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What the hell happened to Terrence Malick?
Posted on 1/22/16 at 12:59 am
Posted on 1/22/16 at 12:59 am
Is this some old age existential search for meaning without boundaries of story-telling?
I don't get it. Maybe he's bored and is just pushing the boundaries of film...I used to think Lynch was the master at wanting to create ambiguous ethereal movies that objectively can't be made sense of.
But at least Lynch had great dialogue and suspense even if you weren't sure what was going on.
Malick...has been missing...dialogue, a beginning and end...and to have a purpose beyond..."feeling the movie."
Knight of Cups...what the hell was that? A long music video with only voice-over dialogue and no interesting music. And his direction is jumpy and annoying and way too many close-ups. It literally is like a bad long music video shot by an amateur with endless amounts of brooding.
To the Wonder...? A long tampon ad without dialogue?
A Tree Life - was the beginning of the end for Malick (while not as bad as some people loathed it) but critics gave it way too much praise for that start of over self-indulgence and now he's gone off the deep end in thinking movie-goers want more abstract parody of his former self.
What happened to the guy who made A Thin Red Line and Badlands - movies that are poetic but actually have a story arc...and a point to make, commentary and real direction.
Instead of just aimless "attempts" at poetry and visual eye-candy. I say attempts because I don't believe he is succeeding. The films feel hollow.
I don't get it. Maybe he's bored and is just pushing the boundaries of film...I used to think Lynch was the master at wanting to create ambiguous ethereal movies that objectively can't be made sense of.
But at least Lynch had great dialogue and suspense even if you weren't sure what was going on.
Malick...has been missing...dialogue, a beginning and end...and to have a purpose beyond..."feeling the movie."
Knight of Cups...what the hell was that? A long music video with only voice-over dialogue and no interesting music. And his direction is jumpy and annoying and way too many close-ups. It literally is like a bad long music video shot by an amateur with endless amounts of brooding.
To the Wonder...? A long tampon ad without dialogue?
A Tree Life - was the beginning of the end for Malick (while not as bad as some people loathed it) but critics gave it way too much praise for that start of over self-indulgence and now he's gone off the deep end in thinking movie-goers want more abstract parody of his former self.
What happened to the guy who made A Thin Red Line and Badlands - movies that are poetic but actually have a story arc...and a point to make, commentary and real direction.
Instead of just aimless "attempts" at poetry and visual eye-candy. I say attempts because I don't believe he is succeeding. The films feel hollow.
This post was edited on 1/22/16 at 1:39 am
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Posted on 1/22/16 at 1:13 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
The Thin Red Line was a good but not great movie. Malick ditching substance for style is alleviated by the battle scenes in the film and the characters are good enough to keep me invested when they aren't fighting the Japanese.
The New World, which you didn't mention, is one of the most bland and boring films I have ever seen. It took me multiple sittings to push through it.
The man fancies himself an artist and many of his fans buy into the hype. Not me.
The New World, which you didn't mention, is one of the most bland and boring films I have ever seen. It took me multiple sittings to push through it.
The man fancies himself an artist and many of his fans buy into the hype. Not me.
Posted on 1/22/16 at 3:19 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Hopefully he never shows back up. Everything he makes is pretentious garbage. The guy smokes way too much weed.
This post was edited on 1/22/16 at 3:22 am
Posted on 1/22/16 at 7:46 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Glad to know I'm not only one who thinks his movies are weird.
I remember seeing the Colin Farrell Pocahontas movie that he did, and it was a huge letdown. It could've been great with the right director.
I remember seeing the Colin Farrell Pocahontas movie that he did, and it was a huge letdown. It could've been great with the right director.
This post was edited on 1/22/16 at 7:49 am
Posted on 1/22/16 at 9:00 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I drove by his house in Austin once. Pretty creepy of me.
I LOVE Thin Red Line. That movie is poetry. The cinematic elements of Days of Heaven are amazing. Tree of Life was pretty good.
After that, he became a parody of himself and it is sad.
