Three Thousand Years of Longing movie review -- Breakfast All Day

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Come cuddle up in your coziest, fluffiest hotel robe and we'll tell you a story -- or three. The great Katie Walsh (Tribune News Agency, @katiewalshstx) joins Christy Lemire (RogerEbert.com, @christylemire) to review "Three Thousand Years of Longing," director George Miller's follow-up to his 2015 masterpiece, "Mad Max: Fury Road." Co-written by Miller and Augusta Gore, based on the A.S. Byatt short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye." Starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.
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@nicholasleeyong5575 Жыл бұрын

Honestly bewildering to me that you only have 17k subs - loved and watched you guys for years and appreciate your knowledge. Spreading the word from Scotland.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Appreciate that, thank you! We're working on it 😊

@sushi_donut Жыл бұрын

It think there's definitely an YT algorithm component to it 🤔 But as long as we keep commenting & keeping up engagement, hopefully YT will push it more. 🙆‍♂🤷‍♂

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

@@sushi_donut So sweet, thank you guys!

@bev9708 Жыл бұрын

They're pushing for 20k by the end of the year!!

@tommycrook2485 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I always come back to this channel because it reminds me of what I like so much about Siskel and Ebert. An academic appreciation of the craft but ultimately falling on the side of the subjective experience. Did I have a good time? Could be the algorithm...but the name doesn't help. Breakfast All Day sounds like a yoga mom podcast.

@iansmart4158 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating. I found the nature of this movie so moving. The idea that we learn about people and thier pain and their ambition and their drive through stories. That Tilda falls in love with the Djinn because of the stories he tells. And the narration seemed on point to me. It keeps you at a distance with the stories he's telling. So you're drawn in by the visuals but not necessarily the emotion each one. They're broad fables meant to communicate his POV in the same way when we tell someone new we meet, "the story of our lives," they are simply words spoken and can never be felt again in the same way. The Djinn was trapped for 3000 years. We can NEVER know what kind of madness that brings. And the stories keep us at a similar remove. But the film lands on the greatest story; the story we're living with Tilda about her love and discovery with this mystical being. That's where the emotion is, that we relate to her attraction and proximity. IDK, I really dug it. I didn't love it, but I really want to see it again because I believe that potentially could!

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your eloquent thoughts!

@cjwright79 Жыл бұрын

love your point about not knowing what three thousand years of servitude will do to a MFer! I mean... we can't even begin to get our heads around that length of time, even in Middle-earth cosmology that's a hell of a stretch!

@avnerkam Жыл бұрын

Current RT score: 70/92, because reviewers are stuck with MMFR expectations while the public comes with fewer limitations. Saw it and loved it. For me, it moved from a "storytelling" theme to "choosing life wishes", so some of its richness towards the end was conceptual rather than visual. Let Miller be Miller! Cheers.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Glad it worked for you! Thanks for watching.

@bev9708 Жыл бұрын

I'm soooo glad there are people who love it and appreciate it!!! It is indeed a noble effort!!

@martinezgerard Жыл бұрын

I loved it too. I thought it was surprisingly gentle and thoughtful about how stories reveal the dimensions of the heart and how as humans we need to tell them and consume them.

@duvan.deschain Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Sometimes reviewers forget we should let the films work on their own. If they cannot separate someone's filmography that's their issue, not and Issues with the films themselves.

@alexklepp6479 Жыл бұрын

It's always nice to see Katie Walsh on the show.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

We love seeing her too!

@VictorDiGiovanni Жыл бұрын

You know what would have made a fascinating movie with the same two actors? Heimdall and The Ancient One hanging out in a hotel room sharing tales from their endless days on Asgard and/or Earth.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Ooohhh ... wish we'd thought of that!

@billdavies9970 Жыл бұрын

Yay! I love when Katie Walsh joins you!

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

She's the best!

@joecamps1119 Жыл бұрын

If Alonso catches up with this I'd like to hear his thoughts as well

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

For sure!

