#also Lupita Nyong'o is so fucking good in this movie holy shit

[saucy-mesothelioma]

October 21st: 2010s Horror | Us

Us was released in 2019 and was directed by Jordan Peele. Adelaide Wilson (played by Lupita Nyong'o) returns to her childhood home at the beach with her husband Gabe (Winston Duke) and her children Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Jason (Jason Wilson). The family does their best to enjoy their time together on their vacation but Adelaide can't help the sinking feeling that something bad is going to happen due to some past trauma. Her fears turn out to be founded in truth as the family is attacked by four jumpsuited strangers: strangers that happen to look exactly like them.

This most recent decade, much like in the early 2000s, has expanded on pre-existing sub-genres and created some new titans in horror. Although remakes were still common, the new original films have stood out not only due to advancements in technology, but also the artistic expression and deep storytelling present in these movies. New directors to horror such as Ari Aster and Jordan Peele have started to become modern horror director legends thanks to their films such as Hereditary and Us respectively. Other films like It Follows, Cabin in the Woods, The Ritual, Get Out, and Ready or Not quickly gained notoriety due to the new and interesting twists and compelling stories they provided audiences, helping to revitalize interest in the horror genre and show that there is still more to the genre than just blood and violence.

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Content Warnings for the Film (may contain spoilers): jumpsacres, violence, self-inflicted violence

[nihilism-and-dad-jokes]

Some Great Actresses

1. Lupita Nyong'o

Seriously. Go watch 'Us' by Jordan Peele. I was STUNNED by this woman's performance, I can't even speak. Just go watch it.

(BONUS: POC [Black] and LGBTQ+ actress!)

2. Danai Gurira

Everyone's seen her in The Walking Dead and Black Panther, what more needs to be said? She's got an amazing intensity and strength, and she brings it to her characters wonderfully.

(BONUS: POC [Black] actress!)

3. Kristen Stewart

Everyone judges this poor woman based on ONE shittily written script based on a shittily written book, as if that's the actors fault. Go watch her other fucking movies, she's an awesome actress. Go watch Under Water. Snow White and the Huntsman. The Messengers. The Charlie's Angels reboot. Fuck. Stop attacking a good actress over a shitty script and director.

(BONUS: LGBTQ+ actress!)

4. Jennifer Lawrence

Holy shit when this woman does grief or panic or rage? She does it PHENOMINALLY. she doesn't make it pretty. She makes it RAW and REAL. You feel that shit in you chest, it's gut-wrenching. I love it so much.

5. Sandra Oh

GO WATCH KILLING EVE HOLY SHIT (also a guilty pleasure of my parents' was Grey's Anatomy and she was the best character in that. She was funny as fuck)

(BONUS: POC [Korean] actress!)

[lovelyirony]

i am highkey ready to shit my pants and die of a heart attack seeing the us movie bc winston duke and lupita nyong'o are too fucking beautiful to not see on the big screen. also jordan peele is a godly director but mainly its bc my bisexual ass can't get enough of how gorgeous winston and lupita are

bitch,,,,,,,,i’m so thirsty for both ms. lupita and mr. winston like,,,,holy shit they’re so beautfiul and they’re SUCH good actors 

(also lowkey lost my shit in a target bc they had a ton of m’baku funkos and i wanted to buy one SO bad) 

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Black Panther. God. What a beautiful, important, joyous thing this movie is. Everybody should see it: not just little black and brown kids who need to be shown that they can be heroic and superheroes, but also racist white adults who need their minds opened with crowbars if necessary. This isn't the first good MCU movie, but it is the first one that we can honestly, truly call a masterpiece.

I know it's a little bit weird, but Wakanda reminds me a lot of Always Coming Home. Not just the way at first glance all you see is the herds and people taking care of them before BOOM, Wakanda city proper, but the interweaving of the high technology with indigenous/tribal motifs that still very much inform day to day life. T'Challa's coronation ceremony was a thing to behold, that beautiful rainbow of outfits towering into the sky. I love the way they took the tribal stuff from the comics and the cartoons and made it less hokey and obviously created by white dudes, especially with M'Baku and the Jabari. The women in this movie were a fucking delight and revelation. I don't do The Walking Dead, so this was the first time I'd seen Danai Gurira in anything. Holy shit that woman is a force of nature and I am in absolute awe. (That wig throwing scene is even better in context.) She brings strength to the role, but also a wonderfully wry sense of humor that makes her human. The conflict in her when she and Nakia argue about her place in overthrowing Killmonger is so good. And just, like everything about her devotion to Wakanda is beautiful. I expected the scene with her boyfriend? spouse? to end badly, but I'm really glad he, too, is bowled over by that devotion and surrenders. SHURI. I LOVE HER SO MUCH. She's such a teenager, and compounded with the supergenius I can imagine she was an incredible handful in early puberty. (I think Tony Stark would adore her, personally. She's too much like he was at that age for him not to.) I love her bond with her brother, how much she loves and cares for him, but will not hesitate to clown him because he's her brother. I want a whole Netflix series about her stint in Oakland. If it tells you anything about the quality of this movie, Lupita Nyong'o is not anywhere near the best thing about it, although I love her a lot. Nakia is such a bright, fierce spirit, and the strongest moral force in the movie. I think T'Challa would have come to the conclusion that Wakanda can't remain in isolation without her, but the way in which he figured that out would not necessarily be so humanitarian or compassionate. All the women in this movie have such a strong sense of agency and their own lives. Like, obviously T'Challa is part of it and they love and are devoted to him as prince then king, brother, son, or romantic interest, but he is not the thing their lives revolve around. Even Okoye, who probably goes with him everywhere, has a part of her own life where he does not figure in. I didn't realize how important that was to see until I did see it. tbh, I think Killmonger might have been the best part of this movie. He's such a compelling antagonist (I'm honestly not sure villain is an appropriate word for him until he's like "Okay we're going to destroy all this shit that's important to your culture and become arms exporters"), and drawn with such immense compassion. His experience reminds me a lot of accounts I've heard from Japanese-Americans who went to Japan after WWII. They didn't have anything in common with native Japanese people, not even language, but they didn't want to stay in a country that would lock them up just for being of Japanese ancestry. And that yearning of the diaspora child for the homeland, even though he'd never been there, that fucked me up. If anybody wants to write the AU where he decides to live and try for a redemption arc, I will read the fuck out of that. I thought it was brilliant the way they used the token white guy, assigning him the role that the token black dude usually gets in action films. The only way it would have been more perfect is if he'd made a heroic sacrifice for the cause, but alas. The second post-credits scene was absolutely perfect. I didn't expect to see Bucky at all, but I'm glad to see he's being taken care of and he has some peace and time to recover. If somebody wants to write me that fic, I will also read the fuck out of that.