The problem with Terry is that he's not a money-motivated person - he lives a not-that-fancy lifestyle in Texas - which tells you that his ego lies in his perception within his own field, and among a lot of people in film (look at the top-tier actors who keep lining up to be in his films knowing they could end up on the editing room floor) he's worshiped. So he's not striving for anything anymore and won't compromise his own 'vision'. IF he was after money, or still needed approval from his peers, he could be co-opted into an arrangement where he could be made to follow a script from a real screenwriter and wouldn't have final editing authority. The end result would likely be amazing. But that isn't happening because Terry isn't chasing cash, doesn't live in LA, and doesn't want for approval anymore, so he'd never ever, ever agree to that.
I LOVE Thin Red Line. That movie is poetry. The cinematic elements of Days of Heaven are amazing. Tree of Life was pretty good.
After that, he became a parody of himself and it is sad.
The problem with Terry is that he's not a money-motivated person - he lives a not-that-fancy lifestyle in Texas - which tells you that his ego lies in his perception within his own field, and among a lot of people in film (look at the top-tier actors who keep lining up to be in his films knowing they could end up on the editing room floor) he's worshiped. So he's not striving for anything anymore and won't compromise his own 'vision'. IF he was after money, or still needed approval from his peers, he could be co-opted into an arrangement where he could be made to follow a script from a real screenwriter and wouldn't have final editing authority. The end result would likely be amazing. But that isn't happening because Terry isn't chasing cash, doesn't live in LA, and doesn't want for approval anymore, so he'd never ever, ever agree to that.
This post was edited on 1/22/16 at 9:18 am
Posted on 1/22/16 at 9:11 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
yeah you just have to accept what you're getting with malick
boring, incoherent, dreams
sometimes that can work or fits in my desires. often it doesn't. usually i talk myself into it and then can't finish the movie
boring, incoherent, dreams
sometimes that can work or fits in my desires. often it doesn't. usually i talk myself into it and then can't finish the movie
Posted on 1/22/16 at 9:29 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Badlands
Days of Heaven
Thin Red Line
Tree of Life
I actually enjoyed all of those (especially Badlands and Days of Heaven).
Since then? Not so much.
Days of Heaven
Thin Red Line
Tree of Life
I actually enjoyed all of those (especially Badlands and Days of Heaven).
Since then? Not so much.
Posted on 1/22/16 at 9:30 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Tree of Life is one of the best films of the 21st century.
Posted on 1/22/16 at 9:34 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Malick is the most overrated director in cinema history.
Posted on 1/22/16 at 10:57 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
He's just not a good director and is completely incapable of storytelling. I've said this before, though it was in reference to Gravity, if you can't write dialogue and can't maintain a semblance of story structure, you aren't a storyteller and you shouldn't be directing films.
If all you want to do is make pretty moving pictures that only hint at something, essentially be a painter with a camera, wonderful. Don't be surprised when your two hour moving painting bores the audience to tears and they only view it for a short period of time before moving on to another moving painting.
I honestly feel like he's trying to make movies that you would project on the wall of a museum rather than on a movie screen, but he's too full of himself to realize that, if he wants to do that, he should make 5 minute shorts instead of features.
He's a fricking Starbuck's barista NYU film student with a budget.
If all you want to do is make pretty moving pictures that only hint at something, essentially be a painter with a camera, wonderful. Don't be surprised when your two hour moving painting bores the audience to tears and they only view it for a short period of time before moving on to another moving painting.
I honestly feel like he's trying to make movies that you would project on the wall of a museum rather than on a movie screen, but he's too full of himself to realize that, if he wants to do that, he should make 5 minute shorts instead of features.
He's a fricking Starbuck's barista NYU film student with a budget.
Posted on 1/22/16 at 1:09 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
That guy was so overly pretentious....I went and saw " The Tree of Life"....holy shite what a terrible smokeshow of pretentiousness. It was 60% screensaver graphics with music in the background.....watching planet earth gives you the same effect.
Posted on 1/22/16 at 4:15 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Yeah, full on self-parody at this point.
That said, they are beautiful to watch and listen to. If you can accept that, it's usually worth a view if you can get past the ridiculous musings.
That said, they are beautiful to watch and listen to. If you can accept that, it's usually worth a view if you can get past the ridiculous musings.
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