Well, maybe it wasn’t actually blood. It could be something like the red liquid that comes with packaged beef, which is mostly just water and myoglobin. Not much in the way of nutrients there. The alien might have extracted everything of value already.
Jean Jacket Pee.
Turns out it really likes beet juice.
A very Schrute observation.
Why are you the way you are?
I saw this relatively recently and really enjoyed it. It was well-crafted, well-acted and thoughtful. I think the most horrifying moment for me was when all the people in the stadium got vacuumed up and you can just hear them screaming around you as if you are a person caught there with them. And you realize what a horrifying and bizarre and senseless death it would be. This is before I realized the thing was alive. It was so completely… alien. I feel like it would have been better for the people to know they were being eaten than to not know what the hell was going on in their last moments.
Lots of good things have already been said about the themes. The B story with Jupe was aces. I think he needed to believe he was in control during the chimp attack in order to survive it psychologically, but that was ultimately his undoing. Some really interesting things here I hadn’t considered so thanks for the good discussion.
We saw this on a hotel TV (HBO maybe) one night last week while on vacation. We enjoyed it, I don’t think I had ever known more about the movie than the name. We had some of the same reservations and made many of the same connections as lots of the posters already in this thread.
I want to just focus on one scene, the one where OJ is sitting in the truck outside the house, the thing is prowling about, and rather than try to make it to the house, this is where is says “Nope” (IIRC) and stays in the truck. The camera lingers in closeup on his face – there are no artificial lights because of the thing being around, and it is a dark night, but maybe there are a few stars or a fractional moon that just catches the sweat on his face, and that’s all you see, until he looks up a couple of times, and you see the whites of his eyes.
This scene seemed to me a sort of reverse callback to all those stereotypical “scared black man” roles in movies in the 40s especially, where they are always rolling their eyes while being terrified in the haunted house or when there’s a murderer around shooting at people. But Peele being Peele, he’s changing the narrative, showing a black man sweating and looking up but not being or acting terrified, and eventually falling asleep. The lighting and camera work seemed very intentional to underline the sweat and the eyes.
So I was wondering if this ever came up in reviews or if anyone noticed it in this way, or am I nuts?