Clarification: Kubrick Still Boring!
As the more observant amongst you will have noticed, this week I have both defended the films of Michael Bay, and attacked those of Stanley Kubrick. That's probably a fairly controversial position, but I don't think the two bear any sort of comparison: Bay makes popcorn flicks, thrill rides - what I call movies, and he makes them extremely well. Kubrick sought to make something more, something more serious, more intelligent - what I call film, and to my mind Kubrick failed more often than not in his genre. That's really all there is to it. I do love 2001 though, I think because of its high technology premise and setting that its the one time Kubricks very mechanical and distancing technique worked in the favour of his story.
posted by BadMonkey @ 5:04 PM
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