I guess our crazy friend Dr. Robuttnik has never heard of the food chain.

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald.…

Wow, the AVclub has a super hate on for this show. Russo's death a C? "I don't like to hear your voice when it's like this. It makes me sad." is a maudlin line? It's a 11 year old kid talking to her drunk, coked out dad who's in the news for being too wasted. What would be a better line? "Father, your inebriation has…

@chalupacabra,
I just called you out on being a prick. I apologize for nothing. Snidely Q. at least formulated a critique. And don't pretend like you weren't being a dick by coming to a review of a Malick film to say the Tree of Life was a "shit sandwhich, I'm not seeing this one". That contributes nothing to…

@avclub-472d722b57a4ed37e41e70c9c9d7d0f3:disqus ,
Now that I've had a chance to simmer down I realize how dickish I sounded but Malick brings out my worst fanboy tendencies, especially when people are being so dimissive of his work. He's self-evidently great and while people may not like what he does that's no excuse…

@avclub-d83db5f35f6ff3433edc33b58e6af6e0:disqus , Sorry I so glibly dismissed your well thought-out critique. "Shit sandwhich". You took Malick to task and proved you're much, much smarter than his fans or Malick himself. Brava! Do you write for the New Yorker?

@dustin4444, I completely agree. I mean Up is great commercial filmmaking but it's hardly pushing cinematic boundaries.

Bay's constantly at "full retard".

Nailed it! [Starts slow clap].

Easy answer: some people are stupid, others aren't.

"thinking makes my head hurt. Why can't he make good old-timey narrative films"

@avclub-f8665a36d5a911922da81a12443887ed:disqus , thank you for making a valid critique of the Tree of Life. At least you recognize there's something there to get but it just didn't do anything for you. Most people hate it because it didn't take them by the hand.

Days of Heaven or Badlands? I can't choose. Both are poetic, both have great character work and both are practically flawless. Richard Gere has never been better cast than the handsome idiot who just can't stop killing people.

Ah, the AVclub: the only site on the internet where a discussion about the reviewer's bombast can degenerate into a pissing contest between two gebrones about the cogency of a laboured analogy between Malick and the MVP of a sport. Drink it in folks.

I'm no super genius (obviously) but am I one of the only ones who didn't find The Tree of Life super opaque? Breaking it down as simply as possible: it's a meditation on a man's personal life story and its place in the universe.

@avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus , you're not crazy. The Tree of Life was astounding and one of the best films in decades. I find cinephiles are degenerating now a days into base "narrative is the most important thing. We need an easily recognizable through-line or the movie has no merit" types — even…

Yes, an artist's Proustian examination of the forces that shaped his life, reaching back to the creation of the universe, lacked "sustenance". Did you see The Artist though? It was da bomb! [Makes slow jerk-off motion with hand].

Sorry brother, I was just quoting the Simpsons as we are wont to do here.

I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

@avclub-c1fe85b855c6d045b827f74a1e2c3fd7:disqus  you blowhard.