Kubrick

The Shining is my favorite movie of all time, but I honestly think that Barry Lyndon is his "best" film.

One of my all-time favorite directors...

1. A clockwork orange (completely blew me away from A to Z.)
2. Dr. Strangelove (how weirder and funnier can you get?)
3. Barry Lyndon (best. art direction. ever.)
4. Lolita
5. 2001

My top 5

1. A Clockwork Orange (By large)
2. Dr Strangelove (Brilliant satire)
3. 2001 (Impressive)
4. Full Metal Jackett (New perspective of war)
5. The Shinning (Thanks to Jack Nicholson)

The only ones I cant stand are Barry Lyndon (Kubrick worried too much about the realism of the photography rather than in the main theme) and Lolita which I find boring and bellow Kubrick's league.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - April 28 2007 at 13:28

I read Lolita and didn't enjoy it. Kubrick's movie rendition wasn't too hot either. He bent to the censors who had the last laugh. He also used a few poor directing cliches, such as introducing Quilty in the shadows (which I couldn't help but laugh at). Overall, it was certainly Kubrick's worst movie.

Adrian Lyne made his own version of Lolita in 1997. It's worse. In the foreword to the novel, Nabokov mocks a researcher/reviewer of his invention who refers to Lolita (the novel) as a "cautionary tale". Andrian Lyne apparently missed this point, took it all way too seriously, and absolutely butchered the entire thing.

andu wrote: video vertigo wrote: I've only seen Dr. Strangelove, Spartacus and Full Metal Jacket. All are good but Dr. Strangelove is the best of them   If I remember well you're a great fan of Gilliam's "Brazil"; the sarcasm, parody and serious (but undercover) core must have appealed to your taste in Dr. Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket. You really should try next A Clockwork Orange and 2001 A Space Odyssey, they have all the features to suit your taste, I can bet . Barry Lyndon also has these features, but they're folded inside a brilliant 18th century story.

Exactly. I really should see these other Kubrick films

I think I'm one of the only people never to have seen Dr Strangelove ; must remedy this...

2001 - well, I loved it when I first saw it, but I have to say maybe my tastes have changed; the last time I watched it, I found it dated, pretentious & shallow, and found the ending hilariously bad

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The same can't be said of Full Metal Jacket - if there's one film which graphically describes the futility of war and the de-humanising effects upon its participants, it's this one. Fantastic movie from start to finish - in my opinion, Kubrick's real legacy.

I've only seen Dr. Strangelove, Spartacus and Full Metal Jacket. All are good but Dr. Strangelove is the best of them

Tie between Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket. Two very different movies, both genius, both flawed.

Paths Of Glory gets an honorable mention for being so ahead of its time.

Shining is also an honorable mention, but more because of Jack Nicholson.

2001 lacks a bit of focus for me, while Clockwork Orange, upon a recent second viewing, is a bit dissapointing.

Am I the only one to find it funny that almost all of his big league movies are adaptions? And I mean almost all? [except for the first four I think]

From the seven films which I have seen, I voted for "Paths of Glory" (interesting to see a 1st world war film + Douglas was a great actor). "Clockwork" is also good, but I watched it too many times when a teenager, and it suffered somekind of inflation due overkilling. Good film though.

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Clockwork Orange and Strangelove are quite close, too.