Have to disagree. Eyes Wide Shut is the best movie made in the last 2 years. Slow talking and the "sparse piano music"? Ever seen 2001? It's called "effect" - not all movies are meant to keep you on the edge of your seat. And you must have been compelled by the "cult" and what that was all about. And 2001 was also hated by critics in its day, yet those same critics now call it one of the best movies ever made. Kubrick is (was) a great moviemaker. It's unfair to dismiss his movie as a "tit flick". Now, if you wanna talk about really bad, overhyped movies, check out The Thin Red Line (I survived it last night). It makes Saving Private Ryan look interesting. Moral of the story: war is bad. Provocative? For a good war movie, see Full Metal Jacket (also Kubrick). troyhakala sent with Office E-mail on Windows 2000 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Schmidt [mailto:Jim.Schmidt@sfweekly.com] Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 9:26 AM To: sinister@Majordomo.net Subject: Sinister: blair witch/eyes wide someone asked: American listees who have seen either "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Blair Witch Project" (can't wait to see both of 'em). ok,ok...i have to say that i haven't been so overly disappointed by two seemingly exciting films in a long time. my advise is: don't buy the hype. save your money for another copy of tigermilk. "blair witch" has a great premise and is overall well-done, but it failed the ultimate test for me...it WASN'T scary!!! maybe if i was ten years old...or afraid of the dark. c'mon, i love to make videos and shoot film as much as the next fledgling director, but i felt the characters really started to lose credibility when they were running around with their cameras turned on. if something is chasing you and you're scared to death, screw the heavy equipment--either drop it or use it as a weapon. film the ghoul or live? hmmm, tough question. but alas this would've destroyed the premise... plus the people spent an awful large amount of time sitting around moping instead of getting the hell out. great idea, not scary. maybe it's also because i'm just not scared of ghosts... midnight crackheads and painfully high rent frighten me more. now on to the masterpiece itself--"eyes wide shut". inexcusably excrutiatingly dull. if people talked this slow, nothing would ever be communicated. this film was obviously made by a man. it's pretty much just a titty movie with skinny model girls running around tempting tom cruise. i did have a good time laughing at the "rituals" that occur, but please, the underground sex scenes are vanilla at best. ho hum. everyone's white and rich and boring. this film might have had something interesting to say 20 years ago or if it had been made by david lynch. ok, that's all...if you wanna see something more suspenseful, waste your money on "arlington rd"...if you wanna see something at least a bit more provocative, check out "summer of sam"...if you wanna see a tit flick, buy tigermilk. i've got the beginnings of a stomach illness today and i'm blaming "eyes wide shut" (perhaps the really annoying sparse piano music which was supposed to signify ???)...i really want my 7 bucks and 3 hours back please. sign me.bitter. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+