1st viewing, tension,suspense,trying to figure out what's happening.
2st and every viewing after that: OMG this movie is slow and paintful to watch. i'd rather play video games instead.
i think i only watched it 2 times and it was like 2 years after 1st viewing.
I enjoyed it more the second time I watched it and will likely watch it again sometime.
sharewell, not everyone has good taste in movies. right? i mean some people love the new star wars movies or the barbie movie and stuff like that... so i wont be critical of you... but objectively its a bad movie with cringe plot
shareIt was ok. Actually thought it was overrated.
Will I ever watch it again? Well, If there is absolutely nothing else on and one is bored to death - yeah maybe.
Either that or take a nap.
I don’t think it was that good. Very mediocre when compared to other films on BFI’s Sight and Sound (2022) GREATEST movies of ALL TIME and in which Get Out is no. 95 out of 250. Beating out Heat which is no. 169. And then to find out the director had a completely different original ending which was more like annihilation which he changed due to - he thought the shifting of social injustice - probably should go back to the concept of his original ending.
shareJust watched it for a second time.
Still thought it was alright. Enjoyed the humour more on the second run through. Better film overall than Nope I'd say.
The new BLADE RUNNER 2049 or whatever movie was a lot like that too. I was riveted in the theater, and then when I tried watching it on Blu-ray, I lost interest about 20 minutes in. A mystery plot only works for the first viewing unless there are a bunch of interesting clues sprinkled in that you missed the first time around.
shareOr, ya know, the characters and story have depth.
share'A mystery plot only works for the first viewing unless there are a bunch of interesting clues sprinkled in that you missed the first time around.'
Or nudity (something the Italians exploited with the giallo).
Yeah and also the violence which got more and more over the top over the course of the 70's. Then by the 80's it was such over the top gore that it was even getting censored in most countries. :(
shareI don't know where you are, but I'm in the UK and lived through the whole 'video nasty' panic. Fortunately, I was in the forces and depending on where we were we got to see quite a few banned movies (such as Cannibal Holocaust, Zombie Flesh Eaters, I Spit on Your Grave). Now, of course, I own them 🙂
shareI'm in the USA and went through a period in the 90's when I went to great lengths to find all the obscure and most disturbing films I had only then found out about due to the internet (and my being in my latter teenage years at the time). A lot of Italian movies, violent or not, and including a lot of really good ones, never got a video release in the USA. I had to import tapes from places like Greece to see even benign movies like "Spy Connection/Notturno" etc. There were a lot of violent movies like Cannibal Ferox or New York Ripper, which had significantly edited down VHS releases in the 80's here in the USA and it wasn't until DVD that they started coming out uncut. Most of the giallos never came out at all until DVD/Bluray. I don't know if it was always because of the violence (the USA has ratings standards but not nearly as strict as they were in the UK, especially around the Mary Whitehouse Video Nasty era) but most likely just because American audiences don't like subtitles and don't really like dubbing either, so it took a while for a lot of Italian exploitation movies to find an (albeit cult) audience here, largely thanks to them getting exposure by people like Quentin Tarantino, Bob Murawski, William Lustig, etc.
shareFans in the UK used to get quite a few of their 'nasties' from Holland, sometimes even travelling over in person to bring them back. Boutique Blu-ray labels are a godsend now for getting hold of stuff like New York Ripper, Anthropophagous, A Bay of Blood, etc. I never dreamed back then that it would become so easy to actually legally obtain these films fully uncut, to watch whenever we wanted.
shareA lot of people are like that re the Daniel Craig's first rebooted "Bond" film, Casino Royale.
It seemed really exciting in cinemas, what with the black and white scenes, fighting someone in a grimy toilet, etc.
But then when you get it home with you on dvd / Blu-ray, you realise it's just a generic Borne style 00s action flick with little substance, humour or charm to warrant repeated viewings.
Most copies have now landed up in charity shops. Whenever I'm in one I always go look at the dvd / Blu-ray section and always laugh to see multiple copies of it piled up, side by side, on the shelves...
Funny you should say that. I love Craig as Bond and I love CR, but although I own it I've had the urge to rewatch it very few times.
shareIt's the same for this, Sixth sense, The Others... Generally good movies, but lose a lot without the suspense.
shareI'm not sure that a suspense movie which remains suspenseful on repeated viewings is actually a thing. How would that work ?
This film is a classic.
A movie like SORCERER I think works in that regard because even though you've seen it dozens of times there's this tension in the air that anyone can explode at any moment. The bridge scene in it never fails to impress me either. It's cut and shot so perfectly as to maximize the suspense. I also love how it gradually ramps up and gets crazier as it goes, but in a very grounded and realistic way that is easy to relate with. GET OUT is pure fantasy and gets more and more ridiculous as it goes along so it's a little harder to connect to the characters in it or feel the fear with them that the film is asking one to do.
shareThe way to view Get Out is as both a farce & a metaphor. It is in these respects that the film rises.
shareI hear what you're saying.
Some movies are great but have absolutely no rewatch value.
The ones you can rewatch over and over again are the true gems. Longevity is paramount. No point owning a movie that was good but that you'll never rewatch.