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AICN Exclusive: You Now Have 2001 More Reasons To Be Excited For Malick's THE TREE OF LIFE!

This is not Jurassic Park 4 by SoylentMean	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:29:49 PM
DAMMIT
This will be as well received as The Fountain by SoylentMean	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:31:09 PM
or Sunshine. Will there be characters I actually care about, or will it be another pretty but hollow film?
Although dinosaurs in IMAX is intriguing by SoylentMean	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:32:40 PM
and with a budget, still I'd rather see Jurassic Park 4. In IMAX.
Still a little dubious they'll both pan out by seppukudkurosawa	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:33:44 PM
But I've been hurt so many times before by the people I love.
by MikeTheSpike	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:44:12 PM
"an "IMAX-only" feature depicting the birth and death of the universe." Sold. Is this not the movie we've all wished "they" would make? I have spent many a time sitting on the crapper, dreaming of such a film.
Wait a sec... by maliswan	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:44:50 PM
Malick was working on a project after "Days of Heaven" that dealt, supposedly, with the origins of life - with Terry filming all over the world (under the ice sheets on Antarctica, for example). It didn't materialize, I believe for budget concerns, but he had spent some time on this; when it fell apart, he went to Paris to teach, or something. Is this the same project? Can we please get a WITNESS??!!
There is an IMAX dinosaur 3-D feature being released in April by Bass Ackwards	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:45:54 PM
It's one of those educational IMAX movies, so visually it'll probably be about in par with Discovery's Walking With Dinosaurs, but I thought it worth a mention.
Bass, so that's gonna be at museums, right? by SoylentMean	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:48:55 PM
Dinosaurs are the best.
this is COOL news by T 1000 xp professional	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:51:47 PM
the definition of a cinematic experience. I cannot wait for this.
I DIDN'T KNOW TRUMBULL WAS STILL ALIVE by Mullah Omar	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:52:13 PM
But considering he has been AWOL since BLADE RUNNER, it was a seemingly safe bet.
So Malick's in Austin, Harry's in Austin... by TheRevengeofLeeVanCleef	Mar 2nd, 2009 07:55:38 PM
but Harry doesn't have the scoop on this thing even though it's in his fucking backyard? What a joke.
"feature depicting the birth and death of the universe" by Amy Chasing	Mar 2nd, 2009 08:00:53 PM
so not another IMAX documentary then
Terence Malik world class head tripper. by hallmitchell	Mar 2nd, 2009 08:08:08 PM
Avatar is still the movie of the year for me. Yet I'm really liking what I'm hearing.
I would like to see some of the... by The Eskimo	Mar 2nd, 2009 08:14:48 PM
...Stephen Baxter Origins books come to life like this. Wishful thinking.
MALICK on BIRTH AND DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE by captainalphabet	Mar 2nd, 2009 08:17:48 PM
ZOMFGWTFBBQ!!!
Most anticipate films of 2009 by BrightEyes	Mar 2nd, 2009 08:23:32 PM
Malick is the greatest living filmmaker today.
Terence Malik? by crashcow	Mar 2nd, 2009 08:24:41 PM
Yeah...He's that guy that makes movies so boring it knocks me the fuck out when I can't sleep. Mark my words...if anyone can make dinosaurs seem REALLY uninteresting, it's this guy. Hooray, self-importance!
when you have a name by robamenta	Mar 2nd, 2009 08:29:03 PM
as cool sounding as 'terrence malick' u get a free pass
I mean, c'mon... by crashcow	Mar 2nd, 2009 08:29:06 PM
Thanks to him, the only people on Earth who think the Battle of Guadalcanal didn't involve hours of wind blowing weeds and deep conversation are the G.I.s who were there getting shot at! Go Go Gadget Pretention!
