Self-indulgent, pretentious piece of junk
IMDB is shutting these boards down in 12 days so I decided that, as my last post, to reiterate how much I hated this piece of crap. Malick is overrated, yes, but at least The Thin Red Line was a movie. This is not. What plot it has is disjointed and virtually non-existent. Character development is nil. But not all is lost. The Tree of Life should be shown in film schools as the textbook case of how not to direct a film.
Pretentious garbage, virtually impossible to sit through. When I saw it over half the audience walked out. Of course some clueless critics praised it but this why the movie going public says they don't listen to critics. If a critic steered me to this I, too, would not listen to critics.
Roger Ebert named this crap as one of the ten best films of all time, ahead of Casablanca and The Best Years of Our lives, just to mention two films so vastly superior to this that it is an insult to mention them in the same sentence. Did the illness he was suffering affect his brain?
Pretentious garbage. If you can't see that, please, please, please do not become a film director.
Caio!