NP - Terrence Malick SUCKS!

[David Morris]

It's funny, but seemingly true, that people either love or hate Malick's
films.  I hate them. I would probably find his company maddeningly smug and
purposefully obscure, projecting a sense of deep meaning in every sigh.  It
seems a formula, a facade, posing as depth.  I guess that is the definition
of "pretension."

David Morris

On Monday, November 28, 2016, Danny Weltman <danny.weltman at gmail.com> wrote:

> "(I think his thesis at college ... Yale? ... Harvard? ... was on a
> Christian theme ... sorry to be vague.)"
>
> I have not read the thesis, but Wikipedia says: "After a disagreement with
> his tutor, Gilbert Ryle, over his thesis on the concept of world in
> Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, Malick left Oxford without a
> degree. In 1969, Northwestern University Press published Malick's
> translation of Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes as The Essence of Reasons."
>
> I am going to go out on a limb and say that Malick has a bit more going on
> with his philosophy than it being "basically Christian," at least insofar
> as that label would be derogatory enough to make the influence of the
> philosophy a "derailing" one as opposed to a guiding one or some other
> neutral or perhaps praiseworthy adjective. I can say that one need not be
> Christian in the last to find his stuff extremely compelling, as I do. It
> perhaps helps that 99% of the time, when someone uses "pretentious" as a
> derogatory term, it marks something I'm liable to enjoy. I'm lacking the
> organ that generates bile when exposed to ostensibly pretentious stuff,
> somehow.
>
> Danny
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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