Bad or Brilliant? - The Fountain Review

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[@anonymous06593]

Yeah the fountain is super underrated I love that movie

[@hamzaalshargabi4804]

David is 100% THAT guy

[@NickOnFire1490]

Honestly this is probably one of the most interesting podcast episodes BECAUSE there was so much disagreement about the movie. As much as I love you guys railing on Cats, this one was fascinating to listen to, you guys should do more movies where you have differing opinions!

[@luxchameleon]

I love The Fountain so much.

[@hollowludens5861]

Imagine their arguments after watching Mother!

[@chanceneck8072]

All the space stuff isn't actually space at all, it's all just symbolism, a metaphor for Tommy's MIND, his consciousness. That's why we see him wake up there FIRST, then cut to the hospital room in the present day, in that scene where Izzy is dying....

[@luxchameleon]

The Fountain is one of my favorite movies. I've seen it at least five times. I cry at least a few times everytime I watch it. ❤️❤️❤️

[@1148bucknasty]

David conveying his opinions as facts is exhausting

[@luxchameleon]

Agreed.

[@luxchameleon]

I'm curious what each of their zodiac signs are....

[@Alexander-so8mk]

@@luxchameleonzodiac signs?

[@ottojagenstedt9740]

It has to be annoying that he's often correct in his harsh critique, which still means it's fine to like anything for yourself by the way. I've watched a few of these and disagree with him the most but that doesn't take away the fact that when he says something is bad _it often is_ . I still personally don't mind that thing at all, that he finds lacking, or I like the movie as a whole which he hates but I've rarely felt he's completely clueless and pulls shit out of his ass. I love inception and everything he critiques in that movie is still totally correct. That doesn't change me from thinking it's a *great* movie. I love the prestige and he's completely in the right with everything he nitpicks in that one as well. Instead of being annoyed, argue why he's wrong because you'll find that's often hard if youre honest no matter how brilliant a movie is or how much you like it. I like the fact that he doesn't let anything pass "just because". He'll rate a movie one of the best he's seen and can still tell you 5 things they "fucked up". That's super interesting in someone rating media and especially in a contrast to james liking most things even if they're "bad" and riley watching everything like a kid for the first time and you don't know what the fuck he's going to love or hate with any movie for any reason. It's GREAT.

[@ottojagenstedt9740]

I get your point but the podcast does not get better by everyone adding ".. in my opinion!!!" after everything they say ever. It IS better with everyone saying "this is bad/amazing because of this" as if it was a _fact_

[@SynthLove]

Such an underrated channel. Wish you guys got more attention.

[@TheyreJustMovies]

Tell your friends about us!

[@GoodNuf]

@@TheyreJustMovies why don't you guys do a lil plug on ltt

[@SynthLove]

Good Nuf idk enough to say but maybe they want to be something different and do things themselves or else they would have probably. Only reason I know about this podcast/KZbin is cause I follow these guys on twitter.

[@GoodNuf]

@@SynthLove I only heard about it through the ltt subreddit

[@RiveraFilms]

@@GoodNuf Yeah true. I would've gone on this channel much sooner.

[@johncook158]

james is right. She wrote her story based on him because she loves him. The conquistador is supposed to represent Thomas from her eyes. She tells him to finish it. So everything after the conquistador gets the dagger from the native-priest is Thomas' writing, which is disjointed from her writing. The two stories are synthesized by Tommy.

[@hoon_sol]

Indeed; and the Inquisition and Inquisitor represents her cancer, you can see how he marks another part of the map as her tumor progresses, and how Tomas expresses his dismay over the situation (even tellingly referencing Spain as "her"): TOMAS: _(sobs)_ ISABEL: Faithful servant, why do you cry? TOMAS: To see Spain brought so low, with an enemy thriving within her borders, feasting on her strength. The shame is too much. I've failed her. ISABEL: Dare not pity Spain. The true genius of the film is how she is the one writing the frame story, trying her best to use her final moments to express how she sees what's happening and how she has come to terms with it, making the film not only about the overarching themes of mortality, but a meta-film which is making an artistic expression about artistic expression itself, even tying into the aforementioned themes with explicit mentions of death as an act of creation.

