"Us" is currently 95% Fresh on RT (296 reviews & counting)

This review I’ll trigger about half this board badly

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[A] thrilling exploration of the past and oppression this country is still too afraid to bring up. Peele wants us to talk, and he's given audiences the material to think, to feel our way through some of the darker sides of the human condition.

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I'm pretty sure that's not what the movie is about at all

I think it looks excellent. If it's as good as Get Out then we're in for a treat.

Apparently some of the critics display the same tendencies

Kind of like get out?

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With this board and a black cast/director, it doesn’t matter if the movie is actually about that or not

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This truth makes me resent white males more than anything.

And it is the message of the movie, from what I gather. The problems we face are Us, and can only be overcome by confronting Us.

White people have it pretty damn good. Men have it pretty damn good.

Now other races and genders also have it pretty great. . .and the oppression is mostly ill perceived at best, and completely exaggerated and overblown at worst. . .

. . .but white men have it pretty fricking good as a demographic. I just wish they would not flip the frick out anytime anyone says anything bad about them.

Makes us all look small, weak, and pathetic.

you disagree?



I mean really?

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I don't care.

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So he doesn't need to "shut up"?

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fter nearly 50 years on this Earth, The only people I've found that have any measurable "privilege" are hot young chicks with big tits. Everybody else is pretty much just duking it out for 2nd place.

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I don't believe in any prevailing privilege for any race.

I think every race and gender has some good shite and some bad shite.

But it doesn't change the fact that white males are THE dominant force in global culture. They are now, and have been for the last several centuries.

The only recent development is their abject terror at being cast in a bad light, or disparaged in anyway.

If Denzel Washington came out today and said he hates all whites and hope they die. . .

. . .doesn't mean shite to me.

Know why?

Because being white is fricking badass. Check all of the history books.

. . .I just think: "scoreboard, motherfrickers!" and laugh it off.

That is why I can enjoy a Brie Larson movie, even if she said or meant what some of the shitstains on this board imagine she did.

You say you don't care.

I mean it.

Sure, if by "badass" you mean go to work, do your job, raise your family, help your community and neighbors and try to live an overall responsible life. I suppose when you do those things, there are certain rewards that come along with it. That's not the same thing as "privilege", which implies that the rewards are just given to you without your own efforts. That's why I said hot young chicks. They have as much power as the richest men on earth and got that by doing nothing other than looking sexy. I do admire how you tried to disguise your white guilt by turning it into "white power" or some such bullshite.