Best Stanly Kubrick film.

[ichi]

ichi

[Navaros]

i don't think Kubrick makes good films. i think Kubrick makes good scenes. but as a whole, they are not cohesive or consistenly-entertaining.

i agree with Barry Lyndon having the best soundtrack - it's truly awesome!

i recently watched Barry Lyndon because i saw one of my favorite actors (Jeffrey Combs) recommend it in an interview.

i felt that Barry Lyndon totally fell apart in Act 2. the movie no longer was about Barry, but rather only about the people surrounding Barry. Barry became a supporting character in his own movie.

oh yeah, and the final duel was pathetic.

i also did not appreciate the lusting-for-your-own-cousin theme and the other disgusting scenes in the film. seems that Kubrick had a thing for putting perverted scenes in all of his films.

i do respect his cinematography. the films look good. but looking good alone does not make a good film.

for A Clockwork Orange: it started out really strong. but it got really really boring after the main guy goes to jail, and stayed boring until the end of the film. and again, the ending sucked. they should have had the film run for an extra hour to show the activities of the main guy again; in the aftermath of his recovery from brainwashing. instead they condensed what should have been an hour into a 30-second scene. lame!

[ichi]

and that's why I voted for Strangelove

Its the Kubrick folm that is a coherent movie, tells a great story in a very eloquent way. A lot of his flicks I'd agree with the assertion that he made good scenes but not good mivies, but Strangelove is a great film in the total sense.

ichi

[Fragony]

I only liked the HAL part of 2001, so my vote has to to Clockwork Orange.

ps, I don't understand the title 'Clockwork Orange', enlighten me plz

[Byzantine Prince]

If you read the book you'd know that a Clockwork Orange was the title of that old guy's book. It's meant to be an omage to the time that Anthony Burgess lived in Indonesia where orange might mean man. So it's like clockwork man which refers to Alex having the characteristics of the inside of a clock. Do you understand?

[tibilicus]

Spartacus folwed very closely by the shining.

[Fragony]

Anthony Burgess lived in Indonesia where orange might mean man.

So orange means mean man, I wonder where these indonesians got that idea

[Hurin_Rules]

Kubrick is my favorite director, so this was a hard one.

I went with Clockwork Orange (the title being a reference, I believe, to the somewhat naive hopes of modern societies to be able to tinker with human beings to make them better and solve all our problems). After seeing it, it became a part of the vocabulary of me and my friends in high school. I don't think I can imagine a movie that affected us more.

That being said, my favorite scene of any movie is the beginning of 2001, where humanity invents tools. Set to Strauss's symphony, itself inspired by teh works of Nietzsche. What else could one ask for?

The most courageous of his films has to be Dr. Strangelove. to make a film like that just after McCarthyism and during the blacklisting of directors took massive, massive cohones. And it was darn funny to boot.

I was disappointed with EWS, and felt it was an uncharacteristic down note on which to end his career.

[TonkaToys]

So orange means mean man, I wonder where these indonesians got that idea

Close... but Orang (no e) means man... hence Orang Utan means old man of the woods and Orang Orang means many men!


PS: Strangelove!