[@sekharraja9679]

i have seen it once so i may not be remembering correctly but i took it as the scientist is real, the soldier portion is the unfinished story that his wife is writing and since she begs him to complete the story, he completes it his way and space tom is his ending to his wife's story and the movie narration is the scientist talking while writing the ending to the book.

[@Kingdomplains]

Yeah- that's basically it. Its... one of the most insane and wonderful pictures to date.

[@CaptainBohnenbrot]

David is a walking Dunning Kruger graph.

[@decadentgamer8322]

David sounds like an arts student explaining why a piece is fantastic, when all I see is a banana attached to a wall.

[@janedoe7621]

I attached a shelled kiwano melon to a wall at work, and it was viewed as a supremely evocative protest art piece.

[@chanceneck8072]

Totally.

[@ratisharolkar2986]

It's about the character who loves his wife dearly, loosing her to tumour and her 99 percent possibility of death shakes him, destroys him. He cannot let that happen and wants to do everything in power to save her. This desperate need to save his beloved from death either results in his karmic quest for 3 different lifetimes one event leading to Another or its just his mental states. His pain is unbearable, later tries to understand that in death we all live forever. It's one of the most traumatic truths of life that we alll deal with. Loosing your loved ones in time is a reality and we haven't yet have a solution to it. Only when we ourself cross that boundary of Death we realise we all live forever.

[@shadwills8594]

I think this may be my favorite movie of all time. I guess it has dethroned Ghost Busters (1 or 2? "Your love, is lifting me higher!"). I still appreciate all of the deep meaning and the visuals. The surface visuals and the story depth... I appreciate it. Face death, sure. What other movie deals with Einsteinian time so physically (?)? I agree that there aren't really "answers" in this movie. The fact that, "what is reality?" is in question, is deep, and cool, and this movie f***ing rocks!

[@ihateyoutubesomuch371]

It's my favorite as well. I feel like it speaks in a language that completely connects with me but is grating or boring to most.

[@jessenorris6499]

I don't know if I've ever agreed with someone less than I have with David on this movie.

[@TheyreJustMovies]

It's certainly a divisive movie to say the least. I'm glad people enjoy it though. I think it's a great concept - DG

[@charlesgrove6905]

@@TheyreJustMovies Hey I know there is one movie we can all agree was horrible... Star Wars: TROS lol

[@hoon_sol]

@@TheyreJustMovies: You're absolutely right; it divides the braindead morons who don't understand cinematic art or storytelling and people who do. I am not exaggerating when I say in no uncertain terms that _The Fountain_ is the best film that has ever been made, and anyone saying otherwise simply has zero idea what they're talking about.

[@chanceneck8072]

Yeah, the part with the visual lines completely took me out of it. 😅🤭

[@FaithfulFrets]

beside the slight camera hiccup the production/editing of this video was really good! keep it up guys

[@johnnystevens1248]

17:13 weird criticism to me. theres a lot more to that scene than just "information being conveyed" in the traditional exposition sense, but its a scens that does so much to show us what kind of character Thomas is.

[@davidbeams8705]

Never Heard Of This Movie Thank You For The Review

[@TheyreJustMovies]

Anytime, David -David

[@krat0skrat0s69]

@@TheyreJustMovies allright davids

[@Molmen07]

Had to come over from Spotify for this. I love this movie. I saw it once. 12 years ago and I still catch my self thinking of it. The theme, the visuals. And THE MUSIC. And listening to David shit on it so hard is rough man. Was looking forward for this episode, but half way in. Not so much anymore. Keep up the good work. Good podcast guys😊

[@irnp6125]

