Film buffs please don't crucify, but I couldn't finish that shit it was so boring. My "Classics" are shit like The evil Dead and American werewolf in London.

Do you have to be like wired differently to enjoy that film?

  • MerryChristmas [any]
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    2 years ago

    Some AM radio types think 2001 was Kubrick's admission of guilt for faking the moon landing. According to these same people, Eyes Wide Shut was his attempt to reveal the power structures preventing him from coming clean about the moon landing. They say that was the movie that got him killed.

    Obviously this is some wacky bullshit, but watch it with that context in mind and the movie is super interesting. Also, if you have any mushrooms sitting around then maybe eat them first.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I don't know how early there were moon landing conspiracies, but I'm convinced Kubrick had heard of at least one or two. He gave Danny in The Shining a sweater with Apollo 11 on it, probably to screw with their heads. That seems like something Kubrick would do.

      • MerryChristmas [any]
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        2 years ago

        Especially someone as self-fellating as Kubrick. Don't get me wrong, he really was a master of his craft, but he was 100% the kind of guy who would get off on the knowledge that people thought he was the only director capable of faking the moon landing.