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He's been finished since after the Days of Heaven

>>6558

Not even Thin Red Line anon?

Come on.

I liked Tree of Life (come at me) and Thin Red Line (don't remember much about it)

I never saw To the Wonder or the 2nd half of The New World (seemed pretty average)

I guess I'll watch KOC in the next week or two

It's more or less the same as his few previous films. Take from that what you will, but I disliked it. I dislike Lubezki too.

>>6566

> I dislike Lubezki too.

Do you mean in general? What don't you like about him?

>>6559

pretentious bullshit

still great visually but the pseudo-profound life truths were unbearable for me

Jesus, i came here to post this very same movie.

Just finished watching it.

Ive only watched TOL and TRL, but this was was his worst imo, very close to TRL tho. I liked them, i like malick style and editing. But there was something on this movie, that idk, it welt like a 4 hour film instead of the almost-2 hour that it is. It felt so so dragged and long. I dont know if it was his points, since its basically about the entire mind set of christian bale, but at the 3rd act it started to feel like a repetition of his previous movies.

>>6570

>2016

>using pretentiousness as a valid criticism

cmon anon.

>>6573

would you have accepted it as a valid criticism in the 90s?

>>6576

no. thats why it makes it even less valid

masterpiece, watched it last night on 600mg of dxm and got enlightened

Lubezki advertisement for Lubezki fans. Question is, they are already your fans, why do you need to make ads for them?

>>6558

gtfo dumbass.

>>6559

The Thin Red Line is probably the most powerful WW2 movie ever made.

>>6640

>be able to stand malick's graphomania and the trl's amount of lofty gibberish without feeling embarrassed

>call someone who is not a dumbass

don't do that

perhaps it is if you consider only american movies

>>6636

> urban environment, bangs some model, feels empty.

the theme is purposefulness, meaningless.

You dont have to get into the shoes of bale and say "hey im not super rich so i cant relate"

yeah malick has a fixation with water, but i think its most a fixation with nature itself. He narrates his films as some bbc documentary would narrate some animal shit you know?

Its a bit sterile-mooded, but its precisely in that way he can get his point across.

the music is gr8 too

>>6605

>600mg of dxm

isnt that too much?

>>6665

> the theme is purposefulness, meaningless.

Yes.

BUT the character was unwilling or unable to make changes so it became harder for me to care as the film progressed. The loops of living out Vogue editorials and Dos Equis commercials end where they began. (And oddly enough the last spoken word in the film is "BEGIN".) A little character evolution (in any direction really) would have helped.

I probably missed some subtext because I didn't use subtitles, and a lot of the voiceover is quietly mumbled in the background.

>>6667

>the character was unwilling or unable to make changes so it became harder for me to care as the film progressed.

After watching the film for a second time this week, I disagree. He did made a progress in the character, I think it can be seem in the last scene on the film.

The film starts with Bale wandering in the dessert, but ends in him in a car trough the desert road, and I think that was meant as a way to say that he "found the way" "got his path str8" and so on.

I used subtitles and the opposite happened to me, the translation at the the end says "Echa un Vistazo" which translates to "Take a look". How and why did they translate that from Begin idk but the sond time I payed more attention to the audio and did hear this time Begin at the end. Curious.

But I think this was the film in which Malick's voiceover style at probably its best. The characters almost never really talked on screen, as saying that they didnt had the balls to say what they really mean or that they were speaking "trough their souls" instead trough their mouths.

I appreciate that Malick went berzek on this film and forgot all his craziness and just freeballed the shit out of it. Apparently there was no script, no history, no nothing. Malikck throwed a bunch of people together and just rolled the camara on to see what would happen.

Unlike with his previews films there was not a set of specification for screening, just "play it loud"

And I bet watching this with a surround sound system would sound amazing, the sounds on the cars passing by, the helicopter flying above, it was asmr-ish

man, I think i liked this one more than Thin Red Line tbh, maybe its just a bait from Malick to catch all the pretentious hipsters but he sure caught me.

Just saw this today and loved it, it might be my favorite of all his films. I have too many thoughts to contain and organize into a post so I'll probably write a blog or something about it and maybe link to it here if anyone cares. But I would encourage anyone who is on the fence to go and see it, it deserves to be seen on a big screen