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MaineWriter:
I just watched "The Fountain" on DVD and enjoyed it very much. Of course, lots of close-ups of Hugh Jackman probably helped! Even so, I enjoyed the story. The music was great, too. Anyone else here see this?
L
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on December 22, 2007, 07:18:50 pm ---I just watched "The Fountain" on DVD and enjoyed it very much. Of course, lots of close-ups of Hugh Jackman probably helped! Even so, I enjoyed the story. The music was great, too. Anyone else here see this?
L
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Yes. Saw it when it first came out. It was marketed badly, it was not at all what we were expecting. We went without the required box of tissue and suffered for it. Very good, very sad.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 22, 2007, 07:21:50 pm ---Yes. Saw it when it first came out. It was marketed badly, it was not at all what we were expecting. We went without the required box of tissue and suffered for it. Very good, very sad.
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Interesting...I am usually a waterworks and cry at anything, but I didn't cry at this. Maybe if I had seen it on the big screen, I would have reacted differently. But I found the whole thing sort of hopeful, as if Tommy and Izzi (or Tomas and Isabel) were going to be together, forever, as she predicted/promised.
Leslie
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on December 22, 2007, 07:25:54 pm ---Interesting...I am usually a waterworks and cry at anything, but I didn't cry at this. Maybe if I had seen it on the big screen, I would have reacted differently. But I found the whole thing sort of hopeful, as if Tommy and Izzi (or Tomas and Isabel) were going to be together, forever, as she predicted/promised.
Leslie
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SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!! SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!! SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't take it at all like that. I took it all as allegorical. It was all in Tommy's head. None of the future/historical stuff was real.
oilgun:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on December 22, 2007, 07:18:50 pm ---I just watched "The Fountain" on DVD and enjoyed it very much. Of course, lots of close-ups of Hugh Jackman probably helped! Even so, I enjoyed the story. The music was great, too. Anyone else here see this?
L
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I LOVED the Fountain! Hugh was amazing in it, I was really impressed with his performance. I can't believe he's the same guy who plays Wolverine, talk about range! I think he's very underrated.
I was disappointed with the DVD's lack of a director commentary but have since found out that Aronofski recorded one and it's available for downloading on his website if you're interested. It's in a Torrent format file, whatever that is, so I haven't figured out how to play it yet. I have to download some sort of software I think, I'm not very tech-savvy unfortunately :'(
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