"Us" Movie Analysis: Why it sucks (SPOILERS)
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2019
- Here are my thoughts on a movie that I was actually looking forward to. What are yours? Did the reason and the motivation for the family's duplicates resonate with you? Or were you like me and you laughed your ass off?
Glad to see I wasn't alone in how I felt about this movie. The comments have been hilarious and insightful! As a relatively new channel I'm still learning, and really appreciate any feedback. If you enjoyed my perspective in this video (or especially if you hated it) check out my other videos! I would love to know what you think! I cover storytelling in general as well as drawing and documenting my journey to be a better artist and writer. Thank you for your time, and God bless you!
Hitchen Post totally agree with everything you said,really excited to watch this movie but after felt let down and disappointed.not scary at all apart from like u said what was shown in the trailer.i also love the string score in the movie especially the Luniz instrumental tune.Really good review mate u need to keep doing movie reviews.👍
I'm about 25 minutes from finishing this film but I dislike it so much that I need reassurance from others to see that I'm not the only one that thinks this movie was DULLLLLLL
Just watched it shot was boring & cringe
I guess Jordan Peele has never heard of "rabbit starvation" either.
I was surprised how bad the movie was. I had very high expectations going in and I think that made for a harsher critique after viewing. The twist was something I predicted immediately after the fun house scene and I actually thought it would've been interesting to have "the switch" be a mid-movie reveal. The impostor's life is built on "the insidious switch" she did as a child; but it's still 'her life' that she built, so where do the characters go from there....
Instead I watched and became actively annoyed as the movie revealed this was not a 1-family doppelganger threat, but a clusterfuck of clones. And then there's the nonsensical plot that the 'tethered' mimic the lives of 'those above' (which brings up a question: why isn't the impostor above ground, who has No Soul, still acting out what the trapped girl below is enduring - oh wait, I remember, it's because she's "special"; groan--- my hopes of an impactful reveal of the twist were dashed instead of satiated by mid-movie. When it finally came to light in the end I just frowned).
Also Note, the attempt to salvage the movie's up front stupidity by claiming it's clever allegory and has deep symbolic meaning actually caused me a crisis of confidence in professional film critics who overwhelmingly labelled this turd a masterpiece.
The problem is: bad movies are typically never given the opportunity to be read as allegory and explained using context and addendum not found on screen. But "Us" is given that privilege. Given enough time and research I'm sure I could find a pearl of allegorical wisdom in the shittiest Roger Corman film, but I wont do that because films are supposed to be entertaining and coherent in their own right. In a good movie the subtle symbolism becomes a joy to learn about through my own research pursuits after viewing, given my investment in the film.
In sum, I will not grant to Peele what I have always denied to the directors of shitty movies. I have multiple degrees in social sciences and I am well aware of, and have sympathy for, the history of colonialism and the continued problem of racism. That knowledge will not guilt me into heaping praise on a mildly entertaining, but thoroughly aggravating, horror/thriller film.
You, sir, hit the spot.
Hey, you dropped this 👑
Really good explanation. This movie was a huge disappointment.
What a stupid excuse to have these massive plotholes. "I want people to think and answer for themselves"
the voice of Lupita's doppelganger was the first giveaway that this mo9movie was going to be garbage
yes
I enjoyed Get Out. It was definitely over hyped but it was genuinely entertaining and a good movie. Us was just a strange, confusing, disappointing mess.
put the holding hands across the country into practice. how would that work? there are only two possible options:
1. join in where you are at any point of the line, the others next to you would have to slide a bit further to the left and right to accommodate your space between them.
2. you go to the either end of the line and join there.
but that can only work for a few miles.
once it gets to a few hundred miles, a few hundred thousands of people, then you will have a problem when someone wants to join. not to mention you would lose objectivity of how straight the line would be and you may end up making a circle or a curve, but perhaps they use google map and gps coordination. not to mention any other obstacles like lake, wild animals, hills, etc.
also, where do they get the red jumpsuits that fit them perfectly?
where do they get clothes in general?
