Let's pretend we all love Terrence Malick's Tree Of Life trailer

It looks aright. A slow moving family drama. Probably not my first choice but I'd consider this way ahead of Transformers. I don't quite understand the venom present in the original post.

For the record I turned off Thin Red Line. Bored the living shit out of me.

I like to listen to Radiohead and Tool. Not to interpret or decode the hidden meanings behind the songs, but to listen to something a little abstract, a little inspiring while I paint and draw. Movies on the other hand typically require my full attention.

I spent some time yesterday setting up the Radiohead 01-10 album thing (tracks from OK Comp and In Rainbows played alternate with a 10-second crossfade, meant to fit together because they were 10 years apart, both have '10' and 'X' mentioned a lot and the themes match). It's bollocks - just 22 nice songs that sound like any other nice songs put on crossfade. In Rainbows was made from tracks from the OK Computer sessions...could this be why they match so well hmmmmm.........?

Oh, and the trailer, yeah.

I think the same goes for stuff like Radiohead or Tool music.
I used to spend hours listening, deciphering and de-coding the music, convinced I was somehow smarter than other people who just don't "get it, maaan".
Now? I have things I need/rather do than waste that time serving the egos of others.
Kid A is a difficult album, but if you listen 39 times you suddenly "understand" it? No thanks, I've got other shit to do.

I feel Malick's films are the domain of film critics who have nothing else to do, it's their job to watch films and act like they actually mean anything.
Fpr 95% of other people,films are a distraction from "shit to do". Which is why I understand how and why Transformers 12 makes money - because they are loud and explosions and shouting and robots clanging.

I'll sit and watch Se7en, The Fountain, Black Swan etc etc and enjoy them for being more than Tranformers.
But I won't sit watching 2hrs+ of dull-ass drifting narrative about man's cruelty to man because Mr Film Critic tells me they are art.
Art is cool, but it fills spaces between "shit to do".

Sorry, didn't mean to go off one on.
Terence Malick makes films for critics who don't have "other shit to do".

The Thin Red Line was bollocks.
I was excited as hell because Malick had returned etc etc and the film studies student part of me was happy.
I emerged 2hrs+ later bored and confused. Thin Red Line is 2hrs of grass, animals and native boys swimming with some soldiers talking about nature and animals.
Boring and meandering.
*shrugs*
I don't watch shit like Transformers as I'm neither a teenager nor attentio-defecit adult. But neither will I sit and watch another drawn-out meditation on man's cruel nature because I just don't have time.

I like movies that can simultaneously keep the wheels in my head spinning and involuntarily cause my expression to change, whether to smile or grimace, laugh or wince.

A movie that only manages one of these reactions will only be decent in my books. A movie that reduces my thoughts to mush and my expression to 'zombie-like' (Transformers 2) isn't worth the price of admission.

Based on the trailer,'The Tree Of Life' is the third type. It wants to manipulate my thoughts and force my emotions, like botox. Speaking only for myself, this makes my brain wheels counter-spin. Plot? Hell no! Vague quotes on life and love. Characters? How about actors whose names you'll remember faster than the lines they speak. Imagery? Like a desktop screensaver for a mac set on 'random'.