Mal ,'The Train Job'
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In the trailer, the creation of the world elements are what really hooked me.
--If only because once upon a time I was working on a fanvid that used footage of black holes, big bangs, supernovas, and eclipses as a metaphor for love and heartbreak. In a The Fountain sort of way.
Anne, have you seen The Fountain with Hugh Jackman?
It sounds like The Tree of Life might be similar. Nearly everyone hated it though...I liked it. Like I like What Dreams May Come.
I can forgive a lot of trippy in favor of great visuals and deep emotion.
Those bits were very nicely done. Just gorgeous.
Edit: Bonny, I have not, but I very much want to.
So much love for The Fountain!
Even though the end broke the mood with the whakadoodle killer flowers. I eventually got on board with the violence with that scene, but it took me awhile to stop cracking up over tree semen and Night of the Living Petunias.
Julie, I totally blotted that scene out of my memory. I'm with you, entirely.
I laughed out loud in the theatre watching that.
I also had it worked out at one point why the tone shift made sense, maybe something about the violence of rebirth, but I've lost it now.
While there were parts of the movie that blew me away on several different levels, there were other parts that had me wondering just what the heck I was watching.
So, typical Terrence Malick, then? I am DYING to see this movie.
DH and I went to see Horrible Bosses last night, which was very funny in parts but probably not something I'd pay $13 to see in a theater. I'd recommend it more highly if there weren't so many rape jokes. The three leads all play off each other really well, and the screwball/farce elements are occasionally brilliant, but...wow, that was a lot of rape jokes.
Were the rape jokes centered around Jennifer Aniston? I was looking at the preview thinking "Wow, you couldn't gender swap that role!" Also thinking "Whoa! Colin Farrell? Jesus!"
Mostly, yeah. And then some prison rape jokes because hey, what's funnier than that? But Jennifer Aniston's entire storyline was just extremely off-putting.
rape jokes? seriously?