My first exposure to this podcast (only know you guys from the Linus Tech Videos). I love this movie and enjoyed your discussion. Growing up as an immigrant in the U.S. with primary exposure to Bollywood Cinema, this film was one of the first movies I watched during college that exposed me to the broad possibilities of movies as an art form rather than traditional drama, action or comedy. As a novice movie-goer, I can enjoy Aronofsky's stumbling attempts to make a brillian film and appreciate what it did for me and getting me to appreciate the art, skill and craftmanship of film. The Fountain along with other great films like Lock, Stock (Guy Ritchie) and Fight Club (Fincher) grew my love for movies. However, I can see David's perspective, though I disagree with it, that if you know more about film making than you can pick it apart. However, I feel if you are not able turn your mind off and just watch the movie than you can let some technical issues from the creator and director overshadow the positives in the movie (e.g. the themes it discusses of life and dealth or the brilliant acting from the lead actors). All of these elements contribute to a film and I think elevate the film to a score of something around an 8 (closer to what James gave it). Just to pick on David a bit more...he critiqued the movie for inefficiency and a bunch of "talking and shot-reverse shot". The diner scene from Heat is a classic scene with that same editing and it is so high tension. David's critique about this movie being nothing more than talking...pffff....so David must hate every single Tarantino movie because by I'm pretty sure Tarantino can make all his movies into 15 minute short films. This movie is very visual. James pointed our the specific shots of Tomas walking towards the light. The tree with hair and the nape of the neck are shot overlapping when Tom's character is talking to Izzy and Space-Tom's character talking to Tree-Izzy. In another shot of Izzy in the bathtub, Tom is moving the sponge over her leg and the scene cuts into her leg becoming the bark of the tree. In all the Queen Izzy scnenes, the bottom of her dress show roots growing upwards on the dress. Even in the podcast you discussed the visual of Space-Tom and Conquistador Tom traveling through a canal, purposefully made to look like a birth canal. I feel that knowing too much about film and music prevent David from enjoying a movie like this (similarly why a critic like Roger Ebert would not appreciate it either) but for the simpletons like me, it can evoke enough appreciation that it pulls me to an art form like film and cinema. (Last thing on the music) If Clint Mansell is not classically trained, critiquing his approach to music to the Tree of Life's "great" use of classical music seems a bit silly. Simplicity can still be brilliant. Hans Zimmer used one drawn out sound to create the eerie tone for the Joker in Dark Knight. Love Clint Mansell's music from Requiem, The Fountain and the ending of Smoking Aces. Art in the form of music should not be constricted. The creator makes it and it will find its audience. At its infancy, many believed sampling tracks by hip-hop DJ's was not "music" because it did not involve original creation of the music. Yet, it has become one of the most prolific music genres. I apologize for the long post. I'm a big fan of you all from the Linus Tech Tips Channel. I love this movie and was looking for a review when I stumbled onto this podcast (now subscribed). Enjoyed this episode. James is correct, this movie is awesome. (Still love this movie). P.S. "The Tree of Life" is the most boring piece-of-shit I ever tried to watch. I couldn't get through it and I have watched “La Meglio Gioventu” (Best of Youth) with subtitles in one sitting.

[@charzanboo9940]

Nice review! Enjoyed reading it and your backstory.

[@Fifus92]

wait what? 6? did you both mean 16 / 10 or i missed something :o This movie is top1 movie of all time for me

[@fuzzydunlop0507]

This is one of my favorite movies as well. The issues it does have, while I know next to nothing about actually movie making, but are some of the issues due to the huge budget cuts, financial issues and time delays it had from the get go?

[@jayantjj]

Finally watched The Fountain today and instantly remembered that you guys had done a podcast on this. HAD TO BE my first video right after the movie. Miss you guys😢

[@AlexMonzon1995]

Lmfao rileys “jeez man” got me cracking up 😂

[@ninadavidovic9644]

Adore The Fountain, specially the visuals, score and the cast.

[@beefteki]

this movie sounds...interesting... Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

[@TheyreJustMovies]

Hope you like it!

