Beau Is Afraid Review - WTF Did I Just Watch?
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Beau Is Afraid is the newest film by Ari Aster and another product of A24. A studio that continues to push out movies that are unconventional and perhaps a bit too out there for general moviegoers. Beau is Afraid is a very interesting movie for a lot of reasons. Some will find it absolutely punishing to sit through and will actually leave before the movie is over. Other moviegoers will call Beau is Afraid one of the best movies ever made. That's how polarizing this one is. I'm somewhere in the middle on it.
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Narrated by: Adam Olinger
Edited by: Adam Olinger
Saw this a few days ago and have a very similar opinion. Seems like what life might be like for someone with extreme anxiety living through a bad dream, but not quite a full on horror show nightmare. The guy hanging out above the bathtub and the struggling boat motor both seem like things taken from bad dreams.
Big laugh from the UPS guy, who’s voice was instantly recognizable, but only when he was filmed. Not over the phone.
And good on Parker Posey for being more a smokeshow than ever. 😳
I'm seeing it tomorrow, so I'm interested to see where my opinion lands in the polarizing reviews!
Just finished watching the movie and hats off to you Adam! I have no idea how to possibly describe what I just watched. At least it lived up to the title!
I saw this over the weekend. I knew nothing about it but my friends wanted to go. Found out as we were walking in that it was Ari Aster and it was 3 hours lol
I have a pretty bad anxiety problem and there was something oddly cathartic a about this whole movie. I loved it so dearly I was surprised.
Which is Pretty Much WHY
I Have THAT As MY Moniker!
You See, MY MOM & Older
Sisters Are EXACTLY Like
Beaus Mom & MANY Of The
People He Meets! Those Who
Believe That This is ALL in
His Head, Don't Or RARELY
Watch Cable News Networks!
I guarantee this will be a mithril member movie request in eight years
Based on the UA-cam notification settings for my viewers; it will be a request in 8 days.
This movie is three hours long? I don't know, for a movie to have no point it shouldn't have a run time that's over two hours. The movie The Lighthouse which is a very weird film, does have a point, because it's about isolation. Oh and the run time is only a 95 to 100 minutes.
Over 2 hours for a movie makes me not want to watch it. That's why I still haven't see avatar, because I like to see movies all at once I don't have the patience to sit for 3 hours
Well looks like Adam had an enjoyable time at the theaters. As it sounds like nobody was throwing popcorn at him or having flashlight on him
Fun fact. The theater I went to apparently had a guy pleasuring himself several times during a movie. That would have made for a fun retelling but alas, it wasn't during my showtime.
@@AdamDoesMovies there is always next time for that guy to make an appearance lol
I feel like. If I watch this movie, it might become my favorite movie of the year. So I can’t wait to watch it.
This is by far your best review. You have an open mind with it while offering your true pros and cons.
I know I will hate this movie!
This the best description of how I felt the whole movie😂. Too accurate
Have not seen it, completely turned off by the trailers
I understand what you are saying, that we should support experimental movies that aren't the safe cookie cutter crap that Hollywood makes now.
But no director should be given a pass on producing something that is completely incoherent and three hours long. Is that really improving filmmaking?
Beau Is Afraid is a legit great film though.
Completely agree with you! I felt robbed of my time at the end.
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Around NY & Several Cities in
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I'm one of those people who absolutely love this movie. The entire time, I was screaming "WHAT?!" and it was an absolute thrill ride of insanity
I feel bad for your fellow audience members lol
@@JimmyBologna There was one other person in the theater, and once the movie was over we both just spent a couple of minutes trying to process what we watched by talking to each other
The dude has severe mother abuse problems. That's the plot. Enough to where he can't make sense of reality anymore without asking her. "What should I do, mom?"
What really revealed this for me was the play sequence in the forest. His mom narrates his whole "What if" life story if he were to have a family. Well, in the end they'd leave Beau alone and he'd spend his life alone trying to find him, paying the sins of being away from his mom. His mom never wanted Beau to function in society without her.
At the end, the whole wrap up and judgement sequence, Beau is all accountable to what his mom thinks of his reality. It's a sad traumatic experience of severe instilled mom abuse
Oh that stuff is really obvious. What's not so obvious is how much of this story is actually playing out as opposed to what's in his head.
@@AdamDoesMovies I can't disagree with that. But I can say, regardless of all the terrible reviews I'd been hearing, I was not bored at all in the movie. It was a pretty engaging nightmare. When he went to his mom's funeral and "everything I own by bread" played and you saw all the crap she forced on him, it was kind of sad. Weird movie but poor f***** Beau
I’m going to see it Saturday, last week it was shown in my local theater. I’m excited, it’s so divisive.
"A little bit of everything" to me is the worst kind of thing. It doesn't have an identity, it's just a mess of cliches. I haven't seen it but if this review is any indication, that's how I'd see it.
