Reviews

I liked the movie. Some things were done really well, while others fell a bit flat. Like any Jordan Peele movie, you have to pay attention. It will take several times of watching before I really get what just happened.

I liked the chimp sub-plot. Maybe not everyone remembers the news story from 15-ish years ago where a chimp ripped off a woman's face. A friend of mine dated a zookeeper several years back and he said the most terrifying animal in a zoo is an adult male chimp. You don't ever look them in the eye, EVER! I think OJ even said something like this (not referring to chimps, though). So, I appreciated this little bit in the movie.

That's it for now.

I liked it. I do think it could have been a bit more fleshed out, but it was decent. Kind of the ultimate bully revenge movie in a way. For a minute when they first introduced Sue Ann's daughter, I thought she was going end up being the result of a rape suffered during Sue Ann's teen years, but that would have made her too old to be known by the current-day teens.

The Munchausen's by proxy twist was interesting, too.

Many years ago, while camping with our family, my older sister and I watched this movie on a black & white tv in our camper. Everyone else was asleep. At the point where the blood started dripping into the baby's mouth, my sister said, "UGH, let's quit watching this crap!" Off went the tv and we went to bed.

I have tried for years to remember the name of this movie. My sister has unfortunately passed away, so I couldn't ask her if she knew. Finally I figured it out and came to imdb to try find out more plot details.

Through the magic of streaming television services, i was finally able to watch the rest of the movie several days ago. I was not missing much. I'm glad to have some resolution, I guess. Very low entertainment value.

For one reason or another, I didn't see "Get Out" until several months after it was released. I felt like I missed something by not paying close attention to the small details, so this time, I was determined to do so from the beginning. The very first image on the screen when US begins is of a television commercial. But in the left part of the screen, there is a shelf with videos. Those videos were titled: Man with two Brains. "Tuesday Nite" (handwritten), The Goonies, and C.H.U.D. Somehow, these would figure prominently in the movie.

Despite my promise to myself, before long, I was lost in the story. And that's fine. A movie is supposed to be relaxation and a bit of mindlessness. I remember being a bit surprised that we were carried along so quickly.

My husband has often said that he considers a movie as "good" if he continues to think about it for days. Sudden thoughts about the plot popping into my head are also a good indication for me that I like a movie.

One of the first "after-effects" about US is that I began to wonder, how was it, exactly, that Addie knew how to get to the underground area? Once she went back to Merlin's Forest, she went right to the door and followed the maze down to where the Tethered lived, without faltering. And as a young child, she couldn't speak once she returned. Why? Because none of them could speak! She had to learn with time. The only reason Red could speak was because she was Addie!

I suspect it's going to take several days for me to work out all these issues. I think it was a very good effort by Mr. Peele and I look forward to the next one.

Definitely better and more realistic than most of what you see on television. I appreciate the attention to detail. I was born, raised and still live in Indiana. I think this is a fairly accurate representation of life there during this time frame.

However...I am several years older than the main characters. To me, there is a much more '70's feel to the show than '80's, but that may also be part of its genius. As a land-locked state, Indiana is often way behind the "coasts" in terms of fashion, pop culture, etc. This was even more true during the '80's before the internet.

My sense is Hawkins is a "town" (we would call it a city) of about 20,000-30,000. My home town was much smaller, so some of the things Hawkins had, we didn't. Likely, the school would have been a "junior high", though, rather than a "middle school." In a bigger city, there might have been middle schools (my uncle taught at one), but for a town the size of Hawkins, the switch wasn't made until much later. But it's too late to change now, so don't worry about it!

In the '80's, "preppy" was really big in Indiana. I was in college in the '80's and it was all the rage. It was also the beginning of "designer" clothing. So let's bring out the Fair Isle sweaters, penny loafers, oxford cloth shirts. Maybe some waffle stompers, down vests (see "Back to the Future") and Izod shirts, OK?

Just a few thoughts.

Just a few reasons why it wasn't absolutely perfect: A lot of the really funny moments were given away in the trailer and that's not fair. Also, I wondered about the title. It wasn't the most clever, but I guess it got the point across.

It was kind of a long movie, but I felt the story could have gone on forever (and it seems it has). I wanted to know more about Kumail and Emily.

The main take-away for me, though, was the fact that Emily still slept with and fell in love with Kumail, even though his living conditions were less-than-stellar. This is how one can recognize true love. If she's willing to make love with you on an air mattress, KEEP HER!

I just watched it yesterday, so forgive me for coming so late to the party.

This movie was depressing, but familiar. My small town, while not as small as Rich Hill, has pockets of poverty which are similar. There are hundreds of thousands of very small towns which have the same sorts of issues all over the U.S. But that's not the point. The film makers came from this area and still were able to leave and make something of themselves. I think, if you aren't familiar with this sort of poverty, you might not realize it exists and THAT was their point.

I loved Andrew, because he had so much hope. There was always a "reason" why they had to leave each home, even if it was because "God wanted us here". I could tell he was getting frustrated by the end, though. The 4th of July, when he bought fireworks for the neighbors and they set them off near the trailer park was great. Even though this took place a few years ago, the images were scenes of a life that could have happened 50 or 60 years ago. Quintessential, you might say of small town Midwestern USA.

Even though Appachey's mom could be a bit rough, I felt like she was real. Right there in the trenches with her kids, doing the best she could and just letting it all hang out. She talked about not having choices and that was sad to me. Everyone should have choices. I hope she can find some way to get out of the place she's in and I hope Appachey goes along with her. There is some vestige of intelligence deep inside them both and I hope there's a way for them to reach it.

Harley was a really sad case, but I felt even with all his problems, he was a good kid. It made me angry, though, when he was in the principal's office and was chastised and threatened for wanting to leave school. The principal showed very little understanding for Harley's problems and that was shameful. I do know the principal has a difficult job and likely some of his posturing was for show, but have a little sympathy. If something like what Harley has lived through had happened to his own child, I would hope he'd handle it better. I just think Harley would have been better served in a different environment.

As always, the tough thing about these kinds of movies is things are never solved. At least, not the way we want them to be. There's a lot of repetition and a lot of undesirable generational behavior. As someone who tries to see the "big picture", it's frustrating, because just when one of these people has something good happen to them, they fall right back into their old behavior and it's gone again. They can't seem to see their options, if indeed they ever had any in the first place.