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Have been waiting for this for a very long time.
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yeah this movie looks amazing can't wait! trailers been on youtube for ages tho?
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Yes you're right, i only just noticed it now Laughing
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Yeah been looking forward to this for ages. *Very* intriguing trailer
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Really cool cinematography at least, hard to get a gage on the story on trailer alone
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Looks awesome. Premiere is overnight at Cannes. Hoping the NZFF can wrangle it for the fest!
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Hmmm I really like his early work. Both Badlands and Days of Heaven are awesome films. The Thin Red Line was awesome (altho I know a *lot* of people hate it - I enjoyed it's cerebral take on war and man) but I was indifferent to The New World. This looks intriguing... I'll give it that.
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I loved both Thin Red Line and The New World.
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Unf. Im so over Brad Pitt, he annoys me.
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Some interesting reviews coming out of the Cannes premiere... definitely a polarising picture!
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I think I fell asleep just in the trailer.

Neutral

gc.
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Was booed at cannes Razz
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Looks like it's at least 3 hours long (seriously do producers/directors even hire editors anymore?) and excruciatingly boring.
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Some films aren’t designed to be watched and absorbed in two hours. They need repeated viewings over the years; they beg for their audience to grow along with them, their meaning evolving over time. Stanley Kubrick’s "2001: A Space Odyssey" is one of those. Terrence Malick’s "The Tree of Life" is another.

Usually a film like this will leave you silent at the end of it, as you begin to make sense of what you’ve just seen and what it all means. If you’re lucky, maybe you have someone with you that you can chew the fat with, someone who will toss ideas and questions back and forth about the movie. We used to call this “let’s go get coffee and talk about it.” Now we call it Twitter.

These days, when a movie like "Tree of Life" is finally seen at the Cannes Film Festival, and in London and later in New York and Los Angeles, the conversation about it will take place loudly and wildly on Twitter. That usually means snap judgments are made and sides are taken. At first, the discussion was whether or not the French audiences booed the Malick film. They did. They booed it immediately, taking no time to think it over. Much of the rest of the audience sat silent and still before breaking into applause. One of the reasons that it took so long for the applause was that people weren’t sure if it was over or not. It wasn’t until Malick’s name appeared on the screen that the audience knew for sure it was over.
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Jono said:
Looks like it's at least 3 hours long (seriously do producers/directors even hire editors anymore?)


Yes. How else do you think it went from being 500 + hours of footage to 3 hours Razz
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Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2 !
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I think I just fell asleep again.

Cool

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Some films might not be over in 2 hours, but unless they are EXTREMELY good then get a better f**king editor!!!!! Basically if you can't tell a story in 2 hours make a TV show, unless it's all time classic good more than 2 hours is too much.

LOL at the Cannes comments too IMO: They weren't thinking it over, they were asleep and the sound of booing woke them and a couple of people nearby clapped so as to not look stupid they joined in - see anyone can twist an audience's reaction to suit their agenda.
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Oh I should add get a better editor and tell the director to shut up and let the editor work.
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Jono said:
Some films might not be over in 2 hours, but unless they are EXTREMELY good then get a better f**king editor!!!!!


It has nothing to do with how good the editor is. The director would have been in there with the editor calling the shots.

TM would have planned for the movie to be over 3 hours long back in the pre-production stages.

Getting a different editor would make no difference... and on a film like this even the editor couldn't tell the director to shut up Razz
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meh, i have no qualms with long films Smile
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It has lots to do with the editor, they should be able to tell them when pace etc isn't working, show them different options. Razz
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yeah but director (obviously) has final say in these tihngs
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resist said:
It has lots to do with the editor, they should be able to tell them when pace etc isn't working, show them different options. Razz


This movie, will have turned out exactly how TM had intended it to. He would know all about pacing etc, and what options he has. If the editor wasn't cutting it exactly how TM wanted, then they would get a new editor.

And all of the editors he used on this movie are really good.
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Hey Davil! I heard Terrence Malick is a dick! Whaddaya gotta say about that? Razz Laughing



gummi_bear said:
meh, i have no qualms with long films Smile



Yeah this really. If it's good you don't notice the time nor care.


