For real? I was looking forward to seeing it this weekend.
shareNot for me, sorry! I like the directors other work way better.
shareI liked it better than his other work. It is more of a very dark comedy with surreal and absurd horror elements. It is said to be one of the most divisive films this year. It is enjoyable but long.
sharedid you see the giant penis monster?
shareYeah half the people who were watching in my theater walked out after being brutally filtered.
shareYeah it's kinda boring, you know when you watch a good three hour film and you go "That didn't feel like 3 hours long" but this film definitely felt that long. Was well-made and had some hilarious moments but ultimately I felt it was a waste of time and this is from someone who liked Hereditary and Midsommar. The last act was the worst, couldn't wait for it to end.
shareEhhh, the beginning in the city and the suburbs with the family was pretty interesting and enjoyable. It's just the forest scenes and that dragged on, especially that whole play thing they devolve into with Beau going through all these scenarios and that felt like it lasted forever. I wished I went to the restroom during that part instead of just waiting out until the movie ended.
shareI loved Hereditary and Midsommar so was stoked to see Aster making a 3 hour epic abstract film with a much bigger budget.
I was hugely disappointed. I just didn’t connect to Beau and because it’s so surreal and ‘in his head’ the events never felt real, and so there was no sense of consequence to anything. There was no plot, just a ticker-tape of abstract weirdness that bored me.
Somehow, David Lynch is able to make this kind of high wire act really work. I’m invested in the characters, the emotions and mood are extremely vivid, and there’s enough plot to draw you into the dreamlike experience.
This felt more like a Charlie Kauffman film - conceptually bold but dead inside. Synecdoche New York and I’m Thinking Of Ending Things both had neurotic main characters I found distasteful from the off, so I didn’t really care when the weirdness kicked in. I just became confused and bored.
David Lynch uses silence and music and leaves ‘room to dream’, but Beau Is Afraid is too noisy and chaotic, and at 3 hours it just becomes exhausting.
It’s not a bad film, it’s a work of artistic integrity, but feels like Ari Aster made this for… Ari Aster, and isn’t interested in bringing the audience along with him.
Very weak film, hated the third chapeter.
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