The Fountain

[alisonmonster]

Anyone going to see this?

I went last night because i loved Arnofski's Pi and Requiem for a Dream. But The Fountain is nothing like either of those two movies at all- it's 3 totally different films in one: historical Lord of the Rigs type stuff, medical love story and sci fi (best word to describe it).
I don't think I've ever been so split on a movie before- there were parts i hated and parts that i thought were excellent- i didn't care for the modern day love story at all and the film didn't go up and down at all- it was intense all the way through but not in a good way. The last 1/4 of the movie is probably the best and the non CGI special effects stuff really is amazing-it's shot really well.
Oh and Hugh Jackman looks really strange bald. 3/5

[RenewRevive]

OK I read your review and still don't know what it's about!

[alisonmonster]

i don't want to spoil anything for anybody...


Basically its about a husband/wife and their lives together intertwine through 3 stories that eventually interconnect. One story is a medieval type thing set in the past in Spain where he is a conquisador, the story (set in the present) is him as a surgeon of some sort searching for a cure fueled by the fact that his wife is very sick and the third story is him as a billy corgan looking guy that sits in a bubble in space with some sort of special tree. The movie flips between all of these and its sort of confusing til they start tying the stories together. It's hard to describe unless you actually see it- its the sort of movie you'd want to see on drugs.

[Trotskilicious]

I would say it's set in Spain during the last half of the 15th Century, which is the Renaissance, not mideval times. I assumed that part of the story was about Ponce de Leon and Queen Isabella looking for the fountain of youth.

Am I wrong in assuming this movie is about the persuit of eternal youth?

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by alisonmonster

Anyone going to see this?

I went last night because i loved Arnofski's Pi and Requiem for a Dream. But The Fountain is nothing like either of those two movies at all- it's 3 totally different films in one: historical Lord of the Rigs type stuff, medical love story and sci fi (best word to describe it).
I don't think I've ever been so split on a movie before- there were parts i hated and parts that i thought were excellent- i didn't care for the modern day love story at all and the film didn't go up and down at all- it was intense all the way through but not in a good way. The last 1/4 of the movie is probably the best and the non CGI special effects stuff really is amazing-it's shot really well.
Oh and Hugh Jackman looks really strange bald. 3/5

Yeah I made a thread about it a couple weeks ago, I pretty much feel the same way you do. What a frustrating movie huh?

[Karl Connor]

Originally Posted by alisonmonster

third story is him as a billy corgan looking guy that sits in a bubble in space with some sort of special tree.

that sounds fucking awesome

[alisonmonster]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

I would say it's set in Spain during the last half of the 15th Century, which is the Renaissance, not mideval times. I assumed that part of the story was about Ponce de Leon and Queen Isabella looking for the fountain of youth.

Am I wrong in assuming this movie is about the persuit of eternal youth?

yes, you're right., though its a tree not a fountian. I don't know my history very well so basically it went over my head.

[alisonmonster]

Originally Posted by TuralyonW3

Yeah I made a thread about it a couple weeks ago, I pretty much feel the same way you do. What a frustrating movie huh?

yeah it was. Too much crying emotional stuff without any rest. I hate to say it, but it got irritating.

[Shapan]

Originally Posted by alisonmonster

historical Lord of the Rigs type stuff

ugh, now i know i dont want to see this movie.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by alisonmonster

yes, you're right., though its a tree not a fountian. I don't know my history very well so basically it went over my head.

i'm sure it had very little to do with actual history

queen isabella was queen of spain in the 16th century. she and Ferdinand sent lots of people to rape the americas, Ponce de Leon fucked around in Florida, "discovered" the mississip i think. Said to have found a fountain of youth in his travels. I don't know if it was something he made up or someone made up for him.

he probably made it up to glorify himself. Joseph Smith never had sexual relations with that woman, Pocahontas, but he said he did.

[RenewRevive]

If Ponce had actually found it, you'd think it would have been apparent. So you're saying he was basically full of shit?

And the Pocahontas thing - that was a crock too? I don't know anything about the period at all, only the gist of the tale i.e. the hype, I guess.

[AlphaCentauri]

mushroom mushroom the magic mushroom. the secret to eternal youth is inside.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by RenewRevive

If Ponce had actually found it, you'd think it would have been apparent. So you're saying he was basically full of shit?

Well obviously someone's making something up. I'm just not sure who it was.

And the Pocahontas thing - that was a crock too? I don't know anything about the period at all, only the gist of the tale i.e. the hype, I guess.

JOHN (I said Joseph earlier) Smith was a notorious braggart. In his biography he detailed his heroic Indian girlfriend as being his lover, but in reality it seems to be the lover of one of his closest friends. Pocahontas exists historically, but much of the well known story is taken from Smith's autobiography, which is generally accepted as false. Pocahontas did, however, plead for the release of Smith, but there was no romantic liason.

This is kind of related but about 200 years after, they say Davy Crockett made up his entire autobiography as a political device. He took a Jim Bowie biography and just rewrote it to be about him. I think that explains the similarities between the two. Mexican records say that Crockett begged for his life on his hands and knees before Santa Anna and was killed for being such a coward.

[deadaswarhol]

awesome soundtrack

[murgle]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

JOHN (I said Joseph earlier) Smith was a notorious braggart. In his biography he detailed his heroic Indian girlfriend as being his lover, but in reality it seems to be the lover of one of his closest friends. Pocahontas exists historically, but much of the well known story is taken from Smith's autobiography, which is generally accepted as false. Pocahontas did, however, plead for the release of Smith, but there was no romantic liason.

Pocahontas was not romantically involved with Smith, as he was well into his 60's at the time. But she did marry a white man, John Rolfe. She had one son; they travelled to England, where she changed her name to some good Christian name, and died (of a disease, I think), a few years later. My boyfriend's related to her. woo.

[MeAndMyLlama]

the movie was sort of boring and repetitive at parts but visually stunning. watch it if you have nothing better to do

[RenewRevive]

Oops!

Dual post (see below).

[RenewRevive]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

This is kind of related but about 200 years after, they say Davy Crockett made up his entire autobiography as a political device. He took a Jim Bowie biography and just rewrote it to be about him. I think that explains the similarities between the two. Mexican records say that Crockett begged for his life on his hands and knees before Santa Anna and was killed for being such a coward.

Those Mexicans sure don't fuck around with yellow-bellies. Somehow I can't imagine John Wayne agreeing to all that grovelling stuff getting *******d in the screenplay.

Nice to see identity theft was thriving back in the 19th century. Crockett sounds a classy guy. Do you think he would've racked up huge credit card charges on Bowie's account had they been around today?

[Trotskilicious]

i think crockett is just an average politician making shit up to get elected.