If somebody tells you that their favorite christmas movie is Eyes Wide Shut, run.
@enkiv2 Why, it´s not worse in line than "I love watching Die Hard on Christmas because killing Hans Gruber makes me get really jolly with the mood" ;)
@Richard_ermen
Well, most people who claim Die Hard is their favorite Christmas movie aren't getting hard watching Hans Gruber fall off the Nakitomi building.
Die Hard is violent but it's a cheery stylized violence familiar from action movies. Eyes Wide Shut is about sexual slavery, AIDS death, and the incredible lack of chemistry between two attractive people forced to marry by David Miscavige.
@enkiv2 Didn´t the Kubrick movie actually pick up on the lack of chemistry? I distantly remember that it´s what makes it such a weirding movie to watch. Next to the unique style of film.
On a whole ´nother note....I...I do hope no one is getting hard watching Hans Gruber die but then I wasn´t getting hard watching EWS. Far too weirdly overladen with symbolism to be truly erotic.
@enkiv2 Are there people who "actively love EWS"? I can count the people who´ve even seen it on one hand in my circle of friends, and none, me included, would count it as something they´d watch ever again. Though I´m sure if given the chance, people would fall over themselves missing the point ;)
@Richard_ermen
It's not like it's an obscure film. I know people who really get off on Lars Von Trier and hero-worship Kubrick and those guys could easily miss the point.
@enkiv2 Lars von Trier...brrr...I still remember how disturbed I was watching Anti-Christ.
@Richard_ermen
IIRC Kubrick was disappointed that their chemistry wasn't worse and campaigned to get a pair of leads who actively hated each other.
Mostly I'm thinking EWS is such a disturbing movie that it's a red flag if somebody really loves it without caveats or in a straightforward way, because it's presenting something that's supposed to be horrifying.
(Though, I'm not sure that many people missed the point the way they did with, say, Fight Club.)