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Melancholia

post #1 of 28
1/31/12 at 12:56am
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U.K. (Region 2) version ordered and should arrive this week
Here's a glowing review from Blu-ray.com -- perfect scores on both PQ & AQ (and the film itself)

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Melanc.../30472/#Review

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post #2 of 28
1/31/12 at 10:56am
This is LvT's masterpiece.
Day one purchase of the Region A for me.
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post #3 of 28
1/31/12 at 11:27am
Nazi's! Woo!
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post #4 of 28
1/31/12 at 12:00pm
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Originally Posted by dvdmike007 View Post

Nazi's! Woo!

I don't know exactly what he said, but I think it's safe to say LvT is a little nuts....
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post #5 of 28
1/31/12 at 12:01pm
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I don't know exactly what he said, but I think it's safe to say LvT is a little nuts....

The video is on YouTube
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post #6 of 28
1/31/12 at 2:31pm
Gary Tooze has a competitor for the 'Incompetent screenshots' award.
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post #7 of 28
3/19/12 at 8:26pm
Watched this today. A visually stunning film in many ways, and worth watching simply on those terms.
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post #8 of 28
3/19/12 at 11:28pm
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Originally Posted by rdgrimes View Post

Watched this today. A visually stunning film in many ways, and worth watching simply on those terms.

+1
Easily one of the finest (and daring) movies of the year.
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post #9 of 28
3/20/12 at 11:29am
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+1
Easily one of the finest (and daring) movies of the year.

Did you people see the same movie I saw?! Good lord, this is one of the biggest steaming piles I have ever smelled. Yes "smelled" -- this thing is so bad your television will actually exude the stench of putrid excrement. I wanted to hang myself for torturing my soul for two hours when I could have spent that time in a much more life reaffirming pursuit like yanking out my fingernails with a pair of rusty pliers.
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post #10 of 28
3/20/12 at 1:37pm
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Did you people see the same movie I saw?! Good lord, this is one of the biggest steaming piles I have ever smelled. Yes "smelled" -- this thing is so bad your television will actually exude the stench of putrid excrement. I wanted to hang myself for torturing my soul for two hours when I could have spent that time in a much more life reaffirming pursuit like yanking out my fingernails with a pair of rusty pliers.

Well, for those who have seen it, you are in the minority.
Like they say: different strokes.
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post #11 of 28
3/20/12 at 3:42pm
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Did you people see the same movie I saw?! Good lord, this is one of the biggest steaming piles I have ever smelled. Yes "smelled" -- this thing is so bad your television will actually exude the stench of putrid excrement. I wanted to hang myself for torturing my soul for two hours when I could have spent that time in a much more life reaffirming pursuit like yanking out my fingernails with a pair of rusty pliers.

I burst out laughing when I read your comments. I am in the minority I guess that completely agree with every word you said about this movie.
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post #12 of 28
3/20/12 at 4:05pm
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Well, for those who have seen it, you are in the minority.
Like they say: different strokes.

I am with him, it left me with nothing at all
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post #13 of 28
3/20/12 at 4:54pm
Same here.

It felt like a pick-up truck made by Cadillac: all style with the look of something you could haul mulch in, but would never want to mess it up hauling mulch in it.

The movie just seemed like one of those films we're supposed to like, just because it's artistic. To me, it felt like someone painting a canvas black and selling it for $50K.
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post #14 of 28
3/21/12 at 11:27am
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Originally Posted by NetworkTV View Post

The movie just seemed like one of those films we're supposed to like, just because it's artistic. To me, it felt like someone painting a canvas black and selling it for $50K.

Yes! This is the Mark Rothko of movies!
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post #15 of 28
3/21/12 at 11:34am
I honestly liked the first 10 minutes and then most of everything in part 2. I stated in the DVD forum that if they'd have completely eliminated the wedding scene, it would have trimmed 40 minutes and been a much tighter movie. They'd just have to rework about 45 seconds of background story that was conveyed during the wedding scene (like why Kiefer is so hostile towards her, and maybe the scene with the red star).

Dunst was ok...if staring ahead, moving in slow motion, and occasionally wrapping a wool sweater around her is an accurate portrayal of depression. The nude scene was laughable. My wife and I both cracked up when the music ramped up for the big reveal. Ridiculous.

All in all, I'm glad I watched it, but that 40 minute wedding video was torture and I came really close to just turning it off. Without it, I'd have still thought the movie was just ok as a whole though, but would have at least enjoyed it more.
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post #16 of 28
3/21/12 at 12:01pm
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I honestly liked the first 10 minutes and then most of everything in part 2. I stated in the DVD forum that if they'd have completely eliminated the wedding scene, it would have trimmed 40 minutes and been a much tighter movie. They'd just have to rework about 45 seconds of background story that was conveyed during the wedding scene (like why Kiefer is so hostile towards her, and maybe the scene with the red star).

Dunst was ok...if staring ahead, moving in slow motion, and occasionally wrapping a wool sweater around her is an accurate portrayal of depression. The nude scene was laughable. My wife and I both cracked up when the music ramped up for the big reveal. Ridiculous.

All in all, I'm glad I watched it, but that 40 minute wedding video was torture and I came really close to just turning it off. Without it, I'd have still thought the movie was just ok as a whole though, but would have at least enjoyed it more.

Although I don't entirely agree with your take on the film, lemme post the link you mentioned for those interested:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1353553
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post #17 of 28
3/21/12 at 12:05pm
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Although I don't entirely agree with your take on the film, lemme post the link you mentioned for those interested:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1353553

Thanks. Haven't figured out how to link to posts on the mobile app.
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post #18 of 28
4/18/12 at 12:46pm
Fantastic film! I kept recalling the gist of passages from Ecclesiastes, the great nihilistic book of the Bible (the main original part, not including the more hopeful later addendum section), and the ominous oppressiveness of the Cthulu mythos.

