Get Out (2017)
Mattson, Alec and JJ dive deep into the film "Get Out," exploring its unique blend of horror and social commentary. They engage in a lively debate about the film's effectiveness, with one expressing a strong appreciation for its suspenseful storytelling and unexpected twists. In contrast, another host critiques the pacing and execution, arguing that it fails to maintain suspense and ultimately leaves viewers bored. The discussion also touches on the film's cultural implications, particularly regarding the portrayal of race and the decisions made by characters that defy typical horror movie logic. As they reflect on the standout performances and the film's original screenplay, the hosts provide a well-rounded analysis that highlights both strengths and weaknesses, ensuring an engaging conversation for film enthusiasts.
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But I want to hear what Alec has to say.
Speaker A:I don't care what I just said.
Speaker A:I want to hear what Al has to say.
Speaker B:I completely disagree with almost everything you said.
Speaker C:Welcome to the what's Our Very podcast.
Speaker C:We fashion ourselves cinematic judge and Jerry.
Speaker C:My name is J.J.
Speaker C:crowder.
Speaker C:I'm here with my co host Matt Ander.
Speaker A:Better Red Than Dead.
Speaker C:And Alec Burgess.
Speaker B:Let's get it.
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Speaker C:Yeah, other than the elite part, we probably fit in better with the weirdos, but.
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Speaker C:You guys might be, but yeah.
Speaker C:Week two of Original Screenplay Month where we're trying to find, go back and enjoy things that weren't just redos or things like that.
Speaker C:So we're getting.
Speaker C: ,: Speaker C:It was written and directed by Jordan Peele.
Speaker C:It stars.
Speaker C:And I'm going to screw these names up.
Speaker C:Stars Daniel Kalua, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener.
Speaker C:Okay, just the one name.
Speaker C:Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel Lakeith Stanfield, and Stephen Root.
Speaker C:It is about a young African American who visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
Speaker C:That's a.
Speaker C:That's a weird synopsis, but yeah, Matson.
Speaker C:It's about as weird as Matson being on mute while he's on mute.
Speaker A:I was like, they had to clarify a white girl in this synopsis.
Speaker C:Well, sure, but yeah, that's a.
Speaker C:That's an interesting synopsis, but sure, but yeah, let's.
Speaker C:Whose was this?
Speaker A:I think it was me, right?
Speaker C:This had to have been you because it wasn't Alec.
Speaker A:Pretty sure this was me.
Speaker A:I was like, this was an Alec movie, but I'm curious to hear.
Speaker A:I mean, honestly, very curious to hear what Alex has to say.
Speaker A:So this movie.
Speaker A:Didn't see it in theaters, but I heard about this movie because people were talking about this movie.
Speaker A:Um, I like, I heard it was good.
Speaker A:I heard it was entertaining.
Speaker A:I'm not sure if I really heard it was scary.
Speaker A:And having watched this, like, to me, this isn't a scary movie there.
Speaker A:This is like a, a thriller with suspense.
Speaker A:But I'm curious to hear Alec's opinion on this.
Speaker A:He's a baby, but we'll see what he has to say.
Speaker A:Watching this movie, though, I think I.
Speaker A:Did I come across on TV first or I just straight up read this.
Speaker A:I think I just straight up rented it.
Speaker A:I was, I knew there was going to be a twist of some sort.
Speaker A:I was like, you could.
Speaker A:This movie gives you enough little hints here and there, but even still, the, the twist, I just, I don't know if I was fully prepared for that.
Speaker A:And the, the way that the girlfriend changed, like, immediately I was like, oh, man.
Speaker A:Like, it's a little un.
Speaker A:Not even a little.
Speaker A:It was very unsettling.
Speaker A:I was like, this is very terrifying.
Speaker A:I liked the movie and I kind of could tell it was gonna go that way, but I really liked it.
Speaker A:I like everything that built up to it.
Speaker A:It was entertaining, kept you on the edge of your seat a little bit.
Speaker A:And the ending, I was just like, whoa.
Speaker A:And then it had a good little bit of comedic relief from his friend.
Speaker A:You needed that at times.
Speaker A:I like the movie.
Speaker A:I thought it was really chin.
Speaker A:I watched it with Tay like a year ago.
Speaker A:She'd never seen it.
Speaker A:We had fun doing that.
Speaker A:I just think it's a unique movie.
Speaker A:Very interesting, weird premise and really good acting.
Speaker A:But I want to hear what Alec has to say.
Speaker A:I don't care what I just said.
Speaker A:I want to hear what Al has to say.
Speaker B:I completely disagree with almost everything you said.
Speaker A:Walk us through your emotions, Alec.
Speaker A:So I hated it.
Speaker B:Hated it.
Speaker B:But not because I was scared.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:It's a great premise for a story, phenomenal premise for a story.
Speaker B:And I think that whoever directing, writing, whatever, dropped the ball in several places that really hurt the story.
Speaker B:I mean, I was bored for most of this because, you know, there's a twist coming, and I don't think the suspense was enough to justify the drawn out.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:I was more bored waiting for the twist to hit rather than excited or feeling that suspense.
