Which of Jordan Peele’s Three Films Did You Like the Most?

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-Get Out
-Us
-Nope

I think a lot of people will say Get Out was the best but honestly I think Us is far and away Peele’s best film. The acting, script, cinematography, and pacing is top notch and keeps you engaged the whole time. Get Out was really good too but I can watch Us over and over. What is your favorite of these three films?
 
I never saw Get Out cause the big swerve was spoiled for me before I could see it

Us started out amazing, so freaking creeping and intriguing, started to get a little too much to take with the hobbled ass useless dad from one teeny tiny little bat strike and by the end it completely fell apart with the stupid fucking Hands Across America nonsense and what the fuck was the point with all those stupid fucking rabbits
And they buy a vacation in Santa Cruz, Ca, the one specific place in the whole wide world where the wife is terrified to go back to?
Stupid, stupid, stupid!

Nope was just weird from beginning to end, had so much potential to be awesome, tried to get too deep for my simple tastes
 
Get Out and it’s not particularly close. I thought that one was legitimately quite good. A big part of that was that Kaluuya delivered such a convincing and well-acted lead performance. But Peele and his team’s stylistic choices were really good too in my opinion. The building of tension in the opening scene with Lakeith Stanfield was great.

Whole cast delivered Kaluuya and Williams were supported by some really solid actors in there like Whitford, Keener, Landry Jones and Stephen Root. Lil Rel provided some fun comedic relief. speaking of Lakeith, he’s always awesome in whatever he’s in. I thought he really made the most of limited screen time in that movie. That scene where he mutters and then starts screaming the title phrase to Kaluuya is one of the best ones in the film in my opinion.

I liked Us but it didn’t quite have the same overall effect. Lupita killed the dual role- strong performances. Winston Duke was a lot of fun. But the film felt tonally muddled at times and the whole Hands Across America analogy was a bit lost on me.

Nope was my least favorite of the three but I still don’t see it as bad or anything. It just doesn’t have much in the way of narrative thrust. It felt like the bulk of the film was the extended sequence where Kaluuya, Keke, and Wincott (great to see him back) are trying to get a shot of the thing. It was like Peele was going full on style over substance in that one. It felt like Peele was trying to pay homage to the last forty minutes of Jaws but without the great character dynamics and all the highly effective narrative buildup beforehand.
 
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I loved Get Out and Us. Nope had some good moments, but the third act fell flat for me.
 
Us was the best written and most interesting thematically but the performances weren’t great and the tone was off

Nope is entertaining but very long and I hate movies about movies
Like I’m already at the movies don’t preach to me about the mystical art of film making and spectacle
I get it you’re gay for art damn

get out is by far the most entertaining
 
LEWIS540 said:
I dislike Get Out the least.

His Twilight Zone reboot was shit, too.
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Twilight Zone without Serling is like Terminator franchise without Cameron. You can keep doing it, sure, but it's not going to be anywhere near as great as it was.
 
ufcfan4 said:
Twilight Zone without Serling is like Terminator franchise without Cameron. You can keep doing it, sure, but it's not going to be anywhere near as great as it was.
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Agree........even the poorer episodes in the 60s run, still had a certain charm about them.
 
Twitter movies made for the perpetually offended. Even with Serling's talent in his back pocket, he couldn't make a watchable show. Dude's a hack.
 
JackWhite said:
I loved Get Out and Us. Nope had some good moments, but the third act fell flat for me.
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I thought the stuff with Steve Yeun had the potential to be great but they sort of didn't explore that nearly to the extent that I would have liked. The scene that flashes back to Gordo rampaging on set might be the most effective scene in the film from a horror standpoint. That being said, I get what they were going for in terms of Yeun having experienced the severe potential danger of dealing with wild animals that are showcased for entertainment in his youth but still wanting to try to harness and feature something dangerous for entertainment purposes with his own show. But, again, it felt sort of unexplored. Thematically the film was a bit uneven for me. It had fewer tonal issues than Us but it didn't have the impact or narrative appeal of Us.

Also, this is a very minor thing to complain about in a movie where, you know,
the major plot point is people trying to secure an image of some alien entity but when Yeun starts talking about Kattan, Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond doing a sketch spoofing what happened on the set of his show on SNL...as an SNL fan I had to raise an eyebrow. C'mon now- the show would never make fun of a horrific incident where people died on set of a family sitcom. And given that it's a real series despite being referenced fictionally in a fictional movie world, it's weird to imply they would
 
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I like Us the most too.

Get Out the reverse racism stuff was annoying to me. Same with alot of his key and Peele skits. I dunno I'm just tired of all the race stuff. Probably shouldn't say that as a white guy though lol
 
Get Out.

I didn't see 'Nope' and 'US' was alright... but nothing I'd write home about.

I like how layered Get Out was... and Allison Williams isn't too hard on the eyes.
 
ufcfan4 said:
I thought the stuff with Steve Yeun had the potential to be great but they sort of didn't explore that nearly to the extent that I would have liked. The scene that flashes back to Gordo rampaging on set might be the most effective scene in the film from a horror standpoint. That being said, I get what they were going for in terms of Yeun having experienced the severe potential danger of dealing with wild animals that are showcased for entertainment in his youth but still wanting to try to harness and feature something dangerous for entertainment purposes with his own show. But, again, it felt sort of unexplored. Thematically the film was a bit uneven for me. It had fewer tonal issues than Us but it didn't have the impact or narrative appeal of Us.

Also, this is a very minor thing to complain about in a movie where, you know,
the major plot point is people trying to secure an image of some alien entity but when Yeun starts talking about Kattan, Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond doing a sketch spoofing what happened on the set of his show on SNL...as an SNL fan I had to raise an eyebrow. C'mon now- the show would never make fun of a horrific incident where people died on set of a family sitcom. And given that it's a real series despite being referenced fictionally in a fictional movie world, it's weird to imply they would
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I thought Nope was thematically pretty consistent
 
Threetrees said:
I thought Nope was thematically pretty consistent
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I'd have to give a rewatch. It probably was consistent I just thought they sort of meshed together the Yeun subplot and Kaluuya-Keke stuff in a way that didn't really gel for me.
 
I do not like any of his films. As I comedian I enjoy everything he does he is a comedy genius say that without hyperbole. He is a mediocre film maker bordering on pretentious.
 
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