lazarus
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"We're gonna be up five hunny by midnight! They're gonna give daddy the Rain Main suite!"
The Royal Tenenbaums is probably next.
"All right, all right I'll ask her. Miss, miss! Do you know where the high school girls hang out around here?"
"We all have stories."
"I'm gonna make Gretzky's head bleed for super fan 99 over here."
There are so many lines to quote from that movie, I could fill 2 pages (Die Hard style). Swingers is a major classic. For some strange reason, the big underground following and love it had when it came out hasn't sustained over time. You think the film that essentially made both Favreau and Vince Vaughns careers would at least still have some following. It's the kind of flick I think every guy I know who's actually seen it absolutely loves, unfortunately most people haven't seen it.
Waiting for Guffman has been accumulating cat hair for the last 2 weeks it has been in my room and now I finally intend to watch it, I'm hoping it's good. I've had about 4 diet cokes so i'm hoping i can stay still long enough.
Isn't there a month-long Kubrick marathon on one of the BBC channels, too? Or did that already pass?
did anyone watch Cassandra's Dream recently?
I rented it and enjoyed it much more than I ever expected, perhaps the biggest mindfuck was that Colin Farrell did a great job acting and his douchebag-iness was nowhere to be seen int he film. Seriously, when is Woody Allen gonna lose his cinematic genius and prolific ability to write engaging, thought provoking films? I hope the answer is never.
"I hate you and I hate your ASS FACE!"
(that's a quote, by the way, and not an insult. )
It was a week and a half job earlier this month. I think they showed Barry Lyndon, 2001, Lolita, Paths of Glory and I forget what the rest were. Didn't catch any though, I'd seen them all before and had enough on my celluloid plate.
Like Eyes Wide Shut which I finally saw for the first time last night. Very abstract and dreamlike I thought and similar to 2001 in that a lot of what happened is up to viewer interpretation with Kubrick offering little in the way of answers. Far from my favourite though:
The Shining
Dr Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
Paths of Glory
Barry Lyndon
2001
Full Metal Jacket
The Killing
Lolita
Eyes Wide Shut
Spartacus
These are due to change after I rewatch any of them again. 2001 is purposely in the middle because I still find it hard to truly enjoy the film but admire it greatly. Spartacus is the only one I'm not bothered about watching again, as apart from that one there aren't any films in that list I find weak or unenjoyable to some extent.
I'd recommend FMJ first, just for the sheer quotability from the first act.
Does the second act fall apart though? I've heard that criticism a few times from respected sources.
Absolutely not. It's just a pretty shocking change of pace and tone. It's also remarkably beautiful photographically.
Alright. I expect the photography in a Kubrick film... it's the one thing attracting me to Barry Lyndon.
that's about it imo, Lyndon is incredible to look at but very little going on...
that's about it imo, Lyndon is incredible to look at but very little going on...
I enjoyed the study of a man's rise from low beginnings to reasonable heights, only to fall again. I find it even more interesting when you see how he'll do anything to gain improved status....he's a true opportunist. I also like how it studies/skewers the suffocating social circles he enters into....
I also love the duel at the end.
I agree that the story was good in general, maybe it was the pacing in this case that bored me...
I don't read Stephen King. I have The Stand and It but haven't gotten around to them yet.
I could give a shit how faithful Kubrick is to him, but Nabokov? Different story. And my problem is more with the tone than any alterations, additions, etc. To me the 1997 film may have been a bit too serious, but it captured the beauty of the book much more to me. And Jeremy Irons was a perfect Humbert.
As a King reader, it's worth putting out there that I'm an immeasurably huge fan of both the novel and film adaptation of The Shining. The novel is a haunting Ghost story that really gets under your skin, while Kubrick's is a sort of reimagining of the basic story that turns it into more of a psychological thriller that blurs the line between reality and the characters' mental meanderings.
Yeah. Different. But I love them both about equally.