SFist: SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend

Brian

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:25:01 -0800

I thought the New World was pretty amazing, but then I'm a Malick partisan. If you liked the Thin Red Line in part because of the subplot of Jim Cazaviel's encounters with the islanders, rather than in spite of that subplot, you're almost guaranteed to like the New World. Don't know what to make of LaSalle's rave, other than that he's reviewing a different (longer) cut of the film than the one playing in theatres. So maybe the Opposite World principle still applies.

Jason

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:35:21 -0800

It's like magic that Mick LaSalle phenom. What reassurance it is to know that his opinion leads Opposite World and I can walk the other direction. There was, however, some hope in my heart that this one film on the miserable Virginia Colony might satisfy my curiosity, and my hunger for an epic of the encounter btwn my Anglo-invader forebears and the Tidewater locals.

judy b.

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:15:53 -0800

Terrence Malick's retelling of the fourth verse of Peggy Lee's "Fever" I almost fell off my chair (which is actually an exercise ball, so it does happen) when I read that. Quel great metaphor. Y'all are like the SuperFriends of witticisms, neutralizing your nemeses with bons mots. Dang.

Rain

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:46:53 -0800

I always THINK I'll be bored by Malick's films, but I always end up completely enraptured by them, as flawed as they often are. The LaSalle rave is troubling, however.