Kubrick is overrated

I agree, I'm just saying that people ignore the other aspects of the production value of a movie and focus too much on the director.

Clockwork Orange was one of the rare cases when a movie was much better than the book, but I just really don't like the book.

 

Eyes Wide Shut was two hours of eye-stabbing, mind-numbing shite. Full Metal Jacket was a great movie. It's a hit or miss business.

But yeah, overrated.

 

I liked Eyes Wide Shut, but it wasn't the pinnacle of his career. To be fair though, he died before he had the chance to complete it.

 

Anyone can finish taking a crap. It takes an artist to make a sculpture of it.

 

Kind of helps if you stay alive though to finish it.

I liked the mask scene anyway, that made the film for me.

 

i really liked "Eyes wide shut"

 

I hear Steve Martin was the original choice for the Tom Cruise role. Woulda been interesting..

 

nudity is overrated.

 

Click - shit's pretty funny.

 

Just finished watching a documentary that happened to be on TV tonight called Stanley Kubrick's Boxes. Apparently he accumulated thousands of boxes of shit when he was researching stuff for his films there were left around his mansion when he died. This guy has spent the last 5 years looking through them all and made a documentary about it. Kubrick spent two years collating stuff, photots etc for a film about the holocaust while Steven Spielberg was making Schindler's List, and then when it came out decided to scrap the film altogether. The boxes are now filed away at the University of London where students can study them at their leisure.

 

2001 bored the crap out of me. I thought it was ridiculous and pointless. I completely agree with you Daved that he is overrated and I am glad that we have this in common.

However, are you simply basing this on 2001 or have you seen Lolita, Dr. Strangelove or Full Metal Jacket? All of which are fantastic movies and IMO entitle him to some credit, but not as much as film nerds like Mcleod Ganja give out.

 

I fell asleep the first time but it gets good once you get through (or skip) the unbearable ape scenes.

 

saw strange love, full metal jacket, clockwork orange, his satanist movie, haven't seen lolita yet, I loved strangelove, I think FMJ could have used a slightly stronger screenplay, I also think some of the design of clockwork orange was less than the story deserved.

 

I haven't seen "Lolita" yet either.. I've seen that less than mediocre new version with Jeremy Irons and it was less than mediocre and shit.

 

That's equivalent to saying you think one of rembrandt's masterpieces or a Beethoven symphony is ridiculous and pointless.

2001 is not meant to be Star Wars. It captures the isolation and solitude of deep space like no other film has come close to, and thoroughly deserves every bit of recognition is has received.

 

http://www.kubrick2001.com/

 

Look nerd, just shutup.

 

you shut up

http://www.kubrick2001.com/

 

Lolita was terrible in comparison with the book.

 

Who overrates Kubrick anyways? Filmgeeks, maybe. I doubt if you asked a random person on the street that they would even know who was. I think if any director is overrated, it would be Steven Spielberg.