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[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/[/url]
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This is the new Terrence Malick movie starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. Malick directed one of my all time fav movies The Thin Red Line, this looks like it is going to be another emotional one.
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aaah how did I miss this one. The Thin Red Line was fantastic.
Thanks for the post.
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Looks quite emotional, kind of led to a coming to an age theme, but looks like it revolves aruond the father (Pitt I'm assuming) Cheers, looks good. Thin Red Line...what can I say?
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With narration:
[video=youtube;fLPe0fHuZsc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLPe0fHuZsc[/video]
Good writeup by Roger Ebert: [URL]http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/05/a_prayer_beneath_the_tree_of_l.html[/URL]
This should be released tomorrow. Anyone else want to see this?
Terrence Malick and his movies like this just kill me....this could be one I really love but just ugh...introspective life/family stuff like this + his style just rips me a new one.
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definitely. this trailer gave me chills just now... I can relate with several scenes in the trailer, the kid walking over the pews in the church, that was me :) Dad asking me to hit him, but not with a fist, a lacrosse stick :lol:
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I want to see it, but I'm not the biggest Terrence Malik fan. I respect the enormous talent that he has, but I couldn't really get into Thin Red Line, nor The New World, even though I can appreciate the effort and work that went into both.
I keep reading comparisons to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I think that many will confuse that comparison meaning it's sci fi when it's something much broader in [url="http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/djdb.php?id=172"]scope[/url] (like 2001).
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Badlands [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcFx06cBmbk[/url]
Days of Heaven [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJHLHqsdEPs[/url]
I'm going to watch these again
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Na gonna give this one a miss - New World didn't do it for me - doubt this will either
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Tree of Life wins at Cannes.
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13494479[/url]
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[QUOTE=nick007;961112]Na gonna give this one a miss - New World didn't do it for me - doubt this will either[/QUOTE]
Collin Farrell kept me from ever seeing that movie.
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Heard good things about this.... i would have seen it already but it is open very limited in my city... i will get around to it though.
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Think its in [I]Independent Cinemas [/I]over here...
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looks duly evocative, sublime and right on. fuck yeah
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^go see it, how far is it playing from where you live?
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oh snap, hopefully at the irvine spectrum or the block at orange. gonna check locations lata --- looks liek a deep film just right for a date :D
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Okay, so I saw it a few nights back and I think I like it, but I'm not sure if I'm grasping the overall message of what Malick is trying to say. The comparisons to 2001 are apt - the film has a much bigger picture than the portrayal of growing up during the 50's and in Waco Texas. I think there's a message about regret, forgiveness and the cycle of life.
Still mulling this one over. I'm sure a second viewing will offer some more rewards and insight.
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Seeing this tonight :)
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im hitting this up sometime this week for sure...can't wait.
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The movie was really good... I kept thinking how cool it was that Malick has the guts to make the film HE wants to make and not what others think he should make. The Tree of Life is certainly an example of that. I got what he was trying to say I feel like throughout the film. It is definitely a movie for people who like somewhat abstract and artistic films. I wouldn't take someone to see this who is your average movie goer at all... or someone who listens to pop-music :lol:. I enjoyed the film quiet a bit. I also would add it's not one of those films you feel like talking about after its over. You simply either get it or you don't.
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Yeahp, by the sounds of it it's a must watch.
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[IMG]http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/tree-of-life.png[/IMG]
:lol:
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^I heard about this, great stuff. Anyone who asks for a refund from a movie needs to be punched in the face.
I wasn't able to see this before I moved. Maybe I will have time I hope here while I'm staying in temp housing and can find a theater playing this before it goes off screen. I really want to see this on the big screen.
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[QUOTE=feather;969221][IMG]http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/tree-of-life.png[/IMG]:lol:[/QUOTE]
Sorry to disappoint you folks, this is not going to be similar to "The Hangover II." [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/vCBbn.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/vCBbn.gif[/IMG]
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[QUOTE=floridaorange;969357]Sorry to disappoint you folks, this is not going to be similar to "The Hangover II." [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/vCBbn.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/vCBbn.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I was assured it followed a similar storyline as Part 1, 2 and most likely 3 of [I]The Hangover[/I]
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Finally saw this today after making my way thru my new city to the indie movie theater (which was built in 1915 and has a balcony. Very cool). I didn't like this as much as I hoped I would. Very abstract yes...but I wasn't very emotionally involved with the characters so much...