[@imthestein]

Me going into this: “ok well I liked the film but I know many didn’t like it so let’s see where they go” Me halfway through: “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!”

[@Alucardbob]

As always an interesting discussion. Keep up the good work guys! 🤘

[@FarhadHaqverdi]

Man, I love this movie so much! Really happy you did an episode on this!

[@MaikKellerhals]

I wonder what you think about "The Fall". It falls into the same category for me, a visual and emotional feast, but maybe a little too ambitious and as a result a bit rough around the edges but I love it.

[@MaikKellerhals]

Oh and if it's color you're looking for you'll find plenty of it in this one ;)

[@TheyreJustMovies]

I like the Fall, but you nailed it. It's sometimes a bit too big for it's own britches, and can get a little messy. Overall I would recommend it though - DG

[@CodyBMcGuire]

The first few times I watched this film I never read a summary of the plot so I didn't realize the setting in space was supposed to be a future space traveler; thought that description seemed bizarre after reading it for the first time. From Izzi's explanation of Xibalba during the scene on the snowy roof about it being the place Mayans believed souls traveled to after death combined with the scene where right after Izzi's funeral when Tommy is looking over the journal and begins pricking his finger with the ink pen to form a black ring as he begins sobbing uncontrollably, my interpretation was that right then he killed himself after not being able to accept Izzi's death and since the scene transitioned to outer space right as he was stabing his hand where he still had the black ring around his finger, I thought the space scenes represented his soul trapped in his own personal purgatory as it makes its journey to Xibulba.

[@CodyBMcGuire]

So the scenes of the Conquistador in the past are obviously the story izzi was writing, the scenes of the future was Tommy's soul in the afterlife as it travels to Xibalba and the modern day scenes are memories of his life with Izzi before he committed suicide after her death. At the end his soul finally reaches Xibalba and they're reunited in eternity.

[@S_047]

Always saw Thomas as the book, Tommy reality, and astro Tom as his subconscious grappling with his thoughts and when he realizes Izzi's way of thinking he really did leave the office and spend his time with her

[@AndrewCavaletto]

I love this podcast, I hope it gets the attention it deserves!

[@wertacus]

So happy to see the ratings back again. I watched this movie as a primer for this podcast and the podcast gets a much higher rating than the movie. I gave it a 5.6 because it at least had a fairly cohesive plot

[@fernando9933]

This movie is in my top 3 of all time. Get at me. "they talk so much in this move" was enough for me.

[@barrettgeibel9538]

How long is the raw footage of this discussion? Is it really worth editing down that much?

[@TheyreJustMovies]

Raw footage is 2+ hours for this episode. We try to keep all the best bits and remove some stumbling over our words, long pauses and when we repeat ourselves too much. Trust me, you aren't missing any of the good stuff - DG

[@luxchameleon]

David's explanation of musical composition around 40 minutes is really interesting, too!

[@thetheflyinghawaiian]

I'm sorry but David can't complain about a stuck up director from Harvard while acting stuck up to Riley because he went film school.

[@Lipi19821]

31:25 acctually he did use that technick...past Triangles/piramides ,present squeres /tv screens monitors , Future Spheres Source: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqHbeGqKjMdsmq8 when u find out daren is on a wholle other level than this guy(that is smart anyway)

[@WSBR707]

izzy giving tom a seed is a representation of tom accepting izzy's wishes to be buried with a seed, as moses morales told her of his father on her trip. it is metaphorical. izzy did not give tom a seed then, because tom did not go on that walk. it is metaphorical. the future portion of the story is tom's finishing of izzy's book.

[@karimgameil6240]

I wonder how many people share this view. I for sure do. I do think the future Tom is the true timeline that is based on the young Tom story we saw during the movie 1st and 2nd acts. Thomas is fiction written by Izzy.

