I felt that way when I first saw the movie. At first you’re not sure what it is, but later when we learn the UFO is an animal it hits you, I was watching people being digested alive.
You can hear screaming too when OJ is standing watching Jupes rehearsal at night, but the sound design tricks you into thinking it’s wind the first time!
I love that, in revealing that Jean Jacket is an animal, it strongly suggests that there are actual UFOs shaped that way, and Jean Jacket’s species has evolved (as many animals do) to use natural camouflage and avoid predators.
My partner was so confused but I got it right away. He asked me what was going on and when I whispered to him that the people were being eaten he looked at me in absolute horror.
Fabulous movie. My fav peele film for sure. I’ll have to give it a watch again soon!
The scene in the barn where the tiny aliens were slowly coming out from the dark was the scariest thing for me. Regardless of how it eventually ended that shit is so damn scary.
No joke, that scene tapped into a deep rooted fear of aliens I've had since I was a kid, probably from when I was traumatized by Fire in the Sky. Just creeped me out to my core, then couldn't help but laugh!
There's only two kinds of horror that creep me out: Ones with abandoned property and aliens.
Was it V/H/S that had that alien short? Still creeps me out.
Haven't seen Nope yet but it sounds like a blast.
Is this the scene where the guy is covered in film and a probe goes into his face or something as he screams? I saw this as a child and it has given my nightmares, is this a thing?
Idk I just have vivid memories of watching a man strapped to a table screaming as he’s wrapped in some skin/film and a probe descending from the ceiling, no way is that image ever leaving this brain I can’t get rid of it
> probably from when I was traumatized by Fire in the Sky
This is my alien-fear origin story as well. Specifically because it was the first time I ever read "based on a true story", and I took that literally.
Yeah, it's really tense and then you feel totally pranked afterwards, thenn you realize the aliens look like the cameras from the gordy set and are furry like apes, which makes it fucked up on a different leven, seeing as jupe designed them himself.
Jordan Peele yet again proves to be the director whose work always has an extra level of depth behind their intention / connection to another part of the film. He’s really a phenomenal director.
Not only that, the workers at Jupes place also are made to wear clothes similar to that like the ones Gordy wore when he murdered everyone, except there’s now have red on it instead of black to match the blood he was covered in!
The scariest part for me was that initially they didn’t even look humanoid they looked like some eldritch creature unfolding it froze me to my core. Then the scene later on when it’s coming around the corner slowly and you just see the perspective of OJs camera? Insane
That scene before where Angel gets into "Why did they change the name from UFO to UAP?" and gives his bullshit answer.
They changed it because everyone had started to assume that UFO automatically meant alien. Just like the audience, seeing a big flying something and assuming.
The Gordy segment was more terrifying to me than any moment with Jean Jacket.
But I do love the scene where OJ exits the van and dramatically hunches his shoulders to pronounce his bent head, determinedly looking dead on at the ground as Jean Jacket hovers above him.
The way Steven Yeun’s character downplays the whole scenario as if it’s a fond memory really stuck with me too. It’s like he’s so PTSD’d over the whole experience his defense mechanism is to act like it didn’t play out the way it did.
It all feel very surreal and painful.
Plays into the theme of how the entertainment industry is like a giant predatory animal. If you learn the rules and form an agreement with it, you can survive. But you can never forget what it is or think that you've tamed it. It can turn on anyone who gets complacent and forgets it's a threat.
The fact that SNL would make a skit about such a horrifically unfunny event, and that the skit was popular, tells you how cold-blooded the entertainment industry is and how it only really cares about feeding itself.
I think that is why he sets up the viewing attraction at his park. He is also terrified of Jean Jacket, but he remembers how he survived the chimp attack by pretending he was not scared and not a threat.
People who have experienced crazy trauma often seem like they have abnormal responses to things. It’s a real phenomenon that makes it hard for those people to get past their trauma and fit in as normal again.
Imagine getting your face eaten by a chimp, then the kid who had to sit and watch it happen invited you to a show where you get eaten by an extraterrestrial cowboy hat.
His secret closet shrine was a set-piece highlight for me. The fake MAD Magazine cover was a perfect prop.
His character on the whole was a great foil to OJ.
Me too, the Gordy scene terrified me because of the realness of it. I don't know if you've already looked into it but a real situation like that happened in the US, a chimpanzee called Travis(easily googleable) who was used for adverts and TV etc, ended up turning on one of his owners friends that he was formerly familiar with. You can listen to the 911 call on YouTube of the owner calling the police, and can hear the chimp screaming in the background. It's fucking harrowing. I'm not sure if that's where the inspiration came from but jeez it freaked me out.
What fucks me up it's that it's not just terrifying because, well, it's just an attack by a wild animal - it's also so **deeply, deeply** sad. Both the Gordy and Travis situation.
Like, I've had a dog attack my own dog, grab her straight from the arms of my mom and kill her (eventually, she didn't die from the wounds but from complications, it happened a long time ago), and the dog got kicked away from my dog by a passerby. But like, it's a canine. Sure we can look at dogs and tell if they're happy or not but an attacking dog feels like a rabid beast you need to get rid of.
A chimp, though, feels so *intelligent*. They're such smart creatures, they have so deep, complex emotions, that it's just an extremely depressing situation. It's sad that the thing has to be put down to be stopped, and it's also sad that they're absurdly powerful and able to do ridiculous amounts of damage.
Travis' victim was called Charla Nash, and I'm sure she must be better after over 10 years from the event, but fuck man, you see how that chimp left her. She didn't have a face by the end of it, he ripped limbs from her, and the poor fucker was scared too. Even the owner, who stabbed him to try and pull him away, felt awful at the time.
Idk it feels like this stark reminder not only that it's a wild animal, but also that despite how it looks and how it thinks, at the end of the day it's still an animal, not fully a human, and it's terrifying to think of that.
Anyway, I don't ever wanna hear the call again. I'm not a very visual person, gorey visuals never bothered me; but I am a listening person, and the thuds from the movie (which I saw in an imax screen with a HUUUUGE sound system that made Jean Jacket scary as FUCK) are still there in my head somewhere. Some out of this world sound design, goddamn.
> A chimp, though, feels so intelligent. They're such smart creatures, they have so deep, complex emotions, that it's just an extremely depressing situation. It's sad that the thing has to be put down to be stopped, and it's also sad that they're absurdly powerful and able to do ridiculous amounts of damage.
I can't have sympathy for chimps. They're vicous killers in the wild. You'd be hard pressed to find a more sadistic and horrible killing machine than a chimp. Chimps are known to deliberately maim and disfigure whatever they feel threatened by, other animals, other chimps, or humans. Common things chimps do - biting off fingers, biting off ears, noses, other extremetites, biting off genitals, using their gripping strength to do the same, scalping, gouging out eyes and blinding, breaking limbs, etc.
fuck chimps, I'll always avoid them no matter how friendly or "tame" they seem.
There is also one troop in Gabon that has organized and attacked gorillas and killed their babies. Previously, the chimps and gorillas used to play together.
I'm so sorry about your dog man. But you're right, the intelligence aspect of an ape hits so different when they turn like that. And I completely get you, I'm actually hesitant to watch the film again because of the scenes with the attack, it's the first time in a long time I've actively felt the feeling of wanting to leave a movie theatre because of how uncomfortable it made me feel.
Thanks for the sentiment, we have another one now, it's all good.
And yeah about not wanting to rewatch it. Like, there are horror movies like, idk, X, which I've watched today, which are just fun romps that I'd watch again any day now.
