Top 5 kubrick films

thenakedanddead

What are your type 5 Stanley Kubrick Films?

Mine would read something like




5. Dr. Strangelove - good movie (and why the **** do Boards.ie think "movie" isn't a real word?) with terrific comedy from Sellers
4. Full Metal Jacket - A brilliant Vietnam War Film.
3. A Clockwork orange - Excellent adapt ion of the Burgess novel
2. Paths of Glory - Brilliant World War film
1. 2001 - complex, but masterful sci-fi movie. HAL is a great character

Either give reasons for your suggestions or else your thread will be quickly locked. List threads are frowned upon here.

Skerries

1, Full Metal Jacket - a truly anti war film but makes one hell of a great war film
2, The Shining - Just one of the quintessential horrors that today still freaks you out
3, 2001: A Space Odyssey - i so want a Monolith in my back garden
4, A Clockwork Orange - i so didn't get this film when i watched it first but a recent viewing has showed that it is a great film
5, Dr. Strangelove - if only for that war room line

other notable mentions goes to Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut, i know some people don't like them especially EWS but they are great films

i'm also looking forward to his next film Lunatic at Large according to IMDB

quickbeam

Dr. Strangelove - because it's hillarious comedy and also a surprisingly tense thriller.
Spartacus - becasue it's an epic story and it has Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov and Laurence Olivier in it.
Barry Lydon - moves at a snail's pace but is still somehow enthralling all the way through.
The Shining
Eyes Wide Shut

The first three I really love. The next two are just to complete the list as they're the least objectionable of the rest of the films I've seen. I dislike 2001 and Full Metal Jacket (though the first half was pretty good).

I have Clockwork Orange on DVD but I haven't seen it yet so depending on my views of that, the list could change.

Magic Eight Ball

I've always been partial to The Killing.
Totally engrossing, moody, stylish and a great story. Classic noir!

Pretty much kick started the heist-gone-wrong sub-genre.

loveissucide

Huge fan of Stanley Kubrick's body of work.
1.A Clockwork Orange
Truly fascinating examination of violence and free will, so much going on it's always possible to find new angles on repeated viewings
2.Full Metal Jacket
One of the common themes running through Kubrick's work is dehumanisation, most obviously manifested in this film. Probably the best acted Kubrick film, and continually engaging viewing by virtue of focusing on the manner in which the military tries to reduce individuals to the level of automatons.
3.The Shining
It's the manner in which Kubrick pretty much conveys the madness brought on by claustrophobia and alienation that makes this work as well as it does. In addition to this it's also perfectly paced so as to function flawlessly as a thriller.
4.The Killing
The narration may have dated slightly, but it shows just how strong a director Kubrick was that so many of the ideas used in this film became cliches of the genre, with the style of filmmaking being regurgitated endlessly by lesser minds.
5.Dr Strangelove
Not even Peter Sellers could ruin this script, which shows just how ridicoulously bound to duty people are even in the face of chaos.

Caveat

Replace The Killing with Barry Lyndon and it's a big +1 from me to loveissucide's choice/comments.

I remember a critic talking about the photography and scenes in Barry Lyndon and saying some of the shots were (paraphrasing) "almost static at times,with the still compositional beauty of a painting"

A bit poncy but true too. Full of period atmosphere/detail, melancholy and haunting with a great cameo cast too. I love it.

murrayp4

"Now then Dimitry....."

quarryman

Caveat wrote: »

Replace The Killing with Barry Lyndon and it's a big +1 from me to loveissucide's choice/comments.

I remember a critic talking about the photography and scenes in Barry Lyndon and saying some of the shots were (paraphrasing) "almost static at times,with the still compositional beauty of a painting"

A bit poncy but true too. Full of period atmosphere/detail, melncholy and haunting with a great cameo cat too. I love it.

Wasn't there something about Kubrick only using natural light too?

Great film.

Caveat

Hadn't heard that but wouldn't surprise me.

Probably insisted that the light was filtered through Nepalese clouds or something. :rolleyes:

rednik

1. The Killing. Great atmospheric heist movie, with a great cast and a great performane from Sterling Hayden.

2. Paths of Glory. A great war movie with great performances and a great script.

3. Full Metal Jacket. I remember going to see this and Platoon in a short space of time. Two vietnam movies so completely different yet both quite brilliant.

4. Dr Strangelove. Great movie with strong performances and some truly memorable scenes.

5. Spartacus. How to make an epic.

DublinWriter

Funny that, I was only thinking about Kubrick today.

I think he's one of the most over-rated Directors ever.

After 2001 he seemed to develop some sort of OCD that made him plan movies down to ridiculous amount of detail. He spent almost six years in pre production planning a biopic about the Nazi concentration camps and had to abandon the project when Steven Speilberg came out with Schindler's List in less than twelve months.

He was also planning a movie about Napoleon and had amassed an entire library of 10,000+ books on his subject.

The casting of an American to play the character of Barry Lydon totally unhinged the original plot.

I also found Eyes Wide Shut to be a ponderous Cruise-vehicle.

SuperInfinity

I haven't seen many Kubrick movies but the only one of his that I really liked is The Shining.... and I do love that movie. I think the characters are incredibly strong and the whole atmosphere of the film is amazing.

Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, etc. are completely different movies. I've seen piece of them, they certainly never struck me as being greats.

quarryman

Caveat wrote: »

Hadn't heard that but wouldn't surprise me.

Probably insisted that the light was filtered through Nepalese clouds or something. :rolleyes:

ah, its seems i'm not i'm quite right on that one

Contrary to legend, this film did use artificial lighting. Artificial lights were used, for example, in the scene where Brian learns he's getting a horse. However, it is true that no artificial lighting was used for candlelit scenes. A lens built by the Carl Zeiss company for NASA, a 50mm Zeiss lens modified with the Kollmorgen adaptor used in still cameras, was used to shoot scenes lit only by candlelight.

MiloYossarian

Of coarse Kubrick made great films. He had a beard. And beard=great. Just ask Jesus.

faceman

Locking thread, its not going anywhere.

faceman

Re-opening thread on request. No more lists without discussion and definitely no more beards please! :eek: