Best Stanley Kubrick movie

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that shining trailer is lolz

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Having to choose among Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr Strangelove, and Paths of Glory is fairly arbitrary for me.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

i voted for paths of glory before i saw alfred repping for it and now i want to take it back u_u

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

considering we're surrounded with ppl who routinely rank Kid A over OK Computer, I'm betting Barry Lyndon will win this poll.

-- Stevie D, Thursday, April 5, 2007 3:06 AM (5 hours ago)

???

― sleep, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut and Full Metal Jacket look way better today than Clockwork.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

i voted for paths of glory before i saw alfred repping for it and now i want to take it back u_u

BE A REBEL

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://blogs.indiewire.com/reverseshot/archives/PathsFerrol.jpeg

― ghost rider, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

What I meant was, it's always seemed to me that OK Computer was Radiohead's clear winner (like, their undisputed magnum opus), and then here on ILX everyone seems to like Kid A better, which surprised me.

Similarly, while the usual pick for Best Kubrick seems to routinely be either 2001, Clockwork, or Strangelove; however, in recent years, Barry Lyndon (which was shunned for years) has been coming out from under the radar as the "critics' pick".

I don't know. It makes more sense to me in my head.

― Stevie D, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
The Killing
Paths of Glory
The Shining
Dr Strangelove, or [etc]
Lolita
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Spartacus

have not seen:
Barry Lyndon
Killer's Kiss (
Fear and Desire

― milo z, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

WHERE IS A.I????

― Abbott, Thursday, 5 April 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

ones I like, in order:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Full Metal Jacket
Dr Strangelove, or [etc]
The Killing
Lolita
Eyes Wide Shut
Barry Lyndon
Spartacus
Paths of Glory

then ones I don't like:
A Clockwork Orange -- borderline. i like parts of it but i disagree with its politics soooo much
The Shining -- not scary :(
Killer's Kiss

― abanana, Thursday, 5 April 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm surprised Spartacus ranks so low. Skip the Kirk Douglas-Jean Simmons scenes filmed on Astroturf. Rejoice in the crisp enunciations of potbellied English queens.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 5 April 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

I might vote for Paths of Glory. Plucky underdog!

― chap, Thursday, 5 April 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

The Killing!

Reservoir Dogs but good.

― DavidM, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

of the ones i've seen, here's my list (best first)

Barry Lyndon
Paths of Glory
The Killing
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket
Dr Strangelove
The Shining
Eyes Wide Shut

― gershy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Barry Lyndon
2001
The Shining

i really like those ones in that order. i do not like Dr Strangelove. i like OK computer more than Kid A. i do not like Amnesia.

― jed_, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

Amnesiac

― jed_, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

― jed_, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

faves:
2001
Barry Lyndon
Clockwork
Paths

but I love SK. Interesting the BL is being recognized as "critic's fave"; I wonder if it's been underrated for the reason that the people who saw it when it came out were bored by the pace compared to Clockwork, or the setting compared to 2001

― Dominique, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think it was underrated, was it? it's highly rated by critics. i just guess punters who haven't seen it think they might not like it (...costume drama BORING) so it's kind of ignored.

― jed_, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think it was underrated at the time. I remember reading a Spielberg quote that was something like "yeah, I liked BL, but it was a bit like taking a walk through the Prado wasn't it?"

― Dominique, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but Spielberg's a bit of a 'tard.

― milo z, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, but in '76....? Anyway, BL is awesome, maybe the SK movie I've seen the most times.

― Dominique, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

Spielberg was much more a tard back in the '70s than he is now.

― Eric H., Friday, 6 April 2007 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

i.e. throwing a fit on live TV when the Academy nominated Fellini instead of him

― Eric H., Friday, 6 April 2007 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

barry lyndon was a critical hit but a box office miss.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but not as unianimously as his others--as mentioned by Dominique, a lot of ppl apparently found the pace unbearably slow and boring.

― Stevie D, Friday, 6 April 2007 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

none of his films were unanimous critical hits, though, not by a long shot. the new york critics hated '2001'.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 6 April 2007 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

i wasn't even aware of his "fear and desire" movie. :-(

― nathalie, Friday, 6 April 2007 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

he disowned that and 'killer's kiss'. i almost didn't put them in the list.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 6 April 2007 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like Kubrick really. But Barry Lyndon is my favorite movie of his, and one I don't really mind seeing over and over.

― mercurialblonde, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

A Clockwork Orange is in the top three worst films ever IMO (American Gigolo and The Talented Mr Ripley being the others).

FMJ FTW

― Mark C, Friday, 6 April 2007 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

I voted Spartacus cos I like it the best, but I feel like it's not tremendously Kubrick-y and I love Kubrick a hell of a lot. He's one of those artists were I feel like people who don't get his work are from a strange and frightening planet that I'm glad I don't live on.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 6 April 2007 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Is Stevie D Tuomas in disguise?

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 6 April 2007 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Fear and Desire! Has anyone actually seen this in the last decade? Ever?

Yes. (I snagged it off of the old secret-cinema site)

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

A.I.????? WHERE IS IT?

― Abbott, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of spielberg being a 'tard.....

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

That movie is fucking great. Spielberg's tarditude only weirdened it more.

― Abbott, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Spielberg is terrible at science fiction.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Spielberg is terrible ~~at science fiction~~.

― milo z, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Do you guys really dislike AI??? Plz to explicate?

― Abbott, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

there's a thread on it somewhere, I'm sure.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

is Close Encounters sci-fi? cuz that's his best movie

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

This is weird coz I open this thread and then two different people AT THE SAME TIME come to check out Barry Lyndon and Spartacus respectively at work.

