okr said:
I've seen all of them except Stranger Than Fiction and No Country For Old Men (I'll at least watch the latter one some time).
I liked Broken Flowers, Fear & Loathing, Being John M. and Rumble Fish. The Tenenbaums and Big Fish and Memento were okay, but they are overrated imo (especially Memento, which is not much more than the well done, but usual thriller in reverse).
I hated Eyes Wide Shut (not only because of Mr. Cruise, but he would be reason enough). I'll repeat what I said in your other thread about Irréversible: I think it was pretentious crap, but
I'll try to be a bit more precise this time: Directors such as Gaspar Noé (the guy who made Irréversible) are not Luis Bunuel, Federico Fellini or Akira Kurosawa, no matter how hard they try and wish.
Eyes Wide Shut was not Arthur Schnitzler, it wasn't even Kubrick, no matter how hard Stanley tried. He did not only waste some years on this movie imo, but probably also his life. Well, at least Kubrick literally gave everything for his movies and his dreams and created several masterpieces, unlike Noé and lots of today's laughable directors.
Rant over.
Gonna watch The Thin Man with Dick Powell & Myrna Loy now. Now THAT's an American movie everyone should watch, but I learned a long time ago that an irritating large percentage of the population hates black & white movies, no matter what, or at least anything that was created before the first Star Wars movie. (I'm not saying that this applies to the people posting in this thread, (Just a general observation).
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Agree on the whole 'older films' point.
I too found Eyes Wide shut underwhelming, but I've watched it a few more times and it's grown on me more. In the end though I did find myself wishing he'd gone with something like A.I. instead. EWS had all the usual strong composition and use of colour tones, etc. I'd expect from Kubrick, plus a few delicious little scenes, but overall it just felt like he'd finally got around to a theme that he simply couldn't add much to. As a long time married guy I can attest it was a very accurate portrayal of elements of your typical successful, educated folks marriage, but it just felt a little dull and small for Kubrick to be wasting his time on.
Still, he hit it out the park so many times I'd happily take a weak film from him vs some overhyped crap any day of the week.
I know what you mean about Memento, it's fiendishly good, but only because of the technique in many ways - otherwise, watched in order, you've just got your usual well acted thriller. I did think Guy Pearce's performance was very good though - and really lifted the film.
Have you seen The Hurt Locker or Moon? Any thoughts on those?
