"The Sea Of Trees"

[marylander1940]

 

Matthew McConaughey in ‘The Sea of Trees’ (Photo: Alamy)

 

Matthew McConaughey is an A-list movie star who won a Best Actor Academy Award in 2014 for Dallas Buyer’s Club. Naomi Watts and Ken Watanabe are themselves top-tier Hollywood actors. And Gus Van Sant is one of America’s most distinctive directors, having earned two Oscar nominations for Best Director (for Good Will Hunting and Milk) and the Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for 2003’s Elephant. So it’s amazing that together they produced The Sea of Trees, a cornball indie drama that during its first week of domestic release, managed to earn less than $3,000 at the box office.

 

Van Sant’s latest concerns a suicidal professor (McConaughey) who heads off into the Japanese forest of the title that’s infamous as a place where people kill themselves. There, he meets an injured Japanese businessman (Watanabe), all while flashbacks reveal the strained relationship with his wife (Watts) that drove him to consider taking his own life. With a reported production budget of $25 million, The Sea of Trees — playing in two theaters last week — has averaged only $1,447 per theater, a dismal showing. (It’s expanding to more theaters and is available on VOD platforms.)

 

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/matthew-mcconaughey-sea-trees-flopping-000000117.html

[MrMiniver]

IT's AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rvwnsd]

IT's AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But it sounds so uplifting.

[marylander1940]

IT's AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

But it sounds so uplifting.

 

Maybe he'll need to go back to stripping on camera!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQe5DieoJj4

[gallahadesquire]

From rottentomatoes.com https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_sea_of_trees

[green rotten tomatoe symbol] 8%

 

Critics Consensus: Dull, maudlin, and fundamentally empty, The Sea of Trees extinguishes the contributions of a talented cast and marks a depressing low point in director Gus Van Sant's career.