Movies Jordan Peele’s next movie: Nope (7/22/22)

[SoberChef]

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I wasn't able to see 'Nope' this past weekend, hopefully next weekend. Now I have to dodge spoilers until then, yikes!

[Guest]

39 minutes ago, SoberChef said:

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I wasn't able to see 'Nope' this past weekend, hopefully next weekend. Now I have to dodge spoilers until then, yikes!

In all honesty, there really isn’t anything to spoil. 

[johnny]

i thought it was an average at best movie. pretty disappointed honestly. i found myself not really caring much about how the movie was going to end. 

[SaysWho?]

Just saw it and we quite enjoyed it.

 

On 7/25/2022 at 10:43 PM, Kal-El814 said:

 

It's not that Nope isn't a "thinker," it just doesn't have a single interesting thing going for it other than its aesthetic and the performances. Luckily those punch above their weight class, but...

 

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The problem with Nope isn't just that it has nothing to say despite that being a reasonable audience expectation after Get Out and Us, it's that Nope steps into every sinkhole in the yard.

 

It's clear that Yeun's character is carrying his trauma more than his demeanor would suggest, which is fine. And sure, I'll grant that the way things ended in the flashbacks suggests he believes that animals can still be befriended even if they're occasionally violent. But like... he's planning on feeding that horse to the alien, seems like a big fucking gamble to tell his family and audience to stay?

 

I'm fine with subtext, I don't need everything elaborated on, but I don't think there's anything actually there in this one. There's too much... nothing. The TMZ guy using his dying words to tell people to film something. The auteur director bored with commercialism who's also willing to die to shoot something that will immediately get destroyed. You mention Jaws, we get the conversation on the boat in Jaws. There's just nothing here.

 

It fails as a horror movie / thriller because Kaluuya's character hits a hole in one on every shot he takes throughout the entire movie. He figures out everything perfectly in real time. Don't make eye contact. Turns out it can't digest plastic. It's like if the kids from It Follows discovered the monster can't go up escalators or something, the alien in Nope is trivialized at every turn.

 

 

So to this part:

 

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“But like... he's planning on feeding that horse to the alien, seems like a big fucking gamble to tell his family and audience to stay?”

 

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but it seems like he’s been feeding the alien for six months as he mentioned to the audience that this has been happening for six months.

 

He thought he could control it like the monkey, but it did something unexpected. He and his family likely were in a safe place each time they feed it before and at the point, you figure you know how to tame it. Except there is no way.

 

 It’s like alligators. You don’t feed them because they’ll expect food and show up and cause problems.

 

[SaysWho?]

Also, shit, I didn’t realize that 

Spoiler

The reason Jupes survived was because the table cloth was in the way so he never looked Gordy in the eye. Fucker learned the wrong lesson and tried to make peace by putting on a show with a “trained animal.”

 

[Emblazon]

On 7/27/2022 at 5:38 PM, johnny said:

i thought it was an average at best movie. pretty disappointed honestly. i found myself not really caring much about how the movie was going to end. 

That was one of my biggest gripes. 

 

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Peele spent more time focusing on the animals and the difference between trained animals, wild animals, how they should be treated, instead of focusing on the characters. One little story about how the sister wasn't able to train her first horse was simply not enough to earn the reaction Peele was looking for at the end when both the brother and sister were trying to lure the creature away from each other. 

 

There was a beat, where we got a shot/reverse shot of the two main characters pausing and looking at each other before the end, and it's intended to be an emotional pause, but it simply didn't resonate because we weren't given enough to actually care about them. 

 

[SoberChef]

So finally saw this on Monday and allowed myself time to sit with it. Between 'Get Out', 'Us', & this, the former two rank far higher than this. I don't know if I got sucked into the proverbial hype train or what, but I was astonishingly let down by how subpar it all felt. Definitely kept waiting for 'the moment' which never came to pass. Something to sort of make it all click together & coalesce into shape & form yet, begrudgingly even is how it felt to me, it never was even interested in showing the cards it was dealing to us.

[EternallDarkness]

finally watched it...and honestly by the end I was struggling to stay awake. 

[stepee]

Is this streaming anywhere yet? I was thinking of actually buying the rental but the impressions here make me wanna wait lol

[Greatoneshere]

I think a lot of people missed the subtext going on in Nope. The film is saying a lot about black people, especially in terms of cinema. There are a lot of thoughtful essays written about Nope that I went to read after seeing the film and it deepened my appreciation. But my wife and I liked the film from the start. Also, the movie rules for this scene:

 

 

 

[Keyser_Soze]

42 minutes ago, stepee said:

Is this streaming anywhere yet? I was thinking of actually buying the rental but the impressions here make me wanna wait lol

 

You can watch it on peaCOCK

[stepee]

5 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

You can watch it on peaCOCK

 

lol penis 

[Kal-El814]

39 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

I think a lot of people missed the subtext going on in Nope. The film is saying a lot about black people, especially in terms of cinema. There are a lot of thoughtful essays written about Nope that I went to read after seeing the film and it deepened my appreciation. But my wife and I liked the film from the start. Also, the movie rules for this scene:

 

 

 

 

I dunno how much subtext there is in a movie where the monster occasionally looks like a camera /lens and is literally chewing up auteurs and spitting them out.

[Greatoneshere]

28 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

I dunno how much subtext there is in a movie where the monster occasionally looks like a camera /lens and is literally chewing up auteurs and spitting them out.

 

You give people too much credit. For you and me it's text, not subtext, but average joe went to see Avatar and still went away not thinking about our own climate change problem and that beat you over the head with that shit.

 

And there's more to the movie than just that but yes, you are right, 100%.  

[Guest]

There is no amount of getting the subtext that saves the film. It’s just not very good because it turns out Peele just isn’t a very good writer. As I mentioned previously, would definitely like to see him paired up with a top shelf writer even if the story idea is his.

[Greatoneshere]

1 hour ago, sblfilms said:

There is no amount of getting the subtext that saves the film. It’s just not very good because it turns out Peele just isn’t a very good writer. As I mentioned previously, would definitely like to see him paired up with a top shelf writer even if the story idea is his.

 

I'd agree that he could use a strong co-writer, I think that'd up his game.

[EternallDarkness]

6 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

I think a lot of people missed the subtext going on in Nope. The film is saying a lot about black people, especially in terms of cinema. There are a lot of thoughtful essays written about Nope that I went to read after seeing the film and it deepened my appreciation. But my wife and I liked the film from the start. Also, the movie rules for this scene:

 

 

 

 

 

subtext shmubtext,  it was putting me to sleep   

[skillzdadirecta]

5 hours ago, sblfilms said:

There is no amount of getting the subtext that saves the film. It’s just not very good because it turns out Peele just isn’t a very good writer. As I mentioned previously, would definitely like to see him paired up with a top shelf writer even if the story idea is his.

This film was about as subtle as a hammer to the balls and it still wasn't very good.  I agree Peele is a talented filmmaker but he is a mediocre writer and could definitely stand to have a strong writer paired with him. Spike Lee suffered from the same thing most of his career. Also if a person has to go read a bunch of papers and think pieces to make your film entertaining or good, you did something wrong. Subtext and hidden meanings should ENHANCE your film and not be solely depenent on it. Peele is pretty much what, one for three with me at this point? A group of us had a whole conversation about him this weekend. I'm glad he is out there doing his thing and I hope he can return to form from get out but yeah... Nope was a nope for me.