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Stanley Kubrick
09-25-10, 10:32 PM
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The only thing preventing me from voting for Eyes Wide Shut is the fact I have never seen the others. (I know, I know...)
09-25-10, 10:56 PM
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Dr. Strangelove
09-25-10, 10:59 PM
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09-25-10, 11:02 PM
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My experience as an adult went like this. Got that awesome DVD set of Kubrick. Saw all the films in it plus the doc. Yeah...I got to love Kubrick fast.
I DID see EWS when I was like 16 or 15...I was fucking confused, man. Hell...I'm still thematically confused about it. I don't know if I like it or I don't. It's shot well though...so that keeps me going.
I DID see EWS when I was like 16 or 15...I was fucking confused, man. Hell...I'm still thematically confused about it. I don't know if I like it or I don't. It's shot well though...so that keeps me going.
09-27-10, 04:45 PM
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Re: Stanley Kubrick
2001 is my favorite and probably my favorite film of all time. Dr. Strangelove is second, but recently I've been re-visting the Shining. I always loved the film, but after recently seeing it on the big screen and watching the blu-ray I finding the photography, casting, dialogue, and storytelling to be really incredible. Maybe IT is his best film. Only time will tell.
Here's what I think it is with the "power" that Shining has: The story is unlikely (family stuck in hotel for winter) but somehow it taps deep into the collective audience psyche. As unusual as the story is it has some kind of universal resonances. If Kubrick hadn't made the Shining SOMEONE would have had to; it's as if we, as a society, need it. The feelings that it expresses (many of them ugly) NEED to be out there.
On the other hand, I've seen Clockwork 5-6 time and I really don't see what people see in it. When people pick it as his best, I honestly wonder if they have seen any of his other films. It's good but not great, it doesn't reward repeat viewings, and it only has one good performance (McDowell). It touches on subjects and characters that Kubrick would do better in Shining, Lyndon, and FMJ.
Here's what I think it is with the "power" that Shining has: The story is unlikely (family stuck in hotel for winter) but somehow it taps deep into the collective audience psyche. As unusual as the story is it has some kind of universal resonances. If Kubrick hadn't made the Shining SOMEONE would have had to; it's as if we, as a society, need it. The feelings that it expresses (many of them ugly) NEED to be out there.
On the other hand, I've seen Clockwork 5-6 time and I really don't see what people see in it. When people pick it as his best, I honestly wonder if they have seen any of his other films. It's good but not great, it doesn't reward repeat viewings, and it only has one good performance (McDowell). It touches on subjects and characters that Kubrick would do better in Shining, Lyndon, and FMJ.
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12-14-11, 01:44 PM
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12-14-11, 02:37 PM
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Dr. Strangelove is probably my favorite. 2001 is probably the best film he made.
They're all pretty damned good, though.
Favorite Moments:
- the first fight in A Clockwork Orange with Billy Boy
- Peter Sellers' ridiculously creepy phone call in Lolita
- Dave blasting himself into a silent vacuum in 2001
- The song at the close of Paths of Glory
- The jelly donut in Full Metal Jacket
- The second visit to the costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut
- Anything Slim Pickens says in Dr. Strangelove
- Big Wheel steady cam shot in The Shining
They're all pretty damned good, though.
Favorite Moments:
- the first fight in A Clockwork Orange with Billy Boy
- Peter Sellers' ridiculously creepy phone call in Lolita
- Dave blasting himself into a silent vacuum in 2001
- The song at the close of Paths of Glory
- The jelly donut in Full Metal Jacket
- The second visit to the costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut
- Anything Slim Pickens says in Dr. Strangelove
- Big Wheel steady cam shot in The Shining
12-14-11, 02:41 PM
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I saw it once on a really bad VHS tape I still have somewhere. Not really that enthralling but interesting nonetheless. Off to the Tivo website to set my recoding before I forget. Thanks.
12-14-11, 04:14 PM
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Here's a pretty cool Kubrick video I found on You Tube:
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12-14-11, 07:24 PM
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The Shining. Only movie I watch that makes me feel like I'm stuck in a dream that slowly turn into a nightmare and I can't wake up. That is a very high compliment too.
I still haven't seen 2001. I'm actually sort of afraid the whole "themes" and "deep meaning" wont resonate, and I'll be bored. I know, but some people I've heard experience it that way.
I still haven't seen 2001. I'm actually sort of afraid the whole "themes" and "deep meaning" wont resonate, and I'll be bored. I know, but some people I've heard experience it that way.
03-13-13, 09:42 AM
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03-13-13, 10:39 AM
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Dr. Strangelove is a film that I can put on any time and watch it straight through and then watch it again. A Clockwork Orange and 2001 A Space Odyssey and Full Metal Jacket I have seen so many times that I don't ever need to see them again. The pre-Lolita films I don't really care for, The Shining is OK but I prefer the book and Barry Lyndon more boring than sitting in waiting room at the doctors office. Eyes Wide Shut is a piece of shit.
03-13-13, 11:19 AM
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