I randomly thought about how much I disliked this movie and searched for reviews that weren’t in favor of it. I’m glad I found your video. Finally someone who agrees! The way you described everything is so spot on. You’re also hilarious! 😂 Thanks for the honesty 🙌🏾
they made the dads of the both families bumbling morons....why? Is this what hollywood is trying to say....or jordan peele. They keep depicting men in general as weak and useless. It's pretty sickening. Also the fact the dopplegangers didn't kill the main characters makes no sense.....let alone letting her live underground for 20 plus years. On top of that, there is no way they could survive underground with that many mouths to feed with the intelligence of a mental patient
Yeah, it's been an interesting trend in the last 10 years. I think the idea is to prop up women into a male hero type, and they dont know how to do this without emasculating the male hero himself.
you must be one of those incels who think men don’t ever shit their pants or are scared
Us was one of the worst movies iv seen in my life. No redeeming qualities in my opinion. Garbage.
@theFareulookinat derp!
I agree 10000%
. exactly. i couldn't have said it better.
@theFareulookinat the hidden messages, what the rabbit symbolism?
Okay I think that's the point. The trailer made the movie seem like it was going to be extremely awesome but then it was not as awesome as you thought it was going to be. You see this movie is not a movie for entertainment this movie is a movie that is supposed to tell a story. In the United states this is how it is, they say that it's so glorified and then when you finally get here it isn't. In American media it's all about the "redeeming qualities" but this it trying to say that that is not the real world that is not how it is in America. You didn't like the ending? You were disappointed? Well yea dude that's the whole point.
Love your review. I guessed most of the movie about 20 or so minutes in but kept watching to see if it would really be that obvious and in hopes that if it was, it would be executed well... I could not take any of the villains seriously with their voices and weird screaming.. and the mom was the worst! She didn’t do anything, her kids defended themselves better than she did. She was the most irritating character to watch. Always doing the opposite of what I thought any mother or right minded person would do
Just saw this and was looking for a review that wasn't glowing. I've never been less scared in my life, I had to stop myself from laughing for most of the movie.
Awesome review.
Another main problem is about who Jordan decided to kill. He spent SO much damn time on character development that it came to no point when absolutely no one died; resulting in non-tense scenes etc...But ari aster on the other hand, hereditary (and probably midsommar) both developed characters wel, made viewers attached, then killed them off in perfect symbolic ways that made the movies twenty times better...
Please do a review on the movie “Greta”... its my favorite thriller..
The reason the movie doesnt work is Real Adelaide shouldnt be mimicking anyone when shes underground.
Also it's really hard for me to believe that after the real Adelaide got free she did not try and reach her parents.
She doesn't?
@@ClarkHathaway3238 yes she does. When the above ground gives birth to her son, she also gives birth to a son down there. It doesn’t make any sense because since the one above ground is the clone, she should be the one who’s mimicking.
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Peele tried too hard to make a social commentary in Us that it ended up hurting the movie. And the logic issues you bring up are so distracting and puzzling that it becomes hard to try to enjoy the movie. One big logic fail is why didn't the family search the abandoned cop cars or police officers' bodies for guns. Police cruisers have shotguns in them as standard procedure.
Also, where the hell was the military? I highly doubt they would've been as caught off guard by the Tethered since they are heavily armed, highly trained, and their bases are protected very well with personnel and security systems while the Tethered have only gold scissors.
The only thing I don’t agree with is Get Out wasn’t bad. But US was horribly written 🤦🏽♂️ a huge let down.
