Mithrandir on 16/2/2002 at 17:20
I have Paths of Glory on tape off of TCM, but am not watching it because I'm afraid it will be dull. Is it?
By the way, Dr. strangelove was great. My ROTC teacher played some of it in class :confused: (don't ask me why).
Nupraptor on 16/2/2002 at 17:23
Anyone know exactly why A.I. was credited as a Kubrick film, anyway? I mean, I liked it quite a bit. But I'm just left confused as to exactly what his purported involvement was.
Gothik on 17/2/2002 at 04:31
As I understand it, it was a movie he'd been planning to make for years, he was basically waiting for film technology to get advanced enough to be able to realise his vision on screen. He'd finally decided that it had and was just about to commence work on it when he passed away. He may well have even written the screenplay for it (I'm not sure about that, I haven't seen the film). Because he'd done so much preperation work on it and it was one of his ambitions to film it, Spielberg decided to credit him - mostly as a tribute I guess.
My favourite Kubriks:
A Clockwork Orange
2001
The Shining
Full Metal jacket
Dr Strangelove
Shades on 17/2/2002 at 04:33
Im torn between FMJ and The Shining. Help...
screech on 17/2/2002 at 09:23
shining
Chibboleth on 17/2/2002 at 18:25
It's all about Dr. Strangelove.
Clockwork Orange was good but Kubrick fucked it up by deviating too much from the original story. The last chapter of Burgess's book, which is probably the most important, is totally omitted from the film.
The Shining is a great example that hollywood steadfastly refuses to learn from - it is one of the only horror movies that I actually find to be scary. Basically, The Shining is what you get when you take a horror story and give it to a director who's actually talented, instead of some hack like Clive Barker or Wes Craven. Another good example of this is Alien, a slasher movie that Ridley Scott made into something special only to have it obscured in the public consciousness by its sequel, a piss-poor Vietnam movie by that no-talent waste of space Cameron.
Sypha Nadon on 17/2/2002 at 18:49
CLOCKWORK ORANGE! One of my all-time favorite movies.
Actually, I'm glad they omitted the book's final chapter. That chapter seemed too optimistic & pat compared to all that went on before it. The movie's ending is fine the way it is.
Chimpy Chompy on 17/2/2002 at 18:51
Aliens? Piss Poor? No it wasn't. It had a similar appeal to Predator - watching a bunch of gung-ho US soldiers\marines crack under pressure when faced with a superior foe.
Felonious Punk on 17/2/2002 at 18:57
I can't decide if 2001 or Dr. Strangelove is IMO the best of Kubrick's films, so I declare them co-best. :erm: Albert Speer said Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator was the best documentary of the Third Reich; in that vein I say Dr. Strangelove was the best documentary about the Cold War. If you're a political geek, you can figure out who each of the major figures in the movie were based on. Brilliant satire.
After that, roughly in descending order, Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket, Spartacus, The Shining. I haven't seen his other films.
Fafhrd on 17/2/2002 at 19:24
regarding A.I. Apparently Kubrick always had the intention of producing it, but having Spielberg direct it.
