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
what, is it circulating around on alt.movies.kubrick?
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
guys i have this great thing to tell you about pink floyd
― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Eh "film director noted for almost monomaniacal control and detail makes movie with extremely mirrored structure" not quite as unlikely as "old movie synchronizes with completely unrelated album."
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
only time ive done the oz/dark side thing was xmas 1998 when wizard of oz was re-released in theaters-- a friend of my cousin's was a manager at a 2nd run theater and invited a few dozen people to come and watch oz/darkside on the big screen after the theater closed one nite
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
this is prob one of my five favorite movies ever and definitely my favorite kubrick and that it is the kind of movie that can envelop and excite people and trail paranoiac mythology behind it like this is only further eerie proof of its greatness and i don't want to be a killjoy but how high are you guys exactly
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
well
― Mordy, Friday, 26 October 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
dlh you should really see Room237
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 26 October 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
oh i mean obviously i will
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
that tumblr post kinda pissed me off tho
the 217/237 change btw is because, and i only mention this cuz it has appreciably diminished my life, the timberline lodge (oregon represent!), which stands in for the overlook in the opening sequence, requested that kubrick change the room number cuz the timberline has a 217 and they didn't want people to be scared to stay in it, which is totally lame since 1) while many would no doubt be afraid to stay in it there would presumably be lots of people who would actively want to stay in it and 2) i would be one of them
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
they cover that in the film. It's not true
― Number None, Friday, 26 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
oh that's not true
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
this headache better go away before movie time
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link