some very sound thoughts in the review re Malick in general.  i definitely have trouble connecting to most of his recent work and you pretty much nail down exactly why that is.
For me he has uncomfortably blurred the line between elegant tonal/narrative abstraction and a 2 hour perfume commercial…and I'll most likely…

Felt like a whole different team of writers came in for this one…weird tone and timing throughout.  

definitely a fly reference….although i would say that brundle had a decidedly ambiguous heart by the end (considering that he was attempting to fuse his girlfriend, unborn child, and self into a single entity after vomit amputating that guy's foot b4 realizing suicide was the only answer)…whereas district 9 guy seemed…

please be as good as district 9
please be as good as district 9
please be as good as district 9
please……

no?  i thought she blended in ok.

i assumed the opposite.  her "final reveal" is sure to be powerful, one way or the other.

some clunky moments in this one for sure:
the counseling on death felt really silly and superficial.  "just go with the body"?  meh.
her boss asking to marry her felt really off topic.
still a worthwhile watch.  moss does the accent well.

interesting.
I wasn't thinking it was "bad" exactly…but the suicide vibe was definitely part of it and i found that pretty edgy for it's purpose.
aside from that i think it would be both realistic and dramatic for his work to slip as he does.

totally…those things are marvels of engineering and design.

pretty sure.  maggie always stuck to needles.

well nobody ever did lines off a giant mixing board with margaret thatcher….so…..

i'm sure don's rep is know far and wide at this point…and they go to him for "the best", although in this case they clearly want to advertise a hawaiian vacation rather than a jonestown type deal.
I hope that don's faltering skills are part of his breakdown…that could be a powerful arc and give the season a defined…

circumcised realm?

i enjoyed it and it was confidently and professionally staged.
not sure i will ever re-watch it tho.

favorite interchange:
"he's a monster"
"that's pity"
….
"ah…here comes my cheese!"

the ways that tony and john talked about that guy was hilarious.
also the way he himself talked was oot: 
http://www.youtube.com/watc…
so good.

well maybe not entirely unexpected…but after all the flippant lines it felt about right imo.  if he hadn't broken down he would seem a bit of a robot.

totally true…it is a bit cheesy and false.
that said…you could interpret that as seeing the character as maybe a little cheesy…just the kind of guy who WOULD rehearse a little homily like that to impress others.

sidenote: the actor who played "heart attack door man" played "little carmine" on the sopranos.

it would seem that his facade is slipping a bit….blatant suicide imagery in a pitch meeting and barfing publicly into the umbrella stand…at a memorial service no less.