I loved this movie and I felt like Patty Lupone’s acting was ICONIC. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I think Ari Aster is always the same. Even if Lars Von Trier becomes super evolved doing The House That Jack Built, through al his past films to something overly super innovative, or if Srdjan Spasojevic from his film A Serbian Film came back to rip off the fibre of morbidity in movie making again, or you watched every snuff film, or all the Gaspar Noe's films, Ari Aster only overly mega predates on a concept that David Fincher already described on an interview: " I THINK PEOPLE ARE PERVERTS...I MAINTAIN THAT...THAT'S THE FOUNDATION OF MY CAREER" (and smile to the camera). And I think is a super low way that Ari Aster have of making you watch his movies to the end. Is an old technique of morbidity that creates a state of superiority saying " I watched all the evil in this universe, and you can't handle it HO HO HO". Is an abuse, that's all it is. BUT well maybe that is the point of all of it, in his input to the new cinema history. And what the hell, if it works for him, good for him.
I Personally Felt The DEEP
Impact Of The MAJORITY Of
What Beau Had Been Through.
Though Was VERY Conflicted
At Times Reguarding OTHER
Rather Fantastical Events! As
I First Thought It Was Going To
Lean Torwards #InherentVice,
But INSTEAD, It Was More:
Adventures Of BaronMunchausen
(McKellen, Idol, Williams, Thurman)
Probably the most unique film I've ever seen. So confusing, so trippy and so beautiful. Coukdnt agree more that as a true film fan, youre like "wait, WHAT?" By the end.
The fact that they gave Ari Aster full creative control and didn't ONCE say "no, dont do that, it won't sell tickets" is genuinely amazing. That dude really took us on one hell of a 3 hour ride!
Movie review channels, except for about five popular ones, and movie review podcasts don't have audiences. You're the most engaging, entertaining, authentic reviewer I've experienced in decades, but surfers aren't clicking on your videos, but rather listen to the hate channels that break down shows nobody watches
i def don't think this could be considered a bad movie because even if you don't like it, you have to appreciate how unrestrained it feels.
The woods/theater section is incredibly dull in my opinion.
@@123rockfan i loved that part personally but i can see what you mean.
@@halfwit-studios1 I think I would’ve loved it if Beau is Afraid as a miniseries, and the woods/theater subplot was fleshed out in an hour episode
@@123rockfanI fell asleep during that part. I just watched this today so I rewound to see what I missed. I can complete understand why you fell asleep.
Wow thanks for your insights….I just kept repeating wtf throughout the whole thing…I truly don’t even know how I feel about it…and maybe that is the whole point…to feel the way some mentally disturbed people feel….like groundless and unknowing
I think, mostly, based on your analysis, you actually do like the film. But you probably will never watch it ever again. A few weeks ago during a movie review you were saying that you just wanted something different. Well, sounds like this one is giving you that in spades.!
3:30 "deciphering what was real and what was not"
So this is basically _Joker_ all over again?
I just watched and I’m just left wondering WTF I just watched.
Couldn’t disagree more about it dragging or having irrelevant content; even with a 3 hour run time I felt there was no filler, everything was deliberate and realized. And you bet I’m having my whole family watch this one!
I didn't hate it. It was completely bizarre, and I did not understand it, but I didn't hate it. It wasn't like my reaction to THE OUTWATERS. I admired the chutzpah in this one, but just..cannot recommend it to much of anyone. There are a few people who I think might enjoy it, but overall...nope. I enjoyed parts of it - I like the occasional bugnuts stuff - but usually having an understanding of what the hell is going on helps. As you said, the cinematography is fantastic. Unquestionably. The acting? Yeah. Good. Everyone is all in. It's everything else that is up in the air. That scene in the attic??? I mean...What the actual f...??? And Parker Posey can still get it.
Worst movie ever would rather go to the dentist than this.....
I got bummed out by the end, not because I couldn’t understand what was going on, but because it just accumulated into feeling like a long-winded version of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. I love The Wall though and I did find this movie entertaining so I’ll probably watch it again at least once more.
A film made up entirely of subtext. Didn’t really like it, but could see revisiting it someday.
At least this movie seems to be taking some big swings. Maybe it strikes out a few times and then gets a home run and others, but a list it doesn’t play it safe like 98% of films today.
I don’t really care the debate of “what’s real and what’s in his head?” I feel like that’s just not the point of this movie.
For me a movie is all about telling a story. If it cant do that properly then is has failed.
This did not tell a cohesive story at all. What was real and what was not in this movie? There were parts throughout, that i thought may be touched upon later in the movie, however they were just forgotten about.
The ending was a total mess, what people/things were really there, is he just imagining it all?
The forest theatre scene went on what felt like over 30 minutes and told a totally nonsensical separate story that did not tie back into the main narrative.
