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ishmael
08-29-2006, 03:26 PM
The Shining. I never believe it. It feels like a high production student film. I'll bet all of them were smoking hashish.
Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )
08-29-2006, 03:29 PM
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08-29-2006, 04:00 PM
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Tom Montgomery
08-30-2006, 06:30 AM
I dunno... all of his films seem so cold to me.

Is it just me? I cannot think of a single character that has engaged me emotionally. Many memorable scenes though.

I know it is a minority opinion but I like Barry Lyndon. It is a visual feast.
ishmael
08-30-2006, 06:53 AM
"Barry Lyndon" is an unsung masterpiece. I took my mother to see it when she was in her dotage. She loved going to the movies, and my father never took her, so whenever I had a chance I took her out.

He is a bit cold. Even "Spartacus" his last truly Hollywood film, mainstream film, is a bit distant.

When he was on though, hard to beat for craftmanship. He's right up there with Hitchcock in my estimation.

My favorite, a guilty pleasure, is the director's cut of "A Clockwork Orange." Two hours plus of a pure nihilism, wrapped in candy.
Stinkbug
08-30-2006, 07:56 AM
theres nothing like a dance review done in codpiece
Vince Brennan
08-30-2006, 08:05 AM
Eyes Wide Shut. Awful piece of (drek).

Best movie? I LOVED "Paths Of Glory" but "The Killing" is for me the best of his. I love noir, anyway.

As for "The Shining": I hadn't read the book when I first saw the movie, so I thought it a very well-done and (admittedly) high-tech horry movie and loved Nicholson's sides, but then I read the book. Should never have done that, 'cos it ruined the movie for me.

Such is life.
ishmael
08-30-2006, 08:27 AM
"Eyes Wide Shut" was some sort of statement, not much of a film. I wondered watching it what he'd come to know about the power that rules the planet. Weird stuff, not very well made, but it did make me wonder.

"The Killing" is right on the cusp of his beginning. I love his student ham handedness there, in a way I didn't like it in "The Shining." The Killing looks real. And you've gotta love black and white film.