Even though the film got little love... Thom Yorke's amazing soundtrack to Suspiria... is amazing!
Get the cover back on that monster before some millennial sticks his finger on a condenser saying, "What's this thing shaped like a firecracker ddddrrgghh?"
The Legend Of Cocaine Islandhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt8106596/
An old story of buried cocaine worth $2m leads a pair of idiots on an ill-thought out treasure hunts that doesn't end quite as they expected it to.
Not the best Netflix documentary out there but worth a go if you can't find anything else to watch.
the super hero infestation the last 5-6 years has been terrible. I dont care to watch a sngle.****ing.one. but know many many people who will just go watch every and any superhero movie.
nut low of moviegoers if it werent for those fat amy movie wacthers
Not sure how I feel about The Beach Bum ...i really wanted to like it since Spring Breakers is one of my fav movies in the past 10 years but while SB was being subversive and making fun of MTV culture...Beach Bum is kind of missing that social commentary and is actually trying to be a earnest trippy oddball comedy but there are too many long stretches that aren't funny/ cringeworthy.
The first half of the movie is pretty bad but then it gets into a nice groove by the second half. Visually stunning in the same vein as SB, Korrine really knows how to capture the beauty of Florida....I'm also a big fan of Korrine's use of neon colors....Overall the movie is ok, Matthew McConaughey is pure uncut McConaughey...Zac Efron is amazing in his small cameo... I wanted to really like it but instead liked bits and pieces and didn't enjoy it as a whole.
Not sure how I feel about The Beach Bum ...i really wanted to like it since Spring Breakers is one of my fav movies in the past 10 years but while SB was being subversive and making fun of MTV culture...Beach Bum is kind of missing that social commentary and is actually trying to be a earnest trippy oddball comedy but there are too many long stretches that aren't funny/ cringeworthy.
The first half of the movie is pretty bad but then it gets into a nice groove by the second half. Visually stunning in the same vein as SB, Korrine really knows how to capture the beauty of Florida....I'm also a big fan of Korrine's use of neon colors....Overall the movie is ok, Matthew McConaughey is pure uncut McConaughey...Zac Efron is amazing in his small cameo... I wanted to really like it but instead liked bits and pieces and didn't enjoy it as a whole.
Before I go into spoiler tags, let me say for the readers that I disagree with a lot of this and think that The Beach Bum is definitely worth seeing if you like any of:
Florida/Key West culture/aesthetics
McConaughey
Artsy stuff in mainstream clothing
Korine
Spring Breakers
Movies
Actually...if I would have written about it when I first saw it a few weeks ago, my recommendation might not have been glowing. With more time now to brew, I'd give it a glowing recommendation.
The trailers are not to be trusted.
Spoiler:
I mostly disagree about the lack of subversiveness. It starts playing out as an "earnest trippy oddball comedy" as you say, but it becomes quite obvious by about the halfway point that it is satirizing these types of redemption stories, rather than trying to be a genuine one.
There are multiple key moments where we are trained to think "ah ha, here is the moment where things turn around for the main character - he will realize his wrongdoing and start to clean himself up". He sees his wife cheating, and there is the moment.
But it passes quickly and nobody is the worse for wear.
There is a serious drunk driving accident and a hyper-exaggerated "tender" moment with the dying wife.
It passes.
A fancy lawyer tells the Beach Bum that he will get no money from the wife's death unless he finishes his novel; she designed her will that way in order to provide for his redemption.
This is such a hackneyed plot point that it has to be obvious now that we're in satire land (if it wasn't already).
Then the rehab, and the escape, and the relapses, and again no consequences.
The whole thing reminded me somewhat of Burn After Reading in a different genre, in that it's shot, scored, and written as a straight-up fun stoner redemption movie of this type (and I guess it's the same with Spring Breakers). Trailers could easily be cut from this material to make it look like typical Oscar bait (and they were).
Now, all this being said - I saw it with a streamed Q&A with Korine, McConaughey, and the two female leads. They spoke of it much more as a straight-up stoner comedy, and the "lessons" they said should be taken from it is some nonsense about how you've just gotta chill man, bad things happen but be like the Beach Bum. I don't *think* Korine is actually this dumb, I *think* he understands he's made a parody of Oscar bait redemption movies, and that the Beach Bum character is toxic scum. But the Q&A left me with doubt.
During the Irish famine an Irish Ranger deserts from the British Army and goes home to reunite with his family only to find them dead or destitute.
He embarks on a deadly trail of revenge on those he holds responsible.
Bleak, cold and compelling drama.
You haven't lived until you've lived with beagles.
Started to watch Year of the Dog once without checking out the plot summary.
That was a mistake.
Only lived with a Boston Terrier and a pitbull. Both gone now. And ex-girlfriend had four Border Collies at one time, so I did live them for a month every year.
I do recommend Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog for dog lovers, even if it's sad.
Only lived with a Boston Terrier and a pitbull. Both gone now. And ex-girlfriend had four Border Collies at one time, so I did live them for a month every year.
I do recommend Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog for dog lovers, even if it's sad.
Been waiting for Pick of the Litter to hit my no additional cost streaming services.