NP - Terrence Malick SUCKS!

[Mark Kohut]

LOL.   He woudda known that THAT thesis supervised by Gilbert Ryle woudda been like squaring a circle. He must like setting himself up to fail or to motivate himself to drive on thru to the other side. ( paralleled in his film career?) 
I did feel a real sense of wonder at one major section of To The Wonder but it might have been verbal suggestion ( title. I mean: movie or BIG SIGN?) leading to self-hypnosis. 
To me that wonder was sorta pantheistic or panentheistic and also reminded me, pretentiously, I'm sure, of Pynchon's vision of the natural world in Against the Day. But it would, of course. 

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> On Nov 28, 2016, at 7:41 PM, Danny Weltman <danny.weltman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "(I think his thesis at college ... Yale? ... Harvard? ... was on a Christian theme ... sorry to be vague.)"
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> Danny
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>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 7:32 PM, 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.  
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>>> On Nov 27, 2016, at 6:30 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>>> David Morris
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>>>> On Sunday, November 27, 2016, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> Which one?
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>>>> > On Nov 27, 2016, at 6:10 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> > I HATE his shit!!!! How did he ever get it funded?
>>>> >
>>>> > David Morris
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