Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Tree Of Life
Anyone else seen The Tree Of Life yet?
It's magnificently bonkers. A kind of dreamy sinister nostalgia for a 50s childhood, all soft-focus magic-hour tableaux. But with scenes set in space... And with dinosaurs...
But what's truly remarkable about it is that it is a truly big "head" movie, of the type that hasn't been in fashion since 2001 A Space Odyssey. If this was 1968 there would be hippies getting out of their faces to trip out on this in the matinees.
And if you think the interplanetary special effects look a bit familiar, then it might be because a certain Mr Trumbull has come out of retirement. Yes, that's right: CGI be damned, as Douglas gets out his smoke and coloured inks and slow motion camera, and blows the competition away again. Truly, the special effects are magnificent. That kind of slow moving grace that hasn't been fashionable since Blade Runner.
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Bored
Went to see this on Sunday and I was bored stupid. Actually nodded off.
I'm no highbrow film man. Pretty much middle brow tastes and I prefer to see film in an art house rather than a multiplex.
But I didn't get it.
People were laughing on the way out.
Philistines!
Actually, I can sympathise with that. The line between pretension and glory is thin indeed, and with this film Mr Malick teeters on the edge.
Bored
Havent seen it yet, however, "The thin red line" bored the tits off me.
I shant be rushing to see this.
Erm...
"If this was 1968 there would be hippies getting out of their faces to trip out on this in the matinees." That statement alone is enough to put me off. Thanks, but no thanks.