The Fountain - WTF Happened To This Movie?

[@countgeekula9143]

I fully appreciate The Fountain is not for everyone but I absolutely love it.

[@badatdota2811]

@MrJabloney watch mr.nobody

[@bingowashisnameo80]

Agreed totally.This film and Interstellar are so great.

[@mhcIncubus]

It's an awesome film

[@seldane3218]

I liked the film was it his cleanest film no but that’s what made it great was leaving a lot of guess work to the audience. Mr Nobody is a great movie also makes you think

[@method0123]

Same

[@hellion7514]

It boggles the mind that some critics called this a dumb movie when it came out. It’s one of the most thoughtful, beautiful meditations on the cycle of life ever made. And that Clint Mansell score deserves to be recognized among the all-time greats.

[@hellion7514]

Főfasírozó 💯💯💯

[@namelesswarrior4760]

That's why I never read any critiques before I've seen it for myself! They are pretentious snobs! They'll destroyed a film if they weren't invited to related events for that particular film. Sad losers.

[@Justin-ee3im]

No, it's a dumb mess, the critics were right

[@namelesswarrior4760]

@@Justin-ee3im Dumb & Dumber 16 is out next week! The critics gave it 10/10 .

[@hellion7514]

Justin You speak so authoritatively, so definitively, yet you’re wrong! 🤷‍♂️

[@AimeeHope89]

This is an incredibly moving picture. I cry every time I watch this movie. It's fairly confusing on first watch, and needs to be re-viewed multiple times to even begin forming a semblance of understanding, but that's not a negative mark against it at all. I feel this is Hugh Jackmans most amazing performance of his entire career, and Rachel Weiss as well for that matter. It's a real tragedy that it didn't do well upon release. Both actors should've been awarded an Oscar for this film. Do yourself a favor and watch it asap if you haven't had the pleasure of seeing it.

[@grzib]

I completely agree with everything you said . This movie is PURE MAGIC . And the soundtrack man ... This movie should vet and Oscar just for it’s music

[@pst5345]

it is not complicated. The meanings and images used are clear. The telescope scene immediately tells you where the movie is going. The only thing for debate is how you interpret the space bubble. I was surprised that it was not a metaphor for his trapped and mind soul but a real spaceship. I like it more as symbol for his mind.

[@yorshka6955]

@@pst5345 Yeah, i had no problem understanding this movie the first time i watched it, i don't think that it is complicated at all, its very straight forward if you ask me

[@Awfiddlestickz]

Greatest movie ever made. I have “death is the road to awe” tattooed on me. Changed my life.

[@jlinms8721]

Amen and that's really a great tattoo idea.

[@vinicius11ariel]

thats pretty cool

[@vinicius11ariel]

i find dr lillian speech at the funeral also just subtly mesmerizing.

[@threeross]

I remember being a young teen around 14-15 my mom left me alone for a weekend to go to Vegas (whole other story lol) but I randomly found The Fountain on demand and decided to watch because time traveling conquistadors... I never would have imagined the impact this film had on me. First time I cried during a movie. Mind you I’m 14-15 but something in this film spoke to my soul. 10/10 movie

[@mossandthesea]

Hi, after you watched the movie. Did you tell anyone about it? What did your mom say?

[@etherealradar]

I watched this movie on a whim after my family all went to bed one night and was entranced it was a spiritual experience. Teared up at parts and bawled at the end with how surprisingly impactful it was on me. Nobody I've shown it as particularly special or good.

[@emsavings]

I hope Aronofsky does not remake this film, as he's suggested. I love the creative visuals they were forced into with a smaller budget. I can't imagine a different cast. As other commenters have mentioned, the incredible score. For me, this is a story of soulmates through time. He also captures the pain of losing someone so well. Beautiful, powerful film!

[@ThoseStairsTheFirst]

When/where did he suggest he'd remake it?

[@gateauxq4604]

Thats horrible! I can understand he may have conflicting feelings about Rachel but to warrant a remake??? Nononono

[@graceface3204]

I read that a lot of the effects were organic. The celestial waves were created by pouring different liquids together and shot extreme closeup.

