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I just recently bought every Stanley Kubrick movie on DVD* in one fell swoop. I do not regret this. Any other Kubrickophiles out there, which is your favorite of his films?

Personally, it's a toss-up between The Shining, Barry Lyndon, and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

*excluding Day of the Flight, Flying Padre, Fear and Desire, and The Seafarers, none of which are available on DVD.

EDIT: Due to the poll limitations, I excluded Killer's Kiss and The Killing because I don't expect them to be chosen by anyone. I also excluded Spartacus because Kubrick didn't like it and I'm not it's biggest fan either. I included an "other" option, however, so if you really do like one of those the best, you can choose that.

With a name like mine, what did you expect?

Second choice: Full Metal Jacket, because sometimes he thinks he's John Wayne in a world of shit, you slimy-little-communist-shit-twinkle-toed-cocksucker who ran down the crack of your mother's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress.

"You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise god!"

2001 is just cool.



Dr. Strangelove is also up there.

2001: A Space Odyssey is cool, but it's overrated. The opening monkey scenes are fun, the first space scenes are fairly interesting, the HAL sequence is theoretically interesting, yet actually boring, and the psychadelic trip at the end is just dumb.

The movie has a few GREAT scenes, especially with HAL, and throughout, it's visually amazing (and I thank it profusely for contributing so much to the look of Star Wars...sometimes I watch 2001 and have to remind myself that it's not some sort of deleted scenes from ANH). Other than that, it's long, disjointed, abstract, and admittedly boring. I like it, but when it comes down to it, I'd rather not be watching it than be watching it.

Paths of Glory.

One sane man in a insane world.

Faram wrote:Paths of Glory.

One sane man in a insane world.

Sounds like me, only the other way around.

My answer is summed up in my sig.

Full Metal Jacket. No one in the history of film has provided more cool quotables than Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann.

"It vould not be difficult, Mein Fuhrer! Nuclear reactors could... heh... I'm sorry, Mister President. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely."

Strangelove. Just because of the craziness and that German scientist.

Full Metal Jacket, because R. Lee Ermey kicks ass.

Paths of Glory is the only one I have on DVD, but I voted for Full Metal Jacket.

Strangelove is winning by a whisker.

Full Metal jacket for the Paris Island scenes, the rest of the movie is sort of typical Vietnam movie stuff save for the fact that we have urban combat as opposed to the jungle warfare which can get boring real fast in a Vietnam war flick if you've seen enough of them.

Very close second would be Dr. Strangelove which I saw for the first time only a few months ago and was amazed that it could make me laugh out loud because I would have thought that at this point in my life, Cold War humor would be way too dated. I was pleasantly surprised to be wrong.

Sparatcus does not FEEL like a Kubrick film and I always forget that it wasn't Kirk Douglas directing. I happen to like that movie, very well done and as a Romanphile myself it was very satisfying with chilling prefromance by Laurence Olivier and a great villain with a heart of gold in Ustinov's character.

2001 is nearly unwatchable it is so fucking dull!!!!!

The only part of FMJ that I can remember is the scene where that guy shoots the Drill Sargeant, then blows his brains out the back of his head.

Its fun to see that no one care about EWS,and i voted for FMJ i like 2001 but when he leave the Discovery it get really confusing,DS and Spartacus.

Wasn't EWS that pseudo porno with Cruise and Kidman?

Eyes Wide Sgut was a fucking disaster, it was NOT sexy in any way shape or form and there was no real point to the movie. Sorely disappointed and you could tell this was a director in decline by this point.

Didn't he die before the movie was finished? If so, then that's one mother of a decline.

Dr Strangelove.

FMJ comes close with it's lines but Dr S was just that bit more memoriable.

Dr. Strangelove

"The Shining" for me.

Take a wild friggin' guess.

SyntaxVorlon wrote:Take a wild friggin' guess.

Hats off to you for staying awake and caring....unless you were smoking something then I totally understand.