Stanley Kubrick

Wow this thread is alive again.

I Love all of Kubricks Movies. The Shining and Full Metal Jacket being my favorites.

Originally posted by BackFire
I really wish he had lived long enough to make A.I. himself. According to him, he wanted to make it the ultimate movie experience, and wanted it to do for this generation what 2001 did for the previous generation. It would have been something to see.

Yeah. I may be wrong, but I can't imagine Kubrick having a talking teddy bear as one of the main characters. I'm also pretty sure he wouldn't have left us with a saccharine 'happy-ever-after' ending.

Stan Would have made it into greatness. Regardless.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Yeah. I may be wrong, but I can't imagine Kubrick having a talking teddy bear as one of the main characters. I'm also pretty sure he wouldn't have left us with a saccharine 'happy-ever-after' ending.

Oh yeah. I remember seeing some pictures he drew of his ideas, and an example of the difference is the freeway. In the movie, as it is now, the scene shows a freeway going through the mouth of a woman. Stanley had it going between her legs.

Also, you can tell the original idea was to show the dark cruel side of humanity, as Kubrick movies are famous for, Spielberg at least did some of this, but he seemed to scared to make it truley eerie and negative and injected some out of place "happy" scenes.

I think Kubricks original idea was to have all humans as villian, and the only protagonists would be robots.

I admire Spielberg, but I find his direction and Kubrick's vision as strange bed-fellows. It's honorable that Spelberg did it as a tribute to his friend, but - as you mention - some scenes did not seem congruous to Kubrick.

Yeah, I actually liked AI. And it was interesting to at least see some form of Kubricks idea, I jsut wish that Kubrick coulda been able to make it himself. It really woulda been something.

Shoulda, woulda, couldn't.

Is Barry Lyndon any good?

whats it about...i almost rented it....but insted i rented Dr. Strangelove droolio

Kubrick is an utter genius. I'm not gonna sit here here and say that I like every single one of his movies, although I own almost all of them, but irregardless I admire his blatant talent and masterful insight. My personal favorites are both "Dr. Strangeove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb" and "A Clockwork Orange". "Paths of Glory", "2001: A Space Odyssey", and "The Shining" are exceptional films that are true classics, as well. Also, I hope nobody hates me for this, but I prefer Adrian Lyne's version of "Lolita" over Kubrick's.

Originally posted by Impediment
Kubrick is an utter genius. I'm not gonna sit here here and say that I like every single one of his movies, although I own almost all of them, but irregardless I admire his blatant talent and masterful insight. My personal favorites are both "Dr. Strangeove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb" and "A Clockwork Orange". "Paths of Glory", "2001: A Space Odyssey", and "The Shining" are exceptional films that are true classics, as well. Also, I hope nobody hates me for this, but I prefer Adrian Lyne's version of "Lolita" over Kubrick's.

They're both good.

Originally posted by BackFire
They're both good.

The first 45 minutes of Full Metal Jacket is in my opinion the single greatest depiction of war, in any shape or form. The cold, dehumanising process of turning young men into heartless, mindless killers...sends shivers down my spine every time. Kubrick also took a huge risk in the whole sequence by never actually properly introducing a real protagonist. Pyle is viewed from the outside, the audience is never actually left alone with Joker, and the drill sergeant is utterly repulsive in everyway. Amazing, groundbreaking, frightening...etc.

All that, and it's not even my favorite of Kubrick's work. A master of his craft.

I liked The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. I havent seen very many of his movies but I've heard alot of good things about them.