Eyes Wide Shut...

Fabio

I've watched a few minutes of this movie and was hooked...is it as good as I think it is going to be?

There seems to be a great dynamic between Kidman and Cruise in it, I'm really looking forward to actually sitting down and watching the whole thing.

Sad Professor

It's an excellent film imo. But not an easy one and like all Kubrick's pictures it grows better on subsequent viewings. My one criticism is that it's a little too long. Had Kubrick lived he almost certainly would have cut it down.

irish_bob

Fabio wrote: »

I've watched a few minutes of this movie and was hooked...is it as good as I think it is going to be?

There seems to be a great dynamic between Kidman and Cruise in it, I'm really looking forward to actually sitting down and watching the whole thing.

didnt find anything interesting about the relationship between cruise and kidman but liked the movie otherwise

Dudess

I LOVE that film. It got absolutely panned at the time - couldn't understand...

bnt

I found the stars to be a bit of a distraction: I kept seeing Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, not Dr. and Mrs. Harford. Sydney Pollack had a small but crucial role, and then there's Leelee Sobieski... whoa!

It's an adult movie in the best sense of the word: not pornography, but adult themes, adult imagery, adult language. The last word of dialogue, in Stanley Kubrick's last film, is an obscenity. :cool:

eagle eye

I agree with the above post. I too could not get into it in the same way as I did with other Kubrick films because I could not get over the famous husband and wife(at the time) who were playing the lead roles. Excellent movie all the same. I recommend you watch it a couple of times.

Running Bing

Future classic....mark my words in 30 years time it will be well up there.


I had this one on my "chore list" for ages:D You know when you feel you have to watch something even though your not particularly excited about. Id seen all of Kubricks stuff apart from this and I felt it was just a box I needed to check off.

The thought of watching a movie by a 70 year old director, that got mixed reviews, staring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman did not exactly fill me with hope but I watched it and it blew me away.


My initial response after watching was why the fvck this isnt hailed as a classic? I did some research and I found the two major criticisms were the pacing, New York not looking like New York and Roger Ebert did not like the ending (felt it was too neat).


First of all I felt it was paced perfectly. I dont have the greatest attention span but this film had me gripped from start to finish and it is rare a film does this.

The New York critiscm is Bull**** imo. It is intentionally made like that to give a dream like quality and it succeeds perfectly. I watched a documentary about Kubrick and it showed how he spent years obsessing over the smallest details of the film. He got photographs of hundreds of gates to choose the entrance to the mansion. No way did he just make do with phony sets for New York and felt it would suffice.


As for the ending (*spoilers*) I thought it was perfect. Neither Cruise or Kidman technically did anything wrong, they have a child and it was very believable to me that these people would want to make it work and continue with the marriage. Was not unbelievable in the slightest to me.


Oh and those final lines...absolutely genius and a fitting end to the career of possibly the greatest filmmaker the world has ever seen.

Fabio

Well I watched it but in pieces as I havent had 3 full hours to sit down recently and watch a film! I liked it a lot but I think I'll need to actually sit down and watch it properly straight through once more to really get into it.

I liked the themes of jealousy and love and betrayal and all of that but you really do need to think about the whole thing...intelligent film!

Savman

Loadsa bonkin in it too :pac:

Running Bing

Savman wrote: »

Loadsa bonkin in it too :pac:

Nice to see someone trying to take the conversation up an notch intelectually:D

Shacklebolt

Babybing wrote: »

Nice to see someone trying to take the conversation up an notch intelectually:D

"To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human"-What film?

FruitLover

Quite enjoyed EWS. A nice bit of surreality in the middle of a fairly mundane city life.

hussey

Shacklebolt wrote: »

"To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human"-What film?

Matrix regarding the woman in the red dress?

Shacklebolt

hussey wrote: »

Matrix regarding the woman in the red dress?

Well done