Best/Favorite Stanley Kubrick Film:

but I also am one of the few who really really REALLY loved "Eyes Wide Shut". "Lolita" should also be added to the poll.

films that are so COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from each other but all great.

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Might be my all time favorite film.

I must have seen that flick at least 50 times.

Strangelove is a CLOSE second, however.

I did not like the Shining, except for the "blood in the elevators" scene. That was chilling. The Stephen King-produced TV movie of a few years back was FAR superior.

2001 or Dr. Strangelove

What a disappointment that film was. It was Spielberg trying to direct like Kubrick, but he couldn't stop the Spielberg from coming through.

A clash of visions. Very unfortunate.

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I thought it was a brilliant film, though; one of the best films ever made that most people disliked. The stunned silence from the audience when the film was over spoke volumes when I went to see it. I think most of the negative reaction was based on a disbelief that humanity could be as horrible as it was portrayed in that film. Such disbelief, in the context of history, is naive, to say the least.

Spielberg shot A.I. in ten weeks. It would have taken Kubrick a year and a half, and it would have been difficult to use the same child actor to play the robot for that long, and still have a believable film. Thus, Kubrick suggested before he died that the only director who could possibly pull it off was Steven Spielberg.

My criticism is strictly artistic. It wasn't dark enough to be Kubrickian, and not really uplifting enough to be Spielbergian.

Also, the ending seemed very out of place. Maybe that's what threw me; did Kubrick intend a "happy" ending for A.I.?

Now, you want to talk about most underrated movies: how about Minority Report? What a spectacular film. I think Spielberg was able to incorporate elements from his experience on A.I., but he managed to keep the narrative and flow very much his own. He also didn't let the special effects overtake the story, which is something most directors can't do.

-MR

besides being a great movie, its message resonates so well with the quagmire in Iraq ever increasing....

"I guess they'd rather be alive than free. Poor dumb bastards."

"The dead know only one thing: it's better to be alive."

:)

Lee Ermey's portrayal of Sgt. Hartman was so riveting. It set the tone for the rest of the film.

and Strangelove is great of course, but for it's early date "The Killing" shows a path later tread by Tarantino.

Even though Kubrick chose the American book version ending rather than the British version ending.

"Viddy well, Li'l brother, viddy well!"

Kubrick was amazing. Such a variety of great films that can be seen over and over again. "Genius" is putting it mildly...

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Seems to have had the biggest overall cultural influence. I like watching Strangelove better, but I gotta go with 2001 for best overall.

Someday the critics will pull their heads out and realize what a masterpiece this film really is.

Kubrick will be sorely missed.

I got caught up on the Kubrick classics in the last year, and I still like Eyes Wide Shut the best. Maybe it's generational.

Although I'd have voted for the first half of _FMJ_ and gave thought to all the others except _BL_ and _The Shining_ and (great movie, not really Kubrick enough) _Spartacus_.

_Lolita_ has a weird comic tone that few people have come anywhere close to--not Nabokov, but unique.

Is an unsurpassed outpouring of sheer genius. These are his best -- nervous rhythms, stark contrasts, central compositions, good stories and scripts, etc.

Kubrick is at the top of his game during this time, roughly 1956-64.

Good adaptation of the Nabokov novel. James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Lolita and Peter Sellers as Quilty were all brilliant.

...for Barry Lyndon, mainly because no one else had. But, it would've been A Clockwork Orange otherwise.

I own almost all of those on dvd now. The only Kubrick film I've never seen, and never will, is Eyes Wide Shut. I hate, loathe and despise Cruise with a passion that prevents me from even bothering with it. Seriously - I just can't stand to watch him t-r-y-i-n-g to emote. Waddamaroon.

E.g., Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson in _BL_?

A good Kubrick fan I know noted that he died before editing was complete, hence, there is a lot of "dead space" in the film.
Consider it unfinished.

beautifully wrought.

2001 and Dr Strangelove are rightly considered film classics. I feel that Paths of Glory, while widely thought of as a brilliant anti-war film, is still underappreciated.

even his flawed films are great.

I can feel it...

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One of my most cherished posessions is a photo of "Bowman" and "Poole" sitting in the EVA pod with Hal's eye looking in. It is autographed by both Kier Dullea and Gary Lockwood. It's dated August 16, 2001.

...and welcome to DU, HippieCowgirl! :toast:

You'll have to scan that pic and show it to us!

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Welcome to DU, HippieCowgirl!

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stoned immaculate was the greatest motion picture viewing experience I have ever had!

with Clockwork Orange in a movie theater on the Southside of Chicago back in 1975.
When it got to the scene with the eyes peeled back I had to leave the theater and go out into the lobby which was all done up in Orange and my vision zoned out until all I could see was orange light for about 5 seconds.
Even though I'd seen the movie before!

Back when images of that level were unusual to see on the big screen.

Everytime I see the ending, with the terrified German girl singing, and the homesick French soldiers singing along, I weep like a baby.

they both totally blow my mind. Barry Lyndon needs to be seen on a big screen to be believed--unreal