Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

This film has so many questions:

Was this Kubrick's final cut?

Who is in the Red Cloak?

How is Zeigler (Pollack) involved?

Did she really have an affair?

How did the mask get on his bed?

This is a fun trailer, too

I'll never understand all the hate this movie got.

What is great? No.

What it terrible or even bad? No it wasn't.

Cruise was fine. Kidman was fine. Any problems this movie had was in the script.

R3 I know, I think this film is a masterpiece.

I can't stand Cruise but I adore Schnitzler and Kubrick.

I listen to a few movies podcasts and most agree it is a classic. I really like it but cinephiles LOVE it.

Barry Lyndon was panned when it came out and is now considered an absolut masterpiece, probably his best.

Kubrick was The Best.

Kidman was barely in the movie, wasn’t she?

I disliked it when it first came out; now I'm obsessed with it.

The most sexually provocative film of 1953.

My favorite Christmas movie. 🎄

It's no Barry Lyndon, nor even as good as many other of the director's films, but my affection for it has grown over time (I didn't dislike on first viewing, but didn't especially like it either, but it's more interesting on later viewings but still wanting.)

It’s similar to Vertigo because it works better if you interpret the whole thing as a dream.

Isn't that what David Lynch said about "Mulholland Drive" as well?

[quote] Who is in the Red Cloak?

I don't think Red Cloak is any character we've seen earlier in the film, just the host of the orgy. But the actor was Leon Vitali, probably best remembered for playing Marisa Berenson's bratty, hateful older son who gets the shit beaten out of him by Ryan O'Neal in "Barry Lyndon"

Such a dumb ending.

I loved it. A lot more than his "better" movies.

I was in a theater watching Eyes Wide Shut at the exact moment JFK Jr flew his plane into the sea and drowned. He got the better part of the deal.

I saw it in DC and the audience laughed all the way through it.

I enjoyed the voyeuristic aspect of it. Supposedly the set of Nicole and Tom’s apartment was dressed with real items from their lives to create an intimate and personal environment for them to act in. So I’m like is that Nicole’s actual toothbrush, face cream.

And to the is day, when I’m feeling fancy (like on vacation), I slip off my undies like Nicole slips off her panties in the opening scene -allowing them to slink down to your ankles, stepping out of them one leg at a time, oh so gingerly - like a real, rich white lady.

I love it. It's my favorite Kubrick movie. Everything about it is perfect to me.

The woman tells Tom Cruise she is obsessed with him then ends up marrying Thomas Gibson, who looks a little like Cruise.

It's an excellent movie with a lot of nuance. The visual style is beautiful.

Illuminati blueprint

It's elegant and beautiful

Meh.

[quote]I was in a theater watching Eyes Wide Shut at the exact moment JFK Jr flew his plane into the sea and drowned. He got the better part of the deal.

I remember on the way to the theater to see it, we listened to the news coverage of the search and recovery effort.

[quote]The woman tells Tom Cruise she is obsessed with him then ends up marrying Thomas Gibson, who looks a little like Cruise.

The role was originally supposed to be played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, but she had to drop out due to scheduling.

I really love this movie; it's one of my favorite films of the 90s, and the only Kubrick film I've seen in the theater during its original run.