Final Movies of Directors: What Was, What Should Have Been

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09-11-12, 02:26 PM

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Re: Final Movies of Directors: What Was, What Should Have Been

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This is what Curly Sue looks like now, kinda meh.

http://www.people.com/people/article...576998,00.html

"Her situation has not improved."

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09-12-12, 03:17 PM

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Re: Final Movies of Directors: What Was, What Should Have Been

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Sorry but IMO Eyes Wide Shut is 10 times the movie Full Metal Jacket is.

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I have to agree that Eyes Wide Shut is a much better film than Full Metal Jacket.

FMJ is certainly ambitious but inevitably falls apart. EWS is much superior movie by far.

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09-12-12, 09:45 PM

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Unstoppable was terrible.

Crimson Tide would've been a better last movie.

Are you saying he should've jumped 17 years sooner?

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09-12-12, 09:49 PM

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actually...it was probably going to be more sentimental if Kubrick did it from what the features say. Spielberg was the one that made it a bit more serious and darker. He kept peppering more serious stuff in it.

Kubrick never was sentimental in his own films (by that, I mean the ones that he had control over), so I don't think he would've started doing that on A.I. if he had made it.