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Post by Nora on Mar 19, 2019 3:52:48 GMT
excited to see it, the cast is great and the direcotor made good movie before. cant wait to see it.
anybody else excited about it?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 7:19:30 GMT
Very hyped for this one! McConaughey seems like he was born to play this role haha.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 19, 2019 14:12:17 GMT
I hope it's a part of the Baker Dill shared universe.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 28, 2019 14:47:36 GMT
Yeah, I'm hoping to see it this wkend. Looks like a definite blu-ray add on the radar, giving off a Big Lebowski'esque dive into escapism for re-watches.
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Post by Nora on Mar 31, 2019 19:19:44 GMT
omg this may have been the worst movie i have ever endured. i didnt walk out only because my companion didnt want to but this was utter shit.
ut had amazing camera and the actors did what was aske dod them well but the “script” and directing and the overall meaning of the movie was activelly evil/lame/stupid.
I Wish it was at least one tenth as “good” as the mislabeled Baker Dikl story. And that was already pretty bad.
2/10 from me and all goes to the camera work.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 31, 2019 22:20:57 GMT
omg this may have been the worst movie i have ever endured. i didnt walk out only because my companion didnt want to but this was utter shit. ut had amazing camera and the actors did what was aske dod them well but the “script” and directing and the overall meaning of the movie was activelly evil/lame/stupid. I Wish it was at least one tenth as “good” as the mislabeled Baker Dikl story. And that was already pretty bad. 2/10 from me and all goes to the camera work. Well hell, that was quite a turnaround. Sorry to hear that though.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Mar 31, 2019 22:27:56 GMT
omg this may have been the worst movie i have ever endured. i didnt walk out only because my companion didnt want to but this was utter shit. ut had amazing camera and the actors did what was aske dod them well but the “script” and directing and the overall meaning of the movie was activelly evil/lame/stupid. I Wish it was at least one tenth as “good” as the mislabeled Baker Dikl story. And that was already pretty bad. 2/10 from me and all goes to the camera work. Sorry for your misfortune, but you don't know how glad I am to hear that! I saw it and I hated it as well - only I didn't stay for the whole thing, I left after about 30 minutes. The reason I say that I am glad to hear you hated it is because on Letterboxd there are many, many reviews praising it as a brilliant, hilarious movie, to the point where I was starting to question my own sanity. Now order is restored to the world!
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Post by Nora on Apr 1, 2019 1:15:49 GMT
omg this may have been the worst movie i have ever endured. i didnt walk out only because my companion didnt want to but this was utter shit. ut had amazing camera and the actors did what was aske dod them well but the “script” and directing and the overall meaning of the movie was activelly evil/lame/stupid. I Wish it was at least one tenth as “good” as the mislabeled Baker Dikl story. And that was already pretty bad. 2/10 from me and all goes to the camera work. Well hell, that was quite a turnaround. Sorry to hear that though. yeah, I went into it really looking forward to it. But this one was just too "artsy" for me. You know, a movie where the director probably wants you to hate the main character and the movie and wants you to feel bad things during and after. Kinda like Mother but without the deeper thought and great atmosphere building behind it. (and I really disliked Mother too) there was honestly nothing to like, admire or marvel at. Or be humored by. Because I can take gore, I can take stupidity, I can take silliness, I can take decadent characters, or even perverse ones. I can take lengthy monologues and artsy movies, as long as they have Some redeeming quality, usually humor will go a long way with me. But this one had just the camera and sadly, even though it was beautiful, it couldnt have saved the movie. A movie where you actively dislike or are grossed out by all of the characters and keep praying it ends up being some kind of social satire at least and then its not, well thats a bummer.
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Post by Nora on Apr 1, 2019 1:21:21 GMT
omg this may have been the worst movie i have ever endured. i didnt walk out only because my companion didnt want to but this was utter shit. ut had amazing camera and the actors did what was aske dod them well but the “script” and directing and the overall meaning of the movie was activelly evil/lame/stupid. I Wish it was at least one tenth as “good” as the mislabeled Baker Dikl story. And that was already pretty bad. 2/10 from me and all goes to the camera work. Sorry for your misfortune, but you don't know how glad I am to hear that! I saw it and I hate it as well - only I didn't stay for the whole thing, I left after about 30 minutes. The reason I say that I am glad to hear you hated it is because on Letterboxd there are many, many reviews praising it as a brilliant, hilarious movie, to the point where I was starting to question my own sanity. Now order is restored to the world! no no sire, you are not crazy. this indeed is a bad movie. and trust me, it just gets MUCH worse after the 30 minutes. I honestly kept hoping it would get better in the end. you know, with either Moondog becoming clean, or going to jail (and still writing his shitty poetry and being all jolly) or his daughter realizing he is just a scumbag. or at least that it would have some more humor to it, indicating we are supposed to laugh at it. or go deeper somehow, to indicate we are supposed to be warned by it, by the decadency, selfishness and criminal behavior. but it seems, that the audience was guided toward A] admiring it or B] resigning their impulses to resent it and rebel against such behavior, because the person is rich and or "brilliant". I dont know what one is worse. What an utter piece of garbage.
and to think my favorite director Werner Herzcog is a fan of this director…. I wonder if the "masterpieceness"of this is in the fact of how badly one feels during and after watching the movie. because then, yes, its masterful. man, even Jonah Hill is bad in it, and thats rare.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 1, 2019 15:35:49 GMT
I pre-emptively bailed after a tsunami of credible critics I look to suggested it might be the worst of the year. Its lack of recent marketing (I've not seen a thing online) seemed to support that, when a movie can't even make its own press.
