The fountain, that movie with Wolverine

[funeralfetish]

You all need to get off your butts, and see The Fountain right now, like right now, put down the cheese doodles Sir, AND MOVE IT!! This was one of the greatest movies I have ever seen, and if you want my I crap oscars film critic review, I will gladly tell you. Despite what said "I crap oscars" film critics say, it is easy to understand, but very

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[zwetschke]

but teh cheeze doodles are tasty!!!

;)

but seriously, if you can, also vote for navicon torture technologies' entry into the Fountian remix contest:

From: Navicon Torture Technologies
Date: Dec 7 2006 8:13 PM

i announced several weeks ago that NTT had taken part in THE FOUNTAIN REMIXED, a remix competition featuring source material from Clint Mansell's score to Darren Aronofsky's new film, as performed by KRONOS QUARTET and MOGWAI.
The top three rated tracks will be featured on the official movie website and possibly included in a remix album with tracks by Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet, Mogwai and others.
As of now, NTT is still amongst the top rated with 38 votes, but only the top three will be included.
Due to the terms of use, this track can not appear anywhere else. Ever.
Please go here and vote for NTT.

[funeralfetish]

It's funny my friend who I saw it with, is really into ambient/noise bought the soundtrack, and the movie I thought had a great score. I never heard of NTT before(but then again I'm not relly into noise), but they sounded great I will vote for them, they should have been part of the score, and I will send this to my friend, thanks!! :)

[archas]

Hear hear! It was not at all the "plotless weirdness" I had heard. But then, with Aronofsky, you just have to expect reviews verging on slander. I still remember going to see Pi in the theater, having heard nothing but "it's a really weird movie about math." Which, I suppose, is true, inasmuch as, say, The Godfather could be described as "a not-so-weird movie about Italians."

[funeralfetish]

Well his last film, Requiem was extremely easy to understand and follow, and the ideas not as abstract, but he enjoys doing strange things, like when they were shooting up or smoking, and when Ellen Burstyn's television became a show she was on. However this was strange, because it was so damn symbolic, like a moving painting, and I guess most people, don't expect to see an art house movie to be entertained, and this certainly, had a message more so then entertainment value, and instead of giving him a good review, they tore it down, forgetting that film is really a communication of an idea. I hope I make sense, I just had my first cup of coffee, hehe.

[archas]

orgetting that film is really a communication of an idea

Ah! I'm always very interested in film-makers' ideas on exactly this subject. Because, yes, film seems to be one of the most directly-communicative artforms. But then, the question gets asked: inasmuch as it is an artform at all, can film be communication? Some say, "Of course: all art is communication." But then you get your aestheticists; "Art for art's sake," etc.

I'm especially interested in your ideas here, as you're a fan of a genre that I don't always think of as strictly communicative: namely, horror. Are horror movies communication of ideas? Or emotional thrill rides? Or an exploration of cultural psyche? Do you have a "theory of horror film"?

[funeralfetish]

"Film is really a communication of an idea", and "Art is a material form of an idea", this is what I have been taught in my film history classes, there is no 'Art for art's sake". I don't always agree with this statement, I believe a lot of films are made, just for entertainmet, and have no need for one to walk away with something. It was different though, we watched a lot of films which were, very political, and or showed a universal human reaction, movies like 400 blows, and, the Bicycle thief, and Metropolis, are required to view, because their were very communicative, extremely so. We also saw some surrealist films like Salvador Dali shorts, and repulsion, which were experimental, and abstract, and I certainly believed, they were "Art for art's sake", with no solid intention, however they had an intelligence that you don't see in many films today, because they weren't marketed for the stupid masses. Does Horror have an communication value? I do think yes, because the purpose of horror is to disturb you, films like the Exorcist,

Aronofsky is a brilliant weirdo. HAHA

[neveranygrey]

Dan and I went to see it last night on your recommendation - it was excellent! Increadibly sad and UBER symbolic... kinda reminded me of 2001: space odyssey, only more human and touching. But otherwise excellent, such a simple message about mortality/immortality but an idea humans find increadibly difficult to come to terms with until it becomes personal and real. Not what I expected but definitelly worth it. And again with the circles and the turning.. always with the circles... very Darwinian. Which completelly went with the end of life/begining of life theme...

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."

- Charles Darwin

DON'T READ THIS COMMENT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT!!

[funeralfetish]

I'm real glad you guys enjoyed it, my friend had said that about the circles as well, and there was so much symbolism, that trying to notice it in one viewing was hard. Like when she was speaking about the dead stars, and started to speak about rebirth, and then that group of children came by, amazing!! Every scene where the they were in a home, the lighting looked like stars. I also loved when he got to the tree, and begin drinking it, and was punished by becoming part of nature. I'm gonna try to see it again soon, it won't do it justice to wait until it comes on DVD to watch it on my shitty little T.V,lol.