Those bits were very nicely done. Just gorgeous.
Edit: Bonny, I have not, but I very much want to.
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
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Anne W. - Jun 25, 2011 4:31:16 pm PDT #15173 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Juliebird - Jun 25, 2011 4:34:45 pm PDT #15174 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
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.
beekaytee - Jun 25, 2011 4:37:18 pm PDT #15175 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Julie, I totally blotted that scene out of my memory. I'm with you, entirely.
Juliebird - Jun 25, 2011 4:41:00 pm PDT #15176 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
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.
Jessica - Jun 26, 2011 4:51:58 am PDT #15177 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
§ ita § - Jun 26, 2011 5:12:02 am PDT #15178 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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!"
Jessica - Jun 26, 2011 9:24:58 am PDT #15179 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Burrell - Jun 26, 2011 4:02:40 pm PDT #15180 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
rape jokes? seriously?
SailAweigh - Jun 26, 2011 4:24:36 pm PDT #15181 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Sounds like 9 to 5 rewritten to be for men, at least the premise as given at IMDb makes it sound that way.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 26, 2011 6:39:27 pm PDT #15182 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I ahd the impression it was a mash-up of 9 to 5 and Strangers on a Train.