Overrated... by Henry Fool	Mar 2nd, 2009 08:34:23 PM
Terrence Malick proudly presents BORING!!! The Motion Picture Seriously, I mean "Days of Heaven" was fine and all. But this guy's movies are just way overrated. I appreciate the artistry of his movies and find them worth watching but THEIR PACING! PLEASE! I can still feel the wrath of my best friend when I made him watch "The Thin Red Line". I didn't think it was half bad. But it bored the hell out of my friends, who were angry with me for making them go. I just don't think Terry Malick understands story structure very well. People over-romanticize the years he spent away from Hollywood and his whole comeback. They treat him like he's a Kubrick level talent and HE ISN'T. His films crawl by at a snail pace. Sometimes, I seriously think there are people who revere boring movies just so they can thumb their nose at those who don't appreciate "high art." I dunno. Terry Malick just makes me yawn. Excessive voice over narration is for film school students and he just swims in the stuff. Still, part of me wishes he'd make a studio film about cute talking animals on an adventure. I'd just like to see what his take on the genre would be. I'd love to see long shots of a golden retriever running over green fields while the beast's internal monologue narrates his inner journey in a Zen like fashion. I know Terry Malikc's gonna make the ultimate talking animal movie someday. Just you wait. I know. I'm shallow. Only ninety more minutes until twenty-four comes on. I hope Jack Bauer threatens someone with a pen again, like in the season opener.
Star Trek Voyager's One Really Smart Idea by zinc_chameleon	Mar 2nd, 2009 09:28:37 PM
occurred in the second season, when evolved hadrosaurs, originally denizens of Earth, caught up with humans, and at first couldn't believe they were intelligent (not having a sufficiently evolved brain), so they thought they were a food animal or something. Then Janeway proved to the hadrosaurs that they originally came from Earth 20 million year earlier, which unfortunately was religious blasphemy. Creating a dinosaur that survived the comet, evolved, and left Earth behind isn't that bad an idea.
Trumbull's been active post-"Blade Runner" by beamish13	Mar 2nd, 2009 09:29:39 PM
he DID direct 1983's "Brainstorm", after all, as well as some innovative shorts like Universal Studios' woefully out of commission "Back to the Future: The Ride", which has a very cool T-Rex appearance.
I fell asleep on all Malick's movies by DarthBakpao	Mar 2nd, 2009 09:31:54 PM

Dr. Floyd - Let's play a game called 'the truth' by Flim_	Mar 2nd, 2009 09:40:02 PM
I will tell the truth for one minute, then you do the same. This is wery bad for my asthma!
Yay, a new sedative to repace New World and Thin Red Line! by Flip63Hole	Mar 2nd, 2009 09:40:25 PM
Never can have enough sleeping aids...
beamish13 by mrbeaks	Mar 2nd, 2009 09:40:48 PM
I was focusing on his visual f/x supervisor credits, but you're right. And I was fascinated by BRAINSTORM when I was a kid.
An ad about a 12 inch Lando? by crashcow	Mar 2nd, 2009 09:45:33 PM
I guess he really WAS an "old smoothie." Good for him!
The world has pacing problems by seppukudkurosawa	Mar 2nd, 2009 10:11:00 PM
Not Terrence Malick.
Well Put, seppukudkurosawa by mrbeaks	Mar 2nd, 2009 10:17:02 PM

Duuude.... by jimmy_009	Mar 2nd, 2009 10:53:40 PM
This sounds fucking cool. I'm actually really excited about this.
Malick is a remarkable visionary. by LoneGun	Mar 2nd, 2009 11:01:54 PM
And a kind of revolutionary in an industry of fast-paced thrill rides. One of the most important filmmakers alive. Great scoop! Count me intrigued by Trumbull's involvement in this.
they'd better show the Earth growing by BendersShinyAss	Mar 2nd, 2009 11:24:31 PM
youtube & google expanding earth
Never Fails by Rebeck2	Mar 2nd, 2009 11:33:27 PM
On every Malick story there's a talkback full of idiots who have to tell us how boring Malick is because their little pea brains are too rotted out by commercial pablum and they have the attention span of hummingbirds and just do not like anything that challenges them in any way. Oh, and they want us to know it - cuz they're proud of their ignorance. Okay, we heard you. Now rush off to that Adam Sandler movie and let those of us who appreciate the genius of Malick have a little "adult time". Okay?
