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I saw "The Fountain" this past weekend. I'm really trying to like it but at least on the first watch it didn't seem to work as a movie. At the end of the movie people in the theater were audibly upset at the ending. Hey, I didn't get it either but it's just a movie, right?
So I googled movie reviews of the fountain and I came across the following reviews:
Disgusting
Frustrating
Pretentious and Absurd
The point is that people are downright hostile to this movie. It comes down to the fact that they don't understand anything about the movie and what's this punk of a director doing making me feel dumb. Granted I agree with them that a good chunk of the movie doesn't work, but Battlefield Earth it's not.
Why do I care? It has some of the most original cinematography I've ever seen. I've never seen space look more different. The reason why it looks so different is that they used very little computer generated graphics.
"One creative solution was uncovering Peter Parks, a specialist in macro photography, who had retrieved deep-sea microorganisms and photographed them in 3-D under partial funding from the Bahamas government. Parks brewed chemicals and bacteria together to create reactions of which Schrecker and Dawson shot 20,000 feet worth of film in the course of eight weeks for The Fountain.[12] To create the effects, Peter Parks had taken advantage of fluid dynamics, which affected the behavior of the substances that he photographed. "When these images are projected on a big screen, you feel like you're looking at infinity. That's because the same forces at work in the water—gravitational effects, settlement, refractive indices—are happening in outer space," Parks said. The specialist's talent convinced the film's creative department to go beyond computer-generated imagery and follow Parks' lead. Instead of millions of dollars for a single special effects sequence, Parks generated all the footage for the film for just $140,000"
That's pretty cool. I think there's a lot under the surface with this movie and people who dismiss it outright aren't giving it a fair shake.
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Based on the reviews you had links to, I probably would not care for this movie. Sounds like too much thinking for me. On the rare occasions I make it to a movie, I want to veg out and not have to think deeply at all for two hours.
It sounds like something you'd really enjoy though!
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