Speaker B:I was like, hey, let's get to it.
Speaker B:Come on.
Speaker B:Like, we know it's coming.
Speaker B:I, I, the twist did kind of go.
Speaker B:I mean, the twist got me in the sense that I was thinking the entire time, what's her bucket Was hypnotized by your mom.
Speaker B:And so she had no idea that this was, you know, she was, I didn't think she was complicit in it.
Speaker B:And so the fact that.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, no, she's 100 on board was a twist.
Speaker B:Got me.
Speaker B:But I.
Speaker B:I'm gonna say something.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:You might want to edit this part out, jj.
Speaker C:Oh, boy.
Speaker B:But five minutes into this movie, I knew it was trash because there is not a single young black man that is walking into the woods after he hears a noise.
Speaker B:In no way, way, shape, or form is Daniel Kalua's character, Chris, ever going to go into the woods after they hit a deer because he hears the deer saying something.
Speaker B:There is zero chance that has happened.
Speaker A:That's fair.
Speaker B:Never.
Speaker B:Never in a million years.
Speaker B:So after.
Speaker B:After that happened, I mean, I don't care that he was still, like, his heels were still on the road.
Speaker B:Like, that's already too far.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker B:It's not going to happen.
Speaker B:Never going to happen.
Speaker C:And it's funny.
Speaker B:It's like, okay, all the common sense just went out of this dude.
Speaker B:Ignoring every single lesson learned over the past, I don't know, a couple thousand years.
Speaker B:And walking in the woods after a noise.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:So after that, I was kind of like, okay, this.
Speaker B:This is gonna have some hiccups and some stuff.
Speaker B:And it did.
Speaker A:There.
Speaker B:There was a few of them, but I was just like, I.
Speaker B:I feel like the story was right there.
Speaker B:Story's great.
Speaker B:And they dropped the ball in the execution of it.
Speaker B:And so there was enough to me.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Well, yeah.
Speaker A:Aj, what did you think?
Speaker C:I mean, first of all, I think I'll trust Jordan Peele.
Speaker C:A very funny black man.
Speaker A:Yeah, I was gonna say.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:But I do get your point.
Speaker C:Like, that is a fair point.
Speaker C:That's one of those things that's always talked about in the.
Speaker C:In that community is the.
Speaker C:Are you white people doing in horror movies?
Speaker B:Yeah, that's white people going in the woods after annoyance.
Speaker C:Oh.
Speaker C:So, yeah, I mean, good catch.
Speaker C:But there's probably more to be.
Speaker C:What's the word?
Speaker C:I'm looking?
Speaker C:Like, to be funny or to be, like, have people be like, oh, that wouldn't happen.
Speaker C:Than it was to.
Speaker C:Because that's.
Speaker C:I mean, Jordan Peele, he's the key appeal.
Speaker C:And, like, he's more surprising.
Speaker C:I think that was what, like, so this movie was weird for me because, you know me, I love horror.
Speaker C:I love this kind of thriller.
Speaker C:Interesting story, new.
Speaker C:But I didn't see this in the theater.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:This was one of those weird ones where Key and Peele's comedy, for me, is either spot on or I don't like it at all.
Speaker C:Like, there's no in between with the two of them with me.
Speaker C:So when I'm laughing like I'm dying or I'm like, okay, this just isn't funny to me.
Speaker C:So I was hit and miss on whether I wanted to see it at all.
Speaker C:When I found out it was Jordan Peele, I was like, him doing a horror movie, how's that going to work?
Speaker C:Like, all I'm used to there is the key and peel show and the skits and the.
Speaker C:So I was like, I don't know how I feel about this.
Speaker C:So it took me a long time to watch it, but I.
Speaker C:Everybody kept saying, oh, it's so good and it's so different.
Speaker C:So I went into it thinking, there's no way I'm gonna like this.
Speaker C:But then the first time I watched it, I was like, okay, I'm with you though, Alec.
Speaker C:There are places where I'm like, okay, it's a little overdone.
Speaker C:But I mean, I guess that's part of the risk that you run in a.
Speaker C:In most original something new.
Speaker C:Like you're not relying on tried and true story themes, right?
Speaker C:The like doing something new, you have to take some risk.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:And there are some places in the middle of the movie where I'm like, okay, let's move it along.
Speaker C:But overall, like, I love the story.
Speaker C:Like, I thought it was very interesting.
Speaker C:I saw the twist coming a mile away.
Speaker C:Like, when it was only the black folk that were in like doing weird, I was like, because to your point, Alec, like, they do things that are outside of our.
Speaker C:The typical stereotypes that we expect in this kind of a scenario and situation.
Speaker C:Like, how'd you get them to get trapped in this?
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:Like, no.
Speaker C:And so it's like.
Speaker C:But I think again, like, that's part of the cleverness of it is to me, like I was laughing going, wait a minute, come on now.
Speaker C:I grew up in the South.
Speaker C:They don't.
Speaker C:They're not doing that, like, get the out of here.
Speaker C:So it's like.
Speaker C:And I all like, to be honest with you, like my buddy Lamar, one of my best friends since I'm a little kid like that lives in Kentucky.
