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That's weird, Richard, most real Kubrick fans call Spartacus not a Kubrick but a Kirk Douglas movie. It usually ends at the bottom of the list. That means your not a Kubrick fan, Richard, it's the only logical conclusion. Ah, I see you're a connoisseur! Eyes Wide Shut is so underrated!

What most people have missed (because they only count the scares) is that androids in the Alien universe are sexually frustrated.

If Star Wars was a flop in 1977, nobody today would be talking about it. It just would have been another Zardoz.

1. Alien (masterpiece in tone and design, a handbook for every one who wants to do sci-fi, changed cinema) 2. Aliens (it's a tense actioner, Cameron was smart not to copy Scott's movie, changed gaming) 3. Alien Resurrection (saved by Jeunet's caricuture Metal Hurlant style) 4. Alien Covenant (saved by the two Davids) 5. Prometheus/Alien3 (it's a tie for last place - want to throw foam bricks at both of them, both Scott and Fincher should be embarrassed) Who is your favorite Alien android? 1) Ash 2) Bishop 3) David

Of course! And they have the box office gross to prove it! As we all know, the better the movie, the more money it makes (JWFan law n° 9).

Some people love bad film stock a little too much.

I was more thinking of the latest batch of Superhero movies. Was he not defending those movies while blaming the audience for not taking the time or having the patience to appreciate them? OTOH, it's perfectly possible that I too suffer from TikTok-itis, even though I've never been on TikTok.

So it's not the movies but the audience that is mediocre. I see!

Just like Alien.

The Duelists? I've never seen that movie.

Maybe but it's the whole concept of 'laughing with zombies' that I don't find funny.

No, I haven't seen that. I tried to watch that zombie comedy with Woody Harrelson but I didn't make to the end. I simply don't see the appeal of zombie comedies.

I've heard they used AI to enhance the image quality (it looks like a modern movie now) and that they did not eradicate the film grain completely. Cameron hated the poor film stock Aliens was filmed on and so did I. TBH, when it comes to film restoration, I would like to see what AI is capable of.

It was all the craze back then. However, I couldn't see what the fuzz was all about and so I switched it off. I don't think laughing with zombies is good comedy.

Yes, Star Wars definitely played a role in the beat-up, used look of Alien, but in terms of direction, Kubrick was probably Scott's greatest influence on his first three movies. And even to this very day, Ridley regards 2001: ASO the best science fiction movie of all time. He even calls Prometheus a 2001 on steroids. Kubrick's influence is of course quite obvious in The Duellists but even on the set of Blade Runner Scott always wondered (according to the people who were there) how Kubrick would have shot it. Or Alien, I mean, just look at how similar the Space Jockey scene in Alien is to the Monolith on the Moon scene in 2001. “The design on ‘2001’ … that’s the threshold for everything being real. You look at ‘2001’ and you look at ‘Star Wars.’ Stanley’s design influenced everybody. I’ve never shaken it off; it influenced me even with ‘Prometheus'. Stanley really got it right. Stanley was like the Big Daddy, so I never got jealous of him.” - Ridley Scott