Tfw reading totally destroyed your affinity for movies, tv shows...

>tfw reading totally destroyed your affinity for movies, tv shows, and video games to the point where you can't even stand an for more than 30 minutes

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same, all i can do now for passive entertainment is listen to audiobooks and watch college lectures on humanities and social science, trapped in a patrician dream and i can't wake up

Watch the shinning.
That is the most book like movie in existance even if it is super popular among fags now.
If you can't appreciate it (put effort in not jsut the plot) it is really amazing.

kubrick is a beast, i believe eyes wide shut is his greatest work, so much amazing shit in that movie, so patrician, but class conscious, but also the cuckoldry and sexual jealousy, it's got it all, i think that is the only movie that has can match or surpass literature, such a masterpiece, after i watched that i never saw life the same again t b h can't explain it in a shitpost, but that shit goes hard af

Movies, TV Shows and vidya pretty much suck anyways, the respective industries have largely gone to shit. I'm a complete escapist but even I can't stand most media aside from those that can function as background noise/podcasts (Star Trek is great for this)

There is still kino to appreciate, in the same way that there is genretrash to avoid.

>class conscious

when is say class conscious i don't mean it's leftist, i mean it shows the power relationship between classes like noble, big bourgeois, petit-bourgeois, proletarian/artisan/prostitute

Oldboy and The Handmaiden
Anything by Wang Kar-wai

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OP, watch Andrei Tarkovsky too. Nostalghia is a masterpiece.

This

>eyes wide shut
The synopsis makes it sound pornographic. I don't even want to watch Clockwork Orange because of the rape scene. Nothing disturbs me more than adultery.

Fart on my dick.

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>eyes wide shut is his greatest work
wrong

2001
Barry Lyndon
Strangelove
FMJ
Shining
Paths of Glory
Eyes
Clockwork
Lolita

pleb

biting criticism

yes we all know "film buffs" like the shining and clockwork orange etc. but film buffs are just fat faggots who watch too much netflix and never read a book

>tfw spent months reading classics like Flaubert, Melville and Seneca and not played a game in years but suddenly reverted after trying Persona 5

this happened in 2009 with STALKER: CoP, I can't resume reading now until I've finished the game

biting criticism

same 2 u fgt

Depends on what you are looking for. From a cinematography stand point Barry Lyndon is probably his best. Every scene looks like a painting.

YOU'LL

barry lyndon has i's moments but it's just not that dank, some of his shit is just packed with meaning, but lyndon is a little barren despite being like 3 hours long...paths of glory didn't have the dankness but it is the greatest from a tragic perspective, but i just feel like eyes wide shut has the most shit packed into it, which is why its like literature to me, because every scene is just filled with layers of meaning, also part of what makes it good is that he died before post-production was done and i think someone edited down so it did have as much long boring shit like 2001 for example

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he finished his final cut and then died. the film exists as he intended it

its honestly not that good. i see what he was getting at but to me it feels more like a first draft than a completed work. its also 'too human' for, especially relative to the rest of his oeuvre. his other films are so clinical (which showcases his strength as a director imo)

but of all his films Eyes is probably most like Paths, so if you like the one I can see why you like the other. imo both contain a bit too much moralizing and too little character scrutinizing

there was no moralizing in eyes wide shut dude, plus the fact that you know so much about kubricks and use terms like "clinical" means you are one of those "film buffs" i was talking about...

clockwork orange has the most moralizing, that shit was weak

it is pornographic, which admittedly is part of the reason im not so fond of it.

the camera is not lecherous, and the nudity has artistic merit, but im still not into it. its not classical sculpture, and its hard to get beyond the idea of it being a porn flick on some level

that said, I love mulholland drive

>being uptight about some bush in the porn soaked internet age

oh my god, fucking kys dude you probably wacked off to anal gangbangs all morning but you're offended because some people in a movie had sex

im not a film buff my man i watch maybe 5 movies a year; also notice how low i ranked clockwork.

anyways, eyes wide shut is full of moral messages. he chickens out on having sex with a prostitute, the password to the orgy is 'fidelio', he BECOMES captain save a hoe, and the end of the film is him reconciling with his wife.

I agree with the message, but it was a bit too overt.

