I enjoyed "a curmudgeonly guy with a kind heart who right this minute is probably rewatching a Kubrick film while cheering for an absolutely indefensible sports team".
I share your conclusion that great artists should strive for taking risks and leave uneven ouvre behind them. But are Kubrick and Kurosawa good examples of uneven directors? It’s hard to measure and maybe their legend status muddles the ratings but casually glancing even their bad films are quite highly rated and this matches my feeling of them.
I feel Scotts work is way more all over the place and the great films in there feel more like the outliers. It’s all very subjective though and I have not seen everything these people have made.
These are really cool. It's amazing that Kubrick is as good at telling a story through photographs as he is at crafting one in a movie. The two mediums always struck me as being so unique from each other, that I wouldn't have thought that you could translate between the two.
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I enjoyed "a curmudgeonly guy with a kind heart who right this minute is probably rewatching a Kubrick film while cheering for an absolutely indefensible sports team".
I share your conclusion that great artists should strive for taking risks and leave uneven ouvre behind them. But are Kubrick and Kurosawa good examples of uneven directors? It’s hard to measure and maybe their legend status muddles the ratings but casually glancing even their bad films are quite highly rated and this matches my feeling of them.
I feel Scotts work is way more all over the place and the great films in there feel more like the outliers. It’s all very subjective though and I have not seen everything these people have made.
These are really cool. It's amazing that Kubrick is as good at telling a story through photographs as he is at crafting one in a movie. The two mediums always struck me as being so unique from each other, that I wouldn't have thought that you could translate between the two.