Re: Why I Hate Stanley Kubrick

Geezer From Freezer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> > What images of current films are
> > memorable like these?
> 
> Like it or not, films clips such as:-
> 
> T1000 re-moulding in the ironworks in Terminator 2
> Forrest Gumps face when he finds out he's a dad
> Samuel L Jackson's speech in Pulp Fiction

I've seen all three of these films, but I don't find the images you
described to be very memorable at all.

Unless it's just thirty-something nostalgia talking, I would put the
final era of "indelible images" around the mid 80's:

The moment "Sophie" (Meryl Streep) makes her "Choice",
Various set-piece images from "Empire Strikes Back"
Christopher Lloyd's DeLorean
Half the shots in ET,
Almost every damn moment in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I've always roughly viewed the 90s (with major exceptions like Se7en
or Spielberg's dinos) as the first true "death of Hollywood" decade -
In fact, there are 2 specific late 80s/90s franchises that seemed to
immediately signal the End for me: I remember seeing "Batman" and
"Home Alone" in theatres years ago, and getting this gnawing feeling
that everything that had always excited me about the movies was
gradually coming to a close.

But sadly of course, it may have just been my adulthood talking.