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EYE WIDE SHUT
- Thread starter Mackerel
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Bill Murray
Ghostbuster, weatherman, author, badger, lunatic.
It was a dogshit movie, not going to watch an hours worth of some film student dissecting and analyzing it.
Mackerel
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thanks for letting us know
If it was apocalypse now I'd watch it but eyes wide shut is just a terrible fucking movie that bored the shit out of me until I changed the channel. Kubrick really jumped the shark making that crap.
Bill Murray
Ghostbuster, weatherman, author, badger, lunatic.
I watched it in the theater with a miserable twat of a GF. I don't particularly like Nicole Kidman and I hate Tom Cruise with the force of a thousand suns. I've never bothered to even attempt to watch it again.
Mackerel
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Bruno Schulz
American by Birth, Dead Sexy by the Grace of God
I agree. I fuckin' hate film analysis. Utter masturbatory shit!
I saw it in the theatre as well (many moons ago). Wasn't with a twat of a girlfriend, though. Despite not liking Nicole Kidman much, and praying nightly for Tom Cruise's much deserved and violent death, I like the film.
It's like a French art students film, and I don't enjoy that kind of shit at all. Kubrick went from The Shining - which is still a great film - to les miserables with an American midget.
Also I should have said full metal jacket - both it and apocalypse are high on my watch list.
Mackerel
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your eyes are wide shut with prejudices unable to stand what you dislike is a weak and poor choice of life.
The cinematography could be the best but that doesn't mean shit if the actual story is long and boring. That movie is either like it or loathe it.
Mackerel
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Bill Murray
Ghostbuster, weatherman, author, badger, lunatic.
I'm pretty certain I could watch that movie with no prior prejudices and I'd still think it was a steaming pile of dog scat.
Bruno Schulz
American by Birth, Dead Sexy by the Grace of God
I should have clarified: "intellectually masturbatory". Regarding the film's content, there's nothing worth jerking it to.
Mackerel
Forum Veteran
intellectual masturbatory! what the hell is that?
Bruno Schulz
American by Birth, Dead Sexy by the Grace of God
Intellectual masturbation aka Mental Masturbation. Perhaps I should have used the term "ego-stroking". In my experience with film criticism/analysis, authors pick and choose elements of film(s) as points of departure to speculate wildly about their supposed meanings; usually in a intellectually self-serving(i.e., masturbatory) manner. Take a gander at the film Room 213 (also about Kubrick), and you'll see what I mean: a bunch of fools making laughably tenuous arguments about the meaning of The Shining by picking and choosing disparate elements of the film to expound on. What none of these knuckleheads understand about art and creativity is that no artist creates anything with explicit/literal ideas in mind about what the finished product will represent (e.g. "and this represents the genocide of the American Indian in the West"); only juveniles and bad artists think about creativity in such literal terms. If art was mean to be interpreted literally there would be no use for it; that's what books are for.