― Stevie D, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

The influence of ILE knows no bounds.

― milo z, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I voted for eyes wide shut. Someone had to. ask me about my favorite Altman too.

― gabbneb, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

strangelove, then lolita, then everything else.

his later films way suffer from that tic where every shot lasts about 15 seconds longer than it needs to (though it's put to good use in the shining).

― J.D., Saturday, 7 April 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

well well well

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Quite a surprise. Glad at the lack of love for Eyes Wide Shit (d'ya see what I did... yeah yeah)

― ledge, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think Eyes Wide Shut is great, the only problem being Tom Cruise... And it's not as if he's actually bad in it... It's just that he's... Tom Cruise and I can't help but react badly to it.

I think Barry Lyndon is rubbish. It's like a feature length episode of Upstairs, Downstairs.

I think I voted for 2001, as you can't beat monkeys and spaceships.

Dr. Strangelove is rubbish, because it's in black and white, and that's not what I pay my license fee for.

― Keith, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

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so many good performances in BL but Patrick Magee's turn as The Chevalier is exceptional.

― calzino, Sunday, 28 April 2019 10:44 (seven years ago)

Probably one of the most well-designed and photographed of films. The one-track coldness that Kubrick deals in really works to temper down the iffy (twee) source material.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:09 (seven years ago)

it is fucking gorgeous.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:29 (seven years ago)

Patrick Magee's turn as The Chevalier is exceptional.

I don't think I've ever seen Patrick Magee be anything less than exceptional in anything.

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:32 (seven years ago)

have to see Barry Lyndon again, I think I will really appreciate it, but also don't think it will replace 2001 as my personal favorite film of all time

― Dan S, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:36 (seven years ago)

Gotta say it's the first one of his I've seen where I get what ppl are on about wrt Kubrick.

I don't think I've ever seen Patrick Magee be anything less than exceptional in anything.

*Looks at wiki* How much Hammer horror have you seen?

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 April 2019 08:58 (seven years ago)

Magee only appeared in one Hammer film, the fairly obscure Demons of the Mind. He's in a fair few horror movies from Hammer's UK rival Amicus, tho.

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 29 April 2019 09:02 (seven years ago)

Yes, he did a lot of crap but he's a magnetic presence. Not exactly what you'd call a naturalistic actor, lol.

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Monday, 29 April 2019 09:23 (seven years ago)

Cool it was striking to see someone in a few amazing films and then contrast with horror (I called it hammer only bcz of seeing discussion of their output on here is the extent of my knowledge) which I assume won't have as many demands placed on your actorly skill set (again another assumption)

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 April 2019 10:28 (seven years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I love Hammer, Amicus, Tigon and all that guff.

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Monday, 29 April 2019 10:30 (seven years ago)

Clockwork Orange was showing at my local cinema and I missed out on seeing it. Been very long since I originally saw it, and I've never seen it at the cinema.

I love Barry Lyndon.

― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 29 April 2019 10:46 (seven years ago)

I had Patrick Magee and Henry McGee confused in my mind for a minute there. Now that was a wild ride.

― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 29 April 2019 11:47 (seven years ago)

Benny Hill or Sam Beckett, both bring the LOLs, for sure.

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Monday, 29 April 2019 11:49 (seven years ago)

up on iplayer (along with paths of glory and 2001)

― devvvine, Monday, 29 April 2019 11:50 (seven years ago)

One of the things I like about Magee is that he is giving exactly the same kind of performance in a Kubrick film as he is in a Freddie Francis film or vice/versa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OarsvZbhds&list=PL2AA217275C6F6CF0&index=7

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 29 April 2019 18:28 (seven years ago)

Yeah thanks that was good.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 April 2019 21:29 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

This, from an interview with Vitali about Kubrick's soundtracks. His films through the 70s were mixed for the narrow frequency range of Academy Mono. There was an art to it. Optimizing them for digital adds lows and highs that were never in the original. It's akin to colorizing. pic.twitter.com/aemS2JmyXF
— Eric Dienstfrey (@SignalsToNoises) June 8, 2019

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 June 2019 02:52 (six years ago)

eleven months pass...

Surprised Barry Lyndon doesn't have its own thread.

Mrs. America used some of BL's score tonight (prominently) during an awkward first meeting between Phyllis Schlafly and Jill Ruckelshaus (Republican, but very pro-ERA). Not sure what the meaning of that was (beyond the obvious, that it's 1976).

― clemenza, Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:33 (six years ago)

three years pass...

Sorry for spamming but can’t figure out which thread this is best on: http://www.ianwatson.info/plumbing-stanley-kubrick/

― Zing Harvest (Has Surely Come) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 August 2023 16:22 (two years ago)

This is overdue for a repoll:

Stanley Kubrick RE-poll

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 21 August 2023 16:47 (two years ago)

Great article James!

“If the Labourites ever get in,” he vowed, “I’ll leave the country.” He feared being ruined by tax-the-rich policies – though he never did quit Britain, doubtless because New Labour, finally elected in 1997, no longer bore much resemblance to a socialist party.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 August 2023 18:15 (two years ago)

It's funny because Emilio's memoir goes to great pains to dispel the myth of SK as the eccentric recluse (but just as much a demanding pain in the ass) maybe the truth of it is somewhere in the middle.

― MaresNest, Monday, 21 August 2023 18:34 (two years ago)

Seems like there is a documentary as well, S Is for Stanley.

― Ansible Dave’s Killer Breadboard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 August 2023 18:41 (two years ago)

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