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It was a terrible shame to hear about the death of Stanley Kubrick. I've seen all of his movies, and I felt every one of them were excellent. He always had a certain style about his movies that could make you tell his art from others. Our greatest director of all time will be remembered for years to come.

he's fucking DEAD?!?!  :shock:

Fuck, this IS sad to hear

wait wait wait He's fucking dead ???????  :o

I thought he was frozen.


TECH SUPPORT!!!!!!!!

Hey idiot, get out from under that rock, it was announced like 20 minutes ago

So, no "Full Metal Jacket 2: 2 Boo-Coo"?

murdered

i just saw a new film that pins kubricks murder on suge knight, , i guess suge was not happy with stanleys vision of what the dogpounds " new york new york" video should be

Quote from: filmcriticOur greatest director of all time will be remembered for years to come.

wait, are we still talking about that old dead dude?

seriously though, i bet everyone remembers where they were when they heard kubrick had died. i was in my room, surfing the internet of course and saw it on imdb. i was very sad. then my dad came home and told me he had heard it over the radio.

i was getting a lift to school, like just about to get out of the car thinkin "oh goodie school is so great la de da" and then i heard it on the radio, and i was sad that day, u know, cos i had big ideas about AI. so i blamed the next 8 months of mediocre grades on that.

I was in my room and a friend called and told me, my reaction was like 'Fuck you man!!! Then I knew he was serious, later saw it on Headline news. I was really sad for a long time.

This reminds me what Cruise said in A life in pictures on how he felt about SK passing (paraphrasing): 'There will never be another Kubrick film, we will never see another film that looks like this'

i just remember watching eyes wide shut when it came out in the theaters and feeling so completely blown away- for one, it was the first kubrick movie i had seen on the big screen, but more importantly with the news of his death it made the movie much more powerful. there was definitely a sadness to it when u were watching it thinkin "okay this is it, this is the end" kinda thing. i do remember getting chills during the final scene after kidman's infamous last line when it cuts to "directed by Stanley Kubrick."

I always remember that it was on a sunday 7, cause the night before that, my then girflriend and me had spended much of our time having sex without condom over and over and over...

Then on sunday we were having breakfast and she says to me: "it's a sunday 7"...the expression sunday 7 is used here in mexico when a girl is accidentally pregnant...they say something like: "she's pregnant, she came out with her sunday 7"...don't know why though...but later I read the news on IMDB and every time I remember the day Kubrick died, I remember that thing she said to me, and how I thought: "fuck, sunday 7"...

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I think the saddest part about seeing Eyes Wide Shut is knowing that it is his last movie he will ever make and like Tom Cruise said, we will never see anything like it again. Heres to praying PTA gets a little more crazy and a little more reclusive to fill that gap.

lets just hope he doesnt start leaving 12 years between his movies though.

i was in sixth grade, extremely sad about it - tried to find comfort in all of my friends, who said "stanley who?"

I was first told after viewing Clockwork Orange.  I had been a huge fan thus far with Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb) and even though a lot of people I know said it sucked, I loved the Shining.

I am still yet to see Full Metal Jacket and 2001.   wasn't a huge fan of Eyes Wide Shut.  Maybe I should just watch it again...and I'm not too keen on seeing A.I.

Damn, today it's been six years since SK's passing, time goes by real fast these days.

:(

I forgot the date... I remember his death being a major factor of turning me into a cinephile.

today's my birthday

Geez...that's like having your birthday on Sep. 11th

I remember the exact moment that I heard that he died. It was that day and I was of course surfing the net, like always when I came across it like so many others had, on imdb.com. I couldn't believe it. Strangely enough, I went on a kubrick binge with my dad that friday and saturday, and watched Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey on friday, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining on saturday. Then on sunday, Wammo, like a ton of bricks and I really wanted to see more of his stuff. Then later that year, I saw Eyes Wide Shut in a theatre with my father and I thought, Jesus, this really is the last film he will ever make. Coincidentially, That was also the year that I saw my first PTA flick (magnolia), and that was also the year that made me a cinephine 4 life.

Sometimes I still can't believe it and I think he's living on an island somewhere with 2 pac and Andy Kaufman making short films with a 16 millimeter camera. I know that is absurd but a man can dream can't he?

I really wish Kubrick had lived long enough to give us a proper version of A.I.

Quote from: MyxomatosisI really wish Kubrick had lived long enough to give us a proper version of A.I.

that is his version. he wanted spielberg to direct it. and kubrick only wanted to produce it.

kubrick is currently producing napoleon

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Quote from: MyxomatosisI really wish Kubrick had lived long enough to give us a proper version of A.I.

that is his version. he wanted spielberg to direct it. and kubrick only wanted to produce it.

kubrick is currently producing napoleon

Really? God, I didn't know that.

