Top 5 Kubrick films
 

Hitchcock, Cronenberg, and Lynch have been done so I think this is inevitable


1. The Shining
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Lolita
4. Dr. Strangelove OR How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the War and Love the Bomb
5. Paths of Glory

1.A Clockwork Orange
2.Full Metal Jacket
3.2001:A Space Odyssey
4.Dr.Strangelove
5.Paths of Glory

1. Clockwork Orange
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. 2001
4. Dr. Strangelove (just saw this for the first time recently!)
5. The Shining

1 Shining
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Full Metal Jacket

and then 2001 bored me to death.

2001 is almost too exciting.

I totaaly agree with atp s list. except 1. and 5. need to change positions.

2001
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
The Killing
Paths of Glory

Nobody likes "The Killing"?

I haven't seen anything he's done before Paths of Glory.


BTW when talking about baby names (my sister just had a baby) after having watched 2001: A Space Oddysey with my 3 year old nephew, my brother-in-law said that Kubrick would be a good first name. So I'm keeping that. My first son is going to be named Kubrick.

I'm kind of curious what people's thoughts are on Spielberg's "A.I." Personally I liked it a lot and thought it was under-appreciated it. I like it more with each viewing. Its funny because "A.I" seems to divide fans between praise and criticizing. Some Kubrick fans thinks Spielberg fucked up a Kubrick movie. Others think its one of Spieberg's best cause its a lot darker then most of his stuff.
A lot of people thought Spielberg put the "Pinocchio" refferences in the movie. He says Kubrick always intended it that way. Critcs say Spielberg put the alien ending in it, he denies it that as well. Is he just passing all the credit of his own ideas as Kubrick's so people won't be so harsh to critcize?

Stanley Kubrick makes films the way Pink Floyd make music: with a sense of the epic that disguises the fact that there's nothing much going on in them. They're like very loud but ultimately odourless farts.

demonrail your sig is insane. Wat the hell is that owl eating?

And is that a criticism or praise of Kubrick? I can read that either way.

I think A.I. is one of the worst movies i've ever seen. Who knows if it was Kubrick's fault or Spielberg's fault or Jude Law's fault or Haley Jole Osmont's fault. But it sucked.

Actually, it was Teddy's fault.

Apparently it's a mouse.

It was a criticism.

1. Clockwork
2. 2001
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. The Shining
5. the first half of Full Metal Jacket
(large margin)
everything else I've seen by him excluding Eyes Wide Shut
(even larger margin)
the rest of Full Metal Jacket

i thought a.i. was the shit. but then again last time i saw it was when i was in 3rd grade er something.

This doesn't even make sense to me. The, uh, "second half" of Full Metal Jacket is way more important and interesting than the first half.

a clockwork orange
the shining
dr. strangelove
full metal jacket
2001 (ughhh, i'm kind of torn between liking and hating this though. the visuals are mindblowing, but the 'story' is ridiculously boring to me.)

1. 2001
2. Clockwork Orange
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. The Shining

The war part of it just felt like every other Vietnam movie ever.

I think the third act ruined it for a lot people.

Anyways:
1. Dr. Strangelove (by a wide margin, one of my all time favorites)
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. FMJ boot camp
4. Spartacus!
5. Paths of Glory
-∞. 2001: Space Odyssey

Not so sure about that. But if you say so. I'm just going to say, the final shot is so haunting and eery with Joker hiding his peace symbol while killing the sniper... also... with the soldiers marching together, and happily singing the Mickey Mouse Club song... they've all been "turned" into soldiers... the fact that they are singing such a sweet, happy, innocent song and the fact that a common, good-natured person like you or me can be turned into a hardened soldier.. yeah... wars and armies can strip a person of his or her individuality. Kind of a cliché point but very well-played. The first half is an interesting story with lots of quotable dialogue and is easy to watch but the second half is way more interesting and powerful, to me. Either way, why separate them. Both halves together = great film.

I will say, for someone named "Joker", that dude isn't very funny.

We just attended the Kubrick exhibit at LACMA, and am getting obsessed all over again. We took a bunch of pictures.

http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/stanley-kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey is far and away my favorite Kubrick, and probably my favorite film. I am set to see it on the big screen next Friday (my first time for that), and am super excited. Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man is my other favorite film; both are slowly paced, largely non-verbal perilous journeys into otherness.

There are some crazy super obsessed websites related to all this, such as:

http://www.2001spacesuit.com/Contents.html

I am going back and watching all the early ones I havn't seen yet.

I think it's got a lot going on under the surface, and I appreciate any film that focuses on the construct of identity so intensely. From a psychological standpoint, I think it's a jewel. And creepy as all bloody hell.

The second half leaves me cold though. It should have ended with the helicopter crash and subsequent voice over. I'd say Spielberg's misconception of Kubrick's intentions is to blame. Spielberg was the wrong guy to take on the project. How different can two directors be? There's bound to be some missteps when a family friendly blockbuster giant takes on the final project of the king of the cinematic mindfuck.

Like Bono producing some long lost Sonic Youth LP.

By the way, Dr. Strangelove. Nothing compares. Clockwork and FMJ tie for second.

I like this.

Clockwork
Dr. Strangelove
The Shining
Lolita
Eyes Wide Shut (sorry im a sucker for masked orgy parties and tiny man tom cruise at the top of his game)

Michael Bay should make David Lynch's movie.

Ratner should do Herzog's movie.