New Review Up: The Fountain

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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

[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?