The fact that so many people still name Stanley Kubrick as the greatest or most significant or most influential director ever only tells you how far film still is from becoming a serious art.
Contemporary film makers never spoke highly of Kubrick, and for good reason. They could never figure out why his movies should be regarded more highly than their own. They knew that Kubrick was simply lucky to become a folk phenomenon (thanks to the Space Race, which had nothing to do with his film making merits). That phenomenon kept alive interest in his (mediocre) films to this day.
Kubrick sold a lot of copies of his films not because he was the greatest director but simply because his films were easy to sell to the masses they had no difficult content, they had no technical innovations, they had no creative depth. He shot a bunch of catchy 3-minute scenes with some decent cinematography. If somebody had not invented the Space Race in 1957, you would not have wasted your time reading this post about such a trivial director.
>They could never figure out why his movies should be regarded more highly than their own So basically they were jealous their shitty art house films weren't highly regarded. Yeah, great argument there, OP.
>The fact that so many people still name Stanley Kubrick as the greatest or most significant or most influential director ever only tells you how far film still is from becoming a serious art. That just tells me that people don't watch enough films.
Isaac Parker
no technical innovations? the weakest bait I have ever seen.
Ayden Thompson
>REEEEEEEE STOP SAYING THE TRUTH ABOUT MY SHITTY DIRECTOR WHO COPIES OTHER BETTER WORKS Why not try going to a site like reddit where hacks like Kubrick are never criticized?
You should have made it more like the beatles pasta.
I think kubrick's overrated though.
Bentley Watson
Yes, a couple models in front of a blue screen isn't a technical innovation, shit like that has already been done years prior. >B-But muh stargate sequence! Alright, faggot. Name ONE other movie that used that slitscan contraption used to make that scene or any device like it.
Xavier Ortiz
>impling "copying" from others is bad in art There have been no original stories told in any medium since the invention of writing
Hey, I can't keep track of every terrible fucking repost that gets spammed on this shithole of a board.
Blake Barnes
>shot of hallway >shot of spaceship >shot of guy going EVA >shot of dude on the computer
Yeah, much copy, such faggotry, wow
Isaiah King
>B-BUT SOME STORIES HAVE SIMILAR THINGS ABOUT THEM THAT MAKES IOT OKAY TO STEAL SHIT Guess I'll shoplift a laptop today because Toshiba didn't invent the laptop.
Mason Lopez
This is literally all false
Eli Jenkins
>when you realize that the board is exclusively newfags now
Colton Hughes
correct
Jayden Thomas
If you got your hands on a Toshiba laptop schematics and used them to built your own laptop that'd be perfectly reasonable
Henry Sullivan
>Don't trust copyright laws goyim! It goes in the way of socialism! Begone, kike
Andrew Brooks
Mate I understand you're looking for ways to feel intellectually superior but being a contrarian faggot isn't the way to do it. The very fact that you're pointing out what you're pointing out shows your lack of ability for critical thought. You're like a modern artist trying to put down Michelangelo and claiming intellectual superiority over all those who see the merit to his work. Just because someone's work is recognised as decent it does not mean it is overrated, and it sure as fuck doesn't mean you aren't likely to make yourself look a complete pleb by taking a contrary stance on it for the mere hell of it.
Learn to appreciate art regardless of what others think of it or what their appreciation does to your own fragile ego by holding the artist in such high regard. This thread is either passable bait - which says a lot about the demographic of this board these days - or it is the most pathetic thing I've seen for a while. I can only imagine what your life must be like but I promise you if you don't fix your outlook on life by the time you're into your mid-twenties it will start to solidify and, if you let it, you will end up a horrendously depressed and bitter individual for the rest of your life.
Brody Cruz
This is originally a Yea Forums pasta that is posted whenever the beatles are mentioned
Levi Wilson
its a Yea Forums meme. of course it's not funny
Charles Sanchez
If that laptop is different enough to be considered a new design (as 2001 is when compared to that godzilla film) then it's perfectly reasonable
Brandon Myers
Why does Yea Forums suddenly like Kubrick's garbage now? Just two years ago you'd get laughed off the site if you thought any of his works were good
>Yea Forums is all one person shitposting from his parents' basement 24/7
Jackson Jackson
Kube is overrated. He has great attention to detail but obviously regards plot and pacing as far down the priority list.
Carson Morales
>Kubrick Nolan, yes. Wes Anderson, yes. But Kubrick? Aside from the occasional contrarian this board has always been okay with him.
Mason Torres
Not really, this board hated Kubrick for a long time (Or atleast 2001)
Jaxson Powell
>t. lowly subhuman
Jace Clark
Maybe 2001 but the majority have always agreed on Barry Lyndon and his older stuff like Dr. Strangelove & Paths of Glory
Nathaniel Morgan
Kubrick films are like having a fever. An surreal sensation of slowly passing eternity and infinite, inescapable tedium. FUCK Kubrick.