Quick Top 3 List of favourite over 3 hour films:

The Godfather
The Seven Samurai
Apocalypse Now Redux
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Notice where i said if it's a classic it's okay? Trouble is now is every Billy Walsh wannabe thinks his POS script is a classic and people wil watch an extra hour of meaningless crap that shouldn't even be included in the Deleted Scenes.
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dalai said:
Hey Davil! I heard Terrence Malick is a dick! Whaddaya gotta say about that? Razz Laughing


I heard he's really shy. Didn't even turn up to the Cannes showings and post press Q&A.


All the LOTR (extended versions)
Dances with Wolves
The Deer Hunter
Once Upon a time in America
The Green Mile.
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Jono said:
Notice where i said if it's a classic it's okay? Trouble is now is every Billy Walsh wannabe thinks his POS script is a classic and people wil watch an extra hour of meaningless crap that shouldn't even be included in the Deleted Scenes.


Billy Walsh's movies suck! Razz
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@lawrencearabia Lawrence Arabia
Did anyone else feel like standing up in the Civic during Tree of Life t'other night and screaming "GET TO THE POINT!" Esp. during dino bit?

Pretty glad i didn't bother with this
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Same lawrence arabia from video you posted in hipsters thread? Not sure his opinion means much tbh Razz
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haha that one! You didn't like that song?

Yet to hear a good thing about this movie.
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i haven't even been to see this movie yet Laughing
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nah i thought that song was the weakest of the three tbh... Razz

i actually haven't spoken to a single person who's watched this but the reviews are pretty good so I'll definitely check it out Smile
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Thread needs more HH007. No doubt he's seen it. Maybe more than once.
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Saw it a few days back, it was literally the worst thing ever.
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Worse than the Holocaust?

Confused

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Supamaorifulla said:
Worst than the Holocaust?

Confused

gc.


Yup even worse than Hitler.
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Gosh.

Sad

gc.
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dalai said:
Apocalypse Now Redux

Am looking forward to watching this on bluray soon - opinions seem divided if the long version adds or detracts to the original
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Hitlers not that bad, he is only third on the list of greatest genocides of the 20th century, 11 million behind Stalin and 50 -60 million behind Mao Ze Dong. So your saying the movie is bad, but not that bad?????
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Yeah the big H does get a bad rap. I blame jewish art critics ripping on his early work.
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lolz, I feel for him, especially after seeing the "Young Adolf" documentary on that hit NZ show Radiradirah
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Dog haterz I reckon.
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Jason George said:
50 -60 million behind Mao Ze Dong.


It may be that Mao was not aware of these deaths due to information being witheld by local officials
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I like how Mao's (ex)wife is now with Murdoch

somehow it seems fitting

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OneHappy said:
dalai said:
Apocalypse Now Redux

Am looking forward to watching this on bluray soon - opinions seem divided if the long version adds or detracts to the original



I feel it adds to it. Particularly for the French Plantation scene alone. But I would say that heh.
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Yup, adds in a big way. At least 2 more themes, and the whole thing makes way more sense.


In saying that, you can see, given the social/political climate of the time, why they removed what they did.
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I saw this the other night. The screen at the theatre was a bit small so perhaps the full visual effect of some of the scenes was lost.
I felt there wasn't any new angle here in here in terms of ways to think about life, and our position in it. It's very esoteric, grains of sand on a beach type thing. Life, it's priceless and meaningless at the same time is what I got out of it.

6/10.
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Redux is awesome, and as I've said a lot, I hate long movies
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yeah totally agree.. I've seen it too.. a bit dull for my liking. It needs a bit of Michael bays robot action and a bit of Steven Spielberg Magic to make this a true master piece my friends. Also didn't see no Jedi fight scenes, gonna have to take one more brownie point off the scale. Too much talk and not much action. 5.5/10.
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Jono said:
Supamaorifulla said:
Worst than the Holocaust?

Confused

gc.


Yup even worse than Hitler.

Worst than Last Days? I base every shit movie relative to it.
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Just watched it last tonight (Tree of Life that is).

I'm still not quite sure what exactly to think. It had basically no narrative, but I was still somehow pretty captivated the whole way through. Pitt's performance was very strong, and I quite like how the film was shot. There were a lot of really beautiful scenes, a lot of perfectly captured little moments; but I can't deny that the film was indulgent as fuck and somewhat pretentious. I've just been reading a heap of reviews trying to get others' thoughts, and I think this one summarises my views quite well:

"The Tree of Life is profound, pretentious, art, twaddle, a cinematic event and a pompous bore all packed into 138-overlong minutes. And, in its own way, it's a must-see."