the only filmmaker I have ever seen who's films are either brlliant (A Clockwork Orange,
Full Metal Jacket) or crap (2001: A Space
Oddyssey,
The Shining). the only way to get 2001 is if you read the novel, and
the shining is so differant from the source material that it ruins much of the atmosphere.
kubrick: "
o crap, i forgot to film the expositional scenes!
o well this picture of a monkey staring at a block is pretty self explanatory. as is
the giant baby from nowhere!"