@LPantelakos Жыл бұрын

this is definitely in Everything Everywhere Alonso re-review territory

@sushi_donut Жыл бұрын

Katie's always a dope guest. Def appreciate her no BS take on film.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Love chatting with her!

@Trill_Tour Жыл бұрын

She had that terrible review for Everything Everywhere All At Once

@sushi_donut Жыл бұрын

@@Trill_Tour reviews are subjective, my dude. And even tho I also didn't agree with her take, she didn't mince words or placate to her audience. And I respect that.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

@@sushi_donut Thanks for the support!

@thefilmseeker Жыл бұрын

As someone who's always found Fury Road to be massively overhyped, I'm interested to see what my takeaway from this ends up being.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Let us know!

@cjwright79 Жыл бұрын

WHAT? what what what! what didn't you like about Fury Road my man? Furiosa a little too prominent for you? Immortan Joe reminded you too much of yourself? spill the deets fam!

@thefilmseeker Жыл бұрын

@@cjwright79 It's a fantastic movie. Just the assertions of it being "one of the best movies of the century" are what I find to be pretty massive exaggerations.

@cjwright79 Жыл бұрын

@@thefilmseeker It's easily the most thrilling, meaningful, spectacular, re-watchable movie of the 2010-2019 decade in my book, and it has a great deal of depth, social & ecological relevance, and potent, suggestive symbolism for those with the eyes to see. What's your pick though, for the best movie of that decade?

@thefilmseeker Жыл бұрын

@@cjwright79 Moonlight, easily.

@duvan.deschain Жыл бұрын

I for one loved it, and I think I can get more from it with repeat viewings. It's of course a lot like One Thousand and One Nights in its form, but I do think the execution is unique, specially when Alithea and the Djinn have their exchanges about human nature and the nature of wishes/stories. This is the type of film we ask for ALL the time, not a franchise, not a reboot or remake or prequel... Just an original story that we can enjoy and get different things from.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@lucky2516 Жыл бұрын

It was based on a book so not even original but close enough

@vinayharrichan1460 Жыл бұрын

So crazy to think I have been watching you all review movies for more than ten years now. I think I started looking at your What The Flick?! reviews when movies like Black Swan, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Social Network, and Higher Ground were coming out.

@bev9708 Жыл бұрын

SAME!! Remember when Christy just loved loved Frances Ha?? I can't believe it's 10 years ago!!!! She looks younger now even!!!!

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

You guys are so sweet. It's because I stopped drinking 😄 Thanks for sticking with us for so long! -- Christy

@vinayharrichan1460 Жыл бұрын

@@BreakfastAllDay From age 13 to now 25 thank you for helping me garner an appreciation for the movies! I actually started watching because I was the “teen film critic” for my local newspaper 😂 and so happy you all are venturing into Indian cinema now!

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

@@vinayharrichan1460 Well we are honored to have been a part of that in any way.

@martinezgerard Жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to the first thing Swinton’s character tells us before beginning her story. She insists on truth of it but says we won’t believe her unless she tells it as a fairy tale. How do those words haunt the end of this movie, I keep wondering. Thank you both for discussing this interesting movie.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Interesting point!

@sushi_donut Жыл бұрын

5:32 - "Right. It is dense. Yes." 😅😆😆 As a lover of slow & dense, I might still avoid this one. Thanks, you two! 😁

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@dthill96 Жыл бұрын

Just got out of it. Elevator pitch I’d give is “Aladdin” meets “The Shape of Water”. Good leads but there were a lot of times where I thought it was over (it’s not that I was bored wanting to leave I just thought many times Is this fade to black the end?). 7/10 for me. Glad I saw it in the theater with my phone turned off. Curious how they filmed them together (because in reality there’s on 3 inch height difference cuz Tilda’s an Amazonian goddess)

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your thoughts! Yes, the pacing is weird.

@AntsMovies Жыл бұрын

I ended up really liking this one thanks for ur review

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Great, thanks for watching!

