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Post by Cela on Mar 27, 2019 18:41:21 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}The hands across america shirt was the one thing the girl had left from the real world, and the big coming out gesture for the underworld people to be noticed. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}What confuses me about her being abandoned in the facility. Why didn't she try to escape? She obviously could talk in complete sentences, why didn't she attempt to escape to the real world? It's that moment which made me very depressed for her in the end. Just the thought of being in that horrifying situation with no one to help, love, or be there for you as a whole just makes the whole film depressing. It's a movie with way too many plotholes if you start analyzing it. So just take it as what it is and enjoy what you will.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Mar 27, 2019 21:25:08 GMT -5
It's not really meant to be taken in realistic terms anyway. Human clones who are bound by the souls of the originals? Suspension of disbelief has to be there from the get go.
Not to mention where they got all the red jumpsuits haha.
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Post by eJm on May 1, 2019 10:43:05 GMT -5
So I finally, FINALLY saw Us because it was still showing at my local cinema.
Lupita Nyong'o is going to haunt my dreams for the next bit and not for the reasons I’d like her to, for the reasons that’ll make me never want to sleep.
Get Out was the better film but I was still compelled throughout and I’m going to be trying to figure out that ending for a while yet.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2019 21:03:53 GMT -5
I didn't want to dig this thread up, so I'm glad someone else did...since I also finally saw it this weekend.
I enjoyed the hell out of it. I thought the twist was super obvious, but it also didn't take away from the fun of the film and I really enjoyed how it was all done. Lupita was phenomenal. Seriously. So much respect for what she did here.
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Post by eJm on May 2, 2019 4:16:44 GMT -5
I didn't want to dig this thread up, so I'm glad someone else did...since I also finally saw it this weekend. I enjoyed the hell out of it. I thought the twist was super obvious, but it also didn't take away from the fun of the film and I really enjoyed how it was all done. Lupita was phenomenal. Seriously. So much respect for what she did here. Her performance honestly gave me chills in the best way and the last time I remember that happening in the cinema was with Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 19:54:29 GMT -5
I saw this just last week and was kinda disappointed by it
The twist I saw coming a mile away but I kept on saying to myself that it’s so stupid and obvious that surely they wouldn’t use it
And then they did and left a plothole that I genuinely think in years to come will rank up there as one of the biggest in movie history
The acting was good so I will say that
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Post by sfvega on Jun 24, 2019 20:47:37 GMT -5
I love Peele, and I loved Get Out, but Us just never got there for me. I get the whole hidden meaning and layers, but the movie itself just wasn't that great. For someone whose calling card is suspense and build-up, the tethered were seen, heard from, face-to-face, and fought with super early into the movie. The comedy was good, but sometimes ill-timed. The scale of pulling off all the tethered is just unrealistic, especially afterwards. And the Hands Across America thing was cheesy as f***. It was more of a horror movie than Get Out, so I kinda liked that. Lupita was great, so was the dad. But overall, it's just not anywhere near the mind-f*** that Get Out was.
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Post by cabbageboy on Jun 24, 2019 22:30:52 GMT -5
I think the dilemma here was that once you introduce high concept stuff like the tethered you need to fully explain it. Or rather explain nothing and just let us figure it out. Instead Peele half assed it and did a bit of backstory with them but not enough to where it made any sense.
The twist ending felt too similar to something Shyamalan might have done. It really didn't even twist much of anything if you think about it.
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