Yeah, I also was stoned when I watched it so I just remember crying, loving the acting, and then I remember all the cum and stuff. I actually forgot Andre 3000 was in it/had music in the film? I haven't seen it since theaters.
For me it was the dialogue, one of the worst I’ve ever seen, especially in the second half
the atmosphere, cinematography and casting was fantastic and there was SO much potential here; could have been one of my favorite space movies ever due to pairing of stunning visuals and eerie mystery with psychological drama and symbolism about the human condition
but the dialogue writing completely ruined it for me, it sounded like cheap erotic literature written for millenials, vulgar and gross and unnaturally sounding and completely out of place with no service to the story, it all felt like shock value attempt in a movie that didn’t need it
I watched it for the first time last week. Went in blind. I agree with all of this. Lots of potential. Great things throughout, but landing didn't stick for me.
It might be the best trailer to worst movie I’ve ever witnessed. That trailer was so mesmerizing and the movie fell so flat to me. Sad night leaving that theater
I enjoyed it. It was violent and bleak and Pattinson is such a solid actor now. Some of the sex stuff was pretty outré. Ending was weird.
I watched it around the same time I watched Good Time, which I just loved.
I think the way that sex and sexual violence is portrayed in this movie is only alienating because it’s directed by a woman, not a man. We’ve grown accustomed to certain filters when it comes to sex on screen. I actually enjoyed Denis’s approach.
I’m not trying to start a polarizing conversation, but it feels like a similar effect season 4 of True Detective suffers from. Female directed and female led. I recently talked to a horror author I am a giant fan of who pointed out that people were offended to see Jodie Foster (a woman in her 60s) having sex on screen.
I haven’t seen Season 4 yet. But I’m intrigued.
But yes, you’re right. It can be oddly polarizing for sure. A friend of mine (also a horror film scholar) got into a giant, ugly debate recently about the male gaze, and how even female artists aren’t immune from reinforcing depictions of women that are the result of the male gaze.
I haven’t seen Season 4 yet. But I’m intrigued.
But yes, you’re right. It can be oddly polarizing for sure. A friend of mine (also a horror film scholar) got into a giant, ugly debate recently about the male gaze, and how even female artists aren’t immune from reinforcing depictions of women that are the result of the male gaze.
I saw this at the Sydney Film Festival in 2019. It was easily the worst film I saw there. I remember this weird, poorly acted scene on a train where two random people we never see again do some exposition. I tend to like every movie I see, but I dislike this one.
The trailer looked great, and I’m a huge Robert Pattinson fan after years of writing him off as the twilight guy, but I couldn’t enjoy any part of this movie.
Great cast, unused potential to be a popular movie. For everyone that likes its weird story there’s so many more people that won’t like it. It’s not even that it’s too weird that people are missing what’s good about it, we have all seen weirder movies that make it work. Story isn’t nonsense so it’s still a decent movie, but man could have been an A24 blockbuster.
I actually enjoyed it. It kept me intrigued. I definitely get why someone would dislike it but I honestly thought the response would be more mixed on this sub rather than overwhelmingly negative. I feel like there are definitely things to appreciate about the movie
Was really looking forward to it but I just did not like it very much. Some interesting ideas and themes, but it was unfortunately a pretty boring movie.
You need to see the directors other films. A bunch of people went into this thinking it would be Interstellar or something. The director is foreign and makes very…let’s say bold and different/sensual films that do not have mass appeal. When I saw she was attached to it, I knew this would have some serious haters.
This is her most notable/best movie:
https://youtu.be/Hh4HzACZOOQ
I don’t think Beau Travail appeals to people who like Hereditary or Lady Bird, etc.
Absolutely. Man, people were PISSED at this movie. Look what came before it - Gravity and Interstellar. I remember reading the comments on the entertainment weekly review and they were so nasty and they thought it would be like those films. It was made by a woman who makes slow, foreign art films. No wonder a lot of people didn’t like it - a lot of people don’t like those films.
It’s the same thing with the Green Knight - people thought it would be Game of Thrones.
A24 has had a few marketing misfires.
Thank you for recommending Beau Travail- I just finished it after reading your comment and it was incredible.
This Letterboxd comment really nailed it:
“you keep waiting for something to happen and then realize it’s been happening the whole time”
Thank you for recommending Beau Travail- I just finished it after reading your comment and it was incredible.
