Melancholia

[DACrowe]

I wrote this about contrasting Melancholia with The Tree of Life somewhere else:

A better film to compare the Tree of Life with is Melancholia. Tree of Life is a spirtualist, optimistic and even religious view of the world while Melancholia is the cynical, misanthropic and I'm just going to say extremely selfish (as that is what Kirsten Dunst's character and the movie's viewpoint is) counterpoint to all that. I tend to agree on the spiritual and philosophical level more with Malick and than Van Triers, but I found Melancholia the much more engaging of the two films. With that said neither did a whole lot for me.

The thing about Tree of Life is that, like all Malick movies for me, it just is a stunning piece of eye candy with some wonderfully thought-provoking "big ideas" connecting them. Because it is so pretty and, for lack of a better word, intelligent, critics give his films a huge pass as narratives. But, they are all just so disjointed and disconnected that it constantly fails as a piece of storytelling to me. I've yet to see a Malick movie that captivates me in any way beyond the visual or on a purely academic, abstract level. And it's not because he is a visual/narrative "existentialist,' as I've loved the filmmakers he's influenced with his style--Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood and Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, for example. It's just Malick leaves me cold.

 

[kvz5]

This movie is fantastic.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I still need to see this. I'm not always a fan of Lars Von Trier but Antichrist was amazing and this looked very interesting in the trailer.

 

[Lasirius]

It's definitely an interesting and unsettling movie, it's worth seeing it.

 

[Venom'sDad]

Great film, and Kirsten really does have lovely breast. I love the difference and how the sisters dealt with the situation, how their concern switched.

 

[matrix_ghost]

Great film, and Kirsten really does have lovely breast. I love the difference and how the sisters dealt with the situation, how their concern switched.

Come for the boobs , stay for the movie.


Seriously Melancholia is a good movie IMO. Great performances all around. It's defiantely a depressing movie but a good flick nonetheless.

 

[Project862006]

well her boobs are quite nice

 

[Venom'sDad]

Well, for years, during the Raimi/Spidey era, those that hated on Kirsten, for everything, wrong about the character MJ, talk bad about how her breast droop, how she needs to wear a bra, her breast hangs just above her waist. Now we actually see them, in HD if I may add, they look non of the sort, and actually look lovely. Their is a culture these days of talking bad about people that many honestly don't know. Refreshing to see how wrong many of them where. Beside, most things that was wrong with the character MJ, was the writers & director fault, with some responsibility of the actress. One can only portray how its written, and act how they are directed to act.