Get Out

"No, you see, that's the BAD left people in the movie. I'm one of the good ones cuz I voted for Get Out."

Reminds me of this quote from Rian Johnson.

edited 21st Jul '17 2:26:17 AM by Tuckerscreator

By the way, Peele has said he wants to make more horror movie social satires, but they probably all won't be based around race. I wonder what else there could be? LGBT issues, perhaps?

edited 24th Jul '17 5:49:15 PM by HamburgerTime

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

I've been watching some clips on You Tube and I noticed for the first time that Dean keeps his surgical tools in a really fancy box with a strange symbol on the front. The Coagula cult's logo, perhaps?

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

This gay parody of Get Out has the Peele of Approval.

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I don't think that was particularly funny. It was just a bunch of gay stereotypes, with barely any jokes besides a pun or two. It's like the comedy is supposed to derive directly from the stereotypes. It comes off as borderline homophobic to me. I'm assuming it wasn't made in bad faith, but I honestly can't tell how it would've been different if it had been.

Ceterum censeo Morbillivirum esse eradicandum.

I got more "gay people laughing at themselves" than "straight people laughing at gay people" from that.

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

It's pretty common for most gay mockbusters I've seen to be "how many stereotypes can we cram in under a minute", to the point that it loops around to something of an in-joke train.

'Course, now that I think about it, a gay Get Out plot wouldn't make sense as depicted? Wouldn't gay men hijacking straight men's bodies be either pointless or self-defeating?

edited 5th Aug '17 9:19:02 AM by Tuckerscreator

It would make more sense for straight men to hijack gay men's bodies. Because all of them are ripped. It doesn't seem statistically possible, and yet it's true.

And this is more an example where I don't think the humour is supposed to derive solely from the stereotypes.

Ceterum censeo Morbillivirum esse eradicandum.

On the Gay parody one. I mean on one hand as far as I can tell it's gay guys doing it, but at the same time I think it's that making Gay guys predatory doesn't quite subvert anything? If that makes sense.

Correction, they're either ripped or fashionably slender.

So a lot's been discussed about whether Rose and Jeremy were brainwashed or otherwise forced to comply with their family's scheme, but am I the only one who thinks it might actually be Dean who was having second thoughts about the Evil Plan? Take a look at his face at the beginning here. That does not look like a man who enjoys what he's about to do to me.

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

Though that could be less about having a problem with the conspiracy in general and more a problem with having to do the dirty work.

"Yo, those kids are straight up liars, man. All I told them to do was run product. And by product, I mean chewing gum."

So apparently Peele revealed the backstory of the Order of the Coagula and it's pretty interesting. It seems they're a modern offshoot of an immortality-seeking organization that goes as far back as the Crusades; their original goal was to find the Holy Grail, and over the years they've tried many different methods of achieving immortality before this particular branch hit upon the idea of using brain transplants. I now wonder if other branches that use different methods might still be active; if Peele does turn the film into a whole series of satirical horror movies, it would certainly give him a steady supply of villains.

edited 1st Oct '17 5:21:11 PM by HamburgerTime

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

Get Out's been nominated for Best Picture at the Golden Globes!

...as a comedy.

Many people, up to and including Peele himself, are less than enthused.

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

...I have no idea how you even argue that?

What do you mean by that?

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

I don't know how you argue that Get Out is a comedy. What is the logic behind that categorization? Like, I could theoretically see a couple of different categories outside of horror but... comedy? Why? How? What? The only worse category I could think of is if they tried to say it was a romance.

I have heard it called a horror comedy, actually.

Peele's criticism, incidentally, is twofold - he feels it devalues this specific film, as the main thrust of it was the quite serious social satire, and he feels it devalues horror movies as serious art in general by nominating one for the award everybody knows is at best the silver medal.

The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."

The film is dripping with a lot of black comedy mixed with satire, which tends to be comedic as well. It's hard to see the TSA guy subplot and claim it's not a comedy in any form.

But it IS foremost a horror film, which is why the nomination is unusual. The Golden Globes have handicapped themselves by dividing up their categories by genre, two narrow genres at that.

I've gone on the record as saying I highly dislike the idea that comedy is somehow less valuable than drama, but I understand that the industry treats it like that ^note mostly, however Birdman did win the Globe for comedy, as well as Best Picture and this is still a huge miscategorization, anyway.

The argument that Get Out is primarily a comedy makes no sense, even factoring the TSA guy's scenes. Because if that's the case, when why the heck aren't the Transformers films, most of the Marvel cinematic universe, and especially Thor: Ragnarok being shoe-horned into that category?

Even worse, there's just no way Get Out is going to win anything, since almost any other film placed in the comedy category is bound to receive more attention and praise. Seriously, I sympathize with Peele, the decision to place the film in comedy instead of horror was beyond stupid and sabotaged any chance of receiving a nomination.

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On Rotten Tomatoes, Get Out! is both the top horror movie and comedy of all time. So the Golden Globes aren't the only ones.

Ceterum censeo Morbillivirum esse eradicandum.

I don't know if it actually has a whole lot of competition this year. There's what, Baby Driver, Girl's Trip, and... probably Coco? The Greatest Showman won't be out in time, and it's not like Daddy's Home 2 and The Hitman's Bodyguard are going to sweep awards season.

I've only seen Get Out, but I'd suspect that the only serious competition would be Baby Driver - it's not like they ever take animated films seriously in main categories, and Girl's Trip is probably too much like an actual comedy.

The cynic in me is saying that the reason that Get Out is in Comedy was to put it up against Girl's Trip; both did really well critically and commercially, and why would you want black-led films winning in both categories?

Wait, BABY DRIVER is in the comedy section?

That one confused the hell out of me considering its an action drama. Its not... that funny.