NP - Terrence Malick SUCKS!

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Sun Nov 27 22:20:02 CST 2016


They all play vague and obscure but hint at a depth that will counter their
obscurity. That play is endless and pointless, unless you buy into some
vague cosmology of his. If his game was fun... But it isn't.  It's just
VERY pretentious.

David Morris

On Sunday, November 27, 2016, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com> wrote:

> His first two films, Badlands and Days of Heaven, were extraordinary in
> telling a tale visually instead of through dialogue.  After a long gap, he
> returned, but his basically Christian philosophy, which seems to go
> unnoticed, has derailed his recent films.  (I think his thesis at college
> ... Yale? ... Harvard? ... was on a Christian theme ... sorry to be
> vague.). Al they all seem the same .... ladies in summer dresses twirling
> in meadows as an emotional high point.
>
> On Nov 27, 2016, at 6:30 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
> All of them!  The only one I could stomach was "What Dreams May Come."
> But even that is pretentious beyond belief.  WHY do people like his shit?
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sunday, November 27, 2016, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dkholm at mac.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Which one?
>>
>> > On Nov 27, 2016, at 6:10 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I HATE his shit!!!! How did he ever get it funded?
>> >
>> > David Morris
>>
>
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