Favorite Kubrick film

[Liviu-]

Since there are so many threads about new movies i figuered a thread about one of the best directors of all time wouldn't hurt. Basically you just have to pick your favorite Kubrick movie, but would love to discuss them a bit too.

Both 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange are at the top of my favorite movies list together with 8 1/2 so i can't really make up my mind which one i like most. I'll just give it to 2001 since it's also Kubrick's best.

[Skirr]

I haven't seen them all yet, and I've heard that Clockwork Orange is pretty amazing so I don't wanna vote till I've seen it, but at the moment, Dr Strangelove.

[AfterExile]

A Clockwork Orange, I put that at number 1 mainly because of the social commentary/satire.

2001 is a close second, I would say its probably Kubrick's best, but a Clockwork Orange had a far more lasting impression on me.

[Liviu-]

2001 is a close second, I would say its probably Kubrick's best, but a Clockwork Orange had a far more lasting impression on me.

At first it was the same for me but when i rewatched both i enjoyed 2001 a little more than A clockwork Orange. A Clockwork Orange is way easier to understand so i didn't realise anything new when rewatching it and it was mostly the same experience as the previous time. With 2001 it was different since it still needs all of your attention to understand more of it.

[AfterExile]

I do need to go back and watch 2001 again, I think the last time I saw that was like 5 years ago..

[RsR]

The Shining
http://www.ugo.com/movies/creepy-kids/images/the-shining.jpg

[frack]

Nothing beats A Clockwork. At all.

[RsR]

http://www.horrordvds.com/reviews/n-z/shining/shining_shot2l.jpg

[Skirr]

http://www.horrordvds.com/reviews/n-z/shining/shining_shot2l.jpg

Got it the first time, man.

I liked Full Metal Jacket quite a bit too. Watched it the same night as Dr Strangelove as well, I think.

[Liviu-]

If i'd have to make a list with the Kubrick movies i've seen it would be something like this:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
1'. A Clockwork Orange - liked it almost as much as 2001
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Barry Lyndon
5. Paths of Glory
6. The Shinning
7. Full Metal Jacket

Needless to say i enjoyed everyone of them. Most of the movies above are from different genres and resemble little to each other so Kubrick is definitely a director who didn't want to repeat himself and wanted to make quality movies. And that he did.

[AfterExile]

I still have yet to see Dr Strangelove, I have heard nothing but good things about that movie.

[ShinigamiQueen]

It's impossible for me to choose, but I have to say a highly underrated and unfairly panned Kubrick film is Eyes Wide Shut. It's really nothing like what people assume it will be, and it's quite a brilliant film about dreams, reality, and Illuminati.

[AfterExile]

It's impossible for me to choose, but I have to say a highly underrated and unfairly panned Kubrick film is Eyes Wide Shut. It's really nothing like what people assume it will be, and it's quite a brilliant film about dreams, reality, and Illuminati.

I would definately agree with you that is a very underrated Kubrick film..

[sallen3k]

This is a really tough question because Kubrick made great films that were of different genres. Not many directors can pull that off, and pull it off well.

It's really hard for me to decide between Clockwork and Dr. Strangelove, but I'll say Doctor Strangelove for the brilliant satire on the cold war.

The performances given by Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and cast were flawless.

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

[BalrogLord]

2001 was amazing.

2nd best id have to rate is full metal jacket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Nf1MK7lts

i just can never get enuf of this scene.

[AfterExile]

That scene is classic, its just about the only comic relief in that movie but its done so well you still feel like you are watching the real thing.

[pumpkin13]

I think Full Metal Jacket takes it for me. The Shining plain bored me shitless. The best part of the Shining is when it appears on the big out door movie theatre in Twister lol. Any male that says he didn't enjoy Eyes Wide Shut is a downright lyer (or gay... in a non-derogatary sense). I have sentimental value over Lyndon though, it's one of my dad's favourite movies of all time, and I remember once when I had a horrific bout of flu and was bedridden with projectile vomiting and severe dizziness back in the day (i remember it was a coupla months before Silent Hill 3 was released cus my mum bought me a gaming magazine to read, the front page of which was SH3) and I watched Barry Lyndon in it's godforsaken entirity on daytime television (a tv in my room back in those days was like seriously uber epicness lol). Clockwork Orange is awesome for the milkbar scene and the made up language they use but i felt a little empty by the ending of it, it just kinda left itself hanging there.

Full Metal Jacket on the other hand is epic, it pretty much set the standard for marine/war movies (watch the first half of FMJ then watch Jarhead), and the outro with them all walking along through ruins to Buffalo Springfield's "For What it's Worth" is just fantastic.

[sallen3k]

As far as Full Metal Jacket goes, every Marine I've talked to from the Vietnam era says that the boot camp scenes in the movie are incredibly realistic.

I won't deny that that film is a classic, but the only thing that bugs me is that it feels like two separate films. The boot camp scenes and the war scenes. They don't feel that connected to each other. It's been a long time since I've seen the film, maybe I need to watch it again.