[@typhon1861]

I think David missed the point of The Fountain. He went into the movie to critique it and came out of it with a list of things, that's not what this movie is. As Riley said, it's merit comes from being a trip that you just have to go on and can't sit through for sake of analyzing. It may not be technically amazing but a movie doesn't need to excel technically for it to be good. Movies are experiences and if someone comes out of it with a positive experiences it's a success even if it did everything wrong. I think David's points are for sure valid, I am not as educated in film theory as he clearly is but I think for the average to moderately literate viewer this movie kicks ass. For the 2 ends of the extreme (the critic and dumb viewer) it's a bad one.

[@Dummerbrella987]

By same line of thought, I guess I could just clip together a bunch of stock footage and release it as a movie. Put whatever ideas you wan't into it and it's some amazing art I guess.

[@pst5345]

@@Dummerbrella987 but that's the point. This movie is anything but vague. There are no infinite possibilities of meaning by the imagery used.

[@Aturnadagar]

The problem of how you keeping scores is that all the movies are in one pool. You have to put them on a genre pool or divide some how, not all movies should be on the same spectrum. Usually art and sport is like that.

[@tissot233]

Considering they already jumped out of the scores once and there is no clear construct. Let them just score whatever. Who cares.

[@dual.clutch]

I liked when you guys compared the tree sap to the ending of Uncharted 2, one of my favorites.

[@chanceneck8072]

GREAT discussion about my #1 all time favorite film....

[@Mycon]

why no LTT waterbottles? are they crap?! they must be crap!

[@sanityzeropercent]

good podcast, keep it up!

[@TheyreJustMovies]

Thanks for listening

[@Fifus92]

btw "conquistador Tom" loses his ring right before he dies near the tree of life, "future Tom" finds the ring near the tree of life just before he dies ;

[@Llucius1]

Future present past is at the same moment

[@no.sonnnn]

DO AKIRA NEXT!!!!

[@NostalgicTribe]

Amazing movie. Dude on left ya don't get it.

[@emmanuelchang7911]

The left-sided guy is just not spiritual and sensitive enough to enjoy this love-is-eternal masterpiece, that's all, he should watch Marvel movies.

[@hoon_sol]

That much is quite obvious. What a total buffoon.

[@nikolaos9652]

I think he'd manage to come out of a Marvel film with notes like "Red is not a proper color for IronMan's suit" and "spaceships don't work like this"

[@romanvarsity]

Thank you for old ratings

[@chrisgieni]

Gosh. I had to stop watching a little over halfway through. I love discussions, and listening to multiple points of view, but David was absolutely insufferable to me. Instead of simply being passionate about something and giving a well thought out take, he comes across as a rude, aggressive whiner. I have no problems with his arguments, just his over the top emotions. He can barely get his words out fast enough, and is practically gasping for air between sentences. Everything he says seems to have so much acid on it, like he's offended by the movie itself. Not people's opinions of it, but the movie's very existence. Plus he insults the director and composer, instead of just critiquing them. I don't like coming down on a person, especially in comments like this. I just had to express my distaste to someone, even though it is rather pointless :) I liked this channel, but couldn't finish this one. Thanks for all the content!

[@geraldgutsueii3324]

When you mentioned "stumbling upon deep themes" it makes me think of it a bit differently than where you take the discussion. It makes me think of surface level understanding, tying back in to the idea of reading the classics, and thinking you're a genius; where deeper/more accurate interpretation of the themes is a happy accident from the viewer instead of purposeful on Aronofsky's part. Like James comparing the dagger to science being better than what's there on film.

[@luxchameleon]

David's explanation of visual storytelling around 31 minutes into this is very interesting.

[@chanceneck8072]

It's complete nonsense. Pretentious film student knowledge, completely useless and argumentatively empty!

[@nikolaos9652]

@@chanceneck8072 Yep, the whole thing, from the lines to color palette to the saturation discussion is the reason why blockbusters are a "paint by numbers" situation where everything needs to be explained, everything needs to be resolved, nothing must be ambiguous.