I missed parts of the movie, it was so boring and sucked when I got up to get water or go to the bathroom, i didn't pause it. I did finish it. Underwhelming. I give the director credit, he tried to be original and bold, but it fell flat. Tried to hard to be funny. Not suspenseful and scary at all. When the clone family first showed up, was kind of creepy, but got dumb quick. The plot is interesting in concept, but in execution, a little messy. The message or metaphor, did not have any impact. It was bad like the village. hehe
I had to come and search to see if there were people who felt like the movie was horrible like I did, after seeing that it had all those high ratings from critics. You are spot on, it's a stupid film. I was like "is this a joke".Terrible acting, the kids were better than the adults. I could not relate to Lupita as a mother and wife suffering from PTSD, Lupita as Red was slightly better. Terrible, terrible terrible plot.This was a very very bad film, sorry. Those critics giving it high praise and even analysing the plot like it's important need to go back to review school if there is.
Us Sucked. It sucked bad.
The biggest plot hole by far is the fact that if the clones mimic everything the originals do, then how can they eat exactly? Let's give them infinite amount of rabbits, let's pretend that only eating one kind of food is okay, even then they ONLY mimic their other half eating, the food is still not in front of them. Realistically they should have time to kill those rabbits, but in the movies logic they do two things at the same time, mimic to perfection and also do separate actions somehow.
Agreed. The plot was absurd, nonsensical and a complete mess. I liked the story until it got confused about what sort of film it actually wanted to be. It started out as good, disturbing horror, but then devolved into a train wreck of preachy ham-handed symbolism that didn't properly work with the film as they had first set it up. You can't start out with a straightforward narrative horror film and suddenly decide 3/4 of the way through to make it an abstract allegory piece.
When I hear people say that the absolute nonsense in the film doesn't matter because it's about the message, it's like nails on a chalkboard. BOTH can matter. You can't present a message in a narrative film format and then not provide the most basic plot consistency. Like the government abandoned the experiment (never mind how the experiment works, considering clones managed to continue through generations without any intervention), but for some reason these people down below still have normal modern clothes and an insane amount of rabbits - which humans can't actually survive on - even though it appears the only people down there have the mental states of disabled children. That's just one tiny piece of so many nonsensical problems. Total fiasco. And I was really looking forward to it after Get Out....what a letdown.
Just saw this movie for the first time yesterday and damn it's like you literally read my mind. This movie was crap and I think I could guess why it was so well acclaimed 🤔🤔🤔
I wish the movie was just a little bit longer, it seemed like it went by too quickly. But I really loved the soundtrack, its very unique.
I gotta tell everyone. The story makes no sense because i think he got that idea from the story of how the people in the mirror actually are alive and forced to do the same thing we do everytime we go to the mirror. Someone got switched and realized it too late when she saw everything were reversed like plate number, signs, etc.
I was 6 or 7 and was terrified at the story. Often i thought what if i got switched and didn't know it.
It works perfect if the concept is mirror. A bit supernatural. If it is clones underground... It's stupid.
I am from gen x, so is peele and i hope someone from my generation realizes this too.
I need to tell people this because of the praise like his story is breakthrough, it needs to be put to test and related or not, the mirror story needed to be made aware being first in the 80's.
For some reason RUclips held this comment for review so I only just saw it today. I will have to look up the mirror story, I wouldn't put it past Hollywood to "borrow" a story and rework it for their own purposes. Thank you for mentioning!
@@hitchenpost9157 not entirely sure but it could be one of the episodes of twilight zone. Not entirely sure tho. And I'll try to look it up and if i find anything I'll catch you here.
@@michellewidjaja4779 So did you guys find out what movie it was??
I hope you keep making videos, only 1k views, but damn good. I'm sure it will grow.
Thank you so much for saying! I'm pretty blown away it got that many, I typically only get between 5 and 20 views lol. Many videos are on the way!
328 million people are living in underground tunnels and no one knew. sure.
You forgot they each got a pair of scissors, a red suite, and ended up holding hands across America. I kid you not. Worst horror film ever!
Bravo! This was spot on.
Peele is too liked as a person, too silly and not fucked in the head enough to be good at making horror cinema. Most of the greats were disturbed. Jordan Peele seems like a nice guy and I am glad he is chasing horror film but he should watch more horror movies.