Speaker C:I would just, every time I was watching Stinking going, no, he wouldn't do that.
Speaker C:Like, like all I could hear was Lamar in my head shouting, no.
Speaker C:And so.
Speaker C:But I.
Speaker C:It kept me engaged in the movie and having fun.
Speaker C:And there are some moments where it's like, makes me very uncomfortable.
Speaker C:And I think part of what really get got me about this movie was it's Not a stretch in my head for a group of elite white folk to be snatching people's brains.
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:Like, if that technology exists, existed, they'd figure that out.
Speaker C:And I.
Speaker C:It.
Speaker C:So it's not.
Speaker C:And I think that's what made me the most uncomfortable about it.
Speaker C:It's like, leave, because they'll do it.
Speaker C:Like, you know what I mean?
Speaker C:Something up's going on, and I believe it.
Speaker C:And so it was really when you get that reveal of what's happening, and then I think the part that, like, made my skin crawls when he goes to attack him near the end and she just taps the glass.
Speaker C:I was like, oh, no, no, no.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:Then the whole explanation coming from Steven Root, you're like, oh, gross.
Speaker C:No, you're gonna be, like, functional in this whole thing.
Speaker C:And then you tie that to, like, the part where I can't remember the character's name, but when he comes out and she's like, help me, or whatever.
Speaker C:Like, she has that moment of clarity where it's her again.
Speaker C:I'm like, oh, God, that's just.
Speaker C:That's so vile.
Speaker C:And so the movie gives me the heebie jeebies, for sure, but I thought it was.
Speaker A:She's stone cold.
Speaker A:I was like, yeah, that's some commitment to the craft right there.
Speaker A:When you're dating someone for that long and doing it that many times and just knowing you're sending them to basically their death, I'm like, dude, you're some.
Speaker A:You're some type of way.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:In the ending.
Speaker C:Ending, like, she's smiling through it all, like.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Like, do you feel pain at this point?
Speaker A:Like, are you.
Speaker A:Are you there?
Speaker C:Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker C:Wild.
Speaker C:And I think that's.
Speaker C:I don't think there had been a twist that made me go, oh.
Speaker C:Even though I knew a twist was coming to your point out.
Speaker C:Like, you hear enough about the movie.
Speaker C:You know, it's like one of those things where people are like, I can't believe that happened in that movie.
Speaker C:So I knew it was coming, but I still was like, oh, gross.
Speaker C:Like, that's.
Speaker A:I was still good enough.
Speaker A:That made you, like, if you were comfortable with that twist, even though it's coming, you.
Speaker A:I mean, you're kind of messed up.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah, it was.
Speaker C:Yeah, it made my skin crawl.
Speaker C:So I was like, that's clever.
Speaker C:And that's what I'm.
Speaker C:This is what this month is all about.
Speaker C:I think of all the movies we've watched, like, the next one we do.
Speaker C:Could.
Speaker C:There could be some arguments for that one, too.
Speaker C:But, like, this one, I think, fits the bill of original.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:What's believable to me is the hypnotist part is very believable.
Speaker A:What they do there, like, and keeping kind of a body, obviously, the brain transference, everything, like, living on.
Speaker A:We don't.
Speaker A:I mean, sure, if we have that technology where us men of the people are not going to hear about it, but the rest of it, though, like, yeah, I could see that happening tomorrow.
Speaker A:I've been hypnotized before.
Speaker A:It's a very interesting experience.
Speaker A:I can't imagine if I was hypnotized for the wrong reasons, but that stuff may be happening, too.
Speaker A:So I just.
Speaker A:Very creative premise.
Speaker A:And, like, you were talking about JJ Scary relevant to.
Speaker A:If you told me tomorrow there was a news break that this was happening somewhere, I hate to say it, but you'd be like, well, all right, that's terrible.
Speaker A:But I.
Speaker A:Not overly surprised.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's.
Speaker C:Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all, unfortunately.
Speaker C:I don't know what that says about myself or the world, but.
Speaker C:Or both, but I wouldn't be.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:And I think that's what.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's.
Speaker C:It hits.
Speaker A:I mean, with everything coming up, what's happening with celebrities these days?
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:Like, it's just like, all right, well, yeah, okay.
Speaker C:Yeah, that elite.
Speaker C:That level of elite was.
Speaker C:And I.
Speaker C:You know, it's interesting.
Speaker C:So I've been watching.
Speaker C:Not by choice, but Casey's been watching this trash show as she does on Netflix.
Speaker C:And this is, like, no promotion of this show.
Speaker C:I don't recommend it, but it's called Selling Sunset, and it's a bunch of.
Speaker A:Oh, I know what.
Speaker C:Selling to a bunch of elite, which you don't get to see most of the people buying the houses because they're mostly famous and they don't want to be anyway.
Speaker C:They're not getting paid to be on the show.
Speaker C:So it's like.
Speaker C:It's really odd because, like, you're seeing 50, like, 20 million.
Speaker C:I think the smallest house I saw sold was, like, $8 million or $4 million on this house.
