Fountain

Pros: Amazing visuals, truly unique story
Cons: Appeals to a limited audience

The Fountain is a very unique science fiction movie about love, life, and death. It stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz and tells three similar stories set across different time periods. One story takes place in Spain and Mexico during the time of ...

Pros: Great Imagery, solid writing, intriguing movie.
Cons: None

While deciding which movie to watch tonight, I came across The Fountain, which I do not remember seeing previews for. This movie was written and directed by Darren Aronofsky who was well known for two previous films, Pi and Requiem For ...

Pros: looks really good; use of microphotography; acting not terrible 
Cons: strange, confusing story; somewhat cheesy and sloppily researched; more in review

Writer/director Darren Aronofsky claims on The Fountain's DVD bonus features that reading about the ancient Maya civilization's worship of Shibalba (Xibalba) inspired him to make the 2006 sci-fi movie. He couldn't have read very carefully. ...

Pros: Nothing comes to mind
Cons: Horrific plot, it is both nearly impossible to follow and not worth the effort.

Darren Aronofsky is not for emotional lightweights. In is film Pi a super genius mathematician whose talents seem to stem from a brain abnormality performs surgery on himself with a power drill. Requiem for a Dream is the bleakest film I ...

Pros: The best performance of Jackman's career, script, interesting visuals, concept
Cons: Slow at first and a bit of that 'what the hell's going on' feeling

It begins with Jackman being a conquistador in the past exploring the Mayan ruins searching for a queen's tree of life, which is also the basis of the story Jackman's present day wife, Izzy, is writing called 'The Fountain', which is a work in progress, ...

Pros: None really
Cons: Almost everything

I like to watch movies; all sorts of movies, but by the end I would like to know what to movie was/is all about. Call me old-fashioned, but like my books I would like my movies to have some definition; i.e. a discernable beginning, middle, and end and ...

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When a film as bold, strange, confusing and beautiful as Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain comes along, you can either pick it apart or simply give yourself over to it. A philosophical art-house love story dolled up as a time-bending science ...

Pros: Visuals. Acting (despite poor casting).
Cons: See review.

In 1999, Darren Aronofsky and Jared Leto went to see T he Matrix. When the credits rolled, Aronofsky asked Leto if science fiction had anywhere to go. The answer, on a technological level, was no, as no film has ...

Pros: Beautiful cinematography and memorable images.
Cons: The story is not at all coherent.

The Fountain is a beautiful-looking, but hollow and strange film that takes place in three different time periods: Spain in the past, Earth in the present and space in the future. There are few characters that inhabit The Fountain, but three are played ...

Pros: Past, future, and present, undying love of a husband
Cons: Wife looks very young with short hair: child-like, whispers were hard to hear

It must be even more heartbreaking and impossible to deal with your wife's cancer diagnosis and eventual death when you are a physician. A healer, a surgeon, a scientist, someone who has helped many others but now can't help your own wife. I can't ...

Pros: The Fountain is an haunting, beautiful, and poignant masterpiece.
Cons: None.

I had seen Darron Aronofky's "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream" before I had seen "The Fountain" so I was prepared to be pleasently pleased with this movie. But I was more then pleased. In my opinion, it was one of the better films of 2006. "The ...

Pros: Multi layered and beautiful, rich with fascinating ideas
Cons: Ellen Burstyn is wasted in a thankless role

WARNING: THIS ESSAY CONTAINS MULTIPLE SPOILERS______________________ ____________"Our bodies are prisons for our souls." It's a line of dialogue that's easy to miss, mainly because it's spoken by the Grand Inquisitor ...

Pros: The build-up, the actors, the attempt, the visuals
Cons: confusing

The Fountain (starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weis) is a beautifully breath-taking, but strange and heart-breaking film that takes place in one man's three lifetimes: As a Spanish conquistador during a search for the Tree of Life for the queen, As a ...

Pros: Beautiful cinematography. Deep love portrayed without a lot of skin. Refreshingly different.
Cons: Characters underdeveloped and emotions weak. Obscure plot. A little confusing. Patience required.

I generally hate knowing almost anything about a movie before I see it, like the Star Trek movie that had �€œInsurrection�&# 128 as a subtitle. Duh. Boy, THAT made the whole plot a big surprise! (I wish!) So when my son, Kenny ...

Pros: Artistic Visuals
Hugh Jackman's Passionate Acting
Cons: SUPER CONFUSING
Very Limited Audience

I've been a fan of Hugh Jackman since the original X-Men movie. There really isn't anything he's done that I haven't liked to some degree. He seems to be an actor who can pick his movies well. That is, until I saw this film. Dr. Tom Creo (Hugh ...