Deja vu was the first movie we saw today. After watching it I thought it was a fairly good movie. After watching The Fountain it was even better. I like time traveling stories, which is a bonus. Denzel Washington is certainly a good actor, which helped the movie. The story was surprisingly coherent for a time travel movie - most of them have not just bad science, but also an inconsistent story that just leaves you confused. In this case I'm not entirely sure the story was consistent, but it was good enough to hang together without being distracting, and the science was at least believable (as much as anything involving time travel can be).
Being a Jerry Bruckheimer film there was plenty of action and exploding, which I of course enjoy. I'm not sure how Val Kilmer ended up looking so fat in this, but he did. His performance was fine though, so whatever.
Overall I would rate it 3.5 out of 5, I guess. It wasn't a great movie, but it was slightly better than average.
The Fountain is right up there with the worst movies I have ever seen. The description does not really match what the movie appeared to be, which makes me wonder if the movie was re-edited for some reason. The visuals are interesting, and the acting was certainly fine, but the story was not only boring and confusing, but depressing as well. I would highly recommend that nobody watches it if at all possible.
Since this was the second movie we saw today, we didn't bother getting popcorn to go with it. I can't decide if popcorn would have improved it or not. On the one hand popcorn is always good. On the other hand, its hard to eat popcorn to such a drab movie.
I would have to rate this movie 2 of 5 stars. It only moves up from 1 star because of the visuals. If they were in a movie that made any sense at all then they'd be good.