What is your favourite Stanley Kubrick Film?!
Question: What is your favourite Stanley Kubrick Film!?
And why!?
mines A Clockwork Orange =]Www@Enter-QA@Com
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Full Metal Jacket
I grew up watching that film and it is perhaps my favorite war movie but one of my top favorite movies!.
It is an excellent look into the Vietnam War, where Parris Island (where the Marines trained during this conflict)!. It is almost crazy to watch because the first "act" of the film seems pretty benign despite the lashing the new recruits get from Gunnery Sgt!. Hartman, that is, until on their last night a sign of the insanity to come spreads it self all over the barrack's latrine, seven, six, two milimeter, full metal jacket!. !. !. that movie scared this crap out of me and I love it for that!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I grew up watching that film and it is perhaps my favorite war movie but one of my top favorite movies!.
It is an excellent look into the Vietnam War, where Parris Island (where the Marines trained during this conflict)!. It is almost crazy to watch because the first "act" of the film seems pretty benign despite the lashing the new recruits get from Gunnery Sgt!. Hartman, that is, until on their last night a sign of the insanity to come spreads it self all over the barrack's latrine, seven, six, two milimeter, full metal jacket!. !. !. that movie scared this crap out of me and I love it for that!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It's funny, after you watch a film many times you begin to fall in love with it!. This is true with a lot of films but for Clockwork Orange, I only had to watch it 2 subsequent times to fall in love with it!. There are so many elements of this film that bring it together and make you totally enjoy the story!. The music in the film is one such example, at times it's beautiful and at times dark and disturbing, setting the right tone for the scene!. Technically this is a sci-fi film because it does take place in the future and there is the plot which involves brainwashing!. When many people think of Stanley Kubrick, they think of 2001 and this film!. It's because this film stands out as possibly the scariest image of the near future
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As much as I enjoyed Gunnery Sgt!. Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket," it isn't my favorite Kubrick (BTW, the bathroom scene with Private Pyle was half stolen from a Japanese WWII film called "The Human Condition part II" (1960-dir!. Masaki Kobayashi) in which an ineffectual recruit is hounded and abused during basic training and attempts suicide in a latrine!. The parallels are too exact--there is extra irony in that one too!.)
Anyway, I'd have to say for sheer staying power, "Clockwork Orange" has to take the laurels!. Its vision of the future has not only stylistic depth but the undergrowth of verisimilitude that makes the world more fully realized than its admittedly garish overlay!. It barely beats out "2001: A Space Odyssey" for me, which has technical virtuosity but seems somewhat sterile and isolated!.
Edit: Thanks, Desint! How could I have forgotten "Dr!. Strangelove!?" Now that I think of it, that one is right up there with Clockwork!.!.!.see, it is hard to choose, isn't it!? My favorite bit in that one: the "loss of essence" speech by General Ripper!. Really sums up the whole underlying political process, doesn't it!? ;=)Www@Enter-QA@Com
Anyway, I'd have to say for sheer staying power, "Clockwork Orange" has to take the laurels!. Its vision of the future has not only stylistic depth but the undergrowth of verisimilitude that makes the world more fully realized than its admittedly garish overlay!. It barely beats out "2001: A Space Odyssey" for me, which has technical virtuosity but seems somewhat sterile and isolated!.
Edit: Thanks, Desint! How could I have forgotten "Dr!. Strangelove!?" Now that I think of it, that one is right up there with Clockwork!.!.!.see, it is hard to choose, isn't it!? My favorite bit in that one: the "loss of essence" speech by General Ripper!. Really sums up the whole underlying political process, doesn't it!? ;=)Www@Enter-QA@Com
2001: A Space Odyssey
I like it because the mood is very well played out!. The film is directed so well in that just watching it you feel completely isolated, just as the astronauts must've felt!. The use of silence in the film is really extraordinary!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I like it because the mood is very well played out!. The film is directed so well in that just watching it you feel completely isolated, just as the astronauts must've felt!. The use of silence in the film is really extraordinary!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I love them all!.
2001 - great story, FX are outstanding in 1968, camera shots are very impressive, maybe a little bit boring for to days watcher!.
But my favorite - to name an other movie - is Dr!. Strangelove!. Just think of Maj!. Kong riding the bomb!.
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2001 - great story, FX are outstanding in 1968, camera shots are very impressive, maybe a little bit boring for to days watcher!.
But my favorite - to name an other movie - is Dr!. Strangelove!. Just think of Maj!. Kong riding the bomb!.
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full metal jacket is definately his best movie
but i love Clockwork orange, shining, etc
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but i love Clockwork orange, shining, etc
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"The Shining" definitely!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Full Metal Jacket
and 2001: A Space Odyssey coming a close second
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and 2001: A Space Odyssey coming a close second
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I love A Clockwork Orange and 2001, but it's gotta be The Shining by a nose for me!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The Shining!. I absolutely love horror films!.Www@Enter-QA@Com