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How many of you are perplexed by the hate for this movie?

posted 9 years ago by i_am_nincompoop
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This one of my all time favorite movies. I remember coming out of the cinema in awe of it, only to find out, perplexed, that other people didn't like it at all. I even found out my girlfriend at the time hated it, for pretty much all the wrong reasons, which was disappointing.

I guess, the polarizing movies (and art in general) are usually the ones that create a deeper impact in the people are a fit to like them, and a greater distaste for the people are not.

Most of my favorite movies seem to be like this: Brazil, Donnie Darko, Memento, Mulholland Drive, Dogville, etc...

Of course, there's also the stupid herd behaviour, which makes people sometimes flock to one opinion, because it's the "cool" opinion, like for example, hating The Titanic or Forest Gump. We all know that all the "cool people" hate these movies.

What's you opinion on this?

[–] johnmiller (4011) a year ago

I think an issue is that this was of course a movie Stanley Kubrick wanted to make, but was waiting for the visual effects to get to the point he needed them to. So, having anyone else direct it was always going to be an issue for many. But, to me, if you are going to make a Kubrick film, I think emulating Kubrick as much as possible certainly would have helped. The film is shot entirely different than Kubrick would have shot it. The sometimes heavy use of diffusion. The odd-looking, desaturated colors. The hand held camerawork, etc. That took me out of it like a lot of these Spielberg-Cinematographer Janusz Kamiński efforts have done. It is fine that Spielberg made this, but Spielberg isn't Kubrick to be sure.