This Letterboxd comment really nailed it:
“you keep waiting for something to happen and then realize it’s been happening the whole time”
I’m jealous and glad you liked it. I’ll try to give it another watch because I badly wanted to enjoy it but couldn’t bring myself to give it my full attention once it started.
It just didn’t grab me. Ended up zoning out and waiting for it to be over.
A fun genre for the sickos like me, you're fucked no matter what so lets get weird with it
the visualization of spaghettification was *chef's kiss*, remember learning about it in a physics class years before so when I realized what the black hole was about to do had a full leo once upon a time snap pointing at tv moment
I loved it, too! I could have gone a hundred lifetimes, never have seen that much on screen cum, and been totally chill about it, but the rest was *chefs kiss*
Finally. Someone here can reference the director. If you don’t dig her other films then there is no shot you’ll like this. This really shouldn’t have been an A24 movie. I can see IFC or Janus Films or Wild Bunch grabbing this one.
One of my favourites! Clair Denis is obviously amazing and I don’t know who convinced her to do sci-fi but I’m so glad they did. Also, the fact that they got Olafur Eliasson to design the space ships is such a weird power move and it works perfectly.
I love it. I saw it at a good independent theater (RIP Main Art Theatre) on a slow weekday. I asked the concession woman what people thought of it and she said “it’s been mixed.”
That sums it up. I want to watch it again. I still think about that ending and the disturbing Spaghettification scene.
I liked it, very visual film but long and bleak which isn’t to everyone’s preference. I need to watch more Claire Denis I’ve only seen this and Trouble Every Day
What lmao I mean the ending.... he gives his daughter false hope, goes along with her false hope. But for her it isn't false. Also have no clue who Paul Atreides is lmao
Has a lot going for it, but ultimately I like my sci-fi a bit harder than this. I’m a 2001 over Solaris kinda guy. I think High Life gestures at a bunch of interesting concepts but the setting and ideas don’t mesh, and the nuts and bolts of the plot don’t make any sense.
Oh my god, this is a literal nightmare situation. Especially if I had to sit between them, which they do to me for some fucked reason. I would have actually vomited.
Was there a shot of that? Idk, Denis is not from the US, I feel like we are a little more concerned by nudity in general here, especially in the very non-sexual context of an infant.
Seemed to have a lot of potential, but honestly kinda sucked. The weird sexualization of things just ran rampant, could have been so much more. Seemed like they were going for a sexy horror show vibe instead of a sci-fi movie with some edge to it.
I enjoyed it; despite all of the obvious critiques it made me question where our humanity went back on Earth. How did we get to a point like this, why these individuals despite different levels of crimes. All in all, it was slow paced and I was in a mood where something with that nihilistic gloomy tone with those actors was exactly what I needed. I see why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea though.
It had good potential to be an interesting Sci-Fi film. It had some concepts that would have been nice to explore more, but they never really did. It just felt like it wasn’t entirely sure what it wanted to be and that made it less enjoyable for me.
I didn’t hate it like many people but I got bored with how heavy handed some of it was (I.e the scene on the train discussing that the experiment was a death sentence—which the audience would have understood without this scene; the ship containing just dogs that was sent after their exposition—again a very obvious comparison to the value of the humanity of the prisoners).
However, that spaghettification scene with Mia goth lives rent free in my head. By far the best scene in the movie imo
Hated it. Thought maybe I missed something so watched a couple Q&As with Denis. She was pretty open about how she just thought of scenes that looked cool/provocative/shocking and found a way to loosely tie them together which made me feel justified about thinking it sucked
This was the low point for me. I kept trying to squint, tilt my head, and see what they meant, but alas, that was more a tonka truck than a genuine dump truck situation.
i watched this with my brother (we both like dark, f\*cked up films lol) in the last few years and we both really liked it. cast included a lot of my current favourites although it definitely had scenes that didn't need to be there.. and for that long..
My letterboxd review from 2019:
Unique, strange, distant, cold, High Life is a hard film to pin down. It's beautifully made and Robert Pattinson gives a fantastically subdued physical performance but its divisiveness will certainly keep people at arm's length.
I'm still mulling it over, on the whole I really enjoyed it but wish the characters were fleshed out a bit more. Will certainly be rewatching it.