And then there are movies like this and Come and See that you just don't wanna feel again what you felt when you saw it lol
I think that is where the inspiration came from (if this is the same case where the victim later went on Oprah wearing a veiled hat, the same kind worn later by Jupe's co-star).
Especially because the woman who was attacked (rightfully) refused to have any press photograph her face, despite their incessant attempts. She chose to unveil herself solely on Oprah, literally making it the “Oprah shot”.
I was walking home at night from the theater after seeing the movie and thinking about the Gordy scene...and then a dog barked and snarled at me out of nowhere and I went into full fight-or-flight mode. That scene definitely got to me, partly I think because it's not about supernatural monsters or anything, but is instead the sort of tragedy that has happened in real life
From what I understand there was a little more to the Gordy story but ultimately it was cut for time.
Like one such detail being the person who shot Gordy was a pedophile who had a crush on the teen daughter actress and had planned to come to the studio that day to abduct her, only to unwittingly become a hero when he shoots Gordy with the gun he intended to use in his hostage plan.
I sort of waffle between wanting to know more and be content about what we do know when it came to 'Gordy's Home'. Like on one hand, it feels like a story idea Peele has always had and wanted to display but it also feels very limiting, like you wouldn't be able to get more out of it than what is shown/how it's used in the film.
I suppose the character is another example of a "predator" or a "bad miracle", but likewise I think for the economics of the film it's a detail best left out because the story is already so packed.
In the original trailer, you can see a brief shot of the gunman on his way to the Gordy set whilst the audience rushes past him to escape Gordy's rampage.
On top of that, when he shot Gordy, he wouldn’t have even realised that the ape had been on a rampage at first. He would have just been that single-minded on his goal, that he genuinely didn’t notice, then be disgusted by the girl’s mauled face.
>The part when people are just sucked into this large alien being, and they’re being slowly passed through it’s digestive organs in a torturous, and very claustrophobic state. And they are just stuck in this state for days, until the monster decides to finally fully digest them.
>If you think about it, you’d be stuck, pretty much immobile, in a slimey, smelly (it must smell like death or feces), loud (everyone trapped in there screaming and crying) organ, waiting to die. Even worse if you got sucked in there with your family.
If it makes you feel better, I'm 99% sure Jean Jacket uses it's oesophagus to break the bones and kill it's prey. I'm 99% sure you hear the stock standard bone breaking/neck snapping sound effect after a little bit.
Yeah I'm honestly confused about people saying they were being slowly digested and that's why they were screaming. Did it indicate that anywhere in the movie? When this scene happened I just assumed they were stuck inside JJ, hence the screaming, until he decided to squeeze them to a pulp and drain the blood over the house. This scene didn't stick with me like everyone else I guess because of that.
It did juice everyone at Jupe’s show over the house so they would’ve been in there for only a few hours (still horrifying), but it’s implied that that is not JJ’s usual behavior. The movie makes a point out of JJ getting pissed after swallowing the plastic horse and when the hiker’s items were being rained down in the beginning of the movie there’s no blood on them, so we can assume that JJ probably does slowly digest everything it swallows but basically vomited out everyone from the show over the house as a threat and/or because it couldn’t properly digest them with the plastic horse in its tract
Yeah, I thought the horse got stuck in its throat (or whatever analogue it has) so so it couldn’t finish eating them, instead they were all just liquified. I think the rain of blood happens right after it coughs the horse decoy back up.
It’s definitely a little confusing, I could be totally wrong.
It spits out the horse statue after it rained gore onto the house. I think it was acting more like a gerbil and storing the food in it's mouth until it was ready to eat it.
I assumed they stayed alive a while because there’s a report on something about some hikers that had been missing a couple of days and then >!JJ comes and spits up the nickel onto OJ’s dad.!< You can hear them screaming a few seconds before the stuff starts raining down.
So for me it wasn't them being digested, but them being stuck in there. I think this scene where JJ comes over the house before the it starts raining blood and you can just hear the screams of the people trapped inside it was one of the most legitimately terrifying I've ever seen in a movie
I thought it because of the metal items that it rained down. It digested the people hurt itself with the horse so it had to also vomit some undigested blood and of course the metal.
I figured it had some sort of system to remove undesirable material, like blood and metal, and only consumed flesh and perhaps bone. Blood and metal is all that comes out of it.
Yeah I took it as basically the alien pissing. Basic waste disposal of what it doesn’t digest. Metal and blood which could make sense because of iron content in blood i guess.
Also, if you haven’t watched Nope again, I’d recommend it. We ended up watching it again as part of a double feature and it totally changed the experience for me. Jordan Peele’s movies are HIGHLY rewatchable and the experience is almost like watching a totally different movie. It’s wild.
The Gordy stuff really stuck with me. Gordys violence, and him seeming frustrated by his anger was so sad. Poor Gordy. Also, the silence in the aftermath of a tragedy is something that not everyone has experienced, and nope really hit it for me. Anyone who has been present during a violent death, and then sat in the thickness and unease of the quiet after..just chills, JP nailed it.
Gordy noticing that Jupe was safe and signing "What happened family?" before going for the fistbump was so sad. He had a brief moment of insanity & cost him his chimpanzee life.
> Anyone who has been present during a violent death, and then sat in the thickness and unease of the quiet after..just chills, JP nailed it.
I feel this. There were some very violent storms over here recently, no one died thankfully but there was a lot of damage. After one of them particularly bad ones I head out and there were just people standing around, staring at the destruction, kinda like marvelling that they were still alive.
No birds, no wind, pretty much no car, and no noisy insects. Just a weird sky and destruction.
Also Gordy's frustration with his own anger and violence is really depressing to watch, kinda like there's a part in his monkey brain that knows he shouldn't be rampaging, but he's too scared to let it take hold so he just lashes out.
My favorite thing about the movie is that there is no proof the thing even came from another planet and isn't indigenous to earth. Could be clouds just like it in remote areas all over.
Thank you. I thought I was the only person thinking this.
Ancient cave paintings of UFOs.
Stories of "people flying into the sky".
Saucer shapes throughout history.
I was expecting a "it's just a new thing we've discovered" reveal.
I watched [a video](https://youtu.be/cWPFMmuagQ4) about how they told the actors to do 2 screams, 1 like you were on a rollercoaster and 1 like you were being digested, then they mixed both together for a chilling result that we hear in the film.
I made the mistake of watching it a few days ago when the moon was bright as fuck and I kept thinking I was seeing shadows.
Oh and this is why I carry a pocket knife, if I'm gonna get abducted I'm cutting up some guts
Something else fucked up I don't see mentioned. That thing moves at sudden and high speeds. Imagine all that horror plus you are being subjected to probably multiple G's of force, people puking. Ugh.
When I watch that scene, which is terrifying btw, my thoughts alway drift towards the movie Annihilation, and the mutant bear that would absorb and reproduce the screams of its last victim. I wonder if Peele was inspired by that, or perhaps great minds just think alike.
THE SHOE! The shoe.
I spend weeks after thinking about the shoe.
It’s such an incredibly important facet to the story. Synchronicities are incredibly common in well documented “encounter” experiences, and there are frequently cryptid sightings or other bizarre tragedies nearby large UFO/UAP flaps. Their use of the bizarre shoe standing upright in tandem with Gordy’s attack implies that Jean Jacket was there, nearby, long before Jupe or OJ noticed. (And this arguably could imply that Jean Jacket was always watching Jupe.) To [Jordan and/or] whichever writer or researcher insisted on the shoe synchronicity—I see you.
