Kubrick's Best?

No top three, or top five, just his best movie. Simple.

A Clockwork Orange

You?

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If you use the search function you'll find many threads about Kubrick, including this topic.


This is my choice, by the way.

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DR. STRANGELOVE or: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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Dr. Strangelove comes in a very close second for me.

I searched in the search bar and no results were found.

A Clockwork Orange

I'll rank the other ones of his that I've seen:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Loved To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket

I still have Eyes Wide Shut and Paths Of Glory sitting in my Netflix instant queue. I think the rest of his movies are in my regular queue, too.

2001: A Space Odyssey

2001 is the best, but A Clockwork Orange is my favorite.

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The Shining

Yes. 2001 has better directory but A Clockwork Orange is an overall better movie.

Full Metal Jacket

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2001: A Space Odyssey is what I consider to be his crowning achievement. But, damn near every film he's made deserves a mentioning among the greatest. As for favorite, The Shining takes the cake for me. I've despised A Clockwork Orange since the first time I've seen it, although I think it's one of the greatest films ever made, and no other film has received such a reaction from me. Not viewed, experienced.

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This is terrific. I just watched this a couple of days ago. It's first half is much, much better then the second (but the last half hour) was very intriguing and suspenseful.

I don't know how much interest or help this will be, but below is a link for a 10-disc Kubrick box set (Region 2) 2001:A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut and Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures. The other discs are extras for each of those films. All for £16.98. At that price, I'd be tempted myself, but not even I need that much sleep.

Anyway, for all the info, follow the link.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stanley-Kubr...235574&sr=1-18

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It's a excellent price, who wouldn't pay five excellent movies for 16 pounds?

Full Metal Jacket is my favourite but A Clockwork Orange is probably his best piece of work although it's very hard to choose, he's done so many brilliant movies.

Paths Of Glory. The reason being that I've not seen it, but I think I might like it and that's as good as Kubrick gets for me.

Of course, when I see it, if I do like it then it'll definately be my favourite Kubrick film.

I was just about to mention Paths of Glory. It's razor-sharp unsentimental throughout which might make you believe that it, too, is cold, but that movie turns me into a crying baby every time I've seen it, and I've only seen it about 25 times. You have seen Spartacus? That's the second-most crying Kubrick flick for me.

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I'm watching Paths of Glory tommorow, then Barry Lyndon.

What does everyone think of Barry Lyndon?

Barry Lyndon is gorgeous but it's presented as coldly as possible. I'm starting to think that some people hate Kubrick because he's so honest about the reality of humanity. Kubrick's films often seem "over the top" compared to "normal human behavior", but compared to reality, they're really much more a projection of reality, not only of the present, but of the past and the future, than the spoon-fed BS most films try to present.