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ste d' indica said:
From Hell - odd film, another flawed Alan Moore adaptation, this time his extrapolation of the Ripper murders. Victorian London is pretty well recreated, it's suitably visceral, the story is compelling if a little daft, and there is some really excellent support from Robbie Coltrane, Ian Holm, Jason Flemyng and several others. The film is hamstrung by a cack-handed doomed romance played out between the Hollywood leads in Johnny Depp and Heather Graham in an excruciating contest of bad cor blimey guvnor cockerneying.
One of those annoying flicks that's tantalisingly got the elements to be really good, but in the end is just a bit crap.
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I enjoyed it, agree the romance was forgettable (don't actually remember it). Tense build-up and quite disturbing ending although wasn't anything new, but well played.


Eyes Wide Shut last night: it's not an erotic thriller, haha! It's a very knowing symbolic representation of private sexual fantasy (good and bad) of the individuals in a long-term relationship. The final scene is so true in that it really is a great solution to such weird phases in a relationship. Spoiler in white text as spoiler-tab isn't working, nothing hugely-revealing:

her: there is something we need to do as soon as possible
him: what's that?
her: f!ck

(my partner, tragically, wasn't impressed).


Similar acting quality to The Shining: that careful & unnatural way of speaking. It can be offputting but if you intepret it as deliberately false then the deeper symbology makes more sense.

A strong 8/10. Highlight: stunningly tense scene at the illuminati mansion, with mindblowing music.

Fun fact(ish): the circle ritual of women kneeling down, bowing their heads and waving their hands in front of them before a leadership figure in the centre is repeated in David Bowie's Blackstar video. Either it's a known ritual or Bowie was inspired by Kubrick.


My Kubrick fave list would go:

1. 2001
2. Clockwork Orange
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. Spartacus
5. The Shining
6. Full Metal Jacket

nothing below 8/10 there, and still a few key films to see.


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dholliday said:
I enjoyed it, agree the romance was forgettable (don't actually remember it). Tense build-up and quite disturbing ending although wasn't anything new, but well played.


Eyes Wide Shut last night: it's not an erotic thriller, haha! It's a very knowing symbolic representation of private sexual fantasy (good and bad) of the individuals in a long-term relationship. The very final scene is so true in that it really is a great solution to such weird phases in a relationship. Spoiler in white text as spoiler-tab isn't working, nothing hugely-revealing:

her: there is something we need to do as soon as possible
him: what's that?
her: f!ck

(my partner, tragically, wasn't impressed).


Similar acting quality to The Shining: that careful & unnatural way of speaking. It can be offputting but if you intepret it as deliberately false then the deeper symbology makes more sense.

A strong 8/10. Highlight: stunningly tense scene at the illuminati mansion.

Fun fact(ish): the circle ritual of women kneeling down, bowing their heads and waving their hands in front of them before a leadership figure in the centre is repeated in David Bowie's Blackstar video. Either it's a known ritual or Bowie was inspired by Kubrick.


My Kubrick fave list would go:

1. 2001
2. Clockwork Orange
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. Spartacus
5. The Shining
6. Full Metal Jacket

nothing below 8/10 there, and still a few key films to see.


Greatest director of all time?
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Evening Darren how are you today.
 
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Can see why it is so influential but didn't looove it. Think I started watching it too late, was tired.

8/10.
 

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