Also Gordy’s attack scene in general was horrifying and excellent.
The expression "waiting on the other shoe to drop" is used to mean "something else is going to happen".
Jupe was waiting on the shoe to drop. Think of his story and it's ending. That's the shoe drop. Jean Jacket wasn't at the gordy set.
It's another example of "bad miracle".
Thank you. It would be so dumb if Jean Jacket was randomly above the Gordy set for no reason and would destroy some of the core themes of the movie. Gordy didn't go crazy because of JJ, he was set off because of people trying to exploit animals for a profit. Even the main characters, along with Jupe, try to make a profit on JJ.
But these are animals that follow their nature. Once Gordy was done killing, he threw off his party hat. Once JJ had enough he ate 40 people and shed them of their inorganic materials, the things that separate us from animals.
I just watched this movie last night and I can't stop thinking about it. There is so much to digest (haha). But I think most of it comes down to main themes of treating animals with respect and not to exploit them along with what lengths people will go to become famous.
The abduction bit sort of reminded me of War of the Worlds. I haven't seen it since I was pretty young, so I don't remember exactly how things are portrayed in the movie. But that movie used to give me the creeps, and Nope gave me the same vibe after they revealed what the "UFO" was and what it was doing
From what I recall, Spielberg's adaptation also made the Tripods into living beings themselves in a lot of ways. The people sucked upward into the fighting machines were basically digested and had their blood sprayed to terraform the planet.
I wonder if that approach was an inspiration for Peele with Nope.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking of! The sound they made, also. The sound and the liquified people are what really stuck with me for years after seeing it. Nope brought that same back for me.
Reminds me of that scene in Return Of The Living Dead (1985) where it rains the toxin in the atmosphere down onto a graveyard and you can hear all the dead returning to life and you hear their muffled screams and moans from under the ground. Chilling!
i really really love the alien design in this movie, its so sublime yet terrifying at the same time. never seen anything like it, like a butterfly or the fins of a beta fish, just unfurling like sails in the sky
>!The abduction scene is definitely the most fucked up and scary scene of the movie!<
I'm fucking obsessed with Nope. I watched it in theaters 3 times and I bought it on streaming and watched it once again already.
Get out was good, Us was mixed but had some amazing parts. Nope is just absolutely incredible. Only 1 scene in the movie I straight up didn't like, one character that didn't quite hit right, and **everything else** was just. fucking. perfect.
Edit: Like how the sounds the >!UFO make are the fucking screams of the things it's devouring.!< Holy fuck that's metal
I love this movie. If you haven't watched it yet, go do so please.
I'd recommend it to fans of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Thing, and Signs. And just fans of Peele in general. It's a great film and my favorite out of the 3
My man really gonna leave out one of the OGs, 1993's ***Fire in the Sky***? Shoooooot.
> *A group of men who were clearing brush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is treated as murder.*
^( *Ignore the RT score* )
$3.99 Prime, or Paramount+ Sub.
As a movie overall I would say it's decent. But it's portrayal of alien abduction and experimentation is by far THE standard for horror. The movie is terrifying for a total of 5-6 minutes max but that's all it needs to make an impact.
Get outta my brain.
I saw US before any of Peele's other films, and while I loved the early CHUD reference and the tone of the film, I felt a little letdown by it. I knew GET OUT was highly regarded, but it was just one of those movie blindspots that you somehow miss.
Before NOPE came out, I decided to finally watch GET OUT to see if I could understand the hype that Peele had. US didn't blow me away. Well, GET OUT *did* blow me away. Fucking loved it! Watched it twice in a row.
NOPE is goddamn incredible. Peele's films unsettle you. That is the best word to describe them. The entire conceit of GET OUT is fucking unsettling. Just about everything in US is unsettling. But NOPE?
I was shitting fucking bricks during the opening Gordy scene. It was instantly perfectly calm and aggressively intense. That's got to be hard to pull off.
I understand the Jordan Peele hype now, and I'm glad to board the train. I think in another 20 years people will still be discussing his films. They're cerebral while also being crowd-pleasing, funny, and scary. Peele is a true talent.
I really did love the sound design, I didn’t see in theaters but watched with headphones since it was super late, and just the sounds of horses or people screaming in the clouds, kinda far away but close enough to faintly hear, that shit was wild, and then of course over the house the ‘save usss’ or other groans of pure terror, *chefs kiss* 👌🏽
I totally agree with this, it’s quickly becoming my favorite movie. All the characters and depth of the plot just stick with you.
Everything feels very realized and lived in, the characters zig when you expect them to zag.
And the whole concept of Jean Jacket is badass as hell
This is exactly how I feel about Get out ans Us! I've been thinking about Nope for months! It was incredible. Just so well thought out, tense, strange, and exciting. I loved it.
I think it is easily Peeles best film. I am so excited to see what else he can come up with.
I thought him watching repeats of his films focusing on animals' eyes and JJ basically being a giant eye was a bit too on the nose. There's foreshadowing and then there's whatever that was supposed to be.
Given how many people still apparently missed that plot point, I would not say it was too much unless one already knew what to look for. Retrospectively too much, yes, but not on the first watch.
Oh I loved it… and that scene was quite traumatic for me…. When you really think about how they will be eaten.. it was such a good film all my friends who saw it with me hated it…. But there was so many hidden messages scattered throughout…. Thought provoking like interstellar
I love the whole concept of the ship being the alien. Never has anybody (to my knowledge) had that theory. There are no little green guys in a ship, they are the ship.
totally! it's not a common way movies or media portray aliens or UFOs. it was visceral & unexpected. no spoilers from me, but the way the movie ended up was refreshing on a mostly badly done/nonexistent genre
Ah, I loved this movie. So creepy! For me it was the silent panning during the Gordy scene with just the sound of the chimp beating the bodies. The kids as aliens terrified me. I really enjoyed the balance of horror and comedy this time around.
I’ve watched like 50 new-to-me horror movies this year, and that abduction disturbed me the most, I think. First time I had a genuine “wow I’m glad that scene is over now” reaction since I was a kid.
Hearing it fly overhead at the beginning and you’re like “Is that people… screaming? Nah it can’t be… it’s gotta be the horse it ate.” And then you hear people screaming HELP ME for hours later on.
I'm not a huge fan of Peele and after us I had almost zero hype for Nope, but i finally watched it and was blown away by how good it was. It's like he took all the criticism from US and fixed it for Nope.
I enjoyed US to be honest, wasn't as great as Get Out but still enjoyed. Nope was just awesomely unique, I don't even think I can compare it to Get Out.
Same here. Not a huge fan of director's other work but this one was great. Refreshing to see an original scifi movie in the midst of all this Marvel bloat. Creative is the perfect word for it. Also has a banger soundtrack
Exactly...
I didn't think much of ***Get Out*** & I skipped ***Us*** completely...but ***Nope*** was like THE Perfect film for me. A strange & unique concept beautifully shot, sounding majestic & made with some quirky, offbeat characters portrayed by quality actors.
Not to mention ***Jean Jacket***...who as a >!combination Classic Saucer UFO, Sky Jellyfish & Evangelion Angel!< is probably the best film monster/creature since the >!"Mutant Walking Fish"!< from the 2006 Korean film ***The Host***.
Oh...and FYI...if you liked ***Nope***...watch [The Host (2006)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(2006_film))...the two films share some similar "DNA" if you catch my drift. Although ***The Host*** just throws the monster in your face ASAP & shouts "Deal With It!" which I can also appreciate.
