good movies

[Mister Obvious]

Dude it's 100% weird AF that you mention Eyes Wide Shut...

I was literally gonna make a post on this thread like 5 minutes ago, totally at random mentioning how I always thought Eyes Wide Shut was pure and utter total garbage too...

I just re-watched it...

Over all, it's a pretty boring movie. If Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise with their impossibly fine asses hadn't been in the lead roles, it really would have flopped.

But I think I do have a deeper insight on it now...

TBH man, I think the movie would have been a lot better if it was just a straight up murder flick and Tom's character simply killed his wife. She was unlikable from her first scene.

I watched it on double speed most of the time and it flowed just fine, which is rarely the case with any video in general. Dunno why Kubrick wanted them to talk so slow. It was very purposely slowed down and I don't get that stylistic choice, but okay.

I felt so bad for Cruise's character, the way everything just devolved into nightmarish sexual depravity on every front. Like evil could smell evil and it could also instantly spot anything good that wasn't part of its system. People who think this movie was just an excuse to show a bunch of titties and ass and sex scenes are really dense. It's a sad movie, not much else.

Even the ritual scenes were totally overhyped. Yeah, it's obviously a huge part of the movie, but it's almost like it was just used to get attention. Almost kind of a cheap tactic. The real point of the movie was that the emotional betrayal of infidelity warps everything around it. Makes everything dark and fucked up, and from there, the demons just descend until everything is tainted.

I did notice the ill-fated SnackWell's devil food cakes product placement though... lol. Clever.

Overall man, people have read way too far into this movie since the day it came out, and I think they were largely wasting their time. For real. I've read some WILD takes on this movie and almost none of them apply to the reality of the film whatsoever. And if it hadn't been a Kubrick film, his last no less, I certainly don't think people would still be mentioning it today.