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You should have listened to some Pumpkins or even some Nine Inch Nails before you went in. It's well done I must admit.
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I do love and appreciate the Mallick style of narration, and have always enjoyed the excessive nature shots, and the tracking shots which float around with the characters not even speaking much, but I wasn't as involved with this as say the characters from The Thin Red Line which is a film I love.
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[QUOTE=res0nat0r;971260]I do love and appreciate the Mallick style of narration, and have always enjoyed the excessive nature shots, and the tracking shots which float around with the characters not even speaking much, but I wasn't as involved with this as say the characters from The Thin Red Line which is a film I love.[/QUOTE]
I'd suggest giving it a few days to sink in. I feel like Mallick plants seeds that need a few days to germinate in the subconscious, try not to judge it yet would my advice. :P
I also think this film would be awkward to watch on the 4th of July.
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^Ah it didn't matter to me about the day...I just moved to town and am not doing anything today, the theater was nice and quiet with probably 95% of the other people there seemed to be in their 60s. But I will probably watch it again when it comes out on DVD and for sure give it another shake. I do like this type of film and probably will like it more if I watch it again sometime down the line...
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[QUOTE=res0nat0r;971251]Finally saw this today after making my way thru my new city to the indie movie theater (which was built in 1915 and has a balcony. Very cool). I didn't like this as much as I hoped I would. Very abstract yes...but I wasn't very emotionally involved with the characters so much...[/QUOTE]
With this movie and even some of his more "recent" films, Malik is much more show than tell. I kind of like the fact that I'm supposed to draw my own conclusions on what's going on, but the absence of any kind of solid narrative that might help you along with the larger message he's trying to convey left me with a similarly "cold" feeling. But I've felt that way about some of Kubrick's films (like Eyes Wide Shut), and I think Malik is a director of a similar breed.
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^I don't know why, but I find this style very refreshing. It's as if Malik is trying to suggest you feel an emotion rather than shoving it down your throat with the same old stories we've seen over and over again since we were kids.
I've been told I have to see "the new world" which obv I have not yet.
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[QUOTE][h=3]Further comments[/h] MARGARET: David.
DAVID: Well, it's certainly ambitious and I love that about it. I loved that about Malick. I've loved the films he made before this, which are all, in one way or another, about man's fall from grace really. But as we've seen already in Cannes and again when the film showed at the Sydney Film Festival, the film divides audiences dramatically. Now, that's probably a good thing. A lot of people dislike it very much, I guess are bored and don't like the fact that there isn't a conventional narrative.
MARGARET: Poor them.
DAVID: Okay. And other's love the audacity and the vision of it all and I guess I'm somewhere in between. I love the vision. I think there are moments when it almost evokes 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY in its grand vision but I don't think it gets there and it's interesting that he tinkered with the film for a couple of years. It was supposed to be in Cannes a year ago and it has last year's date on it as a copyright date but now he's done a six hour director's cut apparently.
MARGARET: Yummy.
DAVID: But I do think there are elements that don't work. I think the Sean Penn character is poorly integrated into the rest of the film and I think the last part of the film, for me, doesn't work so...
MARGARET: Well, you see, I think this is a very personal film for Malick. He grew up in Texas and I think it is him grappling with major questions of life in his life. He's also an academic, an incredibly bright filmmaker, and a great humanist, I think, and I just - I was incredibly moved and stimulated by this film and I'm giving it a rare 5 stars from me.
DAVID: Okay. I can only give it three.
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Blah.... cinematography was amazing... I enjoyed the characters with the 10 minutes of lines they had during the entire movie, but other then that blah... So the kid loses his innocence...so he questions the existence of god. Did not enjoy this movie. Reminded me of a typical Russian movie like Solaris or Stalker.