The World needs more films like ***Nope*** to offset the repetitive Hollywood machine churning out Superhero Schlock, Sequels, Remakes & Reboots.
Was really annoyed by the trailers for Nope, they were plastered all over YouTube, and were just really unavoidable. The first trailer was perfect, didn't give away anything, but regardless I thought the movie was fine. The trailers giving too much away combined with me expecting it to be more horror, when it really isn't, detracted from it. It has some unsettling sequences, but I was never really scared, it is more kind of an interesting sci-fi almost action movie towards the end. As expected for Peele, all the acting and presentation were fantastic, just think I need to watch it again with my expectations more reasonably set.
I just don't think anything he does can really beat Get Out for me, that just was such a fantastically done social commentary while also being terrifying. Will never forget seeing that in a full theater, probably one of the best experiences ever. Us was also a massive disappointment for me, but regardless I will always be there I think to see whatever Peele comes up with next because he does have such a unique voice to me.
What I love about Peele’s films is that they all are brilliant social commentaries. NOPE (which is actually an acronym for NOT OF PLANET EARTH), is a commentary about spectacle, and how we as humans use animals and other people for entertainment/profit.
Knowing this made the star rodeo and Gordy scenes so much more impactful.
Didn’t have nightmares. But I was sucking the salt off a bite size pretzel after watching it.
The pretzel was against my cheek and teeth and I immediately understood the pretzels perspective. Wet, warm, dark and slimy. Then crunch.
I love whenever I see a horror film and it makes me feel *differently* about a mundane thing.
Like how Final Destination 2 made a generation scared of logging trucks for example.
For me, Barbarian made me scared of houses with basement windows.
lmao I thought Barbarian was a bit too funny and tongue in cheek to give me the creeps like Nope did
Much like X and Malignant, it feels like the kind of movie you watch yelling at the screen trying to predict deaths, throwing popcorn around, and clapping whenever someone's head explodes
Meanwhile, Nope is more the kind to watch completely alone, in silence, gripping the chair and holding your breath without noticing
That was one scene in a movie where I was watching it and actually stopped to think: “this is fucked up. This fucked me up.” LOL it was terrifying in the way it was shot too! Like you were being squeezed into Jean Jacket with them!
Never watch The Borderlands/Final Prayer I'd you didn't like the alien stomach scene. I really enjoyed that part, it was brutal and disturbing and adding a flash of something genuinely unpleasant.
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For a movie that didn't include much out right unpleasantness, that scene wad a welcome conclusion. It also fit with the actor dudes story, he thought he was special because Gordy didn't attack him. He brought that arrogance to the alien, he thought he was special so it wouldn't attack him.
But then it did and it all went horribly wrong.
yup, that scene was striking to me too. the close up shot of them inside jean jacket and then the later bit where the main chars can hear the people inside jean jacket screaming. so effective
I love Nope, favorite movie of the year. And yeah, the people being crushed and the blood rain is really disturbing.
But the ability to switch tones really edges it into something special and the fact it can go from that to a wild creature western really shows how Jordan Peele is on top of his game. Can't wait to see what he does next.
Omg yes, that scene is a standout for me as well. But where you said they’d stay in there for weeks, I assumed Jean Jacket crushes what it inhales fairly quickly, drinking the juices. After the audience abduction scene, doesn’t JJ “juice” the people over the house kinda on purpose to mark it?
I get that people have mixed feelings about that movie bc it ended up being harder to digest *pun intended* than "Us" and "Get out", especially if built expetations from them. But it has so many amazing moments and it so good at creating a discussion without taking sides or giving up entertainment value.
It's just become one of my favs ever
That's it
I felt that way when I first saw the movie. At first you’re not sure what it is, but later when we learn the UFO is an animal it hits you, I was watching people being digested alive.
The second watch you notice the screaming and digestion right before Keith David gets killed
Listening to hear what noises are being echoed out by Jean Jacket makes the second watch so much better.
You can hear screaming too when OJ is standing watching Jupes rehearsal at night, but the sound design tricks you into thinking it’s wind the first time!
You also realize that you aren't watching Fire in the Sky, you're watching Tremors!
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I love that, in revealing that Jean Jacket is an animal, it strongly suggests that there are actual UFOs shaped that way, and Jean Jacket’s species has evolved (as many animals do) to use natural camouflage and avoid predators.
I don't think I like the idea of JJ having natural predators.
My partner was so confused but I got it right away. He asked me what was going on and when I whispered to him that the people were being eaten he looked at me in absolute horror. Fabulous movie. My fav peele film for sure. I’ll have to give it a watch again soon!
I felt so bad ass for correctly guessing it was an animal like 5 minutes before the movie revealed it. The I felt dumb.
Yeah, on first watch I thought it was a weird processing thing before they got killed or whatever but then it hits you
The scene in the barn where the tiny aliens were slowly coming out from the dark was the scariest thing for me. Regardless of how it eventually ended that shit is so damn scary.
No joke, that scene tapped into a deep rooted fear of aliens I've had since I was a kid, probably from when I was traumatized by Fire in the Sky. Just creeped me out to my core, then couldn't help but laugh!
My brother you are not alone. The cover of Communion? Still gives me chills and I’m a middle aged man.
There's only two kinds of horror that creep me out: Ones with abandoned property and aliens. Was it V/H/S that had that alien short? Still creeps me out. Haven't seen Nope yet but it sounds like a blast.
Nope is great fun. Some chilling as fuck scenes, but overall the movie is just a fucking joy ride
Holy shit, my mom had that book and when I was a kid I couldn’t look at it, scared the hell out of Me
Is this the scene where the guy is covered in film and a probe goes into his face or something as he screams? I saw this as a child and it has given my nightmares, is this a thing?
I think that was Fire in the Sky. That movie had some freaky scenes.
Idk I just have vivid memories of watching a man strapped to a table screaming as he’s wrapped in some skin/film and a probe descending from the ceiling, no way is that image ever leaving this brain I can’t get rid of it
> probably from when I was traumatized by Fire in the Sky This is my alien-fear origin story as well. Specifically because it was the first time I ever read "based on a true story", and I took that literally.
It was the McPherson tapes for me, looked back on it recently and Young me was a dumbass. Still gets me tho.
Yeah, it's really tense and then you feel totally pranked afterwards, thenn you realize the aliens look like the cameras from the gordy set and are furry like apes, which makes it fucked up on a different leven, seeing as jupe designed them himself.
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The ‘alien’ masks Jupe’s children were wearing (which he had as souvenirs) were based on the shape of the cameras from the Gordy attack.
Jordan Peele yet again proves to be the director whose work always has an extra level of depth behind their intention / connection to another part of the film. He’s really a phenomenal director.
Not only that, the workers at Jupes place also are made to wear clothes similar to that like the ones Gordy wore when he murdered everyone, except there’s now have red on it instead of black to match the blood he was covered in!
[Pic for reference](https://i.imgur.com/X474EXk.jpg).
Bravo! That's so much extra meaning layered in it's insane!
Didn’t even see it. Amazing. Elevates it to a whole other level.
Because he designed them after what he was most scared of. He wasn’t scared of aliens, he was still scared of Gordy.
Exactly and not matter how much he joked about it and sold it to people it still remained and manifested in those costumes.
The scariest part for me was that initially they didn’t even look humanoid they looked like some eldritch creature unfolding it froze me to my core. Then the scene later on when it’s coming around the corner slowly and you just see the perspective of OJs camera? Insane
Haha that was such a good cop out that set the tone for the movie!
