Everything GREAT About Nope!

One thing a lot of people miss: When the dad is bleeding out in the truck, he's not saying random words. He's saying the names of his horses so his son has a good grasp of his cognitive abilities & has a way to keep track of his consciousness with his quickly worsening brain injury.

One thing I feel like not enough people talk about is that Jean Jacket really acts like an actual predator with its biology would. If you were Jean Jacket, you'd take eye contact as a threat because the only way other Jean Jackets can make eye contact with you is through their mouth, when they're trying to attack. And OJ survives because Jean Jacket is a predator, and predators don't actually pick fights unless they're sure they can win. When OJ stares it down, in his own territory, Jean Jacket balks and performs a threat display. Because the last human it tried to eat was spiky, and OJ already looked like the indigestible horse sculpture earlier, what if he's secretly poisonous or spiky or dangerous? So it freaks out and tries to scare him into running, which would prove he was prey and Jean Jacket could eat him. But Em runs instead, so it chases her, leaving the obviously dangerous OJ alone. And also, Jean Jacket is obviously territorial, and it considers its territory the sky, so the only reason that it went after the balloon is because it was invading its actual territory, and because it misjudged the balloon as a fight it could win, because it resembled the non-dangerous human it had already eaten. OJ wasn't in its territory, it was in his, so it retreated. Basically, I'm a bit of a predator apologist and a biology nerd, but predators are actually less dangerous than the high-strung, defensive herbivores. Predators won't attack you unless they are convinced they will win. And OJ managed to convince Jean Jacket that it wouldn't win.

I love the subtle implications that JJ is not the apex predator and itself displays tactics like hiding or using intimidation. Makes you wonder.

I love Jordan Peele because of his absolute foreshadowing and the fact no one noticed this until now | in "Get out" Chris places cotton in his ears to avoid the hypnotism (hear no evil) In "Us" the difference between the tethered and real humans was the slurred speech (speak no evil) and in "Nope" to avoid challenging Jean Jacket you cannot look it in the eyes (see no evil) AMAZING!!!

I found the Gordy storyline to be so captivating. Like, the guy romanticizes his trauma, which is a degree of psyche movies hardly touch on. Like you could tell that he is obsessed with it and probably dreams about it constantly. He probably never really got help for it, because he's good at acting like he's fine.

My favorite fun fact for this movie is that the scream of the people were recorded twice, once where they were directed to scream as if eaten by an alien, and the second time to scream as if on a rollercoaster. Those two noises blended together when Jean Jacket is flying about makes us not know how to interpret the screams until we know for a fact that they are the scream of digestion

I love that the main character actually backs away from the dressed up kids in the stable, and punches the one dangling from the ceiling. Smartest and most defensive horror character, not just screaming and running or standing still and staring.

I think how intense OJ gets when they slap hands five times was one of my favorite moments - like he's so completely stoic the whole film, but when it's time to get pumped up and do his and his sister's "get pumped" high five, he's all in for it. They really are an all-time film-sibling duo.

I still haven’t gotten over how frightening the scene in the alien’s stomach is. It’s like a bouncy house from hell.

Only Jordan Peele could come up with a western, sci-fi, horror, Kaiju movie with a pretty cerebral commentary about how exploitative the entertainment industry really is, and I love him for it, and love that he's successful for it as well.

Something I love is that when Emerald gets that picture of Jean Jacket, she uses a coin operated camera. Since a coin is what killed her father, a man intent on reclaiming the spotlight and spectacle through the claim that the jockey was his great great grandfather, it kinda came full circle for them reclaiming that spectacle as the jockey while the filmmaker (the TMZ dude) is the one that gets killed.

I’m not gonna lie, if I was in the movie I probably would have gotten swallowed by Jean Jacket. When it opened up and looked like an angel, I was in awe. I said “Oh wow, it’s so beautiful!” It was hypnotizing almost. Part of me was sad when it exploded; I wanted to continue looking at it in full form. And in that moment, I realized that was Peele’s point of the movie.

The one thing I noticed while watching “Nope” was in the beginning, OJ would avoid making eye contact with people showing he was probably uncomfortable and shy with it, but at the end he was able to look at the monster in the eyes to show he’s not shy nor afraid anymore. I don’t know if it’s just me who thought of that but I loved that detail since I’m in his shoes when it comes to eye contact

Jean Jacket is one of the best examples of cosmic horror I have seen recently. Beautiful and irreconcilable in its true form. Like one of those biblically accurate angels.

Ya know, it was VERY smart for Emerald to take JJ's picture on a polaroid. You can fake an image on a phone, but you can't fake an image on a polaroid. Unless your like, a REALLY good artist.

4:28 ah man this is so good: "crushing it", "killing", and "a force of nature" are all descriptions of a comedian doing great on stage – but also literally describe Gordy's rampage. shouts out to JP for having the self-control to not also use the phrase "murdering" lmao

Something I want to add is when Gordi signs. He is asking “where family?” he didn’t understand himself what had happened. There’s something there that I can’t tap but it’s just chilling either way.

I didn't catch it at the time but I also think it's a cool detail that OJ is wearing his baseball cap the first couple of times he encounters Jean Jacket. The brim of the hat obscured OJ's face so that JJ couldn't tell he was looking at them, which explains why OJ was able to look at the sky when JJ was around without being targeted.

as someone with PTSD, Yeun's portrayal of someone with PTSD was so achingly spot-on.

I love that Brandon did such an amazing job with his role as Angel that Jordan actually changed the script for Angel to survive instead of dying like he originally had written