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Kind of out there, but I'm trying to gauge comedy. As someone who was laughing at and being genuinely horrified by RE7 for the first four hours, how funny would you say this movie is? That kind of "aw fuck" mixed with genuinely goofy shit.

Edit: A better comparison would be the mix of horror/humor in American Horror Story, where it's not terribly on the nose but constantly prevalent.

Horror-comedy is like my favorite thing ever, so I'm hoping to be blown away.
 
dlauv said:
Kind of out there, but I'm trying to gauge comedy. As someone who was laughing at and being genuinely horrified by RE7 for the first four hours, how funny would you say this movie is? That kind of "aw fuck" mixed with genuinely goofy shit.

Edit: A better comparison would be the mix of horror/humor in American Horror Story, where it's not terribly on the nose but constantly prevalent.

Horror-comedy is like my favorite thing ever, so I'm hoping to be blown away.
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Well, it's not a horror. It's a thriller that talks about passive racism and while some of that shit may be funny, it honestly had me heated a lot because it's shit I've been through. There is a comic relief character, but that's it. Everything else is situational comedy through Chris and what Rose's family tells him.
 
Count Dookkake said:
Any gore in this? If so, what is it comparable to?

Probably gonna see it tonight with a new girl and I'm not sure what her tolerance is. Haven't started her education yet, so I don't want to her to be traumatized.

No spoilers, please.
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No gore till the end where it's the mild sort.
 
dlauv said:
Kind of out there, but I'm trying to gauge comedy. As someone who was laughing at and being genuinely horrified by RE7 for the first four hours, how funny would you say this movie is? That kind of "aw fuck" mixed with genuinely goofy shit.

Edit: A better comparison would be the mix of horror/humor in American Horror Story, where it's not terribly on the nose but constantly prevalent.

Horror-comedy is like my favorite thing ever, so I'm hoping to be blown away.
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It's hard to explain unless you watch it. Overtly funny segments involve phone conversations with the best friend. Other less overt funny moments involve awkward and weird social situations that you can't help but laugh at how uncomfortable it is or how lame some of the old rich white people try to act cool and you're supposed to scoff at it. It's not a straight up parody. Closest and most recent example I can compare it to in terms of mixing horror and comedy is The Visit.
 
I wouldn't say it is a horror nor thriller. It's hard to put it into one film. Some very clear horror aspects, thriller, and comedy. Basically, it's hella impressive for Peele's freshman effort as a director how he manage to balance each genre within the same film.
 
This movie was awesome. I did a fist pump when
the mother tried to attack Chris and he blocked it. Chris seemed mostly unstoppable at the end.
 
jviggy43 said:
Honestly,
It was easily the most powerful moment of the movie when the TSA car pulled up and the entire theater had the same exact thing in mind with thinking that it was going to be a cop who would shoot him. When it was revealed to be his friend, one guy threw his arms up and almost everyone gave a collective sigh of relief. Its unreal how telling that moment was of our culture's concepts of race and police are.
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Yessss people literally gasped in the theater....everyone knew what they thought was coming.
 
LionPride said:
Well, it's not a horror. It's a thriller that talks about passive racism and while some of that shit may be funny, it honestly had me heated a lot because it's shit I've been through. There is a comic relief character, but that's it. Everything else is situational comedy through Chris and what Rose's family tells him.
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SuperStiltzkin said:
It's hard to explain unless you watch it. Overtly funny segments involve phone conversations with the best friend. Other less overt funny moments involve awkward and weird social situations that you can't help but laugh at how uncomfortable it is or how lame some of the old rich white people try to act cool and you're supposed to scoff at it. It's not a straight up parody. Closest and most recent example I can compare it to in terms of mixing horror and comedy is The Visit.
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Fantastic. I enjoyed The Visit. Thanks. Yeah, I'm hoping to feel uncomfortable too.
 
jviggy43 said:
Honestly,
It was easily the most powerful moment of the movie when the TSA car pulled up and the entire theater had the same exact thing in mind with thinking that it was going to be a cop who would shoot him. When it was revealed to be his friend, one guy threw his arms up and almost everyone gave a collective sigh of relief. Its unreal how telling that moment was of our culture's concepts of race and police are.
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I hugged my friend at that part
 
Seems like the op trailer spoils the entire movie, no? I had to stop watching out of fear. Fear of not having the need to watch the full movie :/
 
Chris's best friend was the embodiment of the audience. All of his advice, theories and whatnot were in line with what we were all thinking.

Brilliant writing.

Great movie.
 
Man, I didn't think this movie would turn out to be so well received, I also had no idea it was by Peele!

Definitely gonna try to check it out first chance I get.
 
The film is definitely very high on the creep factor, but it's always coupled with the hilarious.

I really enjoyed it.

I wonder if this tone will turn out to be Peele's signature or if he will make movies that are played dead serious. The writing was quite good.
 
Walter Chaw's review has dropped.

A movie about white privilege, it's a comedian's film in that, like the best comedians, it recognizes some awkward truisms and makes them manifest in a situation that builds on itself. This is a great set. It gets on a roll. Its central riff is a complicated one: rich white liberals are so detached and alien that through their best intentions, they're actively responsible for the continued oppression of minorities in the United States. There was a string of films in 2016 that raised this as a possibility (I Am Not Your Negro and OJ: Made in America high among them), but in Get Out the idea finds its natural home in the horror genre.

What Get Out handles in its brief runtime and B-movie machinations is no less than the weight of all this dyed-in-the-wool American racial disaster. This shit's ingrained, there's no fixing it. At least not without having a conversation to understand it. To be fair, even Merrin couldn't exorcise Pazuzu without naming him first.
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It's the good stuff, as per usual.