After AVATAR, Terry's films will be eyeball-fucking by BadWaldo s Revenge	Mar 3rd, 2009 12:02:58 AM
...especially IMAX film. What? Douglas Trumbull working on a Malick film? This can't be. Douglas worked with Kubrick, long neglected at the Oscars except for a puny award for Best Special Effects for 2001, and now Malick, the philosopher-sage-filmmaker. Days of Heaven is one of the best films made, albeit mercifully short in editing and sparse storytelling relying on visual-aural aesthetics. I thought Malick would disappear again after Thin Red Line and his fight with the producers, but he kept coming back. What the hell happened to rumored Catcher in the Rye adaptation leaked on AICN circa 2002? Did J.D. Salinger simply say "no thanks, fook off!"
I hope they get finished.... by TheWaqman	Mar 3rd, 2009 12:26:39 AM
please don't scrap this! Malick I need some more projects from you and this sounds positively excellent.
You fucking ADD retards.... by TheWaqman	Mar 3rd, 2009 12:27:53 AM
go watch Transformers. No wonder this site is anticipating the summer season so much this year. It's full of mind-numbing dumb shit from the three stooges. McG, Stephen Sommers and Michael Bay. Malick's too good for you guys.
Harry, Austin, Malick by HEADGEEK	Mar 3rd, 2009 12:35:34 AM
Folks - You guys have NO IDEA how elusive MALICK is. I've been told that we have been in the same theater about 40 times in my life - and I've still never seen him. I KNOW WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE - and I still can't see him. He's the fucking Invisible Man. He allegedly lives and works in Austin. Frequents many of the same places I do, and still... HE DOES NOT EXIST!
WHO IS JOHN GALT? by TheMarineBiologist	Mar 3rd, 2009 12:58:47 AM
Sorry... couldn't resist...
Harry by TheMarineBiologist	Mar 3rd, 2009 01:10:09 AM
He's a ninja.
TheMarineBiologist by JohnGaltShrugged	Mar 3rd, 2009 01:30:34 AM
exactly :)
OH MY GOD! by Evangelion217	Mar 3rd, 2009 02:50:16 AM
This is fucking huge! This will be Malick's biggest film to date, and it has the potential to be another Malick masterpiece. His last two outings are one of the few films that I have given a 10/10. They are unquestionably beautiful, and they completely transcend cinema. I can't wait for "The Tree Of Life!" And now Malick seems to be doing another film, that will be tackling a subject as big as "2001??" He's even used the same guy who worked with Stanley Kubrick?? THIS IS AWESOME! :)
Well said TheWaqman by Evangelion217	Mar 3rd, 2009 03:05:03 AM
I find it amazing how so many ignorant ADD children on this site, are willing to express their ignorance. OH MY GOD, TERRENCE MALICK IS SO BORING, BECAUSE I'M STUPID AND CAN'T SIT STILL! ;)
As Benjamin Button has proved...... by D o o d	Mar 3rd, 2009 03:44:06 AM
No amount of visual effects can make a film watchable. Trumball is a legend and I'm sure he'll do amazing work, but Malick is a boring director and his films only enduce sleep.
Holy bags of shit!!! Now that is some damn cool news!!! by a goonie	Mar 3rd, 2009 04:09:25 AM
As I said earlier in the other thread regarding Malick and dinosaurs, I love dinosaurs like a crazy motherfucker. And I love Malick something fierce, too. But this news is the very definition of cool. 2001: A Space Odyssey is my favourite movie ever. It is the most magical piece of cinema I have ever seen. And Trumbull's effects are among the most awe-inspiring achievements in movie history, if you ask me. This is truly amazing.
Malick's pacing is perfect. by Knuckleduster	Mar 3rd, 2009 04:41:09 AM
The New World covered an incredible amount of story in a very short time. What could easily have been a six-part mini-series was told in two and a half hours. As far as I'm concerned he's a master of pacing and structure. The editing in his films are phenomenal. As for the narration, Malick is one of the few filmmakers who actually enhances his work with the use of voice-over (that's right, kids. Voice-over narration isn't necessarily a bad thing, no matter what Robert McKee tells you. Can you imagine Sunset Boulevard, Little Children or The Shawshank Redemption without the voice-over?). P.S. I freakin love Douglas Trumbull. Silent Running is awesome.
malikitis by sidonie	Mar 3rd, 2009 04:55:20 AM
To boast that you fall asleep in a Malick film just aint cool. What are you doing here? I wish I was in Austin. Malick being there makes it twice as cool.
