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the last film you watched thread

Just watched Seconds... probably the creepiest film I have ever seen. Total head trip. Not well-received (mid-sixties) but certainly has passed the test time. Think of "Twilight Zone" on acid. Directed by John Frankenheimer, the man who brought us The Train, the real Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May. Roy should have won the Oscar for "best actor." :=D:
 
A stunning little drama in the form of an unnarrated documentary. Sweetgrass (2009) follows a sheep drive up to mountain summer pastures in Montana.

 
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)



I thought it was a great movie. It was also the first "Apes" movie I have watched, liked and understood.
 
immortals. eh. its better than 'clash of the titans', which i hated, but only barely. the story is just as empty. the visuals are hit and miss. sometimes the movie looks gorgous, sometimes just cliche and uninteresting. a big disappointment from the director of one of my all-time favs ('the fall').
 
An elliptical christian allegory recommended over in the hot topics 'sad movie' thread, Au hasard Balthazar (1966) from Robert Bresson. Not for everyone.

 
John Carter! I'd definitely watch it again! Loved it! Don't know what the critics who panned it were expecting!?
 
I just watched 50-50. It was so-so.

I did not feel the film was poignant, nor was it full of black humour the way understand it was supposed to be. I doubt I would watch it a second time.
 
Malick's impossibly lyrical meditation on misfortune, The Tree of Life. I love his films.
 
zoltanspawn said:
Malick's impossibly lyrical meditation on misfortune, The Tree of Life. I love his films.
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I've looked over some other viewers' reactions on IMDB and NetFlix and thought I might add another thought.

A great many people despise the film chiefly because they find it obtuse.

I don't believe they are noticing the very, very simple set up at the beginning of the film. (Maybe they were on their cellphone, talking or eating popcorn?) It's a few lines from the biblical old testament, spoken by god to Job, the faithful servant beset by terrible misfortune for no apparent reason: "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand...while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?"

Almost immediately, we learn the family suffers a misfortune in the death of Jack's brother at age 19.

And so the film begins to explore that misfortune...by going back, and showing it as fully as it can: the poignancy and heartbreak of all the family members involved, and then more and more, all the way back--as per the introductory insription--to the beginning of the universe.

How inexplicable is it that we suffer from such a traumatic event as the death of a brother, a son? What does such suffering mean? Malick gives us the context of the immediate past, and then the pivotal context of the mystery of being itself.

I think viewers may enjoy the film for the extraordinary work it is, with that in mind.

On the other hand, if such a theme (theodicy) seems boring or strange, The Tree of Life might best be skipped.
 
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