Stanley Kubrick

sidekick · #1 (**permalink**) Mar 25, 05

man, the last week i've been totally gobbling up Kubrick films. i rented and watched:
Eyes Wide Shut
Full Metal Jacket
2001: A Space Odyssey

and i just rented, but haven't watched yet:
Barry Lyndon

i'd already seen:
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange

this guy has to be one of the best movie directors/writers of all time. i'm sad he's dead :( anyone else a kubrick fan?

Clayton. · #2 (**permalink**) Mar 25, 05

He has made some strange movies like drug store cowbay.

sidekick · #3 (**permalink**) Mar 25, 05

^that was Gus Van Sant...the guy that did Elephant and Good Will Hunting

Clayton. · #4 (**permalink**) Mar 25, 05

Oh, well i've seen some of the ones you mentioned they are all good.

sidekick · #5 (**permalink**) Mar 25, 05

yeah, i'd have to say my favourite out of the ones that i've rented so far is Full Metal Jacket.

but out of all the films of his i've seen, A Clockwork Orange is the best.

mojo · #6 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

are you from texas?^

foolish · #7 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

respect to kubrick, movies like full metal jacket and clockwork orange, when i see them i get a creepy feeling. Its nice to see someone that was makin movies that were original, unlike most of the movies that are made today, with the exact same plot

Grapes · #8 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

I have a ton of respect for him, but he'll never be my favorite director. All the movies you've listed.. I can't slag them or anything, they're obviously unique works with a ton of Kubrik's artistic vision behind them... but on a personal level, I wasn't as thrilled by ClockWork Orange or Full Metal Jacket as I expected to be. They were good but they don't rank on my top lists all time.

Which almost bothers me, in a way, because I have this weird feeling like they should have..

Bevvy Swift · #9 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

i love kubrick. cloclwork orange is a great movie. good book, too.

Bevvy Swift · #10 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

and full metal jacket is one of the the only emorable vietnam war movies. the rest seem to drift in and out f each other in my memory.

sidekick · #11 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

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Originally Posted by mojo

are you from texas?^

what? did i miss something here?

bevan: yeah, full metal jacket has to be one of the best war movies i've ever seen. i just like how he focusses on the whole de-humanizing of the soldiers in vietnam.

Clayton. · #12 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

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Originally Posted by Cheez

and full metal jacket is one of the the only emorable vietnam war movies. the rest seem to drift in and out f each other in my memory.

Platoon and apocalypse now are both good to.

mojo · #13 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

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Originally Posted by Sidekick

what? did i miss something here?

remember the scene in the barracks, when that one grunt says he is from texas.....and the sargent says," only 2 things come from texas boy! steers and queers!"

get it now? i figured you would pick up on the joke, after just seeing the movieand all.

sidekick · #14 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

^ahhh right. i remember that scene. well, after watching so many Kubrick films asking 'are you from texas?' was a little too subtle a hint for me, i guess.

Liqwid · #15 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

tarnation....

~dalyn

ebbomega · #16 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

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Originally Posted by foolish

respect to kubrick, movies like full metal jacket and clockwork orange, when i see them i get a creepy feeling. Its nice to see someone that was makin movies that were original, unlike most of the movies that are made today, with the exact same plot

A substantial part of Kubrick's brilliance was his ability to manipulate his audience rather than simply entertain.

Bobby_T · #17 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

Kubrick is deffinetly my favorite director. His vision for breath-taking shot is unparalleled. I could (and have) put his movies on mute and just marvel at the his visual creations. He has been my fave for a while too. A Clockwork Orange is my fave movie all time.

Did any of you guys see A.I. (artificial intelligence)?

I heard Kubrick began working on it right before he died and never finished it. Apparently Steven Speilberg finished it. The funny thing is I harsh noticed the begining was very Kubrick-esque, dark, errie, with a sense of urgency and all that but the end was typical hollywood shit. hahah it seemed like you could see the division of the two directors as the movie progressed.

sinnerman · #18 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

I love in Space Odyssey, how the characters say telephone instead of phone. "Tell your mother I'll telephone her later this week." Silly Kubrick, nobody uses telephone as a verb...

sidekick · #19 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

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Originally Posted by BoBBy_T

Did any of you guys see A.I. (artificial intelligence)?

I heard Kubrick began working on it right before he died and never finished it. Apparently Steven Speilberg finished it. The funny thing is I harsh noticed the begining was very Kubrick-esque, dark, errie, with a sense of urgency and all that but the end was typical hollywood shit. hahah it seemed like you could see the division of the two directors as the movie progressed.

i might be mistaken on this one, but i'm pretty sure Kubrick left detailed instructions on how he wanted the movie to be made and Speilburg just followed his instructions. i can't remember where i heard this, but i thought that's what happened.

although the ending isn't really my favourite thing...it does seem like something kubrick would do. he has a tendancy to get kind of kooky near the end of his movies. most of his movies have a very distinctive 3 Act forumla...and AI wasn't really much different from that. think of the ending to Space Odyssey or the last part of Eyes Wide Shut...it wouldn't surprise me at all if the ending of AI was Kubrick's imagination.

ebbomega · #20 (**permalink**) Mar 26, 05

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Originally Posted by sinnerman

I love in Space Odyssey, how the characters say telephone instead of phone. "Tell your mother I'll telephone her later this week." Silly Kubrick, nobody uses telephone as a verb...

In North America......

(Psst. There's more to movies than Hollywood)

tvmann · #21 (**permalink**) Mar 27, 05

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Originally Posted by sinnerman

I love in Space Odyssey, how the characters say telephone instead of phone. "Tell your mother I'll telephone her later this week." Silly Kubrick, nobody uses telephone as a verb...

Well that movie 2001 was made in the 1960's and he was trying to make the people talk a lttle differently etc - after all it was to be in the future and we know that people talk a little differently as the decades pass.

sinnerman · #22 (**permalink**) Mar 27, 05

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Originally Posted by tvmann

Well that movie 2001 was made in the 1960's and he was trying to make the people talk a lttle differently etc - after all it was to be in the future and we know that people talk a little differently as the decades pass.

Oh yeah, I know, but it's still funny to watch.