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Summary: Eyes Wide Shut
Review: I personally felt that Stanley Kubrick's vision in his concluding film was ingenius. The manner in which he captured the jealousy and betrayal of modern society's relationships was extraordinary. From the eerie orgy sequence to the hilarious closing line by Nicole Kidman, this movie was truly an epic. But, what really made this movie so fantastic was the question, Does true love exist, or is it merely an illustration from a dream?
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Summary: Fascinating and Shocking!
Review: I am from Germany that's why I only know the unedited version of Kubrick's masterpiece, but I don't think that the American version is very different. This is Kubrick's best movie. Eyes Wide Shut is one of the most exciting and fascinating movies I've ever seen. The visualisation is fantastic, very stylish and cool. The performances of the actors are great, especially Kidman's, who deserves an Oscar. It's a shame that this movie wasn't a nominee at this years Academy Award show. The Soundtrack is wonderful and sometimes very creepy. The movie itself is sometimes very creepy for example the Masked Ball. This film isn't for people who don't want to think while watching a movie, this movie is an intellectual movie. Kubrick Rules!
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Summary: Oh My God, Did That Suck...
Review: Wow. I have seen bad films before (the Avengers springs to mind), but this is by far the slowest, stinkiest, and longest waste of film and talent that has ever hit the screen. Did Kubrick get good performances out of the leads? God, NO. You may have to go back and watch Rain Man or To Die For to remember that these two (Hollywood's most sickeningly attractive couple) can act at all. It's a wonder that this movie took so long to complete. You would think in that amount of time, they would have come up with something either coherent or, for that matter, watchable. I can't believe I sat through the whole thing. If Kubrick intended to make the worst film of all time, he did an incredible job. You keep thinking something, anything may happen, but nothing ever does.If you've bought this film without seeing it first (by the way, the digitalization in the orgy scene did not take away from anything - there was nothing to take it away from), do yourself a favor and get an Ebay account; sell it before you make the mistake of watching it.
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Summary: The Eyes Were Wide Open, But The Mind Certainly Wasn't...
Review: How can people call this art? I read several reviews on this film, all of them too kind towards the material. This is terrible acting from two of the greatest stars, and it's definetely not their fault. Although Stanley Kubrick may have been a very close friend to Tom and Nicole, seeing as how they spent as much time as they did during the production of the film, he came really close to butchering their careers. This movie is pointless and insignificant. Sure, we all have impure thoughts and some of the strangest fantasies, but who would honestly tell their husband or wife, "Hey, honey, I saw this really great looking woman/man today in the supermarket and I couldn't stop thinking about hopping in the sack with him/her. I hope you're not mad"? I can understand the part about Tom Cruise's character visualizing his wife with this other man, his thoughts driving him insanely jealous and creating a perplexing paranoia. I would probably let my thoughts drive me mad too if my husband told me that he thought about sleeping with someone else. Other than understanding this part, I could barely watch the rest of the film. It moved so slowly that I thought everyone in the film had a shot of Novacaine before they even turned the camera on. Maybe that's why it took more than two years to make this movie; everyone was drugged. But the machinations of strange ballroom orgies and the psychological dive into the sexual minds of human beings was nothing short of shallow. It was a skin flick with big actors and a big director to sell tickets. I could've gotten better acting and more action out of an actual porno. Sorry, but I don't buy it that Stanley Kubrick is just a very deep, very misunderstood individual. Films like these are a way for sick individuals to indulge their vile fantasies by putting it on film and marketing it as "artistic expression". Let's hope that a mistake like this isn't repeated in the future.
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Summary: NAKEDNESS! This movies only saving grace.
Review: I love Stanley Kubrick films! However, this one sucks! Poor dialogue and even poorer acting make this a pitiful bookend to a brilliant career. I'm sorry to have seen this movie.... except for the nakedness.
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Summary: Big letdown
Review: Being a lover of the majority of Kubrick's previous outings I was extremely dissapointed by this. The plot and pace would have made a snail embarassed and as for the camera work...are lens glare and reflections supposed to enhance the movie in some way I don't understand? Call me a charlatan but I disliked this movie intensely
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Summary: Complete Waste Of My Time
Review: So much controversy flew around this film that I thought it had to be worth checking out. The critics didn't like it, so that was another reason to give it a chance. When the end credits began to roll I knew that I had finally found "The One". I had found what I whole-heartedly call the worst movie of my entire life. Ummm what was the plot? The only reason it's worth 1 start is because Kidman and Cruise obviously did their best to make something of this waste of film.
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Summary: eyes bloodshot
Review: Howard Stern is probably having a ball with this travesty of a film. This is a movie that belongs more in Hugh Heffner's Playboy mansion as a typical purient object than it belongs in the theater. The acting is narcissistic, sickening and inordinately learned by rote. Nicole has the most nauseating scene I had yet to edure, with her Hungarian Romeo Max Ophuling her around a dance floor; her every deliberated paused comment sounding like Ali McGraw risen from the LOVE STORY dead. This film, declared the filmmaker, is "my most important work". There's more than a hint of Howard Hughes's last grim days in that remark. Kubreck is not much of a grand slammer, in my book. My viewing of THE KILLING on the same day I saw Eyes Closed convinced me that Kubrick's best work, (his most controlled and precise work) was in his early days. (THE KILLING,PATHS of GLORY and bits and pieces of LOLITA). EYES WIDE SHUT just seems to be a variation of Scorses's nocturnal journey of a film AFTER Hours. At least that film looked like we were in New York.
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Summary: What a beautiful portrayal of love and reality in a marriage
Review: I want to tell anyone interested in buying this DVD what a wonderful job Nicole, Tom, and Stanley did; in putting together this story of love, and the realities of love in a long term and mature relationship (Marriage) can be. Applause on this one Nic and Tom Great job! thanks I enjoyed it much! Annette in New York...
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Summary: Brilliant! Watch it again and again!
Review: The best movie of the year! Kubrick gets performances from Cruise and Kidman that far exceed anything they've ever done. Kubrick was masterful at all aspects of filmmaking, but try to pay attention to his use of music in all of his films. While you could say this is like comparing bars of gold, I think this was his personal strength. His love and expertise in this area really shines thru in this movie, as in all of his others. Watch this movie repeatedly, because, as with all of his films, they simply get better the more you view them.
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