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Originally Posted by Invid Ninja  Well, this might be still off the boil but I may see The Master today to see what all the critical fuss is about. |
Good luck. I seem to be in the minority, but I thought it was a load of bloated bollocks, personally.
Don't get me wrong, I've very much enjoyed PTA's previous output, not least
There Will Be Blood (and the thematic similarities are clear). But I found
The Master a chore to say the least; a plodding, drudging and ultimately unrewarding mess. It's very ACTED - achingly so, and you can almost feel its cloying self importance drip off the screen. I can barely remember Jonny Greenwood's forgettable score ("but it's
Jonny Greenwood" cry the masses). And regards the 70mm - I saw it in digital and it looked fine, but it didn't have half of the striking cinematography of TWBB. Now
that film was a looker.
I spent an afternoon reading all the reviews I could in order to ascertain what exactly is so wondrous about this film, and not one - for all the gushing articulation - could actually tell me. Even PTA seems not to know what it's about, umming and ahhing his way awkwardly through interviews without even hinting at the The Master's central plan. But it would be cheap to dig at it for its lack of story - lots of films I love have little to no story - no, it's just its mind numbing, pompous tedium that got my goat. And don't expect character development, just enough scenery chewing to give the viewer indigestion. As for man blindly following a master - methinks the reviews are proof enough that this is a curious case of life imitating art.