NP - Terrence Malick SUCKS!

[David Morris]

I aborted Tree of Life early. Maybe too soon, but I suspect not...

On Tuesday, November 29, 2016, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I actually really enjoyed Tree of Life. But everything since has
> rubbed me the wrong way. Of course Badlands is awesome, and Thin Red
> Line has great stuff in it, but doesn't hang together (for me) so
> well.
>
> J.
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Danny Weltman <danny.weltman at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> 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:;>> 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:;>> 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:;>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Which one?
> >>>
> >>> > On Nov 27, 2016, at 6:10 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > I HATE his shit!!!! How did he ever get it funded?
> >>> >
> >>> > David Morris
> >
> >
>
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