What I got was Tom Cruise smugging the camera for THREE HOURS. "Eyes Wide Shut" can eat me. Had Tom been edited out of it, it would have been an infitely better movie. Hell, chopping out an hour of meandering would have made it a better movie. It tried so hard to be surreal that it ended up being ass.
― Dan Perry, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Anyone see the Kubrick doco's on the last week. Woody Allen on Dr Strangelove was very interesting, saying that it wasn't as funny as it should be as Sellars stretched himself too much and Kubrick had no real sense of timing. Interesting.
― Pete, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Of the Kubrick movies I've seen, the best is CLEARLY "A Clockwork Orange". That's the only one with any real sense of pacing. "The Shining" has some brilliant moments in it, too. Haven't seen "Full Metal Jacket" or "Lolita" and I can't remember "Dr. Strangelove".
― Daniel Cross, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dan, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
also, it is one of the funniest movies i've ever seen
― bc, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. Haven't seen Eyes Wide Shut, actually.
― Justyn Dillingham, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
kubrick's is ruined by peter sellers mainly: haha i tht lyne's worked bettah becuz the day i am sympathetic to jeremy irons is the day i exfoliate my legs w.nitric acid!!
― mark s, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― david h(owie), Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think Kubrick is very humorous. EWS = essentially a comedy, as noted above. In fact, I would say most of Kubrick's movies are in some way humorous. Antonioni is mostly insufferable, except for L'avventura, which is a masterpiece.
As for Kubrick being great, what does it take for a director to be great? One great film? Kubrick has two: Barry Lyndon and 2001.
― ryan, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
but I haven't seen the a bird->a plane and don't know why it happens.
― RJG, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
i quite like the bit where hal is killing the boring spacemen, but sadly the wrong robot wins
― RickyT, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
i like the weird glow he gave new york: nicole k is pretty good too, tho shelly duval is still the only woman SK actually ever met, i think (except for his daughter who wants a bushbaby)
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 November 2002 22:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
haha yes mark see lolita again - surely some new level of meaning to be gleaned there, as you must be about the kid's age by now
― jones (actual), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 17:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
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Rather!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 17:38 (six months ago) link
one of the least erotic film about sex I know
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 18:29 (six months ago) link
*s
Sex itself is, I think, pretty low on the list of things this movie's about but ymmv
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 18:38 (six months ago) link
really? “let’s fuck”?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 19:15 (six months ago) link
The last line of the picture, and it’s just “Fuck.” (And it’s a punchline.)
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 19:41 (six months ago) link
okay well i mean don’t be coy the idea idea that eyes wide shut isn’t about sex is an unusual one you have to admit, say more
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 22:10 (six months ago) link
I'd say it's about the fear of sex?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 22:11 (six months ago) link
It's "We fuck" isn't it?
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 22:17 (six months ago) link
"You know, there is something very important that we need to do as soon as possible""What's that?""Fuck"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOHvgvRVCDo
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 22:26 (six months ago) link
Schooled!
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 22:30 (six months ago) link
The podcast is a treasure obviously but I forgot how Longworth hits all her “t”s “EroTic eighTies” .. frankly it’s not just that, her whole Chef John intonation drives me to distraction. but i will listen for the info :)
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 12:01 (six months ago) link
She veers very very close to Moira Rose territory
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 13:03 (six months ago) link
It’s been driving me crazy all day just needed to share
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 13:04 (six months ago) link
Her delivery has definitely gotten more arch and affected over the years, to the point that if you’re not highly invested in the content, it’s practically unlistenable
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 13:06 (six months ago) link
She used to get criticised a lot online for not ennunciating properly and has overcorrected. Can't win.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 13:10 (six months ago) link
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 13:19 (six months ago) link
It's close enough to an incantatory delivery that I look forward to listening
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 13:37 (six months ago) link
(Which means it'll be a good match for Kubrick)
Roffle. I roll with it, it's fine! Met her years ago well before the podcast started, she's a good sort.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:34 (six months ago) link
If you join her patreon you can get transcripts, for those of you here who find it so horrible TO HEAR A WOMAN SPEAK.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:36 (six months ago) link
I've always liked her delivery. She also has a very wry sense of humor.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:39 (six months ago) link
I haven't given her podcast the attention it deserves. I'm streaming the sex, lies and videotape ep.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:41 (six months ago) link
The series she did on Polly Platt and the one on Dead Blondes were especially good.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 15:43 (six months ago) link
if you don't have the 2.5 hours free to watch EWS then just watch the video for Laura Branigan's "Self Control" which is the same plot and many of the same shots but is like 5 minutes long, predates EWS by 15 years and has a really cool song over it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZtn9AwgfQQ― jed_, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 01:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZtn9AwgfQQ
― jed_, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 01:31
lmao otm
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 4 November 2023 23:11 (six months ago) link
Saw this for the first time today and it was much more watchable and good than I was led to believe, although there were several false notes.
