting or intense as "Us" or "Get Out." This felt more like an M. Night riff that mostly came out as a decent popcorn action movie.
As soon as I realised that there were going to be chapter titles within the film, I started to worry. They're almost always a bad sign.
Really expect the critical and audience reputation of this movie to nosedive quite quickly once the hype has completely worn off. Although of course its reception was very mixed from the outset.
https://twitter.com/PamGrier/status/1567152520690106368
LOL!
I hope the horses like it.