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Us....a wasted opportunity
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:05 pm
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:05 pm
Finally got to watch "Us" by Jordan Peele. I was intrigued ever since I saw the previews, and I think he's a talented writer/director.
I was into it right up to when the family infiltrated their house. Especially when the other mom started talking.
I was under the impression it was going to be a slow escalation of the "shadow" family continuously terrorizing the family. That the "shadow" family was really just a metaphor for all of their insecurities and fears, and it would be left ambiguous as if they truly existed or were just in the family's head.
I don't know why I thought that, but IMO that would've been a scarier and more suspenseful movie.
It was surely original and entertaining, but I thought it was a lost opportunity at a really good and deep horror movie.
I was into it right up to when the family infiltrated their house. Especially when the other mom started talking.
I was under the impression it was going to be a slow escalation of the "shadow" family continuously terrorizing the family. That the "shadow" family was really just a metaphor for all of their insecurities and fears, and it would be left ambiguous as if they truly existed or were just in the family's head.
I don't know why I thought that, but IMO that would've been a scarier and more suspenseful movie.
It was surely original and entertaining, but I thought it was a lost opportunity at a really good and deep horror movie.
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Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:25 pm to rintintin
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deep horror movie
These are amazingly hard to do, especially in one shot. I think the premise could have been fleshed out more, but then you slow down the movie by adding 30-45 minutes to it.
We just live in an era where the attention span of the average viewer won't let them sit still for more than 1.5 - 2 hours. And that's why a lot of movies sort of fall flat.
Posted on 1/31/20 at 9:45 pm to FreddyGold
Well I meant more that I didn't like the premise. I was expecting something else.
I don't think it was due to length. I mean it was nearly 2 hrs long.
I don't think it was due to length. I mean it was nearly 2 hrs long.
This post was edited on 1/31/20 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 1/31/20 at 10:17 pm to rintintin
Everything that Us got wrong, Parasite got right. A much superior movie with a similar “message”.
Posted on 1/31/20 at 10:33 pm to GeauxBayouBengals
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Everything that Us got wrong, Parasite got right.
It’s got to kill Peele to see how effortless and eloquently Parasite delivered the message that Us stammered through.
Posted on 2/1/20 at 12:04 am to GeauxBayouBengals
I'll have to watch that.
Right when the family was standing outside their house in Us, I was like "this is getting good".
Then they busted in and I was like frick this.
Right when the family was standing outside their house in Us, I was like "this is getting good".
Then they busted in and I was like frick this.
Posted on 2/1/20 at 5:25 am to rintintin
Us was ok, but it felt like they shot a bunch of cool, eery scenes, then had to figure out a story to go with those scenes.
Posted on 2/3/20 at 12:23 pm to rintintin
US has a completely different meaning than Parasite and most people miss it.
US is more about how the circumstances you are raised under play such a huge part in who you turn out to be, and when someone underprivileged is given the same advantages and opportunities as those who aren't they can thrive just as well someone who does get all the privileges.
When the girl from the underground lab was raised among a regular family and given opportunities and an education that the ones who remained underground of course weren't, she thrived.
US is more about how the circumstances you are raised under play such a huge part in who you turn out to be, and when someone underprivileged is given the same advantages and opportunities as those who aren't they can thrive just as well someone who does get all the privileges.
When the girl from the underground lab was raised among a regular family and given opportunities and an education that the ones who remained underground of course weren't, she thrived.
This post was edited on 2/3/20 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 2/3/20 at 1:47 pm to CrimsonFever
I thought the whole angle of a mirrored society of us, underground, no less, was pretty stupid. I am not sure what I was expecting going into it, but it didn't deliver for me. And honestly, I think I was expecting something "different" and a solid horror film, much like the OP. But that's just not what it was in the end.
Am I to assume that every single place in the world has underground tunnels where people wander around mindlessly as unpersonalitied clones of us? And the whole Hands Across America thing didn't make much sense to me either.
I don't know. When I thought it was a horror movie about people who look like us, and would have some deeper messages, I was intrigued. But after watching how they chose to go with it, I was disappointed.
Am I to assume that every single place in the world has underground tunnels where people wander around mindlessly as unpersonalitied clones of us? And the whole Hands Across America thing didn't make much sense to me either.
I don't know. When I thought it was a horror movie about people who look like us, and would have some deeper messages, I was intrigued. But after watching how they chose to go with it, I was disappointed.
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