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Summary: not amazing, but not bad (or perverse)
Review: Eyes Wide Shut isn't as bad a movie as many people take it to be. It is defenitly long and WAY too slow, but it's still pretty intruiging nontheless. It's hardly perverted; if you want perverted, there's plenty of hardcore porn in the world. Most of the nudity is pretty tasteful, not as psychotically erotic as some people take it to be. Still, this isn't Kubrick's best movie, and you'd be better off watching Lolita or Dr. Strangelove. Strange though, how people find this more perverse than Lolita... Overall, Eyes Wide Shut is a good rent.
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Summary: A pointless movie
Review: This movie has the most juvenile plot that I've encountered since 'Swordfish'. I can just imagine a bunch of 16 year old boys commenting on the cool T&A. I love quirky movies. I enjoy leisurely pacing. This movie is just dumb. And Nicole Kidman can't act (Tom is not much better).
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Summary: All you 1-2 star people need to wake up.
Review: Or maybe you don't like movies that actually require the use of your ol' noggin. If that's the case, keep your negative reviews to yourself because lots of folks really appreciate a quality film like this. No, Eyes Wide Shut is not spoon-fed. To get anything out of it you will have to do some minor analysis. Nothing too crazy. All symbolism and the like that you should have learned as a sophomore in high school.
This movie isn't Kubrick's Magnum Opus but it is still a Kubrick film and fans of the director will not be disappointed. Sex is its own character in this movie. And many people get upset about all the nudity, but it's those people who should be ashamed because the nudity is secondary to what's actually going on. Gratuitous nudity is Porky's, not Eyes Wide Shut. So please, if you like a good mind-bending Kubrick tour of the humanity in us all, watch it. The rest of you go rent The Mummy Returns.
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Summary: Not that great of a "last hurrah"
Review: Those of my friends who may think me a Kubrick fanboy need only look to this review to rest assured I am not. I have always been a fan of Kubrick, and I've even stood up for many of his avante-garde or supposedly perverted films such as "A Clockwork Orange"...but I couldn't find myself to like this film. Not only is it dull and boring, but it is extremely perverted and I can definately see why it almost got an X rating. Now you may say, "But its supposed to be from the point of view of the main characters." That may be so, but Kubrick's entered that field before and done it better elsewhere (again, I reference "A Clockwork Orange"). This film is really just a disappointment. Especially since it was the last film Kubrick did. I think many Kubrick fans want to say its good just so that they don't have to admit Kubrick's last film wasn't his best.
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Summary: " yawn "
Review: perfect title wrong movie. i fell asleep fifteen minutes into the movie. it's that boring.
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Summary: kubricks final film
Review: this is Stanley Kubricks( director of The Shining and Full Metal Jacket) last motion picture as a great hollywood director. the leads are powerful and you always gotta have Sydney Pollack fighting with someone and getting angry. lots of nuidty is plentiful in this movie but besides this its a great paranoia and mystery film. works good if your stoned
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Summary: Incredible film, if you can handle ambiguity
Review: I saw "Eyes Wide Shut" in the theater when it came out, and I remember thinking it was incredible. I also remember hearing lots of complaining from the other people in the theater on the way out. Basically this is a film you'll either love or hate. I think when it came out, people were disappointed because they were expecting a traditional "erotic thriller", which this is not. This is a subtle, dreamlike, and very ambiguous film that explores jealousy, sexuality, death and the subconscious. I don't think most moviegoers (at least not Americans) are really comfortable with ambiguity in a film. They want clear, linear stories. But a film like "Eyes Wide Shut", to me, is the opposite of an insult to one's intelligence, because it leaves many of the questions of the film up to the viewer to decide for himself. It is widely known that Stanley Kubrick finished this film right before his death. After watching "Eyes Wide Shut", it occured to me that this film may have been his way of communicating that even close to death, life is still made up of many more questions than answers.
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Summary: Not Kubrick's Best, But Still Very Good
Review: For some reason, I am really in the minority among all my friends on this one, who just did not seem to appreciate this movie. Of course, most of them complained about the same thing: the piano hammering the same note throughout. They obviously don't understand Kubrick's use of music to create a feeling for the film. He was much more concerned with the story and the film itself than trying to collaborate with the record companies to get Christina Aguilera's latest bubble gum hit in the film so that he and they could make some money on the soundtrack. The piano did an excellent job of creating the tense and haunting background so that we could be more in touch with the characters and what they were going through mentally. That being said, I found this to be a very good movie. I never once thought the story dragged, and as far as there being no payoff at the end, that's just a part of human nature to get all worked up about something that turns out to be nothing of any significance. Shame on more movie for not trying this approach, rather than reproducing the same cookie cutter Hollywood endings. Is it Kubrick's best film? I don't think so. Would I even put it in his top 5? Actually, no. But a sub-par Kubrick film still has more substance than 95% of anything else out there, so just enjoy it for what it is.
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Summary: ...
Review: Absurdly beautiful Nicole Kidman plays an absurdly beautiful wife who, after getting high, tells her husband of an erotic fantasy (involving a stranger) that she had on a vacation the previous year. Absurdly beautiful Tom Cruise plays the role of an absurdly beautiful husband who is immensly disturbed by his wife's fantasies and decides to compromise his fidelity, turning in a performance that is very un-Cruise (this is the first hint I've seen that that he's actually a decent actor and can pull off roles that aren't... Tom Cruise-y.. In a way, sort of like finding a fossil and being unsure if its from flora or fauna...). As Kubrick's final movie there has been some theorizing about how much he might have changed it before its release, and I too am inclined to think the studio did more than block out some writhing human groupings in the orgy scene. But, even if it has been "finished"/"modified" by the studio, it's still clearly his movie. Of course, this is the worst thing about Eyes Wide Shut... Kubrick's style is too hyperborean for this movie, which in the hands of a typical director would have turned into a lamebrained "erotic" thriller. In Kubrick's hands it's much too frigid and beautiful to give it the sort of impact that, if he were operating further from his trademarks, would have made it one of his best movies. The way it is, Eyes Wide Shut is still an excellent movie (which makes me wonder how much better or worse it would have been had the director been alive a bit longer). It's haunting, mysterious and dreamlike beauty is hampered by its vague moralizing and themes that are too directly human, but it also makes me wish Kubrick had made more movies in a similar vein, because there are very few movies I've seen that pull these feelings and tones off half as well as Eyes Wide Shut (imagine how good The Cell could have been if Kubrick had directed...). Everything else aside, Eyes Wide Shut is worth the price of purchase for the masked ball scene alone.
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Summary: Should Have Won The Oscar For Wardrobe
Review: This fine film should have won the Academy Award for costuming. The women's wardrobes were exemplary. Every movie should follow this example.
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