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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 67043
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The Beach Bum
Quote: The Beach Bum is a 2019 American comedy written and directed by Harmony Korine. The plot follows the misadventures of Moondog (Matthew McConaughey), a rebellious burnout who only knows how to live life by his own rules. Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Jimmy Buffett, Martin Lawrence and Jonah Hill also star.
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Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:44 am |
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publicenemy#1
Extraordinary
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:25 am Posts: 18877 Location: San Diego
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Re: The Beach Bum
Truly bizarre but I dug it for the most part. You could tell everyone was high out of their mind while filming this, which isn't a bad thing for this. It doesn't go anywhere but it's amusing.
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Sat Mar 30, 2019 4:03 am |
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Dil
Forum General
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:48 pm Posts: 8942 Location: Houston, Texas
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Re: The Beach Bum
Such a weird fucking film, but damn did I have a blast watching it. It's really entertaining, and so much better than this directors previous film Spring Breakers. Like Serenity which is another McConaughey film I really enjoyed he once again shows off his talent, although in a different light and just owns the screen from start to finish. It's not the funniest film ever, but there were at least three or four scenes in this were I laughed harder than anything else I have seen this year. I absolutely loved the scenes with Snoop Dogg, Zac Effron and Martin Lawrence in this, although they aren't in it much. Hell I even loved the bits with whatever the hell Jonah Hill was supposed to be lol and honestly wish he was in it more. That dude is truly a chameleon when it comes to acting, but that shouldn't be much of a surprise at this point considering his level of talent.
B+
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Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:20 pm |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Re: The Beach Bum
I am not sure what I thought of this film, to be honest. It does what it promises on the surface: Harmony Korine revives the sunset-splendor-meets-neon-sleaze aesthetic of the awesome Spring Breakers, and it certainly pays feature-length homage to the "all right, all right,all right" popular perception of Matthew McConaughey as well-baked (by the sun and otherwise) with a bongo in one hand and a beer or joint in the other. But I struggled mightily to fall under its spell. I constantly felt aware of its machinations: every stunt-casting cameo, every debauched set piece, every archetypal McConaughey tic dialed to eleven. They do not gel and flow so much as...accumulate, certain ones more effective than others, à la an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Matthew McConaughey, except he is playing the same character in every sketch. There is this line in the sand separating a groovy, ready-made cult classic from a movie endeavoring, at once skillfully and blatantly, to be a groovy, ready-made cult classic. This seems more the latter, in my opinion. Comparing this to superficially similar films I adore, such as Inherent Vice and Under the Silver Lake or even Spring Breakers, I wonder if it would help if McConaughey's Moondog faced more coherent and/or involving dramatic stakes or encountered a character who pushed more aggressively against his turn-on-tune-in-drop-out ethos. Maybe this is a square notion, and maybe a neo-noir undercurrent would render the film even more derivative of The Big Lebowski, but...who knows?
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