Cruise has taken a beating itt for his acting but Kidman is worse, consistently too mannered. I guess pot smoking was new at the time of this film, because it wasn't portrayed at all believably.
Can I just complain about the "West Village" set - why do studios trying to recreate NYC always show a street that ends by running into a cross street, thereby forming a T-shape? That is not a configuration that really exists in NYC with possibly a few exceptions. Many old Hollywood films use a "NYC" backlot set with the same configuration - MGM maybe? Definitely the Universal lot was like this. You see it in TV shows right through the 1970s.
Nevertheless, the mystery and the surrealism of the film were overall quite captivating.
― Josefa, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:39 (one week ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YWdTpPo.jpeg
― calstars, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:46 (one week ago) link
why do studios trying to recreate NYC always show a street that ends by running into a cross street, thereby forming a T-shape?
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 28 April 2024 01:54 (one week ago) link
Unacceptable. Just shoot in NYC ffs. But they couldn’t in this case because Kubrick was too afraid of flying there.
― Josefa, Sunday, 28 April 2024 02:10 (one week ago) link
I don't think his fear of flying wouldn't have changed anything. With the way he worked, he wouldn't have shot on location, it would have to be in a 100% controlled environment like a soundstage.
I never bought the criticism against his decision to work this way. It reminds me of the story Truffaut told in the intro of his book on Hitchcock. “In the course of an interview during which I praised Rear Window to the skies, an American critic surprised me by commenting, ‘You love Rear Window because, as a stranger to New York, you know nothing about Greenwich Village.’ To this absurd statement I replied, ‘Rear Window is not about Greenwich Village, it is a film about cinema, and I do know cinema!” He could've said something similar about Eyes Wide Shut. Shooting a fabrication of NYC ultimately works in favor of the dreamlike nature of the film - having the night time surroundings feel unreal rather than allowing a documentary element to flow in was the right call.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 28 April 2024 03:42 (one week ago) link
Yeah, exactly. It’s a film about constructed reality on many levels.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 28 April 2024 07:47 (one week ago) link
I can buy that. Because at the same time they did get a lot of detail correct in their street set - specific lettering on signs, decals on newspaper stands etc. - which contributes an uncanny aspect to those scenes.
Parts of the film reminded me very much of Scorsese's After Hours. I wonder if that was an influence.
― Josefa, Sunday, 28 April 2024 08:31 (one week ago) link
This New York has the same dream quality as the european(?) city in the unconsoled by Ishiguro imo.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 28 April 2024 16:22 (one week ago) link
Here’s a real corner you could see in this movie though tbf https://maps.app.goo.gl/Kk3oZ2NYeTxaxphE7?g_st=ic
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 28 April 2024 16:24 (one week ago) link
He was nothing if not consistently deliberate in details that seem wrong (ie the impossible interior layout of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining). One detail in EWS that signals to me that we’re in a fantasy/imagined NYC is that the buildings are numbered sequentially on the same side of a street (36, 37, 38).
― avoid boring people, Monday, 29 April 2024 03:40 (one week ago) link
blog post on exactly this https://www.scoutingny.com/stanley-kubrick-the-shining-new-york-city-the-filming-locations-of-eyes-wide-shut/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 April 2024 13:31 (one week ago) link
Interesting. Between the blog post and the comments it looks like they're covering all the ways to look at this. Seems as if Kubrick and his sets are kind of like Hitchcock and his green screens - it's difficult to nail down their exact intentions, if any.
(Aside: someone online said the costume shop in EWS was based on the facade of Trash and Vaudeville in the the East Village and I thought "no it's not, it looks just like a particular storefront on West 8th St. - I've shopped there!")... and someone in the blog comments supports my take.
― Josefa, Monday, 29 April 2024 14:21 (one week ago) link