The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick)

 

The only criticism for the film that I have is that it does drag on a little at the end. There are 20, maybe 30 minutes that could have been cut off. A great movie though. Very intimate, original and artsy. Reminded me at some points to the works of Kubrick, or Tarkovsky.

 

What did you think? A work of a genius or a piece of crap?

 

My grade: 8  

 

I have a strong gut feeling that I will hate it. I know what I can expect from Malick, and it's 2:18 hours long, so I have a feeling that it could be extremely pretentious, but I can't know for sure. I thought "The New World" was really bad, but The Thin Red Line was really good (!), apart from those "poetic" parts with voice over, very pretentious. But the cinematography was nice, and Elias Koteas was good, among others.

 

But Brad Pitt is one of my most hated actors along with Colin Farrell (and Steven Seagal I guess, though I never watch Steven Seagal-movies), so Pitt could enhance the badness. I mean, he sucks! And I hate Sean Penn too.

 

By the way, I hated "Into The Wild", and I'm guessing it could be a little like that film, or how about "Legends of the fall", or "Benjamin Buttons Life" (Or whatever it was called.

 

Yeah, my feeling is that I will hate it, but I'm still curious..

 

I can assure you that is not like Into The Wild. I hated that film too. But for different reasons than yours I suppose. Yeah, nice photography and stuff. But I have lots of friends that worship that film like if it was, I don't know, f***ing Citizen Kane.  And they love the idea of escaping and dissappear from society just like its main character. On the other hand, leave them without their cell phone for one day and they'll be dead. Bunch of phonies, lol. That's why that movie gets on my nerves.