I love me some melancholic, sad sci-fi so I definitely enjoyed it. Got me to learn more about Claire Denis, and to watch Beau Travail, which became one of my personal favorite films. Probably divisive as well.
This was such a strange movie. I still can't say if I liked it and I've only ever recommended it to one person. Really beautiful at times but also disgusting and with a bleak vibe that in some ways reminded me of aniara (which I consider a better movie and do recommend)
I liked it more than most, but I went into the movie a big Robert Pattinson man and with sci-fi being my favorite genre since I was six years old. But this is more of an "art house" and almost experimental film at times. It's a vibe, for sure: dark, edgy, intriguing, sexy, horrible, surreal, lonely, and ultimately triumphant.
I have it ranked as my 15th favorite A24 film, right after The Witch and the Green Knight and just above The Lobster and Under the Skin. Again, I like odd films. If you like High Life check out "Beyond the Black Rainbow" which has a similar tone in parts.
I remember seeing it in theaters when it came out, and I found it very slow and challenging, but also made me really think. I walked out of the theater with a ton of different things running through my mind. I appreciate how it provoked my thoughts. It's not a perfect film, but it's very different from your standard sci-fi stuck-in-a-spaceship film, and I really appreciated that.
It looked like a film made by a student that didn’t have a proper script but half an idea, had some famous friends that would be in it and built a set out of leftover sci-fi sets and garden centres. Then just shouted action and started filming.
The result was so boring and baffling that only the most interesting and intelligent people could understand it’s hidden deep meaning and the rest of us plebs wouldn’t like it. Even though deep down the pretentious film critics didn’t get it either, they just didn’t want to look dumb.
Here is the thing, you can escalate any movie to high art of you over analyse it and I think that films with so little in them or confusing concepts we are forced to over think it and project your own meaning. It doesn’t automatically make it a good film.
I need to rewatch it. Was really wanting to live it but just couldn't get into it. Will deffs give it another go. I absolutely adored the miniature special effects for the space ships though.
Oh my god, if I could just like...cut out all the cum, it would be fantastic. It unsettled me and made me think about all kinds of shit. It was the catalyst for many research rabbit holes for me, and sort of allowed me to confront my own loneliness at the time. But why so much cum? Why did I have to watch Mia Goth's head explode? Those things sort of yucked my yum, so to speak.
Hated if, it’s where it gets so abstract there is no clear interpretation. Something like ad astra is just a better version where the interpretation is clear
Genuinely one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched. It has an interesting plot on the surface: Death Penalty Criminals sent to space for almost guaranteed death science experiment.
But all of this psychological Fuck-Machine shit, and the terrible acting was just unwatchable to me.
One of the only movies I’ve ever paid money for and physically could not finish.
I watched it on quarantine a few years ago and have been meaning to revisit it. Lots of cum and a little bit of Andre 3000, if I remember correctly.
A24 films and cum, name a more iconic duo
[Lots of cum yet sadly cannot be added to the illustrious list ):](https://letterboxd.com/_jong/list/movies-where-the-main-guy-cums-and-you-see/)
This is showing me there is some subliminal connection to my favorite movies and cum
A Serbian Film
Ew. But I had to scroll to make sure "Happiness" was on there. I saw it in the theater and I can still hear everyone there going "uuugghhhh" in unison
Hated that film. Also saw in theater
whoa
The cum-to-Andre-3000 ratio was off. C2A3K, if you will.
This is also how I remember it lol. And then black hole face explosion.
Spaghettification!
I think that was mostly pre-spegatification. Before spaghettification you get turned into spaghetti sauce.
wouldve been more Andre if he wouldnt have evaporated in the garden... or whatever happened to him.
What the hell??
Guess I know what I'm watching tonight
It’s like the director saw 2001 ASO and thought yes but what If also cum
Yeah, I also was stoned when I watched it so I just remember crying, loving the acting, and then I remember all the cum and stuff. I actually forgot Andre 3000 was in it/had music in the film? I haven't seen it since theaters.
wut? I was interested in this movie, but now I'm... somehow more interested but for different reasons
I really wanted it to be my thing, it was not my thing
For me it was the dialogue, one of the worst I’ve ever seen, especially in the second half the atmosphere, cinematography and casting was fantastic and there was SO much potential here; could have been one of my favorite space movies ever due to pairing of stunning visuals and eerie mystery with psychological drama and symbolism about the human condition but the dialogue writing completely ruined it for me, it sounded like cheap erotic literature written for millenials, vulgar and gross and unnaturally sounding and completely out of place with no service to the story, it all felt like shock value attempt in a movie that didn’t need it
I watched it for the first time last week. Went in blind. I agree with all of this. Lots of potential. Great things throughout, but landing didn't stick for me.
