Saw this yesterday on the 8 story IMAX and I still don't know what to think about it.

A 3 hour absurdist, anxiety ridden nightmare comedy.

There's whole sections of this that I really enjoyed and others that I don't.

Then there's the third act which I loved until a certain point and then I really was asking myself what is the point of all of this.

Funniest thing was watching the almost full theater slowly trickle out throughout the film. Those who made it to the end, sat in stunned and confused silence.

This is supposedly A24's most expensive movie at $34 million. I very much doubt that they're making that back.

Here's the trailer: https://youtu.be/PuiWDn976Ek

And here's a behind the scenes: https://youtu.be/7uzVaasp7Sw

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Some of the stretches certainly go too long, but I laughed throughout and was fairly giddy at the audacity of it all.

Aster's just shedding the horror genre restrictions entirely and going all-in on dark comedy, which I think suits him well tbh. Liked this more than Midsommar.

A24's definitely losing money on it, but it's one of my favorite things they've done so far in the 2020s. The first 45 minutes and the Parker Posey sequence are absolutely fantastic, hilarious work.

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And also really funny.


I'll admit that I think it's at least a half hour too long, but I also think the oppressive quality of the length (full disclosure: I went in knowing literally nothing about this movie, least of all its runtime, so to say I was shocked would be an understatement lol) plays into the futility of the whole thing.


Afterwards, I said to a friend, this is both Aster's "Magnolia" and his answer to that movie's hopefulness. There is absolutely no hope in this movie.


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big Ari fan, with his previous two movies being two of my favorites in the last 20 years. I respect the very specific darkly absurd bio-pic comedy sub-genre going on here; even as it dragged in parts I was interested to see what could come next.

did not love it but am glad it exists. always looking forward to his next project.

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