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Why did he hate it so much?

posted 15 years ago by coolbrett
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What did he do to it? I cant imagine a great director like him hating one of his own movies to the point where he tried to get everyone NOT to see it

The ship sinks in Titanic!

[–] rollieri 12 years ago

Because he didn't want anyone to know he didn't spring up at once a full-blown genius!

[–] deeveed 12 years ago

Just an fyi..this film that Mr. Kubrick "hated" will be getting screened this week as a result of efforts by the film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMa's film department. Paul Mazursky said that viewers should look at it as a "student" film.

[–] YouKnowMyName68 12 years ago

'Because, he didn't want anyone to know he didn't spring up at once a full-blown genius!'

Interesting.

"You know, my name..."

[–] Druff 11 years ago

All I'll say is that after I finished watching it, I thought to myself "Yeah, I can understand why he wanted this out of circulation." It just seemed so obviously to be a tentative experiment... an exercise. Not a full blown effort.

I don't know if Kubrick literally "hated" it. I thought he just didn't want people to see it. Sort of like a band not wanting people to hear a rough early demo version of their album.

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