Speaker C:I'm like, this is just a different world.
Speaker C:Like, and we.
Speaker C:Casey and I watch it.
Speaker C:Like, I couldn't.
Speaker C:I couldn't navigate.
Speaker C:Like, I'd be like, the black eye on Hollywood.
Speaker C:Like, I just.
Speaker A:So if you want, like, Powerball and you were, like, trying to buy a house, then you did a big.
Speaker A:The community, like, f.
Speaker A:Is this JJ Guy, like, yeah, get him out of here.
Speaker A:Like, he doesn't belong.
Speaker C:Like, absolutely.
Speaker C:Like, I would not fit.
Speaker C:But that's what I think of like.
Speaker C:So it was really interesting watching this after watching like three seasons of that show.
Speaker C:Casey's watched all eight at this point.
Speaker C:But, like, I was only present for like three or four of them.
Speaker C:But I'm just like.
Speaker C:That wouldn't surprise, like, hearing the way some of those people talk.
Speaker C:I'm like, yeah, I don't put it past the elite having some nasty up their sleeve that you're like, wow, we did that and felt okay about it.
Speaker A:Okay, J.J.
Speaker A:well, you don't have to worry about neighbors that much.
Speaker A:Even though your window would be open at a weird temperature, they wouldn't even know.
Speaker A:They'd just be like, all right.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I couldn't live in LA for the heat alone in the summer.
Speaker C:Like, I'm out.
Speaker C:It's not bad.
Speaker C:Not quite.
Speaker C:Arizona.
Speaker A:You'd be a walking sweaty pit.
Speaker C:Yeah, dude, I.
Speaker C:I'd spend all my.
Speaker C:I couldn't buy a house in the those millions of dollars even if I had it because my electric bill would be out of control keeping the.
Speaker C:That big ass house.
Speaker A:California, the power grizzly me.
Speaker A:Mr.
Speaker A:Crowder shut you down.
Speaker C:His fuckers gotta go.
Speaker C:He's.
Speaker C:He's ruined our budget in the entire neighborhood.
Speaker A:Like, you need solar panels, son.
Speaker C:Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Anyway, I will say that there was some seriously standout performances in this though.
Speaker C:Like, that's.
Speaker C:I think the one thing that I can give this that I surprised me too.
Speaker C:I was like, weird, interesting movie.
Speaker C:And I didn't like, I recognized.
Speaker C:So I mean, everybody knows Stephen Root, right?
Speaker C:Like, he's just one of those, like all I see give my stapler.
Speaker C:Like that's what.
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:I can't help it.
Speaker C:But he's great.
Speaker C:You see him a lot.
Speaker C:But outside of that, like.
Speaker C:And there were people.
Speaker C:I was like, I know their faces because they've done like bit parts like the dad and the mom.
Speaker C:Like, I know who they are, but I don't look to them as like, these are our top of the line actors.
Speaker C:But I will say, like Daniel Kalua Loray, like all these guys.
Speaker C:Like, I was like, okay, these are fun performances.
Speaker C:And I can't remember his name.
Speaker A:The chemistry was off the charts.
Speaker C:Yeah, well.
Speaker C:And the two like Betty Gabriel and Lakeith Stanfield, the two that, that played the ones that were already taken over and dude just absolutely killed it with the creepy level and like the whole running part.
Speaker C:Like, I didn't Know, make a running scene be so.
Speaker C:But he's running out of full speed and just turns on a dime.
Speaker B:Like, see, that's the.
Speaker B:That's the first clue to get out.
Speaker B:Yeah, right there.
Speaker C:Seriously.
Speaker C:Seriously.
Speaker C:Well, and that's what.
Speaker C:So I.
Speaker C:Again, I kept thinking about Lamar.
Speaker C:Lamar, who's just this vocal.
Speaker C:Why you.
Speaker C:Alec, you and him would get along perfectly.
Speaker B:Like, don't run outside at night.
Speaker C:No, seriously.
Speaker C:And, like, all the conspiracy theory.
Speaker C:Like, you guys would get along.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker C:So, yeah, you remind me on so many different levels.
Speaker C:But anyway, like, he.
Speaker C:I just kept hearing him says, I was watching this for.
Speaker C:And even now, like, when I watch it the other day, like, I'm just like.
Speaker C:All I can hear is Lamar going, nah, we wouldn't.
Speaker C:The instant one of them was acting weird like, that, we'd be hitting them going, what the wrong with you, dude?
Speaker C:That's all I could hear was Lamar go, n.
Speaker C:That wouldn't work.
Speaker C:And he's like, even if they were in trouble, that's what I kept thinking.
Speaker C:Like, even if they.
Speaker C:He's like, no, they're acting weird.
Speaker C:I'm out.
Speaker C:Like, you know, go wrong.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's.
Speaker C:That's so.
Speaker C:It's just like.
Speaker C:And I.
Speaker C:Look, I love Lamar, but he's not the voice I want in my head constantly.
Speaker C:But, like, that's every time I watch this movie.
Speaker C:Like, that's all I can.
Speaker C:Yeah, I just picture him.
