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Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 1:59 am**

Who cares, you say? I'll bet Ridley does!

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 3:00 pm**

wtf?
i dont know wether to reply to this or not, im pretty sure you're just trolling. but i have to say ive never herd or read any interviews with kubrick where he did comment on blade runenr or reference it.

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 9:44 pm**

ridley was a huge fan of stanley...I heard he often asked..."how would stanley do this"..as far as the other way around...no idea

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2005 3:42 am**

I once read that Kubrick and Ridley used to talk regularly (which with Kubrick could mean as well once or twice a year) and that they had a friendly relationship, as ridleynoir said, Scott being a fan of him. And that's why it is strange that Kubrick never commented (AFAIK) on Ridley's work.

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2005 3:58 am**

THX1138 wrote:wtf?
i dont know wether to reply to this or not, im pretty sure you're just trolling.

One of Ridley's gods is Kubrick."
- Tony Scott

I once read this on the internet and it made me wonder:

I can't give a source, but I have heard it stated that, in Kubrick's opinion, Blade Runner was the most beautiful movie ever made.
- geophile (16995)

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2005 4:05 am**

And then there's this:

"Niche magazines and various books have long celebrated BLADE RUNNER, the best designed film of the last 25 years, (and one even Stanley Kubrick cited as the most beautiful color film, period), ..."

http://ifmagazine.com/review.asp?article=850

What do you mean I'm a troll?

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2005 4:08 am**

t I have heard it stated that, in Kubrick's opinion, Blade Runner was the most beautiful movie ever made.
- geophile (16995)[/quote]

Cant argue with that !

although 2001 was pretty nice.

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2005 8:00 pm**

Leon Corporation wrote:What do you mean I'm a troll?

you couldve elaborated on your topic and posted some of these links you just now came up with. looks like you searched google, and found your sites. if you really wanted to know the answer, people on the internet usually search google before posting on forums, not the other way around. anyway, it looks like your topic has a purpose, so im happy now.

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2005 9:59 pm**

THX1138 wrote:
Leon Corporation wrote:What do you mean I'm a troll?

you couldve elaborated on your topic and posted some of these links you just now came up with. looks like you searched google, and found your sites. if you really wanted to know the answer, people on the internet usually search google before posting on forums, not the other way around.

WOW! Really? In that case: "Yes, mein fuhrer!" But I checked Google before I asked the question. It came up with zero results, and I'm a pretty good searcher. Forgive me, I didn't know I had to search for days before I was entitled to post it. Guess the Fuhrer rules the board with an iron hand (perhaps the coming of the last Star Wars movie, which shows the birth of Darth Vader, your mentor, has something to do with this.) And no, I did not "explain" my question, I thought I was amongst Blade Runner fans! When I saw that you accused me of trolling (after how many posts here? Boy, I must be some kind of the sleeper troll) I elaborated the question a bit by posting a few indirect clues (which i found after long deep googling). Mind you, I did not found my sites at all.

So long, fellas!

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2005 10:20 pm**

Posted: **Thu May 05, 2005 5:32 am**

ah, well its turning into something, so i must apolgize for my troll comment. sorry about that. :-#

ive never thought kubrick and scott were friends. i would always imagine he would hang around george lucas or something. because of star wars, alien got a higher respect around Fox, and actually got produced.

lots of people (scifi fans mostly) sayd A.I. (spielberg movie) sucked. in reality, it was all kubricks idea. based on the story "supertoys last all summer" kubrick actually helped spielberg with it throughout pre-production, until he died. now what if kubrick were to direct it and it looked almost identical to the spielberg version? would people still say it sucked? or would they love it just because it's another kubrick film?

i'm not too big of a kubrick fan, i loved 2001, but really that's all ive seen by him. ive seen clips of full metal jacket and eyes wide shut, and that's it, so i cant really comment on his style of movies and directing.

Posted: **Thu May 05, 2005 10:47 am**

THX1138 wrote:ah, well its turning into something, so i must apolgize for my troll comment. sorry about that.

ive never thought kubrick and scott were friends. i would always imagine he would hang around george lucas or something. because of star wars, alien got a higher respect around Fox, and actually got produced.

lots of people (scifi fans mostly) sayd A.I. (spielberg movie) sucked. in reality, it was all kubricks idea. based on the story "supertoys last all summer" kubrick actually helped spielberg with it throughout pre-production, until he died. now what if kubrick were to direct it and it looked almost identical to the spielberg version? would people still say it sucked? or would they love it just because it's another kubrick film?

i'm not too big of a kubrick fan, i loved 2001, but really that's all ive seen by him. ive seen clips of full metal jacket and eyes wide shut, and that's it, so i cant really comment on his style of movies and directing.

You must see....
-Full Metal Jacket-by many considred the best Vietnam movie ever made
-The Shining-creepy creepy movie
-A Clockwork Orange-The antithisis to 2001 which is made reference to.
-Dr. Strangelove: or how I stopped worrying and loved the bomb-see it for three versions of Peter Sellers if anything else.
-Sparticus- the origional Gladiator

...and like any Ridley Scott movie they get better the more you watch them.

Posted: **Thu May 05, 2005 10:49 am**

ill definitely have to check them out then.

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2005 3:30 am**

I think you'll fall in love with at least one of Kubrick films. He was a brilliant filmmaker. And if he really said BR was the most beautiful color film ever made, well, that speaks even better of him!

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2005 4:14 pm**

Nice to hear Kubrick liked BR. I always thought BR was the most 'Kubrickesque' film by Ridley Scott so I'm not really surprised.
OTOH, I read Kubrick didn't like Alien. IIRC, he commented on it something like "it's just 'It: Terror from beyond space'". (I'll have to dig up a link for the exact quote)

And yes, if you're not very familar with Kubrick films, check them out! I think every BR fan will fall in love with at least a couple of his movies.

From what I can remember about A.I., it had been in preproduction for years and years before it actually got made. He kept delaying it because he felt the special effects at the time were not yet up to it. I remember a report about A.I. in the paper somewhere in the early nineties, late eighties maybe.
Spielberg rewrote the screenplay, but all the main ingredients were already there.
I have mixed feelings about A.I., but I certainly find it an interesting movie and still quite good. I remember that one of the reasons Kubrick asked Spielberg was that Kubrick worked very slow and he anticipated a very long shoot for A.I., which could possibly lead to continuity problems regarding the main character (a young boy which could visibly age during production). He also thought the theme was more suited for Spielberg to direct than himself. I think I would have preferred it being shot by Kubrick himself though. Incidently, Spielberg himself felt the same way.

Sorry for getting off-topic now :oops:

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