Terrence Malick

"The New World (2006)"

O'Kay..this is about Pocahontas and John Smith. Pocahontas is played by a new Indian actor who's name I do not know at the moment.. John Smith is played by Colin Farrel. Farrel's acting is decent in this compared to a piece of shit like Phone Booth (what trash..) and I liked him in the movie, the girl playing Pocahontas was good too. Christian Bale is in the movie as well as Pocahontases second love interest and he's good, the whole cast is good. O'Kay...now. This movie is directed by Terrence Malick and his movies are...unique? They're different...not your normal cliche BS movie. This movie is weird because this is how the storyline goes:

1) John Smith is the main character, he meets Pocahontas and she becomes supporting character..
2) Smith is gone, Pocahontas becomes the main character..
3) Pocahontas becomes involved with John Rolfe (Christian Bale) and she continues to be the main character but John Rolfe now moves in as a supporting character.

This movie was 3 hours long I believe and then trimmed down to 2 hours..and to me it shows. Big time. There are some REALLY loose cuts where Pocahontas will be standing with her back towards John Smith and then you see some kids running around and then next shot Smith and her are interacting face to face..It seemed like there were some really strange story jumps, at least for me.

This movie is beautifully shot..some extremely nice scenery and everything works very well. You can tell lots of planning went into scouting and shooting locations. If you've been interested in this movie..every reviewer says this, and that's because it's 100% true..

The score by James Horner..ehh. I listened to it and in the film I couldn't stand it because there's a loud theme I guess it can be called played about 4 times throughout the film and it was just annoying to me, I then "borrowed" the score off the intraweb but haven't gotten to listen to it yet (I do a lot of borrowing/trying before I buy..) Sometimes you need to hear these things apart from the movie though to truly appreciate it..so. This will be continued near the end of the post..

Before that though this story because of the way it's shot and presented. Maybe I'm just retarded and am to dumb to understand it? I plan on rewatching this movie because: It's very strange. I watched the whole thing paying attention almost the whole time..and the movie basically has a bunch of mood stages..1) Happy 2) Sad 3)Sort of happy.. 4) ????. When the fucking movie ended...I had NO CLUE if it was a happy ending or if it was a sad ending which now that I think about it is sort of retarded on my part since it's BASED ON THE TRUE STORY of Pocahontas and John Smith..but what was trying to be put across in the movie got across so that I got the jist of what was happening but I don't think I got the meaning. So I sat here for 20 minutes trying to decide whether I liked the movie or not..and I'm still blank on it. It's good..but it's not...but it is..UGH. I really don't know. Plus the movie itself kinda' made me sad because it's pretty much a sad story..(at least to me it was..someone could argue different.) I don't know. While trying to figure out whether I should be happy, or sad at the end of the movie I just came out being depressed..

This is an interesting piece of film. It's definately worth checking out BUT be warned you may not like it. I've never seen "The Thin Red Line" but it's by the same director who was responsible for that. It's not your normal film and for me to truly appreciate it I think I'm going to have to watch it again, and I plan on it. Malick is an innovative and un-usual director/writer, etc. For now though, that's what I think of it..maybe I'll re-update about my changed opinion once I watched it again! Basically what I'm saying is I'm cut down the middle on this film 50/50 and can't say it's good, nor' bad. Check it out..but I can't guarentee you'll enjoy it on your first viewing, or enjoy it period..

You can click the poster, and all following posters for a bigger view. Not to big..but good enough for you to see what's going on..Oh yeah, and now that I've added it, I would like add that the poster is beautiful...

IMDB link for "The New World."

Alright. Now about the score by James Horner. This blog is for movie reviews but I am also very interested in movie scores and there aren't many pages that review them, etc. So I will also be reviewing movie scores. I don't have much knowledge when it comes to music..but I will try to give as good of descriptions as possible and try to make the review decent. Once again like the movies I will be reviewing old and new scores..

I've been up since 2 O'Clock in the afternoon of yesterday, the 12th...I had work from 9 this morning to 4 (I got out at 3 cause I'm fucking BEAT) and I am finally home and resting...There will be more reviews coming involving the movie "Fire & Ice" and the original "Omen"..which suprisingly I've never seen....

I'm ashamed.