Speaker C:And I don't know if I've never actually asked him about this movie, like, if he likes it or not, but, like, he's the voice inside my head when I watch it.
Speaker C:Like, no.
Speaker C:So, yeah, it was funny.
Speaker C:But I think another part that really made my skin crawl is the part where near the end when Steven Roots explaining to him, like, this is this dude, one of these dudes, like, heroes, right?
Speaker C:He's, like, explaining to him what's happening, and he's like, I just want your eye.
Speaker C:I was like, oh, you are a up dude.
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker C:And he's like, I'm done.
Speaker C:Turn me off.
Speaker C:Whatever.
Speaker C:What a wild.
Speaker C:Like, that whole scene, there's.
Speaker C:Yeah, there's like, 10 minutes at the end, like, as they're revealing everything in the lineup to him.
Speaker C:Escaping and, like, figuring it out.
Speaker C:Like, man, it just is, like, creepy skin crawly.
Speaker C:So kudos to Jordan Peel on that because, like, the writing on that dialogue is great.
Speaker A:Were you creeped out at all, Alec, or.
Speaker A:Or not at all?
Speaker A:You weren't even nothing.
Speaker A:Nothing put you on edge?
Speaker C:Nope.
Speaker C:I figured out Alex's safety mechanism with Horror movies, like, anything that's got some scare to it.
Speaker C:Alec finds, like, the first thing that he can go n.
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And then he latches onto it and.
Speaker B:Uses it as an armor, holds on to it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:That's why.
Speaker C:That's why we've never gotten this motherfucker.
Speaker C:Like, we put some serious movies to this dude.
Speaker C:And he comes away fine because he finds something that he's like, nope, this is bullshit.
Speaker C:And then he latches onto it and never lets it go.
Speaker B:A little clarity is all I need.
Speaker C:And it protects him through the movie.
Speaker B:Because, like, even the.
Speaker B:The I thing, as soon as the guy is winning this silent bingo auction, which.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:That's a peel joke if I've ever seen one.
Speaker C:Oh, for sure.
Speaker B:This is silent bingo auction.
Speaker B:A bunch of rich, white elites, 100.
Speaker B:As soon as he wins, I'm like, oh, he's going for the eyes.
Speaker B:Like, it's just parts.
Speaker B:And so by the time we got around to that, I was just confirming it and I was like, all right.
Speaker B:I was like, okay, now how does he get out?
Speaker B:Because there's no way this movie's gonna end with him losing.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:But yeah, no, I.
Speaker B:I will latch on to whatever I can, and I will hold on to it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Use it as a shield.
Speaker C:It's the horror shield.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Oh, that's funny.
Speaker C:Yeah, I figured you out.
Speaker C:Figured you out.
Speaker C:That's one more.
Speaker C:One more thing for me to look for the right horror movie for you now is actually.
Speaker B:I don't know anymore because I'm getting braver, I think.
Speaker B:But if something like the Exorcist probably will still give me, like.
Speaker B:And I don't know if I can latch on to anything in there.
Speaker B:Be like, huh.
Speaker C:Well, I was gonna say.
Speaker C:I was gonna.
Speaker C:At one point before things changed a little bit, I was gonna beg.
Speaker C:Now I gotta go to Rich.
Speaker C:Which might be more dangerous for you, I don't know.
Speaker C:But I got a horror movie in mind.
Speaker C:I gotta watch it again first to make sure.
Speaker C:But I was gonna be like, she's gonna be begging, Charles.
Speaker C:Like, hey, I need a favor.
Speaker A:No, you.
Speaker A:You guys can do your.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I don't want to be a part of that.
Speaker A:All I'm saying, all I heard through all this is basically, again, our listeners know I'm a man of the people.
Speaker A:And Alec has invalidated his review this movie because he latched on to something.
Speaker A:So you don't have to pay attention to what he is saying or what's coming out of his mouth.
Speaker A:JJ and I aren't gonna lead you astray.
Speaker A:Alec is blinded by his ability to find something he hates, so he protects himself from not getting scared.
Speaker A:So just like, let's tune them out.
Speaker A:Alec, you can go on mute.
Speaker A:I don't even need you.
Speaker C:As I say, don't encourage him.
Speaker C:He'll stay on mute the whole rest of the.
Speaker C:The podcast episode.
Speaker C:Oh, I will say it did fit the bill, though.
Speaker C:I don't think anybody can argue.
Speaker C:There he goes.
Speaker C:I don't think anybody can argue that this fit the bill of the original screenplay, which is in and of itself, like, so distracted right now.
Speaker C:Of itself is, like, unique in.
Speaker C:In Hollywood these days, which we talk about a lot.
Speaker C:But yeah, it was definitely original.
Speaker C:Alec, wake up.
Speaker C:You're distracting me.
Speaker C:Easily distracted.
Speaker A:Disney shirt on.
Speaker C:I know, I love it.
Speaker C:It's like a walking conundrum.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker A:I'm just saying, for those of you that haven't seen it, and if you're too afraid to watch real scary movies, but you're feeling up for something that's suspenseful and an interesting storyline, give it a watch.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I will say that's one thing that I do remember when this came out, everybody going, oh, it's super scary.
