What can be said about Eyes Wide Shut? This is truly one of the ultimate “love it or hate it” films, and is by far the most contentious film yet included in this series, with a FCQ of 59.79 (Film Contentiousness Quotient — details here).
Whether Kubrick’s final film provided a crowning touch to his legacy, or sadly tarnished it, is the subject of intense, passionate debate. Is the pacing excruciatingly slow, or beautifully dreamlike? Is the wooden acting of Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman part of the concept — a comment on how the characters “act out” their dual lives — or just bad?
Eyes Wide Shut
- Great! (63%, 10 Votes)
- Terrible! (37%, 6 Votes)
Total Voters: 16
Loading ...Here are a couple opinions from Criticker users.
Cuculiza: “An excellent study of the human mind, obsession with sex and how the society reacts. Slow-paced rythm builds up a sustained suspense throughout the entire movie. The performances are on point.”
Droplet00: “If this is all Stanley Kubrick figured out about about love, sex and desire in his long years, god save him.”
Last week’s polls are closed, on King Kong and Marie Antoinette, and the results are in: both are great (Marie Antoinette by a single vote!)
And just to prove that we don’t always have to disagree, here are two more films that are the opposite of contentious:
Unanimously Crap (FCQ 0.49): I Still Know What You Did Last Summer… don’t you care?
Unanimously Sweet (FCQ 4.44): Vertigo. Perhaps Hitchcock’s greatest masterpiece.
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