At the Movies!

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I watched Get Out. There is no way for me to say why I disliked it without spoilers, soooooo

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I loved how this film started out. It seemed VERY promising. 

However... The main character's friend actually spells out everything that's happening in the plot leaving you no room to figure it out yourself, even if he isn't exactly 100% accurate. "They're hypnotizing black people to use as slaves!", "I'm going to record you!", and "This is his dog, see!". Stuff like that. He points out what you can see with your own eyes during a scene and you know that he's going to wind up being a hero of some sort.

It starts getting predictable. I was all "His girlfriend is in on this..." and was completely right.

My guess was that this was going to be like the Stepford Wives, except with black people instead. 

Nope, but the "twist" was still pretty bland and makes the fact that this film had race brought into it at all pretty ridiculous. Really, it should have been anyone with desirable traits who were being lured in and having their bodies being taken over by rich old people. When the main character even asks "Why black people?" it's totally glossed over.

Him killing the family at the end was SUPER satisfying, but the scares were dull and I really feel there was nothing groundbreaking with this film. I cannot believe the scores were so high. [/spoiler]