Surely a film that makes no attempt to make sense of the b s it’s providing should be marked as a negative film
Oh, you nailed it for me! For me too, it is about the story. And no, I dont need easy-digest, unambiguous stories; I do like when there are several layers, perspectives, different kinds of messages that one can take out of a movie. But still, something of a coherent plot or at least a thread of coherence has to be there. For me, there wasn't, and thus it is impossible for me to engage with any of the characters. But this is one of the key things I look for in movies. In the case of this movie, I did not find it at all. And so, after all and though I do appreciate the beauty of the scenery/photography and the great acting, the movie lacks in substance. It is too much and at the same time too little.
A24 made it so I’ll watch it
Trust me it's worth watching. I have been thinking about it for 5 days now .everytime I think about it it reviled something new . I feel it's like someone trying to explain his dream
Really crazy movie. I've never seen anything like it, I was gobsmacked that this movie was made. I was in 2 mind as to whether I liked it or not. But not sure if its a masterpiece or a flop. Only time will tell.
I really enjoyed it.but Was still disappointed at the end by it not making a. Sense
your video was amazing brother!
Ari must've been chomping some mushrooms from the Mushroom Kingdom.
I think he stuck all of it. I think he glued it all straight to the wall actually. But the movie is exhausting and I'll admit the first watch it tough to absorb all of it. After watching it the first time, I pretty much had similar doubts and honestly let some reviewers get in my head about themes being "simple" and "repetitive". However, after a second watch, I was really suprised how epic and complete this film felt, and how varying the themes really were.
My personal rating went from a 7 to a 9/10 with a rewatch. There are so many layers to this film, from various plots to interconnected themes to clever and masterful technical direction and remarkable performances--So I found there really was a lot left to take in.
I think if it's the film for you, giving it more than one viewing will be highly rewarding. Especially if the end feels like "BS" to you after the first watch. However if it's simply not your film, perhaps a second viewing would not be worth the time.
This is definitely in line with Mulholland Drive vibe so great job recommending it to the right crowd 👍.
This movie was just mess and really made no sense to me at least in my opinion
Beau was dead at birth. It was a life flashing before the eyes.
Persian Lessons is a masterpiece of art. Beau Is Afraid is not. Any schizophrenic person hallucinating on lsd could have written a script like this. Although, directing was very good.
I love when you watch art films. Not sure what that says about me...
I loved this movie, but yeah it was weird as hell.
Synecdoche New York.
So Aster has gone full Kaufman here.
Ok, so I have the DVD of this movie in front of me, but have grave resistance to watching it. My draw was not it being an Ari movie, but I adore Nathan Lane & that was what drew me to wanting to watch the movie...HOWEVER, upon seeing a clip of the paint scene I am questioning whether I want to give three hours of my life to all that intense blech...but that is not what this comment is about...I came to hear your review...you said you are a critic for Rotten Tomatoes...I scrolled over 200 critic reviews for Beau is Afraid, as I was interested in what you decided upon, but alas, no Adam Olinger to be found-what's up with that? Where is your Rotten Tomatoes review?
I never submitted for this film. I don't always submit if I can't reach a conclusion myself. After a few days of thinking it over... I must have decided to move on.
I only watched midsommar and that was enough
You could give it a Fresh Adam, but in your description say 2,5/5, which would be Rotten. So you can have both sides in your RT review. Even if only the Fresh would count. 😉 Because sometimes I see a rating in the quote and think why did you give this movie a fresh tomato with a C-.?
9:20 like if you had some fun and subscribe if you haven't. Does that mean I shouldn't subscribe?
Is this the kind of movie the LIZARDS watch is their planet? Its becoming friquent these days
Id take this over all the remakes and adaptions.
Looks like an "artsy" film to me. One best watched later at home.
Oh no, art 😮
So... Is it kind of like Big Fish? 🐟
Two words Raising Arizona
How Rotten tomatoes got to be the standard is unreal it’s pure garbage
Unpopular opinion, but Beau is Afraid is my favorite movie of 2023 so far. I like how original, weird, and bizarre it is. But, I can understand why people wouldn’t like that movie.
I don't know if I consider it my favorite movie of 2023 so far, but it's up there.
@@jeremyusreevu237 yeah, it’s a film that ur either going to love or hate
Ari’s best film! Much better than midsommar
The worst movie I have ever seen. If you have anxiety do not go.
Just watch it, wtf...
After a week of thinking; it's a great movie. Been everywhere in between worst and best since seing it, tho.
That's where I landed too!
I loved this movie.
you liked it
I interpreted it as either everything being his thoughts and his paranoia, or just how he sees the world. Its about anxiety and for me that was really relatable because i could have those thoughts, the only difference is that in the movie they actually happen
aster needs studio oversight or he makes crap.
Is hollywood dyeing?
If you don’t want people to suggest dumb, unpopular, UA-cam views-killing movies to review, maybe don’t review crap, artsy movies like these. It sends the message you like watching them.