my problem w eyes wide shut aint that kidman .cruise aint suffered in r.l. but

[UTUSN]

Didn't look real in Kubrick movie

[NYC_SKP]

1. I didn't "get it" the first time I watched it.

I'm disinclined to try it again, Kubrick or not.

Aren't there frogs that fall from the sky?

[Shampoobra]

4. No, frogs fell from the sky in Magnolia

Tom Cruise was in that one also

[NYC_SKP]

5. Ah! Thank you. nt

[progressoid]

6. I just remember that movie having some good music.

[texanwitch]

2. What a creepy movie.

I have now interest in watching it again.

[edbermac]

3. I posted this in another thread regarding EWS

One of the better analysis of the film.

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0096.html

[Dash87]

7. Too weird for me.

[sharp_stick]

8. I saw that one in the theatre

and a friend at school the next day asked me if I liked it. I told him the truth.

The movie sucked. It sucked even more because it was Stanley Kubrick and so shouldn't have sucked. Nicole Kidman took her clothes off so it was at least somewhat redeemed...

He went to see the movie, told me it was just because it was Stanley Kubrick and bad or not he had to see it but I think it was something else.

[joeybee12]

9. I watched it solely because it was Kubrick...

Shockingly bad from such a gifted director. He had trouble with Tom on the set, Tommy was too big of a star to take direction, apparently, and someone as bad an actor as he is should be listening to everyone's advice.

[Ahpook]

10. I initially avoided it because of the cast

But, EWS grew on me after a few times of watching it.

Tom Cruise has his moments, though. Specifically his portrayal of Ron Kovic.

[joeybee12]

12. I only saw it the one time...when it came out, so it's been a while...

Tom can be ok at times, but he seems to always revert to being Tom Cruise at some point, if you know what I mean. I never got the big deal over Nicole...I think she's a very thin actress.

[Ahpook]

13. The multilayered stories caught my attention

I suppose that's his trademark?

[Demo_Chris]

15. I think Cruise is a fantastic actor, one of the best of the big name stars...

I think two of his main "problems" are that he is so bloody good at what he does that he rarely looks like he is acting at all, and he is so well known that it becomes impossible to separate the man from the role he is playing.

One thing to remember as well, if you co-star in a movie with Tom Cruise he is going to make you look fantastic. Co-Staring with Cruise might be the best way in Hollywood to win an Oscar.

[Taverner]

11. IT was a horrible movie that achieved the impossible

It made key parties dull and boring

[Demo_Chris]

14. I thought it was a very good movie...

Took me a few tries to appreciate it, and like any SK movie I am not completely convinced I know what the hell I just watched, but I think it was brilliant.

My favorite Kuprick is The Shining for whatever that's worth.

[UTUSN]

16. Just heard Stephen KING last week spell out why he didn't like it

He said that it departed from KING's vision of the end, that KING's was fire and KUBRICK's was cold/ice/snow.

I never read any KING books, so I deal with the movie on its own terms. I tried about three times to get into KING's t.v. version and didn't make it through.

As for the fire vs ice thing, at the core of DANTE's inferno is ICE, just sayin'.

[Demo_Chris]

17. Honestly, while I absolutely love him, I think King missed the mark on this movie...

I can understand why he might not like it due to the radical departure from King's original story. That's reasonable. In MANY ways the Shining was a completely different story set within the framework of the King novel. In the movie, there is the very real and repeated suggestion that none of the supernatural events taking place are as shown on the screen, and that we are perhaps seeing the world through the repressed memories and eyes of a seriously abused child. Obviously, the movie works equally well as a straight horror slasher flick, but this undertone of "WTF?" helps, I think, add an element of horror that would otherwise be missing.

King was pretty critical of the movie and felt it simply was not scary. Time has proven him wrong, and it is consistently ranked as one of the most terrifying movies ever made.

[Downtown Hound]

18. King actually did like the movie

If you ever read his non-fiction book of the horror genre, Danse Macabre, he praises the movie several times. He just said that it wasn't his book, which was why he had a problem with it. Kubrick took the essential elements of King's book and went off in his own direction with them, and the result was that the movie was similar to King's novel in name only.

Any author would have a problem with that.

[Downtown Hound]

19. I loved Eyes Wide Shut

and consider it one of Kubrick's best films. But like many of Kubrick's movies, it's not for everybody.