The Master

[Shamrocked]

I don't know Shammy, I don't want to say I feel sorry for you that you didn't like this thing or don't enjoy the stuff Malick for example does because it would just be a hell of a lot more fun if you did. I don't think I'm in the wrong in assuming or having the belief that you actually do like some artsier stuff as well?

Oh I love artsy stuff. I'm at the local art house theater at least every other week. I've loved everything else that PT Anderson has done. I just happen to think that The Master is completely pretentious garbage (and I'm not alone). I also don't find Malick nearly as clever as he finds himself. It's all subjective and that's just my opinion. Meanwhile I anxiously await Anderson's next project as well as new offerings from Haneke, Solondz, Lynch....or any number of other filmmakers who deliver offbeat, artsy, transgressive or otherwise indie-minded films that actually entertain.

[don king]

I watched 30 minutes of this Tuesday night, and forced myself to watch another 20 last night. No matter how great a movie is, it shouldn't start with 50 minutes of pure boredom. Brutal. Somehow I feel compelled to keep watching, but it will have to be in small chunks. I can't make a full assessment until I finish it, if that ever happens, but so far I'd have to call it a steaming pile of sh1t.

I disagree with Shammy on The Tree Of Life though. That film is a masterpiece. I'm not kidding.

[kimura]

Went to see it a second time and was even more mesmerized. I had a problem the first time going in as it didn't feature subtitles on the 70mm print but I was able to pick up some of the stuff I'd missed earlier, like in the dialogue how Dodd and Quell discuss their relationship in past lives, the pack of smokes I didn't catch the first time, which Freddie brings to Lancaster when they meet in England. I just think it's one hell of a film. Have any of you seen Haneke's Amour yet?

[kimura]

Oh and I found the structure of the film more complete the second time around; this feeling of randomness with the scenes was circling in my head, but in a way it all made much more sense to me now.