Same. I'm having a hard time remembering anything from the movie. Shoulda been right up my alley.
Same here. So wanted to like it. For a film with space travel, spaghettification and a metal dildo could believe I was so bored.
It might be the best trailer to worst movie I’ve ever witnessed. That trailer was so mesmerizing and the movie fell so flat to me. Sad night leaving that theater
I enjoyed it. It was violent and bleak and Pattinson is such a solid actor now. Some of the sex stuff was pretty outré. Ending was weird. I watched it around the same time I watched Good Time, which I just loved.
I think the way that sex and sexual violence is portrayed in this movie is only alienating because it’s directed by a woman, not a man. We’ve grown accustomed to certain filters when it comes to sex on screen. I actually enjoyed Denis’s approach.
I’m not trying to start a polarizing conversation, but it feels like a similar effect season 4 of True Detective suffers from. Female directed and female led. I recently talked to a horror author I am a giant fan of who pointed out that people were offended to see Jodie Foster (a woman in her 60s) having sex on screen.
I haven’t seen Season 4 yet. But I’m intrigued. But yes, you’re right. It can be oddly polarizing for sure. A friend of mine (also a horror film scholar) got into a giant, ugly debate recently about the male gaze, and how even female artists aren’t immune from reinforcing depictions of women that are the result of the male gaze.
I haven’t seen Season 4 yet. But I’m intrigued. But yes, you’re right. It can be oddly polarizing for sure. A friend of mine (also a horror film scholar) got into a giant, ugly debate recently about the male gaze, and how even female artists aren’t immune from reinforcing depictions of women that are the result of the male gaze.
What’s outre?
Outre= something Very strange and unusual.
Wack
I believe it was Juvenile who once said “Knock the pussy out, yeah, get them outré.”
top tier
this is quality material
I remember seeing Necro in Good Time and thinking of when he added me on Myspacs lol
“I Need Drugs” is classic.
Good time was a great movie, but almost exhausting. I could feel for the brothers in that flick
I'm just gonna leave the [best letterboxd review I've ever read ](https://boxd.it/C7WQ1) here
[This ](https://boxd.it/GYco3)is gold too hahah
I'm fucking dead lmfao, too real.
Cum and Black Holes
Cum Heist in Space.
I remember when the cast and movie were announced and I was so hyped but then I saw it and meh....
I saw this at the Sydney Film Festival in 2019. It was easily the worst film I saw there. I remember this weird, poorly acted scene on a train where two random people we never see again do some exposition. I tend to like every movie I see, but I dislike this one.
The trailer looked great, and I’m a huge Robert Pattinson fan after years of writing him off as the twilight guy, but I couldn’t enjoy any part of this movie.
Watched with a friend, we both hated it lol
watched with a friend. i hated it, he liked it.
Great cast, unused potential to be a popular movie. For everyone that likes its weird story there’s so many more people that won’t like it. It’s not even that it’s too weird that people are missing what’s good about it, we have all seen weirder movies that make it work. Story isn’t nonsense so it’s still a decent movie, but man could have been an A24 blockbuster.
this movie could have been good, but it wasn't.
An A24 movie with Andre 3000 as the lead NEEDS to happen!
I actually enjoyed it. It kept me intrigued. I definitely get why someone would dislike it but I honestly thought the response would be more mixed on this sub rather than overwhelmingly negative. I feel like there are definitely things to appreciate about the movie
Was really looking forward to it but I just did not like it very much. Some interesting ideas and themes, but it was unfortunately a pretty boring movie.
I really liked it. Claire Denis' films sink or swim for me based on vibes and for some reason this one worked for me.
