How f****** amazing is Stanley Kubrick?!

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Permalink Reply by Hooded Justice™（Original) in HD on March 11, 2009 at 7:48pm

The Shining, one of the greatest films of all time, never really got into Clockwork though but I do love it for what it is, I really should have bought that DVD boxset when I saw it, never seen it since *kicking myself now*.

Dont you hate when that happens?, when you see a dvd or something that you want and you tell yourself 'ill get it tomorrow, itll still be there', tomorrow comes and its gone, damn that person for buying it, damn them to hell LOL.

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Permalink Reply by Doctor Lightning on March 12, 2009 at 12:13pm

He's possibly my favorite dead American director (some consider him British just cause he lived in Britain most of his life and made movies there but they're American to me, even Clockwork Orange which is about as British as it gets). Clockwork Orange has been my favorite since I was 14, but I love them all. Barry Lyndon for the masterful restraint and landscapes; Shining for its surrealism (and Eyes Wide Shut to a degree); The Killing cause it's got a perfect plot and great characters; Dr. Strangelove for standing right in the face of armageddon and making joking faces (and it's George C. Scott's best by FAR), 2001 cause... it's fucking 2001!

Only two I don't think are great are Spartacus (though it needs a reviewing) and Killer's Kiss cause it's just a minor noir. Oh, and whoever doesn't cry at the end of Paths of Glory has no soul. The End.

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Permalink Reply by Iron Man on March 12, 2009 at 12:26pm

If you can say Clockwork Orange is American then I can say The Dark Knight, Alien, Blade Runner and American Gangster are British.

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Permalink Reply by Benjamin David on April 22, 2009 at 5:10pm

Paths of Glory is still my favorite war (or anti-war) movie. Do any of you know if Paths of Glory is on DVD yet?

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Permalink Reply by Giovanni on March 12, 2009 at 1:08pm

Yeah I love his work Paths of Glory, 2001, ACO and Dr. Strangelove are my favorite from him.

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Permalink Reply by Phillip444 on March 12, 2009 at 3:37pm

He's not amazing, he's just good, at best

All I Liked were The Shining and Dr. Strangelove

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Permalink Reply by Captain Funk on March 12, 2009 at 6:58pm

Kubrick was amazing. It's sad that he had such a shitty final movie.

I have a professor who looks kind of like him. Kind of a cross between him and Colonel Sanders.

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Permalink Reply by Travis Pickle on March 23, 2009 at 6:38pm

2001 is my favourite!

a few years ago I saw it at the old Curzon cinema in London actually there are 2 about a mile and a half from each other and me and my friend got our hands on tickets to go and see it on the big screen! i was so excited we turned up at the main curzon in Soho only to be told it was on at the other one!!!

Had to run all the way across Picadilly but just made it! and MAN sitting in there with all the old decor watching a clean print of that on a huge screen i'm not ashamed to say i cried!

when i was a little kid we had this big old TV and I vividly remember switching channels and finding this weird thing with monkey men on! it sank deep into my brain! back then i thought Starwars was for real so this looked like a documentary but they find a black rectangle thing and fight and then i think my mum turned it over and for years i would tell people about this weird monkey thing and no-one knew what i was on about anyway it holds a very special place in my heart.

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Permalink Reply by Benjamin David on April 22, 2009 at 4:48pm

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Permalink Reply by THEV01 on April 26, 2009 at 5:56am

He's so amazing that he doesn't need dialogue to tell a story.
Images are all that he needed.

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