Favorite Kubrick film?
 

I work at blockbuster in a college town and constantly have debates over this great filmmakers movies. My vote goes to 2001, althought Clockwork Orange takes many of the votes. I love sci-fi movies, and the depth of 2001 blows me away every time I see it. Man vs. Machine, just classic to me. I didnt include Spartacus because he didnt have full creative control, Kirk Douglas and he were constantly at odds about it. I also didnt include anything before Spartacus (Paths of Glory, Killers Kiss, etc.) because these arent really available widely and you can only have 10 things in a poll anyway :). But the rest are there!

for me it is split 50-50 between 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining.
I say the Shining because i'm a huge fan of a good horror/thriller, but I think you can't overlook how influential 2001 was. Besides the very well known monkey + obelisk scene, will you ever forget the shiver that you got seeing Hal lip read?

A Clockwork Orange, all the way...can't even count how many times I've seen that film.

Clockwork...great film, but loved The Shining

I can watch Eyes Wide Shut over & over & over again.
Lotsa eye candy.

My favorite director of all time, I love every single one of his movies, even the early ones.
I would have voted for Paths of Glory if it was listed. Given these choices, its a tossup between 2001 and Strangelove with Strangelove gettting the slight edge.

I realliy love them all, but being a psychology enthusiast, I must give my vote for Clockwork

Love Kubrick. I did a speech on him for speech class, and got the pleasure of seeing some of his movies for the first time. I like Full Metal Jacket the best, but I also love Clockwork and 2001. Where is Spartacus on the list???

I gotta say Clockwork Orange, but Full Metal Jacket is also one of his best.

A Clockwork Orange, hands down.

My favourite is A Clockwork Orange.
In loose order of preference:

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Shining
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. Eyes Wide Shut

Haven't seen Barry Lyndon or Lolita.

I had to pick one so I went with Full Metal Jacket.


Shining in a close second, Clockwork in a close third

Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!

strangelove

FMJ, all the way!

I gotta say, Full Metal Jacket is my personal favorite of Kubrick's films. Mind, I haven't seen them all, but of the ones I have seen, it's the most enjoyable.

WE CANNOT ALLOW A MINE SHAFT GAP!

C'mon, how could you not vote for How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? Peter Sellers and George C. Scott are great, and Slim Picken's speech about the contents of the disaster kit is classic. (Not to mention the bomb riding scene).

Of course, maybe I should have actually seen FMJ and Clockwork Orange before I voted.

I started worrying about my fluids when I turned 5. Thank God that Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb helped me deal with it in a healthy way. I had to vote for it, otherwise they'd poison my fluids!

I voted for 2001. It is just a legendary sci fi flick. So perfect.

Eyes Wide Shut is my cup o' tea.

Gah.

Kubrick is my all time favourite director, making me choose is so hard :(

Equal tossup between Full Metal Jacket and Dr Strangelove, because I find both to be comedies... well FMJ at times isn't at other times it's just downright funny...

No Strangelove takes it for today. Especially how the same actor plays Dr Strangelove, the President and Mandrake.

Also: MEIN FUHRER, I CAN WALK!

I absolutely love A Clockwork Orange. What a directing masterpiece. All of his movies are good, but this one is great. Full Metal Jacket is definitely my favorite Vietnam movie.

No votes for Barry Lyndon? That was a hell of movie in my opinion, someone has to like it best.

I had to pick Dr Strangelove, though it's really a complete tie between DS, A Clockwork Orange, 2001, Eyes Wide Shut, and The Shining.

There's no problem picking my least favorite Kubrick film, though. Barry Lyndon wins that honor hands down. Jeee-ZUS. Three and a half hours of SLOW historical period drama. Don't know what the old man was thinking. Kubrik-style pacing works when there's stuff to soak up the extra brain cycles (the style, world, and look in A Clockwork Orange, the humor in Dr Strangelove, the violence and loss in Full Metal Jacket, the sexual and emotional undercurrent in Eyes Wide Shut, etc). When there's nothing but costuming and funny language, it's not engaging and slow. It's just slow.

got to be The Shining.

I'm suprised that FMJ is leading vote getter. The complete second half of that movie blew monkey balls.

Not very surprising, given that FMJ is one of the most popular of K's movies and the one most voters here have likely seen. I mean, come on, how many of you actually saw Lolita?

If I had all of them on DVD and had to choose one to watch right now, I'd go for Strangelove without hesitation.

I think a lot of the people who are voting for FMJ would vote for Scarface in a Pacino poll. It has a MTV cribsish following, i.e. people know it's hardcore and popular so they think it's totally cool. I really didn't think FMJ was up to Kubrick's standards, but that is all IMO. Also, I hated Scarface.

:hmm:

I've seen over half of those, and Full Metal Jacket is my favorite. The original poster asked for your favorite Kubrick film. Mine is Full Metal Jacket, because I like watching it the best. Doesn't have anything to do with MTV cribsish following.

And if you don't think Scarface is one of Pacino's best movies, you have issues :thumbsup:

I'm not saying I would pick Scarface as Pacino's best, but there is definitely a possibility. I find Montana to be more "real" and believable than Frank Slade. It's just a matter of opinion. And MTV didn't make mine!

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Kubrick's a man who do not understand people. The only scene in all of his films that portrays true emotion is the computer HAL dying in 2001. It's the only film of his that works, because it doesn't try to tell a story about people.

Best, I have to say Clockwork Orange. But it is very much not my favorite.

Gotta go with 2001. About as perfect of a movie as there ever was.

The Shining is a close second though, followed by a tie for third between Orange and FMJ.

Ultra violence............and Beethoven............ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Clockwork Orange was really good, but half of what made it that way was the fact that it was an excellent book - the same with the Shining, and 2001. Kubrick definitely had an influence on those, and a positive one, but a lot of the path to greatness was already laid out by the subject matter.

I voted for Strangelove because I think it carries more of Kubrick's stamp on it, and also because it's simultaneously funny and terrifying. I am a big fan of black comedies. Second place would go to Full Metal Jacket.

Strangelove #1, hands down for me. But from there it's way too tough to call, so they're all a close second... :)

I love them all too much to pick...All for different reasons.

no offense, but maybe you should browse through his catalog again :). i think kubrick new people very well, seeing how well he portrays outside elements affecting his characters. almost all of his films deal with the issue of dehuminization, so might it be fitting that they might be lacking with "human" emotion? i think the scene where cowboy dies in FMJ if full of emotion. did you not try to keep youself from sqirming out of your chair when alex was forced to watch the films to beethoven? maybe i didnt understand your rationalization but it was really broad, care to elaborate?

I think Full Metal Jacket is one of the most quoted movies of all time.

I like The Shining the most. It has one of the best lines ever.

"Wendy, darling, light of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash um right the FUCK in."

I have to go with Dr. Strangelove. Probably just because it has Peter Sellers in it and the bomb riding scene.

I'd have to pick Dr. Strangelove, with Full Metal Jacket a close second. But does anyone else think that Kubrick is a overrated? Is seems someone who was known to be very precise and methodical with how his films looked would make sure to take the same effort with the works of authors he made into movies. I know Stephen King didn't like The Shining, and Kubrick also seemed to make no effort to keep the tone of Lolita the same as the book (and he also gave away a big suprise right in the beginning). I also heard Dr. Strangelove got the same treatment (serious book to comedy movie).