The whole time I'm watching this I'm thinking..
the director wants to be Stanley Kubrick.
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Also in the booklet is written that he uses some means that Stanley Kubrick used in his movie, like enormous zooms etc.
But still, this movie is a great on it's own. :)
The 1975's Rollerball - best movie ever made.
A lot of that is to do with the fact that it was filmed in Europe and looks European. Also, it's from around the same time so both films look dated in the same way.
Norman Jewison is no lightweight, he makes all kinds of movies.
A clockwork orange is cool but it's not dis-similar in style to Brian DaPalma stuff from this era.
"Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day"
i was thinking "why am i still watching this?" it was awful!
shareI hope you are talking about the remake, not the original...
The 1975's Rollerball - best movie ever made.
I hope you are talking about the remake, not the original...
The 1975's Rollerball - best movie ever made.
I second that! The original Rollerball is by far one of the best works of art committed to film.
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Funny, I watched again last night, and I was thinking how it mimicked Kubrick to some extent, although I was thinking 2001. Especially the beginning - slowly paced, relatively mundane scenes as they prepare the arena accompanied by dramatic classical music.
A movie set in the future with a classical music soundtrack made me think of Kubrick. I heard some movies use classical music because it is cheaper to get the rights to music that is hundreds of years old.
shareIt also lends a sense of timelessness to the film as well. Just look at the synthesizer disco music in some of those 70's sci-fi films and TV shows and you can see that a classical soundtrack is pretty much the best way to go with sci-fi.
My "3" key is broken so I'm putting one here so i can cut & paste with it.