[@wileycsg]

no LTT water bottles on the table, prob because they dont have easy open drink holes

[@franciscon6289]

Have you guys watched the short film "Asparagus" (1979) ???

[@SlaveLabourEntertainment]

Please do a podcast on cloud atlas.

[@FarhadHaqverdi]

This is one of the best movies of all time to me!

[@chanceneck8072]

Brilliant!! Next question! 😊

[@BigAirCot]

This time david entered "OBJECTIVELY BAD" mode lol

[@Lipi19821]

AFAIK daren A. said only 1 timeline is real...An very little in the movie is methaporical

[@jeroddunn]

Please tell me you guys have seen Movies With Mikey’s episode on this. She is the conquistador.

[@TheAttmaster9]

We get it David, you went to film school

[@ARIEL_BLU]

No that's from Maya cultur

[@meandervh8960]

it seems like the hosts doesn't even like each other. The huys of Sardonicast are never getting irritated with each other when there not on the same page together with a movie opinion.

[@ReVerus_B]

42 minutes in... Of course Riley loves the music that David hates because it's too simple! Look at Riley's home! This is the minimalist theme song companion for his home!

[@seanpf6576]

I don't really like David. He's not critiquing the film. He's just trying to show off that he went to film school and it comes off really pretentious.

[@ARIEL_BLU]

Sorry but guy with glasses watch to much marvel etc you not spiritual and emotional at all that's why you don't get it go to your comics

[@tonygibson5171]

Issa goooood

[@psychopopdesign]

What I choose to believe because its the most fun is: All 3 timelines are real and happened, he found the tree and this is them living forever until finally she gets cancer in modern times leaving him to live "forever" without her (prob way off but it makes for cool scifi)

[@valtur25]

Story in that movie is not most important part, this movie is focused on emotions of loosing someone to cancer. Hard to understand to person that haven't lost loved one. Kinda like in After Life. Flashbacks are to show guilt he had, for focusing more on finding medicine instead of spending time with her. Dagger was a connection between her trip to museum and her story. Story in her book also shows how she sees him, how she thinks that he would do everything for her, even get himself killed.

[@mattmmilli8287]

A few parts are super boring but it has a pretty satisfying ending I thought

[@SiimKuusik]

We all missed the French accent jokes due to no video feed. Please include more french jokes in the next one 👨🏻

[@cwbuilds9215]

review mars attacks

[@Mathieu_soDjo]

If David's favorite movies are Avengers I'm out o here.

[@hoon_sol]

I didn't watch all of this, but please tell me this isn't actually the case. Anyone who regards those absolute pieces of trash as their favorite should have all social media licenses revoked.

[@pedrofrederico308]

David is the kinda guy who will have a huge argument with you over progressive metal vs. punk rock music.

[@chanceneck8072]

He's the kinda guy who would defend Jazz music.....

[@pst5345]

the triangle is the symbol of wisdom. Izzy's story tries to lead him to wisdom. Instead of the book she could have easily told him she is fine with death and he needs to let her go. But that made the whole movie pointless. Most movies, especially dramas, are solved by being upfront with each other but they want to tell a story, so...

[@Kopeksi]

Fake disagreement.

[@jakobrandel8105]

Yalls cartoon selves are sort of terrifying.

[@KhromTX]

So many cuts lmao. I'd love to see an uncut version of an episode. I wanna see the arguments. UNCUT UNFILTERED DIRECTORS CUT of a Carpool Critics episode. Do it you cowards!!

[@NootNoot.]

Comin to HBO Max 2021 😏

[@TheyreJustMovies]

it would just be more boring.

[@theascentofhumanity]

@@TheyreJustMovies Nonsense! I would subscribe on Floatplane for this extra content.

[@brianbass8936]

the guy on the left is a major tool, this movie sucks but spiderman is good. LOL.

