this is one of the worst movies of all time,im not even joking

>>213641724 (OP)
so hows this play out? ive only seen the trailer but it seems to be a history retcon where the conservative sheriff, played by phoenix, is all in favor of covid restrictions unlike the liberal mayor, played by pascal, but is there more to it than that?

>phoenix
>pascal

it was no-no for me from the start

>>213641776
Phoenix isn't in favor of the COVID restrictions, but he's not fully against them either, he just doesn't want to wear a mask because he has asthma and sympathizes with others who don't want to wear masks. Pascal is more for the restrictions and gets mad when his son goes out or when Phoenix isn't wearing a mask. Honestly the COVID stuff is a pretty small part of the overall movie.

What was this about? It felt like a little slice of life from the lockdowns era, through Ari's lense to be fair. Some of it was familiar, some I couldn't relate to and found beyond belief. I've read some online analysis after the fact to get someone's take and it seemed well thought out but it didn't nail it for me.

>>213641724 (OP)
The one thing I didn’t get about the movie was Austin Butlers character. When he came into the movie he just droned on and then in the end he didn’t seem to have any purpose.

>>213641724 (OP)
This movie was fucking awesome. It was so well done, it was intense, it was character driven. I loved it, honestly movie of the year. The way both sides, pro lockdown and anti lockdown, were portrayed was very nuanced. I thought Ari tackled the subject matter flawlessly, I was shocked how well he captured that time period.

>>213641776
Basically Phoenix is against covid hysteria because it's not lawful (he has asthma). It's a dark comedy in the fact it shows how absurd lockdown and BLM hysteria was.
>>213642663
It shows how easily society can be infected by hysteria and ideology. Covid, the white guilt shit, all that. A lot of the movie is framed through screens and phones. The smear campaign, live feeds, photo used to frame Michael, Brian being like Rittenhouse, the reveal with the wife. The AI center being a looming presence and danger kind of exemplifies that social behavior is become a simulated that somewhat cannibalizes itself, what Kaczynski coined as "oversocialization" which can be used to manipulate the population.
>>213642748
He's a take on grifters who rely on conspiracies for clout, that's why his whole platform is about pedophile rings and cabals. Like an Alex Jones type.

>This movie was fucking awesome. It was so well done, it was intense, it was character driven. I loved it, honestly movie of the year. The way both sides, pro lockdown and anti lockdown, were portrayed was very nuanced. I thought Ari tackled the subject matter flawlessly, I was shocked how well he captured that time period.

>>213643462
But the UN that gets 50%+ funding from U.S. has a whole agency for human trafficking. The whole world has a trade of cheap human labor for manual work, sex, etc., etc in the U.S. it's called a "conspiracy".

when the boy is having dinner with his parents and explaining it's moral to become a race traitor and his parents call him retarded LOL

>>213643604
Okay sure but calling it out doesn't do shit to change it. So it's grifting in terms of exploiting emotions to profit, though it's implied Butler or at least Stone were former victims. There's a bit where Butler straight up mentions jewish number magic, he's supposed to be like one of those schizo influencers.

>>213641724 (OP)
I'm looking forward to watching this movie. I hope the two sides of the COVID debate are presented fairly and that the character representing COVID skeptics doesn't commit a mass shooting for no reason.

>it's ANOTHER part of the movie where character gives a dragging complete nonsense monologue
>Joaquin's whole character arc
Unbearable. For the first 20 minutes or so I thought we were getting Southland Tales kino. What a horrid movie.

>>213643462
>that social behavior is become a simulated that somewhat cannibalizes itself
for my clearness, you meant to say simulation? Like in the sense that it's constructed and inherently lead to destabilization or that an "event" like covid here can be a catalyst?

Ok then I'm glad to have seen Joaquin in something new :)

The movie is too ordinary after Beau. That one was really funny and surprised situations or cinematography all the time. Eddington, on the other hand, felt like 4 hours long to me, it's not funny or interesting enough in its satire, it's fairly banal as a crime thriller and the justification for the action at the end was weird (I was hoping the whole town would go crazy and everyone would kill each other).

6/10

>>213641724 (OP)
Solid movie, I didn't expect to like it.