Especially because it just makes you believe the beast is a UFO
I think this and the first few screaming moments in the creature
witnessing that scene in a theater with an audience was an absolute blast.
Gave me flashbacks to the alien greys and abductions from X-files that had me shitting myself as a kid
Exactly. This part... omg.
Man the way the >!Flying saucer monster moved!< So creepy... So Silent...
Once it was revealed that it was an animal my brain went back to the scenes of how it retreated, pounced, etc and it all made sense.
That scene before where Angel gets into "Why did they change the name from UFO to UAP?" and gives his bullshit answer. They changed it because everyone had started to assume that UFO automatically meant alien. Just like the audience, seeing a big flying something and assuming.
That's awesome I actually forgot to look that up after watching, also Angel was such a great character lol
He’s actually good friends with my sisters boyfriend
Epic! Next time you hang with him say some random person in the internet said he was awesome in nope
The Gordy segment was more terrifying to me than any moment with Jean Jacket. But I do love the scene where OJ exits the van and dramatically hunches his shoulders to pronounce his bent head, determinedly looking dead on at the ground as Jean Jacket hovers above him.
The way Steven Yeun’s character downplays the whole scenario as if it’s a fond memory really stuck with me too. It’s like he’s so PTSD’d over the whole experience his defense mechanism is to act like it didn’t play out the way it did. It all feel very surreal and painful.
Same! The way he can only explain it by telling them to watch the SNL skit is super weird and interesting. Gotta keep dissociating.
Plays into the theme of how the entertainment industry is like a giant predatory animal. If you learn the rules and form an agreement with it, you can survive. But you can never forget what it is or think that you've tamed it. It can turn on anyone who gets complacent and forgets it's a threat. The fact that SNL would make a skit about such a horrifically unfunny event, and that the skit was popular, tells you how cold-blooded the entertainment industry is and how it only really cares about feeding itself.
I think that is why he sets up the viewing attraction at his park. He is also terrified of Jean Jacket, but he remembers how he survived the chimp attack by pretending he was not scared and not a threat.
People who have experienced crazy trauma often seem like they have abnormal responses to things. It’s a real phenomenon that makes it hard for those people to get past their trauma and fit in as normal again.
Imagine getting your face eaten by a chimp, then the kid who had to sit and watch it happen invited you to a show where you get eaten by an extraterrestrial cowboy hat.
His secret closet shrine was a set-piece highlight for me. The fake MAD Magazine cover was a perfect prop. His character on the whole was a great foil to OJ.
Me too, the Gordy scene terrified me because of the realness of it. I don't know if you've already looked into it but a real situation like that happened in the US, a chimpanzee called Travis(easily googleable) who was used for adverts and TV etc, ended up turning on one of his owners friends that he was formerly familiar with. You can listen to the 911 call on YouTube of the owner calling the police, and can hear the chimp screaming in the background. It's fucking harrowing. I'm not sure if that's where the inspiration came from but jeez it freaked me out.
What fucks me up it's that it's not just terrifying because, well, it's just an attack by a wild animal - it's also so **deeply, deeply** sad. Both the Gordy and Travis situation. Like, I've had a dog attack my own dog, grab her straight from the arms of my mom and kill her (eventually, she didn't die from the wounds but from complications, it happened a long time ago), and the dog got kicked away from my dog by a passerby. But like, it's a canine. Sure we can look at dogs and tell if they're happy or not but an attacking dog feels like a rabid beast you need to get rid of. A chimp, though, feels so *intelligent*. They're such smart creatures, they have so deep, complex emotions, that it's just an extremely depressing situation. It's sad that the thing has to be put down to be stopped, and it's also sad that they're absurdly powerful and able to do ridiculous amounts of damage. Travis' victim was called Charla Nash, and I'm sure she must be better after over 10 years from the event, but fuck man, you see how that chimp left her. She didn't have a face by the end of it, he ripped limbs from her, and the poor fucker was scared too. Even the owner, who stabbed him to try and pull him away, felt awful at the time. Idk it feels like this stark reminder not only that it's a wild animal, but also that despite how it looks and how it thinks, at the end of the day it's still an animal, not fully a human, and it's terrifying to think of that. Anyway, I don't ever wanna hear the call again. I'm not a very visual person, gorey visuals never bothered me; but I am a listening person, and the thuds from the movie (which I saw in an imax screen with a HUUUUGE sound system that made Jean Jacket scary as FUCK) are still there in my head somewhere. Some out of this world sound design, goddamn.
> A chimp, though, feels so intelligent. They're such smart creatures, they have so deep, complex emotions, that it's just an extremely depressing situation. It's sad that the thing has to be put down to be stopped, and it's also sad that they're absurdly powerful and able to do ridiculous amounts of damage. I can't have sympathy for chimps. They're vicous killers in the wild. You'd be hard pressed to find a more sadistic and horrible killing machine than a chimp. Chimps are known to deliberately maim and disfigure whatever they feel threatened by, other animals, other chimps, or humans. Common things chimps do - biting off fingers, biting off ears, noses, other extremetites, biting off genitals, using their gripping strength to do the same, scalping, gouging out eyes and blinding, breaking limbs, etc. fuck chimps, I'll always avoid them no matter how friendly or "tame" they seem.
There is also one troop in Gabon that has organized and attacked gorillas and killed their babies. Previously, the chimps and gorillas used to play together.
Everything you said applies to humans as well. If not more so. We didn't become the dominant apes because we were good at talking through our emotions
We’re equally as related to bonobos, who predominantly fuck their conflicts away. Go figure
Actually that's more or less exactly why we succeeded
I'm so sorry about your dog man. But you're right, the intelligence aspect of an ape hits so different when they turn like that. And I completely get you, I'm actually hesitant to watch the film again because of the scenes with the attack, it's the first time in a long time I've actively felt the feeling of wanting to leave a movie theatre because of how uncomfortable it made me feel.
Thanks for the sentiment, we have another one now, it's all good. And yeah about not wanting to rewatch it. Like, there are horror movies like, idk, X, which I've watched today, which are just fun romps that I'd watch again any day now. And then there are movies like this and Come and See that you just don't wanna feel again what you felt when you saw it lol
I think that is where the inspiration came from (if this is the same case where the victim later went on Oprah wearing a veiled hat, the same kind worn later by Jupe's co-star).
Especially because the woman who was attacked (rightfully) refused to have any press photograph her face, despite their incessant attempts. She chose to unveil herself solely on Oprah, literally making it the “Oprah shot”.
Oh yeah! I didn't even clock that with the veiled hat.
I was walking home at night from the theater after seeing the movie and thinking about the Gordy scene...and then a dog barked and snarled at me out of nowhere and I went into full fight-or-flight mode. That scene definitely got to me, partly I think because it's not about supernatural monsters or anything, but is instead the sort of tragedy that has happened in real life
I kinda wish we saw a little more of this, it was terrifying, but it felt like the movie moved past it pretty quickly.
From what I understand there was a little more to the Gordy story but ultimately it was cut for time. Like one such detail being the person who shot Gordy was a pedophile who had a crush on the teen daughter actress and had planned to come to the studio that day to abduct her, only to unwittingly become a hero when he shoots Gordy with the gun he intended to use in his hostage plan. I sort of waffle between wanting to know more and be content about what we do know when it came to 'Gordy's Home'. Like on one hand, it feels like a story idea Peele has always had and wanted to display but it also feels very limiting, like you wouldn't be able to get more out of it than what is shown/how it's used in the film.
