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Least Favorite Kubrick Film
Posted on 8/22/14 at 9:21 am
Posted on 8/22/14 at 9:21 am
Stanley Kubrick is on my Mt.Rushmore of directors, and I pretty much have enjoyed all his films.
What is your LEAST FAVORITE? And why?
And we can leave Eyes Wide Shut off the list, because I think that would be everyone's choice (it would be mine).
I know Barry Lyndon was not successful at the box office, but I enjoyed it. My main complaint is that is is WAY too long.
What is your LEAST FAVORITE? And why?
And we can leave Eyes Wide Shut off the list, because I think that would be everyone's choice (it would be mine).
I know Barry Lyndon was not successful at the box office, but I enjoyed it. My main complaint is that is is WAY too long.
This post was edited on 8/22/14 at 9:22 am
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Posted on 8/22/14 at 9:26 am to SportsGuyNOLA
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And we can leave Eyes Wide Shut off the list, because I think that would be everyone's choice
Wrong. Eyes Wide Shut is up there with his 80's movies (for me anyway).
I can't blame A.I. on him, so that's out of the running for me.
The Killing wasn't as great as I'd hoped. (Didn't help that documentaries on film and Kubrick have shown the ending repeatedly... spoiling the movie a great bit.)
Posted on 8/22/14 at 9:29 am to SportsGuyNOLA
A Clockwork Orange
Way too off the wall
Way too off the wall
Posted on 8/22/14 at 9:33 am to SportsGuyNOLA
Dr. Strangelove.
He killed James Earl Jones and Slim Whitman. This is unacceptable.
Edit: Of course I meant Slim Pickens, not Whitman.
He killed James Earl Jones and Slim Whitman. This is unacceptable.
Edit: Of course I meant Slim Pickens, not Whitman.
This post was edited on 8/22/14 at 9:34 am
Posted on 8/22/14 at 9:34 am to SportsGuyNOLA
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Eyes Wide Shut
This film is great I thought.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 9:35 am to SportsGuyNOLA
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And we can leave Eyes Wide Shut off the list, because I think that would be everyone's choice (it would be mine).
I've grown to appreciate the masterpiece that it is - perhaps a bad first watch, but I think youngsters might have it as their favorite, so I'll disagree there.
So - taking the feature films:
The Killing
Paths of Glory
Spartacus
Lolita
Strangelove
2001
Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
I'm going with The Killing or Barry Lyndon
I cut him a little slack for The Killing, because he was so young (of course, Paths of Glory was the next year - so he obviously learned a lot in a short period of time). I think that's the only film of his I do not own.
Barry Lyndon is a beautiful film and beautiful because of Kubrick's mad genius - he wanted to make a film look like a baroque painting, and I'll be damned if he didn't get really close - and it was his intrinsic understanding of the physical, mechanical act of filmmaking that made it possible. But, I'm not crazy about the stories or the character - to a certain degree, I've never been fond of Ryan O'Neal - and this film is no exception. (I kind of liked his character in A Bridge Too Far - that's about it).
However, I recognize it is a great piece of filmmaking - and it has been reported this is Scorcese's favorite film of Kubricks'.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 9:40 am to SportsGuyNOLA
Spartacus was boring after a while. I haven't seen all of his movies but Spartacus is the only one I didn't care for.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 9:41 am to SportsGuyNOLA
eyes wide shut by a mile
clockwork orange before that
clockwork orange before that
Posted on 8/22/14 at 9:51 am to SportsGuyNOLA
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And we can leave Eyes Wide Shut off the list, because I think that would be everyone's choice (it would be mine).
What? It kicks arse
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:08 am to SSpaniel
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He killed James Earl Jones and Slim Whitman. This is unacceptable.
Edit: Of course I meant Slim Pickens, not Whitman.