[@docrad9201]

@@graceface3204 Macro Photography

[@dissolutezza1142]

@@gateauxq4604 I'm late but what do you mean, feelings about Rachel? I thought she was phenomenal in this film.

[@rev68]

When I first heard about the movie, director, and (eventual) cast, I was fairly interested in seeing it. However, when the trailers came out, I got the impression it wasn't 'sci-fi' as much as just a sappy 1500s romance story. Fast forward to the beginning of 2014. The girl I'd been dating for 5 years had spent the last 4 of that with triple-negative breast cancer. Her eventual death from it was almost a certainty, but something of which I'd never been willing to come to terms. One Saturday I happened to come across The Fountain on TV and decided to watch. Needless to say, the movie hit me like a ton of bricks, bringing me to tears for the first time in my adult life. My girlfriend passed away a couple months later. At some point I bought a copy of the movie while I was desperate to hang on to anything that reminded me of her. Over 6 years later I've not even been able to take the movie out of the cellophane to watch it again.

[@rev68]

@@napoleon7275 At least not in the DCU or MCU.

[@f.i.r.e.m.a.n3984]

Sad 😔😔

[@DutchPlanDerLinde]

I am so sorry, she must've been one in a kind person

[@rev68]

@@DutchPlanDerLinde Thank you. Yes, she was.

[@ramsechavez]

Sending you endless love brother. You have mad love within you. Continue being you.

[@vegforlife]

Personally I think it’s one of the most beautiful stories ever told. People either get it or they don’t.

[@umbrellaunderdog]

I feel this is also the same with Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind. Underrated and underappreciated films

[@IsThisThePrizeIveWaitedFor]

@@umbrellaunderdog yet it’s possible for someone to have Eternal Sunshine as their favorite movie and somehow not like The Fountain (I’m talking about myself here if it wasn’t clear). It’s weird when people who like specific movies are condescending about people who don’t, as if the appreciation of art isn’t subjective.

[@umbrellaunderdog]

@@IsThisThePrizeIveWaitedFor eh fair I understand the love for this film I don't love it I myself prefer Eternal Sunshine but I get why people like this film

[@notjimmy6486]

You can get it and still not like it.

[@voidofbeeswax]

Hugh is great in this movie.

[@GatorDunnAZ]

That scene where he gets up from bed to go have a nearly silent breakdown is so damn powerful.

[@yominishijama6204]

And so is Rachel Weisz!

[@FruityBasket99]

I'll be honest: this movie is my favourite movie of all time. I get told constantly that such an opinion is more than a little bit ridiculous. After all, I'm putting it above so many other masterpieces of cinema. But in all honesty, despite how pretentious the film might seem, no other movie has had such a profound emotional effect upon me. No matter the failure that The Fountain faced, I couldn't be happier that it was made, because seeing it truly changed me as a person and made me more accepting of death as a natural process.

[@user-yv1dv1sp3c]

I agree. I love this movie so much. Hits hard.

[@mattberg6816]

Your favorite movie doesn’t need to be compared to cinematic greats. It’s your favorite because it touched you more than others have.

[@umbrellaunderdog]

You should check out Jim Carey's underrated film "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind" if you liked this movie. It too is also underrated.

[@remyzins2703]

This movie and Cloud Atlas are my favorite movies of all time

[@marcbraun5342]

You put it over way less movies than the people you talk to make you believe it to be. It's a better movie than it's reception and there are tons out there which have a better reputation than they deserve. In a fair world these people would just nod when you say that and think themselfs "duh!". Also, to be nitpicky, "favorite" movie doesn't mean "best" movie, if these people don't know the distinction of the two terms, they're not worth taking part in discussions...

[@Palmieres]

Before even watching this video: The Fountain has what is probably the most beautiful score ever written for a movie. Do yourself a favour and go listen to it. Edit - I just want to point out that if you pause the movie when it shows Izzy's book you can actually read it and confirm she WAS writing Tomas, the Conquistador's story, and some of the scenes we see are described in her text.

[@johnhalf]

This!!! Its one of my favorite scores, if not thee favorite one for me.

[@MARA610]

The soundtrack for this movie is transcendent, truly a Clint Mansell's masterpiece.

[@diogogomes3238]

yes the soundtrack is the most beautiful thing ive heard.. a masterpiece

[@WobblesandBean]

I agree, the score is so, so beautiful.

