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Eyes Wide Shut, Barry Lyndon and 2001 are all magnificent works. EWS and 2001 are in my personal top ten of all films.
To get back on topic, I don’t think it’s controversial at all these days for people to say they don’t like 2001. IMDB’s old forums were jammed full of people dissing it, and hardly anyone I know socially likes it at all.
It’s probably more controversial these days for someone to say they actually like 2001.
And it’s very controversial to say 2001 is one of the best films ever made.
Which it is.
That totaly depends who you ask I guess. Among film makers, reviewers and film aficionados, the common sensus is that 2001 is a masterpiece and one of the best films ever made. Then again, by comparison with normal entertainment films it s obviously extremely slow paced with not much happening and a confusing and, some might argue, pretentious ending. Personally I admire the film a lot, but it is not a film I go to for pure entertainment only.
I've never seen Full Metal Jacket, but I fully agree on your other assessments.
I, for one, consider both The Shining and 2001 as personal favourites.
Barry Lyndon and EWS are great too.
Never been the biggest fan of A Clockwork Orange. As you said, it's well-made but I find it a very uncomfortable watch in places.
The main thing I miss is a sense of mysteri. Right from the first scene where the hotel owner tells the story about the previous caretaker, the viewer thinks "aha, he will go insane and kill his family". The rest is basically a two hour wait to see it happen. The best scenes and parts of the film come around the middle section where some unexpected, unexplained things happen and you start to wonder hm, maybe there will be more layers to this story than I expected. But in the end there aren't...
With you on this..
FMJ is a hard film to sit through, especially that opening sequence, but also adds the humor of the late R. Lee Ermey as Sgt. Hartman, but it's uncomfortable but you can't quit watching. I also think Platoon having been released before it really harmed its status at the time, becoming another Vietnam film in its wake. Wonder what FMJ's reception would've been had it been released first.
I think Kubrick was a bit late to the Vietnam table with Full Metal Jacket. With Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter and Platoon coming before it and being far superior fare. FMJ doesn't add anything new from what those films covered.
I think it's one of his weaker films. And to be honest i'm not even sure what the film is trying to say. I think the sequence with the sniper is the best thing in it. Beautifully shot and edited.
Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are criminally underrated.
I like that the film offers no answers to the mysterious web it weaves, it prefers to let the audience fill in the blanks. I find it stunningly beautiful and inspiring. I always saw Bowman's journey as really mankind's journey back to being humbled and in awe of the vastness of the universe, accepting that not everything can be known or understood no matter how technologically advanced we become. I don't know, this film makes me ramble, I'm just glad Kubrick and Clarke left it open for interpretation. Such a masterpiece. My god, it's full of stars.
Kubrick left it much more open to interpretation in the film than Clarke did in the book. Much is explained there.
Right, i haven't read The Sentinel nor the full novel version, but Clarke did work on the screenplay for 2001 with Kubrick.
Kubrick liked making things more ambiguous. Essentially he took Clarke’s plot and stripped the explanation out.
The original short story, The Sentinel, is excellent however.
I don’t know how Coppola can make it any better. Having such a limited time to write, film and edit the first time can’t fix a film 30 years later. That being said, I still greatly appreciate and enjoy the movie. Still miss Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen though, as Coppola has openly agreed.
The Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticana is just devestatingly beautiful in that scene.
That’s hardly a controversial opinion according to most, I suspect. For me, Chasing Amy is his best, followed quickly by Clerks. I really like Clerks II and Dogma as well.
I agree with your ranking. I did enjoy Mallrats and Zack and Mimi as well. I’ve yet to see Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
I remember really liking The Lost World way back when I saw it in theaters, but not as much anymore, though I suppose there are a few (very few) things here and there I kinda still like. III was awful and World was...ehh.
I think each successive entry has only diluted the greatness of the original, and it's like, how many times must people be taught the same lesson about these things? Ugh. I always thought the concept of 'head canon' as childish, but for one time only I might make an exception for Jurassic Park sequels. [-(
I was just about to mention Jaws as well.
Except with Jaws it's hardly controversial.