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

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

loathed that movie. wtf was the point? what? maybe two story lines, but three? no. and because i thought i must be missing something (all the smart people who loved it made me nervous), i watched it last week, too, and still loathed it.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I was a little nervous about posting the review here, since so many of my lj friends are so smart, I thought for sure I'd be insulting someone.

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

saying that you don't like a movie shouldn't be insulting toward someone who did - it's not like any of us made the movie.

it was pretty, and it had some interesting symbolism. i found the pretty too unmixed for enjoyment, and the symbolist too blatant. but the two leads were smoking hot, so i spent the second half of the movie admiring their looks ;-)

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

Smart people are still easily fooled by pretty things. My downstairs neighbor who pushed us to watch this one is obnoxiously smart and in love with it. I'm sure if I forced him to tell me what was so awesome about it he would start talking about "imagery" and "symbolism" and "cinematography," ie., he doesn't know any more about it than the rest of us but still thought it was pretty.

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

you're right. the movie really seemed like it should be good, and i wanted it to be good, but it was billed as intelligent, and it really wasn't. it was pretty and had a lot of blatant symbolism, which grated on me.

i liked live free or die hard a lot, however. i wonder if the fountain fans liked die hard?