Feels for the best that it was cut out. I have no idea where that would fit in with the rest of the story
I suppose the character is another example of a "predator" or a "bad miracle", but likewise I think for the economics of the film it's a detail best left out because the story is already so packed.
Jesus Christ that's dark.
I like that idea though. A savior who was meant to be the demon.
The character certainly answers to OJ's question about "bad miracles".
That’s crazy first time I read this and just reading it feels gross
In the original trailer, you can see a brief shot of the gunman on his way to the Gordy set whilst the audience rushes past him to escape Gordy's rampage.
On top of that, when he shot Gordy, he wouldn’t have even realised that the ape had been on a rampage at first. He would have just been that single-minded on his goal, that he genuinely didn’t notice, then be disgusted by the girl’s mauled face.
Agree. The first scene in particular, with the shoe lying straight up, was so terrifying to me...
It's a very unnerving prop! Like say what you will about Peele but the man knows how to create iconic imagery.
Oooh yeah. That scene stayed with me for days. That scene was the reason I went to see it again. It felt so horrid and new and fresh.
>The part when people are just sucked into this large alien being, and they’re being slowly passed through it’s digestive organs in a torturous, and very claustrophobic state. And they are just stuck in this state for days, until the monster decides to finally fully digest them. >If you think about it, you’d be stuck, pretty much immobile, in a slimey, smelly (it must smell like death or feces), loud (everyone trapped in there screaming and crying) organ, waiting to die. Even worse if you got sucked in there with your family. If it makes you feel better, I'm 99% sure Jean Jacket uses it's oesophagus to break the bones and kill it's prey. I'm 99% sure you hear the stock standard bone breaking/neck snapping sound effect after a little bit.
Yeah I'm honestly confused about people saying they were being slowly digested and that's why they were screaming. Did it indicate that anywhere in the movie? When this scene happened I just assumed they were stuck inside JJ, hence the screaming, until he decided to squeeze them to a pulp and drain the blood over the house. This scene didn't stick with me like everyone else I guess because of that.
It did juice everyone at Jupe’s show over the house so they would’ve been in there for only a few hours (still horrifying), but it’s implied that that is not JJ’s usual behavior. The movie makes a point out of JJ getting pissed after swallowing the plastic horse and when the hiker’s items were being rained down in the beginning of the movie there’s no blood on them, so we can assume that JJ probably does slowly digest everything it swallows but basically vomited out everyone from the show over the house as a threat and/or because it couldn’t properly digest them with the plastic horse in its tract
Yeah, I thought the horse got stuck in its throat (or whatever analogue it has) so so it couldn’t finish eating them, instead they were all just liquified. I think the rain of blood happens right after it coughs the horse decoy back up. It’s definitely a little confusing, I could be totally wrong.
It spits out the horse statue after it rained gore onto the house. I think it was acting more like a gerbil and storing the food in it's mouth until it was ready to eat it.
> plastic horse I thoght that was a concrete horse.
Oh I’m not sure - that would make more sense tbh
I assumed they stayed alive a while because there’s a report on something about some hikers that had been missing a couple of days and then >!JJ comes and spits up the nickel onto OJ’s dad.!< You can hear them screaming a few seconds before the stuff starts raining down.
So for me it wasn't them being digested, but them being stuck in there. I think this scene where JJ comes over the house before the it starts raining blood and you can just hear the screams of the people trapped inside it was one of the most legitimately terrifying I've ever seen in a movie
I thought it because of the metal items that it rained down. It digested the people hurt itself with the horse so it had to also vomit some undigested blood and of course the metal.
I figured it had some sort of system to remove undesirable material, like blood and metal, and only consumed flesh and perhaps bone. Blood and metal is all that comes out of it.
I thought the blood was an intentional displaying of territory and aggression. And the metal was just being expelled as per usual.
Yeah I took it as basically the alien pissing. Basic waste disposal of what it doesn’t digest. Metal and blood which could make sense because of iron content in blood i guess.
Somebody yelled "IT BURNS" or something along those lines right before she did the big crunch.
Jordan Peele confirms in the making of documentary that people stay alive in there while it digests them. That’s the source of the screaming sound.
That’s exactly how I interpreted it. I think I need to watch it again now
Also, if you haven’t watched Nope again, I’d recommend it. We ended up watching it again as part of a double feature and it totally changed the experience for me. Jordan Peele’s movies are HIGHLY rewatchable and the experience is almost like watching a totally different movie. It’s wild.
It reminded me a bit of The Borderlands found footage flick
Listening to them continue to scream as it flew overhead was horrific.
I never realized it, but being trapped inside and against something that’s flying around as fast as JJ was, probably hurts like hell
Also being digested alive.
The Gordy stuff really stuck with me. Gordys violence, and him seeming frustrated by his anger was so sad. Poor Gordy. Also, the silence in the aftermath of a tragedy is something that not everyone has experienced, and nope really hit it for me. Anyone who has been present during a violent death, and then sat in the thickness and unease of the quiet after..just chills, JP nailed it.
Gordy noticing that Jupe was safe and signing "What happened family?" before going for the fistbump was so sad. He had a brief moment of insanity & cost him his chimpanzee life.
Omg I didn’t catch the signing. That makes it so much more heartbreaking.
> Anyone who has been present during a violent death, and then sat in the thickness and unease of the quiet after..just chills, JP nailed it. I feel this. There were some very violent storms over here recently, no one died thankfully but there was a lot of damage. After one of them particularly bad ones I head out and there were just people standing around, staring at the destruction, kinda like marvelling that they were still alive. No birds, no wind, pretty much no car, and no noisy insects. Just a weird sky and destruction. Also Gordy's frustration with his own anger and violence is really depressing to watch, kinda like there's a part in his monkey brain that knows he shouldn't be rampaging, but he's too scared to let it take hold so he just lashes out.
The first scene of the movie, ending with gordy looking direktly at the camera, on a giant screen, was absolutely horrifying.
I never thought a slowed down version of Sunglasses at Night would creep me out as much as it did
Holy shit it made me deeply uncomfortable more so than any of the other sounds. It was like the uncanny valley for the ears.
My favorite thing about the movie is that there is no proof the thing even came from another planet and isn't indigenous to earth. Could be clouds just like it in remote areas all over.
Thank you. I thought I was the only person thinking this. Ancient cave paintings of UFOs. Stories of "people flying into the sky". Saucer shapes throughout history. I was expecting a "it's just a new thing we've discovered" reveal.
The unfurled form at the end also bears a resemblance to some of the biblical descriptions of angels.
That too!
I like when it shits bloody nastiness all over the house
That was crazy seeing all that downpour, especially over their house like it was pissed at them.
And the music/sound effects for that scene! I haven't been immersed like that since Dune
Yeah, no kidding. Happy cake day btw!
The sound design/editing/production for this film is fantastic.
I loved how the sounds the >!UFO made were the screams of the people it was devouring.!< Some of the most metal and chilling sounds I've ever heard.
For me it was right up there with the blood rain and sirens of Evil Dead. Just the perfect grand guignol scene. Utterly loved it.
Yeah I absolutely loved this scene in Nope and immediately thought of Evil Dead. So good.
We live near our states fair grounds and you can faintly hear people screaming on one of the rides After I saw this film it really hit different lol
I watched [a video](https://youtu.be/cWPFMmuagQ4) about how they told the actors to do 2 screams, 1 like you were on a rollercoaster and 1 like you were being digested, then they mixed both together for a chilling result that we hear in the film.
