Seconded.Fierias wrote:MyNameCriterionForum, I wish I didn't have those words in my head before heading into this movie. I avoided the article so I could avoid details like that, whatever it means. Please spoiler tag for every little detail on this movie. Please?
Since when is Jeffery Wells a fucking filmmaker?aox wrote:Jeffrey Wells is advising Malick to dump any and all dinosaur segments in the film saying that there is no way Malick can pull them off. :-k
Talk to the hand, Jeffrey Wells!aox wrote:Jeffrey Wells is advising Malick to dump any and all dinosaur segments in the film saying that there is no way Malick can pull them off.
1. All info so far is speculation, and much of it based on a three-year-old script which may or may not be legit (I believe it is) and which of course is subject to radical change given Malick's working methods. The plot specifics of all four Malick films so far are pretty basic - even cliched - stuff, so any fan of his should know that it's how he tells his stories, how he communicates his themes, and perhaps his genuine belief in those ideas, that make his work special, not necessarily what he's saying.chaddoli wrote:Seconded.Fierias wrote:MyNameCriterionForum, I wish I didn't have those words in my head before heading into this movie. I avoided the article so I could avoid details like that, whatever it means. Please spoiler tag for every little detail on this movie. Please?
Sorry, but I think if there were space vampires, dinosaurs, robot orgies, whatever, I'd appreciate it more if it came out of nowhere.MyNameCriterionForum wrote:1. All info so far is speculation, and much of it based on a three-year-old script which may or may not be legit (I believe it is) and which of course is subject to radical change given Malick's working methods. The plot specifics of all four Malick films so far are pretty basic - even cliched - stuff, so any fan of his should know that it's how he tells his stories, how he communicates his themes, and perhaps his genuine belief in those ideas, that make his work special, not necessarily what he's saying.
no, but I would like to continue reading the thread for the news and release updates, so if you and everyone else could avoid spoilers I, and others, could do that without worrying. I go into threads of films I haven't seen all the time with the expectation of common courtesy and awareness that anyone might read it.MyNameCriterionForum wrote: 2. No one is making you read this thread (which is actually very spoiler-lite) until you've seen the film, are they?
I still believe he can surprise me, which could be with anything. I didn't REALLY think Malick would make a film with dinosaurs. He may not, but the point is that anything, even the un-Malick-esque, is possible with the film. I have no idea, and would like to have no idea, of how absurd this film might get.MyNameCriterionForum wrote: 3. Do either of you REALLY think Malick would make a film with Space Vampires?!
Do I really have to be confronted once again with the ongoing existence of Jeffrey Wells just because I wanted to open up the Malick thread? Christ.chaddoli wrote:Since when is Jeffery Wells a fucking filmmaker?aox wrote:Jeffrey Wells is advising Malick to dump any and all dinosaur segments in the film saying that there is no way Malick can pull them off.
Fierias wrote:Sorry, but I think if there were space vampires, dinosaurs, robot orgies, whatever, I'd appreciate it more if it came out of nowhere.MyNameCriterionForum wrote:1. All info so far is speculation, and much of it based on a three-year-old script which may or may not be legit (I believe it is) and which of course is subject to radical change given Malick's working methods. The plot specifics of all four Malick films so far are pretty basic - even cliched - stuff, so any fan of his should know that it's how he tells his stories, how he communicates his themes, and perhaps his genuine belief in those ideas, that make his work special, not necessarily what he's saying.
no, but I would like to continue reading the thread for the news and release updates, so if you and everyone else could avoid spoilers I, and others, could do that without worrying. I go into threads of films I haven't seen all the time with the expectation of common courtesy and awareness that anyone might read it.MyNameCriterionForum wrote:2. No one is making you read this thread (which is actually very spoiler-lite) until you've seen the film, are they?
I still believe he can surprise me, which could be with anything. I didn't REALLY think Malick would make a film with dinosaurs. He may not, but the point is that anything, even the un-Malick-esque, is possible with the film. I have no idea, and would like to have no idea, of how absurd this film might get.MyNameCriterionForum wrote:3. Do either of you REALLY think Malick would make a film with Space Vampires?!
I don't understand this phenomenon I see in many production threads. If you find something as benign as that to be a 'spoiler', why are you even reading about the film in production? What news are you looking for, and what news do you deem acceptable? Seems like all you need is a release date.Fierias wrote:no, but I would like to continue reading the thread for the news and release updates, so if you and everyone else could avoid spoilers I, and others, could do that without worrying. I go into threads of films I haven't seen all the time with the expectation of common courtesy and awareness that anyone might read it.
Members can post whatever they want in this thread. No single member should dictate the posting practises of every other member using a thread.chaddoli wrote:I don't want to get into a whole spoiler-acceptability debate, but when it comes to Malick, some of us are particularly obsessive about total lack of knowledge of specifics about the films prior to release. He's simply on a different plane. You can talk about the ending of Inception all you want as far as I'm concerned, but as far as a new Malick goes, just don't post details, however tongue-and-cheek they may be, from script reviews, please.
Swo17, thats a POTENTIAL SPOILER. =;swo17 wrote:If Tree of Life ends up having whiny housewives in it, I'm going to be pissed.
Ok so no Toronto, no Venice - what's left? New York? They usually don't do premieres but maybe the gods are just set on giving me a present this fall and letting me be in the first audience to see it.perkizitore wrote:No Mostra for Tree of Life
Do you really think dinosaurs are absurd or un-Malick-esque? Space vampires and robot orgies I can understand, but if you put aside the way they've usually been used in movies, dinosaurs are just animals as natural as any other. As such, they seem well within the realm of his themes and interests, especially given their close relationship to birds. It's not much of a stretch to link them to the extinct parrot that Malick featured (however incidentally) in The New World.Fierias wrote:I still believe he can surprise me, which could be with anything. I didn't REALLY think Malick would make a film with dinosaurs. He may not, but the point is that anything, even the un-Malick-esque, is possible with the film. I have no idea, and would like to have no idea, of how absurd this film might get.