[@pa5calcom]

It is such a perfect coincidence [for me] that the score for this movie is the best, the best I’ve ever heard, and was created for my favorite movie of all time. But, I might add that matched with Clint Mansell’s score for The Fountain, his work for Requiem for a Dream is also as powerful and as soul reaching as the music for Arronofsky’s 2006 emotional epic.

[@DerekCully]

Such a beautiful movie. It’s the kind of movie that makes you think about your place in time.

[@MarmaLloyd]

great on acid ;)

[@ImageAfilms]

I watched that movie in the theater. At the end credits I wept like a child. My stunt woman girlfriend broke up with me days later. She didn't get it. I think I did, and it's beyond words. Thanks for trying to put words to it.

[@TheMelorino]

she didnt dump you for crying. she dumped you for treating her like a trophy.

[@Keyser___Soze]

“Your stunt woman girlfriend”? Like shes a stunt actress doing the action scenes in movies or like stunt your showing her off bragging? Either way, odd....

[@beegyoshi8797]

Lol this should become a copypasta what’s up bros broke up with my dumb stunt woman girlfriend and got me a brand new stunt actress. Much better more professional

[@andrewrankin3434]

This is my favorite movie. It just spoke to me. Sadly my wife died at 36 of cancer and I’ll never be able to watch it again.

[@Testosterooster]

Listen to "Death is the road to awe"

[@gateauxq4604]

😭

[@theoneandonlylordfarquaad3361]

@augustus julius ceasar Awe in this quote means “greatness” or “amazement”, not fear. Think of the word “awesome”

[@giamaren2585]

For me it means 'Death is the road to awake '.It make sense and goes with story .

[@krono5el]

Loved this movie when it came out and still do, Xibalba is waiting : D

[@trip83]

This film is stunning. One of the greatest films ever made.

[@vipr1142]

THE best movie ever made. Im not a crier... but everytime I see this movie, I cant help myself from shedding tears lol

[@shoesncheese]

I love this movie. To me, it doesn't matter if the past and future are "real" or are stories being written. The cycle is the point. The cycle of stories repeating themselves, of life and death, destruction and rebirth. The only way out of the cycle is to embrace it and, whether he wrote it or lived it, Tom finally accepted his place.

[@havanaradio]

This seems to be the main take on the movie, but I feel like the main thrust of the plot is a tragic love story drawn out to a brutal conclusion. Aronofsky's work is almost always circumscribed by extreme tragedy and irony. It's why I can usually only watch his work a few times at most, it's all just so sad. This film is in my opinion his most brutal. The movie only takes place in one timeline, the book part is simply as imagined by Izzy (and eventually by Tom). Tom accidentally discovers the key to eternal life while trying to cure Izzy. Ironically, Izzy only wants to spend her last days with Tom, and he knows it, and he still abandons her for his work. During his absence she pens a story about their relationship, telling him to finish it as her final message to him. He then is cursed to live for who knows how long, having saved literally ever single human from death except for the only person he truly loved. Imagine that. Sacrificing the last time you had with someone trying to save them, and then literally wrestling with that for eternity, unable to move past it. Eventually he commits the most poetic suicide imaginable, unable to exist anymore with this unfathomable guilt. He literally rides the tree he planted over her grave into a collapsing star while being haunted by her memory. Fuck this movie.

[@mons3020]

In that sense, it's a happier outlook than synecdoche New York on the aspect of life and death.

[@gateauxq4604]

And the story of Tommy learning to accept death. Death is the road to awe/Death is a disease. This is absolutely my favorite movie of all time.

[@squamish4244]

A Tibetan lama told my dad that once you've lived and died many times it's not a big deal anymore. He did the day and the hour he said he was going to. He was by far the happiest person my dad ever met and he still talks about the guy 20 years later.

[@Invidente7]

Now we're TALKING! This is ONE truly criminally underrated sci-fi movie, and also there's a graphic novel adaptation which explains the plot in more detail.

[@hellion7514]

The graphic novel is also excellent

[@keithmcclellan4350]

@@hellion7514 intriguing!

