User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-26141044-20150224041528/@comment-26141044-20150224052425

I haven't seen that one yet, but I will now. The works that I have seen by Mr. Kubrick are: A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Dear god, this movie... THIS MOVIE... I can't.) Lolita, and Eyes Wide Shut.

Now, having now just remember Lolita, I will say that would be the only by him that I can fairly and honestly say was a decent adaption of the Nabokov novel. Sure, he cut MANY things and once again, added certain things to achieve his "righteous vision", but it was a fairly well made film. Probably the only one by him that I would say that I enjoyed at some degree.

Now... the worst of the bunch is 2001 and Eyes Wide Shut. Eyes Wide Shut is just, trash upon trash. Sex, most of it meaningless, thrown together with a "thriller" plot. And 2001 was actually mostly like the novel, but once again, MANY MANY things were cut. I mean, you literally HAVE to read the novel to even understand that mess of a movie. He glossed over a classic with "trippy visuals" and "smart plot devices." Hell people even started saying the book just didn't do it for them like the film did. I can't believe that a man that worked years on his own personal masterpiece gets cut down and ignored for a Hollywood film that was "groundbreaking." I weep for those that are getting overshadowed by the films. Hell, I bet some people didn't even know 2001 had a damn novel.