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Let's be honest, most people who like his (TM) films are...

posted 9 years ago by ItalianGreyhound
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... pretentious hipsters who will like anything that's perceived to be "different" or "experimental" in order to make themselves sound "hipper than thou". These people will spend hours discussing films like this and "The Tree of Life" with fellow hipsters, looking for all kinds of meaning in these films, when in fact it's just a random collection of images because TM can no longer be bothered to write a proper screenplay. They are narrow-minded people who (along with TM) forget that film is foremost an entertainment medium.

[–] Projectedlight 9 years ago

You are narrow minded.

Film can be anything its creators will it to be.

[–] extraordinarilyordinary 9 years ago

Sigh...smh...Let's agree to disagree.

[–] mini-zappa 9 years ago

You're retarded.

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[–] ItalianGreyhound 9 years ago

At least "The Avengers" was entertaining. This film (along with almost everything else TM has done) is not.

[–] jm44849 9 years ago

Well, I do love the thinker films, but, for those who only pretend to love a film, that pretends to be a thinker film.... I like you the least. I have always let all know it to, and it turns out that those leaders that the 'pretenders' want to be associated with, recognized my style, and chose to hang with me and mine. ( business owner, yacht racer, licensed captain, with 2 movies, 2 Olympic teams, and one president.) (Whose staff hung around after the race, and ended up getting in trouble.)

[–] jm44849 9 years ago

Correction.... too.

[–] mazardeus 9 years ago

Do me a favor and go suck a Bible. Calling us pretentious hipsters is far from the description of those who appreciate cinema as an art form from Malick, Kubrick, Cuaron, and Shyamalan. Also, The Last Airbender is also a work of art. And the sequel is coming.

[–] Doc80 9 years ago

The exception is that the directors you mentioned actually made films that were widely loved because they entertained. Malick doesn't know how to make a film that is actually entertaining. I've said it before but a film doesn't work if the audience isn't engaged or bored to death.

[–] mazardeus 9 years ago

Entertainment...lol. Clearly, you need to open your mind a bit more, and take some university level classes on cinema. There's more to cinema than just Hollywood's formulaic entertainment. Malick's films are extremely beautiful, captures my deepest emotions, and inspires with enlightening philosophical messages. Most importantly, it is the film expressing stylized themes, camera angles, its pacing through editing, and many more. THAT is entertainment for me. Do not think that what audiences think is not entertaining enough = a bad film. The audiences (mainstream) you are talking about are a bunch of idiots.

[–] robbystoner 9 years ago

I don't think I am a hipster. I just genuinely like Terence Malik films. (I also happen to like Christopher Nolan, Scorcess, Hitchcock, Lars Von Trier, and a slew of others -- anything that is good).

I enjoy watching his work and I tend to find I personally grow as a person when I watch his films.

You think they are random images. I think they are good films. A number of famous Fellini films could also be described by some people as random episodes stitched together without a story line. But if you watch and listen closely they have greater depth and meaning.

I think its important to remember that the old 70s, 80s and 90s notion of story in film is not a hard rule. It can and should be broken by people. 120 pages, 3 acts, and all characters have to change and grow and there needs to be a resolution. Bull!! Why!! Says who?? You might as well say the only type of good film is a good ole' Bob Hope and Bring Crosby good hearted comedy with song and dance and always has to have a happy ending -- everything else is rubbish.

Malik makes visual films at a very different pace to what hollywood mainstream likes.

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[–] ItalianGreyhound 9 years ago

Comparing Fellini to Malick??? LOL 😂

At least Fellini can turn his random episodes into an entertaining film. Something TM is incapable of doing.

[–] robbystoner 9 years ago

I think you haven't watched some of the great Fellini's later works. He was capable of making grand directionless films.

Can this really be the end..to be stuck inside of mobile
with the Memphis blues again.