Single Most Anticipated of 2006
Superman Returns? Haven’t caught it yet.
Pirates 2? Maybe if someone asks me to watch together.
Spiderman 3? If i have nothing else better to watch.
There is only one film in 2006 that i really really really want to watch. Its the only film where i’ll probably rush to watch. The only thing i’m scared of is if Singapore doesn’t bring this film to the cineplex. Or if the distributor decided to maybe only bring it in months after its US release.
6 years in the making, us Fountain fans have nothing more than only one or 2 publicity stills to satiate our interest in this film until its official poster was released recently. The Fountain is THE film to watch. Forget about Spiderman 3, that’s for the masses. The real deal is the Fountain.
Why is the Fountain so irresistable? Not because of Rachel Weisz or Hugh Jackman. But because its director is Darren Aronofsky, quite possibly the most brilliant young director alive. Perhaps in years to come, Aronofsky may be mentioned in the same breath as Kubrick, Kieslowski, Coppola, Scoreses or Kurosawa. For now, take my word for it that Darren Aronofsky is a bona fide genius. And it has been 6 years since his last film, Requiem For A Dream (2000) which is one of my all time favourite film.
The release date (for US) has been set at Oct 13, 2006. Anyone interested to watch together?
And here is what an early review has to say about it:
“The Fountain is beautiful, gripping and utterly transcendent. It’s the best film of 2006.”- CHUD
Hi there,
Like your blog and your reviews on movies. I saw the review for
this movie in Entertainment Weekly. Didn’t really think too
much about it. Hmmm…now that you’ve mentioned it, should be
interesting. By the way, how did you get to watch all these
movies, with some of them not even released yet? The poster is
pretty cool, in my opinion.
Comment by aremihc — July 30, 2006 @ 2:34 pm
yeah, my spam catcher can get a little too enthusiastic at time… But i’ve fixed it somewhat. There shouldn’t be any problem with future comments. Most of the movies have already been released, just not in S’pore. SP distributors take forever to release arthouse kind of films. Only big-budget kind of hollywood films like say Mission Impossible 3 will be released at the same time in the US and S’pore. For example, its not uncommon for many Oscar nominated, or even Oscar winning films not to be released in S’pore until it gets the Oscar nominations. But since the Fountain does have 2 A-list stars in Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman, i do hope that it’ll be classified under mainstream and be brought into S’pore.
Comment by nevinyrral — July 30, 2006 @ 3:38 pm