Acidman

Acidman (2023)

A father - daughter relationship

The movie highlights the ins and outs of a father - daughter relationship. The dad lives in a trailer in the woods with his dog, and the daughter visits for a few days.

During the movie they work through their past, where they stand and what life brings for them as adults.

The dad has a penchant for electronic music and creates his own tracks. But he also likes to watch the sky at night to look for UFOs.

A beautiful movie with an interesting topic that shows how their relationship develops. A great watch for a quiet weekend night. The SciFi part wasn't as strong as I thought.

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Let's get that out of the way so that people don't spend 1.5 hours thinking they will see something Sci-Fi in this move when in fact there is nothing.

There should be a law against mis-labeling movies like this. It's the third movie I've seen that claims to be a Sci-Fi, and I wind being disappointed.

Some dude spending his life in the Oregon woods looking at the night sky for signs of UFO's does not qualify as a Science Fiction movie. This is frustrating and needs to stop.

On other hand, it was a decent drama about a daughter reuniting with her estranged father, which is why I gave it 6/10.

Dear filmmakers, please, please stop mislabeling your movie genres.

Acidman is a wonderful indie Drama/Sci-fi film that has excellent performances from the two lead actors. From the first scene with them together I could see their acting talent in the way they were expressing their character's facial expression's and their body language.

Hayden-Church's character has left end-stage American Capitalism behind where he was an engineer and moved into the damp Oregon wilderness to be alone living in a trailer with his dog Migo while making experimental electronic music and going on night missions to watch UFO's appear in the sky above a nearby resevoir. His daughter has come to check on his well being from back east because she is worried about his well being, and is also dealing with some issues of her own she is reluctant to share with her father. Their interactions look and feel so genuine, the writing of the script is really tight It didn't drag at all with unnecessary plot twists, and the UFO interactions shown in the movie make me believe whoever was involved in hashing out that part of the story had real life experience with the phenomenon. This is a great movie for people 16 and up that enjoy indie flicks.

Started off ok , then turned into a very slow paced tragedy ! With a very awkward vibe throughout.

We never get to see why the dad was always going into stares , depersonalising- de realising etc . Found it odd , uncomfortable, hated the dog scene , which i found pointless , animal death will always kill a film , why ? Because there are too many animal lovers out here that just do not tolerate it , no matter what it gives to the scene - story line , in this instance gave nothing . He didnt even seem bothered about it .

We also never got to see what the whole sc fi was about ??? Soooo long winded , dissatisfying and strange !

I mean was he mad , did he have psychosis ?

Dementia ? Gah ... frustrating .

2 star for the dog only.