# What are your Top Five Stanley Kubrick Movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684 "2015-07-20T12:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/21 "2015-07-21T03:00:01Z")
1. Dr. Strangelove 2. The Killing 3. Paths of Glory 4. Lolita 5. The Shining I saw Clockwork Orange once in high school, and again, after reading the screenplay, in college. That was over thirty years ago, and I’ve never needed to see it again. Same with 2001. I LOVE the performances in The Killing and Lolita and Paths of Glory, and both of them are on my To See Again list, near the top. Strangelove is ne plus ultra. ---
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1. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2. Dr. Strangelove 3. Full Metal Jacket 4. A Clockwork Orange 5. Barry Lyndon ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/23 "2015-07-21T05:28:18Z")
2001: A Space Odyssey The Shining Full Metal Jacket Eyes Wide Shut A Clockwork Orange Dr. Strangelove Out of what you listed, I believe these are all I’ve seen, so I tried to rank them accordingly. Caveats: I only watched Strangelove when I was too young to get the jokes, so… And Eyes Wide Shut–I have to be in a certain mood. But it fits that mood quite well. 😉 Artistically, this is part of why I dig Kubrick: [Kubrick (mostly) thumbing his nose at the Golden Mean.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flq0t4jrqJQ) ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/24 "2015-07-21T05:36:39Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > 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. This has touched me, and I have crappily analyzed the film, the novel, and King himself during that era, and…I don’t think Kubrick was too far off. Don’t know if I can give any more intelligent particulars at this hour, but I’ve felt that Kubrick simply saw through (too early?) to the real Jack. And even the novel mentions quite a few times how scary Daddy really was, even if he had some good moments. I see no disconnect. Kubrick did a good job. I think King was alarmed by how scary he (King) was at the time. You dig? (PS: The recent sequel novel sucked the big one.) ---
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Thinking about the movies, there are none that I dislike. Eyes Wide Shut might have been the weakest, but it had its points. I found Barry Lyndon slow, but it was beautiful, especially when seen in a theater where you could get the full effect. I’m too young (heh heh) to appreciate the setting of Lolita. But I’d happily watch any one of these again. ---
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2001: A Space Odyssey Dr. Strangelove The Killing Paths of Glory Full Metal Jacket ---
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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 Spartacus ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/28 "2015-07-22T00:07:39Z")
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1. Dr. Strangelove 2. 2001 A Space Odyssey 3. Full Metal Jacket 4. The Shining 5. Clockwork Orange ---
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1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 2. A Clockwork Orange 3. Full Metal Jacket 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey 5. Paths of Glory ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/31 "2015-07-22T03:01:57Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Thinking about the movies, there are none that I dislike. Eyes Wide Shut might have been the weakest, but it had its points. I found Barry Lyndon slow, but it was beautiful, especially when seen in a theater where you could get the full effect. I’m too young (heh heh) to appreciate the setting of Lolita. But I’d happily watch any one of these again. I liked all of his films except **The Shining**. I really disliked that film, mostly because it’s nothing like the book and I really liked the book. Well, that and Nicholson chews the scenery so much I could never take hm seriously. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/32 "2015-07-22T15:50:32Z")
Dr. Stranglove A Clockwork Orange Paths of Glory I’d stop here; nothing else was really a satisfying film. However, if forced to list five, I’d add 2001 and Barry Lyndon. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/33 "2015-07-22T16:17:02Z")
_ **Paths of Glory** _ and \*\*\*A Clockwork Orange \*\*\*were both brilliant. _ **Spartacus** _ was very good, for a conventional Hollywood sword-and-sandal film. Peter Sellers was awesome in\*\*\* Lolita.\*\*\* _ **Barry Lyndon** _ had great cinematography and a beautiful soundtrack (it was never nearly as funny as ANY work by Thackeray ought to be, though). Huh, guess I came up with five good Kubrick movies after all. Wasn’t sure I could. ---
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> [@astorian](#): > > Peter Sellers was awesome in\*\*\* Lolita.\*\*\* OTOH, I found that throwing Sellers in degraded the movie significantly. Someone who had the tone of Langella in the remake would have worked a lot better. And yet Sellers in _Strangelove_ was brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_of\_Words](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@Jack\_of\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_of_Words)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684/35 "2015-07-22T19:20:17Z")
I actually stopped going to the cinema with any regularity or enthusiasm after Full Metal Jacket (what a disappointment! The New Kubrick turned out to be two films tacked together, the first of which had been done over and over again, and the second had been done so much better in ‘Halo Jones’ [‘2000AD’ comic strip] by Alan Moore). That said: 1. The Shining (1980) 2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 3. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 4. Spartacus (1960) 5. Lolita (1962) But probably in the order 2, 4, 9, 10, 1. ---
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1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 2. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 3. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 5. Spartacus (1960) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-stanley-kubrick-movies/725684.md?page=1)