About time right? I didn’t have time to sneak anything in but I had a coupon for a free medium beverage with the purchase of a medium popcorn.
This movie was a trip. So much to discuss but how do we do that, without giving away what happens? Ok I’ll try.
Daniel Kaluuya sizzles in this film as Chris Washington. A young black photographer who lives a normal life. He lives with his dog, and White girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams). Chris’s cousin Rod Williams (Lil Rel Howery) is a TSA Agent who checks in with Chris from time to time. You see Chris is nervous to meet his girlfriend’s parents for the first time. Her parents live far away from their city in an isolated lakeside area. One reason Chris is reluctant to meet Rose’s family, is due him being a black man. Rose proclaims throughout the beginning of the film that her parents are not “like that” or “they’re not racists”
En Route to Rose’s parents house it is revealed that Chris smokes cigarettes. They also hit a deer. Typical black guy scenario happens next when the police is summoned to investigate the accident. (Brothas we all been here at this scene). Finally they arrived at the families house only for Chris to be put in several awkward moments as a black man. Chris also notice that the servants at the Armitage’s house are black and very “Weird”
Dean Armitage (Bradley Whitford) and Missy Armitage (Catherine Kenner) are Rose’s parents. Dean is a neurosurgeon and Missy is a psycho (whoops psychiatrist) 😁 reassure Chris that he is safe with their family and that they are not racists. Later at dinner, Rose’s brother Jeremy Armitage (Caleb Landry Jones) joins them and he seems extremely drunk and odd. To unwind after dinner, Chris sneaks outside to smoke a cigarette, but thats when he notices, the black male servant named Walter (Marcus Henderson) running at him at full speed only to go right pass Chris. Chris tries to sneak back into the house but Missy convinces him to sit down and talk with him about his past to help him quit smoking. As she stirs the spoon in the tea cup, Chris becomes hypnotized and the prompt for him is to sink in to the floor.
Morning comes and Chris tries to explain to Rose the horrors he is facing at her parents house as a black male, but she keeps downplaying everything or being oblivious. Later in the day, it is revealed that the family will be inviting friends over to celebrate the Armitage’s Grandfather anniversary of his passing. Again, Chris notices the female black servant named Georgina (Betty Gabriel) acting strange. She intentionally unplugs his phone charger while cleaning. Anyways during the day, Chris is paraded around like a black piece of meat on the auction block to the obvious oblivion of Rose’s ignorance. Chris sees another black man named Logan (Keith Stanfield) at the gathering and tries to exchange pleasantries. Logan too, comes off weird and disconnected. When Chris takes a flash photo of Logan, It sends Logan into a phase where his nose starts to bleed and he starts attacking Chris telling him to Get out! Get out! The Armitage family downplays this out burst as a seizure causes by the flash. Immediately, Chris calls his cousin Rod and tells him the horrifying stories of his stay this far, and sends him a photo of Logan.
Ok imma stop it there because I will be giving away everything else that happens after that. This was a great thriller and it does address many covert racism hiding within the white populous. Voting for Barack Obama does not make you down or gives you street cred or a hood pass. This movie is filled with many of those scenarios. I give this movie an A. Only reason why I didn’t give it an A+ is because they could have used a prettier white girl for Chris. Hahahahahhahahaha petty alert✌.
Thanx Dave! 
Loved your review. Last part had me Lmao 😂😂😂 we need to do a discussion via Skype or hangouts to discuss the psychology behind it. Filled with spoilers, I want to set that up.
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Hell yea man just let me know when
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Indeed
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I still need to see this one. Good review bro
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o0o0o0o0oo I have some stuff to share with you that I found this morning. Remind me!
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Um that movie was EXCELLENT!!! I thought it was a really clever movie.
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Hey Dr. Garland. Yes it was. But imagine my VR idea that i had. This takes that to the extreme, right?
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Yeah now I see why you said no lol
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Lmfao yea. there were so many cool things about this movie. But man I was really kinda scared when u started putting pieces together and I thought if that VR experience. I was like wow there are some crazy ass people
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I LOVED this movie. And I say kudos to Jordan Peele for getting the movie out there. It…was…clever.
Yep. This is your VR idea on steroids. It is scary because it’s not too far fetched 🤔
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What’s up Dr. K! My son was telling me about this movie the other day. He really enjoyed it so I was very happy when I saw that Tareau gave it am A+.
With Jordan Peele at the helm, you knew that it was going to be clever 🙂
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Great review Tbreeze. I see you cam equipped with the coupons! LOL!
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I haven’t seen this movie, but your review makes me want to. Funny I haven’t heard of it in the UK??! But the most important question is what flavour popcorn did you get – sweet or salty??? LOL
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Neither I put hella butter on it and then I shook the bag up. Hahahaha
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hahahahahahaaaaaaaa! You’re full of surprises. I’d bet my life it was going to be the ‘sweet’ one ….
Have you seen ‘Fences’, ‘Hidden Figures’ , ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Loving’? – great movies too!
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Yes to the first 2, no to the last 2
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Brilliant movies all of them!! Loved Fences and the acting was superb!! Hidden Figures – Inspirational!!!!! And they kept that HIDDEN for so long! Disgraceful!
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There was a battle of conquest on Hidden Figures that I think a lot of people missed too. When Kevin Costner was explaining that it’s a “Race” to the moon with the USSR, I said “ohhhh white conquest, interesting” hahahahahaha. Yes and it’s 2250 here and the kids are asleep
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That’s really good T! Imagine you picked up on that! You are definitely a movie reviewer extraordinaire (that means you’re very good! lol) I missed that.:(
On the clock here it says 1:43am over there – guess the clock’s wrong! 🙂
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What are you doing up? :))) Isn’t it the middle of the night there? LOL
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Great review thanks. I’m very ambivalent about this film. IMO, it is over-hyped and its plotline is entirely predictable from the moment our hero spots the black gardener with the blank zombie grin on his face. The most I could say is that it is an entertaining but unoriginal horror spoof mixed with some clever satire.
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