I just watched Day of the Dead 1985 for the 50th time so you know what I am saying lol
Or he should have a horror creator handle the horror aspects
@@katakurifan5213 he should because he obviously sucks at horror
I'm a little late.. But I 100 percent agree with you
Just watched it....
The trailer interested me...
Dumbest most nonsensical production I have ever seen.
The goal of this movie seems to be not about making a quality movie but push sometimes slick and sometimes blatant propaganda.
I love watching you genuinely struggling to even explain this movie, it’s so nonsensical and the fact that so many people think this is a great movie baffles me.
you hit the nail on the head ... also look at that fantastic four art.
Thanks!
i enjoyed us but its a movie that i would say was frustrating rather then liking or hating it. the best it has done has made me want to see other opinions of it.the movie would have been slightly more acceptable with out the twist ending but once it was over and thought about it for a couple minutes the film just unraveled and became a total mess in my mind.atleast half an hour could have been removed mainly the whole section at the white family's house.
They didnt buy the beach house the vacation house was the house lupita's family owned thats why which was made pretty obvious
indeed movies are sucking more and more and more... haven't been wowed by a movie for years. I'm halfway through US, and no idea what the hype's about so far. Nothing brilliant whatsoever about it thus far, but only half done to be fair.
Us trailer also intrigued me. Movie was disappointing. Really. While watching I didn’t want to think it was bad. But it is.
Exactly what i thought. Point blank periodt
I guess Jordan wants to be the new M. Night Shyamalan lol
Great review
Image a white director saying he will not cast black leads in his movies...yea.
I will say in my opinion… the first act is fantastic and sets up what could have been a fantastic and scary movie.
Unfortunately that didn’t happen
Thank you.
So obviously, I was in no hurry to watch this. And rightly so. I nonetheless caved during lockdown boredom just to see that this trully does suck ass.
For the life of me I can't understand who these people are that think this is a 'masterpiece'. This is the type of movie that would've impressed me when I was 12, but c'mon, the doppelganger replacing the original has been done a dozen times before AND WAY BETTER..
It sucked
movie was trash
an despicable garbage
watched it hour ago.
Peele should have stuck with comedy
@@thepossessorkey is the talent , peele is dead weight.
I’m not sure if you’re talking about the weird laughing the Lupita does in the movie when you mention in in the first 1/4 of this video. If it is, that strange laugh that she makes is the same exact voice that Jordan uses in a skit from “Key and Peele” where he plays a killer being tracked down by a police officer (K.M. Key) IN A HALL OF MIRRORS.... Anyway, the laugh itself might have been creepy if I hadn’t already heard Jordan use this voice in a setup that also seems to be used in Us. Because it’s a unique enough of a laugh not to be random considering the director and so it becomes obvious and distracting knowing that it came from him.
Jordan Peele is the new M. Night
I wish everyone wasnt so hyped about this movie. I was excited expecting it to be spectacular and then got disappointed.
What bothered me most about Lupita’s voice changing was that, while it was creepy, I know she has a Kenyan accent, so I just hear her normal voice when she’s trying to over act..if that makes any sense
Haha it was distracting for sure. I was less familiar with her but she definitely sounded off
Watching you struggle through the interpretation of this film is one of the more entertaining things surrounding this movie. Similar to the struggle of trying to wrap ones head around the plot of this misguided story. Seems like it started off as a relatively interesting concept but grew much too large for the creator to handle. It's at these times that a creator MUST GO TO THE BEGINNING of their concept and simplify it to make it concise and understandable especially if alligorical and metaphorical concepts are to be tackled appropriately. I don't know what's worse, watching a movie that is downright terrible from the beginning, or watching a movie full of potential go off the rails so horribly. 😟
It is not about personal demons. It is a social commentary on whether the same "individual" , would behave differently had he/she had another upbringing. That being said, I though the movie was horrible! Bad acting (e.g. the voice), idiotic behaviour (e.g. dad falling in the water) and so on.