Adrian Fisher
>t. shitskin
Kayden Ortiz
The only people on this board that hated Kubrick were also the ones that cum to the thought of Avatar and Jurassic Park. I'm not saying they're bad movies but that is what they are, movies. They pander to a certain demographic whereas Kubrick pandered to himself.
Michael Russell
even there you can see that he made those scenes better maybe he wasn't the most original but be had the better taste
Daniel Baker
>t. dumb nigger
Logan Howard
Invasion of Astro Monster >Enjoyable all the way through >Knew what it was >Charming as fuck >Got fun giant monster fights
2001: A Space Odyssey >Giant bore >Director is a pseud who'd browse reddit if it were a thing when he was alive >No charm or personality, all of the characters are monotone robots >Got a shitty LSD trip at the end for druggie subhumans to look at
People only like 2001 because their favorite youtube video essay faggot told them it was good.
Avatar and Jurassic Park are objectively superior to 2001, though
Thomas Price
This has to be one of the worst cancer thread on Yea Forums
Nathan Richardson
only first looks similar tbqh
Gavin Hughes
>People only like 2001 because their favorite youtube video essay faggot told them it was good. or maybe they just enjoy the movie?
Colton Ortiz
You'd need to be very easily entertained and of low IQ to enjoy the slog that is 2001
Michael Hernandez
cope
Isaiah Campbell
>Don't trust copyright laws goyim! It goes in the way of socialism! IP laws are anti-capitalist.
Samuel Adams
People call me a pleb because of this, but 2001 would be awesome had the whole thing just been the HAL 9000 debacle, expanded. That part of the movie was really gripping, tense, and thought-provoking - plus the VA for HAL was pure sex.
Why the hell people rate Astro Monster higher than Ghidorah? The only thing going for it is Nick Adams and the Xilien controller and actually mostly just talking scenes because the monster scene get less screentime than in any other live action movie and hard sci fi stuff like space battles is inferior to Hollywood productions.
Jack Taylor
Who are you quoting, fag?
Jacob Ross
trolled
Mason Lopez
Kubrick was inspired and influenced by this movie and it's not a joke or exaggeration.
>t-they don't like my shitty meme but it's s-so memorable and funny
No, you fuck off pleb stop dumping your shit in another thread you have zero talent.
Jackson Russell
You are pleb and don't deserve 2001
Henry Jackson
what a fucking hack
Wyatt Edwards
Japa- no, Asian SciFi is famously bad. Thanks for the rec though.
Matthew Roberts
I'd say when they tried to imitate what Hollywood did in movies like Earth vs. the Flying Saucers they don't look as good in comparison (but they still look quite impressive and I love how in Battle in Outer Space from 1959 the fighter jets were modeled after X-15, Honda loved this shit). Japanese sci fi of monster variation is terrific if done right as well as a few movies about experiments such as Human Vapor.
Liam Hill
>I'd say when they tried to imitate what Hollywood did in movies like Earth vs. the Flying Saucers they don't look as good in comparison Japanese special effects from the 50s and 60s compare well to Hollywood effects from the same period. It was the blockbuster era that left Japan in the dust.
Mason Reyes
Yeah Honda predicted that when he visited the set of one of the Godzilla movies of the heisei era. Those effects could be neat especially those from the 80s they were on par with smaller blockbusters like Tremors. Then it became more cartoony.
Samuel Jackson
Diehard kubrick fans are the fucking worst.
Bentley Bell
>tfw i still don't get what the baby was supposed to represent
Jason Cooper
Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero is a good one. Oh and lel.
Jace Morales
>>tfw i still don't get what the baby was supposed to represent The "Star Child" is Dave Bowman-he reached apotheosis, he became a god. It's a Masonic film, but neat art and music.
Brandon Long
Kubrick haters are literally cancer
Jason Williams
Lightspeed evolution. Alien technology basically that allowed Bowman to achieve the form of an omnipresent being but in the sequel he can still take human form even if he seems distand and out there.
Adrian Morales
nice try defending a hack who couldn't have achieved all that by himself so he had to steal.
I think Godzilla was an afterthought. Honda was so sick of making the same movies, he liked high sci fi.
Colton Lee
Toho effects stagnated hard in the 90s. Daiei's Gamera films from the same time hold up pretty well today however
Angel Moore
I don't hate him but his worshipers are autistic and annoying.
Nathaniel Brown
So are his haters and jealous rivals
Gavin Powell
Just keep sucking his jew cock
Daniel Scott
>As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside but thinking all the time, so now it was to be Georgie the General, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless, grinning bulldog. But, suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends, for now it was lovely music that came to my aid and I viddied at once what to do
