Gotta say, this is actually probably my favorite Peele movie so far. I especially appreciate that his movies don’t tend to spell things out, making it a much more rewarding experience the more you think about it. I’m glad more people like you are talking about it like this.
Was waiting on this one, Emily ❤ i didn't get Nope. Maybe a second watch may do well but I didn't get the social commentary as well as the strong story beats that Get Out & Us had. But i think I'm expecting a Get Out when i should just take it for what it is
I watched this with my partner last night. It was the most I'd laughed at one of his movies because every time I said "nope" a character said nope. My partner thinks it was his scariest movie yet but I still think Us was scarier. Get out too.
I love the random TMZ reporter. Sometimes you just need a dude whose only purpose is to make the themes more explicit and then die (Jurassic Park really messed this up by changing the book to have Ian Malcolm live /s)
I thought the climax was going to mirror the story about "the first moving picture"; I thought the cinematographer was going to be the one remembered for capturing the footage
Here’s the thing I didn’t find out later…the TMZ reporter in the film is credited as the same last name as the director of that horse image, and as such is meant to represent the idea of his descendants still stealing from hard working black people…though that’s a detail literally only in the credits.
To me it felt like an ambiguous rumination on the many ways to be a spectacle but I didn’t mind it. I felt US had more thematic room than GET OUT so it didn’t surprise me at all that NOPE was just interrogating a concept through a horror framework. But I’m also someone who loves to see ambiguity and to play with it in my own work, so ymmv.
I really liked Nope, but it does feel like it needed just a little more to really bring it all together. Also I completely expected that the reflective sphere on the stick Daniel made was going to be a chekov's gun and he was going to whip it out to startle the alien. But after thinking on it for a while, the real payoff for that was the TMZ reporter with his weird reflective helmet - the unexpected element that startles the animal
Gotta say, this is actually probably my favorite Peele movie so far. I especially appreciate that his movies don’t tend to spell things out, making it a much more rewarding experience the more you think about it.
I’m glad more people like you are talking about it like this.
Was waiting on this one, Emily ❤ i didn't get Nope. Maybe a second watch may do well but I didn't get the social commentary as well as the strong story beats that Get Out & Us had. But i think I'm expecting a Get Out when i should just take it for what it is
“Nope” is a genius title for this film
I watched this with my partner last night. It was the most I'd laughed at one of his movies because every time I said "nope" a character said nope. My partner thinks it was his scariest movie yet but I still think Us was scarier. Get out too.
i loved nope. Great film
I wish we'd get more references to Akira that weren't the motorcycle slide, but damn if it ain't smooth.
I love the random TMZ reporter. Sometimes you just need a dude whose only purpose is to make the themes more explicit and then die (Jurassic Park really messed this up by changing the book to have Ian Malcolm live /s)
I thought the climax was going to mirror the story about "the first moving picture"; I thought the cinematographer was going to be the one remembered for capturing the footage
Here’s the thing I didn’t find out later…the TMZ reporter in the film is credited as the same last name as the director of that horse image, and as such is meant to represent the idea of his descendants still stealing from hard working black people…though that’s a detail literally only in the credits.
@@AdequateEmily holy shit I missed that detail when I saw the movie. Yeah that explains a lot
Love Peele films. One of my favourite directors at the moment.
To me it felt like an ambiguous rumination on the many ways to be a spectacle but I didn’t mind it. I felt US had more thematic room than GET OUT so it didn’t surprise me at all that NOPE was just interrogating a concept through a horror framework. But I’m also someone who loves to see ambiguity and to play with it in my own work, so ymmv.
I really liked Nope, but it does feel like it needed just a little more to really bring it all together.
Also I completely expected that the reflective sphere on the stick Daniel made was going to be a chekov's gun and he was going to whip it out to startle the alien. But after thinking on it for a while, the real payoff for that was the TMZ reporter with his weird reflective helmet - the unexpected element that startles the animal
Gonna spend my afternoon trying to figure out what Chris Kattan did now :P
8/10
I like Peele but this movie... nope lol