Speaker C:And I didn't find it scary.
Speaker C:I found it intense and I found it unsettling.
Speaker C:Like, very unsettling.
Speaker C:But I didn't find it scary.
Speaker A:No, it's not like demonic.
Speaker A:It doesn't have any.
Speaker A:All those other, like, there's not like, true.
Speaker A:I mean, jump scares.
Speaker A:There's a running scene, but it's not like even that.
Speaker A:Like, it kind of just builds.
Speaker A:You're like, oh.
Speaker C:But yeah, it was a lot like last week's movie actually, where the lighthouse made me uncomfortable a lot.
Speaker C:But it didn't.
Speaker C:Wasn't scary, but it was like this one.
Speaker C:And it fixed all the problems I had with the lighthouse because it gave me a bunch of options to lean into and then clarified at the end and gave me what I needed to feel like.
Speaker C:Oh, you know what I mean?
Speaker C:Like, it had at the end what I wanted from the lighthouse.
Speaker C:Like an actual answer, no matter how ridiculous that answer might be.
Speaker C:Might be.
Speaker C:It had an answer.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker C:So that's what I think I liked one of the most about that.
Speaker C:So did I say hi?
Speaker C:Hi, bags.
Speaker C:Oh, oh, he's not quite as happy as he was.
Speaker C:Hi, bags, headphones on.
Speaker C:He's happy you say jj.
Speaker C:Oh, he thought about it again.
Speaker A:You do it.
Speaker A:No, no.
Speaker A:Can you say jj?
Speaker A:Is that a one hit wonder?
Speaker A:You're so focused.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's.
Speaker C:He get some things on his mind.
Speaker A:Well, what would we take from Alec if we were trying to select?
Speaker A:I don't even know if Alec would be selected.
Speaker A:I probably just pass a bit.
Speaker B:You don't want anything.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:On top of that, I not going to the woods to visit nobody's family.
Speaker B:Soon as some comes running at me in the middle of the night, I am gone.
Speaker B:I'm not telling nobody.
Speaker B:Camera phone, everything can be replaced.
Speaker B:I'm gone.
Speaker B:There's a I would be gone from this party seven times before it gets so far.
Speaker C:That's funny.
Speaker C:I believe that about you too though.
Speaker C:Like, yeah, that's.
Speaker C:It's a do what you gotta do kind of thing.
Speaker C:I don't think that's like I wouldn't leave.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:I think I fit.
Speaker C:Like I'd just be like, whatever.
Speaker C:That's weird.
Speaker C:But she's hot, dude.
Speaker C:Like, doesn't matter.
Speaker A:That's funny.
Speaker A:I can't see her like being hot or good looking anymore because of how she like the lasting memory of her.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Terrifying.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Cold blooded.
Speaker C:Oh yeah.
Speaker C:She.
Speaker C:She plays that well.
Speaker C:For sure.
Speaker C:Is like.
Speaker C:You're like, damn.
Speaker C:And then like the.
Speaker C:What is it the picture album that he finds, like with all the pictures of the previous.
Speaker C:I'm just like, oh shit.
Speaker B:Like, so I did have a question about that.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Who's leaving that out?
Speaker B:Like, is it some sort of sick, twisted, demented, like you had a chance to look and explore and you didn't take it type thing?
Speaker B:Or like because Georgina's grandma.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:I forget the dude who's landscaping, but that's grandpa.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like this is all the family who's leaving the door open so you can go find these photos and learn.
Speaker C:I think it's one of those things that they just don't care.
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:Like, I think and the fact that you get to see like him fighting and then she just taps a teacup and she always has that teacup, like which now it makes sense.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker C:Like, and I think that's where.
Speaker C:I don't think they give a if it's open, if it's not, if they figure it out because they've got the ace in the hole 1.
Speaker C:The house is under freaking lock and key for the most part.
Speaker C:And then something gets out of line.
Speaker C:Somebody gets out of line.
Speaker C:She just taps the freaking teacup and you're like done for.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:So then it's like, well, we'll keep you in the falling.
Speaker C:And that made Me uncomfortable every time they showed that scene of him, like, falling backwards.
Speaker C:Like, that's like a real, like, thing for, like, drowning.
Speaker C:Like that kind of like falling for mouth.
Speaker C:Like, that makes me.
Speaker C:My skin crawl worse than most anything else in this.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's a.
Speaker C:But, yeah.
Speaker C:I don't think they care.
Speaker C:Like, I think that's why it's okay.
Speaker C:So he was able to find out.
Speaker C:Man, just accelerate.
Speaker A:Well, the brother sure doesn't care.
Speaker A:He sure likes his job.
Speaker C:Well, yeah, that guy's up.
Speaker C:But that's the thing is you like all the brothers up.
Speaker C:They're all up.
Speaker C:Let's.
Speaker C:Let's be honest.
Speaker C:Like, there's no.
Speaker C:They just.
Speaker C:He's up or just she's like, everybody.
Speaker C:That's a up whole deal there.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Anyway, interesting movie.
