Us (Peele, 2019) — The Spoiler Filled Reviews Thread
 

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Please continue pre-release discussion here.

Movie:
"Us" (Starring: Lupita Nyong'o, Elisabeth Moss, Anna Drop, Winston Duke, Kara Hayward)

Release Date:
3/22/19

Rating:
R (for for violence/terror, and language throughout.)

Running Time:
116m. (1h. 56m.)

Budget:
$24.601 million (estimated)

IMDb Synopsis:


IMDb Info and Rating:
7.0 (851 votes as of 3/16/19)

Rotten Tomatoes:
Fresh:55 Rotten:0 (100% as of 3/16/19)

Metacritic:
78 metascore ('Generally favorable reviews' as of 3/16/19)

Trailer:


Poster Art:
https://i.imgur.com/6EQMoos.jpg

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tbh i don't see many horror movies in the theaters. maybe once in a blue moon. i'd rather at home and usually like the rarer or smaller ones than the mainstream PG-13 shit they dole out on a monthly basis, but with Get Out and the reviews this is getting thus far, i have been scoping out times and theaters for this already...

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Currently sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with 60 reviews. I assume Armond White hasn't seen it yet. Although whether or not he's seen a film is pretty trivial when it comes what he's already decided to think about a movie.

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Seeing this tonight.

BO Tracking has this opening $45-50mil range. Personally, I think this has the potential to be at least $60mil.

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It'll pull higher, it's doing very well in pre-sales.

I didn't care for Get Out, but this looks like a lot of fun.

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I wouldn't be surprised if higher. That's why I said at least.

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I'm actually going to see this on Tuesday. I had an Atom Tickets credit that I had to use a few months ago and pre-ordered my ticket at a Regal theatre and it only cost me $1.50 for the ticket.

I didn't see Get Out until it came out on BD, but I am looking forward to this.

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Saw this tonight.

Surprised by all the rave reviews from critics. I thought this was pretty routine. Maybe even a little less than routine.

While it is buoyed by an undeniably interesting concept and has a fine dual lead performance by Lupita, it plays out in a predictable and sometimes rather dumb manner. Too many drawn out chase scenes/fight scenes/kill scenes that brought nothing new to the table and seemed to drag on and on. And I never once felt that the main family was in any real danger, as overly convenient things kept happening to constantly bail them out (like, why did the doppelganger dad not beat his original self to death with the bat instead of going to the trouble of putting him in a trash bag and taking him out onto the ocean?).

How come the doppelgangers were sometimes forced to mimic the originals' movements, and other times they didn't?

The attempt to give the situation a wider apocalyptic feel with newscasts about people being slaughtered and shots of dead bodies on the streets felt rather cheesy, almost like The Happening.

And so the Mom "doppelganger" (or so we think) and original Mom duel it out, with the "doppelganger" easily getting the upper hand throughout, but then she gets mortally wounded when she tries to sneak up behind the mom, who just turns around and stabs her with the poker. WTF?

You could see the final twist coming from a mile away and it still made little sense in the context of the narrative.

I thought the visuals tended to be more banal than nightmarish. The "ballet" flashback-infused finale was pretty ridiculous.

I was not a huge fan of Get Out, but I think I enjoyed it quite a bit more than this movie.



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Just got back from this and it was fine. Get Out is a much better film and more coherent. I think Us is much more abstract. I did call the ending, though. I did not understand the rabbits and what they were about, but I did get what the "tethered" was but.

As Perkinsun mentioned, the doppleganger movements and such, was wildly inconsistent and quite convenient when it needed to be.

With that being said, I won't say that Peele has hit a "sophomore slump" - not by a long shot. He's a big time horror film nerd and knows what's up. My crowd started out strong but ended up with a somewhat mixed reaction. I heard a guy say that he was not impressed. I also heard two girls talking about it and one asked her friend "what was that about?" Her friend replied, "Bitch, I don't know!" :lol:

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I'm not sure how I feel about, but I did rate it a 4. I liked it in the beginning but started to be taken out of it towards the end. I think there will be a lot of comments poking holes through things but maybe in subsequent viewings will have more of an understanding of why.

The acting by all was great as was the music.

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I liked it. No, it wasn't quite the same caliber as Get Out, but the acting was great and it was a fun thriller. I'm sure I'll see it again, possibly in the theater.

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Really? Outside of one-two scenes of rabbits being in cages, none of the Tethered were ever getting their grub on. :confused:

Oh, and I really liked the music score.

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It was spoken. Something like... on the surface you were eating nice food, while I was eating rabbit flesh.

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Ah, gotcha. Rabbit is delicious, too.

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The flare gun gave me a big laugh, since the second he stepped on the friend's "Be-yachtch", I figured that's where it was going, but I was expecting it to be a little more dramatic. :)

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$64 - $68m weeekend early look.

