NP - Terrence Malick SUCKS!

[Mark Thibodeau]

Yeah... the way all his characters walk in slow motion through
lovingly photographed tableaux, gently touching things with their
fingertips while portentous voice-over monologues drone on in sotto
voce... it's all a bit much.

J.

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:20 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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> 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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