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Before Passengers today they showed an extended preview of the Fate of the Furious. Awesome.

How was Passengers?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:How was Passengers?

Better than I expected it to be. Story presented some interesting philosophical/moral questions. The space visuals were nice. I'll be interested to hear your take, LV. I'm not a big fan of either actor, but they were fine in it.

http://www.stereogum.com/1918177/terren ... n=timeline

tl;dr
Terrance Malick. SXSW. Baby Goose. Rooney Mara. Michael Fassbender. Natalie Portman. Annie Clark.

Best. Movie. Ever.

Malick is terrible now. I'm done trying his new movies.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Malick is terrible now. I'm done trying his new movies.

I didn't see Knight of Cups. But I think Tree of Life is his most ambitious and accomplished work (even if it's not my personal favorite). To The Wonder wasn't great but it was light years better than The Thin Red Line. I didn't see Brave New World either. But I heard good things.

durdencommatyler wrote:I didn't see Knight of Cups. But I think Tree of Life is his most ambitious and accomplished work (even if it's not my personal favorite). To The Wonder wasn't great but it was light years better than The Thin Red Line. I didn't see Brave New World either. But I heard good things.

What in the holy everloving fuck

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I didn't see Knight of Cups. But I think Tree of Life is his most ambitious and accomplished work (even if it's not my personal favorite). To The Wonder wasn't great but it was light years better than The Thin Red Line. I didn't see Brave New World either. But I heard good things.

What in the holy everloving fuck

Worse than TFA?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I didn't see Knight of Cups. But I think Tree of Life is his most ambitious and accomplished work (even if it's not my personal favorite). To The Wonder wasn't great but it was light years better than The Thin Red Line. I didn't see Brave New World either. But I heard good things.

What in the holy everloving fuck

I hate The Thin Red Line probably more than any other major motion picture I've ever seen. Even something as minor and low budget as Manos: The Hands of Fate made me laugh, even if it wasn't supposed to. (Manos is worse than The Thin Red Line, by the way). I fucking HATE The Thin Red Line.

TTRL is probably one of the greatest movies ever made and the only truly essential Malick movie

BUT! in my defense.... a lot of why I hated that movie was expectation and the actual movie theater going experience. I have not dared revisit the thing. But it's entirely possible that I would enjoy it more now that I have a broader understanding of Malick's work AND I'm so far removed from that initial terrible experience.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:TTRL is probably one of the greatest movies ever made and the only truly essential Malick movie

That's absurd.

I did really like Ben Chapman in it though.

Also it should not even be compared to th unbearable dogshit that is To the Wonder

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Also it should not even be compared to th unbearable dogshit that is To the Wonder

I wouldn't compare them, either. I was just ranking them. They are very different films with very different objectives. I wasn't a big fan of To The Wonder, really. It's dull and veers toward lifelessness. But in it's best moments, it's exquisite. But, yeah, I wouldn't really try to compare it to TTRL beyond the fact that the same guy directed them.

no, say it is dogshit

goddammit now I'm angry

That's better