Anya ,'Storyteller'
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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?
Sounds like 9 to 5 rewritten to be for men, at least the premise as given at IMDb makes it sound that way.
I ahd the impression it was a mash-up of 9 to 5 and Strangers on a Train.
From AV Club:
Following up on the Coen Brothers’ hints that their next film would have “quite a bit of music in it,” the L.A. Times is reporting that the duo is working on a script set in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, which had quite a bit of music in it, indeed. Specifically they’re said to be drawing from The Mayor Of MacDougal Street, the posthumously published memoir of Greenwich resident guitarist and guru Dave Van Ronk, who befriended and guided artists like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Phil Ochs to greater fame and fortune than he would ever experience.