>>212882127 (OP)I saw it today. I really liked Beau is Afraid. This one was fine, not terrible, but it just felt like a writing exercise that a professor gave to a student to write a script that combined all the headlines from 2020-2024. Also it doesn't really kick into gear until 2 hours in, and while I'm happy to watch slowburns, with hereditary and beau is afraid, the ramp up and buildup itself was fun. Here, all you really get the first couple hours is some fun comedy, but that's it. They paced it like it was a TV show and they had infinite time to build stuff up but when you're someone that's watched his films before, you're in tune with the news stories from which he's pulling, you're familiar with his style enough to where you can spot stuff like the sculpture with the knife in its head and know right away that that's gonna crop up again at the end, when you're familiar with all this stuff, it just makes the first two hours feel like a chore.
I will say the release timing is hilarious because so much of the film is poking fun at conspiracy theorists (yes I know it doesn't just have a onesided view on everything, relax), and it comes out in the week when even normies are openly agreeing that billionaire pedos and intelligence agencies and israelis control the world. it's supposed to the most current year film yet somehow it feels insanely outdated.
still had a decent enough time. Just nowhere near as enjoyable as Beau is Afraid or Hereditary etc. loved the scene when Pedro Pascal died and then his faggot son got killed too. I was hoping Joaquin would kill the simp Brian kid too but him turning out to be Kyle Rittenhouse with a podcast and an girl gf was a funny bit so I was cool with that storyline in the end.