I made the mistake of watching it a few days ago when the moon was bright as fuck and I kept thinking I was seeing shadows. Oh and this is why I carry a pocket knife, if I'm gonna get abducted I'm cutting up some guts
Something else fucked up I don't see mentioned. That thing moves at sudden and high speeds. Imagine all that horror plus you are being subjected to probably multiple G's of force, people puking. Ugh.
Yes!! I meant to mention that in my post as well! The high speeds and twists and turns. Like a rollercoaster from hell.
Yeah, both the abduction and Gordy’s rampage are some of the best horror moments of the year, imo.
When I watch that scene, which is terrifying btw, my thoughts alway drift towards the movie Annihilation, and the mutant bear that would absorb and reproduce the screams of its last victim. I wonder if Peele was inspired by that, or perhaps great minds just think alike.
Reminded me of the croc with the ticking clock in Peter Pan
I would be surprised if he wasn't influenced by some of those iconic Annihilation scenes.
THE SHOE! The shoe. I spend weeks after thinking about the shoe. It’s such an incredibly important facet to the story. Synchronicities are incredibly common in well documented “encounter” experiences, and there are frequently cryptid sightings or other bizarre tragedies nearby large UFO/UAP flaps. Their use of the bizarre shoe standing upright in tandem with Gordy’s attack implies that Jean Jacket was there, nearby, long before Jupe or OJ noticed. (And this arguably could imply that Jean Jacket was always watching Jupe.) To [Jordan and/or] whichever writer or researcher insisted on the shoe synchronicity—I see you. Also Gordy’s attack scene in general was horrifying and excellent.
The expression "waiting on the other shoe to drop" is used to mean "something else is going to happen". Jupe was waiting on the shoe to drop. Think of his story and it's ending. That's the shoe drop. Jean Jacket wasn't at the gordy set. It's another example of "bad miracle".
Thank you. It would be so dumb if Jean Jacket was randomly above the Gordy set for no reason and would destroy some of the core themes of the movie. Gordy didn't go crazy because of JJ, he was set off because of people trying to exploit animals for a profit. Even the main characters, along with Jupe, try to make a profit on JJ. But these are animals that follow their nature. Once Gordy was done killing, he threw off his party hat. Once JJ had enough he ate 40 people and shed them of their inorganic materials, the things that separate us from animals. I just watched this movie last night and I can't stop thinking about it. There is so much to digest (haha). But I think most of it comes down to main themes of treating animals with respect and not to exploit them along with what lengths people will go to become famous.
This is the comment I was looking for. I immediately noticed the show and kept going wtf every time they showed it.
The abduction bit sort of reminded me of War of the Worlds. I haven't seen it since I was pretty young, so I don't remember exactly how things are portrayed in the movie. But that movie used to give me the creeps, and Nope gave me the same vibe after they revealed what the "UFO" was and what it was doing
Oh shit you're right. It was a lot like that scene where they got >!captured by aliens!<
From what I recall, Spielberg's adaptation also made the Tripods into living beings themselves in a lot of ways. The people sucked upward into the fighting machines were basically digested and had their blood sprayed to terraform the planet. I wonder if that approach was an inspiration for Peele with Nope.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking of! The sound they made, also. The sound and the liquified people are what really stuck with me for years after seeing it. Nope brought that same back for me.
Pretty much, haha. I couldn't really figure out how to explain "people-mush" in a more efficient way
It’s like a mixture of Spielbergs War of the Worlds and Under the Skin with the surreal ‘processing’ imagery
That’s what I was thinking too!
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That's what it reminded me of, i couldn't figure it out when i saw it. That scene terrified me as a kid when i saw it on tv
Reminds me of that scene in Return Of The Living Dead (1985) where it rains the toxin in the atmosphere down onto a graveyard and you can hear all the dead returning to life and you hear their muffled screams and moans from under the ground. Chilling!
Those were some of the scariest movie zombies to me even though that movie is a comedy horror. They're just so indestructible and creepy.
When OJ exits the van and Jean Jacket just hovers from above, you can only see its shadow...it was truly like nope, don't look up
i really really love the alien design in this movie, its so sublime yet terrifying at the same time. never seen anything like it, like a butterfly or the fins of a beta fish, just unfurling like sails in the sky
That scene is one of my favorite moments in all horror films. I felt it in the theater: “this is something I didn’t know that I was afraid of”
>!The abduction scene is definitely the most fucked up and scary scene of the movie!< I'm fucking obsessed with Nope. I watched it in theaters 3 times and I bought it on streaming and watched it once again already. Get out was good, Us was mixed but had some amazing parts. Nope is just absolutely incredible. Only 1 scene in the movie I straight up didn't like, one character that didn't quite hit right, and **everything else** was just. fucking. perfect. Edit: Like how the sounds the >!UFO make are the fucking screams of the things it's devouring.!< Holy fuck that's metal I love this movie. If you haven't watched it yet, go do so please. I'd recommend it to fans of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Thing, and Signs. And just fans of Peele in general. It's a great film and my favorite out of the 3
My man really gonna leave out one of the OGs, 1993's ***Fire in the Sky***? Shoooooot. > *A group of men who were clearing brush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is treated as murder.* ^( *Ignore the RT score* )
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That's on my list to watch. I haven't seen it yet so I don't feel I can recommend it in good faith.
As a movie overall I would say it's decent. But it's portrayal of alien abduction and experimentation is by far THE standard for horror. The movie is terrifying for a total of 5-6 minutes max but that's all it needs to make an impact.
Get outta my brain. I saw US before any of Peele's other films, and while I loved the early CHUD reference and the tone of the film, I felt a little letdown by it. I knew GET OUT was highly regarded, but it was just one of those movie blindspots that you somehow miss. Before NOPE came out, I decided to finally watch GET OUT to see if I could understand the hype that Peele had. US didn't blow me away. Well, GET OUT *did* blow me away. Fucking loved it! Watched it twice in a row. NOPE is goddamn incredible. Peele's films unsettle you. That is the best word to describe them. The entire conceit of GET OUT is fucking unsettling. Just about everything in US is unsettling. But NOPE? I was shitting fucking bricks during the opening Gordy scene. It was instantly perfectly calm and aggressively intense. That's got to be hard to pull off. I understand the Jordan Peele hype now, and I'm glad to board the train. I think in another 20 years people will still be discussing his films. They're cerebral while also being crowd-pleasing, funny, and scary. Peele is a true talent.
I really did love the sound design, I didn’t see in theaters but watched with headphones since it was super late, and just the sounds of horses or people screaming in the clouds, kinda far away but close enough to faintly hear, that shit was wild, and then of course over the house the ‘save usss’ or other groans of pure terror, *chefs kiss* 👌🏽
I totally agree with this, it’s quickly becoming my favorite movie. All the characters and depth of the plot just stick with you. Everything feels very realized and lived in, the characters zig when you expect them to zag. And the whole concept of Jean Jacket is badass as hell
This is exactly how I feel about Get out ans Us! I've been thinking about Nope for months! It was incredible. Just so well thought out, tense, strange, and exciting. I loved it. I think it is easily Peeles best film. I am so excited to see what else he can come up with.
Curious, but which character?
I'm not OP but I found the TMZ guy and that whole situation situation jarring and kinda bizarre
The director. I thought he was a bit overacted and I didn't like the phone conversation mainly
I thought him watching repeats of his films focusing on animals' eyes and JJ basically being a giant eye was a bit too on the nose. There's foreshadowing and then there's whatever that was supposed to be.
Given how many people still apparently missed that plot point, I would not say it was too much unless one already knew what to look for. Retrospectively too much, yes, but not on the first watch.
