Logan Paul infamously took to Twitter after watching Nope to criticize the film and Daniel Kaluuya is confused why his opinion matters.

Daniel Kaluuya recently appeared on Capital FM to talk about his latest film Nope. While discussing the film, Kaluuya was asked about Logan Paul and his criticisms of the sci-fi thriller. Here is his response:

“Logan Paul, God… we going to talk about this?”

“Why is his opinion top of the tree? Everyone’s entitled to their opinion but what’s he done in cinema? Imagine if they asked me about Eric Clapton.”

“I’d take everyone’s opinion on, I’ll listen to it but I’m just going ‘I don’t know why you over everybody else.’

“I’m happy to sit down with him… actually would I sit down with him? Nah actually that defeats the point, I wouldn’t sit down with him.”

It seems like Kaluuya was happy to discuss Paul’s criticism but questioned why the criticism was significant in the first place. What kind of pedigree does Paul have? Well, the internet celebrity has several IMDB credits but none of them are rated above 58% on Rotten Tomatoes and ranked similarly on IMDB.

Despite Paul’s lack of credentials he sure had a lot to say in a Twitter thread he made directly after watching the film. I’ve never seen this man devote this much energy to talking about a film so at the very least it stirred a stronger emotional response in him than any movie Paul has recently seen. He even went so far as to say Nope was, “one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long time.”

Find the highlights of Paul’s thread below:

““NOPE” is one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long time. I love Jordan Peele and Keke Palmer can act her ass off, but this movie is objectively slow and confusing with stretched themes that don’t justify the pace (a thread)”

“It’s not hard to conceptualize something disturbing (a trained Chimp goes animalistic and mauls an entire set, or a UFO devours anything in its path) — it IS hard to sensibly tie it to the plot, which was done remarkably poor here. A series of questions… **spoiler alert**”

“1.) No one was curious how a quarter shot through a man’s face and killed him? Or why a key was lodged in the backside of the horse he was riding?”

“2.) Why/how did the shoe stand upright on the set of Gordy’s Home? This one I’m sure has a reason but I haven’t found anything that makes sense.”

“3.) The deep-voiced cinematographer was cryptic for no reason other than to be cryptic. You’re telling me this guy was willing to die because he wanted better lighting to capture the ET? For real?”

“4.) Same note: man on the motorcycle. Why was his voice deep and robotic, framed to be an antagonist who’d have a grand reveal. Mystery solely for the sake of mystery is confusing and leaves too many open ends for a viewer trying to invest themselves in a story line”

“9.) Way to strip all the life from a phenomenal actor, Daniel Kaluuya, by casting him as possibly the most mundane, vanilla character I’ve ever seen. Not a question I’m just pissed”

“I love Peele, the VFX & aesthetic. But my thesis is this: I can feel him attempting to recreate the shock from Get Out and Us. Mystery, violent allure & cinematic choices made for the sake of reaction instead of legitimate contribution to the storyline killed this movie for me.”

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