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The Fountain (2006) (Patreon)

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2024-11-30 12:18:56
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2026-06
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Content

Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Cliff Curtis, Mark Margolis Sean Patrick Thomas, Donna Murphy

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Fountain

Comments

Amelie W

I had forgotten how much this movie is. It's like The Green Knight and Cloud Atlas and Aguirre jammed into 90 minutes. So much energy, and Jackman is great of course. But does it do those three movies as well as they do themselves? I think not. Indeed I often found myself thinking I ought to rewatch one of those while watching this. Not that I don't enjoy a bold attempt as much as a smooth success.

Jeff

Wow. I'd never seen this before, so thanks for the reaction. It did make me think of Terrence Malik's "The Tree of Life" which came five years later (and was a film with many faults but still stuck with me). This was beautiful, shot for shot, and surprisingly moving to me. I'd be very interested to see a documentary about the decisions behind the directing, lighting, and editing of the entire movie.

dys

Thanks for watching this one, guys! Good timing as I’m just getting home from the holiday today. Excited to watch with you and I’m sure I’ll have thoughts to share after.

dys

So this is one of my favorite movies ever, but it was savaged by critics, nobody saw it, nobody remembers it. It didn't even get any kind of cult classic status. That's really the reason I picked this, it's a beautiful, perfect film that seems destined not to get any further revisiting much less reaction videos. And I am so, so glad you guys got what the movie is actually about, which critics at the time did not. Tommy and Izzi in the present is the only part that is literally happening, the conquistador part is her book, the traveling to Xibalba part is Tommy's ending to it. And both parts of the book are just reflections of their different journeys to accepting her death and death in general. You guys praised the lighting and cinematography a lot, which ARE *incredible*, but I'd like to call special attention to the score which is a huge part of why this films hits me so hard. Composed by Clint Mansell, who's worked with Aronofsky on much of his filmography as well as the score for Moon which you did on this channel not long ago. This was originally going to be a full blockbuster budget production starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. It was in development hell for a while and the budget got slashed, which resulted in casting Jackman and Weisz instead, scaling back or removing some big planned setpieces, and having to get a lot more clever in how they used inexpensive practical effects to deliver those stunning visuals. The unenthusiastic reception to this movie really seems to have altered the arc of Aronofsky's career, he went from being a total auteur writing and directing all his films as passion projects to his next few films having him directing scripts written by others that while still daring were generally targeted at a wider audience; The Wrestler, Black Swan, both very good movies but not as much of a swing as his earlier work. Then after those were commercially and critically successful he got to do passion projects again, with Noah and Mother! which were... less successful (I agree with the negative response to both). And more recently with The Whale he's back to more crowd-pleasing Oscar-bait stuff. I'm on the same page with this being rewatchable in contrast to Requiem for a Dream. Honestly it took me until my third watch to get most of what you guys took out of it on your first watch here but there's still a lot to pick up on, the throughline is so great and there are so many little details supplementing it. I 100% agree these are the best performances of Jackman or Weisz's careers. For Jackman, I'd put Logan up there as well... but when I first saw this movie in 2006 after only seeing him as Wolverine he blew me away.

dys
>>156851076

For me it's really only one movie with three different lenses to view the themes it's wrestling with through. The core of the story is Tommy and Izzi in the present, the other two "movies" are just the story each of them is writing to come to terms with her dying. Maybe the conquistador stuff is a little cheesy, but it's not exactly trying to be a realistic historical drama, it's just the story she's writing to work through those ideas.

dys

Unrelated but curious to see how that Tom Hanks poll goes, IMO Cloud Atlas is like one hour of good filmmaking in a three-hour movie and little of that good involves Tom Hanks, it might be the worst role(s) in his entire career.

Youtalkingtome
>>156851076

You know this movie really worked for me and I was able to see the other stories as a metaphor for coping with that amount of grief.

Youtalkingtome
>>156906902

Thanks for purchasing! We really did enjoy the heck out of this movie. Jackman will forever be remembered as Wolverine but outside of that character this is the most impressive I've seen him. While I wouldn't say this is straightforward I think watching this with Kevin and because we actually are reacting to it, it was pretty easy for us to pick up what was happening. I would love to go back and watch this again. There are certain "sad" films that I just find very rewatchable, and I would say this will be one of them.

Youtalkingtome
>>156915841

Yeah, I haven't heard great things about Cloud Atlas. I've heard it's very ambitious but a lot of people I know are not fans of the film.

Kristi Govertsen

The Fountain is a beautiful movie! I’ve seen a few mentions of Cloud Atlas in this comment thread, and my hot (bot?) take is that I actually found CA to be worth a watch at least once. Was it a tad ambitious to adapt a long, what most would consider an unfilmable, book? Maybe, but I still think there’s value in swinging for the fences even if it doesn’t result in a home run. I think CA is a movie that can be appreciated for its interesting, story, unique style of storytelling, and the courage it took try something different. Of course, I also think there’s an under-appreciated genius in the movie Dumb & Dumber, so feel free to take my hot (bot?) Cloud Atlas take with a grain of salt.

dys
>>156971295

I don't disagree, I don't regret watching it once. It's certainly ambitious and there IS a lot of good in it, it's just there's about twice as much bad. And since they were discussing Tom Hanks movies specifically, he is really bad in it.