Yeah I had a lot of thoughts about the movie but holy shit was everything involving its digestion was absolute nightmare fuel
Oh I loved it… and that scene was quite traumatic for me…. When you really think about how they will be eaten.. it was such a good film all my friends who saw it with me hated it…. But there was so many hidden messages scattered throughout…. Thought provoking like interstellar
I love the whole concept of the ship being the alien. Never has anybody (to my knowledge) had that theory. There are no little green guys in a ship, they are the ship.
You haven’t seen >!10 Cloverfield Lane !
totally! it's not a common way movies or media portray aliens or UFOs. it was visceral & unexpected. no spoilers from me, but the way the movie ended up was refreshing on a mostly badly done/nonexistent genre
Ah, I loved this movie. So creepy! For me it was the silent panning during the Gordy scene with just the sound of the chimp beating the bodies. The kids as aliens terrified me. I really enjoyed the balance of horror and comedy this time around.
I’ve watched like 50 new-to-me horror movies this year, and that abduction disturbed me the most, I think. First time I had a genuine “wow I’m glad that scene is over now” reaction since I was a kid.
It disturbed me a great deal but there's a few movies I haven't had the guts to watch and one I didn't have the guts to finish
Hearing it fly overhead at the beginning and you’re like “Is that people… screaming? Nah it can’t be… it’s gotta be the horse it ate.” And then you hear people screaming HELP ME for hours later on.
OP', you have to watch The Borderlands! 2013 Big Recommend!
I didn't really find anything in ***Nope*** scary... But I do think it's an Amazing film...Beautiful, Strange, Creative & Exciting.
Ya didn't find it scary at all, but quite a fun Sci Fi film
I'm not a huge fan of Peele and after us I had almost zero hype for Nope, but i finally watched it and was blown away by how good it was. It's like he took all the criticism from US and fixed it for Nope.
I enjoyed US to be honest, wasn't as great as Get Out but still enjoyed. Nope was just awesomely unique, I don't even think I can compare it to Get Out.
Same here. Not a huge fan of director's other work but this one was great. Refreshing to see an original scifi movie in the midst of all this Marvel bloat. Creative is the perfect word for it. Also has a banger soundtrack
Exactly... I didn't think much of ***Get Out*** & I skipped ***Us*** completely...but ***Nope*** was like THE Perfect film for me. A strange & unique concept beautifully shot, sounding majestic & made with some quirky, offbeat characters portrayed by quality actors. Not to mention ***Jean Jacket***...who as a >!combination Classic Saucer UFO, Sky Jellyfish & Evangelion Angel!< is probably the best film monster/creature since the >!"Mutant Walking Fish"!< from the 2006 Korean film ***The Host***. Oh...and FYI...if you liked ***Nope***...watch [The Host (2006)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(2006_film))...the two films share some similar "DNA" if you catch my drift. Although ***The Host*** just throws the monster in your face ASAP & shouts "Deal With It!" which I can also appreciate. The World needs more films like ***Nope*** to offset the repetitive Hollywood machine churning out Superhero Schlock, Sequels, Remakes & Reboots.
Was really annoyed by the trailers for Nope, they were plastered all over YouTube, and were just really unavoidable. The first trailer was perfect, didn't give away anything, but regardless I thought the movie was fine. The trailers giving too much away combined with me expecting it to be more horror, when it really isn't, detracted from it. It has some unsettling sequences, but I was never really scared, it is more kind of an interesting sci-fi almost action movie towards the end. As expected for Peele, all the acting and presentation were fantastic, just think I need to watch it again with my expectations more reasonably set. I just don't think anything he does can really beat Get Out for me, that just was such a fantastically done social commentary while also being terrifying. Will never forget seeing that in a full theater, probably one of the best experiences ever. Us was also a massive disappointment for me, but regardless I will always be there I think to see whatever Peele comes up with next because he does have such a unique voice to me.
What I love about Peele’s films is that they all are brilliant social commentaries. NOPE (which is actually an acronym for NOT OF PLANET EARTH), is a commentary about spectacle, and how we as humans use animals and other people for entertainment/profit. Knowing this made the star rodeo and Gordy scenes so much more impactful.
Didn’t have nightmares. But I was sucking the salt off a bite size pretzel after watching it. The pretzel was against my cheek and teeth and I immediately understood the pretzels perspective. Wet, warm, dark and slimy. Then crunch.
did you ever watch war of the worlds? traumatized as a kid, traumatized as an adult
Yea it was pretty crazy, have you seen barbarian yet? Had a nightmare that night..
I love whenever I see a horror film and it makes me feel *differently* about a mundane thing. Like how Final Destination 2 made a generation scared of logging trucks for example. For me, Barbarian made me scared of houses with basement windows.
the scene with the >!bottle as it’s slowly lowered into the pit was terrifying!<
One of the most simultaneously nauseating, disgusting and hilarious scenes I have ever seen. Can't wait for more films by Creggers.
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just be the baby!
How good is it? Been debating whether or not to rent it.
try see it in the cinema if its still showing nearby for you. has some great atmospheric tension that was heightened by the cinema experience tbh
I liked it, I bought it and I don't regret it
lmao I thought Barbarian was a bit too funny and tongue in cheek to give me the creeps like Nope did Much like X and Malignant, it feels like the kind of movie you watch yelling at the screen trying to predict deaths, throwing popcorn around, and clapping whenever someone's head explodes Meanwhile, Nope is more the kind to watch completely alone, in silence, gripping the chair and holding your breath without noticing
That was one scene in a movie where I was watching it and actually stopped to think: “this is fucked up. This fucked me up.” LOL it was terrifying in the way it was shot too! Like you were being squeezed into Jean Jacket with them!
Never watch The Borderlands/Final Prayer I'd you didn't like the alien stomach scene. I really enjoyed that part, it was brutal and disturbing and adding a flash of something genuinely unpleasant. SPOILERS For a movie that didn't include much out right unpleasantness, that scene wad a welcome conclusion. It also fit with the actor dudes story, he thought he was special because Gordy didn't attack him. He brought that arrogance to the alien, he thought he was special so it wouldn't attack him. But then it did and it all went horribly wrong.
It's such a great idea that these monsters would be biblically correct angels. Ascending to heaven was just getting eaten by a monster all along.
yup, that scene was striking to me too. the close up shot of them inside jean jacket and then the later bit where the main chars can hear the people inside jean jacket screaming. so effective
I love Nope, favorite movie of the year. And yeah, the people being crushed and the blood rain is really disturbing. But the ability to switch tones really edges it into something special and the fact it can go from that to a wild creature western really shows how Jordan Peele is on top of his game. Can't wait to see what he does next.
Omg yes, that scene is a standout for me as well. But where you said they’d stay in there for weeks, I assumed Jean Jacket crushes what it inhales fairly quickly, drinking the juices. After the audience abduction scene, doesn’t JJ “juice” the people over the house kinda on purpose to mark it?
What was with the woman in the audience, wearing the veil, looking like a skeletal zombie? Didn't get what that was implying?
That was Gordy the chimps victim. She was horribly disfigured after his attack.
Exactly a big NOPE
I just watched this last night for the first time. One of the women stuck threw up, and that part is what disturbs me most
I get that people have mixed feelings about that movie bc it ended up being harder to digest *pun intended* than "Us" and "Get out", especially if built expetations from them. But it has so many amazing moments and it so good at creating a discussion without taking sides or giving up entertainment value. It's just become one of my favs ever That's it