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LoathedVermin72 · **Posted:** Wed December 17, 2014 4:52 pm

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

You guys, The Thin Red Line is very obviously the best thing Malick has ever made or ever will make. And by a huge margin.

I would've thought TTRL had too much straight narrative for your tastes.

I think it's the perfect middle ground for Malick. More ethereal and fluid than Badlands, but not as a meandering, repetitive, and generally bullshitty as To the Wonder. I think Malick needs a little narrative grounding so he doesn't get lost in himself.

Ranking Malick:

1. Badlands (A+)
2. Tree of Life (A-)
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3. Days of Heaven (B-)
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4. To the Wonder (C-)
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5. The Thin Red Line (Fart Noise, except the Ben Chaplin reads a letter scene and parts of Penn climbing that hill)

1. The Thin Red Line (A)
2. Badlands (B)
3. The Tree of Life (B-)
4. The New World (B-)
5. Days of Heaven (B-)
...
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fg.
fb. .
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hg.fhh.fdh
h.hg

6. To the Wonder (FFFFFFFFUUUUUCCCKKKKKKK YYYYYOOUUUUU)

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47363

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

You guys, The Thin Red Line is very obviously the best thing Malick has ever made or ever will make. And by a huge margin.

I would've thought TTRL had too much straight narrative for your tastes.

I think it's the perfect middle ground for Malick. More ethereal and fluid than Badlands, but not as a meandering, repetitive, and generally bullshitty as To the Wonder. I think Malick needs a little narrative grounding so he doesn't get lost in himself.

Ranking Malick:

1. Badlands (A+)
2. Tree of Life (A-)
.
3. Days of Heaven (B-)
.
.
.
4. To the Wonder (C-)
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
5. The Thin Red Line (Fart Noise, except the Ben Chaplin reads a letter scene and parts of Penn climbing that hill)

Ugh, Tree of Life

Iprefertheiroldstuff · **Posted:** Wed December 17, 2014 4:55 pm

I thought Tree of Life would be too polarizing a film to ever be given a B-.

darth_vedder · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:52 pm **Posts:** 6334

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chuck Norris IS a war movie.

Your damn right he is.

LoathedVermin72 · **Posted:** Wed December 17, 2014 5:33 pm

Iprefertheiroldstuff wrote:

I thought Tree of Life would be too polarizing a film to ever be given a B-.

I like it, but it has problematic elements that prevent me from loving it.

epilogue · **Posted:** Wed December 17, 2014 5:36 pm

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Iprefertheiroldstuff wrote:

I thought Tree of Life would be too polarizing a film to ever be given a B-.

I like it, but it has problematic elements that prevent me from loving it.

read: Jessica Chastain is in it.

LoathedVermin72 · **Posted:** Wed December 17, 2014 6:00 pm

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Iprefertheiroldstuff wrote:

I thought Tree of Life would be too polarizing a film to ever be given a B-.

I like it, but it has problematic elements that prevent me from loving it.

read: Jessica Chastain is in it.

Haha, that's part of it. But only a small part.

spike · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am **Posts:** 28195

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

My thread. Strangelove is not, Inglorious Bastards is.

this

tommymtcom · **Posted:** Thu December 18, 2014 12:23 am

What about War of the worlds, is that a war movie?

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47363

tommymtcom wrote:

What about War of the worlds, is that a war movie?

No

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