Tideland - a Terry Gilliam film

[dubman]

previews remind me a lot of the movie Northfork.
anyone see that one?

[grady]

Originally Posted by dubman

previews remind me a lot of the movie Northfork.
anyone see that one?

The primary difference being that Northfork was actually a good film. I saw it a few times during it's theatrical release.

[dubman]

Originally Posted by grady

The primary difference being that Northfork was actually a good film.

okay, geez.

hey, check out the critics... if this is what they consider bad reviews then i really *do* need to see this right now.

63
TV Guide Ken Fox
By turns fascinating and intolerable.

58
The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
It's no "trip through the dark to appreciate the light." It's a nightmare from start to finish.

50
Los Angeles Times Sam Adams
Tideland is equally evocative of the pastoral mystery of an Andrew Wyeth painting and the looming menace of "Psycho." The disparity is fitting, because as Tideland unfolds, it's difficult to tell if you're watching a fantasy or a horror movie, or one superimposed on the other.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter
Tideland is the easiest of Gilliam's films to follow, yet the most disturbing to watch

38
ReelViews James Berardinelli
Tideland is, by turns, a complete bore and a creepy experience. And I don't mean "creepy" in a positive sense.

38
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
A murky swamp of a movie, Terry Gilliam's defiantly surreal Tideland finds every good idea drowning in an excess of indulgence.

30
The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
A misconceived washout of a darkly gothic story of madness, addiction and child abuse made all the more unpleasant by Gilliam's trademark intense visual style.

30
Variety Leslie Felperin Dragged down by a sputtering script and torpid pacing. Way too disturbing for kids and too weird for most grown-ups.

10
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
The misanthropic nadir of the director's crash-and-burn career.

10
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Enter this diseased Lewis Carroll universe at your own risk.

0
New York Post Kyle Smith
It's trashy and disgusting - and those are the best parts. Mostly it's just an endless, pointless drone with characters like bacteria and dialogue like an untuned radio.

0 Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman Dour, absurdist, gruesomely awful.


I CAN'T WAIT!

[GforGroove]

Originally Posted by dubman

okay, geez.

hey, check out the critics... if this is what they consider bad reviews then i really *do* need to see this right now.

i kind of have that thought too. Like must be incredible, people is just stupid.
even though worth to see it, it is completely repulsive. The more i think on it the more i'm conviced it is awfull. but looks amazing.
wierd.

[grady]

Originally Posted by GforGroove

i kind of have that thought too. Like must be incredible, people is just stupid.
even though worth to see it, it is completely repulsive. The more i think on it the more i'm conviced it is awfull. but looks amazing.
wierd.

It's a fucking catch 22 and it's painful too, really painful.

And I can be an apologist for Gilliam too. I have a very deep fondness for Brazil and esp. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. But man, Tideland is just down right bad.

[grady]

Originally Posted by dubman

okay, geez.

hey, check out the critics... if this is what they consider bad reviews then i really *do* need to see this right now.

I CAN'T WAIT!

Hey dubby,

Here is one more negative to throw onto the heap.

A.O. Scott, The New York Times
link

[dubman]

du-ude.

A.O. scott doesnt need to keep writing anymore for me and the rest of common america to know he's a ridiculous butthole with irrational problems.

[grady]

Originally Posted by dubman

du-ude.

A.O. scott doesnt need to keep writing anymore for me and the rest of common america to know he's a ridiculous butthole with irrational problems.

Thats some wonderful insight there. Have you even read anything the man has written, out of curiosity or do you just make the knee jerk judgements on the basis of one review?

[dubman]

Originally Posted by grady

Thats some wonderful insight there. Have you even read anything the man has written, out of curiosity or do you just make the knee jerk judgements on the basis of one review?

why you people always assume that a long winded trashing indicates i havent read anything?
if anything i read too much.

i used to read reviews so much that i had to tear my eyes away from the pages, physically, and i came to the blinding (haha, pun totally intended) realization that critics try to toe the line of flexibility and preference and art so hard that they rarely say anything substantial except occasionally hit on the correct adjective. what i said about mr. scott applies to almost all of them.

[dubman]

haha so i got this for my birthday

the worst thing about this movie is the pacing.
buuuuuuuuuuut
basically it's everything i was hoping to see out of it?
kids are fkkn weird and hilarious. it's difficult to make anything "happen" in this movie because she's in a very boring situation (a dead dad, an imbalanced recluse, and a retard.. all without a full grasp of the implications of any of it), and it's just really about how kids could cope with this mundane dysfunction, and a sort of alternate reality develops where near the end the whole thing feels like a storyline fabrication.

it was really interesting and not nearly the depraved headfuck a lot of people make it out to be.

i *knew* i'd like it.