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Pseudo-spiritual codswallop
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"The Fountain is certainly very pretty to look at but a collection of nicely shot scenes do not, on their own, amount to a film, or make a film worth watching. The problem here is that Aranofsky is so busy beating you around the head with all of his New Age inspired symbolism that he seems to have forgotten that a film needs a script.Although the Conquistador storyline was (for the most part) reasonably well done, I couldn’t make myself believe in the modern day versions of Tom and Izzy and I simply didn’t care about the future Tom. Maybe Aranofsky could have got away with this if the film had had something interesting to say. But it doesn’t. What we have instead is a collection of rather uninspired platitudes about life, death, and so on being endlessly repeated without ever being expanded, extended or properly explored. The Fountain is a slickly made, painfully self-important film, and ultimately vacuous waste of celluloid. "
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The Fountain
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"Darren Aronofsky wrote the screenplay and directed this film. It's beautifully filmed, but a mishmash of a story. I believe the confusion arises because of a detail that is a spoiler, so I'll put that at the end. The trailer and advertising of the film market "The Fountain" as science fiction, and that's dead wrong. It's an aching romance story hanging on a quest. Hugh Jackman plays Tomas, a doctor trying desperately to find a cure for cancer. His wife Isabel, played by Rachel Weisz, is suffering from the disease and has only a short time to live. She asks for more time with him and gives him a book she's written; he opens the handbound volume and begins to read as she sleeps. We are taken from the present to Ferdinand and Isabella and the quest for the discovery of the Tree of Life in the New World, inhabited by the precolombian, prechristian "natives," and Tomas is now a conquistador, relentless and heartless in his search. Later we find ourselves in the far future, where Tomas s ... "
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"Have you ever watched a movie and thought, "Wow, that was a mess, but I loved it"? I have, and I have a name for movies that make me feel that way. I call 'em "beautiful failures."Beautiful failures are usually too long, too weird, too sloppy or just plain stupid, but they're always strangely compelling and, well, beautiful. They're the movies you think you hate but you can't stop thinking about. You come back to them over and over and you can't figure out why. They can be very complex, pretentious or even too simple or mass appealing. Other film buffs might tell you different, but there's really no formula to creating a beautiful failure.Some of my favorite beautiful failures are Steven Soderbergh's Solaris, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and David Cronenberg's awkward 1996 thriller Crash. I love these films for different reasons, but I recognize that they're all a little ... dreadful.Here are a few titles I've recently added to my list of beautiful failures.
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A strange comparison
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"I recently saw Eraserhead, after months of waiting for it come back into stock on Amazon.com, and I loved it. It was, without a doubt, the strangest film I've ever seen, surpassing anything I've seen as of yet by far. I watched it with my sister, and she was actually disturbed for several days after watching it and I felt really bad...especially since I found it so amazing. Throughout the film, I kept thinking whether or not it was good that I saw the extremely similar Pi before I had seen Eraserhead. Pi is a very obvious tribute to this movie in more ways than one, and in more ways than the extremely obvious black and white (15mm?) film and the general surreal, bizarre tones. Both films are centered around a misfit, probably early 20s, disillusioned male in worlds and societies that neither of them can really even begin to understand. They both live in small, secluded inner-city apartments with very sexy neighbors that they are obviously very attracted to but are too scared t ... "
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"I think that the expression "what the f***?" best summarizes this movie. Not only does the movie open with completely banal but needlessly confusing reality jumping scenes, but it also ends with its worst, most nonsensical reality jumping and mind warping scenes. The Fountain has been incorrectly advertised as a three-story arc movie spanning ten centuries. In actuality, it is a one story with multiple levels of reality movie spanning only a couple of days (weeks at most). Tommy Creo (Hugh Jackman) works as a scientist to save his dying wife, Izze (Rachel Weisz), who suffers from a cancerous brain tumor. As Tommy searches for this real life cure for death, Izze works on her novel. This novel demonstrates Izze's evolution and final acceptance of death. Because of her fragile state, Izze cannot finish the book and leaves the final chapter for Tommy to finish. This is one level of reality- which I will call "real life". In "real life", Izze gives Tommy her bo ... "
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"The Fountain was the most controversial film of 2006. Indicating how varied the responses to it were, it currently has an exact 50% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. My cineaste pals were divided as well- K.J. Gorlitz hated the movie, Eddie "the punk" Oslan had mixed feelings about it, while Nate and Rob loved it. I recently read a review of the DVD release that gave an interesting fact- at its premier at the Venice Film Festival, it was booed by critics. The next day, at the first audience screening, it received a ten minuet standing ovation. I missed the film when it played in Mount Pleasant (the early reviews were horrible, I saw Flags of Our Fathers instead, which is worse). Then it was a long wait for a DVD release, and when I went to get it at Blockbuster the clerk told me it was "amazing". As he said it, I had a momentary flashback to K.J.'s immortal "what the fuck?" review. What would I think of the movie? &n "
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Cinematic poetry
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"2006 (USA) dir: Darren Aronofsky Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen BurstynOn the surface 'The Fountain' is a confusing film, but underneath the convoluted plot and stunning visuals is a message that hits hard and keeps stirring the grey matter for days after the first watch.The Fountain is an odyssey about one man's thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves. His epic journey begins in 16th century Spain, where conquistador Tomas Creo (Hugh Jackman) commences his search for the Tree of Life, the legendary entity believed to grant eternal life to those who drink of its sap. As modern-day scientist Tommy Creo, he desperately struggles to find a cure for the cancer that is killing his beloved wife Isabel (Rachel Weisz). Traveling through deep space as a 26th-century astronaut, Tom begins to grasp the mysteries of life that have consumed him for more than a century.Ultimately 'The Fountain' is about death as a form of creation, how a person cannot truly begin to live until they ... "
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The Fountain (2006)
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"Released: September 28, 2006 (Austin)Director: Daren Aronofsky*****Mercilessly dumped into a pre-Thanksgiving opening in 2006 after being shut down once, The Fountain contains one major flaw: it is entirely too short. This film, following one man through three different time periods in quests to save a woman he loves, runs just 96 minutes. We want to see more of Tomas' rage against the Inquisition in Spain and more of Tommy and Izzi in the present day. The only storyline which feels full happens roughly 500 years in the future, where he is the last man alive and bringing the Tree of Life to a dying star.The Fountain may have been too spiritual and metaphysical for theatrical audiences, but everything about the film demands a mass audience sees it. Quite simply, it's gorgeous to behold in every time period; one sequence inside Queen Isabel's throne room is awash in candles suspended from the ceiling, tricking the viewer into believing Tomas is walking through a vast starfield. ... "
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