A bad movie for sure, but I don't think you've seen anything by Terence Malik if you think that. Try "The Thin Red Line" sometime or "The New World". Those make BE look like an Oscar contender.
I really wanted to see this movie this weekend. Has anyone here actually seen it, because the other reviews I saw were pretty good. Is there extreme leftism in the film or just your run-of-the-mill leftist garbage? Or are people’s complaints about the acting and the film as film, as opposed to the politics
Again, I hadn’t heard anything political about it, so I thought it was safe to go. : )
“A bad movie for sure, but I don’t think you’ve seen anything by Terence Malik if you think that. Try ‘The Thin Red Line’ sometime”
Yes! Almost as bad as “Badlands” and “Days of Heaven.” Such an overrated director. Proof that what becomes a classic is sometimes completely arbitrary. Someone in 1973 said he’s a genius, and everyone else was too afraid of being passé to disagree.
He doesn’t make movies. He makes what some people call “scenery porn,” forgetting that film is a narrative artform. If I want to see pretty pictures, I’ll go to the museum, thank you very much.