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Post by Nora on Apr 1, 2019 16:13:20 GMT
I pre-emptively bailed after a tsunami of credible critics I look to suggested it might be the worst of the year. Its lack of recent marketing (I've not seen a thing online) seemed to support that, when a movie can't even make its own press. good choice. i would just love to know what intention the director had when he made this. what was he trying to say?
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Apr 1, 2019 22:33:03 GMT
I pre-emptively bailed after a tsunami of credible critics I look to suggested it might be the worst of the year. Its lack of recent marketing (I've not seen a thing online) seemed to support that, when a movie can't even make its own press. good choice. i would just love to know what intention the director had when he made this. what was he trying to say? You can always buy the BluRay and listen to the director's commentary...
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Apr 14, 2019 6:59:17 GMT
I deem The Beach Bum "lousy." It is a train wreck of a movie, although much like a train wreck, I found it mildly intriguing and I wanted to see where it went. I did find the film watchable, if weak.
The main problem is that The Beach Bum is a farce—the material and script make no sense otherwise—yet writer-director Harmony Korine's tone is not quite farcical. Instead, he sometimes seems to be vaguely striving for some sort of existential, humanistic search. About halfway through the movie, I thought that there might be a good film somewhere in here if only it was a little more serious and substantive and the director was offering more conviction. But then the film makes clear that it is a farce (McConaughey even restates his infamous "All right, all right, all right" slogan from Dazed and Confused) and cannot be seen in any other light, except that Korine somehow is not in sync with his own written material.
Making matters worse, while Korine's directorial tone seems askew, his approach is actually almost atonal, as if he is attempting to achieve phenomenological objectivity, much like director John Cassavetes or Clint Eastwood in the critically misunderstood yet very good The 15:17 to Paris. But how does phenomenological objectivity work with a farce or a spoof? Can you imagine Cassavetes trying to direct a Mel Brooks movie? Indeed, The Beach Bum is rather like a Brooks film, only without the social and cinematic relevance. A farce without conviction is simply aimless and irrelevant, which is essentially what The Beach Bum happens to be.
I also found it problematic visually, at least from a technical perspective. Some of the backgrounds seem excessively blurry (beyond the usual shallow-focus blurring), and in certain scenes, the left background appears blurrier than the right background. And in a couple other scenes, there seems to be some random blurriness in the foreground, too—not the palpable and deliberate blurriness that one constantly witnesses in films in order to focus the viewer's attention elsewhere within the frame, but rather a manifestation of technical sloppiness.
Much like Serendipity from earlier this year, I mainly viewed The Beach Bum because Matthew McConaughey is its star, and he has starred or appeared in some high-quality, socially and historically compelling movies in recent years: Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2013), The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013), Free State of Jones (Gary Ross, 2016), White Boy Rick (Yann Demange, 2018). And even though Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014) and Gold (Stephen Gaghan, 2016) proved quite flawed, at least they were respectable. But with Serendipity and The Beach Bum, one wonders what McConaughey was thinking. Did he just miscalculate matters for two straight projects? Or is he suffering some sort of mid-life, mid-career crisis? Was he seeking to capitalize on the opportunity to play shirtless, boat-toting characters having sex with multiple women or surrounded by topless women before he turns fifty later this year?
Incidentally, prior to one of my viewings of The Kid in March, the trailer for The Beach Bum played. A pair of middle-aged men, one white and one black, were sitting near me. After the trailer, the white guy commented to his friend, "Boy, he [McConaughey] must really be short of money." The man then mentioned McConaughey's ubiquitous Lincoln commercials as well.
Anyway, the best that one can say about The Beach Bum is that it perhaps represents a pseudo-psychedelic, or postmodern, attempt to recreate Forrest Gump. And, certainly, it seems to have been inspired by The Big Lebowski. There is some intrigue to the experiment, but the experiment definitely fizzles.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Apr 14, 2019 7:14:18 GMT
I pre-emptively bailed after a tsunami of credible critics I look to suggested it might be the worst of the year. Its lack of recent marketing (I've not seen a thing online) seemed to support that, when a movie can't even make its own press. good choice. i would just love to know what intention the director had when he made this. what was he trying to say? I believe that Korine was sometimes straining his spoof, so to speak. At other times, his direction was simply lackadaisical. The result, as you indicated earlier, is a film that lacks both farcical conviction and social relevance.
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