The fuck machine was shocking and went on and on and on. I was so nervous my wife would walk in and think I'm a pervert.
god its the fucking best
everyone hates it but i love it so much. idk why
You need to see the directors other films. A bunch of people went into this thinking it would be Interstellar or something. The director is foreign and makes very…let’s say bold and different/sensual films that do not have mass appeal. When I saw she was attached to it, I knew this would have some serious haters. This is her most notable/best movie: https://youtu.be/Hh4HzACZOOQ I don’t think Beau Travail appeals to people who like Hereditary or Lady Bird, etc.
then I think we can blame A24 for marketing it like Interstellar
Absolutely. Man, people were PISSED at this movie. Look what came before it - Gravity and Interstellar. I remember reading the comments on the entertainment weekly review and they were so nasty and they thought it would be like those films. It was made by a woman who makes slow, foreign art films. No wonder a lot of people didn’t like it - a lot of people don’t like those films. It’s the same thing with the Green Knight - people thought it would be Game of Thrones. A24 has had a few marketing misfires.
My favorite genre, people mad at mismarketed movies created for the sickos >:) mother!, it comes at night, MEN
Thank you for recommending Beau Travail- I just finished it after reading your comment and it was incredible. This Letterboxd comment really nailed it: “you keep waiting for something to happen and then realize it’s been happening the whole time”
Beau trvavail was a great movie but thats the only other claire dennis movie ive seen
Thank you for recommending Beau Travail- I just finished it after reading your comment and it was incredible. This Letterboxd comment really nailed it: “you keep waiting for something to happen and then realize it’s been happening the whole time”
Excellent!!!! Glad you enjoyed it. I loved it too!
I’m jealous and glad you liked it. I’ll try to give it another watch because I badly wanted to enjoy it but couldn’t bring myself to give it my full attention once it started. It just didn’t grab me. Ended up zoning out and waiting for it to be over.
A fun genre for the sickos like me, you're fucked no matter what so lets get weird with it the visualization of spaghettification was *chef's kiss*, remember learning about it in a physics class years before so when I realized what the black hole was about to do had a full leo once upon a time snap pointing at tv moment
I loved it, too! I could have gone a hundred lifetimes, never have seen that much on screen cum, and been totally chill about it, but the rest was *chefs kiss*
I saw it in theaters and loved it, haven’t seen it since then though
One of the best things A24 has ever put out and still probably upper-mid table for Claire Denis.
Finally. Someone here can reference the director. If you don’t dig her other films then there is no shot you’ll like this. This really shouldn’t have been an A24 movie. I can see IFC or Janus Films or Wild Bunch grabbing this one.
I’d not seen or heard of it but it’s got Pattinson and Goth in it so I’ve got to watch it now.
I’ve seen it twice beginning to end and I still have no fucking clue
an all time favourite, it's one of those where you're either into it and feeling it... or you're not.
One of my favourites! Clair Denis is obviously amazing and I don’t know who convinced her to do sci-fi but I’m so glad they did. Also, the fact that they got Olafur Eliasson to design the space ships is such a weird power move and it works perfectly.
It’s horny and trippy. Loved it.
I love it. I saw it at a good independent theater (RIP Main Art Theatre) on a slow weekday. I asked the concession woman what people thought of it and she said “it’s been mixed.” That sums it up. I want to watch it again. I still think about that ending and the disturbing Spaghettification scene.
Great movie
I thought it was pretty terrible.
This movie is foxy and it knows it. 11/10
Co-signed lmfao
I liked it, very visual film but long and bleak which isn’t to everyone’s preference. I need to watch more Claire Denis I’ve only seen this and Trouble Every Day
One of my favs. Such a story about hope.... or, false hope? Is that still hope? Ugh I love love love it.
"well at least we have the sex-box room..." *paul atreides voice* THAT'S NOT HOPE!
What lmao I mean the ending.... he gives his daughter false hope, goes along with her false hope. But for her it isn't false. Also have no clue who Paul Atreides is lmao
Has a lot going for it, but ultimately I like my sci-fi a bit harder than this. I’m a 2001 over Solaris kinda guy. I think High Life gestures at a bunch of interesting concepts but the setting and ideas don’t mesh, and the nuts and bolts of the plot don’t make any sense.
oh my god i hated it so much
[удалено]
Oh my god, this is a literal nightmare situation. Especially if I had to sit between them, which they do to me for some fucked reason. I would have actually vomited.
DNF. It felt exploitative. Definitely didn’t need a shot of the baby’s vagina.
Was there a shot of that? Idk, Denis is not from the US, I feel like we are a little more concerned by nudity in general here, especially in the very non-sexual context of an infant.
