LOL @ the reviews. seems like a 2 hour perfume commercial with no perfume.
i still might check it out if i get really drunk. seems like a great movie for hippies.
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This...is not a movie. It's a narrated commercial for nothing, or maybe for the cameras they used for filming? The shots are cool, I'll give it that, one point for the cinematography. Nothing happens in this commercial, there's no story arc, no plot, no character development. You will not experience any emotions during this film, unless you are moved by perfume ads in magazines. You will not have any thoughts about this thing either, besides 'why did I finish that?' , if you can survive to the end. Its a tough watch. Lots of pretty girls in it, so if that means anything to you, then I might recommend this.
I don't think they will release this movie in theaters, it won't be worth that type of distribution, because the movie looks expensive and the cast is top notch. I am not a film critic by any means, but I know this is bad. Not funny bad, just painstakingly boring and pointless bad.
Avoid
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Title: Someone put a bullet through my head now please
Is what I was thinking the entire time watching this movie.
I'm 40, male, a huge movie buff all my life and have been using IMDb for a very long time.
Literally just signed up now after all these years so I could warn people what an awful movie this is.
Terrence Malick was clearly trying to make an artful movie instead of a good one.
Not sure how this movie has the 6.7 rating it currently has.
If this review saves even 1 person from wasting the 2 hours I did it will have served its purpose.
For all the others don't say I didn't warn ya.
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Beautiful shots, lots of them. 2 hours of perfume ads, with an unhappy protagonist, Christian Bale. He is apparently a successful, but definitely miserable, comedy script writer; unintended irony I guess. He doesn't do anything, other than feature in most shots, often bare foot, speaking monotone about the difficulties of 'being', occasionally swimming in his clothes in swimming pools and the sea, often accompanied by women, one more beautiful than the other. Sometimes, he chases the women round the room having pillow fights. The women, most of them, wearing flimsy designer attire, dance and wave their arms about for no apparent reason. The most exciting bit was the 5 sec. shot of Christian Bale riding a skateboard. The film made me realize my life is not that bad after all.
This post was edited by FLCKennedy on Jan 6 2016 08:33pm