Guess who's turning 80 today! Hint: It's Stanley Kubrick.

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Strangeluv

#21 July 31, 2008, 07:04:04 pm

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Quote from: Roman on July 30, 2008, 05:03:38 pm

Nothing, why?

I was looking through C&C and I saw you had posts there like in 2005 and shit. I was just wondering.

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Roman

#22 August 01, 2008, 01:49:01 am

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Quote from: Strangeluv on July 31, 2008, 07:04:04 pm

I was looking through C&C and I saw you had posts there like in 2005 and shit. I was just wondering.

Oh I used to be staff and back in the day they let staff post in C&C. Then the main site stopped being updated and Rowain disbanded the staff so yeah.

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Blitzen

#23 August 01, 2008, 02:35:06 am

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Quote from: Roman on July 31, 2008, 06:39:48 pm

But aside from holding a special place in my heart, it really is a fantastic movie, man. I don't know where you get IT SEEMED FAIRLY STRAIGHTFORWARD; did you see the scene where Alex raped a woman while singing "Singin' in the Rain"? Like, even by today's standards I don't see how that can not make you cringe. Also the synthesized music in the beginning aw man it's the best.

I dunno, maybe I just didn't find it as artful or complex as Kubrick's other works. The bathos was clear, the themes and characters are fairly flat. I didn't really find much of it as disturbing as people had made it out to be. Maybe I'm just becoming cynical, or I've been desentitized to his style by watching Strangelove, FMJ, and Paths of Glory too many times.

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Roman

#24 August 02, 2008, 04:51:48 am

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By the way I just watched 2001 again for the first time in three years and it's one of if not the most visually stunning movies I have ever seen. Also it is all around fucking fantastic WAIT I DIDN'T GET THE ENDING URRGH URRGH PRETENTIOUS

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Roman

#25 August 02, 2008, 04:57:00 am

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WHAT IS THAT BABY DOING FLOATING IN SPACE

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Roman

#26 August 02, 2008, 04:59:02 am

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bunnymilk i am not going to take anything you say seriously ever again

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jumar1987

#27 August 02, 2008, 07:06:10 am

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Quote from: JOJOFACE on July 30, 2008, 11:00:29 am

Roman, have you seen the movie The Ninth Configuration? It reminds me of some of Kubrick's stuff for some reason.

I think The Ninth Configuration is visually much different from the typical Stanley Kubrick movie, but I can see a connection of themes between them: insanity, the military, black humor. It's funny because I really didn't think anybody knew about this great movie. The DVD cover is what really caught my attention when I borrowed it from the library.

Also, I really think the director of The Ninth Configuration, William Peter Blatty, is his own mini-auteur in a way. The only two films he's directed, this and The Exorcist 3, are both really interesting and have an great atmosphere to them. Both are really worth watching. I also remember reading that they were both connected storywise, as one character is mentioned in the other film. I never really picked up on it but it is interesting to have two seemingly unrelated films share the same virtual world.

On topic, does anyone enjoy the cinematography in the later Kubrick films as much as I do? I remember the scene where the astronauts find the monolith in 2001, the camera points at these lights which create this interesting looking fades on the film. I remember seeing them in A Clockwork Orange and The Shining too. Like, the lighting is always super good, despite some things looking very much like a movie set. Maybe it's the crazy retro decor and patterns that make me like it too?

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Lars

#28 August 02, 2008, 10:22:15 pm

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2001 is probably the one stanley kubrick movie that bores me the least.

except from strangeluv.

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Parker

#29 August 13, 2008, 09:10:36 pm

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Quote from: jumar1987 on August 02, 2008, 07:06:10 am

I think The Ninth Configuration is visually much different from the typical Stanley Kubrick movie, but I can see a connection of themes between them: insanity, the military, black humor. It's funny because I really didn't think anybody knew about this great movie. The DVD cover is what really caught my attention when I borrowed it from the library.

Also, I really think the director of The Ninth Configuration, William Peter Blatty, is his own mini-auteur in a way. The only two films he's directed, this and The Exorcist 3, are both really interesting and have an great atmosphere to them. Both are really worth watching. I also remember reading that they were both connected storywise, as one character is mentioned in the other film. I never really picked up on it but it is interesting to have two seemingly unrelated films share the same virtual world.

Yeah! I wish he'd do some more stuff, I think he's really talented. And yeah, there are like three or four characters from The Exorcist that return in the Ninth Configuration. The ending scenes are incredible. Great film.

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