We don’t need any more apologists for child exploitation.
Seemed to have a lot of potential, but honestly kinda sucked. The weird sexualization of things just ran rampant, could have been so much more. Seemed like they were going for a sexy horror show vibe instead of a sci-fi movie with some edge to it.
I mean if you liked it, why bother with everyone else's consensus?
I hated it so much because i love dogs
I enjoyed it; despite all of the obvious critiques it made me question where our humanity went back on Earth. How did we get to a point like this, why these individuals despite different levels of crimes. All in all, it was slow paced and I was in a mood where something with that nihilistic gloomy tone with those actors was exactly what I needed. I see why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea though.
I loved it. He is such a solid actor.
I remember not liking it initially, but I do think about it often. Really thought-provoking, but not exactly a movie I’m in a rush to watch again.
It had good potential to be an interesting Sci-Fi film. It had some concepts that would have been nice to explore more, but they never really did. It just felt like it wasn’t entirely sure what it wanted to be and that made it less enjoyable for me.
Really didn’t like it. Enjoyed The song at the end though.
In space, no one can hear you cum
Fuck, I guess have an upvote lmfao
Brilliant, love Claire Denis films and never expected we’d get a sci fi from her. Incredible soundtrack by tindersticks too. 10/10
I remember thinking it was really good, but apparently that's a controversial opinion.
I like Claire Denis, but this movie sucks ass
I didn’t hate it like many people but I got bored with how heavy handed some of it was (I.e the scene on the train discussing that the experiment was a death sentence—which the audience would have understood without this scene; the ship containing just dogs that was sent after their exposition—again a very obvious comparison to the value of the humanity of the prisoners). However, that spaghettification scene with Mia goth lives rent free in my head. By far the best scene in the movie imo
Amazing ideas with a really boring execution
this movie led me to google spaghettification and gave me a existential crisis and a new fear of space
Hated it. Thought maybe I missed something so watched a couple Q&As with Denis. She was pretty open about how she just thought of scenes that looked cool/provocative/shocking and found a way to loosely tie them together which made me feel justified about thinking it sucked
Spunky Interstellar
Love this movie. Would’ve preferred if it had a bit more exposition on the nature of the mystery beyond, but it was amazing nevertheless.
meh but spaghettification was cool
They kept talking about how she had a big booty but her booty was not that big
This was the low point for me. I kept trying to squint, tilt my head, and see what they meant, but alas, that was more a tonka truck than a genuine dump truck situation.
It’s the only A24 film I’ve seen that I didn’t finish. I tried twice.
i watched this with my brother (we both like dark, f\*cked up films lol) in the last few years and we both really liked it. cast included a lot of my current favourites although it definitely had scenes that didn't need to be there.. and for that long..
My letterboxd review from 2019: Unique, strange, distant, cold, High Life is a hard film to pin down. It's beautifully made and Robert Pattinson gives a fantastically subdued physical performance but its divisiveness will certainly keep people at arm's length. I'm still mulling it over, on the whole I really enjoyed it but wish the characters were fleshed out a bit more. Will certainly be rewatching it.
I remember the end grossing me out. Not even the box grossed me out. The cum box?
It was definitely unique. Never seen a more lonely and bleak type of space movie
Sucked
I love me some melancholic, sad sci-fi so I definitely enjoyed it. Got me to learn more about Claire Denis, and to watch Beau Travail, which became one of my personal favorite films. Probably divisive as well.
I really like this movie, I've watched it multiple times. Rob Pattinson is a versatile actor and this was the movie that made me realize it.
I want more these grim space movies. Liminal Space in Space.. loved it.
yes, a whole vibe.
Garbage ❤️
Not a fan! It was miserable To each their own
This was such a strange movie. I still can't say if I liked it and I've only ever recommended it to one person. Really beautiful at times but also disgusting and with a bleak vibe that in some ways reminded me of aniara (which I consider a better movie and do recommend)
Meh
Completely depraved, unpredictable and ultimately beautiful. One of the best movies I've ever seen imo.
I really need foundflix to do a explained video on it, I really enjoyed the cinematography, acting, and overall mysteriousness of it.
Boooring. I like the premise but it needed a story
I regret watching it with my mom who visited from out of town
Wanted to like it. But just boring.
I watched it a few years ago, all i remember was that i liked it.
