Yeah, this one, and to a lesser degree, Us, did not really interest me as much as Get Out did. I think the chimp stuff was way scarier. The floating alien, UFO space thing just didn't capture my interest tbh.

@Damienracer said:

@MrCharmingMan said:

SPOILERS ..............The chimpanzee story should have been the focus of the movie not the..... boring UFO!

So this movie and the build up even onto the opening day was all tight lip as to what the movie was about and everyone even the stars of the movie were not allowed to say anything or give any talk shows even any hints.

I saw Steven Yuen on Jimmy Kimmel(Anthony Anderson guest hosting) and AA was grilling him saying come on tell us what the movie is about??? AA even said here's some top online theories and Steven didn't deny or confirm anything.

This made me want to even see it more since I hate when spoilers come out on social media or randoms talking outside and you get ruined.

So finally after seeing Nope, I have to say WTF? This could have been a lot better. I liked it, but when we do find out its a UFO that basically eats random people and animals, its like umm man thats what we were waiting for????? I mean now images of the UFO are all over social media and online so WTF, the mystery is out the bag, and its not even a cool brand new bad ass ufo its pretty much the same CGI UFO that every movie has had for the past 10 years right? So yes a bit of a let down. Also a UFO is so sophisticated and advanced it can stay still as a cloud and hide but it can't determine whats a real person or real animal, from a fake horse statue?????

But I must say the far more compelling, interesting, and scary story of the movie was the chimpanzee going nuts and killing and mauling everyone on the sitcom. This should have been the focus of the movie and the bigger story over the boring UFO. There have been a million UFO movies made in Hollywood but pretty much ZERO made about a horrific mass killing taken place on a sitcom. The scene where we finally see the chimp go nuts and kill everyone was by far the most intense scary, original scene of the movie and maybe in all movie history!

In fact what made me really want to see the movie was Jordan posting a cheesy sitcom 1980's style intro and I was like hell yea I wanna see this some crazy shat is about to go down on that sitcom set and I was right!

I'm a fan of Jordan, a huge one actually, but I think he missed the mark a bit with this one, had he focused more so on the chimp than the boring done a million times over ufo, this movie would be even more epic!

Yes because films about bad and good chimpanzees or planets full of them haven't been a thing in cinemas the past 50 or 60 years at all have they.

This scene in NOPE is a million times better than all the Planet of The Apes movies combined and far more intense and scarier. Planet of the Apes is a philosophical metaphor done in very unrealistic ways with apes talking and pretty much behaving like humans in any other army movie, where as this movie Nope had the chimp acting like a chimp in the most realistic and believable way. But it seems like you are just trolling so I'll just stop there.

I agree actually, though I don't love the way OP has communicated the point.

It's not that we've seen UFO scenes before that makes it lacklustre, it's simply that by giving us both the crazy chimp story and the UFO one, Peele is indirectly putting the two in comparison with one another, and because we learn so little about the chimp, that's the one that really hooks. There are elements to that scene that are intriguing too - the shoe that defies gravity and appears in recurrent moments throughout the film, for example, but is never explained or directly referenced. Peele leans so heavily on visuals, and they are spectacular to be sure, but they aren't enough. A great film needs a great story, characters and script, and this fails to deliver on any of those elements. It ends up a confused, technically masterful and quite beautiful cinematic work, but not a particularly good film.

I'm just amazed at how overrated this movie is, especially on this site. There are so many plot holes and plain ridiculousness, I feel like anyone who rated this movie a 10 really can't be taken seriously.

@QuarkZ said:

I'm just amazed at how overrated this movie is, especially on this site. There are so many plot holes and plain ridiculousness, I feel like anyone who rated this movie a 10 really can't be taken seriously.

It's a horror/science fiction movie, not a documentary, why does it need to make sense?

@bratface said:

@QuarkZ said:

I'm just amazed at how overrated this movie is, especially on this site. There are so many plot holes and plain ridiculousness, I feel like anyone who rated this movie a 10 really can't be taken seriously.

It's a horror/science fiction movie, not a documentary, why does it need to make sense?

Doesn't the "need to make sense" depend on the tone of the movie?

If the movie seems to take itself seriously then it should make some sense. If the movie doesn't take itself seriously then of course it's doesn't have to make any sense.