thats 2 hours I won’t get back…what a load of shit
I wonder if the Blockbuster will reimburse me for those 2 hours I wasted 
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Show some respect, boy.
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If you’re talking about “Eyes Wide Shut”, I thought it was a very good movie.
IIRC, Kubrick died while “Eyes Wide Shut” was being made. How far along were they when he died?
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Kubrick died after finishing Eyes Wide Shut, but before some changes were made to get in a “R” rating.
Great movie. It’s a shame he didn’t live a few more decades…
I just wish my eyes were wide shut during the movie, so I could of atleast napped instead of feeling pissed off and tired
I sure love watching Tom Cruise make a coffee for 2 minutes …thats exciting
I’m in the wrong forum aren’t I?
Bedboy, take that language to the pit, guy.
Show some respect for the dead, too. You may not like EWS, but that’s no reason to rejoice over someone’s death.
That being said, I have to say Kubrick is the most overrated director I can think of. His early B and W movies; the Killing, Paths of Glory, and Lolita; were excellent, and Spartacus was OK, but he just got more and more isolated and removed from humanity. He had no feeling for people. His characters were cold and unsympathetic. His movies became boring and tiresome.
Clockwork Orange: Absolutely ruined Burgess’ book. celebrated in the violence it pretended to condemn. The main theme of free will was ruined by Kubrick’s inability to present Alex as a human being.
2001: His best recent movie, but the ending special effects? Huh? what was so great about all that tinted film. Also, the “mystery” was caused by Kubrick’s own refusal to explain anything. In the Book, Clarke makes it pretty clear what is going on.
The Shining: OK horror movie with great perf by Jack Nicholson, but so what? It’s no better than many other horror movies out there, especially by Craven and Carpenter, whom few people call geniuses (I do).
Full Metal Jacket. Tedious. First part saved by R. Lee Ermey’s over the top Drill Sargent, second part not that exciting. Point: war is bad. OOOOHH, that’s profound. Stick with Platoon and Apocalypse now.
Barry Lyndon: Time has mercifully expunged the memory of this awful time-waster from my mind.
I didn’t see eyes wide shut, because I hate Cruise and Kidman has much as Kubrick, but everyone I know thought it sucked.
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Wow, A Clockwork Orange, 2001, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket are some of my all-time favorite movies. I won’t expand, as most of the points you made were valid, but I just enjoyed them without examination. I try not to look to movies for depth and introspection as much as I do for an escape from reality for a while.
As for EWS, even being a Cruise fan, I haven’t seen it because of the seeming unanimous condemnation of it. Then again, I liked Blair Witch Project(which everyone else in the world hated) so…
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I loved Blair Witch Project…even went out and bought the movie
Unanimous condemnation? Almost every critic I admire raved about the movie.
Here’s a link to the Reader’s very own Rosenberg, and his review of “Eyes Wide Shut”.
http://www.chireader.com/movies/archives/1999/0799/07239.html
Reiterations of above:
a) Kubrick was great
b) Wishing death on people is bad
c) Wishing death on the great is really bad
d) Speaking of really bad, “Eyes Wide Shut” was in spades.
Oh, Oh OH I get it now … Of COURSE you wouldn’t know a good movie if it bit you in the ass!
These kids today, I swear …
Critics? Feh! I meant unanimous condemnation by people who’s opinions I respect.
I have to agree with Larry B. on some of his points above:
2001: the test of a truly great movie is its ability to transcent MAD MAGAZINE’s parody. 2001 doesn’t. (I can’t forget the punchline “You mean, when Im old I’m going to like creamed caulifower!” Anybody remember that?)
Clockwork Orange: readers of the second part of Anthony Burgess’s autobiography will remember his mixed reaction to Kubrick’s movie version. It lifted him out of both poverty and obscurity, but lopped off the last chapter of the book and cut the head off his message.
Full Metal Jacket: yep, if pure chance hadn’t put R. Lee Ermey in the movie, it would’ve been “Eyes Wide Shut Goes to War.”
Barry Lyndon: I personally would’ve wished to have seen Malcolm MacDowell instead of Ryan O’Neill, but otherwise it was nice, for me a novel-reader,to see a movie follow a novel’s pacing one last time beofre Jaws & Star Wars destroyed that possibility forever.
Eyes Wide Shut: Roger Ebert is wrong on this one. In an age when the President of the United Sates can dally with a chubby intern, the premise of a massive, homocidal conspiracy to cover up a (gasp) sex club, is stupid. Maybe Kubrick’s real aim was to trick two of the biggest names in Hollywood to freeze their schedules for over a full year so as to make the same sort of porno that’s churned out in Burbank every afternoon by nobodies fresh from the Greyhound station.
Your deep sea diving suit is ready, me brave lad.
Nobody’s mentioned Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb yet.
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I agree that Kubrick was vastly overrated. His whole filmmaking philosophy of “let’s try another hundred takes” squeezed the life out of almost every performance in his later films. Who else but Kubrick could make watching Nicole Kidman naked seem boring?
That said, I did like Spartacus and Dr Strangelove. And Malcolm MacDowell’s performance in A Clockwork Orange was great. And while it has nothing to do with Kubrick, I liked The Blair Witch Project and thought it was very inventive.
And the OP did belong in the Pit.
I wonder, did bedboy not realize until the movie was over that he wasn’t enjoying it? Did someone make him keep watching after he realized he hated it?
FTR I haven’t seen EWS (I’ll watch that scene from All the Right Moves if I want to see Tom Cruise full frontal) but I hate it when people blame someone else for their bad choices. next time you rent a movie you realize you don’t like, turn it off.
Bill Maher once said the only way you won’t like Eyes Wide Shut is if you’re a kid or you’re stupid.
Wow, I gotta disagree with those (specifically Larry Borgia) who think he is overrated - or even think that to like him “just sit back and enjoy it”. Kubrick makes thinking mans movies - but he makes movies to be interesting.
The book ending of Clockwork Orange would have ruined the great climax of the end of the movie. Burgess’ message comes through loud and clear. Glorifying violence? Nope. It simply relates Alex’s love of violence, and the exciment of Alex’s life back then. For proof, notice how later violence directed at Alex is not so glorified anymore. In fact, it’s painful to watch.
2001? The greatest sci-fi movie of all time. What is better, please tell me… Yeah, Clarke explained it better, that’s why the movie is so much better than the book. The movie makes you think. The book just tells a story. I’ve heard so many theories on 2001, and a new theory can still startle me into seeing the movie in a different way.
The Shining: Surely the greatest horror movie ever made. Excuse me, but John Carpenter? He has his good points, but his films are not 1/10 as beautiful and disturbing as the Shining is. “Boo” type scares of the Craven / Carpenter type are easy. What the Shining does is hard.
Full Metal Jacket - if you think the message is “war is bad”, you are missing what this movie is all about. After repeated viewings, and some thought, I have come to the conclusion that the film is about behavioral training, and making moral choices in the face of such training. There is a
tremendous amount of insight in this movie.
Barry Lyndon - an incredible movie. THe duel scene at the end is probably the best of it’s kind. A very sad story, especially since no one is particularly worth sympathizing with.
Eyes Wide Shut - I’ve only seen it twice, so I haven’t fully digested it yet. It’s quite mesmerising, and complex. There are some fascinating interplays between the concepts of being dreaming and being awake that are explored in this movie.
In a Kubrick movie, each individual frame is so well put together, that if you take a frame at random, chances are it would make a pretty good poster. These are movies of incredible beauty and power. He was a master.