NP - Malick's The Tree of Life

[David Morris]

Well, if you'd read the same NYMag reviewer's take on the latest
Pirates movie, you'd know he doesn't agree w/ you:

TOL:  "After warming up with The Thin Red Line and The New World,
Malick has succeeded in fully creating his own film syntax, his own
temporal reality, and lo, it is … kind of goofy. But riveting."

POC4:  "The fourth Disney–Jerry Bruckheimer–Johnny Depp Pirates
picture, ­Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, is not merely
bad. It buries the memory of the days when movies seemed fresh and
innocent, when you could be swept along by a story without terms like
“franchise” and “tent-pole” and box-office grosses and the
Tomato-meter and the likelihood of sequels and spinoffs crowding the
characters out of your head. I’ve never seen a film in which what was
actually onscreen seemed so irrelevant."

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> Hmmm.  Must be seen....but it could very well be sillier than the Pirates of the Caribbean movie its so appropriately paired with.,.,.
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:26 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/tree-of-life-edelstein-review-2011-5/
>>
>> Terrence Malick’s overblown, goofy, slightly ridiculous The Tree of Life should be seen immediately.