331: The Fountain
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Bad Sci-Fi Month rages on with Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain! We talk about a genuinely lovely performance from Hugh Jackman (playing a man who loves... a... tree?), a total absence of plot despite THREE different plotlines, and weird monkey experiments.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:25.9 | I hate byla, everyone. |
| 0:27.1 | I hate byla, I want to know, welcome to I Hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:29.6 | I am Jocelyn Getty. |
| 0:30.6 | I am Cattingus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:35.5 | We are continuing bad sci-fi month this week with The Fountain. |
| 0:39.3 | All right, Cat. |
| 0:40.3 | Let me have it. |
| 0:41.3 | I mean, this movie's fine. |
| 0:43.3 | It's okay. |
| 0:44.3 | Ah, really? |
| 0:45.3 | No, no, me getting beaten up around the ears, nose, and throat from you. |
| 0:49.7 | I've chosen far worse movies than this, Jocelyn. |
| 0:53.6 | I have chosen far worse movies than this. |
| 0:59.2 | We did do battleship. |
| 1:00.2 | Please tell me your thoughts about The Fountain. |
| 1:03.0 | I mean, this is a movie that's beautiful to look at. |
| 1:06.2 | It is absolutely gorgeous. |
| 1:08.5 | Plotwise, it's a little slight, and I completely understand what it's going for. |
| 1:14.1 | This is a movie about sort of accepting that death comes for us all, and that's good. |
| 1:21.6 | And sort of learning to let go of grief or at least let go of people who have left us. |
| 1:28.0 | That said, I don't think it fully lands as well as the movie wants it to, and this movie |
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