Tree of Life

[Gilberto]

Oh my God. This movie just blew me away. I think this movie set out to do what The Fountain set out to do, but actually accomplished it. Not to take away from the Fountain, but that's the feeling I got from it.

Terrence Mallick basically tells the story of life on Earth through the perspective of one family, essentially equating the death of one person to the loss of all meaning in the universe. I really liked this movie. It's the only movie I've seen in several years that made me want a bigger TV. It's a visual journey.

Mallick is a brilliant still photographer who doesn't seem to know he's shooting moving pictures, but there's no doubt the pictures he shoots are moving. And the voice-over style and removed stream of consciousness are disturbingly intimate. Even as he takes you back to the days of the dinosaurs you never lose the emotion of the story. It's a really amazing movie.

[drivebyluna]

See, I stayed away from this after hearing that this was from the same guy that did The Thin Red Line (which I hated). I have a friend who keeps pestering me to watch it with him, maybe I should take him up on it.

[Gilberto]

Yeah, I've avoided his movies because they're a whole lot of long boring business, but the trailer caught my eye. I might try another of his, but I didn't care for the Thin Red Line. It is a similar narrative style, though, but I think it works in this story.

One time I was watching the Thin Red Line on HBO and a fell asleep. I woke up hours later and it was still on. Fell asleep again, woke up and it was still on, like not much had even happened. This went on forever until I finally woke up enough to realize that they had repeated it. Still, it left me with the unsettling impression that the movie was hours and hours long.

I don't like movies that screw with me while I'm sleeping. I put that owl movie on the other night while I was sick and now it just reminds of too much of weird dreams to watch it proper.

[lynn]

I've had that falling asleep to wake up hours later and it's still on experience. It's called letting Ben watch Lord of the Rings extended cuts.
It's like watching movies while you're stoned (so I hear) we were watching Hellboy once and my friend wandered in and freaked out and had to leave the room because she couldn't watch a movie called Hellboy in her state.