[@ShengTheCraftsman]

This is a great movie, recommended it to a lot of people that missed it , almost nobody gives a shit, once in a while I found people who appreciates that this is made with the amazing soundtrack, there's few magical scene I really like about this movie, especially that scene where Jackman drink from the sap and suddenly plant burst out of him , very awesome scene

[@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection]

I get comfort from death from this film as you would reading scripture or philosophy. It's truly beautiful.

[@Nekr0n35]

I loved that movie. Watched it totaly off guard a few years ago on free tv. It instandly pulled me in and also made me a huge fan of hugh jackman. And I am still listening to the soundtracks to this very day.

[@Shanannigan1]

The Fountain is by far my favourite movie. I watched it for the first time when I was dealing with grief that had left me numb, this movie broke through to me. It brings me to tears every time, but I consider the overall message to be a hopeful one.

[@edgar2dnd]

The experience I had watching THE FOUNTAIN in a movie theater was so beautiful that everything else since then (with a couple of exceptions) has been just mediocre.

[@unsuccessfullyjari]

What were the exceptions?

[@aftermath4096]

I watched this on a 21 inch monitor and I was literally shaking at the end, I can't imagine how great the cinema experience must be

[@jbluther]

Love this film. I notice something new every time I watch it.

[@okilfeathermusic]

saw The Fountain in 2007 in a theatre in Spain with an audience of two. great movie, funny that Brad Pitt went to bat for Ad Astra but not this.

[@Mastro_]

This has been my favorite movie of all time since it came out.

[@nlawrencest]

Till this day I still listen to the soundtrack it's phenomenon.

[@SLevinCinema]

Easily one of the most beautiful movie soundtracks ever. Mogwai nailed it.

[@micaeljr2914]

My favorite film of all time, the soundtrack is out of this world. Good to see it get some love still.

[@trje246]

Strangely enough, i only found out about this film being a Portishead fan, as someone had edited scenes from the film to fit with Portishead's - The Rip song. i found the whole clip quite mesmerizing and in turn, the film itself. Is The Rip on the sound track or did someone cleverly merge the two? Unfortunately the clip has since been removed from YT, copyright reasons, i imagine? *EDIT* Not removed, i stand corrected - kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4nFn3SCmcaYfqM

[@LaurenMiddleton28]

Its definitely a movie you'll hate IF your Not in a reflective point in your life..

[@alan.smitheeee]

The Fountain was a huge disappointment for me. I was hyped and I remember the trailer being amazing.

[@rogueninja185]

This movie is definitely an underappreciated masterpiece. I have absolutely no doubt about it.

[@antonsanders3926]

I've always adored this movie. I actually fell asleep to the soundtrack every night for maybe 6 years straight. It's truly beautiful.

[@TheOtherNormie]

One of my exes hated the soundtrack - A glaring red flag that I initially ignored.

[@kdcndw1]

The Death Is A Road To Awe sequence is one of the most incredible sequences I have seen in a film. And I saw it in the theater..which made it such an extraordinary experience

[@Nekr0n35]

I am glad that you did not show to much detail on the story, therefore I recommend everybody who haven't seen it yet to just watch it yourself. It is a great exprirence, just keep in mind that it does not tell you all clues right ahead.

[@pdzombie1906]

A true sci-fi masterpiece right next to 2001 and Solaris, and just like those, completely misundertood and underappreciated... And the two Blade Runners, and Interstellar, and Ad Astra, and... Thanx!!!

[@tylerdordon99]

Imo Dark City, Starship Troopers, The Matrix, Ghost In The Shell, Akira...etc are up there too

[@Fifus92]

How about Contact and Moon

[@richmackin]

There's a couple shots here: the aloe, the mushroom, perhaps others, that aren't in the final film. Any information on these?

[@dreamancyfilms]

IT's a cutted off scene added in the DVD version. You can search for it in youtube as "the fountain life on a ship"

[@Sushi_bar]

I watched it once and really enjoyed it. remember crying a lot lmao. Dunno how everyone have read this movie, but for me it was about letting go, and the struggle of it.

[@Daniel-Strain]

It is Aronofsky's absolute BEST film and one of the best of all films.