You're mixing Dr. Strangelove and Mars Attacks.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:09 am to Ace Midnight
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The Killing
Paths of Glory
Spartacus
Lolita
Strangelove
2001
Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
I've never seen The Killing or all of Barry Lyndon, so I can't say on those, but Full Metal Jacket is not a great movie. It's a great first half of a movie, then it sucks. So that's my pick.
This post was edited on 8/22/14 at 10:10 am
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:10 am to DelU249
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eyes wide shut by a mile
clockwork orange before that
Interesting.
Eyes Wide Shut is my least-favorite.
A Clockwork Orange is my favorite.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:10 am to Fewer Kilometers
BTW, the overuse of Peter Sellers and the assumption that the audience wouldn't be able to see through his disguises brings Lolita down.
But James Mason's awesome performance brings it right back up again.
But James Mason's awesome performance brings it right back up again.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:14 am to Fewer Kilometers
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BTW, the overuse of Peter Sellers and the assumption that the audience wouldn't be able to see through his disguises brings Lolita down.
But James Mason's awesome performance brings it right back up again.
Lolita is one of my favorites of Kubrick's
Interesting the variety of answers.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:14 am to Fewer Kilometers
Peter Sellers has never brought a movie down.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:20 am to SportsGuyNOLA
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I know Barry Lyndon was not successful at the box office, but I enjoyed it. My main complaint is that is is WAY too long.
I really enjoyed Barry Lyndon. It's length added to how epic it was for me. My one complaint about it would be Ryan O'neal. I read that Kubrick was more or less forced into casting him for the lead. Kubrick's original choice I think was rumored to be Robert Redford. O'neal did alright, but I would have been interested in seeing Redford there.
As for least favorite... It's hard to pick. I like all of them that I've seen, and there are still 2 or 3 that I haven't seen. Maybe Full Metal Jacket? I don't know. I still like that one a lot. Maybe it can be a little bit cheesy and over the top and therefore loses some effectiveness.
I don't really like saying "least favorite" about a movie that I still really enjoy, but there you go.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:24 am to Brosef Stalin
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Peter Sellers has never brought a movie down.
The only thing that shocks me about Lolita is that it isn't better received - Mason gives, arguably, his best performance (maybe second to A Star is Born) and Sellers gives probably his second best effort (after the aforementioned Dr. Strangelove).
By the way, Sue Lyon is 68 years old this year - time just flies.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:32 am to SportsGuyNOLA
The moon landing
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:36 am to Ace Midnight
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The Killing
Paths of Glory
Spartacus
Lolita
Strangelove
2001
Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
Spartacus is the only one I haven't seen. I would have to say The Killing only because it's the most "regular" movie of the bunch. And I'm with others on Barry Lyndon. I've watched it twice, but I'll be hard pressed to watch it ever again. Beautiful film making, but it does drag and the characters are not relatable to most in modern society.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:36 am to Ace Midnight
I feel like I've grown out of Kubrick. He's a wonderful visual stylist, and he makes some of the most beautiful movies ever put to film. That said, his movies are just so cold. He hasn't an ounce of humanity in him, it seems, and his characters rarely resemble anything approximating an actual human being. I've become much more humanist as I've grown older, and Kubrick, who really was the first director I truly loved, just doesn't appeal to me like he did when I was an Angry Young Man.
I'd say Barry Lyndon is my least favorite Kubrick, as it represents all of my problems with Kubrick. It is weighted down by a wooden performance by his lead actor, and his actions are just an excuse to shoot truly beautiful scenes. It's like the movie equivalent of Macbeth: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
He's a technical master, but the man simply doesn't understand people. Nor does he even try. It's why he was the perfect director for AI. He cares more for the robots.
I'd say Barry Lyndon is my least favorite Kubrick, as it represents all of my problems with Kubrick. It is weighted down by a wooden performance by his lead actor, and his actions are just an excuse to shoot truly beautiful scenes. It's like the movie equivalent of Macbeth: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
He's a technical master, but the man simply doesn't understand people. Nor does he even try. It's why he was the perfect director for AI. He cares more for the robots.
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