If Barry Lyndon 13:52 was released today I would see it in the theater a dozen times at least. An utterly breathtakingly beautiful film. Hard to understand the fickle film goers of yester-decade.
It’s not that hard to understand what has happened to modern cinema. Most people are born into this world, not even knowing anything great from the past. It’s not like they’re growing up on SK movies but still deciding to see every marvel movie. It’s honestly too expensive and risky to make great movies like the past. Everything has changed since then and you just cannot. Very rare that real art is made in cinema and tv these days and when it is it never gets the attention it deserves. Look at NBC’s Hannibal.
Barry Lyndon is only 2nd to 2001 in regards to how stunningly beautiful the cinematography is. Much like 2001, the critics were lukewarm at best. They fail to realize that these movies are best enjoyed at a slow pace. How else can someone take it all in visually?
I'm glad it delighted MGM because the premiere was a disaster and the press releases were devastating. So much so, the studio bosses were very concerned about how to save the film with possible cuts. Filmcritic Pauline Kael for example said about 2001 being basically the most boring thing she ever watched. During the first 30 Minutes of the premiere a lot of the audience walked out. Kubrick had counted them all. But the film became VERY VERY popular among the young generation as it ran at the theaters for everyone to see. Teenagers in particular liked it a lot. The ones who didn't understand the movie at all were the older generation who didn't understand what Kubrick intended with this movie. It kinda tells a lot about how different of a perspective generations can have on certain things.
2001 is one movie you have to watch on the biggest screen there is. I sore it when I was about 12 14, I think. I did not understand it butt it was wow wow wow and Iam 64 now and still watch it at the theater.
Yes. They had a real helicopter flying over some explosions. The heat I think from them caused the copter to lean forward decapitating Vic Morrow and a kid, and then the copter crashed onto another kid.
He who laughs last......not completely, but predominantly after time has passed(and with Kubrick films its decades n more) critics and viewers have changed their stance, opinions and room number from 237 to the one they currently occupy to express a bit of reverance that years ago may have once been reviling. for example ; from the time of this you tube opinion comment,, give "Eyes Wide Shut" another ten years. ....other movies, in a short time, go from prom queen to an overdose
Actually, Terence Malick was the second filmmaker to use a steadycam, in Days of Heaven, a few years before The Shining. His cinematographer was Haskell Wexler, who pioneered the use of steadycam in Bound for Glory.
@@reptomicus Oh very good, I hadn't known of that competitor. Apparently Halloween was the fourth film to use one of the two types of rig, Days of Heaven the first.
Yeah and you could open the chat by saying "Hey John, remember that crazy time in 1983 when actor Vic Morrow and the two young Vietnamese kids got decapitated on the set of your episode of The Twilight Zone movie and you almost got convicted of murder..."
@@BuckRolly1 Would have been something for the prosecution to get Landis (and four others btw) convicted of murder, considering they were all charged with involuntary manslaughter.
9:12 Wait a damn minute, now. John Landis says American Werewolf is the 3rd movie to use steadicam? American Werewolf came out in 1982. What about Rocky, Marathon Man, and the Shining?
Let's all give our appreciation to the crane operators and helicopter pilots who helped airlift the host off his couch and into the theater for this special interview and screening event.
John Landis comes off really well in this interview. I always liked him, despite the sad and terrible Twilight Zone scandal (where Spielberg hung the poor man out to dry, by the way).
Dan Roy "He's an artistic genius" (a big stretch by the way) will never excuse him for carelessly, and knowingly, putting his actor and two child actors live's at risk which resulted in them dying, horribly. Spielberg and a number of colleagues ended their friendship with Landis for good reason.
@beanie0112 Landis got used as an example for the incident, for not being there. He trusted the crew of professionals who were there Landis did nothing wrong. I work in a factory that runs 24/7. My factories' administrators are not there all the time. Anyone could die at anytime, and have in the place I work. What Happened on the Twilight Zone was at night, on a night shoot that was behind schedule, children were working at night, which was questionable and changed law for such situations. I know I watched the twilight zone movie at night being the same age of the children that were in the film at the time and being a child up at night only leads to sleeping in the next morning. Let's focus on what happened, it was an indoor set with a real helicopter overhead above an actor and two children. That sounds Ludacris and not worth the shot, but that was no different than what any other professionals in the movie industry were doing at the time. It was normal, the people involved were not amateur hacks try to pass off pulling a rabid bunny from A hat at a child's birthday party. (There was an indoor helicopter shoot filmed in the Civic arena in Pittsburgh in the 1990's for a Jean Claud Vandam movie hardly a decade later.) Landis wasn't even present on the evening of the incident in question. Just like George Lucas wasn't present for many shoots in his films, but was when Natalie Portman was injured by blanks from a prop blaster ( Lucas fired the unprofessional prop handler, but hey it sure could have been worse look at Brandon Lee and that was professionals that were on hand...but it was a fluke) Steven Spielberg wasn't present for the final climatic, and dangerous explosive scene at the end of Jaws...he was "burnt out." Spielberg should have been more responsible because he was the executive producer overseeing the whole thing of all the segments of the movie regarding the Twilight Zone. He tossed Landis under the bus. So he could keep making movies like poltergeist that had a drunk director using real skeletons to entertain movie audiences let alone all the other fucked up shit that came out of that show.
Given the revelations Mr. Landis provides concerning epic filmmakers and their concerns with box office money and how it reflects on the quality of their work, I have a friend that's a fairly successful artist and if any of his works don't sell he considers them pieces of shit. No matter how brilliant they may be. I think most if not every artist consider their creations a commodity first and an act of self expression second.
I think they also understand that if their previous attempts don't catch on there's a big possibility that they won't be able to make another one. What's the Hollywood rule: three failures in a row and you're out. Look at John Carpenter's career.
Yeah, but they never mention the Soviet Union or the cold war. Which was either a stroke of genius or a stroke of luck. They share the same space station and are on friendly terms, if a slight bit suspicious of each other, pretty much like in real 2001.
Ro man: Please, revisit the whole sequence inside the Space Station again and be specially focused on the apparent "friendly" relationship between Floyd and the Russian scientists, the apparent casual dialogue and the acting (this part of tbe film is very often misunderstood as non significant, as well as it occurs with the meeting at the Lunar Base, a monument to cynicism).
Yeah, if your guest is having no trouble coming out with things, the host's job is to stay out of the way, steering ONLY if necessary. Some of the comments on here would straight up piss off Stanley Kubrick.
