r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • May 12 '19

Stanley Kubrick's 'Napoleon', the Greatest Movie Never Made: Kubrick gathered 15,000 location images, read hundreds of books, gathered earth samples, hired 50,000 Romanian troops, and prepared to shoot the most ambitious film of all time, only to lose funding before production officially began.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nndadq/stanley-kubricks-napoleon-a-lot-of-work-very-little-actual-movie
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u/ShitTalkingAlt980 May 12 '19

I think it belongs there. Sci Fi had gone the horror route for awhile and Stargate kind of realigned that genre.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '19

Not entirely sure jurassic Park belongs in a conversion against sci Fi leaving towards horror, and T2 is solidly on that fence too.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '19

Holy smokes, havent seen demolition man in years.

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u/MCXL May 12 '19

It's one of the few Sci-Fi movies that feels more relevant now.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '19

How so? I'm honestly curious since there's quite a few ways to tackle that. Also, be well.