Good Day, Mister Kubrick

Best Stanley Kubrick film?
	Fear and Desire
	Killer's Kiss
	The Killing
	Paths of Glory
	Spartacus
	Lolita
	Dr. Strangelove; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
	Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage
	2001: A Space Odyssey
	A Clockwork Orange
	Barry Lyndon
	The Shining
	Full Metal Jacket
	Eyes Wide Shut

phasmid: Jan 16, 2015; Booty Shaker
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cheerfullydrab posted:

People who didn't answer Barry Lyndon are people who are wrong about movies and, by being wrong about movies, show that they are probably wrong about other things in the world and in their own lives specifically.

You could take stills from almost any scene in Barry Lyndon and frame them and put them in the hall of somebody's apartment and nobody would ever question that they were regular normal art while on their way back from the bathroom or something.

Agreed. Objectively great movie. I bet if a kid had never watched tv before and you put it on in a room adjacent to where they were playing, the kid would sit right down and watch the whole thing, even if there wasn't any popcorn.

_Loser_ posted:

Alright, well you fuckers did it. I went and grabbed a copy of Barry Lyndon and holy poo poo, beautiful. How the hell have I never heard of this movie before this thread?

My only guess is that it gets overlooked because people don't really go in for period drama that isn't Les Miserables (bullshit soaps for mental midgets).

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phasmid: Jan 16, 2015; Booty Shaker
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hemophilia posted:

Eyes Wide shut was the last Kubrick movie I watched for the first time. I haven't seen Barry Lyndon or a few others, I'll get around to it, but Eyes Wide Shut legitimately scared the gently caress out of me. The sex and relationship stuff took a huge backseat for me as Kubrick managed to make the Illuminati stand-in the scarriest poo poo i've ever seen put to film.

People talk about the Shining like it's spooky, especially people old enough to have seen it during the theatrical run, but that poo poo is just standard spooky to me. Eyes Wide Shut gave me a full blown mental crisis.

I don't really get that. The weird Illuminati stuff was vague enough that it wasn't really that menacing. I mean, the chances are equally good that it's just as it appears - a wealthy group of socialites who want guilt-free sex and make a kinky masquerade about it. Stuff like that is probably as old a civilization. Of course they'd try and suss out any interlopers, but that's just 'cuz scrutiny and scandal might hurt their vanilla lives.

It really didn't make me think "oh wow, evil Satanic cabal that controls global affairs" so much as "horny dentists with a flair for the dramatic."

Then again, I didn't really like the movie. There were some good scenes. Nicole Kidman's confession was well done and surprisingly heartbreaking.

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ColtMcAsskick posted:

Rewatched Barry Lyndon. That dude needs to chill the gently caress out and realise when he's got it good cause he is the common denominator in causing his problems.

Like 4real dude you have a hot super rich wife and live in a manor. What loving more do you want

It's a tragedy. "Chilling the gently caress out" is taking the ammo out of Chekov's gun.

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