I've never paid much attention to Kirsten Dunst, but her face is perfect for this role and she is perfect in it. The rest of the actors are top-notch as well.

Deep thoughts, lasting impressions, and strange dreams followed my watching of Melancholia. As with most great art, it is like napalm, it sticks and burns.
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post #19 of 28
4/18/12 at 1:03pm
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Fantastic film! I kept recalling the gist of passages from Ecclesiastes, the great nihilistic book of the Bible (the main original part, not including the more hopeful later addendum section), and the ominous oppressiveness of the Cthulu mythos.

I've never paid much attention to Kirsten Dunst, but her face is perfect for this role and she is perfect in it. The rest of the actors are top-notch as well.

Deep thoughts, lasting impressions, and strange dreams followed my watching of Melancholia. As with most great art, it is like napalm, it sticks and burns.

This comment reminds me of the scene in "The Squid and the Whale" where the older son and his friends want to go see "Short Circuit", but the father considers it unsophisticated.

They end up going to see "Blue Velvet" instead and we catch them in the theater at the moment when the most intense and screwed up scene in that movie is taking place.

They're completely repelled by it, but it's art, so...

Come to think of it, this is exactly the kind of film Jeff Daniels' character in that movie would rave about.
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post #20 of 28
4/18/12 at 1:18pm
Opening sequence is wonderful and then it immediately turns to absolute crap. Our rented Blu Ray skipped and then died about 30 minutes in, so we were saved from what was a truly boooooooring film.

Then again, maybe it got better?
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post #21 of 28
4/18/12 at 1:27pm
Some posts in this thread is simply hilarious!

...the film was compared to The Tree Of Life on several occasions. I think The Tree Of Life is an amazing film but I'm not sure about that one. I'll rent it eventually but I'm not much tempted so far, except maybe for its visual grandeur, which probably does look stunning on Blu-ray.
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post #22 of 28
4/18/12 at 1:41pm
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Originally Posted by Matt_Stevens View Post

Opening sequence is wonderful and then it immediately turns to absolute crap. Our rented Blu Ray skipped and then died about 30 minutes in, so we were saved from what was a truly boooooooring film.

Then again, maybe it got better?

NOW, wait a minute here....
You're saying the BD was screwed up and you couldn't really watch it and yet Melancholia is "a truly boooooooooring film?"


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Some posts in this thread is simply hilarious!

...the film was compared to The Tree Of Life on several occasions. I think The Tree Of Life is an amazing film but I'm not sure about that one. I'll rent it eventually but I'm not much tempted so far, except maybe for its visual grandeur, which probably does look stunning on Blu-ray.

TOL has an entirely different plot from Melancholia.
The only comparison, IMO, is there is a good chance if someone likes one they will probably like the other.
Both films can be described as impressionistic cinema, and both were easily the best films I saw last year.
These are NOT movies for the young....
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post #23 of 28
4/18/12 at 2:06pm
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Originally Posted by oink View Post

TOL has an entirely different plot from Melancholia.

I know, these are two very different films. Yet I can understand why people see similarities, from a visual standpoint at least. I'm more in a Ghost Protocol kind of mood these days anyway
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post #24 of 28
4/20/12 at 9:35am
Well I was expecting to like Ghost Protocol based on word of mouth, but it didn't do anything for me.

Waited for Melancholia to show up free on Prime, and watched the first half last night, going to watch the second tonight.

Expected garbage, but it is brilliant. Great movie about depression and the mind, and being torn right down the middle. Can't say for sure yet, because I haven't finished it, but so far I think it is definitely on par with Tree of Life and will be a film talked about, granted in a very small circle, for generations to come.

My cup of tea, and will be getting it on blu.
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post #25 of 28
4/20/12 at 1:05pm
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Well I was expecting to like Ghost Protocol based on word of mouth, but it didn't do anything for me.

Expected garbage, but it is brilliant. Great movie about depression and the mind, and being torn right down the middle. Can't say for sure yet, because I haven't finished it, but so far I think it is definitely on par with Tree of Life and will be a film talked about, granted in a very small circle, for generations to come.

Couldn't agree more.
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post #26 of 28
4/20/12 at 5:25pm
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NOW, wait a minute here....
You're saying the BD was screwed up and you couldn't really watch it and yet Melancholia is "a truly boooooooooring film?"

This is pretty easy to understand. Great opening. Then boring beyond belief for what felt like hours. BluRay begins to skip and stops working. We were 30 minutes in.

Got it?
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post #27 of 28
4/20/12 at 5:37pm
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Originally Posted by Matt_Stevens View Post

This is pretty easy to understand. Great opening. Then boring beyond belief for what felt like hours. BluRay begins to skip and stops working. We were 30 minutes in.

Got it?

OK, I got it.

It is a shame you didn't see the whole thing....you might have had a different opinion.
It DOES take awhile before it becomes obvious what the man is trying to do...it isn't clear right up front.

The thing that sets it apart from other movies that have targeted this subject before is the artistic, intellectual approach to dysfunctional emotions/feelings.
He is trying to show VISUALLY and AUDIBLY what happens in the mind, what happens to those who suffer from the illness.
I have never seen it done so well and with such brutal honesty before.
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post #28 of 28
4/21/12 at 7:06am
Finished watching last night. Brilliant! Key to deciphering the movie is the bridge. Bi-polar orbits of delight!
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