Sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Color me shocked.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Get Out
chupachupp — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 07:01 AM)
Like jaw hitting the floor shocked. I saw the trailer for this before Split and thought that it was such an odd movie to be released, especially with what's going on in the US right now. Although I felt like the trailer gave away the entire movie, I was morbidly curious about the film because it just looked like a mashup of about 10 different genres. After reading up on this, I'm not sure what surprised me more: That it's currently sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 8.0, or that it's from the guys who brought us that cat movie, Keanu, a few months ago. I'm sure that it will probably go down to the mid-70's, low 80's on the Tomatometer when it gets released, but I'm still surprised that it's getting any good reviews because it looks like absolute beep
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worc508 — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 08:17 AM)
Pretty ballsy to do a film where the leads are a mixed couple and it intertwines race relations with horror. Usually in movies like this if its a mixed couple it would be a white guy with a black woman. I liked how they did a black man with a white woman.
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syafiqjabar — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 03:17 AM)
It's not the first movie to do so. There was Lakeview Terrace, which had an interracial couple harassed by Samuel L Jackson. Night of The Living Dead was pretty radical for having a black protagonist, and the ending had a strong racial subtext. The remake shifted the focus to a white female character but still had the black character play an important role. Tales from The Hood mixes horror and social commentary in an inner city setting. Candyman's entire premise started out with racism. Even the TV series Supernatural had an episode about a racist ghost truck.
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Alondro — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 10:42 AM)
It almost certainly has a massively left-wing propaganda message. The horrors of white people trying to be black, and if you 'act too white' it's because you're not really black anymore. That's what I'm getting out of it. Were it reversed, it'd be getting a 0% for being evil and racist against blacks.
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Quan-Young — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 01:52 PM)
How can a film encourage White guilt?
You either feel guilty or you don't.
But it's not doing that.
Why is it that White people are afraid to talk about racism?
I'm not calling you a racist, but if you are White, then I'm sure you have benefitted from being such.
And if you're not clear on how those benefits have manifested itself, I'll be glad to elaborate.
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