Melancholia

[davepoth]

You know it's getting towards Oscar season when the studios start releasing screener DVDs.

I just watched this film. I thought it was absolutely wonderful; Beautifully shot, great acting, and some very tasteful nudity.

[croyde]

I agree with the above but wouldn't it have been so much better with Bruce Willis.

[davepoth]

croyde said:

I agree with the above but wouldn't it have been so much better with Bruce Willis.

A tastefully nude Bruce Willis?

[The_Doc]

really?

Bruce you-can't-kill-me Willis in a Lars von Trier weirdo film?

although it does have Keifer I-can't-die Sutherland in it, no?

[Disgusted]

I can see the appeal of Willis for this movie, but surely Van Damme in the Kirsten Dunst role and Seagal cast instead of Charlotte Gainsbourg would have given more gravitas and depth. Disappointing.

[davepoth]

Disgusted said:

I can see the appeal of Willis for this movie, but surely Van Damme in the Kirsten Dunst role and Seagal cast instead of Charlotte Gainsbourg would have given more gravitas and depth. Disappointing.

Also, I think if the horses had been replaced with, say, muscle cars, it would have been more profound.

[Mr Sparkle]

Watched this the other night, thought it might be like 'The Fountain' but was very disappointed. It was just far too slow, surly there is absolutely no way the characters wouldn't have worked out the ending for themselves.

Edited by Mr Sparkle on Friday 7th October 04:14

[croyde]

Thought it was a disturbing and fascinating insight into depression but a really crap end of the world film.

Bodies much smaller than that planet passing so close would have heralded all sorts of seismic and atmospheric related disasters long before the final climax.

Shoot it again with 2012/The Day after Tomorrow/The Day the Earth Stood Still type scenarios/effects plus Bruce heading a last ditch mission to blow that planet to smithereens and then you would have had a top notch movie.

[davepoth]

Ok, so-

There are one or two things to this film that make me think it isn't an end of the world movie. The question asked twice was "How many holes does our golf course have", but then if you look closely at the flag on the hole towards the end of the film it all becomes a bit complicated. There is the other issue of quite why nobody ever manages to get across that little bridge.

I'm of the mind that it's written at least partially as a psychotic episode rather than a simple apocalypse.

[croyde]

Now that's clever thinking.

[davepoth]

croyde said:

Now that's clever thinking.

Is it a bit too clever though? I guess we'll never know; after the "nazi" thing at Cannes the director has refused to do any interviews ever.