Nope (Jordan Peele, July 22, 2022) Movie • Page 21

if you don't like this movie your tastes are shit

better?

 

What is happening

 

I enjoyed that movie way more than I expected to haha

 

Fun movie year! I'd put Nope after Get Out and ahead of Us for Peele's movies so far.

Current top 5 movies for the year are:

1. The Northman
2. RRR
3. Top Gun Maverick
4. Nope
5. The Batman

Haven't seen Everywhere yet. Also still need to see Jackass Forever lol.

 

So good. I watched Do America right before and that one is still great too. I love that Do the Universe was an actual movie and sequel as opposed to like, whatever the South Park specials are considered.

 

I haven’t seen Do America yet, this was actually my first Beavis and Butthead outing, besides knowing they exist. Big Mike Judge fan overall though.

 

Same, although I did recently watch Extract and that one is...not great lol. Also can't stand Idiocracy, but I love Office Space, B&B and King of the Hill. Def give Do America a watch, it's really great.

 

What’s your Letterboxd

 

Was this the one that had really weird call outs like "from A producer of IT" and "And AN executive producer of the Grudge"?

Why are you emphasising it that way lol? Several groups in the theater were laughing at that.

 

yes, that’s the one

“oh a stranger is staying at my Airbnb? not sketchy at all!”

 

Leaving the theater I had mixed feelings on it, but since I have been able to digest it and really loved it. No one wants my Peele rankings tho

Top five so far: EEAAO, Scream 22, Nope, X, and Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers

 

https://letterboxd.com/avmook/

 

Ya know…..of the 4 or 5 horror trailers we got, that seems the most interesting lol. There was also some exorcism movie, Smile which looks bad, Halloween Ends, some movie that looks like Ready or Not but with vampires.

 

I got the Idris Elba tiger movie trailer and thought “ah yes, in this edition of Who Will Try To Make Jaws Next” and then immediately proceeded to watch Nope lol

 

Sick of seeing that Beast trailer lol. Feel like I've gotten it in front of the last four or five movies I've gone to.

 

Not sure how I feel about this. The middle part (where the Alien first shows up) absolutely rules. I was so fucking pumped when the little humanoid aliens were in the barn, I thought we were finally going to get a proper, scary low-stakes alien invasion movie. Was super bummed it was just a prank. By the end it felt very long and was ready for it to end.

 

I think it's also a reference to the Hopkinsville Goblins encounter, they're meant to look like owls

 

Above all else, I really loved the characters in this.

Kaluuya's performance adds so much depth to the character. While I understand the gripes some people have about the mumbling, it was an essential part of the character to me. He's clearly an intuitive person, but not very assertive. To double down on that - he's been trained his whole life to take over this business and feels woefully underprepared once it happens, which I can only imagine would send one's self-esteem in a downward spiral. As a result, he's just kind of going with the flow. He doesn't so much bend to the will of others, but he just kind of lets everyone around him take the lead. By the end, he's literally staring down a monster to protect his home and family.

Juxtapose that with his sister, who is probably over-confident. It seems to me like OJ wishes his father had been bringing her up as the one to take over, but she wasn't involved at all. Throughout, she doesn't want to be involved with the business, but by the end she is the one literally going the extra mile to get the "Oprah shot".

I don't have much to add about Jupe that hasn't been said. Some have said the Gordy flashback feels a bit superfluous, but it adds so much to the character and thematic storytelling.

The only major player who felt a little shoehorned in was Antler's. His obsession over the perfect shot could have been given to Angel. That being said... Michael Wincott was so fucking good in this role that I do not care. He was just chewing it up. Somehow, while acting along side Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer he's stealing the scene.

 

Goddamn do I want to see this again

 

Yeah absolutely need to

 

Michael Wincott plays Death in the Darksiders series?! That's fucking nuts, how the hell is his voice in this movie real