What's his best film?
Pan's Labyrinth
1. 2OO1: A Space Odyssey 2. Barry Lyndon 3. Eyes Wide Shut
>>219829190Sorry, I don’t think I’ve seen him in anything
>>2198291902001 easily. I like most of his movies and think The Shining is massively overrated.
>>219829190fullmetal alchemist
All of them are memorable in some way or another. My personal favorite is Barry Lyndon.
>be gigajew>start to hate your own people>move to London>die happy being in a foreign landJews, your respnse?
>>219829500>alchemist wat>>219829190Lolita
>>219829589Kubrick doesn't even like Lolita
>>219829190bro needs some sleep
>>219829618You're thinking of Spartacus
>>219829618So?! WE like Lolita!
>>219829190Dr Strangelove. I still don’t understand how he got away with it
>>219829354>>219829323Correct. All memes aside, 2001 is in actual fact his best overall film, once you've watched them all and thought seriously about their various merits (or lack thereof). The popular and conventional wisdom is correct on this one.The front half of his filmography has some charms, but nothing truly good/great outside of Paths of Glory, say. Anons here correctly observe that Lolita is quite dull. The quality ramps way up starting with Dr. Strangelove (an excellent dark comedy), peaks with 2001, and then he goes slumming for a bit with Clockwork Orange, proving he can still make an interesting movie on a budget although it runs 15 minutes too long. Barry Lyndon is great and very pretty, but again the conventional wisdom is correct: like Clockwork Orange (and UNLIKE 2001, I cannot stress this point strongly enough), the pacing drags a bit. What makes 2001 so great is that THE PACING NEVER DRAGS. The surest way to detect an idiot: a person who becomes bored while watching 2001. Everything is interesting, nothing overstays its welcome. I remember the very first time that I watched it at age eight, maybe it was on PBS, and although I wasn't into the Dawn of Man initially, I was never bored at any time, not during the EVA, not during the psychadelic freakout. He keeps the story moving and the visuals engaging. That said, although 2001 is his best, I would have to say that The Shining is my personal favorite, and here I strongly disagree with the other anon. He waited a bit long to make Full Metal Jacket (like the abandoned Napoleon project), and Eyes Wide Shut is another very interesting "puzzle" movie, but the puzzles of 2001 and The Shining are simply more interesting.
>>219829190The moon landing and it's not even close
>>219830111On location btw
2001, paths of gloryis solid second choice
>>219830111Paul Allen and I went to see a movie, Oh Moon, Brave Moon. It was a laugh riot
1: 2001: A Space Odyssey2: The Shining3: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb4: Barry Lyndon5: Eyes Wide Shut6: Paths of GloryV7: A Clockwork Orange8: Full Metal Jacket9: SpartacusVVV10: Lolita11: Killer's Kiss12: The Killing13: Fear and Desire
>>219829964>That said, although 2001 is his best, I would have to say that The Shining is my personal favoritepeople who differentiate "best" from 'favorite" have phenomenological issues and are philosophically infantile.you think the shining is his best movie and I agree.
>>219829964Lolita is only "dull" to non-intellectuals. And no anon ITT ever implied that. Only one anon said that "Kubrick didn't like it", which doesn't at all equate to someone else that isn't Kubrick himself enjoying it or finding it "dull". Just because you think it's full doesn't mean everyone else is going to. I certainly don't.
As someone who is over 40 and watched all of this movies in every format from the 90s until present in blu-ray to 4k quality multiple times each, this is my final ratings of his movies.>>219829190S Tier>2001A Tier>A Clockwork Orange>Barry Lyndon>Dr. StrangeloveB Tier>The Killing>Paths of GloryC Tier>The Shining>Eyes Wide Shut>Full Metal JacketD Tier>Killer's Kiss>SpartacusE Tier>Lolita>Fear and DesireF Tier>Seafarers
>>219830321Best taste itt. 2001 and The Shining are easily his best to me while Full Metal Jacket gets absurdly overrated. I haven't rewatched Paths of Glory but probably wouldn't have included it with the first tier. Good film but think there's a drop off from Eyes Wide Shut
>>219830496Overall very reasonable (you have the very top and very bottom correct (Seafarers is beneath mention). The middle is where discussion becomes fun. You correctly give high place to Dr. Strangelove as I did, because he manages a uniquely straightforward dark comedy with apocalyptic subject matter, and brings it in at a conventional run time. Your ranking of The Shining is too low, and your ranking of the Killing is too high. I prefer the brief student film KILLER'S KISS to The Killing, because Killer's Kiss is a pure atmospheric noir piece where the Young Kubrick is saying "I know how to make a noir movie". The giant silhouette of the hatted gangster's head against the brick wall as they close in on their prey is the proof.
>>219830610Tell me anon. You agree with my top 3? Very few think ACO is his second best. To me it's his most pure movie. He was coming off of 2001 which was commercially and critically successful. He had the budget and freedom to create whatever movie he wanted and he created the most edgy movie ever made up to that point. Music, visuals, violence, humor, sex were all cranked to 10 for the time all in one movie. Just a complete assault on your senses back then and still to this day. It's a damn well made movie on top of all that. The amount of quotes and memes from it to this day are paramount to it's historical presence.
>>219831151Clockwork Orange is very creative, but it simply isn't as good as The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut etc, which is why I relegate it to mid status. But Kubrick's "mid"-status once he finally hit his stride around the point of Dr. Strangelove, well... It's too bad that he and his family were subjected to death threats after it came out.The thing is, it hits hard in the first twenty minutes, and then it tapers off. I suspect that the film adaptation of Akira and the general strategy of that film was modeled on Clockwork Orange (viable): hit 'em over the head during the first 15-20 minutes, then they're locked in for the rest.
>>219829190Gun to my head, I'll say 2001. Paths of Glory not too far behind
Kubrick never won an oscar, never had a good movie.
>>219829548>warns us about sexual trafficking and pedophilia in the political swamp>just before Epstein gains traction in such circles>gigajewI bet you're a really popular guy
>>219831986That's the point anon. He saw the ugly shit as a jew and decided to leave. Similar to Bobby Fischer.
>>219831693I totally disagree with Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. Like I said, I watched them all in order recently in the best format, and The Shining is pretty good, but overall shallow and the ending is pretty meh with the prop scares. Eyes Wide Shut is very moody and good, but overall also seems very empty while feeling like there is more to it. FMJ is similar to these in that it has moments of brilliance of his previous movies but overall is lacking. First third is perfect, and the rest is just meh. The middle and last part isn't even bad. He just obviously couldn't figure out how to get an ending to the movie that topped the beginning. Even if he did, it wouldn't have been a better movie overall to Apocalypse now 7 years earlier. Not even close. IMO just as overrated as his other two last movies. His last three were good movies, but a huge downgrade overall from his previous peak three movies. Moments of brilliance in all three that reached his peak at times, but just too inconsistent overall.
>>219829190The one that's aged like no tomorrow. The shining
>>219829548>start to hate your own peoplecontext?
>>219832256He hated the US and moved away bc of how jewish it was. It's headcanon from me. He would hate the current UK.
>>219829964>paths of glorythe story wasn't that compelling.>>219830379the jeremy irons remake was better. kubrick's version sucked.
>>219830111came here to post this
>>219829190The Muppet Movie
>>219829190Lyndon.
>>219829190The Killing, he was better in the US and should've stayed there.
Eyes Wide Shut.
>>219829190Platoon
>>219829964no. 2001 is trash
>>219832414>remake was betterlollmao even