This movie reminded me of the pretenciousness of M. Night Shaymalan in his worst days ...
glad to see im FAR from alone in the way i feel about this movie, but apparently to some people (a reply on a different channel reviewing the movie) i didn't like the movie because i think im smart, or maybe i didn't like it (along with almost everyone else who seen the movie) because none of it made any sense AT ALL, before i get into my reasons why i will say the acting was phenomenal. but why didn't the real adelaide just walk out of the tunnels like the copy did when she got switched, why was there no guns, why did the doubles mimic their counterparts movements only when it was convenient to the plot ( like with the boy at the end) i dont care about the symbolism's and parallels it was a stupid boring movie that made absolutely 0 sense. sorry im not sorry for what im about to say next but if a white person directed this movie the critics would have lambasted it but since a black man (jordan peele) directed it the critics praised it
Haha, I hear you. I had to make this video right after I saw it in the theaters because everyone on Twitter was salivating over the movie's glory and I really didn't get it. Critics certainly praise certain movies for all kinds of reasons other than anything that has to do with the movie itself. Im sure part of it is politics. The other part is I do think movies are SO terrible now, that anything that comes along that's merely competent appears incredible. It's my big problem with Red Letter Media. "They actually got pacing and 3 act structure correct, therefore it's great!" Even if that story is uninteresting af.
I think the internet's hype culture is why so many people are disappointed with the film.Rotten Tomatoes has it at a 93% . This is Hollywood politics. Now I think "Get out " was decent. But for it to get a best pic nomination,Fuck No. It's Our current political climate. That's it. You're not even aloud to criticize this movie. Take a look at the comments on Stuckmann's channel. BTW he gave it an A- . Wonder when he sold his soul. I just can't believe all these critics are saying this is such a masterpiece...but then I take a deep breath and tell myself it's political correctness. That's all it is.
You are so right. Get out was way overhyped. Get Out was just a spin on Invasion of the Body Snatchers but it didn’t make sense. Why would rich, white people at the top of society want to trade places with a marginalized group? The movie showed us that black people still face discrimination within society, and if the movie tried to make the case that black people are more athletic or creative so they would be more valuable, that still doesn’t make any sense. The white person takes over the black person’s body and controls the cognitive & motor functions. That doesn’t mean that the black person’s athletic ability or talents are transferred. For example if an average person switched bodies with Serena Williams, they still wouldn’t be able to play tennis like her because they don’t have her tennis skills, they just have control over her body (Serena William’s body doesn’t automatically know how to play tennis). If the wealthy wanted to preserve their youth and strength ANY person that is young & strong would do. No matter the race. There isn’t any real advantage to being black in this society that is shown in the film. Jordan Peele is one of the few black directors in Hollywood, so no matter what he does everyone calls it brilliant when it’s not....look at Us. I think people are afraid to criticize his work because it would be seen as “racist” and black people (including a lot of successful authors, and actors) just give him a pass because he is black. But the reality is, Peele isn’t creating groundbreaking work...its mediocre at best. Get out was way overhyped and Us was a fucking mess. I say this as a Black man that appreciates good story telling.
Finally watched. Started off intriguing, just got worse as it went smh. Lupita did amazing though, acting-wise.
Jordan Peele is the black M Night. Not being racist, just trying to compare the two. But i will give him a few movies to redeem himself.
Sad part is I was a big fan of peele ...when he did comedy skits the thing is he’s trying a genre he’s not even good at and this movie should’ve been good cause he needed to redeem himself after ripping off get out
I literally couldn't finish the movie, it was so fucking cringy at a lot of points and the acting was so bad. Like at first I was intrigued, like the acting was alright, the cinematography was good, it was good at setting up the tone that it wanted, but then right when the people showed up BAM the switch flipped from good to bad.
I don't think either of Peele's films are that good. They're ok to watch, I don't dislike them... I just think they're extremely overrated. "Get Out" was considered a masterpiece; for the life of me, I can't figure out why.
