I am a big war movie fan and I agree. It's a masterful work of propaganda. Makes the man seem both competant AND likeable....

Eh.... google disagrees. I'm not sure where you're getting "the same" from other than "ghost story".....

I find that every movie of his I have watched has irritated the hell out of me, with the exception of Full Metal Jacket. I think this might be the reason why now that you've brought it up. FMJ has a clear and definite ending to it, but only if you're familiar with the genre. Possibly too familiar.

That's one of the many reasons I dislike Kubrick. That and his clear opinion of humanity; maybe this is the wrong place to kvetch about his bleak outlook and apparent nihilism, but I'm a classical hedonist who can see the joy in life --and moreover, what initially attracted me to the goth scene was my ability to see beauty in darkness, not just an endless cycle of despair.

...but yeah, his non-endings bug the crap out of me. Every Kubrick fan I've talked to who has tried to defend it just issues the same tired line they seem to think I've never heard before: "He wants you to think about what just happened and what that all means and what the ending must really be!" Or some variation of that. That would be great if it weren't for the fact that the primary "questions" that his fan-club seems to think are there really aren't, and the less-obvious ones are things that have nothing to do with the closure of the story, and wouldn't affect it one way or the other. If you're actually paying attention in The Shining, for example, anything that could possibly be questioned at the end is all right there in the film, clear as day to any-one who is actually caring enough to absorb it; but instead of giving the tragedy of Jack Torrence any real closure, we get to look at his frozen mug and all that's really needed is a voice-over reading something like:

Le désespoir, la fatalité de l'être.

I get the same kinds of things defending David Lynch at me, too, or rather the Lynch films I really hated. I'm the only person I know who didn't like Eraserhead, but I'm also the only person I know who had the "hidden meaning" figured out as soon as that salamander-alien-molerat baby-thing showed up maybe twenty minutes in (the entire meaning of Eraserhead, and I confirmed this by checking Wikipedia after it was over, was David Lynch's girlfriend was pregnant at the time he wrote and filmed it, and that got him thinking of his own mortality and he was freaking out; he still won't admit it in those words, tries to be all "mysterious" about it, but that's seriously the entire film). I liked The Elephant Man, I have mixed feelings about his adaptation of Dune (I think he captured the "space opera" atmosphere really well, but I think a lot of the changes he made were unnecessary), and of course Blue Velvet and the subsequent Twin Peaks saga were all brill; but I hated Lost Highway, hated Mulholland Drive, and I think Wild At Heart could have been really good if someone was there to reel him in at times, it was pretty campy, I thought, and I don't think that it was intended to be. To Lynch's credit, he seldom just abruptly ends a film without any closure whatsoever, like Kubrick does, but he clearly fancies himself a surrealist while lacking a lot of the biting wit that made many of the surrealists who came before him truly amazing. He's the surrealist for people who really want to be surrealists but have only the vaguest clue where to start; kinda like how Marilyn Manson is the "goth music" for young kids who have only the vaguest clue where to start being goth --and no offense to people who know better, but still like their work, anyway, but don't fool yourself into thinking it's the genuine article.

*ahem* Sorry, had a rant in me.

I haven't seen Full Metal Jacket, but I've heard that his apparent "non-ending" actually works in that one, for the same reasons you've said. I know it really worked in Dr. Strangelove, that's kind of the perfect way to end that film, but it didn't really do The Shining any favours.

The last film I watched was Mirror, Mirror. Wasn't that good. Wasn't that bad, ether, but I think it could have been better. *my opinion, doesn't have to be yours*

I'm still interested in seeing it cos I watched the season of Pit Boss where two of the guys who work at the dog rescue ended up getting parts in that film --and I ended up really emotionally involved in that show, for some reason.

Also, the actress cast as Snow White has some major eyebrows; like, nearly Kahlo-brow calibre (though she clearly has two of them).

I know! At the beginning I couldn't stop staring at her eyebrows

But yeah. As I said, it wasn't THAT bad of a movie. You'll have to watch it and judge for yourself.

Anyways; so this isn't spam: I'm watching RL Stine's Haunting Hour, Don't Think About It right now, so I guess that would count as the last film I watched.

I re-watched "The Girl Who Played With Fire" last night on my laptop (after re-watching "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" with hubby yesterday afternoon). NOTE: I watched the original version, with Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander. I can't bring myself to watch the new one.

I'm planning on finishing up with "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" tonight.

I saw the original The Girl film and it's sequel about a year ago. I actually didn't like them, but I think it had to do with the person I watched them with (a crap friend). Maybe I should re-watch them.



The last film I watched was Silent Hill, again. I actually loved this film, more-so than playing the games.

50/50
Surprisingly entertaining, and even made me tear up, a little

The Town. I thought it would be so-so, but I actually loved it.

My Mom's a Werewolf



If you can't tell from the title, it's actually a horror comedy. I was expecting it to be terrible, but really, I liked it.

"I love Lucy" - the whole 5th season. Well not a movie, but it was such a great and nostalgic time

Part 1 of The Stand, based off the book by Stephen King. I know it's pretty low budget, pretty edited compared to the book, and not every ones cup of tea so to speak, but I like it.


I've seen the movie a million times, and read the uncut version of the book once. I plan on reading the book again, hopefully this year, since when I read it, i was in middle school.

I know there are differences between the movie and book, but I just hope I don't get all confused when reading it again just because of how many times I've watched the film.

Heathers. Such a wonderful and dark movie. And I still hold any movie with Winona Ryder will be great (true so far for all the ones I've seen with her in them).

Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust

God,i love it!I watched it so many times.I usually don't like anything that has the word "anime" in description,but this anime film is amazing.

And the main character,the half-human,half-vampire hunter D,is so cool.I liked him because he was silent and calculated,yet very strong

Fright Night (remake), it was ok...
It was hard to follow though, as Colin Farels eyebrows are so distracting.