Do you think the film might have been less cheesy toward the end with Kubrick collaborating with him? I know he and Spielberg talked about the project for ages but wasn't so sure all of their ideas had been flushed out enough to turn it into a screenplay. Spielberg worked off notes from conversations he had with Kubrick. Was it a working relationship like Lucas had with Spielberg for Indiana Jones then?

Quote from: MyxomatosisDo you think the film might have been less cheesy toward the end with Kubrick collaborating with him? I know he and Spielberg talked about the project for ages but wasn't so sure all of their ideas had been flushed out enough to turn it into a screenplay. Spielberg worked off notes from conversations he had with Kubrick. Was it a working relationship like Lucas had with Spielberg for Indiana Jones then?

the ending was kubrick's. kubrick felt that it was a typical ending only spielberg would prefer. that's why he wanted spielberg to direct.

relationship? um, i have a book that deals about that. it's written by one of kubrick film crew. it's actually an diary on the eyes wide shut shoot. i'm not really sure it's 100% accurate. and i don't know if it will give you an insight on the working relationship either. he writes the following:

"the work on a.i. began as we were prepping "eyes". kubrick and spielberg usually met on a wednesday. one wednesday spielberg flew over to england to discuss a.i. with stanley. and on this day tom cruise was present. they had dinner and tom cruise laughed hysterically over a joke stanley had said. spielberg stared manically at tom cruise's teeth (because they are huge!). he got irritated and said to tom: "hey kid, you got something in your teeths". tom started to cry and ran away from the dinner table. that was an odd wednesday"

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Quote from: MyxomatosisDo you think the film might have been less cheesy toward the end with Kubrick collaborating with him? I know he and Spielberg talked about the project for ages but wasn't so sure all of their ideas had been flushed out enough to turn it into a screenplay. Spielberg worked off notes from conversations he had with Kubrick. Was it a working relationship like Lucas had with Spielberg for Indiana Jones then?

the ending was kubrick's. kubrick felt that it was a typical ending only spielberg would prefer. that's why he wanted spielberg to direct.
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i believe you're wrong. At the end of the day, there's really no point in debating based on speculation. But an educated guess can say, if Kubrick was alive and active in the production, it would have been a different film - No doubt about it.

so what? i lied. you don't have to be a snob to prove you're correct.

Quote from: mogwaiso what? i lied. you don't have to be a snob to prove you're correct.

how do you get off lying then calling me a snob?

Just because you're wrong doesn't make me a snob.

Just because I'm right doesn't mean I'm a snob.

But what can be said, you're a liar and wrong on all accounts, and I'm right.

Gee, this sounds like it is getting vicious. Am I wrong?

Quote from: SiliasRubyGee, this sounds like it is getting vicious. Am I wrong?

Who are you to judge?! Snob! :elitist:

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Quote from: mogwaiso what? i lied. you don't have to be a snob to prove you're correct.

how do you get off lying then calling me a snob?

Just because you're wrong doesn't make me a snob.

Just because I'm right doesn't mean I'm a snob.

But what can be said, you're a liar and wrong on all accounts, and I'm right.

i lied because it was fun at the time. snob.

and you don't have any sense of humor. snob.

history proves that. snob.

and you've proved to be a snob so fuck off. snob.

okay? snob.

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Quote from: mogwaiso what? i lied. you don't have to be a snob to prove you're correct.

how do you get off lying then calling me a snob?

Just because you're wrong doesn't make me a snob.

Just because I'm right doesn't mean I'm a snob.

But what can be said, you're a liar and wrong on all accounts, and I'm right.

i lied because it was fun at the time. snob.

and you don't have any sense of humor. snob.

history proves that. snob.

and you've proved to be a snob so fuck off. snob.

okay? snob.

calmer than you are

8 years today...  :cry:

you'd think he'd have been able to talk God into getting a few alternate takes...

if he hadn't died in 1999 he would've completed work on a.i. this year.

and he'd shave off his beard to charity.

Quote from: mogwai on March 08, 2007, 11:37:01 AM
if he hadn't died in 1999 he would've completed work on a.i. this year.

Maybe principal photography, then he'd spent the next two years on post and reshoots.

Best would have been movie of the 21st century (so far).


I still miss him.  :yabbse-sad:

did a search, couldn't find it posted:
short youtube doco on the art of kubrick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BjgA37qyI).

Saw that Docu before, nice one. I liked Life in Pictures better, by the way.