>>213641724 (OP)
>ari aster

>>213641724 (OP)

What possessed Ari Aster to destroy his career like this? Midsommar was a moderate drop in quality, but Beau is Afraid and this shit are levels of terrible I wouldn't expect from the guy that made Hereditary.

>>213643982
>>213641776
The average /tv/ mind
>watch a trailer
>project and understand it wrong
>ask for permission to watch
>pre-emptively get triggered

>>213644334
Well am I allowed to dislike it or not?? None of the youtube guys that wear aviators have told me yet.

>>213644447
Well for instance this retard >>213643982
is about to find out that the ones doing the shooting are actually antifa cop-killers

>>213641940
>this is one of the worst movies of all time,im not even joking
he is against wearing masks because of social media distraction algorithms from solidgoldmagicarp so they can build their data center without opposition

>>213643539

>google "movie name + review"
>get exactly that kinda "review"
>look further
>movie hated by everyone

Goddamn AI era, the internet is over.

>>213644210
it's the same unpleasant, coward, stupid main character than Beau (maybe more vengeful); and with the same twist: his schizo fantasies turn out to be true
it's just just toned down a little

>>213641724 (OP)
Haven't seen it yet but it can't be worse than Beau is Afraid

>>213641724 (OP)
Every Ari Aster movie qualifies for that title, I'm not even joking.

>>213644678
>the internet is over.
Been over for at the very least half a decade if not longer.

L3ftist, detected

>>213643462
One thing no one seems to have picked up on: the "ANTIFA extremists" that flew into town & were fucking shit up at the end, were actually mercs hired by Solidgoldmagikarp to make sure the data farm plans would still happen smoothly. It was an allegory for how "the white man" stole the land from the indigenous, we're now big Tech is playing the part of "the white man" with normal small town American citizens being the "indigenous" all the social chaos that was sown as very much in line with the old underhanded tactics of the colonizers back in the day

>>213643877
>calling it out doesn't do shit to change it
It's a movie you fucking retard, not a congressional bill

>>213641724 (OP)
Watch it again. Once you realize who the real villain is, it's a whole different experience.

>>213641724 (OP)
>oh well, back to low budget horrorslop

I didn't get it. What was all the stuff about Lou/Ted/Vernon about?
Why did the Sheriff go evil all of a sudden? He seemes like a nice guy at the beginning?

>>213644322
He always wanted to make shit like Beau and Eddington first and foremost. These two newest films are his true creative persona.

He only made Hereditary because low budget horror was and is the only way in for new directors. Then he made Midsommar because some Swedish producers wanted to make a Wicker Man-type film about their national celebration, read Aster's script for Hereditary and hired him to make Midsommar. Aster didn't even come up with the title.

>>213643982
weird how this comment made two people mad in the exact same way

Pretty weird that you can make a movie now where BLM and Antifa are the bad guys

>>213641724 (OP)
This film is easily the greatest retard filter of the year, and I love it lol/

>>213641724 (OP)
Can someone explain to me what happened in that film?

>>213646389
they are WEF/Klaus Schwab guys

>>213646389
America is literally building concentration camps. How is that weird?

>>213646053
He got slapped

I don't watch pedro pascal slop

It was good. Get filtered.

>>213646053
>Why did the Sheriff go evil all of a sudden? He seemes like a nice guy at the beginning?
he's a well-meaning idiot incapable of self-reflection, he just reacts

>>213641724 (OP)
>you don't want to wear a mask and subsidize AI slop? you must be a racist murderer!

>We need to free each others hearts
>Shoots the mayor through his heart

I enjoyed that

he was a patriot

>>213646129

So he's a fraud that began huffing his own farts with two successful films. I really can't blame him for doing what he wanted to do the moment he had the chance, but holy shit these are Kojima levels of needing a handler to talk some sense into him.

>Pedro Pascal
I shan't watch it
>But
Shan't

>>213647363
The movie went to shit the second they decided to turn him into an insane killer. It should have been about a good, common sense man saving his town from the BLM/vaxxed crazies.

>>213641724 (OP)
>reddit: the movie. covid edition.
it's peak plebbit midwit retardation. it basically makes retards feel smart because im watching this pseudo intellectual movie for 2.5 hrs.

>>213647453
>The movie went to shit the second they decided to turn him into an insane killer.
I liked it because it was realistic in regards to chuds