The Tree of Life

Saw this trailer last night before sitting through Black Swan... I immediately began to grow warm and fuzzy inside.

what happened to all the over the top photorealistic CGI we were promised in between the heart string tugging (dinosaurs and shit) . i'm not a malick fan otherwise i might have something good to say about this.

sweet, The Fountain Part Deux

been looking forward to this

hopefully The Overlook doesn't explode after its release due to all of the metaphysical mumbo jumbo that will be contained within this film....

I love me some mumbo jumbo!

  On 12/16/2010 at 1:15 AM, goffer said:

Saw this trailer last night before sitting through Black Swan... I immediately began to grow warm and fuzzy inside.

sitting through black swan? no good?

Pitt left the original fountain. I bet this burns aronofsky a little.

so, this is baraka with malick's usual pseudo philosophical "all things shinin" narration overtop?

zzz

lol

You have no soul.

awesome use of Smetana.

  On 12/16/2010 at 2:19 AM, remy marathe said:

so, this is baraka with malick's usual pseudo philosophical "all things shinin" narration overtop?

 

zzz

 

lol

Somehow i think that this movie actually has a storyline that they managed not to give away in the trailer too much beyond there's some coming of age reckoning.

So no, clearly not baraka with malick's usually excellent commentary over top.

like the looks of this

I was quite gay for The Thin Red Line and The New World, so I might be gay for this, too. I was not gay for The Fountain, whatsoever, because it was unwatchable.

  On 12/16/2010 at 3:42 AM, The Overlook said:

I was not gay for The Fountain

was expecting quite a bit more from this

I'm a total sucker for Malick

  On 12/16/2010 at 2:12 AM, jules said:

  On 12/16/2010 at 1:15 AM, goffer said:

Saw this trailer last night before sitting through Black Swan... I immediately began to grow warm and fuzzy inside.

 

sitting through black swan? no good?

 

 

Pitt left the original fountain. I bet this burns aronofsky a little.

I enjoyed it... it built and released tension quite well but something just seemed wrong/forced when it came to the horror aspects of the film that provoked me to grow coldly towards it. Aronofsky does not do violence very well or in a convincing matter, I have found. If he did more the the ol' less is more, I think his films would be more powerful. The preview alone for Tree of Life moved me more than all of Black Swan.

What's up with all this The Fountain talk... sure both films, I'm assuming, barrow from The Book of Genesis, but cmon... this is fucking Malick!

I'm also not a huge Malick fan, but that trailer gave me tingles. I like Malick I just wish he had more of a sense of the absurd. He seems to have a sense of absurd futility (woody harrelson blowing off his ass in the Thin Red Line) but that doesn't extend to all aspects of his films, and I think that weakens him a bit. I'm not talking ironic, detached absurdity, more the Herzog thing of actually having love in your heart for the misfit and the bizarre and the outsider, as a complement to the love for the beauty and poetry of life. One thing that bugs me about Malick is he always shoots these bedroom scene flashbacks with a glimpse of shoulder, a curtain blowing in the breeze...get real, most guys remember a face, a tit, a piece of ass. That said he captures things that stick in your head forever. There's a scene at the start of the Thin Red Line where they guy is hanging out with the island people, and there's a great shot of a pretty young native in dusk-light...I think Malick shoots light, particularly dusk-light, better than anyone...though maybe that's his DP

I have to say, after watching The New World, I will give anything this man makes a chance. That movie was utterly fantastic.

incidentally I'm sure glad I no longer feel like "my mother and father always wrestle inside me." Grow up Malick lol

I didn't see the New World, I really should. I actually really like the Thin Red Line even with its flaws

im going to sound incredibly cheesy, but The New World is like watching a three-hour dream-canvas slowly unravel and extend itself over time. the movie itself is the main character....hence why Colin Farrell being in it does not degrade the quality of the film whatsoever.

  On 12/16/2010 at 5:47 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

I have to say, after watching The New World, I will give anything this man makes a chance. That movie was utterly fantastic.

one of the favorites, sounds trac not unlike a marsen jules

  On 12/16/2010 at 5:59 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

im going to sound incredibly cheesy, but The New World is like watching a three-hour dream-canvas slowly unravel and extend itself over time. the movie itself is the main character....hence why Colin Farrell being in it does not degrade the quality of the film whatsoever.

that's great...anyway In Bruges made me like Farrell a lot more, I think he probably has more range than he gets credit for. He was pretty good in Minority Report too, but then I wrote him off as this good time boy who parties too much...hard for me to tell how versatile he really is...

  On 12/16/2010 at 6:21 AM, lumpenprol said:

  On 12/16/2010 at 5:59 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

im going to sound incredibly cheesy, but The New World is like watching a three-hour dream-canvas slowly unravel and extend itself over time. the movie itself is the main character....hence why Colin Farrell being in it does not degrade the quality of the film whatsoever.

 

that's great...anyway In Bruges made me like Farrell a lot more, I think he probably has more range than he gets credit for. He was pretty good in Minority Report too, but then I wrote him off as this good time boy who parties too much...hard for me to tell how versatile he really is...

Minority Report? really?

Every second he was on screen in that film I immediately recognized his character was a shallow almost frame-for-frame watering down of Kevin Spacey in L.A. Confidential.

lol. I think anyone copying Spacey would have to be watered down by definition. Thought he was ok at any rate.

i can hardly wait for this movie.

it's funny though... it kinda seems like the thin red line's dialogue in civilian life.

Malick tends to make the same point OVER and OVER in his movies but they really are beautiful things to watch.

my mom liked him a lot in Minority Report when we saw it in theateres together. i loved that movie when i was younger.

I now plan to see The New World.

I tried watching the Thin Red Line a while back and couldn't get into it. it's on netflix instant watch so i think i'll watch it again now.

really liked badlands and days of heaven, the later 2 are faggotry wank i thought. trailer looks like a continuation of exploration of faggotry wankage.