@Furriner Жыл бұрын

SPOILERS: I thought the Tilda Swinton character was being very selfish. Her wish to be loved just traps him again. He never seems happy once the wish is made. Then she still doesn't free him by delaying her other wishes. She never even asks him his name! Anyway, I thought this was a perhaps interesting dynamic. I didn't find the stories boring, per se, But I think a more stories within stories approach (like The Company of Wolves perhaps) would have worked better.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Interesting point!

@BlackNerd94 Жыл бұрын

GREAT point!

@bev9708 Жыл бұрын

YES, that's what I thought!!! My first thought was she trapped him, but then I wondered if it wasn't just the bad chemistry between the actors that made it feel that way!

@bev9708 Жыл бұрын

It really really is such a pity as I really really wanted so much to love it!! The whole concept is right up my alley and heaps of great ideas!! Unfortunately I have to totally agree with you as I found it more and more boring as it went along … spectacular yes yet sadly totally emotionless and unengaging without a scrap of chemistry between anyone much less between Idris and Tilda!! Only the images kept me from totally falling asleep !!

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Such a bummer! Thanks for your thoughts, Bev.

@cjwright79 Жыл бұрын

so great to see your mojo is back and back consistently Christy! Covid kinda kicked us all down a flight of stairs a little bit, then of course the events of four years ago... I won't even get into it. abrupt change needless to say!

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chris!

@musicmann1967 Жыл бұрын

Probably because I was sufficiently warned to tamp my expectations, I wound up totally enjoying this movie. Expectations are a bitch, and they can screw me up when it comes to movies or music from people whose work I love. I kinda loved all the story bits and talking in this movie. I thought the film was inventive and a little bit thought provoking too. I agree that the last act has less impact for sure. I'm not sure exactly what point Miller was trying to make, maybe just a very basic one of compromise. But I guess i really was in a relaxed mood, so it hit me the right way, and I fell under the movie's spell.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

That's great!

@stevendunn2501 4 ай бұрын

Couldn't have disagreed with you more regarding your opinions on both Mad Max Fury Road and this film. However, I do see your point with the narrative nature of the film. For me though? I loved it.

@musicmann1967 Жыл бұрын

Okay well, my expectations are suficiently tempered. I'm hoping I can just go and sit back and let the movie do its thing when I go tomorrow. I'll take a very zen approach~: )

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Let us know!

@martymascarin486 Жыл бұрын

Thanx for the entertaiing reviews; An idle question: where's Matt?

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, Marty! Matt has been taking some time away for a while now.

@martymascarin486 Жыл бұрын

@@BreakfastAllDay thank you; was just a-wonderin'; thank u!

@TdF_101 Жыл бұрын

For me this kind of movie to be sensational needs less computer tricks (not that I'm complaining, it was very well done) but even more decadent and elaborate production design. I'm talking Age of Innocence or Barry Lyndon. Somehow I was left with a feeling of watching a simulation, neither a dream or something mystical/magical. On a funnier side, from the start me and the person I was watching it had the same reaction "she's just very horny for him, when do they end up together?".

@SAM-up6ym Жыл бұрын

I thought the first 70 minutes were really good. Enchanting and beautiful. The final 30 minutes were clunky to me i felt like maybe he didnt know how to wrap things up but the final moments were bittersweet. Overall 7.3 for me.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

@charleswind8298 Жыл бұрын

I’ve yet to even care to pay to see anything Mr Elba has been in. Such praise has been given to him, for no reason. Strange.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

He is very good at his job.

@OffTheCover Жыл бұрын

I loved this film. So creative and full of imagination. It's what story telling in movies is all about! I wish it had been marketed better because it's not getting the attention it genuinely needs. Great review guys! Check out my review as well!

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed.

@serenityq26 Жыл бұрын

i dont know george whoever but i do know eastwick is the only film you listed that i have seen. i love magic so i will be seeing this film. been excited for it since i heard of it months ago. CANT WAIT

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Let us know!

@marikotrue3488 Жыл бұрын

This is a movie that I will definitely watch when it streams on the best quality screen...in my home. It has Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba it has to be watchable, even if only once 😉. BTW the best Jinn/Genie in my modest opinion is (and that includes all Aladdin variations): The X-Files: Season 7, Episode 21 "Je Souhaite". This television (now there's a retro concept) was not pushing any cinematographic boundaries, but it has great acting and crisp dialogue, plus the ending is "chef's kiss" level.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Let us know what you think!

