What's your favourite Kubrick movie?

[Michele]

I was much too young when I saw DR. STRANGELOVE. It went over my head. I didn't even know what it was about and say in the theater daydreaming through the whole thing...

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE got my vote, and not just because I was old enough to see it (haha). DAMN but that thing came out a looooooong time ago -- and it was SO WAY ahead of its time, in so many ways. It was terribly disturbing to me when I saw it -- and disturbing to a degree that especially back then I would most likely hate the film -- but no. It was just too pucking MAGNIFICENT and clairvoyant even and such EYE CANDY, so much SURPRISE, so much stimulation of my brain cells that had never even been tickled before. (I saw it when it first came out and I was a teenager. Snuck into the theater through the back exit. Have only snuck into movies twice in my life -- both times because the guy I was with was intent on it, haha.)

BARRY LYNDON -- was to me GRAND EYE CANDY. I really didn't care much for the acting, mostly because am SO not a Ryan O'Neal fan , and of course Marissa Berenson didn't act (just posed) , but man oh man, the BREATHTAKING shots outdoors, the FASCINATING indoor shots...Magnifico!!!! I especially loved staring at the faces of all those aristocrats with their white wigs and white-powdered faces with "beauty marks" stuck all over their faces. It appeals to my sense of humor and fascination NO END.... ;D

I wonder if EYES WIDE SHUT would have been decent had he lived to edit it. I felt too much was lost in the translation in that flick.

The SHINING, though memorable, would never get my vote. As much as I adore Nicholson, I did not enjoy this flick. (Okay, now the truth is out -- I am not into horror flicks generally.) Once I "meet" a seriously deranged and frightening embodiment on the big screen that can appeal to my sense of humor that may change. But no, I didn't go for this one (though admittedly the film was a masterpiece and classic in its own right).

Haven't seen FULL METAL JACKET or THE KILLING yet. 2001 was such a huge box office hit when I was a teenager (when it first came out) and I was in a sort of rebellious mode for some years there -- where if something was TOO popular among the masses then I would refuse to see it (figuring that sense the masses were so stupid anything they loved that much was beneath me to see). Yeah, I was arrogant, I know, I know. But hey, don't we all go through that age where we think we know everything? I sure did! Anyhow, I HEARD so much about that film that it actually got to be "ad nauseum," so that finally once I was open to seeing the flick I felt bored of it. I guess I should see it sometime, huh?

[Bartwald]

Michele said:

2001 was such a huge box office hit when I was a teenager (when it first came out) and I was in a sort of rebellious mode for some years there -- where if something was TOO popular among the masses then I would refuse to see it (figuring that sense the masses were so stupid anything they loved that much was beneath me to see). Yeah, I was arrogant, I know, I know. But hey, don't we all go through that age where we think we know everything?

We sure do. I know I had the same problem many times. Terminator 2: Judgement Day was one of the movies I missed because of their off-putting popularity.

[Pulpmariachi]

2001 was the first Kubrick movie I saw and remains my favorite.

I love how it just takes it's time. Storyline? Yeah right. We'll get to that after about ten minutes of spaceship ballet, which was wicked awesome. I loved that the villain was a computer (HAL) who was either crazy or doing the whole I, Robot-The Movie-thing (I like thinking he's psychotic). And then Dave killing him was one of the most intesne things ever. Just the sound of him breating. HAL trying to stop him, and then...all the silence of space. I loved that, too. And the ending is one of the most awesome endings of all time.

My friends all hate this movie. They said it was too slow and they didn't like the Time and Space trip at the end. I mean, I read somewhere that Kubrick and Clark said that they failed if people totally understood the movie, and I think that most people don't understand it and leave it at that. But one of my friends (named David, kind of ironically), who has to understand EVERYTHING, made up this explanation of it that makes no sense to the movie and just degrades it (this guy saw only the ending of The Usual Suspects and convinced himself he saw it coming). So, it just might be me who loves this movie.

