Get Out is overrated and we all know why it was nominated

To be fair its actually grown on me.

pretty sure he is.

I believe that’s the OP’s point. Were it not for the hero’s skin color, this would be just another generic horror movie.

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I’m not doubting you, though I can’t know either way, never having seen either The Skeleton Key or Get Out. When I heard about Get Out, the concept didn’t especially interest me, but—all that to one side—I was trying to clarify to Nicko's Nose that that’s what you meant (at least, I think that’s what you meant). That’s all.

I don't think it will win, but I have watched Get Out 4 times, and it is just delightful. Performances are spot-on, story is wild, and it is funny in a very strange way.

I am a lifetime movie buff and this is just me. I have seen plenty of movies with race, gender, whatever, as an axis, and Get Out is a really clever movie. I figure in the hands of Jordan Peele it might be just as clever, but different if the hero were white. 

GET OUT was not some basic horror movie. It was about race relations with a message as well as scenes that were so well done that it probably went over peoples heads. It was VERY SMART.

- Like when Rose is arguing with the cop about wanting to see her boyfriends ID, you assume she is doing it cause he doesn't need to see his ID and is being a racist prick and she's standing up for her man, but then later in the film when you learn she is part of the bad side you realize she wasn't sticking up for her man, she just didn't want a paper trail for when he goes MIA.

- Or when she is eating the color cereal out of one cup and drinking the milk in another, separate, but doesn't mix them. Its a metaphor for the belief that white and non white should never mix. Also that entire scene where she's shopping around for new victims while Chris is about to undergo his lobotomy could serve as criticism for white women's passive indifference to racism in America.

- Dean (the father) goes on a rant about how he dislikes Deer and Bucks. "Black Buck" was a racist slur in Post Reconstruction America used toward black men that refused to bow to White mens authority.

- There are two Omega symbols outside the Armitage's house. Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet and it symbolizes "the end" (for Chris).

- When Dean speaks about how he hired Georgina and Walter to care for his parents and after they died he couldn't bare to let them go, he was speaking of his parents, not Georgina and Walter.

- Walter (who is really Deans father) is running at night cause he never got over his loss to Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics 1936.

- Georgina was fixing her bangs in the window so her lobotomy scars would not show. Same reason Walter keeps a hat on, as well as Logan.

- The sunken place is a metaphor for paralysis people of color feel in racial America.

- The red and gray stripe shirt that Rose is wearing is homage to Freddy Krueger, as she turns out to be Chris' worst nightmare. Also when she is sitting next to Chris (who is wearing a blue shirt) it forms the American Flag (to an extent).

- Chris's cell phone camera gives him his first insight into the mystery of Logan's strange behavior. Cell phone footage has been instrumental in shedding light on police brutality cases in America in recent years. And during the finale, when Chris sees police lights on the dark road, he immediately puts his hands up, despite being the one in danger... we all know why.

- The bingo game represents a Slave auction. As do the leather binds.

- When Chris rips the stuffing out of the leather chair, he's literally being forced to "pick cotton."

- While Chris is forced to watch the TV, the video keeps repeating "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," which was a slogan for the United Negro College Fund.

- The knight's helmet we see in the white car has some overlapping language with the "White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan." They are the most violent chapter of the KKK.

The acting in Get Out was subpar. Dialogue was crap. The characters horribly developed. Billed as a horror/comedy, yet it wasn't the least bit scary or funny.

Some of you say that the voting base is getting younger, yet that's BS. The best picture nominees are Dunkirk, Get Out, and then a bunch of shit nobody has seen or barely even heard of (typical "Best Picture" movies).

Get Out was only nominated because the academy didn't want another firestorm of being called racist on their hands, so they threw a bone to the most popular movie that featured prominent black characters, despite it being garbage. If anyone here thinks that Get Out was nominated because the academy viewed it as "a good movie" than you are sorely mistaken.

Wait, are you saying Dunkirk and Lady Bird are not known amongst the younger crowd ? Lady Bird which is a hipster film directed by hipster icon Greta Gerwig is only known by older white men? 

And Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan, with tons of quick shots and music and starring Tom Hardy and pop star Harry Styles is only known by old white men? Cause they are the only ones that went to see it? Cause it didn’t make a shit ton of money and have large audiences of all colors and ages? Get Out the same. 

Just cause the message and amazing story telling, full of metaphors representing so much, went over your thin mind doesn’t mean it sucked. It didn’t and was a lot better than quite a few of the films in the Best Picture category that you all seem to not have a problem with because it stars white men. 

Fucking pathetic.