Best Stanley Kubrick movie

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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 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Stevie D Tuomas in disguise?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spielberg is terrible at science fiction.

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

Spielberg is terrible ~~at science fiction~~.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

The influence of ILE knows no bounds.

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

well well well

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

nice to see some love for EYES WIDE SHUT. years after the fact people are geting some perspective. it roxx.

― pisces, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa! I can't fathom the love for 2001. Is it cuz you all like video games?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there a fake Alfred now?

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

― sleep, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Pseudo-Alfred will also appreciately note every vote for Paths of Glory and Spartacus.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I know I voted for either Eyes Wide Shut, Barry Lyndon or The Shining, but can't remember which now.

― Eric H., Friday, 27 April 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Spartacus a Kubrick movie, hahaha.

Eric, have you seen 2001, or are you just waiting for the Dario Argento remake?

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Not only have I seen 2001, I've seen it on 70mm.

It's in fourth or fifth place on my Kubrick list.

― Eric H., Friday, 27 April 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

or in 70mm

― Eric H., Friday, 27 April 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

How does that compare with Betamax?

― Keith, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The Killing only got two votes. Youse is chump-asses.

― the table is the table, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

It definitely deserves top three.

― the table is the table, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

"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."

Sam....Wollaston??

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Not only have I seen 2001, I've seen it on 70mm.

but have you seen it in cinerama?

― Edward III, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there such a thing as true 70mm projection anymore? I thought after the early '70s, all the prints are 35 blown up to 70. (plus 2001 was shot on 65mm)

The Killing is a good B movie, and a kindergarten painting for Kubrick.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

iirc warners struck actual 70mm prints for the 2001/2002 re-release.

I saw it in NYC, it was beautiful, only problem being that there was some blurring at the far ends of the image due to the lack of a curved screen.

― Edward III, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, me too (Loews State before it closed). I guess the one I saw in '74 was 70mm also.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there such a thing as true 70mm projection anymore? I thought after the early '70s, all the prints are 35 blown up to 70. (plus 2001 was shot on 65mm)

Yeah, that must be why I didn't immediately decide The Shining is a piece of shit.

― Eric H., Friday, 27 April 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

? I don't think that was ever hyped as a 70mm film. Apocalypse Now was, tho.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I mean seeing a 70mm print of 2001 was so obviously incorrect (as it was shot in 65mm) that I'm sure if I saw it again in a 65mm print with the Cinerama experience, I'd realize that I was wrong all along thinking The Shining was any good.

― Eric H., Friday, 27 April 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I missed Cinerama.

I don't think anybody has seen 2001 in 65mm since the first release. But who knows what 'mm' would make Nicholson not seem crazy from the first reel.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

The Shining has grown on me. It was 2.5 stars to me when I first saw it, but now I'd have to say 3 or 3.5. Out of 5.

― Dominique, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I would have voted for The Shining, but the bearsuit blowjob scene is disgusting and spoils the whole film.

― Alba, Saturday, 28 April 2007 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link

er, cineassssssstes - 65mm is the camera negative format, 70mm is the projection print format (65mm never a projection format)

― bobby bedelia, Saturday, 28 April 2007 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link

the bearsuit makes the Shining for me

― latebloomer, Saturday, 28 April 2007 07:58 (sixteen years ago) link

2001 is easily the worst Kubrick film I've seen. The sets and the visuals might be great, but I find all that New Age sci-fi mumbo jumbo about the evolution of man silly and uninteresting.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 28 April 2007 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link

"I would have voted for The Shining, but the bearsuit blowjob scene is disgusting and spoils the whole film.

-- Alba, Saturday, April 28, 2007 3:40 AM (10 hours ago)"

haha wtf

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 28 April 2007 10:57 (sixteen years ago) link

thanks, booby b, i was wondering. I honestly don't care much about that stuff tho.

OK ERIC

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 28 April 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link

actually having Scatman Crothers come halfway across the continent to get axed really made me throw up my hands

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 28 April 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Well that was sort of the definitive moment of Kubrick ominously saying "this is not the novel of The Shining." In fact, about the only thing he DID retain from the book was that creepy bear-oral bit, IIRC.

― Eric H., Saturday, 28 April 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link

I used to love The Shining and kind of still do (final chase scene is as heart-pounding as anything in any scary movie, whether it's Alien or a slasher flick or whatever), but the last time I watched it I lost interest right around the time of Jack's meeting in the bathroom.

That's the point where Kubrick's distancing becomes a case of diminishing returns.

Never understood Rosenbaum's comments on FMJ - the Parris Island section accomplishes everything Kubrick wanted to accomplish with The Shining (or close, they're on the chireader site). Disorientation? Isolation? FMJ seems keen on bringing you together with the recruits, inside them - rather than pushing you away as in the Shining.

― milo z, Saturday, 28 April 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link

"the first section alone accomplishes most of what The Shining failed to do."

― milo z, Saturday, 28 April 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link

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