Get Out - 2017
Starring - Another British Bloke Who Will Take Over America, Idris-Style
Directed By - Peele, Not Key
*** 1/2
Yes, there is a TSA agent, because Peele loves him some TSA agents. Peele loves him some car park valets, grocery clerks, and all of the normal jabronis and service economy schlubs of modern America. Key & Peele always had such a sharp eye for detail. While Michelle Obama said how when the Trumper Dumpers went low, they would go high....Key & Peele could go lower and higher. They were as comfortable in the mantle or the troposphere. In a horror film that aspires to raise many issues about 500 years worth of American race relations, that's a pretty good skill set to have.
Of course the Trumper Dumpers and Fux News and the same people who would see this as "racist" would be the same who see "Black Lives Matter More Than White People" instead of "Please Remember, Black Lives Do Matter, Too...So Please Don't Kill Them."
It's a very good film. Very scary scenes, and has a lot to say. I'm sure Mr. Peele would not mind any controversy, because he's asking more questions that making statements. When Obama was first elected, most people would say we moved past racism and it ceased to exist. So what do the parents of the girlfriend in this movie say? "Obama was the greatest President of my lifetime." Are they racist when they (fill in blank of their actions in the rest of the film) ?
Peele, being the razor-sharp and hilarious wit that he is, has a lot of fun with the script. It's a bit Being John Malkovich (casting Catherine Keener couldn't have been a coincidence,) a dollop of "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner," a brush of Hostel, and 500 years of American history of European and African race relations. Like I said about Hostel when it came out, the only somewhat interesting bits were what Eli Roth was saying about the holocaust. Peele is able to take on the slave trade and Tuskeegee Experiment and the Bell Curve so much more effectively.
It keeps your ass in the seat (especially when you sink into it,) and there are some motherfucking scary moments. Peele's jokes in his show were as brilliant if they were visual, verbal, or physical. All of those talents are packed in this. Just don't expect it to completely add up around the moment you sit in your car and turn the key.
But a very sharp American film.
Starring - Another British Bloke Who Will Take Over America, Idris-Style
Directed By - Peele, Not Key
*** 1/2
Yes, there is a TSA agent, because Peele loves him some TSA agents. Peele loves him some car park valets, grocery clerks, and all of the normal jabronis and service economy schlubs of modern America. Key & Peele always had such a sharp eye for detail. While Michelle Obama said how when the Trumper Dumpers went low, they would go high....Key & Peele could go lower and higher. They were as comfortable in the mantle or the troposphere. In a horror film that aspires to raise many issues about 500 years worth of American race relations, that's a pretty good skill set to have.
Of course the Trumper Dumpers and Fux News and the same people who would see this as "racist" would be the same who see "Black Lives Matter More Than White People" instead of "Please Remember, Black Lives Do Matter, Too...So Please Don't Kill Them."
It's a very good film. Very scary scenes, and has a lot to say. I'm sure Mr. Peele would not mind any controversy, because he's asking more questions that making statements. When Obama was first elected, most people would say we moved past racism and it ceased to exist. So what do the parents of the girlfriend in this movie say? "Obama was the greatest President of my lifetime." Are they racist when they (fill in blank of their actions in the rest of the film) ?
Peele, being the razor-sharp and hilarious wit that he is, has a lot of fun with the script. It's a bit Being John Malkovich (casting Catherine Keener couldn't have been a coincidence,) a dollop of "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner," a brush of Hostel, and 500 years of American history of European and African race relations. Like I said about Hostel when it came out, the only somewhat interesting bits were what Eli Roth was saying about the holocaust. Peele is able to take on the slave trade and Tuskeegee Experiment and the Bell Curve so much more effectively.
It keeps your ass in the seat (especially when you sink into it,) and there are some motherfucking scary moments. Peele's jokes in his show were as brilliant if they were visual, verbal, or physical. All of those talents are packed in this. Just don't expect it to completely add up around the moment you sit in your car and turn the key.
But a very sharp American film.
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