So is most of Kubrick's stuff
EG The Shining, A Clockwork Orange.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:05, 2 replies)

Ahhh no....
Everything BUT the Shining. That works without ever having to read the book.
(dchurch bah, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:07, closed)

It's not that great.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:09, closed)

The ending was all fudged up in the film, otherwise it was nicely done

( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:12, closed)

Not great
but not awful. Certainly entertaining, and better than 90% of the so-called 'horror' films I've seen over the past decade.
(dchurch bah, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:19, closed)

Pretty awful.
The kid was annoying, and the guy was all cliché omg psycho
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:20, closed)

He was an archetype rather than a cliché.
It only became a cliché because for the subsequent thirty years almost everybody has based their psycho on Nicholson.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:22, closed)

Same with The Godfather.
Cliched, unimaginative bullshit.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:25, closed)

The Godfather films are just a total rip-off of Guy Ritchie.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:27, closed)

Guy Ritchie Hitchcock
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:30, closed)

Dude. Hitchcock is totally a wannabe Richart Curtis.
And in any case, you're wrong, it owes far more to Powell and Pressburger and Rohmer than to Hitchcock. But even taking that into account, calling it clichéd or unimaginative is balls.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:41, closed)

D'ya think?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:54, closed)

Like yeah.
The strained romance in Marnie is a total rip-off of Four Weddings.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:58, closed)

Marnie was no Rebecca.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:07, closed)

Agreed.
Although the kid WAS annoying.
(dchurch bah, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:32, closed)

Also
almost every fucking comedy show I can think of has done a Shining spoof which has turned it into a complete parody of itself
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:34, closed)

I get it!
it's like that bit in Manhattan when Diane Keaton and Michael Murphy are having that long conversation about all those great artists they consider over-rated.
And that's how you realise that they're pricks.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:16, closed)

their

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:21, closed)

They are
They're.
(dchurch bah, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:40, closed)

ghey.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 20 May 2011, 16:54, closed)

g'hey
Gay..er.
(dchurch bah, Fri 20 May 2011, 23:00, closed)