Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?

[Jordan Catalano]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#1

Posted: 12/19/10 at 7:09pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLPe0fHuZsc

[AC126748]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#2

Posted: 12/19/10 at 8:14pm

Looks pointless and overwrought...like all Terrence Malick movies.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[SeanMartin]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#2

Posted: 12/19/10 at 9:31pm

Let's get it open before annointing it, okay?

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[Taryn]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#3

Posted: 12/19/10 at 9:35pm

Oh boy. I love a trailer that leaves me thinking, "What is this movie about again?"

[strummergirl]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#4

Posted: 12/19/10 at 9:46pm

Terrence Malick is a dude with a vision. I think everything else, from a coherent trailer to awards, mean little to him. Still, I was left with the same impression as Taryn.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#5

Posted: 12/19/10 at 11:57pm

Looks pointless and overwrought...like all Terrence Malick movies.

Ummm...what? Malick is a visionary, DAYS OF HEAVEN is one of the most beautifully shot movies I've ever seen and it's far from a "pointless" and "overwrought" movie. I get not liking a director, but to call Malick's work pointless is a bit much. At times pretentious and indulgent, yes but he's one of the few filmmakers left with a true vision and you can see that in the trailer. When I went to see BLACK SWAN, I saw this trailer and it's really meant to be seen in the big screen (it makes a big difference), some of those shots are just breath-taking when seen on the big screen. Brad Pitt actually looks really good, he keeps getting better and better the older he gets and this is coming from someone who didn't use to be a fan at all. Sean Penn will probably be his usual brilliant self.
The movie has great buzz too, with some people who've seen it saying that it changes the language of cinema. Of course that's way overblown and I hardly doubt the movie does that, but I'm sure it'll be a really interesting film. I for one can't wait to see it.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[Mister Matt]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#6

Posted: 12/20/10 at 11:08am

I saw the trailer in the theatre and I found it quite intriguing (and I'm a sucker for the music of Smetana). I am a bit worried as I absolutely HATED Thin Red Line and New World.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[SeanMartin]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#7

Posted: 12/20/10 at 11:45am

I'm guessomg, based on the trailer, that Sean Penn is the grown up version of Brad Pitt's son, and there's some kind of worldwide disaster. Does anyone have any solid information about what this is about?

http://docandraider.com

[AC126748]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#8

Posted: 12/20/10 at 11:48am

Here's Malick's personal synopsis:

We trace the evolution of an eleven-year-old boy in the Midwest, Jack, one of three brothers. At first all seems marvelous to the child. He sees as his mother does with the eyes of his soul. She represents the way of love and mercy, where the father tries to teach his son the world’s way of putting oneself first. Each parent contends for his allegiance, and Jack must reconcile their claims. The picture darkens as he has his first glimpses of sickness, suffering and death. The world, once a thing of glory, becomes a labyrinth.
From this story is that of adult Jack, a lost soul in a modern world, seeking to discover amid the changing scenes of time that which does not change: the eternal scheme of which we are a part. When he sees all that has gone into our world’s preparation, each thing appears a miracle—precious, incomparable. Jack, with his new understanding, is able to forgive his father and take his first steps on the path of life.
The story ends in hope, acknowledging the beauty and joy in all things, in the everyday and above all in the family—our first school—the only place that most of us learn the truth about the world and ourselves, or discover life’s single most important lesson, of unselfish love.

I stand by my statement. I'll be skipping this one.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[SeanMartin]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#9

Posted: 12/20/10 at 11:52am

Oh dear. This sounds like the kind of film that should be AD'd by Thomas Kincaid.

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[Mister Matt]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#10

Posted: 12/20/10 at 1:13pm

Yeah, that synopsis only makes me less interested in the film.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[strummergirl]

Could This Be Next Year's Best Picture Winner?#11

Posted: 12/20/10 at 1:25pm

I read there were scenes taken of prehistoric Earth for the movie and seeing the visuals of the trailer a number of times over, I am now left thinking this is 2001: A Space Odyssey meets Americana. This definitely has a love it or hate it kind of feel, as does much of Malick's films.