[@andrewosier614]

I have to see this film for myself, visually it looks stunning and the cast is top notch. Whether I love it or hate it is one thing, but it surely will be an experience that doesn't come by often. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[@Getvictd744]

Yeah I'd didn't get.......left me asking, Wtf did I just watch? Ask me what it was about and I'll say there was a tree ....

[@caseys7472]

I feel people that are deeply empathetic can appreciate this movie more so than others. I have friends that say it sucks and boring. They can’t get their minds to the place they need to be to embrace this. It’s truly breathtaking

[@etherealradar]

Thank you for saying this :)

[@millyonz2585]

I love this movie, I love the soundtrack even more, The depictions of grief & one man's tenacity to find an answer to the pain he can't escape is heartfelt....It's def not for everyone but def worth a watch....

[@omarecer1]

Haven't seen it. Will see it now in isolation

[@1pcfred]

Watch it while you're sleeping. Then you won't have wasted your time.

[@dallymoo7816]

@@1pcfred Wtf

[@dallymoo7816]

@@1pcfred Then you just wasted your time watching videos about a movie you do not care about and are not interested in

[@1pcfred]

@@dallymoo7816 I watched this video to confirm what I already knew.

[@adamdavidsoddities8573]

I tried watching the movie but lost interest about halfway through. However, I would never describe this movie as "dumb". I can appreciate the artistic side of it. It just didn't keep my interest.

[@AdamIsUrqed]

It's the movie version of random splotches of paint shit out onto canvas. Some will be blown away by the artist's "vision and creativity". Others will trash it while wondering how anyone could possibly like it. Most, however, will walk by and not care it exists.

[@mistersonnen848]

The financial issues they had to go through and still created a masterpiece. Clint Mnasell also delivered like he often does

[@PerfectPencil]

I saw this movie when it was released, and remembered it as a love story. I actually thought of it quite highly, but despite that didn't watch it again until recently. Just last year I convinced my wife to watch it with me again and much to my surprise... it's such a sad movie, mostly of suffering and loss. The sadness it makes you feel is deep and at times.. terrifying. I'm not sure how I had such a starkly different interpretation of it back then. I've re-watched it a few time's since and I think in the end I realize it perhaps is someplace in the middle. It IS a love story, showcasing a love that transcends time, space and even sanity. But more than anything, it is a story meant to draw out sorrow. Although it's ending is bitter sweet... the bitterness is from an overwhelming sense of despair is barely tempered by seeing two soulmates relive their lives and fall in love over and over. I think a movie like "What Dreams May Come" tell a love story with similar impact, but leave you with a little more hope in the end. I don't consider myself much a movie buff, but I do appreciate a good story. The fountain is a story with a goal. It attempts to make you feel something different than you're used to and it succeeds in flying colors.

[@applescruff1969]

"My movies go from failures to masterpieces, without ever being successes." - Alfred Hitchcock

[@havanaradio]

I feel like the main thrust of the plot is a tragic love story drawn out to a brutal conclusion. Aronofsky's work is almost always circumscribed by extreme tragedy and irony. It's why I can usually only watch his work a few times at most, it's all just so sad. This film is in my opinion his most brutal. The movie only takes place in one timeline, the book part is simply as imagined by Izzy (and eventually by Tom). Tom accidentally discovers the key to eternal life while trying to cure Izzy. Ironically, Izzy only wants to spend her last days with Tom, and he knows it, and he still abandons her for his work. During his absence she pens a story about their relationship, telling him to finish it as her final message to him. He then is cursed to live for who knows how long, having saved literally ever single human from death except for the only person he truly loved. Imagine that. Sacrificing the last time you had with someone trying to save them, and then literally wrestling with that for eternity, unable to move past it. Eventually he commits the most poetic suicide imaginable, unable to exist anymore with this unfathomable guilt. He literally rides the tree he planted over her grave into a collapsing star while being haunted by her memory. On second thought, fuck this movie.

[@Communistgun]

This movie is my favorite of all time

[@Spezies]

That movie is one of my favorites. Its possible you understand the story better if you lost a loved one.

[@danielcampos2840]

This movie is simply magnificent!

[@chanceneck8072]

Does it help to appreciate this movie, when you have played the amazing video game "Eternal Darkness"???....

[@spacechimp5141]

The first time I watched this film it blew me away. I loved it right away.