Underrated

what do you think his message was?

dude monogamy lmao

I still like video games, I pretty much only play shmups and roguelikes nowadays though. I think that the way they ideally build atmosphere through gameplay is interesting and fun. Films have a visual side which I can appreciate because I like visual art a lot. The combination of writing, pictures and sound is great too and you can't find it in literature. I don't find intellectualism as important as the average Veeky Forums user though and often I the films I end up enjoying just look and sound good and don't do much beyond that.

I can still watch the odd movie and tv show. But I have little patience for arthouse these days, I mostly watch cheesy comedy and action movies if I'm in a mood to watch something. My loss, I know.

This happened to me in a big way with video games though. I'll play for 30 minutes and get over it.

the doctor was a peti-bourgeois beta who got mentally cucked by his wife and but couldn't even get it up to cheat on her, he never even thought anything sexual about the women's titties he was feeling up as a doctor, meanwhile the wife is able to mentally cuck him, note that she has patrician art knowledge, while he has "practical" "vocational" knowledge, he as a bourgeois is possessive of her sexually, while the nobility is having a pagan orgy...and those fratboys who called him a fag in the village werent just there for nothing i suppose.... and was that pagan sex cult really murderous? did they kill that model? was it all fantasy? what if it was or wasn't? if you cheat on someone in fantasy does it matter if you didn't cheat on them for real? it's not moralizing, it's showing the complexity of sexual relationships and class

>and was that pagan sex cult really murderous? did they kill that model?
no
>was it all fantasy?
no

also how was he 'cucked' by his wife?

Have you seen Blue Velvet? Came out earlier and tackled similar themes better (and without the moralizing). I recommend it if you haven't.

>also how was he 'cucked' by his wife?

dude, he couldn't fucking believe that his wife was attracted to that dude in the mountain hotel or whatever, he was so fucking shocked, so he goes on a quest to get even and not be a cuck and fails cuz he's a bourgeois beta

Stop watching adaptations,

blue velvet is great but it's not better than eyes wide shut

NEVER

he doesn't fail at being attracted to another woman, he obviously catches feelings for that model girl, but he realizes (starting with the hooker) that he has a good thing going and that he actually loves his wife. the film is a celebration of monogamy over hedonistic pleasure-seeking. having a nicole kidman waifu beats dying from a heroin overdose.

respectable opinion but if you could tease out the "why" of it I'd be interested.

>respectable opinion but if you could tease out the "why" of it I'd be interested.

because it was mostly about american urbanism which is not as timeless as class and sexuality

he didn't catch feelings for that junkie, come on man

just curious but how much experience do you have with relationships? the fact that you were bothered by the tits and ass, and are convinced it was a celebration of monogamy makes me suspect you don't have a lot of sexual or romantic experience

>a celebration of monogamy
i mean.. celebration is a bit of a strong word, but if you watched the end of the movie there is a pretty clear message--it's not like theyre getting divorced. imo it lacks the nuance of BL or FMJ.

>he didn't catch feelings for that junkie, come on man
im not saying he had a crush on her, but he definitely felt some type of way about her. he saw her as more than the sex object (which she was within the spaces she occupied) in the same way he saw the hooker as more than a means to his own vengeful/sexual ends. Cruise's character humanizes the women around him and elevates them above the status of goods on a sexual market. I find it hard to see the film as anything other than a condemnation of our sex-as-transaction culture which elevates the self relative to the partner.

Fidelity is a current throughout Kubrick's work. Jack's character in The Shining shows an openness to cheating and dies. That grunt in FMJ fucks a hooker and she kills him. Barry Lyndon's on-screen infidelity immediately precedes his fall.

>you were bothered by the tits and ass
i already told you, i enjoyed mulhollad drive. im not opposed to portraying the sex act in film, i just thought that at times in Eyes it was a bit brutish/in poor taste.

imo Blue Velvet is timeless because it's a 'time capsule' film. it's self-contained. Eyes is going to look odd in the future (and it already does) because it has this weird timeless-european aesthetic that is 'dated' incidentally by old technology and various portrayals of city life.

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consider this scene from Strangelove (start at 1:35). Same idea as Eyes sex-cult, but participants are condemned implicitly by the narrative rather than explicitly as in Eyes.

actually just skip to 3:30