How did a Stanley Kubrick film slip by me? I've got to see this.

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The day I can't recycle my jokes like my dad and his dad before him, is the day I don't want to be an American anymore.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
You said that before.

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Kubrick? I always thought it was Mr. Bean>> ^UsesProzac:

Yes. I think Issykitty is having a worse day, though. God, I can't be mad at a cute little cat wearing a tiara.
Perhaps @bareboards2 should employ those tactics. You should get a cat image for your profile, @bareboards2. Do you think @bareboards2 likes cats? I wonder if @bareboards2 is an animal lover. @bareboards2, do you love cats? @bareboards2 I'm going to be up all night wondering if you don't tell me. @bareboards2 I'm working myself into a manic panic pondering if you like fuzzy cuddles and warm bundles in your lap. I bet cats like @bareboards2 or anything that's warm and willing to stay still long enough for a cat nap. @bareboards2 @bareboards2 @bareboards2
That was cathartic. Sorry about that, fist. When I see something illogical and irrational like people without cute cats for their profile images, the need to addresss the aberration is all-consuming.
But I do love Stanley Kubrick, so I don't mind the lack of cat. I don't know how many books about him I've got, too many to count. A fascinating man who died way, way too soon.
In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Today was an interesting day.

You said that before.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Kubrick? I always thought it was Mr. Bean>> ^UsesProzac:

Yes. I think Issykitty is having a worse day, though. God, I can't be mad at a cute little cat wearing a tiara.
Perhaps @bareboards2 should employ those tactics. You should get a cat image for your profile, @bareboards2. Do you think @bareboards2 likes cats? I wonder if @bareboards2 is an animal lover. @bareboards2, do you love cats? @bareboards2 I'm going to be up all night wondering if you don't tell me. @bareboards2 I'm working myself into a manic panic pondering if you like fuzzy cuddles and warm bundles in your lap. I bet cats like @bareboards2 or anything that's warm and willing to stay still long enough for a cat nap. @bareboards2 @bareboards2 @bareboards2
That was cathartic. Sorry about that, fist. When I see something illogical and irrational like people without cute cats for their profile images, the need to addresss the aberration is all-consuming.
But I do love Stanley Kubrick, so I don't mind the lack of cat. I don't know how many books about him I've got, too many to count. A fascinating man who died way, way too soon.
In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Today was an interesting day.

Kubrick? I always thought it was Mr. Bean>> ^UsesProzac:

Yes. I think Issykitty is having a worse day, though. God, I can't be mad at a cute little cat wearing a tiara.
Perhaps @bareboards2 should employ those tactics. You should get a cat image for your profile, @bareboards2. Do you think @bareboards2 likes cats? I wonder if @bareboards2 is an animal lover. @bareboards2, do you love cats? @bareboards2 I'm going to be up all night wondering if you don't tell me. @bareboards2 I'm working myself into a manic panic pondering if you like fuzzy cuddles and warm bundles in your lap. I bet cats like @bareboards2 or anything that's warm and willing to stay still long enough for a cat nap. @bareboards2 @bareboards2 @bareboards2
That was cathartic. Sorry about that, fist. When I see something illogical and irrational like people without cute cats for their profile images, the need to addresss the aberration is all-consuming.
But I do love Stanley Kubrick, so I don't mind the lack of cat. I don't know how many books about him I've got, too many to count. A fascinating man who died way, way too soon.
In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Today was an interesting day.

lol

In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
Yes. I think Issykitty is having a worse day, though. God, I can't be mad at a cute little cat wearing a tiara.

Perhaps @bareboards2 should employ those tactics. You should get a cat image for your profile, @bareboards2. Do you think @bareboards2 likes cats? I wonder if @bareboards2 is an animal lover. @bareboards2, do you love cats? @bareboards2 I'm going to be up all night wondering if you don't tell me. @bareboards2 I'm working myself into a manic panic pondering if you like fuzzy cuddles and warm bundles in your lap. I bet cats like @bareboards2 or anything that's warm and willing to stay still long enough for a cat nap. @bareboards2 @bareboards2 @bareboards2

That was cathartic. Sorry about that, fist. When I see something illogical and irrational like people without cute cats for their profile images, the need to addresss the aberration is all-consuming.

But I do love Stanley Kubrick, so I don't mind the lack of cat. I don't know how many books about him I've got, too many to count. A fascinating man who died way, way too soon.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Today was an interesting day.

Yes. I think Issykitty is having a worse day, though. God, I can't be mad at a cute little cat wearing a tiara.

