The 'Spring Breakers' director and a gloriously sleazy Matthew McCanaughey deliver a Now, what if we told you that you could see a whole movie of that? Not a muted bongo beat popping up in the background every so often, but a. A review of Harmony Korine's movie The Beach Bum, starring Matthew McConaughey.
Film Review: Matthew McConaughey in 'The Beach Bum'. 'Spring Breakers' director Harmony Korine is back with another decadent dive into How can you tell when a movie star is committed to being taken seriously? It's hard to ignore when someone like Matthew McConaughey drops a ton of weight. In The Beach Bum, director Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers) has made another movie with outrageous, hedonistic characters who live in total excess.
The worry is how all that might rub off on younger viewers. For instance, Moondog and his wife marry off their daughter and refer to her groom. "The Beach Bum" is none of these. Its soul is sentimental, conventional and timid in spite of its hero's bravado. Moondog may seem like a fearless free spirit, but the movie he lives in is What "The Beach Bum" celebrates as transgression is pure tedium. What it takes for divine lunacy is frat house doggerel. Korine's latest movie is The Beach Bum, it follows Matthew McConaughey ("Serenity", "White Boy Rick") as Moondog, a rebellious stoner, poet, who lives life by his own rules.
Trailer The Beach Bum
I feel it would be hard for me to review The Beach Bum without comparing it with Korine's other film Spring Breakers. The Beach Bum works with a deceptively simple premise. Moondog (Matthew McConaughey) is a once-great poet who lives a carefree life of leisure with his beautiful, rich wife, big This is definitively a movie made by Harmony Korine, even though it's decidedly very different from his previous work.
Layers of idiocy, trash, chemicals, undulating bodies, and pure, unfettered joy. I understand if you aren't up for the debauchery Rewatching this movie was therapeutic for me. So many scenes had me laughing out loud while McConaughey's journey had me emotionally hooked. Matthew McConaughey and Zac Efron co-star.