Amazing movie! My favourite one by Peele so far. The runtime flew by for me. It's over 2 hours and felt like it lasted only 1 hour. The most pivotal scenes left me pondering: What was really happening and why? This is an important film about right vs. wrong and how the latter is winning the battle by far. It poses the question: How might we be judged by aliens? The film opens with the most brutal bible quote I ever read or heard. It sums up the film nicely.

Besides reviews for Nope, I would love to discuss theories with everyone.

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I have a theory on the motives behind the alien threat: They are trying to be God and have good intentions for Earthlings, except they are not highly advanced or intelligent. They think they are providing us with what we most desire, except they have misjudged us. Peele suggests with this film: An alien might consider humans masochists who not only derive pleasure from or despite their own pain and hardship, their enjoyment stems, too, from the suffering of others.

My theory on my favourite scene, the monkey performer going berserk and the upright shoe, is: The monkey was doing what was right to him, murdering and harming his captors, knowing it was wrong. The sitcom was doing wrong, exploiting an animal, convincing themselves they were doing good. There was no alien intervention in that scene. The shoe ended up upright by chance. It represents how unlikely it is for good to triumph over bad. The monkey wanted a fist bump from Ricky after his rampage because he knew the child was the most innocent of the actors. The monkey received positive reinforcement from the boy and felt less bad about what he did. Ricky had no idea that was the case. He fist bumped the monkey because he thought if he didn't, it would mean his life.

I loved it. Best way to see it is on the big screen. I watched it twice at the movies...

Quoted from donaldino My favourite one by Peele so far.

Finally checked this out, and I agree, but maybe for different reasons.

I like his stuff, don't get me wrong, but I usually sigh with Peele and put on my serious film hat so I can look at themes and decide what he is really trying to say.

About half-way through, however, I took off that hat and just dug on the bonkers story he was telling -- and I'm not so sure that wasn't his intent.  To just make some brainless big-budget fun, to show that he could, with some great acting by actors of color -- but to me, it didn't have too much more than that shoehorned into it.  And the kinda' long run-time is justified with plenty of clever action set-pieces.

If you dig on the 80s school of horror (guilty here), this movie shared more of its story beats with "Tremors" than anything.

Solid recommend, but just for the fun of it.  Come for the creepy alien beastie, stay for the creepy monkey.

I actually watched this with two grandsons. I'd already seen it with my wife and we both agreed that at 15 and 16, it was ok for them.

This writer/director is what M Night Shamalamadingdong wanted to be. Ok. That was wrong. I'm hopeful that Knock at the Cabin will be what I hope.

The MONKEY scenes were incredible. They simply gave a backstory for Glen from The Walking Dead, and damn it was awesome.