It's True What They Say, You Can't Go Home Again, Beau Is Afraid, and He Should Be
This is Ari Aster's worst film. That's not to say it's bad, but it's his worst.
The beginning of the movie starts off with this incredible burst of energy.
Beau is this lonely guy talking his problems with a therapist and living in this dumpy apartment in some unnamed large city.
But it's also a commentary on societal downfall and policymakers stupidity.
It is absolute chaos in the streets. Broad daylight mayhem.
It's like Idiocracy with extreme violence.
And to be honest, it's entertaining as all get out.
The first brilliant half hour to hour of this three hour monstrosity's runtime is when it's running at its full-tilt best.
The apartment. The mayhem. The message on where society is heading and but fast.
All of this is well received.
Is this the Best Movie of 2023?
Am I witnessing the Greatest Movie of the 2020's?
In the first hour or so, you'll be out of your seat and thinking of spots to get this tattooed on your body.
Then we enter the second hour or chapter as it may be.
This is where Nathan Lane and Amy Ryan are introduced, and I love them.
Absolutely love them. By themselves in other projects, and here together even.
Love.
But this is where the film slows considerably and gets weird, and not in your typical Aster good weird, but here just plain sad, depressing, nonsensical weird.
And once Lane and Ryan have played their parts to the fullest in the middle of the film, audience members may start wishing there was a good editor making the hard choices in the house at A24.
In the third and final hour, Parker Posey emerges, in what is no less her most stunningly amazing performance of this century.
She is as gorgeous and incredible as she ever has been, though her scenes are short in this literal journey of a tale.
Patti LuPone truly takes over from where Posey leaves off and devours the remaining scenery in what is definitely her finest performance ever on celluloid.
But the story by now has devolved and is way too prolonged having lost its promise from the first hour so seemingly long ago.
The ending in the most kindest of terms is a monumental disappointment.
All the great filmmakers in history make a bad film sooner or later.
Let's hope this will be Ari's one and only.
Beau Is Afraid. But his movie is too often boring, overly long and unnecessarily grotesque.
The beginning of the movie starts off with this incredible burst of energy.
Beau is this lonely guy talking his problems with a therapist and living in this dumpy apartment in some unnamed large city.
But it's also a commentary on societal downfall and policymakers stupidity.
It is absolute chaos in the streets. Broad daylight mayhem.
It's like Idiocracy with extreme violence.
And to be honest, it's entertaining as all get out.
The first brilliant half hour to hour of this three hour monstrosity's runtime is when it's running at its full-tilt best.
The apartment. The mayhem. The message on where society is heading and but fast.
All of this is well received.
Is this the Best Movie of 2023?
Am I witnessing the Greatest Movie of the 2020's?
In the first hour or so, you'll be out of your seat and thinking of spots to get this tattooed on your body.
Then we enter the second hour or chapter as it may be.
This is where Nathan Lane and Amy Ryan are introduced, and I love them.
Absolutely love them. By themselves in other projects, and here together even.
Love.
But this is where the film slows considerably and gets weird, and not in your typical Aster good weird, but here just plain sad, depressing, nonsensical weird.
And once Lane and Ryan have played their parts to the fullest in the middle of the film, audience members may start wishing there was a good editor making the hard choices in the house at A24.
In the third and final hour, Parker Posey emerges, in what is no less her most stunningly amazing performance of this century.
She is as gorgeous and incredible as she ever has been, though her scenes are short in this literal journey of a tale.
Patti LuPone truly takes over from where Posey leaves off and devours the remaining scenery in what is definitely her finest performance ever on celluloid.
But the story by now has devolved and is way too prolonged having lost its promise from the first hour so seemingly long ago.
The ending in the most kindest of terms is a monumental disappointment.
All the great filmmakers in history make a bad film sooner or later.
Let's hope this will be Ari's one and only.
Beau Is Afraid. But his movie is too often boring, overly long and unnecessarily grotesque.
- RightOnDaddio
- Apr 19, 2023