I loved Return to Oz.
Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Gris - Apr 21, 2010 1:36:41 pm PDT #7787 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Polter-Cow - Apr 21, 2010 3:02:20 pm PDT #7788 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I realized recently that the last four movies I saw in a theater were Dark Knight, Terminator: Salvation, Surrogates, and Inglourious Basterds. So I'm into... explosions.
ME TOO!
I love Fight Club.
I am mixed on Kubrick, I think. I love Dr. Strangelove and A Clockwork Orange, but I'm with Amy on The Shining, I didn't "get" 2001, and I have no idea what I was supposed to get out of Eyes Wide Shut.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 21, 2010 3:09:07 pm PDT #7789 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I have no idea what I was supposed to get out of Eyes Wide Shut.
Well, possibly a hilarious critique of Tom Cruise's closeted life, but I'm not sure how official that was in Kubrick's agenda.
Strega - Apr 21, 2010 5:25:46 pm PDT #7790 of 30000
I have no idea what I was supposed to get out of Eyes Wide Shut.I think the "Here's something humans do. Isn't that interesting/funny/terrible?" thing applies.
All this had me poking around on the Kubrick site for a while tonight, and this seemed relevant to the misanthropy discussion:
[A]s Kubrick himself remarked to Gene Siskel, "You don't have to make Frank Capra movies to like people."
Sean K - Apr 21, 2010 8:56:25 pm PDT #7791 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I would have liked to see Kubrick's A.I.
Polter-Cow - Apr 21, 2010 9:00:25 pm PDT #7792 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I liked Spielberg's version okay, but I would have liked it more if it had ended with David at the bottom of the ocean wishing for the Blue Fairy to make him a real boy.
The Beast was way better than the movie anyway.
JZ - Apr 22, 2010 12:53:16 pm PDT #7793 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
P-C, I remember reading somewhere that the ending after your whitefont was actually Kubrick's idea, not Spielberg's. I was completely shocked; I'd have bet any amount of folding money that the whitefont was Kubrick's original intended end, but apparently, no.
Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2010 1:00:25 pm PDT #7794 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Huh! We are as one in our bet and our shock.
tommyrot - Apr 22, 2010 1:02:04 pm PDT #7795 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kubrick was probably thinking, "Hey, I think I'll try out this wacky ending! If it doesn't work, I can just blame Spielberg."
JZ - Apr 22, 2010 1:27:52 pm PDT #7796 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Kubrick was probably thinking, "Hey, I think I'll try out this wacky ending! If it doesn't work, I can just blame Spielberg."
And then he went and died, and everybody blamed Spielberg right on schedule and he wasn't around to correct them! Well played, Mister Kubrick, well played indeed. Except for the whole dying part.