All hale Douglas Trumbull by DC Films	Mar 3rd, 2009 05:16:37 AM
This is something to really get excited about.
Malick and Dinosaurs, ummmm??? by kendobbie73	Mar 3rd, 2009 05:45:41 AM

Malick and Trumball, fuck me, now that's cool news by zapano	Mar 3rd, 2009 05:54:44 AM
and anyone who says Malick is overrated and boring needs their head examined or maybe just put out to pasture
I wouldn't call Malick boring... by Blue_Demon	Mar 3rd, 2009 07:51:47 AM
just deliberately paced. I can see why a lot of the younger crowd would go nuts at his films though. I also went with some friends to see "The Thin Red Line" and they wanted to kill me afterwards. One of them said, "If I wanted to stare at a coffee table book for three hours I could hav done that at home." He seems to have a 1970s style of thinking (this is a compliment, for me, that was one of the best decades for movies) where he lets his movies unfold instead of throwing stuff at us. I recently re-watched "The Excorcist" and thought, "I love how this movie takes its time." Can you imagine showing that screenplay to a Hollywood exec today? "The fuck? When does this get moving?" Every now and then, I just like to immerse myself in a movie. I saw the four hour cut of "La Belle Noiseuse" at the Dobie in Austin. Great film. (Course the fact that Emmanuelle Beart spends 3 of those hours naked helped...)
Ahhh, the Malick talkback cliches strike again...... by gooseud	Mar 3rd, 2009 08:31:31 AM
as half the talkbackers complain that Malick's movies are like watching a very passionate lovemaking session between two 83 year old nursng home residents, and the other half pull out the old tried and true "You just dont understand!! He's a GENIUS!! GENIUS, I tell you!!! Luckily I do understand, because I'm AWESOME!!!" card. This is like the sun rising in the east in its predictability. For the record, disliking Malick doesnt make you a Bay enthusiast, or a devotee or the canon of Uwe Boll. It just means you dont like the man's glacial pacing. This isnt exactly a controversial opinion. I mean, even the most devoted Malick fan cant step outside themselves to say "While I love this, I could see how certain perfectly intelligent people might find it slow"? Really?
no squid? by jabbayoda	Mar 3rd, 2009 10:34:03 AM
wtf?
The way Malick works? by ufoclub1977	Mar 3rd, 2009 11:42:00 AM
It would seem he keeps filming and filming and filming... and then a creative edit is made from the footage... and then he keeps filming and filming and filming... seems like he films entire scenes with 100's of extras as practice runs... for re-filming with 100's of extras a week later... Sort of like the greatest search for happy accidents?
Wow... by the_patriot	Mar 3rd, 2009 12:42:56 PM
While I'm not a big fan of Malick (I'm not here to debate that), I do appreciate how he can bring together one hell of a cast and crew to pull off his visions. But damn, if Trumbull is involved...I'm gonna have to search this one out. My real question is if this is hiding down in Austin - where several members of this site live - how is info just NOW getting out about this project here? Not being snipy, just an honest question. Has it been THAT secretive that nobody notices a film crew in town and asks questions before someone makes an offhand comment in an article?
The New World was torture to sit through by BigTuna	Mar 3rd, 2009 02:17:05 PM
This ass-kissing of Malick is funny. Just because he makes "Artsy" films, doesn't make them good. There's only so many pretty treees and waterfalls I can watch before it gets old.
BigTuna by D o o d	Mar 3rd, 2009 05:21:08 PM
You're absolutely right. I also found it nigh on impossible to sit through that turd of a movie called "Brave New World". There is this strange snobbery that people have with Malick but I've said it once and I'll say it again, he makes boring movies and they don't look all that great or unusual either.