Minamu said:
Seems like the op trailer spoils the entire movie, no? I had to stop watching out of fear. Fear of not having the need to watch the full movie :/
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I've seen the trailer like 3 times? I don't really remember shit in it, and what I do remember is basically just the general premise: Black guy meets his white girlfriend's parents, and it turns out their house is a fucking freakshow of racial horror.

I can't imagine how many times you'd have to watch the ad to get a good sense of whatever the fuck is actually happening in the entire movie. Maybe if you come home AFTER you watch the movie, and run the trailer again, it seems like something got spoiled? But that's not really how spoilers work. If you have to watch the trailer AFTER you've already seen the movie to think "Did I get spoiled?" then no, you didn't get spoiled.
 
Speevy said:
The only thing that really shouldn't be in that trailer is
his girlfriend holding the rifle
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When watching the trailer, I honestly didn't even notice
the girl with the rifle was also Allison Williams. When that part came up in the movie I was like "Oh my god I'm so blind!"
 
The initial trailers for this movie were so poor and generic that I had completely ignored this movie up until the positive buzz came out for it. Anytime the trailer came on before something like John Wick 2 or something I watched in theaters, I would just look down on my phone because I thought it looked shit. Because of that I had completely forgotten what they showed in the trailers. So I guess sometimes it pays to have a shitty trailer.
 
If I had to tell you off the top of my head shit I remember from the trailer:

Funny friend makes joke
Mom asks weird question about hypnosis
Dude runs a buttonhook route for no reason
Someone gets hit in the head
Someone sinks into something
Dude's tied to a chair?
Darius from Atlanta is crying about something.
A woman says "no" like 30 times in a row.
Antlers (?)

Like, that's the Get Out trailer. I've seen it 3 times.

That doesn't spoil SHIT. If you come home from already watching the movie, and then you watch that trailer, I bet a lot of that suddenly seems "spoilery" because of all the context you have after watching the whole movie. But that context isn't there in a commercial. So there's no spoiling going on.

Like, even the most abstract trailer in the world will have "Spoilers" in it if you're looking at it after having already "spoiled" yourself by watching the whole movie.
 
It is not a horror movie. It was ok but I shouldn't have seen it at the movies. I should have waited to rent. It was exactly what I thought it was going to be and what would happen by the trailer alone but I saw people saying it is a good film plus a horror movie so I went. Big mistake.
 
Amazing.

I don't think I've seen a film that's captured racism in such a way.

The subtle stuff, very apparent stuff, and even on a subconscious level.
 
Awesome movie. I expected to be one of the few people there, but the theater was packed. Crowd reactions made it an even better experience.
 
I watched it tonight. I absolutely loved it. I went into this completely blind. I didn't watch the trailer. Heck, I didn't know this movie existed until three days ago. Only reason I watched it was the thread title.
 
Get Out is genre filmmaking at its finest. Wickedly terrifying for most of its runtime, Peele's debut is accomplished in its tension and detailed twisted world that feels all too real at points. The script is remarkably tight, using every minute to its full advantage. Missing even thirty seconds of this film for a quick bathroom would be a huge disservice to how it expertly builds the lore and atmosphere subtly and constantly. It's also quite funny, but not overtly so, allowing the audience to really buy into the reality of the somewhat ridiculous situations.

Kaluuya continues his excellent body of work as our lead, giving a nuanced portrayal of a role that could easily come off as a blank slate. The entire cast really is excellent, with every character getting a few memorable moments. Howery in particular is fantastic in a comic relief role that allows him to punctuate some of the film's best moments. Abels' score is appropriately off-kilter, serving the film's more mundane elements well and its lesser ones fantastically.

The most important element though is what Get Out is saying about our world today. Modern mainstream horror has sadly avoided making statements for the sake of cheap thrills. Get Out has those thrills, but they certainly aren't cheap. This film has a bite to it that's rarely seen in this genre nowadays. Peele is loudly proclaiming the horror inherent in racism in any form through this film. It's fitting that its final moment of dread comes from something unrelated to the more unrealistic aspects of the story. Get Out is a stunning debut and one of the best horror films in years, leaving one with a lot to ponder about a variety of social topics. Perhaps most importantly, it is the rare Hollywood release that simply must be seen to be believed.
 
This trailer looked like a skit and I really laughed at this movie being promoted as a thriller or horror movie. Did anyone see this and chuckle more than jump?
 
Just came back from watching the movie, its a fantastic thriller with a nice blend of comedy in it at times. But the film is well paced that its done very seamlessly throughout the film. A wonderful, well made film. You have to go see it.
 
Bluemongoose said:
This trailer looked like a skit and I really laughed at this movie being promoted as a thriller or horror movie. Did anyone see this and chuckle more than jump?
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The trailer or the movie? There are not that many jumps in this movie. The shocking moments aren't jump scares. The moments that got the biggest reactions from the audience are the revelations and the "they did not just go there" moments. There are maybe two or three jump scares and tons of funny and crowd cheering moments. But it's still suspenseful all the way through.

Blumhouse sucks at trailers. Split trailer sucked too and that movie turned out good.
 
jviggy43 said:
Honestly,
It was easily the most powerful moment of the movie when the TSA car pulled up and the entire theater had the same exact thing in mind with thinking that it was going to be a cop who would shoot him. When it was revealed to be his friend, one guy threw his arms up and almost everyone gave a collective sigh of relief. Its unreal how telling that moment was of our culture's concepts of race and police are.
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I felt the exact same way man including the rest of my theatre.
 
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