@cjwright79 Жыл бұрын

what are a few of your favorite Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton performances Mariko?

@menevetsny Жыл бұрын

Is the ending the same as the book?

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Not sure, sorry!

@adamw116 Жыл бұрын

Maybe I'll feel differently about this movie. But like Ridley Scott he chooses varied subject matter, with the exception of some genre type films. Miller should be coming out with a much more remarkable film, not just visually exciting after a triumph like Mad Max Fury Road. Especially since he seems to only make a film every five years or so if not longer.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Let us know what you think!

@0214Bub Жыл бұрын

Being a big George Miller fan and the film having cast two top actors I was really bummed to hear it doesn't deliver what I think a lot of us were expecting. I can't disagree with anything you said about Fury Road being one of the great action movies of all time and a movie I have watched more times than a reasonable person should, but to me Miller's standout Mad Max movie was Road Warrior (aka Mad Max 2). I may be a little prejudice toward Road Warrior, because in a way I think that movie changed my opinion of movies in general.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

It is a bummer.

@cjwright79 Жыл бұрын

and how did your opinion of movies change after seeing The Road Warrior? was it that an intense action flick could also offer intriguing social commentary? I will never get bored of Lord Humungus delivering that eloquent presentation to the hold-outs at the barricade, imploring them to 'just walk away' and leave their fat tank of gasoline behind. I genuinely sense that he wants them to take up his offer, and will do everything he can to honor the commitment. Although the defenders are wise not to; he's just one warlord, and cannot account for the actions of every vicious marauder in a hundred-mile radius. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/admZjKeEuNPLc40.html

@0214Bub Жыл бұрын

@@cjwright79 Yes to the above and more. Here we have a movie with a very basic plot which sounds more like a B-movie yet has great character development and nonstop action with one of the great chase scenes ever. This came out at a time when we were being told the world was running out of oil, high inflation, and a raging cold world. Miller seemed to capture all this on film in his vision of a post-apocalyptic world. Yet in the 40 years since its release the movie has remained just as watchable and enjoyable as it was when released and has been imitated countless times since. In fact, I just watched Doomsday a few nights ago. This and movies like Bladerunner really turned me on to dark highbrow sci fi films.

@ReviewJunkee Жыл бұрын

I wanted to see this today, but every seat was taken because of the $3.00 deal. I'll just wait till Sunday or Monday.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Let us know what you think when yo do see it!

@ReviewJunkee Жыл бұрын

@@BreakfastAllDay I feel so bad it's struggling at the box office.

@ReviewJunkee Жыл бұрын

@@BreakfastAllDay I finally saw it this weekend and really enjoyed it.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

@@ReviewJunkee So glad! Thanks for letting us know.

@domainofdotart6125 Жыл бұрын

Witness me!!!!

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Is that the point the film is trying to make, do you think?

@angelthman1659 Жыл бұрын

Great to see Katie. Maybe she should become Matt's permanent replacement 😁 As for the film, it didn't work for me at all. Loved Fury Road, but like you said, this is a slog. A huge problem is that the vignettes are told through narrated montages. Narration plays more like exposition than drama, so you're kept emotionally at bay. I do disagree with you about Elba and Swinton's chemistry. I think it's good. They just need a better project to display it.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

@swray2112 Жыл бұрын

I love you guys, and I'd love to hear Alonzo's take, but I thought this was 10x better than Fury Road ever was (granted FR was the most over rated movie since the Dark Knight, IMO). One moment that really struck me was the concept of mankind basically being quite ignorant, self absorbed and reactionary but has advanced via collective intelligence. Even with several leaps via individuals such as Einstein it has been society pitching in that has brought us to the technological level where we are today, but are we better off? What happens to society if sometime wipes away this collective intelligence? Are we now so dependent could we rebuild?

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

They are very different movies, which is exciting in itself. Thanks for your thoughts!