I'm telling you as a fan of his by seppukudkurosawa	Mar 3rd, 2009 06:08:09 PM
There's no snobbery or affrontery or pretentiousness involved. His movies just appeal to me. When I sit watching them, I don't mutter to myself: "Heh heh, I can't wait to make all those idiots feel bad about themselves for not being in on the joke." There is no joke. You're the ones projecting your taste. You're the ones assuming that what works and doesn't work for for you is the same for everyone else. Malick's movies leve me reeling afterwards. I like simple, slow-paced movies (as well as blockbuster fare, otherwise I wouldn't be here) as to me, they're the heroin of moviemaking: the most direct way of transferring emotion and inspiration and character and ideas from the filmmaker to the viewer. Simple stories beautifully told. If that ain't your cup of celluloid, that's OK. But I can tell you, as a fan, that you're the last thing on my mind when I watch a Malick movie.
*leave by seppukudkurosawa	Mar 3rd, 2009 06:09:45 PM
Erm, my "a" key's kinda sticky for some reason...
Bay/TF any day over this Captain of Snore by Logan_1973	Mar 3rd, 2009 07:27:01 PM
THIN RED LINE hands-down worst movie I've ever seen. I dig good drama and philosophical musings on film, but that POS was just unforgivable.
Silent Running kicks ass! by Proman1984	Mar 3rd, 2009 11:10:40 PM
Douglas Trumbull is awesome!
Well put, seepukudkurosawa by Projectedlight	Mar 3rd, 2009 11:52:10 PM
I love it when people accuse you of being a snob for liking Malick or anybody else and then suggest that you only pretend to like it to make them feel bad (since his work is too artsy and boring for anyone else to have enjoyed) or because you're an elitist prick. Nice hypocritical argument, you morons. That line of thinking is called 'reverse-snobbery'.
I think if Thoreau were alive by edgardevice	Mar 4th, 2009 12:48:25 AM

... by edgardevice	Mar 4th, 2009 12:49:46 AM
he'd have an uzi and kill all who hate on The Malick!
Nice one, seppukudkurosawa. by Knuckleduster	Mar 4th, 2009 02:15:09 AM
I think you just hit the nail on the head there. Folks, if it's not your cup of tea, kindly just say so and move on.
There's nothing wrong with..... by D o o d	Mar 4th, 2009 07:31:57 AM
slow and arty movies. I watch them and if they're good I like them. This has got nothing to do with that. There is definitely some sort of snobbery involved. Malick is NOT that great a director and a few of his projects have proved that, especially The New World. I mean I sat through that 2.5 - 3 hours of just pure trash. At no point did I look at that and see any visionary or beautiful photography. There's a reason why he doesn't make that many movies, he's just not that good.
I thought Pitt was gonna be in a Malick-directed sci-fi ODYSSEY. by CountryBoy	Mar 4th, 2009 07:47:00 PM
Is that this? Is this at all based on THE ODYSSEY?
D o o d by Projectedlight	Mar 5th, 2009 01:02:47 AM
Look, I respect your right to dislike Malick. But... " This has got nothing to do with that. There is definitely some sort of snobbery involved." ...shut the fuck up. Your opinion is not the only opinion. I like Malick and it's not because of any snobbery, stop projecting your own point of view and telling me I can't like something because you don't. As for there being no visionary of beautiful photography, feel free to disagree, but in my book all of this... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BRW4 gNHvrkk/SV5Pnq8NLSI/AAAAAAAAGn g/nc_G6sKNmoI/s1600-h/newx_020 .jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BRW4 gNHvrkk/SV5RMU9GgXI/AAAAAAAAGn o/WwROpbOIVDE/s1600-h/newx_010 .jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BRW4 gNHvrkk/SV5Ts6XOF6I/AAAAAAAAGo Q/QP2kx5B9hbk/s1600-h/newx_001 .jpg http://i218.photobucket.com/al bums/cc275/thehousenextdoor/20 06/There%20is%20only%20this/th enewworldpubl.jpg http://i218.photobucket.com/al bums/cc275/thehousenextdoor/20 06/Just%20Beautiful/thenewworl dpube.jpg is astonishingly beautiful, in a very natural way. The images feel like they sprung straight from nature. Malick's images are their context are perfect, but they always feel completely natural.

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