The New World

I finally managed to see 'The New World' yesterday. It's a breathtakingly beautiful movie, and - like Malick's 'The Thin Red Line' - its structure is like that of a stream of consciousness. It plays like a documentary filmed by a breeze that floats around the lives of the life within the movie...I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else, but it's the only way I can describe it. It's not the kind of movie that I will watch many times, but the one experience I've had of it was different from most other movies I've seen.

Terrible film.

Re. 'The New World':

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
Terrible film.

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
Going to see this epic film tonight!

You don't know what the word 'epic' means. And you're an idiot. And and.

Glad you liked it Krunk'd. Personally I didn't care for it outside of the beautiful cinematography, just wasn't engaged by it, really.

It was an incredible movie to look at, but I think it is a difficult movie to watch; its style is very different from other movies. I don't know if I'll watch it again, but it was a very interesting movie. It plays like a moving painting mixed with snippets from people's diaries.

Yeah, the moving painting is definately a good way to describe it. Beautiful visuals.

i cant say i have an overwhelming desire to see this film

krunk says his films have intelligence...apparently malick doens't have the intelligence not to cast colin bloody farrell

malick only real track record being thin red line which for me was a beautifully shot war film turned in a psuedo philisophical turd pile

the effect would have been much more powerful had he just made a film about one of the ww1 poets and how they saw that war

Yeah, I don't think you'd like 'The New World; the style of the 'narrative' is very similar to 'The Thin Red Line'. Ol' Colin is actually really good in the movie. It seems he must have turned a new leaf because he was excellent in 'Miami Vice', too.

As for Malick's track record, 'Badlands' is also excellent. Sure, his films aren't for everybody, but those who appreciate his style are generally very passionate about his movies.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
I finally managed to see 'The New World' yesterday. It's a breathtakingly beautiful movie, and - like Malick's 'The Thin Red Line' - its structure is like that of a stream of consciousness. It plays like a documentary filmed by a breeze that floats around the lives of the life within the movie...I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else, but it's the only way I can describe it. It's not the kind of movie that I will watch many times, but the one experience I've had of it was different from most other movies I've seen.

Glad you liked it! I really enjoyed this movie as well, and you are right about the stream of consciousness thing . . . nice way to put it.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Re. 'The New World':

Re. 'Snakes On A Plane':

Conclusion:

You don't know what the word 'epic' means. And you're an idiot. And and.

You must not know sarcasm when you see it then.

I didn't actually think Snakes on a Plane was going to be epic 🙄

So please don't bash me, personally, simply because I did not like the film you seem to have enjoyed so much. If you want my reasons, check the previous page. They are logical and valid.

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
You must not know sarcasm when you see it then.

I didn't actually think Snakes on a Plane was going to be epic 🙄

Wow, in that case you're really good at this sarcasm lark. Well done.

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
If you want my reasons, check the previous page. They are logical and valid.

Oooo, that's great! I'll check them out...

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
I still think the movie is one of the worst films of the past year and possibly worse than that. Now don't get me wrong, I didn't expect an action movie or anything of that sort, I just expected a strong story and interesting characters and so on. What I got was a 2 hour and 15 minute scenery flick. Seriously, the acting was mediocre, there was hardly any dialogue/character development (not to mention I didn't care for any of the characters, which shows that the movie didn't do a good job with the characters in the first place), there was virtually no plot (at least the plot that was there was so uninteresting that it might as well have not been there at all), and overall it was a boring film in ALL aspects. Good cinematography; so what? If the film is really terrible (which in my opinion, it was), then some good scenery won't make up for that.

Some of your points are valid in reference to your opinion, but you really misunderstood the type of movie you went to see. Malick's movies do not adhere to anything like a conventional structure, and all his movies are contemplative and cerebral, rather than explicitly open and easily accessable. As for the character development, the interaction between Pocahontas and Farrell's character was superbly acted and thoroughly believable. As was the later development of Bale and Pocahontas' relationship.

Disliking a film is your perogative, but the sheer originality, truth of emotion, and beauty of 'The New World' would place it no where near a categorization of 'one of the worst films of the past year'. A summation like that simply displays your ignorance of the craft, an inability to qualify films on merit, and a failure to recognise the inspiration within the movie.