[kj] [OT]Orson Welles, Kubrick

[Brendan]

Yeah have to agree, The Shining was totally ineffective in scaring me, and
2001, while it had some great scenes, excellently soundtracked, was way,
way too long and slow. I don't think I could ever go back and watch it
again the whole way through.


> Just my opinion, of course, but with the exception of 1.5 of his films (Dr

> Strangelove and a few moments here and there), there are few filmmakers

> whose work I find quite so tedious, bland and utterly overrated as Stanley

> Kubrick. If I live to be 103 I swear I shall never come any closer to

> understanding why this man is hailed as a genius. Truly bewildering.

>  

> I've tried. I really have. Every five years I hire/borrow a copy of 2001,

> just to see if it improves on 3rd/4th/5th etc viewing. WIthout fail I find

> myself bored to tears and painfully remembering why I only do this twice a

> decade. Periodically I'll watch The Shining, having read some critic's

> fawning, superlative-laden eulogy and been motivated to give it another

> fair crack of the whip. Barely made through the first hour this time,

> before turning it off in favour of some infinitely-more-effective horror

> film (and there are *lots*). Still, I'll keep trying, if only for the

> disgruntled movie fans who inevitably start sharpening the knives the

> moment I refuse to genuflect to St. Anley Kubrick.

>  

> Jim.

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> --- On Fri, 20/2/09, Bette Dillinger <bettedillinger at live.com> wrote:

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> From: Bette Dillinger <bettedillinger at live.com>

> Subject: Re: [kj] [OT]Orson Welles, Kubrick

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Date: Friday, 20 February, 2009, 1:03 AM

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> But the man with the plan over his entire lifespan is Stanley Kubrick.  I

> heart Kubrick from "Killer's Kiss" to "Full Metal Jacket".  "Eyes Wide

> Shut".......I read the novella, it had no bearing on the final outcome and

> I have always been cynical about that film. 

>  

>> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:02:55 +0100

>> From: bo.krogsgaard at gmail.com

>> To: gathering at misera.net

>> Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Magazine and movies

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>> When it comes to old movies, i worship Fritz Lang for his two

>> masterpieces M and Metropolis. Also Sergei Eisenstein and Friedrich

>> Murnau, and even Leni Riefenstahl.

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>> Alfred Hitchcock, yes please, especially Vertigo is visually

>> impressive. But i'd take an Orson Welles movie over a Hitchcock movie

>> any day, especially The Trial, which to me is how a movie can be taken

>> to perfection.

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