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Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Love Equals Everlasting Life

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:24:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author KingpinLJC - WARNING: THIS ESSAY CONTAINS MULTIPLE SPOILERS______________________
____________"Our
bodies are prisons for our souls." It's a line of dialogue that's easy to miss, mainly because it's spoken by the Grand Inquisitor...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain: Sloppy Research Behind Sci-Fi Puzzler~

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:43:45 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Writer/director Darren Aronofsky claims on The Fountain's DVD bonus features that reading about the ancient Maya civilization's worship of Shibalba (Xibalba) inspired him to make the 2006 sci-fi movie. He couldn't have read very carefully...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Umm, What Was That, or What Is This?

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:27:42 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author vemartin - I like to watch movies; all sorts of movies, but by the end I would like to know what to movie was/is all about. Call me old-fashioned, but like my books I would like my movies to have some definition; i.e. a discernable beginning, middle, and end and...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Past, Present, and Future: Undying Love of a Husband

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 02:19:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pablothegreat - It must be even more heartbreaking and impossible to deal with your wife's cancer diagnosis and eventual death when you are a physician. A healer, a surgeon, a scientist, someone who has helped many others but now can't help your own wife. I can't...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Mortality Is the Constant in "The Fountain"

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:55:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author thewasp - The very first image in "The Fountain" is a pen finishing writing the third chapter, twenty-fourth verse of the Book of Genesis, which refers to God placing an angel with a flaming sword to guard the tree of life from Adam, Eve and their children. Just...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Visually Stunning And Artistically Elegant Science Fiction

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:26:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author coldsteel7 - While deciding which movie to watch tonight, I came across The Fountain, which I do not remember seeing previews for. This movie was written and directed by Darren Aronofsky who was well known for two previous films, Pi and Requiem For...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Stunning and Heart Wrenching - A Must See

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:21:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ultrahi - The Fountain is the latest movie from Brooklyn based director Darren Aronofsky, who brought us the suspenseful Pi and the wonderfully dark 'Requiem for a Dream', so this latest outing has a lot to live up to - and thankfully it does. The Fountain is a...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Darren Aronofsky Presents "2001: The Next Generation" With "The Fountain

Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:59:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wlswarts - Spike Feresten, a former writer for "Seinfeld," has a late night show on Fox in the illustrious midnight-after-"MadTV"-on-Satu
rday
timeslot. On his appropriately titled "Talkshow With Spike Feresten," he has a bit called "Comedy For Stoners," where...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: (revised) THE FOUNTAIN; Three streams of consciousness in one mystifying and beautiful movie

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:55:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author greenfern8 - I generally hate knowing almost anything about a movie before I see it, like the Star Trek movie that had ï¿½€œInsurrectionï¿½&#
128
as a subtitle. Duh. Boy, THAT made the whole plot a big surprise! (I wish!) So when my son, Kenny...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: The Fountain is Beautiful!

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:12:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stevehw - I had seen Darron Aronofky's "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream" before I had seen "The Fountain" so I was prepared to be pleasently pleased with this movie. But I was more then pleased. In my opinion, it was one of the better films of 2006. "The...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Visually Confusing

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:51:10 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author xenoranger - I've been a fan of Hugh Jackman since the original X-Men movie. There really isn't anything he's done that I haven't liked to some degree. He seems to be an actor who can pick his movies well. That is, until I saw this film. Dr. Tom Creo (Hugh...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Full of Life: The Fountain

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:00:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JiggyJay - It begins with Jackman being a conquistador in the past exploring the Mayan ruins searching for a queen's tree of life, which is also the basis of the story Jackman's present day wife, Izzy, is writing called 'The Fountain', which is a work in progress,...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: The Fountain (2006)

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:31:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lemon_lime - When a film as bold, strange, confusing and beautiful as Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain comes along, you can either pick it apart or simply give yourself over to it. A philosophical art-house love story dolled up as a time-bending science...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: A Story Inside A Story, Based On A Myth...

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:24:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author godzero - After once seeing the preview for The Fountain in the movie theater, it made me very interested in seeing this movie. It kind of looked different and really made me wonder what this movie was about. I didn't realize that I was really in for a movie...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: The Fountain lacks the eternal life of better, similar films

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:44:39 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author updateghost - In 1999, Darren Aronofsky and Jared Leto went to see T
he
Matrix. When the credits rolled, Aronofsky asked Leto if science fiction had anywhere to go. The answer, on a technological level, was no, as no film has...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain is brilliant and unique

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:50:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author phungus - The Fountain is a very unique science fiction movie about love, life, and death. It stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz and tells three similar stories set across different time periods. One story takes place in Spain and Mexico during the time of...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: The Fountain is overflowing with original art

Mon, 21 May 2007 18:06:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author josey_c2002 - The Fountain (starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weis) is a beautifully breath-taking, but strange and heart-breaking film that takes place in one man's three lifetimes: As a Spanish conquistador during a search for the Tree of Life for the queen, As a...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: A dud

Thu, 17 May 2007 12:34:57 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author paulsavage - Darren Aronofsky is not for emotional lightweights. In is film Pi a super genius mathematician whose talents seem to stem from a brain abnormality performs surgery on himself with a power drill. Requiem for a Dream is the bleakest film I...

Fountain Darren Aronofsky: The Fountain showers down bizarre waters

Fri, 1 Dec 2006 05:45:17 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author goodfellamike - The Fountain is a beautiful-looking, but hollow and strange film that takes place in three different time periods: Spain in the past, Earth in the present and space in the future. There are few characters that inhabit The Fountain, but three are played...