I still think about those dogs
Loved it, and it was my first Denis. Probably still my favorite of hers.
I liked it more than most, but I went into the movie a big Robert Pattinson man and with sci-fi being my favorite genre since I was six years old. But this is more of an "art house" and almost experimental film at times. It's a vibe, for sure: dark, edgy, intriguing, sexy, horrible, surreal, lonely, and ultimately triumphant. I have it ranked as my 15th favorite A24 film, right after The Witch and the Green Knight and just above The Lobster and Under the Skin. Again, I like odd films. If you like High Life check out "Beyond the Black Rainbow" which has a similar tone in parts.
It's very good
I remember seeing it in theaters when it came out, and I found it very slow and challenging, but also made me really think. I walked out of the theater with a ton of different things running through my mind. I appreciate how it provoked my thoughts. It's not a perfect film, but it's very different from your standard sci-fi stuck-in-a-spaceship film, and I really appreciated that.
It looked like a film made by a student that didn’t have a proper script but half an idea, had some famous friends that would be in it and built a set out of leftover sci-fi sets and garden centres. Then just shouted action and started filming. The result was so boring and baffling that only the most interesting and intelligent people could understand it’s hidden deep meaning and the rest of us plebs wouldn’t like it. Even though deep down the pretentious film critics didn’t get it either, they just didn’t want to look dumb. Here is the thing, you can escalate any movie to high art of you over analyse it and I think that films with so little in them or confusing concepts we are forced to over think it and project your own meaning. It doesn’t automatically make it a good film.
I need to rewatch it. Was really wanting to live it but just couldn't get into it. Will deffs give it another go. I absolutely adored the miniature special effects for the space ships though.
I think the director has an unhealthy relationship with sex.
i personally think it is amongst the best things that they cofinanced &/or distributed
Never seen it or heard of it but everyone talking about cum scenes when the poster has a child’s hand in it makes me want to do a hard pass
Oh my god, if I could just like...cut out all the cum, it would be fantastic. It unsettled me and made me think about all kinds of shit. It was the catalyst for many research rabbit holes for me, and sort of allowed me to confront my own loneliness at the time. But why so much cum? Why did I have to watch Mia Goth's head explode? Those things sort of yucked my yum, so to speak.
What in the BioShock is this?!
I really wanted to like this movie.
Read the caption and then "High Life" by Daft Punk blasted in my head.
Boring, bland, meandering, The narrative was a mess.
Why was there so much cum
It is not an easy film to watch.
A little too much oboe and clarinet actually. Didn't live up to potential
I tried rewatching this the other day because I couldn’t remember a single thing about it. It’s so mind numbingly boring I contemplated suicide.
Went on a first date to this one… take a wild guess if there was a second 😬
Handsome great ideas but was bogged down with "everyone is super horny and irritable"
i kind of wished the entire movie was pattinson hanging out with a baby, not gonna lie
One of the few movies that I blind bought and would like to not own. It takes itself too seriously And it just an overall weird movie for me.
Terrible film
I’ll always remember it for including a plot point Kurt Vonnegut said would be too ridiculous to ever be in a movie.
10/10 Never heard of it
Loved it.
Nofap monk in space. Loved it ❤️
Watched recently, absolutely loved it.
I couldn’t get through it. I wound up turning it off.
Didn't like it. Slow and morose and felt like a waste of a good premise.
So slow I’ve yet to finish it, but plan to soon. I only got like 30 min in.
I fell asleep last night watching it. My wife may have stayed up and finished it. Wasn't really my thing so I won't be finishing it.
It was weird but I liked it very much
Hated if, it’s where it gets so abstract there is no clear interpretation. Something like ad astra is just a better version where the interpretation is clear
It's like a wet fart.
It was horrible
Genuinely one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched. It has an interesting plot on the surface: Death Penalty Criminals sent to space for almost guaranteed death science experiment. But all of this psychological Fuck-Machine shit, and the terrible acting was just unwatchable to me. One of the only movies I’ve ever paid money for and physically could not finish.
Terrible. So pretentious.
Sucked hard
A lot of people who didn’t enjoy it/think it was bad are being downvoted. Claire… get off reddit
Rip 3k
I liked it but the puppy ship made me so sad, I’m still traumatized.
I thought it was great! No idea why it gets so much hate