Speaker C:Interesting story.
Speaker C:Last thing I wanted, the death scenes, like, the using the freaking antlers.
Speaker C:I full on approved.
Speaker C:Like, that was.
Speaker C:That was a great kill.
Speaker C:Like, I was like, yeah, the abject violence at the end of this movie is just like, I'm all.
Speaker C:I'm here for it.
Speaker C:Like, because that's.
Speaker C:I like that too.
Speaker C:Where it's not just runaway.
Speaker C:Like, there's some serious damage being done on your way out.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:I like that.
Speaker C:So good stuff.
Speaker C:Do you guys know there was an alternate ending that didn't play well with audio?
Speaker C:That.
Speaker A:What was it?
Speaker C:So instead of it being his buddy that shows up in the flashing lights car, like, it's the actual cops, like, and they arrest him.
Speaker C:Like, that's how.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:He was going for what really probably would have happened.
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:And it didn't play well with audiences because, you know, white guilt is real.
Speaker C:But, like, everybody watched that went, no, that's up.
Speaker C:Like, he got out of this and now he's gonna go to jail for it.
Speaker C:But that's.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's how the safest place for him is in jail.
Speaker C:No, no, what's funny about that, though.
Speaker A:Is, like, I can see why audiences like it because movie wise, like, I mean, it's just hard because we're so ingrained with.
Speaker A:You have to have the feel good.
Speaker A:Not that this was a feel good ending, but, like, at least it's on a better note than going to prison because, yeah, that's the real world.
Speaker A:But most Hollywood movies, I mean, let's call what it is, we don't want the real world ending.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker C:But I still think even the way it ended, okay, so his buddy drives him away in the freaking TSA vehicle.
Speaker C:He's still gonna get like there's enough of those people left that they can still blame him for what happened.
Speaker C:He's got evidence of him in that house all over the place.
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Someone thinking.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:The more you talk about it though, like, obviously not gonna get framed for that.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I mean, in the, in the, in real time, it feels like a happy ending, but when you think it through, not so much.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:That's.
Speaker C:It's not gonna go well for him.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker A:Yep, I agree.
Speaker C:All right, let's rate it.
Speaker C:Matt, since your movie, you go, what.
Speaker A:Am I gonna give this?
Speaker A:I'm gonna give it a 4.
Speaker A:I like this movie, Rich.
Speaker A:I mean, great plot.
Speaker A:I mean to Alex point, like, is there when you know what's coming, do they draw it out a little bit?
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I guess I just don't mind it that much because I enjoy the acting performances.
Speaker A:The twist is like, it's hard to say predictable because I didn't know exactly what it was going to be.
Speaker A:But you knew something like that was coming.
Speaker A:But it was still well done enough that it was interesting and intriguing to me.
Speaker A:Like I said earlier, if you haven't seen this movie and you want something that's a little thriller esque and you're not like a horror movie person, this isn't horror.
Speaker A:But you'll be on the edge of your seat a little bit if you're not like Alec and look for the one thing you don't like.
Speaker A:And then Jade, the rest of the movie.
Speaker A:Watch this movie.
Speaker A:I think it's entertaining.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:I've watched it a couple times.
Speaker A:It's a good re watch.
Speaker A:I still feel some of the same emotions.
Speaker A:So four for me.
Speaker A:Happy to have watched it.
Speaker C:All right, you go, buddy.
Speaker B:I'm gonna give it a two.
Speaker B:Great story in great acting.
Speaker B:I think that they missed opportunities where you make just a little adjustments here and there and you can make this nearly perfect, which is, I mean, again, you know, maybe get myself in trouble but feed into the stereotypes a little bit like yuffie.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I think Daniel Kalua could do it really well to where he.
Speaker B:I mean, because he calls his friend a little bit occasionally but have a little bit more of that kind of go back for like, hey, there's something strange up here.
Speaker B:Some strange.
Speaker B:I'm gonna leave, maybe have him try and leave a couple times.
Speaker B:But you know, he gets off the property or whatever and car accident.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Puts him back to sleep and he wakes up in the bed and kind of have that almost loop happen a little bit to where he's actually trying to get away and they're not letting him.
Speaker B:They'll build that suspense.
Speaker B:And I think you cut probably 15, 20 minutes out of this to speed it along.
Speaker B:And I think you do a couple things like that, then you have enough to really start freaking me out because he's trying to get away and he's not getting away.
Speaker B:But there's nothing that he can really prove or remember because he's under this hypnosis.
Speaker B:So I think you do that and you make it a far better movie, in my opinion.
Speaker B:But I'll give it a two.
Speaker B:I'm not gonna watch it again.
Speaker C:Shocker.
Speaker C:Oh, it's a tough one for me.
Speaker C:I'm gonna give it.
Speaker C:I think I'm gonna give it a four as well.
Speaker C:And I think my big gripe with it is it feels longer than it should at an hour and 45 minutes.
Speaker C:Like, in the middle, for me, it gets a little sloggy.
Speaker C:And I think, again, that partially comes from the fact that it is an original.
Speaker C:Like, there's very little leaning on your stereotypical tropes within movies.
