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FOUR (****) OUT OF FOUR (****) STARS. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE MOVIE WAS ABOUT OR WHAT HAPPENED OR WHAT.

Who was in this movie? Is it animated? Answer me you filth.

Brad Pitt and Sean Penn were in the movie.

The movie (I think??) is about growing up in Waco, Texas, in the '50s, with a hardass for a father and an all-loving force of grace for a mother. I think.

Although right as the characters and places are getting established, it cuts completely away to a 20 minute montage of astonishingly beautiful images starting from the beginning of the universe, through the dinosaur age, up to the point where the meteor wipes 'em all out. What does this have to do with a family in Texas? I don't know! Nobody knows! But it's the most amazing 20 minutes of film I've ever seen.

Once it gets back to the family, we see that Brad Pitt is kind of a bad father, but he means well, and is never completely awful. The mother is always very nice. The kids have fun and do various things. Then we flip back to the creation of the universe. Then we flip to some bizarre beachside party where all of the characters meet each other at various ages. Then more universe creation and/or dying out. Then the movie ends.

Nobody has any idea what it's about, and if they tell you they do, they are lying.

I counted exactly zero conversations in the whole movie. Dialogue is very rare, and when used, it's used either in one character saying something quietly, before the camera switches to something totally unrelated, or whispered one-line narrative voiceovers.

Nobody knows what any of those mean, either.

I would say, going into it, do not expect to find:

1) A story.
2) Dialogue.
3) Anything that makes any sense.

You are basically signing up for a two and a half hour sensory experience. It's as close to "abstract impressionism" in movie form as you'll ever get.

I've never seen anything like it. I think, it's probably best if nobody tries this again. But it's just amazingly beautiful, and DOES evoke emotions that stay with you, even if you cannot describe why.

I loved it, and definitely do not recommend anyone watch it.

Now I'm gonna grab it and watch it just because there's hardly any dialog. Maybe by next week when I have time.

pinback wrote:Although right as the characters and places are getting established, it cuts completely away to a 20 minute montage of astonishingly beautiful images starting from the beginning of the universe, through the dinosaur age, up to the point where the meteor wipes 'em all out. What does this have to do with a family in Texas? I don't know! Nobody knows! But it's the most amazing 20 minutes of film I've ever seen.

James Michener, the original "Books sold by the pound" writer, did this in the book Texas. The first chapter is about 30 pages is the history of Texas from about 60 million years ago up until about the 1400s.

By the way, don't fall for that big lie from the scientists about a meteor strike killing the dinosaurs. It's been well established that it was high insurance rates that killed the dinosaurs.