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― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
There must be alot of people that never went to alt.movies.kubrick.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac162/Burnedtoasty/GIFs/understatement.gif
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Doesn't seem like social relevance matters much these days for docs -- The Interrupters was basically ignored at awards time iirc? This poor movie doesn't have a chance ;_;
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
well of the last 6 Oscar-winning docs, 4 were "issue" films: climate change, CIA torture, dolphin hunting, Inside Job. The other two were about high-school football and Philippe Petit.
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
anyhow, this film isn't really a doc?
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
Well, but neither are you.
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
what, is it circulating around on alt.movies.kubrick?
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
I think that was an intended jape re familiar theories.
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
oh, ok. thks, morbius
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
The solstice of 1977 has special alignment with the symbolic conflict of The Shining for in 1977, as the December days get shorter and shorter, the moon gets fuller and fuller, climaxing in a full moon on Christmas Day. In fact on the winter solstice of 1977, the sun and moon share the sky for two hours and fourteen minutes, the exact amount of time Wendy and Danny are in the narrative of The Shining. (They enter at four minutes in and exit at two hours, eighteen minutes — The longer US cut of course.) If we assume The Shining to take place in 1977, then Jack dies sometime before daylight on December 23rd, making that first Tuesday sequence occur on December 13th. So The Shining skillfully avoids all holidays again, missing both Christmas and Hannukah, which occurred December 5th-12th in 1977.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
speaking srsly, whatever it really "means," the scene where danny stands up with the rocket on his sweater is really tremendous and the narrator is clearly a very clever reader + watcher of films (even if he also lol believes the moon landing was faked)
― Mordy, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 7:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I feel kind of stupid for not picking up on all that America symbolism, which is so blatantly there even if it doesn't have much to do with a fake moon landing.
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
I also picked up on something else I've never picked up on before -- a possible echo/mirror of Dr. Zhivago (writer exiled to cavernous house in snowy winter) which I only thought of because he brought up the cold war and russia. But maybe it's a stretch.
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
What does user sexydancer think of this docu?
(Alternate question was user sexydancer involved with this docu?)
― Miss Anus Regrets (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
so many "docs" in this thread!
*farts*
― Neutral Coliseums (Matt P), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
Misha gif! I went to school with him.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
I think so, yeah. Or at least posts about it on facebook a lot.
He put on The Shining Forwards and Backwards in Brooklyn: http://kdk12.tumblr.com/post/4879566957/the-shining-forwards-and-backwards
― dmr, Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
he 'pears innit
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
That's what I thought, yeah.
As for which doc will get critical attention at year-end -- Searching for Sugarman? Haven't seen but I want to. Got enough buzz that it got Rodriguez on Letterman at least.
― dmr, Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
the backwards/forwards segments in Room 237 were probably my favorites
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 25 October 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno what happened to your order, Iago, but I just got one for BAM.
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 October 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
really? something seemed funky about the pay process while it was happening...i'll try again. thanks for leting me know, morbius!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 25 October 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
done! see you there, morbius! and thanks again
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 25 October 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
"Kubrick's The Shining Analysis - What he wanted us to Know - The Fake Moon Landings."
this is possibly creepier than the actual movie. watching this alone at night. i'm like scared.
― billstevejim, Friday, 26 October 2012 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
that video is amazing because there's innumerable points where you're like "wait, what? how does that follow??" but then you just keep watching, fascinated.
― ryan, Friday, 26 October 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
the narrator's voice and the unnatural way he cut up his monologue sounds kinda creepy to me. he talks over certain scenes as they're progressing. i haven't seen the movie in a while, so mentally processing both the narrative and the creepy visuals is sorta double creepy bonus.
― billstevejim, Friday, 26 October 2012 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
Not that I've seen
― calstars, Friday, 26 October 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
Is this really the first yall have heard of the Kubrick Faked the Moon Landing theory?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 26 October 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
In NYC we've seen these on the street for about 20 years:
http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/images/toynbee_tile_13thgrand_2003.jpg
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
Morbs, if you get a chance you should watch this - its on Netflix streaming if you have it. It's all about those tiles and who might have been behind them.
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Friday, 26 October 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
no of course not, but as Mordy et al mentioned upthread there's a lot of weird stuff that narrator points out that i've never noticed. even something as obvious as Danny's sweater (which IS weird!).
― ryan, Friday, 26 October 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
I agree with everyone who said the forwards/backwards segment was the best. Not sure i could watch the whole film that way mind
― Number None, Friday, 26 October 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
well you only have to watch half, after that it repeats
― dmr, Friday, 26 October 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
....but in reverse
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 26 October 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
"Danny is literally carrying a symbolic Apollo 13 on his body"
hm.
― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Friday, 26 October 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
would quite like to see some 24 hr psycho style installation of the shining, only instead it would loop key two-to-ten second sections until they became interminable
― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Friday, 26 October 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
i think maybe the shining is kubrick's best film. i didn't always feel this way, but submersing myself in this analysis is bringing me around to that opinion.
― Mordy, Friday, 26 October 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
so far reconfirming my exactly opposite view....
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
can someone explain why a man in a bear suit is giving the caretaker a bj?
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Like you needed any external help.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
when a man in a bear suit and a caretaker love each other very much . . . xp
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
"Kubrick's The Shining Analysis - What he wanted us to Know - The Fake Moon Landings."this is possibly creepier than the actual movie. watching this alone at night. i'm like scared.― billstevejim, Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:39 PM (Yesterday)
― billstevejim, Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:39 PM (Yesterday)
if i just watched Room 237 is it still worth watching this?
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
I don't believe the sex of the person in the bear suit is known
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
what's this bit about it running backwards and forwards? I've often thought that trick would yield something interesting with EWS as well--it's based on a "mirror" like structure just as much as FMJ seems to be.
― ryan, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
check out the tumblr post I linked above, lots of screen shots.
― dmr, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
the effect of seeing the overlapped shots it in motion though is tenfold
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that part was so super cool
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
probably could've watched a lot more of it in fact!
the shot where the typewriter is first introduced lining up with the shot where wendy sees what Jack's been typing is amazing:
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk5rqsg7Fn1qi4nyc.jpg
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
is it though
― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link