[Closed] The Tree Of Life....

I'm inclined to agree. Not watched the Thin Red Line though.

Hevnt seen the tree of life but for some years, everytime i heard some reviewer say how wonderful the thin red line was, how glorious the imagery was, i vomited. quite a considerable distance.
Terence Malik can toss my salad.

Agreed

The WORST Brad Pitt film ever. Maybe I'm just a heathen but it was Dull (with a capital D).

Thin Red Line is great.

I enjoyed the Thin Red Line.

I enjoyed the thin red line but then I'm a WWII junkie.

I thought the Tree of Life was ok. Some very poignant moments. I thought the softening of Brad Pitt's character was done very well.

Terence Malik is a rare talent in today's cinema. He is the only one (that I know of, anyway) who makes films with such a [i]meditative[/i] quality, for those with attention spans longer than the average gerbil.

I thought "Tree of Life" was a masterly meditation on it's subject - the Xtian view of what it all means, from the point of view of the "importance" of family and the awsome quality of the universe in which we live.

Genius.

The best thing about this film was the constant running commentary of complaints of colleagues, we managed 15 min before switching to watch Layer Cake 8)

Mr Woppit, you need to go watch Weekend at Bernies and just, relax.

it's not for everyone

I like Terrence Malik films

Badlands and Days of Heaven are just beautiful things

Tree of Life. About everything ....and nothing.

I wouldn't watch it again.

Mr Woppit, you need to go watch Weekend at Bernies and just, relax.

Sorry. I DO have this tendency to think quite a lot with this brain thing in my skull that seems to keep working. I've yet to appreciate the benefits of being a moron, although I don't find it difficult to relax, thanks.

God knows I love an arthouse film, and a slow film, but I just couldn't get through Tree of Life. It was like an itchy bollock when you're in a public place and can't get in to scratch it.

Enjoyed Thin Red Line, but everything I heard about Tree of Life made me avoid it.

Terence Malik can toss my salad.

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A couple of hours of my life I will never get back - utter pretentious and egotistical tosh. Conversely one of my mates thinks its the best film he's ever seen.

Not his best... beautifully shot, but [i]incredibly[/i] portentous - and not helped by Sean Penn stumbling around like a stoner. Works best as an evocation of childhood (there's a decent film in those sequences, somewhere), but [B]WTF[/B] is up with those dinosaurs?

That said, [i]The Thin Red Line[/i], [i]The New World[/i], (and most especially) [i]Badlands[/i] and [i]Days of Heaven[/i] are all great.

Pompous.

My wife and I went to watch it (read: I was dragged) and we sat down initially enjoying some of the visuals.

Then it got a bit boring.

Then it got to the (I think) rebirthy bit with the stars and stuff, and my wife eventually gave up (I think my huffing and puffing may have added to the irritation) and suggested we leave/

As we left, we observed a couple of other couples getting to leave and the envious glares of dates/boyfriends/husbands being forced to stay and watch this utter guff.

My wife is into all this stuff, but even she had to concede defeat and admit WTF?

If there was ever a movie coined for that phrase (in the mainstream), this one gets it.

Hmm no shocks in people saying they didn't like it. It wasn't really pitched at mass consumption but brads presence put it onto the big screens and thus a few folks went to see it thinking they might enjoy it but didn't.

I thought the film was pretty pants but the pace of the film was a great alternative approach, almost meditative. I persevered and sat through to the end to see the story out and enjoyed the way brads relationship with his kids developed ... The stars and universe bit was just too obvious as a way of showing the tree of life.

On balance it was more art than a good cinema moment. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody unless I knew they were a seriously artistic nerd. Of which I know a few! Lol.