What are your Top Five Stanley Kubrick Movies?

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Refer to Highest Rated Feature Film Director Titles With Stanley Kubrick for more about Kubrick’s work, but I have selected these titles for this thread:

  1. The Shining (1980)
  2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  3. Paths of Glory (1957)
  4. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  5. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  7. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  8. The Killing (1956)
  9. Spartacus (1960)
  10. Lolita (1962)
  11. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  12. Killer’s Kiss (1955)
  13. Fear and Desire (1953)

Pick your TOP FIVE and post them here.

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Full Metal Jacket
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Paths of Glory
A Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon

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Spartacus is one of my all-time favorite movies, but it’s very hard for me to think of it as a “Stanley Kubrick movie”. It bears too little of his directoral style, and too much the imprint of its star/producer Kirk Douglas and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo*. We’ve discussed this in an earlier thread, which brought up quotes about how those two overruled Kubrick, hard as it is to believe that strong personality being overruled.

Nevertheless, accepting it for the nonce as a Kubrick film, I’d have:

  1. Spartacus
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  3. Paths of Glory
  4. Dr. Strangelove
  5. Barry Lyndon

*This was the “film that broke the blacklist”. Douglas hired Trumbo and insisted on giving him full credit, despite Trumbo being on the List.

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Barry Lyndon (1975)

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Paths of Glory (1957)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
*The Killing *(1956)
*Full Metal Jacket *(1987)

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2001
The Shining
Spartacus
Full Metal Jacket
Lolita

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Paths of Glory
Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
The Killing
2001: A Space Odyssey

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  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    2: Dr. Strangelove
    3: A Clockwork Orange
    4: Paths of Glory
  2. The Killing

though the rest are right up there also. 6 would be Killer’s Kiss. The only one I haven’t seen is Fear and Desire.

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Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
Spartacus
The Shining.

I didn’t WANNA like The Shining; I adored the book, and Stephen King disliked what Kubrick did with his story. I agreed with King on some particulars; Jack Torrance starts the book as a perfectly nice guy with a dark side and some issues, whereas in the movie, Jack Nicholson starts off looking like someone I wouldn’t hire to mow my lawn for fear he’d go after the cat with a kitchen knife…

…but Kubrick makes his version work, and it’s a powerful, scary movie.

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I haven’t seen Killer’s Kiss nor Fear and Desire, but among those that remain:

  1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  3. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  4. The Shining (1980)
  5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  6. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  7. Lolita (1962)
  8. Spartacus (1960)
  9. Paths of Glory (1957)
  10. The Killing (1956)
  11. Barry Lyndon (1975)
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Jeez, the guy wasn’t exactly prolific, was he? Anthony Burgess and others commented on how “big” he wanted to be about everything and this slowed him down a lot. Several of his projects just died out when money/interest/etc. faded. Cf. Orson Welles.

So 5???

Strangelove, 2001, Orange, Lolita and and and …

Shining? I guess.

Spartacus just doesn’t have the feel of a Kubrick film.

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1,2,4,5 and 7

Lolita sucked balls!

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  1. The Shining (1980)
  2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  3. Paths of Glory (1957)
  4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  5. Spartacus (1960)

My favorite is 2001 Space Odyssey.
Runner ups- Paths of Glory and Dr. Strange love.

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  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  2. Dr. Strangelove
  3. Paths of Glory
  4. The Killing
  5. Lolita
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I haven’t seen 3,7,8,12 or 13. Of those that remain:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Spartacus (I also don’t feel like this is a Kubrick film)

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2001
Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
Paths of Glory
The Shining
I should point out that I’ve never seen Spartacus. I’m not quite sure how I’ve gone so long without seeing it.

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The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange

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  1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  2. Paths of Glory (1957)
  3. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  4. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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2001
A Clockwork Orange
Dr Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
Lolita

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  1. Dr. Strangelove
  2. The Shining
  3. 2001
  4. Barry Lyndon
  5. Eyes Wide Shut

Honorable mention: Paths of Glory