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Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-16-20
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Does a movie like Battle Royale (1999), count as a missed opportunity movie when it came to exploring it's themes? I thought it could have explored them much more deeply, but instead, they are put...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-14-20
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Oh okay, I think for me, the plot holes of Us, if they would be plot holes, are just a little too big for me, to the point where the themes suffered as a result, where as Get Out, I felt held...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-12-20
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Oh okay. Well what about a movie like Fail-Safe (1964) for example? In that movie, there are a lot of themes of cold war and politics, but if they had out a lot of those scenes, and instead made it...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-12-20
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Oh yeah, I didn't like Funny Games either, but haven't seen other Haneke movies. Well it seems to me that the themes of this movie, is people being oppressed by a hierarchy of other people. But...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-12-20
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Well one thing about the movie is a lot of the things people seem to like about it are it's themes. But the themes are hardly dealt with the directly, and are more hidden in the background. The...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 06-06-20
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Well when it comes to whether or not a theme is intentional or not in a movie, one movie I can think of is King Kong, where apparently a lot of people think it's an allegory on slavery because people...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-24-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Oh okay. I'm not sure about that. In what way so far?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-23-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Yeah I think it could have been more scary as well. Right now, Jordan Peele is the next M. Night Shyamalan it seems, but if you compare his two movies to Shyamalan's so far, Get Out is like The...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-13-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Well a lot of people are saying I'm analyzing the plot to much and to just sit back and enjoy the ride, but since the movie is so plot heavy and relies on all these twists, why not just make a movie...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-10-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Okay thanks. I guess with A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy has more travel powers compared to these tethers, so I felt that maybe he had a huge plot advantage there, over the tethers.

But as far...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-10-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Well I want to see what everyone likes about the movie but it's just hard to get on board with the fact that Red could actually lead an invasion. Her plan is incredibly poorly thought out, and all...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-09-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Yeah I guess the counterparts murdering their counterparts is not written in stone, but from what we know, the counterparts actually prefer to go after their own counterparts, or at least Red ordered...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-09-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

There is another thing in the plot I didn't understand. Why did the families tethers live so close to each other? Like it seems to be a rule that Red has ordered the tethers to go kill the families...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-08-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
It felt that way for me too, is that if Peele...

It felt that way for me too, is that if Peele really wants to have a complex plot with these twists and turns, than that's good, but he needs time to develop that more I think, where as most of the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-08-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

It felt that way for me too, is that if Peele really wants to have a complex plot with these twists and turns, than that's good, but he needs time to develop that more I think, where as most of the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-05-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

I saw the twist coming in the beginning, cause the parents of the girl who was switched said that she was acting strange. Sure, she could have been acting strange cause she saw herself but when she...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-02-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Okay thanks, I can see that. It's not the allegory that that takes me out of the story, it's just some of the plot points. I think the plot might be the problem and not the theme.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-01-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

I don't mind movies that leave questions unanswered as long as I felt there was a point to the story, like Planet of the Apes for example. But I felt that with Us I did not see what the point of it...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-01-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Okay thanks, it's just that the movie I felt had some big inconsistencies and coincidences in the plot and I felt that the plot only held together when it was convenient to do so for the surprises to...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-01-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Oh okay, but why are the thethers actions forced by humans though?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-31-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Okay thanks. But I feel that that video explanation still left a lot out. One question I have is the huge coincidences. How is it that Adelaide just so happen marry the same guy, and they just...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-31-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

Well people go into these underground tunnels for all sorts of reasons like work or travel for example.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-31-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Oh okay, thanks. But I feel that this...

Oh okay, thanks. But I feel that this explanation does raise more questions. Like if these people in red are a government experiment gone wrong who live in tunnels, how come no one has ever seen...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-31-19
Replies: 88
Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Posted By ironpony
Re: Dissecting Jordan Peele's 'Us'

I saw the movie tonight and even though I have now read what the movie is about, I still feel I have unanswered questions.

SPOILERS

Why did the families doubles not want to kill them but teach...