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In Reply to: RE: The 100 Greatest American Movies... posted by kootenay on May 16, 2021 at 11:15:24
That list ignores a lot.
It's pretty short on comedy. Can anybody say Tootsie is the best comedy they've seen?
It's even shorter on horror. Psycho was they best they could do? That film doesn't hold up well at all. What about The Exorcist, The Shining, or Alien?
Where are the big budget summer action films?
Comics/superheroes?
No animated films newer than 1942?
And no CGI? Just ignore the biggest technical advance in the industry since the 1970s?
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Bad, awful, nearly unwatchable. Nicholson and Duvall play their parts like mouth-breathing morons. The languid pace is snooze-inducing. It's the textbook example of Bad Kubrik.
Comic book movies are all alike. They were enjoyable at first, but they nearly all end with some kind of beam either aimed from earth at space or aimed from space and earth, and unless it's stopped it's the End of All Life As We Know It.
GCI can be excellent, but it sure as hell didn't add anything to the Star Wars franchise, and motion control was a huge step up in special effects also. The original, unmutilated version of Star Wars used motion-control and it's on the AFI's list. At any rate, special effects don't make a bad movie good.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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First - Kubrick's Shining really has nothing to do with the book. I would not even attempt a comparison. Yes, it has the same title but what the Shining is about - or can be argued to be about is a woman named Wendy who is a schizophrenic who read the Stephen King novel called The Shining.
Her husband calls her up to tell her he has a job at a hotel where the caretaker killed his family. Wendy, having read the King Novel now begins to have an overactive imagination. She applies her love of horror (as Jack notes) with her hallucinations.
So while the movie is called "The Shining" it needs to be taken from the perspective of Wendy.
I recommend watching this video called the "Wendy Theory" The narration is done by a robotic voice which is irritating but if you can make it through - I think you will have an entirely different view of the film. Indeed, I shared your issues with it but if taken from this perspective - Duvall is pretty damn excellent!
It explains Jack's performance as well because I always felt he went bonkers way too fast - but perhaps in fact it was in her head - and so was room 237 and so was the "The Shining" power.
The story is about the effect of isolation and repetition on the sanity of a person dealing with depression. The slow pace helps the audience feel some of what the characters are feeling, and gives time for the novelty of living in an old resort hotel to wear off. If the film were condensed, it would just be another haunted house flick. Duvall's acting was horrible though.
I like Kubrick and I generally appreciate movies that take their time. Ever watch The Andromeda Strain? About 3/4 of the running time is dedicated to building the characters and setting. Most people are dead bored after the first hour, but I love it. Blade Runner is another one of those love it or hate it films because of its slow pacing, and I love it. If it were made like a modern sci-fi movie, it wouldn't feel dystopian.
I personally don't appreciate comics and superheroes much at all, but they are one of Hollywood's oldest and biggest genres so they should be represented.
I beg to differ. The book is also about isolation, plus substance abuse, but the pacing is breakneck. Steven King's last great novel. The movie was a disappointment when I saw it in the theater, gets worse with repeated viewings.
Duvall was awful, but so was Nicholson. Some of the scenes where he's being seduced by the hotel's evil spirits are laughably bad. Slack-jawed yokel.
I like Kubrick, too, but starting with 2001 he just lost something. The first half of Full Metal Jacket , when the Marines are still in boot camp, is fantastic. The second half is pathetic. Shot in England at Pinewood Studios, looks like somebody's idea of a fake Vietnam complete with artificial palm trees.
His earlier movies, like Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, The Killing, Spartacus, A Clockwork Orange , all great movies.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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