Great performance from Shia LaBeouf and you can feel his pain from his real life experiences. Noah Jupe was really good too. I wish I liked it more but I just didn't connect that well with the story.
A cathartic writing experience for Shia, I'm sure. It's a good film, and really quite insightful
I don't know how much of this is based on fact on Shia's life but to go through all that in childhood and still live with It today and have a great acting career at the same time is amazing and heartwarming. I loved the performance from all cast specially Shia's role and I bet it was hard playing that role and writing it.
This is a different kind of movie in that it is a portrayal of Shia LeBeouf's relationship with his father and his life as a child actor. It isn't always an easy watch. I don't know if it would have worked quite as well if LeBeof hadn't been playing the role of his father. I had no idea that he could act on that level. I can't imagine the emotional roller coaster that he must have been on while making it. The movie is very well done.
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Shia LaBeouf is just Americas millennial Morrisey.
It's too bad this movie didn't allow Shia to learn to be better than his father. Hearing about how he treated FKA Twigs after they started dating during this movie was super disappointing.
Really good movie. Pretty much a downer, highly toxic relationship between a boy and his father, but very well made, acted, scripted.
Shia LaBeouf's talent is a spotlight that shines through his characters, revealing all of their depths and complexities, where most actors would be content to gloss everything over with fake tears and odd accents.
I only hope Honey Boy did as much good for LaBeouf as it did for me.
Ya ought not treat the lil feller like that mm-hmm he just a boy
It's pretty funny how i went into this film without knowing anything about it, right after watching Pain & Glory by Pedro Almodovar just the day before and they ended up following pretty much the same structure: two timelines, in the present one you see the main character (loosely based on the real life writer of the movie) deal with the trauma of past events that get shown to you in the flashbacks, and deciding, in the end, to write a film about his life story that ends up being the one you basically just watched, creating a fun inception kind of feeling. Almodovar takes it a step further by showing us the flashbacks were a movie set all along, and LaBeouf does it by being the one that plays the role of his father.
They're both great films that, through the juxtaposition of timelines, successfully encapsulate a person's whole life through making the past a constant in the present and delivering the message that all of us are just collections of moments, feelings and events, all happening at the same time, regardless of time or space. It's a really interesting concept, that does a terrific job of building iconic leading characters.
EDIT: both Little Women and The Last Black Man in San Francisco also self reference their own stories in similar ways. 4 movies from 2019 about creators that end up creating the story you're watching.
A movie about childhood trauma and its effects in later years. Great performance by Shia Labeouf. If you read a little more into his story this movie takes on a different feeling. A good watch
Sadly, I wasn't able to connect with this as much as I am able to connect with other films, which I'd put down to the screenplay, so I didn't enjoy it as much as I could have. I can't say it's one I'd go out of my way to watch. It was a narrative film, so it was slow and not very engaging for me, largely because they're not my preferred kind of film. It was good for the kind of film that it was though. I'd probably give it a 7/10. Come to think of it, I'm not sure the emotion was very well displayed and conveyed in a way that makes the viewer sympathize with the characters. Maybe it's just me who felt like that, you never know.
Noah Jupe (14-years-old), who plays 12-year-old Otis, is seen smoking cigarettes multiple times in the film so I was wondering, how on earth are minors allowed to smoke in movies, and do actors smoke real cigarettes in money. TIL that they usually use herbal cigarettes in films instead of real cigarettes, which also happen to be legal because they're not real cigarettes. fun fact. or is it more of a depressing fact. oh well.
According to IMDb it comes out November 8, not January 25.
Shout by Ali YaparBlockedParent2020-03-10T11:00:47Z
You gotta love when a movie is build on personal stories and hurt. This movie is a love letter to a dysfunctional father.