Tag: Terrence Malick
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Sad Dinosaurs: Calling Bullshit on Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
As a public service, I will now summarize all 2 hours and 19 minutes of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life for you: My mommy was pretty, my daddy was mean, sometimes kids die, I inhaled too much DDT, and it makes me so sad. Sad like the lonely birth of the lifeless universe. Sad…
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The New World
Why didn’t I know better? Although I stand apart from nearly all (it seems) critics and fellow cineastes, I disliked Terrence Malick’s Badlands, Days of Heaven, and Thin Red Line. And The New World is, of course, more of the same. The problem isn’t necessarily the pacing, although it is indeed punishingly slow. It’s partly…