Speaker C:Like, there's some.
Speaker C:But most of them, they're gagging on them or.
Speaker C:You know what I mean, They're.
Speaker C:They're acknowledging that they're tropes, but they're things like that.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:But I.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:And I think that also hinders the rewatch ability for me.
Speaker C:Like, I don't.
Speaker C:This one's so in your face.
Speaker C:Once you know what's happening.
Speaker C:Like, I think re watching it once, maybe twice, to see the things that you might have missed, the clues that you might have missed is great.
Speaker C:But then after that, like, I'm just.
Speaker C:Like, there's other things that I'd rather watch that have more entertainment value outside of once.
Speaker C:I don't know when.
Speaker C:I don't know what's going on.
Speaker C:But that's very true for most of Jordan Peele's shock and awe stuff, like the US Movie.
Speaker C:I don't remember the other like them or whatever it was where the Alien type movie that he did, the most recent one, like, all of those have really great in the moment stories and the shock values there.
Speaker C:But once you know what's coming, like, it's less entertaining, at least for me.
Speaker C:So that's a big issue for me as far as watch rewatchability.
Speaker C:But in the moment, like, I think the story's great, I think the acting's great.
Speaker C:I think there's some interesting things that they did to make it uncomfortable And I, I think I give it a lot of credit for being original.
Speaker C: al, especially nowadays, like: Speaker C:Or now, so I like that.
Speaker C:But yeah, four for me as well.
Speaker C:I could have gone up or down either way, depending on which argument I wanted to make.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:Figured I'd meet in the middle.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Now listen, our audience know if you make some small scary movie, you'll go from a perfect movie.
Speaker A:So that logic makes a whole lot of sense to me.
Speaker B:Dude, it is true for every single movie.
Speaker A:If your movie's black and white and has crappy sound, you probably get a four and a half.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, well, for you, that same movie, if you tweak a little bit, gave a little color and better sound, it's gonna get a five, so.
Speaker A:Well, when we live a life of color, I'm not asking for much.
Speaker A:I'm just asking what my eyes can see in everyday life.
Speaker C:But it looks so bad back then.
Speaker C:Like it wasn't real life color.
Speaker C:It was like pastels and muted shit.
Speaker C:Like it was weird.
Speaker A:They all just had bad eyes back then.
Speaker C:Technicolor was not real Technicolor.
Speaker A:Get Jordan Peele's character's eyes.
Speaker A:They're good.
Speaker A:You'll see it better.
Speaker C:There you go.
Speaker C:This dude just be contrary.
Speaker C:I like it.
Speaker C:All right, well, Alec, tell everybody where they can find us.
Speaker B:Happy to.
Speaker B:So thank you for tuning into our review of Get Out.
Speaker B:This is week two of Original Screenplay Month.
Speaker B:What'd you guys think of our verdict?
Speaker B:Let us know in the comments below what you think.
Speaker B:Special thanks to our current patrons, Richard and CB for selecting this topic and then the movies that we're watching within said topic.
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Speaker B:With that, I'll kick it back to the King of Crash, the Titan of Terror.
Speaker B:Jj.
Speaker C:Yeah, speaking of Patreon and Charles or cb, I have to show the gift that he sent me.
Speaker B:Dude, nice.
Speaker C:It actually, it actually lights up and everything.
Speaker C:Hate the movie, but I love this and it will find a.
Speaker C:A place behind me somewhere.
Speaker C:I've got to figure out how to get it to light up.
Speaker C:It's kind of a difficult thing to keep standing up because like the plug piece is really top heavy.
Speaker C:So like, I gotta figure out how to get it up.
Speaker A:I think they designed it just how it was in the movie.
Speaker A:Jj it's tough to keep up then too.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker C:Well, though, like, I was laughing because the other day it was sitting over here and I have it propped up just right and my dog walked by and her tail hit it and knocked it over.
Speaker C:And I was like, oh.
Speaker C:I was like, please don't break.
Speaker C:And then I started laughing.
Speaker C:I was like, wait, that might actually be pretty funny if it had broke.
Speaker C:But, like, I would feel bad, but it might actually make for a funny gag.
Speaker C:So that, yeah, I laughed.
Speaker C:But yeah, no, I.
Speaker C:Thanks, Charles.
Speaker C:Thanks for being a Patreon patron.
Speaker C:Thanks for hanging out with us.
Speaker C:We always love your commentary and choices you put us through and it's been great.
Speaker C:So we appreciate it.
Speaker C:But yeah, thank you for the leg lamp.
Speaker C:Best part of that movie.
Speaker C:And then we'll find a place to display it.
Speaker C:So, yeah, there it is.
Speaker C:But if you want to know the shenanigans, go, go find us on Patreon.
Speaker C:We got all sorts of options and over 200 different posts down there as well.
Speaker C:So it's been fun.
Speaker C:A lot of behind the scenes stuff.
Speaker C:So with that, as always, we appreciate you tuning in.
Speaker C:We'll catch you on the next one.
Speaker B:Hasta love, Easter, baby.
Speaker A:Wait.
Speaker C:Magic out.
