Best Stanley Kubrick movie?

Which is the best movie Stanley Kubrick has made?

  • Spartacus (1960)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Dr. Strangelove (1964)

    Votes: 10 25.6%

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    Votes: 10 25.6%

  • A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    Votes: 6 15.4%

  • Barry Lyndon (1975)

    Votes: 1 2.6%

  • The Shining (1980)

    Votes: 4 10.3%

  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)

    Votes: 8 20.5%

  • Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I /haven't seen/didn't like/ any of his movies

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    39
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The options are:

Spartacus (1960)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Other
I /haven't seen/didn't like/ any of his movies
 
Out of those, I've only seen Strangelove, the Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. *shame*

Voted Strangelove. "You can't fight in here, this is the war room!" :D
 
Yeah, out of those, I haven't seen Spartacus, Dr. Stranglelove and Eyes Wide Shut, but I know they're popular. I think we got Eyes Wide Shut on DVD, but I haven't been bothered to see it.
 
I've got some pretty strong personal feelings about nuk-u-lar combat...
 
Although I know Space Oddysey and Clockwork Orange are superior films, The Shining will always hold a place in my heart for being the first film to truly freak me out (Wait, that ain't no naked YOUNG woman!).
 
If you couldn't include all the movies why did you include Spartacus over The Killing/Lolita/Killer's Kiss/Fear and Desire? They are all superior films and Kubrick even said that Spartacus was barely his film.
 
Reginald said:
If you couldn't include all the movies why did you include Spartacus over The Killing/Lolita/Killer's Kiss/Fear and Desire? They are all superior films and Kubrick even said that Spartacus was barely his film.
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Coz I haven't seen any of these movies and didn't know how popular each of them are. There's always, the Other option.
 
i really liked barry lyndon, sarabande FTW!!!

the shining, FMJ and eyes wide shut i thought were sweet too...
 
i liked 2001: A Space Odyssey the efects back then were quite awesome...
 
For me its a tough decision between Strangelove, Orange, 2001, FMJ and The Shining. I went with FMJ, because its my personal favourite.
 
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
 
Ive seen Spartacus, Clockwork Orange, FUll metal jacket, the Shining and Eyes wide shut.
I think Full metal is the best of them, followed by the Shining
 
2001: A Space Oddyssey, this is not only Kubricks best film, but IMO the best film ever made. It deals with so many issues and concepts that many other films can't even touch such as man's evolution/ our place in the universe/ our creator/ Our control over machines that now seem to control us/ etc etc etc. Almost 40 years later the effects are still stunning as well
 
The only Kubrick movie I didn't really like was 2001, but I guess it's one of those movies that you have to watch more than once.

That said, Clockwork Orange FTW.
 
brink's said:
2001: A Space Oddyssey, this is not only Kubricks best film, but IMO the best film ever made. It deals with so many issues and concepts that many other films can't even touch such as man's evolution/ our place in the universe/ our creator/ Our control over machines that now seem to control us/ etc etc etc. Almost 40 years later the effects are still stunning as well
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You. Me. Sex. Now.

Slacker... Let's have sex anyway, but I'll roll over and go to sleep afterwards.
 
Full Metal Jacket is a really good one, especially the first half. Clockwork Orange is a damn fine one also. Everyone should check out Paths of Glory its a pretty cool movie that shows how messed up politics and war can be.
 
That was tuff. I liked Dr. Strangelove, and Full Metal Jacket...I ended up voting for FMJ though.
 
Strangelove is my favorite movie of all-time.....

So I voted Strangelove.
 
A Clockwork Orange for me. I mean, a movie opening like this can't be anything but great.

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie
and Dim and we sat in the Korova milkbar trying to make up our
rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova Milk Bar sold
milkplus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom which is what we
were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit
of the old ultra-violence. Our pockets were full of money so there was
no need on that score, but, as they say, money isn't everything.
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DeusExMachina said:
I'd disagree with you there.
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Why? It would have been weird to go from a scene like that, which I think made the perfect ending, to "blah blah years later this is what happened" like the book did. Heck, I think the book would have been perfect if it ended where the moive did, if anything.

I think the book's ending worked fine for the book, and I think the movie's ending worked fine for the movie.
 
Burgess was showing that people can become good of their own free volition. Kubrick didn't believe that it seems.
 
DeusExMachina said:
Burgess was showing that people can become good of their own free volition. Kubrick didn't believe that it seems.
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I'll give you that the movie was totally unfaithful to the POINT of the book, but still, Kubrick's point was different, but I liked it just as much. And like I said, he did the ending to his vision well, just like Burgess did the ending to his version well.

Plus, the book originally ended the way the movie did, so yeah.
 
Only in America. The UK still had the original ending in tact. His American publisher took it out.
 
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