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Stanley Kubrick

His films are very cold. They look great but they feel distant.

And he does far too many prolonged, drawn out tracking shots.

And 2001 ... I've really really tried but I find it so utterly boring.

Strangelove and the Killing are good. The shining is definitely scary. Clockwork orange is beuatiful but horrible.

Agree that full metal jacket goes off the boil once they leave the boot camp.
 
The Killing isn't cold. The moment where one of the characters has to give the parking attendant the cold shoulder in order to get rid of him is full of humanity.
 
That's a brilliant moment, though. The black attendant clearly used to being treated like shit by the white punters is genuinely chuffed that this guy is treating him like a human being. Then all of a sudden he turns into just another white arsehole, and you can see that the attendant is genuinely hurt by it.

But the guy's got a heist to do, so he does what he has to do. It isn't personal, but he can't let the attendant know that. It is cold, yes, but it is full of understanding, I think. I don't go along with this idea that Kubrick didn't understand people.
 
the killing is ok but i think for someone who planned the robbery in so much detail he might have taken the time to get a new bag at the end before going to the airport.
 
Kaka Tim said:
His films are very cold. They look great but they feel distant.
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Funnilly enough, that is what I love.

Good to see so many people metioning Paths of Glory.

Full Metal Jacket almost seems likes two films.

Barry Lyndon is great except for the appaling acting by whoever played Barry Lyndon and his dreadful Irish accent.

I think we can all safely say that Eyes Wide Shut was appaling.

The Shining is genuinely scary as fuck.

I would love to have seen his film about the Holocaust. I fucking hate Speilburg, and it was because of his film that Kubrick cancelled his project.

Never seen the Killing but I think I will rent it now.
 
I'm going out on a limb here and am going to say that the second half of FMJ is underrated. It's not as good as the first, but I rate it's depiction of combat and a still endless stream of quotable lines as proper good. Altho I do share, to an extent, the whole 'You can see it was shot in Docklands' thing.
 
kubrick is massively boring. full metal jacket is the only one i've managed to stay awake all the way through and that's only because it's two short films tacked together.

i heard he was a weird pervy cunt on set as well.
 
discokermit said:
i heard he was a weird pervy cunt on set as well.
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Where did you hear that? A trainee at my company used to play at his house when she was little. She says he was really nice.

I mean he upset Shelly Duvall, but that was on purpose. That was just doing what he thought was needed to get a performance.
 
Kaka Tim said:
His films are very cold. They look great but they feel distant.

And he does far too many prolonged, drawn out tracking shots.

And 2001 ... I've really really tried but I find it so utterly boring.

Strangelove and the Killing are good. The shining is definitely scary. Clockwork orange is beuatiful but horrible.

Agree that full metal jacket goes off the boil once they leave the boot camp.
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This is much how I feel - I've really tried but I just don't really like his films, I find them as said above distancing and cold.

I don't particularly think he is overated as I think his films can be visually arresting and original in terms of ideas and concept, they are just not for me.
 
Loved 2001 and full metal jacket

He is indeed a very good director, but maybe a little over rated...... however i think that maybe because his films were consistently good rather than having hits and misses.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Without doubt one of the most overrated directors of all time...
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Bollocks there is something to respect about every Kubrick film even the ones you didn't like. I heard a amazing story about extra casting for the orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut.
 
The thing with Kubrick is, for my money anyway, even if you don't like his films, at least he had a distinctive style & approach to movie making; he was a 'name' if you will. Same applies to guys like Nolan, Scorcese, R Scott, Mann etc - you might not like their stuff, but they make movies with a genuine sense of vision (shit, even Michael Bay falls into this category - when he's on form he does what he does brilliantly) and their films have a look. Not to mention the fanatical attention to detail that SK put into his sets, props and shot composition (vis the Lydon stuff mentioned earlier, but also the detailing in things like the 'Book of Megadeath' in Strangelove, the on screen information in 2001 (which I have as a screensaver)).

I'd rather see a director with a vision fail than someone churning out a by-the-numbers flick that's adequate and watchable.
 
butchersapron said:
Your tittle tattle doesn't make your claim. Make it.
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It had to do the orgy scene, a friend worked next door to modelling agency, the agency received a call with exact details about model height, BMI, nipple size, hair colour, body hair, tan etc....She thought it was too much trouble and gave up, it was only afterward when speaking to my friend she remembered the address of the house, which my friend confirmed was the Kubrick estate.

My friend by the way was the editor on Barry Lyndon. We've worked together a few times.

It's not tittle tattle BA.
 
A lovingly made piece of tosh, unfortunately. I don't quite understand why Kubrick thought you could transfer a novel about social mores in upper crust turn of the century Vienna to modern-day New York.
 
littlebabyjesus said:
A lovingly made piece of tosh, unfortunately. I don't quite understand why Kubrick thought you could transfer a novel about social mores in upper crust turn of the century Vienna to modern-day New York.
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That and the freaking score is just dreadfully ponderous.
 
8den said:
It had to do the orgy scene, a friend worked next door to modelling agency, the agency received a call with exact details about model height, BMI, nipple size, hair colour, body hair, tan etc....She thought it was too much trouble and gave up, it was only afterward when speaking to my friend she remembered the address of the house, which my friend confirmed was the Kubrick estate.

My friend by the way was the editor on Barry Lyndon. We've worked together a few times.

It's not tittle tattle BA.
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It is and it doesn't make your insistence any truer.
 
butchersapron said:
It is and it doesn't make your insistence any truer.
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Is it so hard to believe that a man who was so particular about sets and costumes, wouldn't be so exacting about the casting of extras for a orgy scene.

As weak and infantile as your arguments are getting old man, this is positively feeble.

I work in film post production, I'm Irish, I've never hidden these facts how is it beyond the realm of possibility that I don't know the editor of Barry Lyndon seeing as he went on to work with Neil Jordan for the best part of 20 years?
 
butchersapron said:
Have another go - focus on he words more.
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"he words"?

So I verified the stories accuracy and my relation with the storyteller, the idea that Kubrick would obsesses about the looks at the extras in his orgy scene isn't impossible.

Seriously BA whats your point?
 
Can anyone else guess who 8den might know by osmosois? I saw that terrible man in a film the other day. Oh jaysus he was rotten. What would 8den think?
 
butchersapron said:
Can anyone else guess who 8den might know by osmosois? I saw that terrible man in a film the other day. Oh jaysus he was rotten. What would 8den think?
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Can anyone guess who Butchers is jealous of? Apparently he equates sneaking a peak at Ken Loach's dick with working with a collaborator of Mr Kubrick.
 
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