For me it was Kubick's technical expertise. The tracking shots he made famous, his abilities with light and lenses, going wide angle a great deal. His stories have always been secondary to me, except for Barry Lyndon. The eighteenth century portrayal of history had me paying more attention to surrounding characters.
The OP is a bottom feeding exercise: secrets of the Templar treasure... Kubrick wouldn't even look up.
Standing Wolf (09-03-2019)
Eyes Wide Shut dropped Kubrick off at the curb. It sucked.
The more $#@!ed up $#@! is the scientology and what they did to kidmann
Too dark. Too occult. Too vague.
The Sage of Main Street (09-04-2019)
Kubrick's films are not the standard, cookie-cutter Hollywood product, and of course that upsets a lot of people who are only looking for that kind of thing. Like certain other filmmakers, he's accused of being "obscure" or confusing for the sake of being different, or because he wasn't somehow talented enough to make the sort of movies that don't require much thinking on the part of the audience. Or, as we've seen, that his films must contain clues to some unspoken truth about some real world world wrongdoing or conspiracy.
Don't get me wrong - I love mindless action movies and other examples of the "cookie-cutter Hollywood product"; but I recognize that there can be legitimately great films that don't fit that mold. You can appreciate a complex dish, prepared by a master chef, with so many ingredients you really don't fully know what you're eating, and still love and even prefer a good cheeseburger.
I can remember being on vacation in St. Louis with the family when I was fourteen and going to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at a Cinerama theater. If you've never seen the movie, it ends with what I think can fairly be described as some very jarring and, yes, confusing images. As the credits rolled, my father loudly expressed his belief, in so many words, that "they" - whoever had made the movie - obviously hadn't known how to end it and had just put in anything that came to mind. Of course I didn't really understand exactly what had happened, either, and wouldn't until I read Arthur C. Clarke's novel adapted from the movie, but my father's reaction didn't seem right or appropriate to me.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Captdon (09-03-2019)