New Review Up: The Fountain

[urbpan]

In this installment of Solylent Screen, I endured The Fountain, a piece of New Age claptrap about mortality and spirituality, starring Hugh Jackman as a successful conquistador, cancer researcher, and soap-bubble dwelling space Buddhist. If you liked and/or understood this attractive yet incomprehensible heiroglyph of a movie, please tell me wtf and/or why.

Comments

[perigee.livejournal.com]

Dude, if you want more newage (pronounced like "sewage") claptrap, try "What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?" which is a "documentary" that is really a mockumentary that the participants largely don't know as such. There's even a 30,000 year old (I think) cast member (Ramtha). It's a laugh riot.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

That movie (haven't seen it, hope never to, but have read much about it) convinced me that the newagers have as much potential as the christianists to mangle facts and use propaganda to further their agenda. But at least their agenda seems fairly benign: force people to spend money on crystals, herbal tea, snake oil and self-help books, all in a spirit of loving kindness and if we all concentrate we can change reality.