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Superman Returns – *** I remember Metropolis on a sign at the wharf too. Also, I think it may have been on the masthead of the Daily Planet, but I'm not sure.
Also, looks like quite a bit got cut from the final movie, including scenes where Martha encourages Clark to go back to the paper and find his place back in the world. I think the movie would have benefited if those scenes had been in there. ***
Margaret Weis says that she likes the script for Dragons of Autumn Twilight.
Re: Stardust
Great cast too.
Not so sure about that. The casting of Captain Shakespeare is a worring sign that the movie might infact turn out to be dogpoo.
So, we rented The New World last night. Despite both the BF and I being Malick fans, we found it so ponderous and meandering that we stopped watching about halfway through. The young girl is mesmerizing, but not enough to repay those precious minutes of my life ticking away. And this reaction from two people who adore Jarmusch films and can watch them over and over. Anyone else have this reaction?
Quite the opposite for me. In fact, I found it so mesmerizing that I watched it again the next day. It's my favorite Malick after Badlands.
I saw it multiple times in theatres, too. Haven't watched it on DVD yet because I'm not sure the small screen can really do it justice -- part of the love comes from the experience of just being enveloped by the film's universe. (Though if the DVD came with a "no voiceover" option on the soundtrack, I might be tempted.)
Oh, I even loved the voiceovers. Malick does voiceovers like no one else.
I didn't catch it in theaters ('cause with a 17-month-old, I don't catch anything in theaters), but found myself enveloped in Malick's world on DVD with a 34" tv.
Thanks for the comments, guys. We were both exhausted and probably unduly cranky. I'll give it another go.
I hope you do and hope you enjoy it on rewatch. But give yourself some distance.
I thought the movie was a great example of Malick's metaphysical belief in the interconnectedness of all people, as well as a wonderful metaphor for transition and the meaning of struggle and dialectic. But, yeah, like all Malick, you have to accept it on its own terms.
I do not think I am a Malick person, as The Thin Red Line is one of the few movies after which I honestly wanted my time back. (The only other one that comes to mind is Troy, though that may have been only my money, at the very least.)