Also, when did this government experiment end? Because the kids are fairly young, so it must have been going on up until a few years prior. However, during the flashbacks, from when the mother was a child, it seemed as though there wasn't any government supervision or testing. So who cloned the children?
It was just okay. What it tried to impart got tripped up by the lack of logic in places. Anyway, your video was okay, not sure you followed an outline or not, presentation was good besides the couple of desk thumps.
Get Out did have the thought-provoking concept. An amazing movie. Us was terrible.
I dont think you understood the movie at all. Watch a theory on this movie bc The Film Theorists made a very good theory on beginning and the middle to go into the exposition.
I don’t think it’s garbage, but it definitely isn’t a good movie
I really liked the movie, but I also enjoyed your analysis of it. I'm sure you're much better at breaking down a movie than I am, but I think I'd rather stay bad at it an be able to enjoy a movie every now and then.
This movie was the worst “film” I have seen in at least 2 years. Top ten worst movies I’ve ever seen. The trailer and rotten tomatoes convinced me to redbox it. If I’d spent $30 with a date, to see this pile of shit in the theatre, I’d be fighting mad. Movie suuuuucked sooooo bad. Totally emasculated the Patriarch of the family, and made the white people look like pathetic weak bastards. Movie made me physically ill, how moronic and awfully executed it was. I want my $1.75 rental fee back and the wasted two hrs of my life. COMPLETE nonsense.
To me the point of the film was obvious, even though I thought the film itself was very poor,
the tethered are a representation of the underprivileged classes in America, they're living a lesser life than those in the upper class of society.
The film basically slaps you round the face with this point so much that it becomes boring and forgets that the purpose of a movie isn't to lecture you and shove a political agenda down your throat, the purpose of a film is to tell a good story and if it has a point , great, but that's not more important than the film itself being enjoyable.
This movie is so implausible. Millions of clones. Under your feet. Some connected to their host. And....they were abondened. Where to start...uggg.
This movie is so sucky sucky sucky sucky. Geez I would have preferred a supernatural angle. Not millions of clones, holding hands. Oh God, who ok'd this script. Good lord.
Was not scary, and no suspense. By the time I saw the underground compound, Iost interest. Movie gets a 1 out of 10!
This movie was just as bad as Peele's Twilight Zone with Kumail Nanjiani. And that's saying something.
I know right?! After seeing Us I had little expectations for Twilight Zone but was still disappointed haha
SO DID THE GHETTO CLONES COME UP AND GO WTF I DONT WANT THIS TASH LIFE IM GOING BACK DOWN TO
CLEAN CLOTHES
FREE FOOD
ETC.... WELFARE FOR CLONES !!! LOL
You hit every point with this very bad movie, his plots are as creative as somthing a nine year old can write. Very stupid not entertaining at all its like he got lazy with the script. I truly felt a little insulted that he would try to pass this garbadge out as a movie. The sad part is hearing these waisted hippy wanna bees, try to make since of jordan peele lack of finnishing a thought.
Oh your poor poor nose
Us was horrible! Badly written, purely cast. Boring
after watching the intro i thought this was going to be special. boy was i wrong. this shit acc put me to sleep. such a dumb storyline.
The movie was Ass it was hyped up cause Get Out success but when ppl go back in watch it now more are gonna realize the movie sucks
This movie doesnt make sense ,worst than a low budget movie ,
Yeah this poor movie, fantastic camera shots great acting ( for the most part) awful screenwriting and story telling
This is a 28 minutes I'll never get back. Don't watch any movies pls, or at least any Jordan Peele movies. Your comments section is better than the video btw.
Thats racist.
THERE WHERE NO SCARES !!! THIS WAS JUST TRASH !!!!!
This review was almost as boring as the movie it's reviewing
Somehow I think you've forgotten that this is a fictional psychological thriller. They are supposed to be weird and not real. It wasn't his best work but come on. We get it, you don't like it. Move on.