THIS IS WHY TERRENCE MALICK IS SO EMMMMMMMO!

I APPRECIATE THE UPDATES, BUT THE WRITING AND THE PERSONALITIES THAT ARE PUT FORTH HERE GIVE ME PAUSE EACH AND EVERY DAY I COME BACK FOR A VISIT.

FUCK.

Maybe 126,483 years from now this site won\’t read like a bratty film student editorializing from the back of the class on mom and dad\’s dime.

I expect ToL as much as anybody else here but it\’s not like this film or Malick are touched by sanctity and we can\’t take a poke at him.

I dig the piece written by ED. That\’s pretty much why I keep coming to this place after all. The folks here cover quality cinema but with a beer in hand, not ex cathedra.

As for: Pitt playing an asshole ? No freakin way ! I wish my dad would\’ve teached me how to fist-fight when I was a kid. Would have saved me a lot of bullets later (*cheap joke*)

A blog like this is easy to write. After all, there are few things easier in life than being a smartass. What takes talent is writing a humorous piece that does get at the hype around Tree of Life. This is, as with many snark ridden blogs, a not so humorous piece that makes the writer appear insufferable.

To each their own, and of course, reading this blog is optional, but understand that pieces like this trivialize filmmakers like Malick trying to do something more than entertain.

When you treat all kinds of films in the same way (attempts at humor), it brings them down to the same level in terms of reader perception. A lowest common denominator of writing style, if you will. This is not to generalize all of this blog\’s writers; some are simply better writers than others.

What\’s wrong with a little reverence and respect though? Some films deserve better treatment. It\’s almost as if you\’re afraid of being called pretentious, so you dumb it down.

Just my two cents.

Like fuck, this IS the most anticipated film of the year (or one of them), can\’t we all lighten up about it a bit? Renting a sense of humor for that one got who got apoplectic. I think he should have nap.

The thing about self-deprecation is it shifts focus to the self (the writer) away from the subject being written about.

I think there\’s some middle-ground here we could all be meeting on.

Yes, we are supposed to be very, very serious and astute when it comes to all things Tree of Life. Cracking a joke about it should have everyone up in arms. Puh-leeze. If you\’ve actually been reading this site, you\’ll know that it has covered The Tree of Life more than any other place on the internets. Every angle, every photo, every rumor, every piece of news has been covered. One attempt at humor should not have you up in arms.

Relax.

Again, I could give a fuck about someone poking fun at the hype surrounding a MOVIE. My problem is the sheer corniness. This site has WALLY written all over it.