@ImaginationSkyN Жыл бұрын

I enjoy the three stories, but I thought the love stories were very weak, the objective of the movie was lost to me

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your thoughts.

@AntsMovies Жыл бұрын

Hey is Katie married? Since Christy is already taken I’d love to ask Katie on a date. Problem is I live in Chicago…Thanks as always for the review =D

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Katie is not married 😄 Thanks as always for watching!

@AntsMovies Жыл бұрын

@@BreakfastAllDay aw ur so sweet for replying. Tell her she has an adoring fan haha!

@MrClarkkerr Жыл бұрын

I really liked fury road but it’s not the best action film of all time it’s just that our expectations have been so low over the last decade. Better action movies include North by North West, The first three Connery Bonds, Jaws, the original Star Wars trilogy,Raiders of the lost ark, The Terminator, Aliens, Jurassic Park, the Matrix, Lord of the Rings, potentially even Road Warrior

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

This is Katie's opinion. Thanks for watching, Dave.

@charleswind8298 Жыл бұрын

Why would anyone “ expect anything like Mad Max ( fury road ) ?

@tomanderson8094 Жыл бұрын

Luckily I've already seen this because Katie gave way too much away

@BaronOfHell666 Жыл бұрын

I loved the movie. I think you might have missed the point of the visuals because you were comparing it to Fury Road. This is a adult fantasy with a dream like quality movie not a a future wasteland movie. Live action Alice in Wonderland or Aladdin would make for a better comparison.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed.

@brajeshsingh2391 Жыл бұрын

So a woman finds a genie and he tells her three stories and she falls in love with him. Thats a pretty unique idea. But out of the 2 reviews I saw both were negative. The visuals look good though.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Let us know if you see it! Thanks, Brajesh.

@brajeshsingh2391 Жыл бұрын

@@BreakfastAllDay I did see it and I liked this movie. Now the movie fails to make the best use of its subject. With the really unique story it had Three Thousand Years of Longing really plays it very safe. Especially the ending, though that is explained well. But after a good set and a really exciting follow through, the movie starts to lose it intensity after the second story. Now the Djinn actually tells her 4 stories, not three and the first 2 are really engrossing and well developed. But the third story onwards you could sense that the spontaneity and uniqueness is missing. While the first 2 stories were really well connected and integrated in the plot, the next 2 are merely fillers. Which is why the Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton track may or may not convince you. It did not convince me fully which is why the second half is much weaker than first. The movie definitely loses it steam by the end. The way the story is set up, and the manner in which the narrative progresses you would feel that Swinton and the audience would be morally challenged by the end to make a hard choice. Unfortunately that moment does not arrive. But throughout the movie maintains its unique narrative style where 2 narrations are beautifully integrated with the actual display depiction of the events on screen. That is really well done. The actual narration by the 2 leads and the simultaneous display of what they are narrating, feels like reading an illustrated story book. That is perfect. The tone, the pacing, and the visuals which are really very colorful and vivid, and intermittent interaction between the 2 leads like a narrator and a listener is perfect. But this story fails to give the viewers the conclusion it promised. The climax of any story has to be good but here it is ordinary. I give this a 7. But definitely worth seeing for its unique presentation style. Maybe a future cult classic.

@tccandler Жыл бұрын

Fury Road is decent and entertaining and visually cool... but the GOAT??? No chance.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

It's pretty amazing. It's singular, for sure.

@chrisfern4699 Жыл бұрын

Fury Road is way overrated Imo. Style over substance. I remember seeing it in theaters and being bored while falling asleep at times.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! That's impressive.

@PolaBurrr Жыл бұрын

Fury road is overrated. Got no story . They drive one way in the desert and then turn around and drive back .. meh

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

There may be a bit more to it than that.

@noegarcia5246 Жыл бұрын

Man, Christy looking gaunt...

@paulschumacher1263 Жыл бұрын

I love Christy Lemire, but honestly she overrates "Fury Road." Though technically more accomplished, it's not half as astounding as "Mad Max." It's a triumph of style over (no) substance.

@BreakfastAllDay Жыл бұрын

Both have their joys.