Dr. Strangelove is a really good one, too. "Turn the music down, Dimitri. The music, turn it down." "There will be no fighting in the war room!" But again, a lot of people didn't get it. We watched it in my film class and it was like me and a few other people (including the teacher) who laughed the entire way through.

A Clockwork Orange scared the hell out of me. The Shining scared the hell out of me, too. After seeing these, most horror films aren't scary.

We'll me again, don't know where, don't know when. All I know is that we'll meet again some shiney day!

[Quorthon]

I went with The Shining.

[DrLenera]

I went with The Shining too, although there'll all great films, and I really like Spartacus too,the best 'sword and sandal' film by far in my opinion. The Shining is one of those wierd films that seems to be scarier the second or third time round, I'm not sure why. The atmosphere is just incredible, and I could just listen to the film with it's scary sound effects and music and be freaked out a little.

As for Eyes Wide Shut, as someone else hinted at,it just didn't seem finished to me. It's a fascinating film, there is so much in it that intrigues, but it needed polish, maybe some re editing,I thought.

[Quorthon]

Eyes Wide Shut seemed like a big movie where Tom Cruise made a big deal out of nothing at all.

His wife said, "you think women don't cheat, I could do it easy."

Tom Cruise spent the rest of the movie wandering around, going to sex cults, and making himself generally pissed off. All over the idea that if his wife wanted to, she could cheat.

When I realized that, the movie was kind of a let-down.

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Michele said:

I was much too young when I saw DR. STRANGELOVE. It went over my head. I didn't even know what it was about and say in the theater daydreaming through the whole thing...

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE got my vote, and not just because I was old enough to see it (haha). DAMN but that thing came out a looooooong time ago -- and it was SO WAY ahead of its time, in so many ways. It was terribly disturbing to me when I saw it -- and disturbing to a degree that especially back then I would most likely hate the film -- but no. It was just too pucking MAGNIFICENT and clairvoyant even and such EYE CANDY, so much SURPRISE, so much stimulation of my brain cells that had never even been tickled before. (I saw it when it first came out and I was a teenager. Snuck into the theater through the back exit. Have only snuck into movies twice in my life -- both times because the guy I was with was intent on it, haha.)

BARRY LYNDON -- was to me GRAND EYE CANDY. I really didn't care much for the acting, mostly because am SO not a Ryan O'Neal fan , and of course Marissa Berenson didn't act (just posed) , but man oh man, the BREATHTAKING shots outdoors, the FASCINATING indoor shots...Magnifico!!!! I especially loved staring at the faces of all those aristocrats with their white wigs and white-powdered faces with "beauty marks" stuck all over their faces. It appeals to my sense of humor and fascination NO END.... ;D

I wonder if EYES WIDE SHUT would have been decent had he lived to edit it. I felt too much was lost in the translation in that flick.

The SHINING, though memorable, would never get my vote. As much as I adore Nicholson, I did not enjoy this flick. (Okay, now the truth is out -- I am not into horror flicks generally.) Once I "meet" a seriously deranged and frightening embodiment on the big screen that can appeal to my sense of humor that may change. But no, I didn't go for this one (though admittedly the film was a masterpiece and classic in its own right).

Haven't seen FULL METAL JACKET or THE KILLING yet. 2001 was such a huge box office hit when I was a teenager (when it first came out) and I was in a sort of rebellious mode for some years there -- where if something was TOO popular among the masses then I would refuse to see it (figuring that sense the masses were so stupid anything they loved that much was beneath me to see). Yeah, I was arrogant, I know, I know. But hey, don't we all go through that age where we think we know everything? I sure did! Anyhow, I HEARD so much about that film that it actually got to be "ad nauseum," so that finally once I was open to seeing the flick I felt bored of it. I guess I should see it sometime, huh?

I'm really stunned
You've got so much similar opinions to mine.