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I watched Killer's Kiss during the ILX downtime -- the acting is poor, but there are moments of real brilliance in there! The fight in the mannequin storeroom is creepy, the rooftop chase prior to that is well staged (and has a couple of funny pratfalls as well). The most omg wtf lol moment was Davey's nightmare, since it used an effect that Kubrick came back to in 2001.
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 05:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Watched the Criterion DVD of Spartacus, which I likely haven't seen since its early '90s restoration ... the Rome stuff is so much better than the slave scenes (which was apparently Dalton Trumbo's complaint on seeing the rough cut). Some pretty terrible acting too (John Dall, most of Tony Curtis, the gorgeously wooden John Gavin), tho the Brits rule the roost.
But yeah, anyone who thinks this is much of "a Kubrick film," whaaa? SK:
"I tried with only limited success to make the film as (historically) real as possible but I was up against a pretty dumb script which was rarely faithful to what is known about Spartacus. History tells us that he twice led his victorious slave army to the northern borders of Italy, and could quite easily have gotten out of the country. But he didn't, and instead he led his army back to pillage Roman cities. What the reasons were for this might have been the most interesting question the film might have pondered. Did the intentions of the rebellion change? Did Spartacus lose control of his leaders who by now may have been more interested in the spoils of war than in freedom? In the film, Spartacus was prevented from escape by the silly contrivance of a pirate leader who reneged on a deal to take the slave army away in his ships. If I ever needed any convincing of the limits of persuasion a director can have on a film where someone else is the producer and he is merely the highest-paid member of the crew, then Spartacus provided proof to last a lifetime."
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
morbs where do you rate lolita on your personal list?
― J.D., Wednesday, 14 May 2008 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
You mean the slaves-in-Rome vs. the slaves-free scenes? I actually thought the best scenes were anything to do with that slave salesman, and the lead-up-to and fight and aftermath with the black slave, especially that minute where they just look at each other.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 06:03 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, Woody Strode always awesome. But no, I meant the political machinations btwn Laughton and Olivier, tho Ustinov's (the slave/gladiator trader) ham is at its most digestible.
Lolita is fine second-tier Kubrick, the main problem being he should've made it 10 years later w/ greater thematic freedom.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
all of these movies are good.
― ryan, Thursday, 24 July 2008 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link