[@SquareDates]

The fountain is my favorite movie of all time. It definitely isn't for everyone.

[@Fifus92]

Same here.. im kinda in love with sci-fi drama, on podium for me is "Contact" and "Moon"

[@atomicsmith]

The Fountain and The Prestige, both came out the same year, both were under marketed by the studio, both starred Hugh Jackman, and both are ‘lost’ masterpieces in their directors work. Seems like something a bunch of odd circumstances. In an alternate universe, they both became huge hits, Jackman became the next Paul Newman, the direction of cinema was changed forever, and superhero cgi fests never took over…

[@thesinclairblues5941]

Why is the narrator always changing this is painful

[@JamesASharp]

I agree. The very first narrator of these videos is the best one. Oh well.

[@slimessiful]

Guys, the fountain is the BEST movie I've ever seen, and i watch alot of movies. Critics are idiots so don't be bothered by them. I honestly think this movie even surpassed 2001 a space Odyssey. It's made with so much love and attention to detail. A true modern masterpiece.

[@jonathanhernandez3292]

I thought that the tree was planted by modern Thom in his dead wife's memory (she told him that story about how "death is the road to awe") they were doing lab tests with that rhesus monkey and found that brain activity jumped way up and it healed its wounds. I think future Tom IS modern Tom, now immortal. He has the vivid memories of past Tom (a character from the book that his wife began and he finished) and modern Tom (him in the past) a side effect of the drug which gives him immortality but tortures him by reminding him of his dead wife. when Xibalba goes nova and the tree heals, I didn't see that as being literal but symbolic of them achieving true everlasting life through death and completing the cycle it's the best movie that I never understood --________________--

[@aquietsojourner4683]

Became one of my favorites, immediately, upon first viewing. Though I didn't even begin to understand it til the third time. Lol. After the first viewing I simply wondered "wtf did I just watch..." In a good way, though.

[@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat]

Make "The Fountain" a triple feature with "Tree Of Life" and "Cloud Atlas". 👍

[@jtorr2997]

Cloud Atlas fails to cohesively meld it's timelines together. The Fountain succeeds in every way that movie fails.

[@nathanexplosionn]

Cloud atlas sucks ass

[@galahadkoa1]

I personally think this movie is one of the worst I have ever seen. My friends and I bought the DVDs years ago as jokes to give away for birthday and christmas presents and those people disliked it as much as I did. I don't know anyone that actually thought this was a good movie.

[@imaner76]

I hate when people come straight ot the comments before watching the video, to say "first" or K

[@gazzarover]

STFU

[@paulallen2474]

OK Boomer.

[@Mike-mc3ty]

First

[@imaner76]

@@darthkai8242 You guys need to work on humour and more in particular irony. And it's gen X not Boomer ;) 👍

[@gazzarover]

@@imaner76 ok boomer.

[@vicsantoro]

oh Brad, you made that awful Troy movie instead. At least he looked stunning as Achiles

[@tj10777]

This has been my favorite movie since it came out. I love that the ending was not explained or spoon fed to the audience. I wish more movies were like this.

[@Raszagil]

It's a wonderful movie, the soundtrack is amazing.

[@noonesocial3837]

now do Cloud Atlas

[@JeffreyRainwater]

Well written explanation. Great job.

[@HaJassar]

This is a surprisingly good movie tbh.. I remember being confused when I first watched it way back, but the music is haunting, and Jackman's performance was touching.

[@thebatt6183]

I love this movie

[@sega_kid4288]

I can't believe it's been 14 years since this came out. To be honest I'm as confused about it now as I was then, and I'm still ok with that. I think we can all understand obsession and lost and that's part of the film that has stuck with me. I'm sure everyone watches this gets something different out of it and that's what's interesting about an Aronofsky joint. "Mother" anyone? Please discuss, lol

[@kimwoo9542]

the soundtrack of this movie was both depression and terrifying, it is a beautiful piece of art but i'm never going to watch it again.

[@GarfieldRex]

Good topic, badly executed. I felt the movie was like someone with seizures driving a car: full throttle and then stop, and so on. Loved the theme, but was a boring movie. Non linear plot is cool, but explain things that are needed to follow the line. Take your time to explain and the audience to enjoy, don't rush and suddenly stop. Have watched it twice, want to enjoy it, but I can't. I feel I want it to be even more emotive and have time for it.