Perhaps @bareboards2 should employ those tactics. You should get a cat image for your profile, @bareboards2. Do you think @bareboards2 likes cats? I wonder if @bareboards2 is an animal lover. @bareboards2, do you love cats? @bareboards2 I'm going to be up all night wondering if you don't tell me. @bareboards2 I'm working myself into a manic panic pondering if you like fuzzy cuddles and warm bundles in your lap. I bet cats like @bareboards2 or anything that's warm and willing to stay still long enough for a cat nap. @bareboards2 @bareboards2 @bareboards2

That was cathartic. Sorry about that, fist. When I see something illogical and irrational like people without cute cats for their profile images, the need to addresss the aberration is all-consuming.

But I do love Stanley Kubrick, so I don't mind the lack of cat. I don't know how many books about him I've got, too many to count. A fascinating man who died way, way too soon.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Today was an interesting day.

Suspension of disbelief is the most difficult achievement to pull-off for any screenwriter or director. This formula needs very few new tweaks to work again and again, thanks to Stanley Kubrick.
God rest his dark soul, he made me piss my jammies while the babysitter was on the phone with his boyfriend.

Thought you might like this!

http://videosift.com/video/A-Stanley-Kubrick-Odyssey-A-Tribute

I recommend you all forget about the Kubrick / Spielberg melodrama and go read the source material. Brian Aldiss eventually wrote three short stories about David. In fact, in a foreword titled "attempting to please" he talks about Kubrick, Spielberg, AI, etc. It's quite interesting. Here, let me type out a bit of it:

"So why was 'Supertoys' not filmed? [...] My belief is that he [Kubrick] was basically mistaken. Obsessed with the big blockbuster SF movies of the time, he was determined to take my sorrowing domestic scene out into the galaxy. After all, he had wrought similarly to great success with [Arthur C.] Clarke's story.

But 'The Sentinel' looks outward to begin with. It speaks of a mystery elsewhere, whereas 'Supertoys' speaks of a mystery within. David suffers because he does not know he is a machine. Here is the real drama; as Mary Shelley said of her Frankenstein, it 'speaks to the mysterious fears of our nature'.

A possible film could be made of 'Supertoys' showing David facing his real nature. It comes as a shock to realise he is a machine. He malfunctions. Perhaps his father takes him to a factory where a thousand identical androids step off the line. Does he autodestruct? The audience should be subjected to a tense and alarming drama of claustrophobia, to be left with the final questions, 'Does it matter that David is a machine? Should it matter? And to what extent are we all machines?'

Behind such metaphysical puzzles remains the simple story - the story that attracted Stanley Kubrick - of a boy who was never able to please his mother. A story of love rejected."

There is a stark difference between Stanley Kubrick films and Steven Spielberg.

With Kubrick, you get the sense that each shot is carefully constructed for the Art of it. Background colors, Framing, and the movement of the camera combine to make a Kubrick shot.

Spielberg certainly cares about telling a story, but I doubt the look of each shot matters nearly as much to him as it did to Kubrick.

Ah Moon, I love that. That's an example of the joy of keeping something simple and ending up with something far more complex. And marvelous acting of course. Just sticking Sam Rockwell in Inception would have improved it 100 times over.

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I'm with you Deano. Total Recall, for all it's sugar-candy pop-coating- was a much more enjoyable SF movie. Dark City or any Alex Proyas movie is also better. The accolades this movie received are undeserved - I wish Moon had gotten a quarter of the hype.
>> ^Deano:
Oh and one more thing while I'm fuming. Several weeks ago as part of the PR blitz for the film, it was suggested that Nolan is a modern Stanley Kubrick.
To which I say - in your dreams Nolan, in your dreams.

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I'm with you Deano. Total Recall, for all it's sugar-candy pop-coating- was a much more enjoyable SF movie. Dark City or any Alex Proyas movie is also better. The accolades this movie received are undeserved - I wish Moon had gotten a quarter of the hype.

>> ^Deano:

Oh and one more thing while I'm fuming. Several weeks ago as part of the PR blitz for the film, it was suggested that Nolan is a modern Stanley Kubrick.
To which I say - in your dreams Nolan, in your dreams.

Oh and one more thing while I'm fuming. Several weeks ago as part of the PR blitz for the film, it was suggested that Nolan is a modern Stanley Kubrick.

To which I say - in your dreams Nolan, in your dreams.

My default font is Futura ext- an absolutely gorgeous sans font, and apparently it was Stanley Kubrick's favorite too- reason enough to use it.

There was a great documentary on this subject a few years back "Helvetica" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica_%28film%29. It really gives some great insight into why Fonts matter.