Raise your hand if you don't count A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!

* Dr. DVD raises his hand

;)

It's like Martin Scorsese said: "We waited for a Kubrick film. One Kubrick film had more in it than most director's whole filmographies." (paraphrasing)


As for A.I., I am positive the only things Spielberg took from Kubrick were the designs. Everything else is SO goddamned Spielberg, especially that godawful ending (and no, I don't mean the future robots, I mean the very end of the film).

I take your ;) as a symbol of sarcasm. People can live in denial all they want about A.I. being a Stanley Kubrick Production of a Steven Spielberg Film. Had that really happened, the movie would still be getting shot as we speak. Kubrick did not have anything to do with the actual production of the A.I. movie, he was pushing up daisies when it was shot. End of story. I realize that the "happy ending" was part of his original scriptment and that was why he wanted Spielberg to tackle directing duties, but I am sure he was going to re-work it. Also, I seem to recall reading that Kubrick always intended for David to be a CGI creation that was an FX achievement for its time, not a boy actor.

I was just being cute.

I love A.I. and can see both Kubrick and Spielberg in there when I watch it.

Everything I've heard says the happy ending was NOT part of Kubrick's treatments of the film. Although I do remember one screenwriter who worked on it saying she petitioned for the happy ending.

The only good thing to come out of that movie was the teddy bear, imo.

Let's not have another <i>A.I.</i> argument in a Kubrick thread. The two don't go together. ;)

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You mean the end credit is bad? How? ;)



Anyway, about Barry Lyndon, I loved it. It's slow and has dull moments, but at least I still know what's it all about and it's still interesting. The music and its historical background helped a lot, but I think Kubrick's pacing really hit me on this one.

And about Clockwork Orange... I think I disliked it the most among all Kubrick movie I've seen. It's good and I kinda liked the sex scene (ahem) - which is too short anyway, but the whole movie is not that enjoyable for me. Perhaps it's because I'm not 100% understand what they are saying. Oh well. I might give the horrorshow one more viddy but... not soon.

Clockwork Orange was something that I was rather shocked and appalled at the first time I saw it, but with subsequent viewings really came to love. What's interesting is the first time I saw it as a dark sci-fi movie, now I actually see it as more of a really dark comedy. I don't know why, but some parts of that movie really make me laugh, and these are twisted things as well.

Can anyone give me some advice on how to re-watch Barry Lyndon? I'm all for giving it a second go!

2001 is one of my favorite movies, but it suffers terribly on a small screen. In a theater, the images are majestic, and carry the movie. On home video, the images are merely nice special effects and the movie never gets out of second gear.

I'm curious whether the movie works as well on 100+ inch video projection, or if it truly needs to be on film.

The movie is, in almost every way, a satire. Every performance is so over the top I don't know how anyone could take it seriously. Ironically, art imitated life in England and after the film premiered a wave of violence from street gangs hit London, so the British government banned the film for over 20 years.

As I mentioned above, the film has quite a bit of humor in it. It's not as overt as A Clockwork Orange, but it's definitely there. It's an epic film about a simpleton. The man is so dumb that he never takes control of his own life, and when he does, it ends in tragedy. While the end is definitely a downer, most of the movie is pretty funny. If you watch it without thinking of Barry as an object of pity, and more of an object of ridicule, it changes the whole film.

I don't know. I end up feeling bad for Barry even though he is pretty much an ass to everyone (except perhaps his son) and causes almost all of his own problems. Having said that, yes, it is a pretty funny movie in parts though.

As I said, the ending is pretty tragic, but for the most of the film, I think he's being laughed at.