32942, is this a Dipset post? Posted by Professor Calculus, Sun Jun-26-05 03:01 PM
>>Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (America's foremost bloated >>director dumbs down violence in a tedious 2 hour exercise of >>superficiality) > >0=the amount of weight you hold.
Beyond the fact that you like using little cute rap slogans, what does that actually mean?
>Not only is your dislike of Kubrick misguided, but hating on >one of his best, most powerful films is silly.
If you exchange the placement of "powerful" and "silly," I'd agree.
>I'd put Stanley Kubrick against every director ever. Who you >got?
Reviews still hasn't killed the "Stanley Kubrick is a meticulous genius" idea?
>"2001" >"Barry Lyndon" >"Dr. Strangelove" >"Paths Of Glory" >"The Killing" >"A Clockwork Orange" >"The Shining"
You're one Hale-Bopp comet away from being laughable.
Calling The Shining and 2001 brilliant is just the type of sickness I mean. Don't let tracking shots and a hint of uniqueness have you believe his mechanics are anything but hollow and superficial. Much respect to Dr. Strangelove (his best and only complete work), the plot sequence of The Killing, the photography of Barry Lyndon, the story of Paths of Glory, the movie poster for Clockwork Orange. But the man was such a consistent perfectionist, right? And yet beyond the pseduo-intellectual, showy nature of his films, the only thing consistent is that the good is outweighed by the heavily ladened attempts at "high art."
And are you ignoring the remainder of his filmography on purpose?
>Name an American director with a filmography that's fucking >with that as far as crossing genres. He's done dark comedies, >war movies, anti-war movies, horror movies, science fiction >movies, ultraviolent dramas, and in each case, a case could be >made his venture into that genre is among the best anyone has >attempted.
But making movies that cross genres is worth what when the movies are rather flimsy throughout.
And if I say Robert Altman, does he hold no weight?
>Now, if you want to say "Eyes Wide Shut", I'll bite, because >as a diehard Kubrick fan, I'm probably guilty of rationalizing >it. I still contend it's a good, though obviously not >flawless, film. > >But "A Clockwork Orange"? Nope.
Eye Wide Shut >>>>> A Clockwork Orange
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