Stanley Kubrick

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Dunno if there's been a Kubrick thread before.. probably.

- Best film
- Favourite film
- Most under-rated film (if that's possible for Kubrick)
- Most over-rated film

Any others.
 

Best film: tough one.. I'll go for Dr Strangelove
Favourite film: Full Metal Jacket
Most underrated: Eyes Wide Shut - a masterpiece imo.
Most overrated: tough one.. The Shining

meh: Barry Lyndon
 

Not seen a few of his early ones so I'll have to go with what I know

Best: FMJ or Spartacus
Favourite: FMJ
Overated: Clockwork Orange - the banning has given it thsi mythical status. It is a good film but had it not been banned in teh UK people wouldn't be so arsed about it.
Underated:Not sure there is one TBH,
 
Overrated is absolutely A Space Odyssey, I have no idea how it has such a high score on IMDB etc... when it's excruciatingly painfully slow, which is just about bearable in the 'arty' sense, but then that absolutely bizarre and useless ending makes it one of the worst film I've ever seen.
 
bluelife said:
Overrated is absolutely A Space Odyssey, I have no idea how it has such a high score on IMDB etc... when it's excruciatingly painfully slow, which is just about bearable in the 'arty' sense, but then that absolutely bizarre and useless ending makes it one of the worst film I've ever seen.
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i read the book before seeing the film, and it all makes sense.

My God, it's full of stars!


goosepimps...
 
bluelife said:
Overrated is absolutely A Space Odyssey, I have no idea how it has such a high score on IMDB etc... when it's excruciatingly painfully slow, which is just about bearable in the 'arty' sense, but then that absolutely bizarre and useless ending makes it one of the worst film I've ever seen.
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GELMIS: The final scenes of the film seemed more metaphorical than realistic. Will you discuss them — or would that be part of the “road map” you’re trying to avoid?

KUBRICK: No, I don’t mind discussing it, on the lowest level, that is, straightforward explanation of the plot. You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their evolutionary progression. Then you have a second artifact buried deep on the lunar surface and programmed to signal word of man’s first baby steps into the universe — a kind of cosmic burglar alarm. And finally there’s a third artifact placed in orbit around Jupiter and waiting for the time when man has reached the outer rim of his own solar system. When the surviving astronaut, Bowman, ultimately reaches Jupiter, this artifact sweeps him into a force field or star gate that hurls him on a journey through inner and outer space and finally transports him to another part of the galaxy, where he’s placed in a human zoo approximating a hospital terrestrial environment drawn out of his own dreams and imagination. In a timeless state, his life passes from middle age to senescence to death. He is reborn, an enhanced being, a star child, an angel, a superman, if you like, and returns to earth prepared for the next leap forward of man’s evolutionary destiny. That is what happens on the film’s simplest level. Since an encounter with an advanced interstellar intelligence would be incomprehensible within our present earthbound frames of reference, reactions to it will have elements of philosophy and metaphysics that have nothing to do with the bare plot outline itself.
 

Basil Fawlty said:
KUBRICK: No, I don’t mind discussing it, on the lowest level, that is, straightforward explanation of the plot. You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their evolutionary progression. Then you have a second artifact buried deep on the lunar surface and programmed to signal word of man’s first baby steps into the universe — a kind of cosmic burglar alarm. And finally there’s a third artifact placed in orbit around Jupiter and waiting for the time when man has reached the outer rim of his own solar system. When the surviving astronaut, Bowman, ultimately reaches Jupiter, this artifact sweeps him into a force field or star gate that hurls him on a journey through inner and outer space and finally transports him to another part of the galaxy, where he’s placed in a human zoo approximating a hospital terrestrial environment drawn out of his own dreams and imagination. In a timeless state, his life passes from middle age to senescence to death. He is reborn, an enhanced being, a star child, an angel, a superman, if you like, and returns to earth prepared for the next leap forward of man’s evolutionary destiny. That is what happens on the film’s simplest level. Since an encounter with an advanced interstellar intelligence would be incomprehensible within our present earthbound frames of reference, reactions to it will have elements of philosophy and metaphysics that have nothing to do with the bare plot outline itself.
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full of stars, lad
 
bluelife said:
Overrated is absolutely A Space Odyssey, I have no idea how it has such a high score on IMDB etc... when it's excruciatingly painfully slow, which is just about bearable in the 'arty' sense, but then that absolutely bizarre and useless ending makes it one of the worst film I've ever seen.
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IMDB shouldn't be an indicator of how good a film is to anyone, have you seen their top 250 lol

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?sort=ir,desc
 
coollino said:
IMDB shouldn't be an indicator of how good a film is to anyone, have you seen their top 250 lol

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?sort=ir,desc
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I'd say it's pretty good to be honest. I mean we'd all obviously have our own top films but when they all have about 200,000 votes generally from film fans then it's pretty reliable.

Bryan said:
Right. Are you serious? 2001 overrated?
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Which bit of it was good? The only bit I thought was great was the terrifying coldness of that 'eye' of the computer on the ship. The rest is all just excruciating 10 minute panning through space. That description that @Basil Fawlty posted is annoying too. It's quite clever sure, but I feel as though its massively overrated as it's all those arty 'its deeper than you can imagine' types to say it is a masterpiece.
 

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