The God of Biscuits - 2013-08-14
This movie is very pretty, but it's literally two whole hours of this sort of thing. It's mind-numbingly boring, the kind of thing you expect from a director who made commercials his whole life and thought that making a movie would just mean making one of his pretty commercials, but longer and not selling anything. There's no semblance of pacing or depth and the result is 120 minutes of pure disinterest.
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Aelric - 2013-08-14 You must be great at an art museum.
I get why folks might find this movie too slow paced, but I actually liked the unreliable narrator, the dual settings and the general theme of depression. Tarsem Singh is not a great movie maker, but he is a hell of a craftsmen, and this is by far he best work, and I think it deserves recognition as a beautiful work of the visual medium.
Then again, I once made a totally disinterested date sit through Inland Empire, so I may be a sucker for weird visuals.
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The God of Biscuits - 2013-08-14 True art (like in a museum) has depth. This film's beauty is skin-deep.
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Mister Yuck - 2013-08-15 You seem to think pretty highly of museums.
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godot - 2013-08-14
I watched it as a slightly more narrative Koyonisqaatsi (Baraka, Samsara etc.)
Moreover, I LIKE the pacing of a Satantango or Shoah. Theres a place for ambient film.
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La Loco  - 2013-08-14
It's totally worth at least one sit through. The pacing makes it feel long, and at almost two hours it is a long film, but it is also very emotionally moving and extremely beautiful. If you need less emotion, a slightly shorter run time and more blood and guts go see The Immortals.
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Snakeweapon - 2013-08-14
This is the forum where fifty dudes collectively shit their nuts over the Pacific Rim end credits. Anything artier than an anime dream sequence is doomed to be called pretentious, sorry.
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memedumpster - 2013-08-14
I was immediately struck by how much this seemed like an advertisement (this video, I have never seen the movie) and it took me almost the whole video to figure out why. The music. The music in this is so crushingly goddamned awful that it sounds like advertising music. This would have ruined the opening to any movie, spectacularly.
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Aelric - 2013-08-14 Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, II. Allegretto
Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
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memedumpster - 2013-08-14 Which was boring and sucked when played over people hauling a dead horse out of a river from a train bridge. I like Beethoven a lot, but it sucked. There is no drama in that piece of music, it lacks all soul when compared to simple black and white photo framing.
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memedumpster - 2013-08-14 Opening 2001 with this would have killed it.
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