Going to see
2001: A Space Odyssey re-release later tonight
Had you seen it screened on film before? A friend of mine and I saw it in 70mm in Chicago a little while back and I'm wondering if the re-release is substantially different. Granted, I'm a Blu-ray man myself, so I don't get hard at the thought of celluloid like a lot of movie geeks, but since it's Kubrick, I'm curious about shit I wouldn't normally care about.
I suppose I should give The Bad And the Beautiful and The Champion a try. I have not been a huge fan of Kirk Douglas until recently after seeing Lonely Are the Brave and The Vikings and I've been thinking of what to watch next.
As a HUGE fan of his, I have to ask: What had you seen of his before
Lonely Are the Brave and
The Vikings that contributed to your low(er) opinion?
In any event, if you're coming around on him, then yes, definitely check out
Champion and
The Bad and the Beautiful. I'd also recommend
Gunfight at the OK Corral,
Paths of Glory,
Spartacus, and
Seven Days in May. And then, a personal favorite of mine, both for the movie (the definition of a hidden gem with an absurdly amazing cast) and for Douglas' performance (his final film before his stroke), is
Greedy
Btw, how about that brawl against the one armed man in Lonely Are the Brave? One of the best bar fight scenes ever.
Got nothing on Seagal, but yeah, it's a good one. That was Douglas' favorite of his own movies. Underrated film and performance.
As funny as Peter Sellers was, George C. Scott kind of stole the movie for me. When he is on the phone trying to defuse the situation with his mistress while all this far more important stuff is going down, that was spot on hilarious.
Completely agree he was the seller.
Funny enough, he hated his performance in that film and was mortified when he realized that Kubrick used all of his goofiest and craziest takes (and was pissed because Kubrick had told him that those takes were just to loosen him up and set the tone). But Kubrick's vision was spot-on, as always, because Scott kills it in every scene.
Of the many great moments from that character, my favorite is the way he slaps his stomach when he's gameplanning on the phone:
A lot of stuff that old i can't watch
As a classic film fan, I have two questions for you:
1) Why not?
2) What have you tried to watch?