Stanley Kubrick

[Mrs_Mia_Wallace]

Hey everybody,

Since the movie forum has been starting off kind of slow I thought I do something against it and start a thread. I would like you to discuss the movies made by Stanley Kubrick.

Do you like his movies? If yes, which is your favorite one? I always heard people saying that all his movie share something of the Kubrick special "feeling" or "style"...does someone know what it could be in particular?

In case some people don't know which movies he has made, here are some of the most known ones: Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes wide shut, 2001 Space Oddysey, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Spartakus, Full Metal jacket...here (http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/) is the official web site of him.

Feel free to discuss anything related to him in here!

Mia:)

[marvinbarcelona]

Kubrick is certainly one of the greats of cinema. I always find his films a little cold, a little distant and a feeling that you are observing rather taking part. Except one film and that was Spartacus, which is a film he didn't start, but was brought on board as a replacement for the original director (can't remember his name at the moment).

Space Odyssey is an amazimg film, not for its effects, but the way the film is put together. You aren't told what is happening, you are left to discover what is going on and, ultimately, to decide for yourself what it was all about. This has left many viewers unimpressed with the film, but that is really the fault of Hollywood for killing creativety when ever it springs up.

Kubrick always treated his audience as intelligent adults, capable of independant thought. Too few directors do this today.

[Fickle]

Originally posted by marvinbarcelona
Kubrick always treated his audience as intelligent adults, capable of independant thought. Too few directors do this today.

This is very true. There is an honesty to all the movies Kubrick made that shatters other supposedly "honest" films like American Beauty. Kubrick, more than others, shows the darker sides of reality, how the guy you root for doesn't always win or sometimes isn't that great of a guy. Very honest work.
My favorite is probably Clockwork Orange, simply because of it's unchained malevolance.
A close second is The Shining, despite it destroying the entire feeling of the book. The book was more of a mental thriller, watching Jack Torrence slowly go insane, where Kubrick's version is more the Hotel destroying the Family for the boy.
Very classic. With Kubricks dark sense comes a very real idea of underlying insanity that drives his films like a punch to the stomach.
Great Director.

[ertmann|CPH]

One of my favourite directors, my favourites are The Shining and Full metal jacket.

2001; A space Oddesey, i've never really decided if i like or not. The visual effect's are mindblowing, if you consider the time when he made them. And the scene where HAL get's shut down, and grow more and more insane, are really cool aswell. But i must say i don't really like the ending (which probably isn't really kubricks fault, but Arthur C Clarke's)

[Fickle]

Originally posted by ertmann|CPH
One of my favourite directors, my favourites are The Shining and Full metal jacket.

2001; A space Oddesey, i've never really decided if i like or not. The visual effect's are mindblowing, if you consider the time when he made them. And the scene where HAL get's shut down, and grow more and more insane, are really cool aswell. But i must say i don't really like the ending (which probably isn't really kubricks fault, but Arthur C Clarke's)

Unless he fucked with the book as bad as he did with The Shining. My favorite book, and my favorite Kubrick movie, even if they are almost completely different in "point" or whatever it is they were trying to do. The Book was more the hotel driving Jack crazy and steal Danny, who has a special power. The movie was more Jack going crazy and trying to kill everybody, even the boy (who oh by the way has this neat little thing that makes his finger twitch as he says "redrum".)

But I really like both of them,.

[marvinbarcelona]

I've got to say that admired the ending to 2001. It was a very brave decision to use it in such a high profile film. I always felt it was about the continuation of a journey, journey without end.

[Mrs_Mia_Wallace]

One of the very few movies I haven't seen of Kubrick is 2001...I really should see that one day since it seems to be the one with the biggest controversy around it...

I like it how Kubrick kind of comtrols your emotions so that you cannot really feel any other way, it may also be the books behind it but you feel more sorry for the guy than for the abused little girl in "Lolita" and you feel happy for Alex when he gets to have violent thoughts again in "A Clockwork orange"...and I absolutely have to agree with marvin, after these movies you can truly have a nice little discussion with your friend and see how they percieved the movie, it's not only a "cool" "scary" or "funny" movie, it's always something in between and way more than that, too :up:

Mia:)

[evil_oj]

favourite: Dr Strangelove
least favourite (although still ok): The Shining

[ertmann|CPH]

Dr. Strangelove is cool too

im working on getting the entire collection on DVD, so far i have 2001, Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Eyes wide shut and Spartacus...

next ones i plan to get are Barry Lyndon and Lolita..

[Bilbo Baggins]

I love Full Metal Jacket. It really digs into me for some reason.

[Mrs_Mia_Wallace]

ertman, over here you can get a box with the most known movies from Kubrick, my boyfriend has it, it included Lolita, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon, Clockwork orange, 2001, Eyes wide Shut and a documentary about Stanley Kubrick for a pretty good prize...

You absolutely have to get "Paths of glory" too, it was a really good movie in my opinon but it's somehow often forgotten...

Mia:)

[ertmann|CPH]

Bit too late to buy the whole box, when i allready have most of them...

i'll check out "paths of glory"...

and it's not "over here" but "down here" :D

[Mrs_Mia_Wallace]

But if I change the above sentence to "ertmann, down here you can get a box...." it sounds really obscene to me, I don't know what the others think or if it's just me ;) :p

Mia:)

[ertmann|CPH]

I think you just have a perverted way of thinking love :D