Ignominious Exits: The Top Ten Worst Final Films (Part One)

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Bilge — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:55:40 GMT

The same things (some) people are (still) saying about EWS is the same nonsense people said about BARRY LYNDON, which is probably Kubrick's masterpiece, in the 70s and 80s: too long, too boring, too many pauses between words, too not like what we were told it was gonna be (a TOM JONES-esque adventure in BL's case, explicit porn in EWS's), yadda yadda yadda.

I won't argue that EWS is a perfect film (for starters, it's a freaking rough cut, since its director, like, died months before finishing it) but to include it among the likes of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and CANNONBALL RUN 2 is just plain retarded.

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danrimage — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:12:39 GMT

On Christmas Eve last year, in lieu of any truly Christmassy movies in my collection to show my darling girlfriend (who, like the mind-reading angel she is, gave me a DVD of my fave Yuletide movie Gremlins as part of my Xmas presents....aaaaawww)I pulled EWS out of my Kubrick box set, not having watched it in about five years. She'd never seen it before, and kindly struggled to find nice things to say about it (knowing I'm a Kubrick nut).I on the other hand, having watched it with fresh eyes unclouded by sentimentality about Stan, was gutted. Yes, it does look great and has a wonderful, iridescent atmosphere: and yes one or two of the performances (Alan Cumming in particular) are memorable. But the script is absolutely atrocious, the meandering pace dissipates any tension, and the 'orgy' sequence is just fucking embarrassing, proper 'dirty old man with pretensions to art' stuff (Kubrick's tribute to Ken Russell perhaps?) I generally like Kidman as an actress a lot more than I do Cruise, but he's actually quite subtle and watchable in this movie, while she showboats like a fucking drag queen.

I don't think we'll be watching that one next Christmas. Gremlins on the other hand......

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Nicole Kidman — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:50:17 GMT

Yes. The director's cut runs 4 hours

so that I

can speak

my dialogue

even more

slowly

with even

longer

pauses

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Andrew Osborne — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:03:20 GMT

Uh...did they release a secret director's cut of EWS I didn't hear about?

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john t — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:15:10 GMT

Eyes Wide Shut is one of the masterpieces of the past decade. Nearly every intelligent film-lover knows that by now....when was this written, 1999?

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levide — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:32:32 GMT

It's also one of Kubrick's better movies.

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kevissimo — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:16:34 GMT

Great piece of writing here....

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Andrew Osborne — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:42 GMT

Screengrab regrest the eror!

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mightyisis — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:48:49 GMT

"Eyes Wide Shut" is from 1999, not 1989.