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someone give me the twist at the end. i dont plan on watching this film but curious

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Caught this last night at a close to sold out showing. I think this is a case where an excellent movie could have been great but didn't know when to quit giving answers. I really wish we weren't told that the N'Yongo character was in fact the doppleganger. For one, I thought that would have been the obvious twist from the time it was said "she wasn't the same girl" . Secondly, leaving that open for debate assures that people would be talking about the movie for many years. As it is, "Us" is a well made horror movie that's very entertaining. Peele definitely has a good eye for the camera and some of the scenes, the opening and closing ones in particular , were very reminiscent of Kubrick. I hope that Peele has it in him to make one more horror film to the level of what he's made so we can then have a trilogy.

I will agree with others that the shadow beings were only controlled and not controlled when it was convenient. Come to think of it, what was the point of their existence? I couldn't quite get it from the Shadow Nyongo's explanation.

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I was under the impression that they were created to allow the government to control the people aboveground. But the experiment failed because the Tethered could only mimick the behavior of their doppelgangers and not have it be the other way around. And so the government abandoned them and left them to their own devices thinking they were mindless beings who would waste away and disappear, not realizing that there was a normal person among them who would lead a rebellion.

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I totally forgot about that. There was that line that came off as an awkward throwaway line - When they ask the dopplegangers "what they are" and the reply was "We're Americans!"

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Holy shit. This thing seems to be more multilayered than I thought.


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Wrong. You see a flashback scene of folks at the pier eating food while the tethered ate skinned rabbits at tables in a room off the main corridor.

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I liked it quite a bit. Tons was left unexplained but enough was fun and inventive and effective to make for a fine classy horror film. I thought the performances were great, esp Lupita of course. Funnier than I thought it would be as well. Peele is a very effective director. Would like to see what he could do outside of genre work.

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Yeah, I didn't catch that.

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Saw this last night with a friend.

Left the theater feeling a bit disappointed. The film is well-made but I thought it was overstuffed, with many pieces not quite clicking together in a coherent manner.

One random thing that bugged me was how the bodies were staged around the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and the East Cliff Area of Santa Cruz. The film tells us that there is hysteria in the streets but when our characters finally leave their neighborhood, returning to the Boardwalk area, there are only a handful of bodies, strategically placed and largely bloodless (outside of blood-stained clothing). Having visited the city countless times, I have to imagine that the city of Santa Cruz had specifics of what could or couldn't be shot there, considering how much money tourism brings into Santa Cruz each year. In the end, the scenes just look wonky and pull a lot of tension out of the later scenes that take place in broad daylight.

I absolutely loved the introduction of Red's Family and the (entire) home invasion scene and wished the film kept that level of tension and sharpness throughout.

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Upon reflection, I still like the movie but there is a whole lot that is left unexplained.

1) How were the tethered able to sustain themselves after the government or whoever abandoned them?

2) How in the world did they first come to be and how did they work initially?

3) How in the world could a tethered like Abraham come to be by eating raw rabbit? Come to think of it, wouldn't most of them have just died of malnutrition after the first year or so of nothing but that?

This movie was fun, but plot hole wise it's starting to get more of a Dark Knight Rises/Prometheus vibe.

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"Build that wall!"

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Still no explanation as to how they got all of those scissors :D While I think the movie is entertaining, if a critic has to say "this is better when you don't think about it" , it has severe plot issues.

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$70mil debut: https://variety.com/2019/film/box-of...a8vqkl7ZpEkV10

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Thought the acting and score were great and liked bits here and there but on the whole I thought it was a turd. Are we supposed to think that literally 300+ million duplicate people are living underground? Why? Where were the people who cloned them? Did they have a factory to produce all those red jumpsuits?

If it wasn't for that awful reveal/ending I would rate it higher.

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I saw this today and honestly thought it was alittle overrated, even after reading a plot description to make sure I understood the story. Get Out was much better, imo. Still entertaining though, no regrets seeing it, just don't feel it's deserving of the praise it's been getting.

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Agree with most comments so far. Not as good as Get Out, though pretty engaging nonetheless. Lots of stuff thrown at the wall, which not all stuck. I feel like if M. Night had made this, it would have been shit on without mercy, but maybe I’m wrong in thinking that.

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Yeah. I was letdown too. I rewatched Get Out hours before going just incase there were any callbacks to it, and it had been awhile since I saw it. I thought Get Out is far superior than Us.
I pretty much understood what was going on. I suspected that it was possible the kids swapped places shortly after the encounter in the mirror house. The humor was mixed in pretty good, and I thought the comedy was better than the "horror". Maybe this should have been categorized as "sci-fi"?
It was interesting. Great acting. Score and soundtrack were really good too. But I agree, overrated. I gave it 3.

Elisabeth Moss in red, she must like that color.

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