[@jackwalters3928]

How come you said nothing about the spectacular music of the movie?

[@zane___k7333]

But why then does it have a 7.2 / 10 rating on IMDb in 2021? 🤔

[@kltacuban6246]

Rachel Weisz led me to this movie. She has such high standards and carefully chooses the films she stars on. So goes with everyone in this film. This movie is heartbreaking but also awakening. I love it!

[@vyli1]

Such as The Mummy series? :-D

[@grapeshot]

This movie was a strange bird.

[@MrNpc81]

You spelled "pretentious" wrong

[@aftermath4096]

you spelled masterpiece wrong

[@edsfoxart]

I remember watching the trailer of this movie, then rush into the theater the moment it came out.. I also remember bringing my brother to the film.. (We stay just to listen to that Clint Mansell master piece)..

[@mikeboy0001]

This movie is a masterpiece Story, characters, direction, visuals, music, everything is brilliant I think other than 2001, I wasn't as blown away with other movie as this one It's one of the my all time favourites

[@honuman39]

You should see the original Solaris.

[@captainexcabier]

I am rather fond of this movie, though I'd have a hard time describing exactly why. I'm going to have to disagree with the director on his assessment of sci-fi, though. Funny thing is, I would not classify this movie as a sci-fi, but rather as a fantasy.

[@nathanexplosionn]

Nothing the fuck happened to it. It is an amazing movie.

[@mdkooter]

This movie is my all time favourite. It so beautifully shows how a man can go to the ends of time and space to please, keep alive or see his loved one. It's beyond magnificent.

[@LucyLioness100]

Um not to nitpick, but Hugh’s show was “The Boy from Oz”; not Man from Oz 🙄

[@justinpipes85]

I was trying to explain the plot of this to a friend just the other day. I was not successful.

[@justinpipes85]

@Stellvia Hoenheim haha. I dont even remember a tittay coming out. Was it when she was in the bath in the "current" timeline?

[@frodobaggins6450]

I'm so glad this film happened.

[@Featinwe]

I just realized a thing- Aronofsky is the only person capable of adaptaion of Hyperion books. Basically, Fountain is Hyperion (in principle). This would've been awesome!

[@21CCommunIT]

Nah... I saw it. Wasn't impressed. Found it overlong, diffuse ahs pretentious. Sometimes a movie doesn't land with an audience because... it's not made for the audience, but for the creator's self indulgence. Which is fine... but don't pretend that obscure and inscrutable automatically equals "classic"...

[@dallymoo7816]

Thats just like your opinion man

[@communitsolutions]

@@dallymoo7816 Of *COURSE* it is... and?

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

When the theme of the movie is more philosophical, chances are, many will never understand it.

[@timinatr99]

kirby march barcena yup

[@junzsi]

I forgot that this was I think the only movie I walked out on. I was wanting to watch it so bad, when the time came I was upset and left clueless. This was a while ago maybe I might revisit !

[@_BhagavadGita]

I wonder if tripping on DMT had any influence on parts of this movie. (I don't say that in any derogatory sense)

[@user-yv1dv1sp3c]

Honestly i don't think you are to far from it. I feel like there is some symbolism there.

[@majorccunliffe4662]

man this movie had me in tears..and that was just the score...moved me..big time...great samples been used and to be used still

[@shervellebergholz]

I watched this movie a few times... and, I was moved to tears each time for a different reasons and yet, for the same reason... And the score is my all-time favorite!! 🥰

[@HeatherHolt]

I liked this movie. I loved the story, and the visuals were amazing. It wasn’t perfect by any means, but I can appreciate it for the risks it took and the gut wrenching story of a love so true it permeates through time and space.

[@DynamicThreads]

The Fountain was fucking fantastic

[@ThomasDailey]

One of my favorite films if not my favorite.

[@stirgy4312]

One of my favorite movies. Will always be. Extremely emotional for me. Soundtrack is perfection too.

[@carsonpeterson758]

It was a boring and lifeless mess

[@streetwisehercules9956]

Just a poor idea for a visual medium