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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated
1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going
to review every single movie I see. I’m
going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the
rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future). You can always ask me why I gave the ratings
for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses
under the ‘About Me’ section).
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Us OK/G
I did like Get Out
but not as much as general moviegoers, critics or not, apparently did (enough
to get Oscar recognition). This is director
Jordan Peele’s (one half of Key &
Peele) sophomore cinematic effort.
While Get Out focused entirely
on the topic of race, Us just happens
to focus on a vacationing black family with race not factoring into the plot
involving doppelgangers. [I’m glad I
read an article afterwards where Mr. Peele stated he had no intention of this
film being about race, because I was afraid perhaps I missed something; I
didn’t read Get Out 100% correctly
the first time after all. To me, that’s progress
showing black people live like every other American without being labeled a
“black movie” and simply a “horror movie,” but it makes me wonder if it wasn’t
labeled as such since the primary ancillary characters were a white
family. Therefore, more progress is
still necessary in order for a film to have a predominant black cast without being
labeled a “black movie” regardless of genre.
Or perhaps all movies should just always have an equal amount of
representation, no?]. Anyway, to say I
was disappointed with this film would be an overstatement, although I kind of
was considering I’ve been looking forward to this upon hearing of it and seeing
a preview for the first time. There was a bit I liked about it and Jordan
definitely knows how to make movies (as proved twice now), but I believe much
of the first half was rather ordinary by horror standards after a fairly
ominous beginning (scissors are an awesome weapon of choice though by the way). During the last half, I felt like there was
much more than met the eye (which Mr. Peele also revealed was the intention so,
again, I’m glad I may not have missed something) and the revelations didn’t
make me ponder too much about what came before, but rather the revelations themselves. I know I’m probably going to have to
eventually rewatch this after reading a couple different analyses and thinking
about it more, but for now I’ll say I wasn’t completely satisfied even though I
was still hooked throughout and I’m absolutely not dismissing it. 3/24/2019
Other
movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Evil (2006) >>>OK/G
If Beale Street
Could Talk >>>OK
Love (2015)
>>>OK
Puppet Show >>>EH/OK
Second Act >>>B/EH
---Sean O.
3/28/2019
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