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Get Out is a MASTERPIECE, one of the best written horror films ever made, regardless of race. Prove me wrong.

posted 4 years ago by sONOMArEturns (1253)
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"I didn't like GET OUT, therefore anybody who claims to like Get Out is LYING and TRYING NOT TO LOOK RACIST". Pretty much every hater of this movie.

Look, you're allowed to like or dislike any movie you'd like. As a human being, that's your right. BUT...do not claim that every critic, fan, and moviegoer who disagrees with you and did enjoy the movie are trying not to be racist.

I saw Get Out without knowing a single thing about the plot, the actors, the director, or the reception. All I knew was that it was a low budget horror film, and that was it. (I once managed a movie theater and got to test screen movies before they premiered to ensure film reels didn't have flaws.) It took one viewing to realize that Get Out was a masterpiece in horror/thriller cinema, made even more powerful that it had been written and directed by a first time filmmaker who had previously made a career out of being a television comedian. When the Rotten Tomatoes score came out the following day, I was so glad that I wasn't alone. This film was near perfect! The race angle is interesting and makes the film that much stronger, but ANYBODY who grasps a basic understanding on film direction and screenwriting will tell you that Get Out is about as well made as it gets.

However, Get Out appears to have a pretty vocally loud anti-fanbase, people who claim the film is overrated, made with mediocre writing and direction, and implying that fans of the movie are just afraid of looking racist. Even taking out the race angle, even making Chris Washington a white protagonist, even removing every black actor and replacing them with a white actor, Get Out would still be a terrifying movie simply because of how tight the screenplay is, and how knowledgable the direction is. I read Jordan Peele wrote over 200 drafts of Get Out, and it's very obvious that this is at least somewhat true. This screenplay is immaculate, completely ironed out of all flaws. This only happens after a bajillion proofreadings.

Most of the complaints I've seen about the film either come from people who clearly didn't understand the film close enough, or just seem to be racist. I don't wanna be that guy that pulls the racism card over everything, but most haters of Get Out do the same thing, so why not? So, prove me wrong. What makes Get Out bad, on a fundamental filmmaking standpoint? If you think the writing and directing is mediocre or subpar, why? Give me some examples of what makes the film so overrated. Make me hate Get Out!

[–] UltroKing (48) 4 years ago

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[–] UltroKing (48) 4 years ago

My Op there is no best horror movie. Get Out wasn't really bad just not worth the praise it got because>>> The Skeleton Key... Peele copied this movie. Some of the scenes in the movie looked familiar. "Not worth the Oscar of best screenplay" The Cinematic was good and acting was alright but I just couldn't relate to the protagonist Chris. The Conjuring or even Insidious was better. Apples and oranges ik.

Btw I think The Exorcist is an overrated horror movie. It is still good but much better ones to choose to be top 1 on lists.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

"The Exorcist" was overrated? It grossed 1.9 million it's first weekend in America (in 1973 !) while some people got out of there because they couldn't watch more of it. In your opinion what horror movie was underrated compared to The Exorcist (1973 or less)?

[–] UltroKing (48) 4 years ago

Maybe I should rephrase what I said.

[–] Threadkiller (2959) 4 years ago

I don't know about "masterpiece " but going in not expecting much, i was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.

[–] Bolchevik (369) 4 years ago

First of all I don't like to praise a movie based on the race of it's director. It is the very definition of racism for me : distinction based on race. Now, since it's the central point of your post, I will tell you that yes I saw movies that I believed were good while knewing or learning after ward that they were made by black persons.

I saw Higher learning from John Singleton in 1995. I didn't know he was black back then. I didn't and still don't agree with the philosphoy of the movie but I thought it was a well done movie with decent actors, entertaining, difficult subjetc, etc.

More recently I saw 12 years a Slave and Shame from Steve Mc Queen. I didn't know Mc Queen was black when I first saw 12 years a Slave which I found was a very good and high quality movie though the subject was an easy one (it's easy now to condemn slavery). As usual, when I find a movie I consider very good from a director I don't know, I go see who he is and what other movies he made. I then discovered McQueen was black. I also saw he made just a few other movies so when Shame aired on tv, I watched it and I found just as good. McQueen seems to me a very talented director. He's black, good for him, I don't give a damn.

Now I also saw Get Out. Again, I didn't know that the director was black. However, I found that the movie is barely tolerable. It was entertaining and the shots are ok but I found the story mediocre, full of biases (good black people, bad white people). I also found that the actors overact, especially the main one. The ending is very bad and just convenient writing to wrap it up. All in all, an ok movie, a movie to forget, which I mostly did now.

Now to learn that this movie was praised and won Oscars make absolutely no sense to me. I mean, I'm used that Oscars are not given to the best movies. But I was shocked that Get Out received any. For me it's very obvious it's because the director is black and Hollywood didn't want to look racist.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

I found was a very good and high quality movie though the subject was an easy one (it's easy now to condemn slavery)

Actually, it's not.

Slavery has been endemic in Africa for centuries. It was part of their culture and it was so socially accepted that there were markets of slaves in Africa until the second half of XXth century. Condemning it is damn difficult, though.

Similarly, black free slaves were highly likely to become slave owners themselves. The percentage of slave owners was much higher among free blacks than among whites, in US. Condemning it is (again) damn difficult too, in modern day.

Let's say that nowadays it's easy to condemn some types of slavery (such as when slave owners are white) and, let's say, it's less easy or more "complicated" to condemn some others (such us when slave owners are non-white). In the last decades, social progress has continued and these types of slavery have become more socially acceptable (becoming less condemnable is a way to slowly climb up to become more socially accepted).

McQueen, of course, stayed in the comfort zone, in the "easy to condemn" slavery types.

[–] Zinger (2195) 4 years ago

How do you prove a subjective opinion on art as wrong?