― choinklate (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)
― choinklate (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)
― choinklate (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)
The whole time this has been in production I thought he was making a movie of The Fountainhead which I was really, really pissed about, so that's a whole nother level on which I am really looking forward to this.
― choinklate (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)
― choinklate (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)
― choinklate (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)
Looks weird.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)
"holy crap this looks fucking awesome"
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)
haha, when i saw this thread title i transposed it as Fountainhead and thought the same thing.
― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)
― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)
Get one new idea for a come on. Visuals look interesting, if terribly Dungeons and Dragons.
― Soukesian (Soukesian), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/002399.html
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)
Haha... I'll take that as a recommendation.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)
I'm pretty sure I have a well-honed sense of the ridiculous, and The Dharma Bums finally broke what little interest I had in Kerouac, so...
― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)
zardoz recommendation taking seconded.
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)
I was already sold on this movie, but holy shit. Never has a tag-line been more appealing.
― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)
This sounds so incredible! First time I've ever gotten goosebumps reading about FX techniques!
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)
i thought pi had some good things in it, tho.
― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)
― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)
i thought pi had some good things in it, tho. "
my sentiments exactly
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)
The best reason I see to gamble on this one? 96 minutes long. Man, that would be a trend to save Hollywood.
http://slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=2659
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)
Oh dear.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)
It's epically bad. Magnificently bad. But alas, aside from the opening shot of a shaved head Jackman in lotus position floating in front of The Universe, not funny bad.
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)
Er. WTF. I'm tired.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)
In the 14th Century, all a regular white guy could expect was a tidy conquest or three.
In The Present, he can afford a cancer-stricken trophy wife and a great terrace pad in Manhattan.
I the Future, he will be able to drive a snowglobe spaceship by sheer white-mind-power and merge with The Infinite, which turns out to be an amber cloudy thingee.
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)
― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)
-- Grey, Ian (igre...), Yesterday 6:25 AM. (IanBrooklyn) (later)
i made this mistake :(
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)
Oh yeah, wasn't it like a guy from Pop Will Eat Itself doing dn'b?
(I will not be seeing the Fountain OR reading the graphic novel.
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)
I fucking hated Requiem..., so much so that I never really want to see anything by him again.
― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)
Aronofsky seems to have some intriguing notions...about how time ceases to matter when one no longer faces the threat of death. But he’s too wrapped up in circle-of-life mysticism to fully develop them, and, as such, too much of the film plays like a dopey sci-fi Lion King.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)
So I loved this movie. Huge Ackman was great as usual (but I thought he delivered an especially fired-up performance in this - I like Brad Pitt but there is no way he could've played this role with such abandon), the movie could've done with a lot more Rachel Weisz though - she seemed more of a story element or prop than an actual character (which was sort of the point, I guess).
The most unexpected thing for me was the music - it was powerful, and actually seemed to SET the narrative pace, rather than follow it. Instead of working as an accent to the visuals and story, it seemed somehow...integrated.
It definitely had it's flaws though, in particular I think the one-sidedness of the love story made this more of a millenia-spanning lament on a "the one who got away" than a true romance.
― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)
― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)
Conquistador scenes were pretty great, but not enough to offset the dreary present-day timeline. In retrospect I wish that Aronofsky had just set the entire movie in the past.
One annoyance wrecked the entire movie for me though... The Orion Nebula (it was called Xibalba in the movie, but Xibalba is something else entirely) was constantly referred to as a place where stars die.
WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG
The Orion Nebula is a place where STARS ARE CREATED.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)
cosigned.
― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)
Two big-haired matrons behind me at a 42nd Street theater were blown away by it. One of them was going "The effects should be nominated, the music should be..." (Clint Mansell expanding that fanbase)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)
― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)
Anybody know what up?
― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)
The score was HORRID. I didn't realise till afterwards that it was bloody Pop Will Eat Itself doing it. And DA's visual style is just so horribly Athena posterly lurid. Not for me.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)
so is his career over? (please say yes)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)
Doesn't that dude do all of Aronofsky's soundtracks?
― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)
― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)
― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)
Then you see he's inside a giant snowblobe floating in space with a dead tree in it.
Then you realize there's still about ninety minutes to go.
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:15 (nineteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)
I've just watched this. I liked looking at it, plus it had a few things I ilke to see in movies: snow, huge close-ups of writing and lingering shots of Rachel Weisz's face.
It was shorter and not anywhere near as draggy and overblown as I'd feared. But it could have done with Neil from the Young Ones going "we plant the seed, nature grows the seed, and then we eat the seed".
― DavidM, Saturday, 1 September 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)
Reminded me of a Ketamine experience. I liked the movie, but I understand why so many on this thread didn't.
The Orion mistake/lie thing upthread reminded me of a science friend of mine telling me he wailed out loud when they got to the "type of fusion" human bodies/batteries part of the Matrix - completely ruined the film for him. Kind of makes me happy I don't know shit about science, really.
― rockapads, Saturday, 1 September 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)
I think this got a week in 2 cinemas in Melbourne. So I never got round to seeing it (tho I'd kind of meant to). Maybe I'll get it out on DVD some time when I'm bored.
― Trayce, Sunday, 2 September 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)
this was pretty...
AWFUL
slocki otm
nice visuals, though.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)
The visuals weren't even that good. They were nice for a few seconds, and that was it. God this was indeed awful.
― S-, Thursday, 1 November 2007 06:24 (eighteen years ago)
I thought it was okay. If all the hippie mumbo jumbo had been cut off, it might've even been great. Still, gotta give props for Aronofsky for having the balls to do something so outrageous. This was definitely better than Requiem, which was basically just a long "Drugs Are Bad" pamphlet in a pretty coating.
Am I the only one who totally didn't realize the bald guy in the globe was supposed to be some space traveller in the distant future, and the globe was his spaceship? Because nowhere in the movie was this mentioned, it was only when I read the DVD back cover after watching the film that I found it out. I though he was just meditating and having visions or something.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 1 November 2007 06:53 (eighteen years ago)
Who could have envisaged a future with such emo spaceships.
― S-, Thursday, 1 November 2007 06:58 (eighteen years ago)
i think when the tai chi in sillhouette shit started i turned against this movie
― latebloomer, Thursday, 1 November 2007 06:59 (eighteen years ago)
snowblobe
― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)
I think this may actually be the worst film I have ever watched. At least Tiptoes made me lol last week, this is just so fucking ugly and overblown and all of the diagogue is ridiculously shitty and over the top like no-one actually speaks to each other but it is all just watchmen style 'everything we say is important even though it is most probably wrong and definitely stupid (but we don't know this)' and eurgh.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 19:45 (sixteen years ago)
yeah, seriously. i've seen movies that i hated or just didn't care for, but this movie actually inspired a visceral "fuck you" feeling.
― whitney HOOSton (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 19:47 (sixteen years ago)
why the fuck is it called the fountain when it should actually be called the tree? there is no bloody fountain.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)
hugh jackman just became a tree, which kind of redeems it from "worst movie ever" to just "eurgh, what a shit movie".
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)
In 1999, Darren Aronofsky and actor Jared Leto saw The Matrix together. Aronofsky said he had mused after seeing the film, "What kind of science fiction movie can people make now?"
― a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)
one with lots of weeping and tai chi...in space
― whitney HOOSton (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:07 (sixteen years ago)
it's a logical progression
― a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:19 (sixteen years ago)
I hated this movie but thought the Inquisition visuals were good and scary. He should made a movie about the Inquisition! Without the sweaters and crying!
― kill puppies when the kicking stops (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:39 (sixteen years ago)
the inquisition without sweaters and crying would be pretty lame imo
― HOOSteen we have a problem (s1ocki), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:43 (sixteen years ago)
ha i remember liking this movie, though now i don't really remember anything specific about it. i have a soft spot for failed ambition.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)
the inquisition..what a show
― The Great Southern Pusskill (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)