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24 Dec 2011, 7:07 pm

What;s your favorite Stanley Kubrick, if you saw any, and if you liked them? Or your least favorite?(I've only seen 2001 and Dr Strangelove and The Shining, great movies.)

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24 Dec 2011, 7:25 pm

The Killing is a supergood film, really tight and tense. Dr Strangelove made me laugh more than just about anything. Full Metal Jacket blew my mind, the dialogue, made me want to become a screenwriter. Those three I love SO MUCH. His others are good but often not for me (2001, The Shining, Barry Lyndon - great films but I couldn't deal with the pace).

Watch The Killing if you haven't, it's one of his early ones, I recommend it totally.

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24 Dec 2011, 7:39 pm

I haven't seen them all, but Full Metal Jacket would be my favorite at this point. -- And not only because the first half is hilarious in it's own unique way - the movie seems to have layer apon layer built into it. Every time I see it there are things that I didn't notice or interpretations that didn't occur to be the previous times. (In contrast to Spielberg movies which I can't watch twice without falling asleep.)

I think The Shining is ok, but I'm not much of a horror-movie fan. It did inspire a great Simpson's parody, though.

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24 Oct 2013, 3:33 pm

I liked Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket.

I didn't care for Paths of Glory, A Clockwork Orange, or Barry Lyndon.

I'm in the middle with The Killing and I never saw the others.

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24 Oct 2013, 3:45 pm

In order:

Dr. Strangelove
2001
Full Metal Jacket
Lolita

I also liked Eyes Wide Shut. It gets a lot of hate, but I'd defend it by pointing out--NAKED Nicole Kidman!

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16 Nov 2013, 12:27 am

My top three favorite Kubrick movies are

#1 A Clockwork Orange ( my all time favorite movie)
#2 The Shining
#3 Dr Strangelove

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16 Nov 2013, 7:17 am

There is a documentary on Netflix about his "The Shining". I started watching it but it was all into all kinds of detail and stuff. Stuff I would never notice. It's called "Room 253" or something like that. On Netflix.

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16 Nov 2013, 7:27 am

OliveOilMom wrote:

Room 237, actually. I always did wonder why he only did 3 movies between 1980 and his death in 1999 while he did nearly ten between 1953 and 1968. He did two in 1970s.

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16 Nov 2013, 9:35 am

redfames wrote:

My top three favorite Kubrick movies are

#1 A Clockwork Orange ( my all time favorite movie)

There is only one movie.. and that is clockwork orange... Easily the greatest movie of all time

after that we have

#2 2001
#3 full metal jacket

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16 Nov 2013, 11:30 am

I like that one he did around 1969 where these 3 American guys fly to the Moon and a couple of them get out of their space craft and walk around on it, then they fly back again.

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