[@AlexMonzon1995]

Yo when we getting spidey man 2 aha

[@KhromTX]

Take a shot every time Riley says the word "Funny"

[@tsbulmer]

The first Spiderman hasn't aged well, but I feel like I owe it a debt, as though the MCU wouldn't have come to be if not for it.

[@mupsoftaren]

Less is more David.

[@rhinocore]

Such vaccinated takes from David.

[@demonicdonut22]

One of my wife's favorite movies. I've stayed awake through it once...

[@fvizeus]

David is so pretentious it made this episode almost unwatchable. Not surprised to see other comments making similar points. Makes me don't want to listen the other episodes ("Listen" because I was listening to it on Spotify, came to KZbin just to make this comment)

[@SEMIA123]

I give David's rating a 3/10

[@dominick253]

Yeah there's a term for him. He wants music for musicians. My brother does that and doesn't understand why the average person doesn't like his music. People don't care about technical aspects, see transformers for that.

[@charlesgrove6905]

@@dominick253 Isn't like half of youtube educational and basically technical??? Also what kind of content does LTT aspire to be sometimes in part... Lots of people care about the technical aspects.

[@KhromTX]

50 minutes in I've heard almost nothing about the fountain and only arguments about the medium of film making.

[@project66]

I have literally never seen any of these movies, so this is kinda like bootleg piracy tbh hehe. That aint a bad thing. i love the show...

[@SciePhi]

:D

[@nickiebanchou]

this movie is such a depressing gloomfest that just keeps hammering you in the head about the inevitability of death over and over so deep. my ex made me watch this movie, i'm single now.

[@charzanboo9940]

It's a good movie to watch if you're experiencing loss or have unresolved feelings with past loss/trauma.

[@hoon_sol]

The inevitability of life and death as a continuous interplay; life itself is just as inevitable as death is. The film is not merely about death, but as it explicitly mentions within itself: death as an act of creation.

[@FixedAU]

David is exhausting. Gods man, your criticism that “he’s doing it wrong” had better be backed by an amazing repertoire of your own work.

[@jubeh]

I loved The Fountain. Along with Interstellar it's in my list of best movies of all time. Watched it on theater when it came out and it was transformative

[@TheyreJustMovies]

I can totally understand that. And I love that movies can do that for people. Mr Nobody and Tree of Life just had more of an impact on me personally -DG

[@aftermath4096]

@@TheyreJustMovies Mr Nobody is the filler festival and you talk about The Fountain being inefficient ?

[@Fifus92]

I was kinda dissapointed after watching Interstellar 2nd time. The Fountain works everytime :o

[@carlosveloz2476]

i love riley and james

[@TheyreJustMovies]

RIP David

[@aryansivakumar2263]

Love you guys! But you should do more mainsteam movies i.e Endgame, Joker, Dark knight etc. Half the movies you guys review, no one has ever heard of.

[@JMUDoc]

Man, I want to punch the screen every time one of these guys mispronounces "ethereal"... It's "eeth-eerial", not "ehtherr-reel" - it means "ether-like".

[@tomekkaminski2677]

Try punching wall with your head grammar nazi

[@JMUDoc]

@@tomekkaminski2677 There should be an "a" between "punching" and "wall", there should be a comma after "head", and "Nazi" is a proper noun. Also, sentences end with a full stop. Four mistakes in eight words. Well done.

[@kisspeteristvan]

I gave this movie a 5 on imdb , a number of years ago , this for me means barely watchable , but not total shitshow , because i usually don't rate under 4 , i just simply don't watch it. To be honest, i have no idea what was in this movie ....... so i must have watched it 5+ years ago

[@meandervh8960]

The two guys doesn't respect a diffrent, real critical opinion from the bearded guy

[@borisborenovic]

The dude on the left is totally right. This movie sucks.

[@JMUDoc]

Aronofsky makes films that appeal to critics, not audiences. That's the problem. If you keep having to explain what your stories are "about", you're a shit storyteller.

[@dustymingus2599]

here is my review: A deep movie for shallow people.