# Can someone explain to me what's up with The Fountain?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 23, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-to-me-whats-up-with-the-fountain/503964 "2009-07-23T04:13:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-to-me-whats-up-with-the-fountain/503964/21 "2009-07-23T22:36:33Z")

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> [@Leiko](#):
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> I’m guessing you might not ever scroll down far enough to see the message board topics on the pages of many popular or cult films or actors, because my view of the IMDB crowd is diametrically opposed to yours and is heavily influenced by the inanity of the message boards. Wretched hives of wank and idiocy.

Here’s an avant-garde performance on YouTube:

![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5fHpE1ck96o/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/5fHpE1ck96o?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque

I think I’d have to disagree with your implicit assumption that the artsy-fartsy crowd is all that bright.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-to-me-whats-up-with-the-fountain/503964/22 "2009-07-23T22:39:52Z")

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> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> Don’t a lot of people bitch about the IMDB user ratings because the Top 250 is made up of a lot of blockbusters that most critics hate?

IMDB probably has a larger number of nerds, which probably inflates movies like Batman or Transformers, but more importantly there’s somewhat of an inherent difference between artsies and critics. Critics come to have a different opinion of movies because they see so damn many. Artsies are naturally drawn to a particular class of movie that’s perceived to be more risky or putting it to the man.

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**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-to-me-whats-up-with-the-fountain/503964/23 "2009-07-23T22:58:25Z")

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> [@garygnu](#):
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> Do you mean [this _Perfume_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396171/)?  
> I really, really, really hated that movie. Should I avoid _The Fountain_?

Yes that perfume. And no you won’t necessarily hate the Fountain if you hated Perfume. They are similar in that they both have a lush and colorful but laconic style that I love.

Listen to this song: [Death is the Road to Awe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihF_aXi-Huk). If you like a movie that moves at that speed, then you’ll like the Fountain. If that sort of musical cadence to a film doesn’t thrill you, then don’t bother.

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