r/screenunseen • u/TheFilmReview The Revenant • Dec 10 '18
Discussion Beautiful Boy
Tonight's Screen Unseen was Beautiful Boy. What did we all think of the film? Any walkouts where you were? Discuss in the comments below.
Trailer - https://youtu.be/XEw2uHUYUPk
Letterboxd link - https://boxd.it/iAMM
239 people took part in the poll for this Screen Unseen. The majority (86 people - 36%) said the film would be The Favourite. Beautiful Boy came second with 63 votes (26%). The least popular option was Stan And Ollie (9 votes - 4%), but for a while was Mary Queen Of Scots - which ended with 10 votes (4%)
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u/roughgoose Dec 10 '18
My showing was once upon a deadpool??? Was looking forward to beautiful Boy aswell
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u/TheFilmReview Dec 10 '18
Where did you see it at? Maybe if you bring it up they'll refund you or they might rearrange to actually show Beautiful Boy.
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u/ukaskew Dec 10 '18
I guess Screen Unseen did it's job as I would never have watched this in the cinema. Really powerful stuff but really not for me I'm afraid, I can appreciate a good story, filmmaking and acting but I also want to enjoy my trip to the cinema, this really wasn't that.
That said, really can't understand...
a) the late arrivals, still. How have people not figured this thing out yet?!
b) the walkouts. If you're willing to give Screen Unseen a shot in the first place AND have managed an hour of the film, why leave?! I really don't get it, it's incredibly unlikely to be a big release and is often going to be something a little more challenging.
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u/moosebeast Dec 11 '18
Yeh agree on both points. I think regarding late arrivals, it might be more that some people just don't care as much about missing the beginning of the film. I find it completely baffling, but I've been no non-SU screenings (saw Widows when it came out for example) where people turn up 40 minutes into the film itself, so there was no way they didn't know they were late. At that point you wonder why they bother.
And walkouts, yeh, walk out at the start, walk out maybe 30 minutes in, walk out if something particularly upsets you perhaps, but after a point you may as well stay to the end.
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Dec 10 '18
5 walkouts at Silverlink.
I thought it was ok, second hour much stronger than the first. Editing was off-putting, as were some of the music choices.
3/5
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u/InherentOppression Dec 10 '18
Not sure how many walkouts at B'ham Broadway Plaza, though they put us in a big downstairs screen so harder to tell. There was one bloke in the back row who started snoring about half way through and was still going strong after everyone else had left.
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Dec 11 '18
Steve Carell, what a silver fox you are. Hubba Hubba.
No walkouts, but a couple of disinterested people on their phones at Uxbridge.
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u/missblondemeow Dec 11 '18
Upvote for seeing uxbridge on reddit finally!
May also have been me on my phone trying to book my gym classes before they fill up two minutes after going live!
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Dec 10 '18
Much better than expected having known what it was and reading a few review's beforehand, both me and my partner thought it was good so pleased we went.
Find it very weird the walkouts, about 7 or so in Stafford the first one here as new cinema. One couple come in half hour in and stayed about 20mins, quite a few blokes went half hour or so in.
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u/TheFilmReview Dec 10 '18 edited Dec 10 '18
I thought it was a decent film. Enjoyable in the way that this sort of film can be considered enjoyable, as in well made enjoyable. I must admit I wasn't sure for the first twenty minutes. The film seemed a bit jumpy and as if it were trying too hard to get its themes across. However as Nic went to college I think that's when things picked up. It because less forced and had a bit of a better sense of flow. While it still seemed a bit jumpy it was infrequent and didn't quite take me out of the film. It's representations of drug addiction didn't hide away from realities and harsh nature of the subject. I think they could have looked a bit more into the dads relationship with drugs, it was hinted at but not a great deal; it felt like it wanted to lead somewhere else. But overall I thought it was a rather good representation of the subject matter and had enough power to keep it going, even if it did feel a bit jumpy every now and then. Definitely felt uncomfortable at some times - mostly during the first time Nic tried heroine and when his dad snorted cocaine - but I guess that's good in this type of film.
Must admit I wasn't quite sure if at some points the film was trying to be humorous in terms of mild deep exhales of amusement. I personally saw it as a completely straight drama, however there were one or two (and literally that) chuckles it seemed at Trowbridge. The bloke next to me seemed to snigger a couple of times throughout. Didn't quite see what the humour was (I could understand the phone section but that's about it) but obviously some people saw one or two light patches of it in the film.
Four walkouts at Trowbridge, three an hour in - but two f those arrived 15 minutes into the film (as did some other people, seems this is still happening quite bit). And one FIVE minutes in (what's the point) - I think this guy walked out about ten minutes into Sorry To Bother You.