Think he's "styled" as that but what he was talking about was very modern conspiracy nut s***

Thought Butler killed it in his role tbh. When he comes to the house and monologues vaguely about evil or some s***, his demeanor is very convincing despite not making a damn bit of sense

i just said it can’t be described as boring lol. i love this movie. best s*** i’ve seen so far this year

Yeah, it's more an issue with styling and perhaps casting

Felt a bit like a Craig Zahler film tbh

Slept on it. Woke up and realized I loved it

I was thinking of catching this before FF hogs all the screens, but sheesh, I didn't realize it was 2.5 hours long.

Ari Aster already burned me once with Beau 🥴

f*** no

seeing this on Saturday

Many such cases

Welcome, fellow Eddihead

Really loved this movie. Probably won't ever rewatch but it was as a fun ride. Pacing reminded me a lot of Hereditary, I like how Ari Aster makes all his movies have a similar feeling but are completely different genres

Reminded me of a full length Sunny in Philadelphia episode pacing felt a bit off tho but overall wasnt too bad leagues above his last one

I gotta sit on this one

I think I liked it?

Aster f***ing swung for the fences with this one that’s for sure

Haven't seen it yet but all the reviews have me worried. How is it that someone's debut is a stone cold classic could keep making worse and worse films — his start was so promising

I just wrote two pages about this.

Long story short, Ari Aster successfully portrayed how crazy the world was during COVID.

Mixed leaning positive, 3.5/5

pulled the trigger and watched it. i posted a comment a day or two ago saying the consensus was this was centralist slop structured like a South Park episode and with no meaning.

i can see now that it’s a brain dead take. and judging by some of the talks i overheard walking out, unfortunately many took the film literal or misunderstood the point completely. it’s like Civil War but on steroids. people watching and liking parts for the wrong reasons.

Are there any interviews that Ari gave about the film that are worth checking out?

The Big Picture

I found it more digestible than Beau Is Afraid but still a frustrating watch nonetheless. I suppose my main issue is that his last two films feel more like essays with characters used to move the “plot” forward. I do not care for the characters, they don’t even feel like real people. For the most part, I do not care for what happens. In the end the only thing I’m left with is trying to make sense of what it was I watched but there is no emotional investment on my end.

And unfortunately, I don’t have the experience or knowledge needed to fully appreciate or understand the films. Judging by the discourse around the film, it seems I am not alone. So it begs the question then: what’s the point? If Aster is making films for himself, go off, I guess. But if the majority of people don’t understand them then did you succeed as a filmmaker? It’s not like they’re Lynchian films, they’re dense and full of layers. I don’t know.

spoiler alert, I guess, for my interpretation:

Although COVID was a literal disease, there was also the disease of social media and how it and its effects were upped 100x during the pandemic. The biggest basis for it being people unable to communicate or even agree on anything and their opinions/thoughts being amplified to an extreme and being unable to understand anything that doesn’t align.

The first obvious example is when the sheriff responds to the call of the homeless guy trying to get inside the bar. The sheriff and mayor don’t like each other and maybe that’s part of the reason, but they can’t even agree to what’s happening: is the homeless trying to break in or is the mayor not letting him in as it’s technically an open business?

And throughout the film there are several disagreements and misunderstandings and it spreads from character to character, even those on the “same side.” By the end, everyone is affected to some extent. The only people that are better off are the grifters and those that take advantage of others.

And while all of these shenanigans are happening? The shadowy figures are making moves to make sure the AI/server facility gets built.

the tl:dr being that COVID altered society in many ways and social media amplifies the many disagreements and creates these tribes that all distract us from the bigger picture

Not sure I wanna go sit in a theater for 3 hrs for something that may have no payoff…

Never heard anyone refer to that show as “sunny in Philadelphia” lmao

he's 4/4