Stanley Kubrick would have been 79 today.

[edbermac]

Stan was the man.

[MAGICBULLET]

1. would you agree that

Eyes Wide Shut was as bad as everyone made it out to be? I liked it, especially the pace, yet it wasn't my favorite.
Barry Lyndon was beautiful, and underrated.

[meegbear]

2. Barry Lyndon was underrated ...

I wish he did the film on Napoleon that people said he wanted to do.

[MAGICBULLET]

3. YES!

and also Artificial Intelligence, instead of having Spielberg dumb it down. Overall it was nice, but certain sequences were obviously full of Spielbergesque cheese that I don't think Kubrick would've kept in.

[meegbear]

4. Never saw AI and that's why!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. It's almost like you could tell which parts were Kubrick's, which were Spielberg's

The good parts were Kubrick's.

:thumbsup:

[ghostsofgiants]

6. I like Eyes Wide Shut as well.

[edbermac]

22. No I liked EWS.

The only film of his I've never seen was his first Fear and Desire; and the documentary The Seafarers. I'm sure all the folks who hate EWS are hardcore Cruise-haters. But he was okay in EWS. And lots of good sites on the web with first rate analyses of the film.

[kay1864]

5. *sniff*

What a brilliant mind.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Kubrick was awesome.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. My favorite director.

[unpossibles]

9. loved him, although I have not yet seen Eyes Wide Shut

I keep forgetting that when I go to the video store. Loved Barry Lyndon and would like to see that again.

[MAGICBULLET]

13. get Paths of Glory too

in case you haven't seen that one yet, I guess even if you have. :) :thumbsup:

[unpossibles]

16. I have not, although I've heard it's great

I'm also a fan of Kirk Douglas movies, so I'm kinda surprised I have not seen it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. 'Fail Safe'

'nuff said.

[Lionel Mandrake]

17. Could anyone take "Fail-Safe" seriously

after seeing Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? Both movies were made in 1964. IMHO Dr. Strangelove is the greatest movie ever made, whereas Fail-Safe is a POS.

Yes, I know that Kubrick thought 2001 was his masterpiece. There is room for more than one opinion about this, especially with movies as good as these.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Were you an attorney for Columbia Pictures?

That was their line of thinking when they sued Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, the authors of "Fail-Safe," their publisher and the film's production company for plagiarism, claiming that Burdick and Wheeler ripped off "Red Alert," on which "Dr. Strangelove" was based.

The real purpose of the suit was to delay production of "Fail-Safe" so it would come out after "Dr. Strangelove" and bomb at the box office, since a comedy can successfully follow a drama, but rarely the other way around. And that's exactly what happened.

"Fail-Safe" is a piece of shit? Hardly.

[Lionel Mandrake]

20. Your honor, I plead NOT GUILTY.

I swear upon a stack of bibles, korans, and books by Charles Darwin that I am not, and never have been, an attorney for Columbia Pictures or anyone else. All I know about the law is what I learned from Perry Mason.

Your post, on the other hand, reads like what a lawyer on the other side might have said to a reporter. You can't really know what "the real purpose" was unless you are a mind reader. But it sounds very sinister.

When I call Fail-Safe a POS, I am not talking about the acting, direction, cinematography, etc. I mean that the plot was no more believable than that of Dr. Strangelove. For a serious movie, that is a serious flaw.

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. I think it was believable

up to the point where President Fonda said, "Gee, Russians, we're sorry. If we nuke New York City, will that make up for it?" That was just ridiculous.

Y'gotta remember the geopolitical mindset when it was made, though. A lot of people thought like Groteschele — that the eee-vill commies wanted to wipe us off the face of the Earth. And, like him, a lot of people wanted to do it to them first.

Now, there were a few things that bugged me because they weren't accurate, since the Department of Defense refused cooperation with the producers. Like, it kinda sucked that they used stock footage of three different types of fighters to show the "Skyscrapers." But what can you do when the military boycotts you?

[DS1]

12. 6-part youtube series about him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl4X9wHSdck

[Hugin]

14. Yep, he was a genius...

:(

[terrya]

15. It would have been interesting to see what "AI" would have been like...

had Kubrick lived to complete the movie.

[Ekirh]

18. Happy Birthday to the Great Kubrick . . .

I may have to put in Dr. Strangelove tonight . . . still probably my favorite movie ever.