Official NOPE Thread

[Jean Jacket]

Film succeeded. A lot of racists and jealous c00ns are going to try to tear it down.

Universal has doubled down and they need fresh blood. Ode to the legacy of Jaws and BTTF.

Big score for Monkeypaw and future of Black film.

 

[Lootpack]

I too saw this on $5 Tuesday in my local theater. Was I the only person who...

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thought that the people inside the creature being "digested" looked wack as hell? I mean I sat in the theater and despite their screaming I thought it looked like a kids bounce house

It was just OK to me. The beginning took too long to build. I wonder what this would have been like if they had done this as a 10 episode series?

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I see what you mean. I actually felt the same way at first until the scene honed in on the claustrophobia and terror of the abductees. The fact that I didn’t know what was happening added to the disturbing nature of it all. The closing screams as they were being crushed to death is still stuck in my head.

Have noticed a lot of films in this realm p*ssyfoot around when it comes to showcasing the actual abduction, so I liked what it did here even if I wanted more of it. I think Fire in the Sky’s depiction is the most horrifying I’ve seen on-screen yet.

 

[DoubleClutch]

Finally saw this

Flight of the navigator meets Jaws

Nice use of color

Anyone else catch the Akira reference?

Giving it a 9/10 cause it wasn’t enough of a twist for me but it least it didn’t disappoint like a M Knight film would

Get out is still his best film but I know people gonna try to put this above it

 

[CarbonBraddock]

I too saw this on $5 Tuesday in my local theater. Was I the only person who...

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thought that the people inside the creature being "digested" looked wack as hell? I mean I sat in the theater and despite their screaming I thought it looked like a kids bounce house

It was just OK to me. The beginning took too long to build. I wonder what this would have been like if they had done this as a 10 episode series?

that's what i thought too. it looked cheap.

 

[sjankis630]

Anyone else catch the Akira reference?

Yes! My great grandmother could have caught that reference lol. The only thing he could have done to make it more obvious was to have the bike be red.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

That it was a good fun movie with a weird final couple of moments. Reminded me of like an updated ‘Signs’, complete with both minor intentional and unintentional comedy. Loved how the scenery and such were captured. Won’t fall down a rabbit hole of hidden meanings and 240 character theses cause that’ll ruin what I saw.

I said this the when I saw it.

I got “Signs” vibes from it too.

I said I was still sure if this was a good thing or bad

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

The people yelling in agony followed by that crunch and the silence

 

[Sohh_lifted]

I liked it, I give it a 7.5/8 out of 10.

 

[Sohh_lifted]

I’m not sure if it was just me but it was hard as fukk to understand what the characters were saying at some points I needed subtitles

Audio was fukked up in the beginning, can hear multiple times audio switching between ADR and the sound captured on set.

 

[Sohh_lifted]

By the way, seeing this in Imax was dope. Sound was crazy. Movie will probably make 100+ domestically and some more internationally when it opens.

 

[DoubleClutch]

thats what i thought too

Nope, because it’s transformed back to its old form at the end before dying

The ufo mode was probably its fly/hide/eat mode and the jelly fish mode was its “triggered” defense mode.

Also it probably had a camouflage cloud feature like a lot of animals can do to survive in its environment.

If this movie had time to do some sort of back story or extra speculation into the alien/ship/kite folklore it would’ve helped

But I respect the originality of it not being a typical UFO alien movie

And like someone else said, they could’ve even shown what it looked like inside when people went up into it

I don’t even think it was an “animal” by our standards or imagination

 

[blockboy504]

I thought it was dope need more black sci-fi movies

 

[SuburbanPimp]

I hope the people who liked this and enjoy black Sci-Fi will go and watch The Man who fell to Earth. It’s a little more straightforward than nope but very well done

 

[KeysT]

I’m not sure if it was just me but it was hard as fukk to understand what the characters were saying at some points I needed subtitles

It was me 2. Might have been hard to capture with the openness of the area.

 

[Sghost597]

I wish Universal would put more money on the jellyfish form, because the CGI was a bit weak.