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Post by Kino on Aug 21, 2008 2:29:57 GMT
Badlands  Days of Heaven 2.9 stars (cinematography-wise, a must-see; rating is also mostly based on the imagery and editing) The Thin Red Line   The New World |
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Post by svsg on Aug 21, 2008 2:31:34 GMT
2.9 stars! ;D
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Post by Kino on Aug 21, 2008 2:37:40 GMT
I don't get it.
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Post by svsg on Aug 21, 2008 2:46:12 GMT
I thought your star rating was an integer scale (0, 1, 2, 3, 4). I was just wondering what made you give 2.9 stars instead of 3 stars. I understand that any rating is arbitrary, one could as well rate movies out of 100000 instead of out of 5. I was just amused, that's all, no serious rational explanation for my reaction  |
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Post by Kino on Aug 21, 2008 2:59:38 GMT
I've been giving out 1/2 stars for a while. Then I think I started to include 3/4 stars. I think they're too broad personally.
When I was just doing 1/2 stars, I was lumping 2.75s and 2.9s together and labelling them 2 1/2 stars even though I thought they were higher than 2 1/2 stars.
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Post by svsg on Aug 21, 2008 3:07:24 GMT
Maybe in a different thread (actually there is one in noticeboard section), can you explain your ratings briefly? I am not looking for a rigorous description (though if you want to, you are welcome), but just rough points that you consider for your rating.
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Post by Michael on Oct 25, 2008 2:24:23 GMT
1. The New World (2005) ****
2. Days of Heaven (1968) ***
3. The Thin Red Line (1998) ***
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Post by Anasazie on Nov 1, 2008 11:13:25 GMT
1. Badlands (1973) 9/10
2. The Thin Red Line (1998) 8/10
3. Days of Heaven (1978) 7.5/10
4. The New World (2005) 4/10
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Post by quentincompson on Nov 2, 2008 22:33:33 GMT
1.Days of Heaven 9/10
2.Badlands 9/10
3.The Thin Red Line 8/10
4.The New World 5/10
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Post by Capo on Nov 3, 2008 0:33:06 GMT
Guys, why the lack of love for The New World?
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Post by Michael on Nov 14, 2008 9:09:06 GMT
Days of Heaven leaves me scratching my head.
The film doesn't confuse me, but the hyperbolic praise I've read here and elsewhere certainly does.
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Post by quentincompson on Nov 14, 2008 19:27:37 GMT
I just think the New World tries way too hard to be poetic to the point of silliness. His other films seem more natural and innocent, whereas the New World just seems contrived and indulgent.
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Post by Kino on Nov 27, 2008 19:14:21 GMT
Have any of The New World fans here watched the extended cut yet? If you have, share your thoughts, motherfuckers.
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Post by RNL on Dec 6, 2008 0:29:09 GMT
No, I must soon though. I also need to rewatch Badlands and The Thin Red Line.
1. Days of Heaven (1978) *****
2. The New World (2005) *****
3. Badlands (1973) *****
4. The Thin Red Line (1998) *****
My favourite living American director.
Jack Fisk mentioned in an interview that he's never seen Malick so excited and stimulated as he currently is working on The Tree of Life! And there's rumours that his next project will be Sir Gawain and the Green Knight!!!
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It's all very exciting.
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Post by Michael on Dec 6, 2008 1:10:11 GMT
1. Days of Heaven (1978) *****How? Why? |
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Post by RNL on Dec 6, 2008 1:46:21 GMT
Well, as Thug (RIP) wrote: "What Days of Heaven so perfectly evokes is a feeling of emptiness and loss. It depicts the short perfect period in the life of a man, his sister, and his lover, and the subsequent struggle to bring back those times. Everybody has a period in their life which they truly miss and will never get back, and that's the film in a nutshell. And if not, your days of heaven won't last forever. The beautiful cinematography, which may be the best of all time, only helps the film to linger in my mind."
Add to that its socialist overtones and it's got me by the gonads.
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Post by Michael on Dec 6, 2008 3:14:39 GMT
I liked it, there were some great moments in it, but I found it a bit pedestrian and trite. Did you like the fire scene where the farmer confronts/tries to kill Bill? That scene made me cringe, it felt like it was from some corny, made-for-TV melodrama or something.
Add to that its contrived, needlessly ambiguous final scene, and run-of-the-mill, tragic, "die for love" story, and it's not worth my gonads.
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Post by RNL on Dec 6, 2008 4:28:59 GMT
'Pedestrian'!? LMFAO.
Sorry, but fuck.
And yeah I love the whole thing.
Malick's style, through all his films, is like heavily introverted melodrama; always a bittersweet memorial or an elegy for something lost. He's far from any sense of classical equilibrium or ironic detachment, it's always stormy and fragile, it's just framed as remembrance. You tend to invoke that word, 'melodrama', as though it means 'bad drama'.
As for the "run-of-the-mill" story... yeah, it's basically a simple, age-old love triangle plot. It's in the telling, as always.
The phrase "needlessly ambiguous" might be needlessly ambiguous itself, but I'm not sure what it means.
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Post by Capo on Dec 6, 2008 15:49:43 GMT
"Did you find your Indies, John? You shall." "I may have sailed past them." His entire work in one dialogue exchange? wetdog, read this book if you haven't already. You'll love it. It's very short, too. |
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Post by Capo on Dec 8, 2008 1:17:55 GMT
1. The New World (2005) *****
2. Days of Heaven (1978) *****
3. Badlands (1973) *****
4. The Thin Red Line (1998) *****
I just re-watched Days of Heaven earlier, and it's about as visually gorgeous a film I can think of right now. Every single shot makes my heart throb. You'll have to help me out with the "socialist overtones", though, wetdog.
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