Winesburgohio
09.13.13 | Swap Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line and you've got mine
i think we can all agree that Badlands is his greatest achievement, my god what a film |
Hyperion1001
09.13.13 | tree of life should be higher |
SeaAnemone
09.13.13 | probably my favorite director (should I be embarrassed about that??)
badlands is actually the only I haven't seen though apparently I need to
have you seen To The Wonder?
Thin Red Line and Tree of Life are my favorites |
Mike08
09.13.13 | Tree of Life has A+ Cinematography no doubt about that. The rest varies from watchable to utterly pretentious. I haven't seen To The Wonder, but hearing it pop up peaked my interest in making this list. |
sicktransitbro
09.13.13 | tree of life was straight up indulgent, bordered on unwatchable for this dude
badlands what the fuuuuck, what a movie; cover to cover quality. |
SeaAnemone
09.13.13 | yea admittedly I'm a sucker for stuff that unabashedly prioritizes style over substance so "straight up indulgent" from a guy as talented as malick is a-okay with me |
ShitsofRain
09.13.13 | I've only seen 4 so far and it immediately became one of my favorite movies ever |
hikingmetalpunk
09.13.13 | tree of life brought the zzzzzzzzzs |
bigguytoo9
09.13.13 | Badlands is by far his best, Tree Of Life is great too. |
sicktransitbro
09.13.13 | @sea i think you'd be remiss to say that style and 'substance' are disjoint like that, but his privileging of the former seemed only to remark on how little he actually had to say about the content presented. moreover, his indulgence in filmmaking seemed to suggest that malick had lost his affinity for the movie, and started to lean towards a work which takes as its subject matter movie-making (a fucking life montage? what are you even trying to say?), and if we are to evaluate the movie in that way, it was nothing above average, bordering on the mediocre |
SeaAnemone
09.13.13 | this might sound a little ignorant and shallow but I'm simply not very well-versed when it comes to film-making
absolutely willing to accept your argument, it's logical, I'm just willing to admit that many of the movies I enjoy most I enjoy on a purely superficial, awe-inspiring-aesthetics level
as far as tree of life specifically, I really love the way the aforementioned aesthetic ties in so nicely to the really grandiose, pretentious (but not in a negative light... struggling to find the right descriptor here... idealistic? I dunno) themes about humanity etc. ... anyway, just because it doesn't 'succeed' on a critical level, it's the type of movie I really enjoy the most, oftentimes -- hope that makes a tiny bit of sense |
lou1000
09.13.13 | 1. Badlands
2. The Tree of Life
3. Days of heaven
4. The Thin Red Line
5. The New World |
ShitsofRain
09.13.13 | malick is all about emotions, no zzzzzzzzzz |
RadicalEd
09.13.13 | You know what.... i didn't hate the new world.
Badlands and thin red line are his best though.
Overall I think Malick is a bit overrated though, as a cinematographer he's a genius, but sometimes I feel his films lack the substance to back up all the pretentious attitude. |
sicktransitbro
09.14.13 | @sea yeah homie i see you, but step that filmography game up yo
cant hurt xoxo |
hikingmetalpunk
09.18.13 | yeah way overrated, snoozefest director, cure insomnia with his work.
kubrick he is not. |