{"id":14744,"date":"2022-07-21T16:41:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/?p=14744"},"modified":"2022-07-21T23:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T23:29:48","slug":"nope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/nope\/","title":{"rendered":"Nope"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Disappointing. <\/i>Tense moments but \u00a0kept waiting for Jordan Peele to deliver a mega watt jolt that never materialized. Expecting a clever horror film like\u00a0Get Out<\/i> and US, w<\/i>e grabbed the arms of our IMAX seats for Peele to shock us, but that didn\u2019t happen. With Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun leading the way, we expected more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Peele\u2019s script is in chapters that don\u2019t flow smoothly. They are disjointed and just when you think something is about to grab you, it doesn\u2019t. Peele tries to pack several issues into this film and doesn\u2019t fully develop any of them. Just as you get interested in following a thread, it changes and the impetus seems lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Credit goes to writer\/director Peele for including Black cowboys and the historical first image ever put on film of a Black rider on horseback to let us know where filmmaking started. What ensues are fleeting images through a cloud that doesn\u2019t move, a flying saucer that apparently is carrying aliens we can\u2019t see, tech, connectivity, and energy issues at the ranch and a few unexplained deaths. Plus he includes the graphic portrayal of the racial economic and social inequality of hiring and business practices in Hollywood.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”14746″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”14759″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”14747″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]It starts with OJ Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya) and his father on their ranch outside of Los Angeles which supplies stunt horses for Hollywood movies. His father suffers a bloody death after being hit by something that fell from the sky. Peele creates a foreboding atmosphere with loud ominous sounds to signal when something is about to happen throughout the film. Those signals create tension, even though nothing often happens. He also uses music coming from a record player or the car radio as a diversion and to punctuate scenes.<\/p>\n

OJ and his sister, Emerald (Keke Palmer) have a strained relationship. She is a ball of energy who is somewhat annoying because she can\u2019t shut up. Although part of the family business, she\u2019s often absent off doing her own side hustles. But when she shows up, she dives right in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Strange things start happening. OJ feels like he\u2019s being watched and hunted. OJ and Emerald decide to get high tech surveillance and maybe get a picture of the strange fleeting image they see through the clouds.\u00a0 <\/span>Enter \u201cFry Guy,\u201d a tech from Fry\u2019s named, Angel Torres (Brandon Perea) to come out and, of course, he experiences, first hand, the strange events happening at the ranch. He joins their team to help get a picture, they call \u201cThe Oprah Shot\u201d of this UFO so they can get money and fame to keep their business going.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While all this is going on, we\u2019re introduced to Ricky, the former child actor who runs a bizarre Western ghost town theme park. He wants to buy the ranch from OJ and Emerald, but there\u2019s more to it than that. All of a sudden we get a chapter on Ricky\u2019s background as a child actor on a sit com that went haywire one day. Peele creates a brutal, horrific scene with a chimpanzee that went berserk on the set. This is, by far, the best and scariest moment in the whole film. Here, it\u2019s obvious Peele makes a graphic statement about mistreatment of animals in TV and movies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Peele divides the parts of the story into chapters named for the horses, but that doesn\u2019t help the story. Daniel Kaluuya barely speaks but he does get to use the film title for a good punch line. Palmer talks enough for both of them and is successfully annoying.\u201dFry Guy,\u201d Brandon, makes an earnest side kick.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”14750″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”14755″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”14749″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]All the elements are here for a well-crafted sci-fi movie. But it never comes together. Even the way they try to get a photo of the flying ship is weird. They hire a craggy faced cinematographer with a super deep voice and loads of attitude named Antler Hoist (Michael Wincott). He\u2019s creepy enough. But we never get to see the perpetrator aliens. The special effects are just nothing to write home about. When the flying saucer appears closer, it looks old school sci-fi, and pretty cheesy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever tension Peele creates in the beginning chapters never pays off. There was great anticipation for us and the audience, but instead of shrieks and screams at the end, it lays flat. Peele\u2019s UFO reminds us of the primitive flying saucer in the 1951 film, The Day the Earth Stood Still.<\/i> But Nope<\/em>, this one doesn\u2019t stick the landing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Universal Pictures. \u00a0 \u00a0 2 hours 10 minutes. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0R<\/strong><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=In8fuzj3gck” el_width=”80″ align=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Disappointing. Tense moments but \u00a0kept waiting for Jordan Peele to deliver a mega watt jolt that never materialized. Expecting a clever horror film like\u00a0Get Out and US, we grabbed the arms of our IMAX seats for Peele to shock us, but that didn\u2019t happen. With Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun leading the way, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14744"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14773,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744\/revisions\/14773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}