Eyes Wide Shut - Masterpiece or Crap ?

watched it twice....I could barely watch it the first time....totally passionless and pointless. I felt so indifferent to the lead charecters.
Nobody has mentioned Barry Lyndon! Now that was stunning.

Summary:

Eyes Wide Shut = crap
Barry Lyndon = masterpiece
 
Perfectly summed up.

There are moments that are signature Kubrick - the attention to detail and camera moves - but to call it a masterpiece t really is an example of The Emperor's New Clothes.
 
Personally I think it would have been much better without Cruise and Kidman, because they're all you can think about as opposed to the characters!
 
Agreed. It could have been quite an intriguing film if not for the woeful miscasting of the leaRAB.

It's often been cited that EWS played a part in the dissolution of the Cruise / Kidman marriage. I don't know whether that's true but the film is all the more interesting to watch with that in mind.
 
Yes, Cruise and Kidman no good, but Vinessa Shaw (Domino) excellent - wish there had been more of her, but then it would have been a different story.
 
Maybe if it wasn't just a vehicle to prove Tom Cruise wasn't gay it would of been better. But it was and he is so crap is my answer
 
I thought it was about Harford's journey using ultra-pretty settings and cinematography through a dangerous seedy world, of which he learns little as he cannot really enter it all, as if the prettiness protects him, and he remains an outsider, where the world is just full of potential danger and seediness. The sex activity is removed from him by luck or circumstance and he just floats on top of a sea of filth unharmed.

But I also thought it was basically crap, too much of an art film, not Kubrick's real strength.
 
I thought it was excellent. I'm a massive fan of kubrick though...

I really don't buy the miscasting thing. Kubrick was painfully insistant in his casting, so Cruise and Kidman got that gig for a reason.

Loved the use of Shostakovich for the theme music. Infact I loved all the music it really added another level to the film. Not that you would expect anything else from Kubrick.

I dunno, its always made me a little sad that this film is largely panned from all angles.
 
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