I hate Stanley Kubrick

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by GoDukes

I will say that Eyes Wide Shut is one of only two movies I've ever walked out on.

I'd love to know what the other movie was.

[lordscarlet]

Originally Posted by gkb

I don't disagree that "Shining" is a good movie, but I would pick "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" before it as Stephen King's best writing made into film.

Shawshank, to the best of my knowledge, was only a screenplay, not an adaptation.

[Axxon]

Originally Posted by Fonzie

Really? You would consider movies like Gigli, Battlefield Earth, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Look Who's Talking 2, Leonard, Part 6, or any of the Ewe Boll movies to be better than 2001: A Space Oddysey? I'm not saying your opinion is wrong, but if that's what you're saying then...wow, that's quite a condemnation.



Agreed! Paths of Glory is an amazing movie. Another one of his early movies that I love is The Killing.

Bah, only marginally better than Laserblast.

[Axxon]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

I'd love to know what the other movie was.

FWIW, the only movie I've ever walked out on was "Kiss of the Spider Woman."

Wrong time and place for me to be seeing that one I'm afraid. I was so not into it.

I was headed for the john and one of the two old ladies in front of me on the way to the exit said to the other "This is horrible. I have no idea why we've wasted our time watching this junk"

At that point, but for almost assuredly different reasons, I agreed with grannie and went and watched Invasion USA instead and I actually enjoyed it.

That I remember all of that 12 years later will let you know how bad I hated that movie.

[gkb]

Originally Posted by lordscarlet

Shawshank, to the best of my knowledge, was only a screenplay, not an adaptation.

I was wondering about that. I knew that it hadn't been a full-blown book so I looked it up on Wikipedia. Here's an excerpt:

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in Different Seasons. The novella was adapted for the screen in the film The Shawshank Redemption.

The novella appears under the "Spring" section of Different Seasons under the heading "Hope springs eternal". This is also the name of a documentary on the special edition DVD for the film. Different Seasons also contains The Body, which was made into the film Stand By Me, and Apt Pupil, which was also made into a film by the same name.

I read Different Seasons a LONG time ago and I don't remember the story at all.

[Butter]

Originally Posted by Axxon

FWIW, the only movie I've ever walked out on was "Kiss of the Spider Woman."
...

That I remember all of that 12 years later will let you know how bad I hated that movie.

That's older than 12 years, isn't it?

[JeeberD]

Originally Posted by gkb

I read Different Seasons a LONG time ago and I don't remember the story at all.

Dude, that's some of SK's best work. And that's coming from a huge fan of his...

[Groundhog]

Only movie I've ever walked out on was that King Arthur movie from a few years ago. The one where the Danes spoke like New Yorkers.

[Axxon]

Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

That's older than 12 years, isn't it?

Yep, +10. Can't do math very well while doing tech support at the same time.

[st.cronin]

I almost walked out of Blair Witch Project. I think I've actually walked out of a couple of others, but it wasn't because they were bad, it was because they were so boring that I have since forgotten everything about them.

[Axxon]

I really wanted to walk out of the movie Grizzly when I was a kid. I was 13 years old and nowhere near ready for the violence in this thing. Plus it was a drop off deal so I was seeing it alone. I have no clue why I wasn't id'ed or anything but there you go.

I felt physically ill after it was over but my ride hadn't come by and even with the queasiness I watched the thing again since it was sickening and yet cool at the same time.

Ah, to be a kid again.

[edit]

Just checked and it was only rated PG. Hmm, decapitating a horse and blowing a grizzly bear up with a bazooka only rates a PG. Glad there wasn't a nipple or two showing, mighta gotten an NC-17 or something.

[gkb]

Originally Posted by JeeberD

Dude, that's some of SK's best work. And that's coming from a huge fan of his...

I'm not disagreeing with you, but for whatever reason I just don't recall reading that story at all. I remember Apt Pupil...although I never saw the movie and I suspect that it sucked. I should re-read Different Seasons.

My favorite short story/novella of his would be The Mist. My favorite movie based on his work is probably Shawshank, followed closely by Green Mile. My favorite book is probably The Stand. I haven't read any of his more recent stuff though...

[Izulde]

Originally Posted by tanglewood

He breifly mentions it here. I'll try to look for something else that goes into more detail though.

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0069.html

Edit:

I haven't thourghouly read this but ti seems like it might be of use to you:

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0106.html

I just wanted to say thanks for this, since I belatedly realized I hadn't before. It's proven an immense help in my paper.

[GoDukes]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

I'd love to know what the other movie was.

Magnolia was the other. However, later I saw it and liked it. I just wasn't in the right frame of mind at the time I think (I was trying to bang the chick I was there with).

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by gkb

I don't disagree that "Shining" is a good movie, but I would pick "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" before it as Stephen King's best writing made into film.

I'd probably put Misery above Green Mile, but both are great.

And on the Kubrick thing, A Clockwork Orange is a piece of art.

[Groundhog]

As far as books to films go, Kubrick managed to best the books more than any other filmmaker I can think of. Clockwork Orange, 2001 and Shining were all much better than the books they were based on IMO.

[Lorena]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

Geoffrey Rush self-indulgently plays a bunch of characters in a movie that futilely shows the "futility" of the nuclear arms race. Psshhh.

What a piece of poop.

I just saw it... or, barely saw it this weekend I kept falling asleep! A little overrated IMO. Oh well, I tried.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Not sure where to put this post, maybe this is as good a thread as any.

Watched Full Metal Jacket tonight with my son (my umpteenth viewing, his first complete) & while surfing the net during I stumbled across this site.

The Short-Timers

Hasford was the author of Short-Timers which was the basis for a gigantic portion (damned near the whole thing best I can tell) of the movie.
The story of Hasford's eventual death was unfamiliar to me, maybe not to some of you.

The big find for me here, and the reason I'm posting, is that the writer's friends who maintain the site have included the entire book in .html or .txt form. Great reading after literally just watching the movie. If you've never read it, worth the time IMO. The changes in the movie are interesting, as are noting where things were taken word for word although sometimes used in an entirely different situation.