# What's your favourite Stanley Kubrick movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541 "2016-07-21T23:24:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541/41 "2016-07-22T21:15:43Z")
I agree with every word of Hypno-Toads’s post. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541/42 "2016-07-22T21:36:13Z")
I chose The Shining, but it was close with 2001 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541/43 "2016-07-22T21:36:30Z")
I just now realized that not a single person has picked _Eyes Wide Shut_. C’mon, peeps! Where’s the love? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541/44 "2016-07-22T21:40:58Z")
OK, OK…Nicole’s tits are quite nice. But those are the **only** redeeming features of that pile of crap. Except maybe her ass. Sexist and shallow is the only way to appreciate in any way the absolute nadir of Kubrick’s career. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541/45 "2016-07-23T03:23:23Z")
2001 A Clockwork Orange The Shining One of the benefits of Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight was that the local theater that obtained a 70mm projector for it KEPT it and I got to see 2001 in 70mm this year. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541/46 "2016-07-23T08:53:19Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I just now realized that not a single person has picked _Eyes Wide Shut_. C’mon, peeps! Where’s the love? 😛 I like that film much more than most people do. I’ve never understood the hate. Sure, it feels “cold,” but that’s the point. I thought it was a compelling story told well enough, and for me it brought up some important ideas (e.g., sex vs. love). Not good enough to make the top 3 list, but nor did I rule it out when I first looked over the full list. I thought about it for a moment, but quickly noticed there were at least five films that were better. ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541/47 "2016-07-24T12:26:47Z")
2001, Strangelove, and Eyes Wide Shut are the ones I’ll continue watching if I stumble on them while channel surfing. I really like Eyes Wide Shut (but then again, I like Waterworld) - the cinematography is like heroin for my eyes, the story’s dark and sexy, and Sydney Pollock’s acting is horrendous. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541/48 "2016-07-24T13:44:58Z")
_2001, Dr, Strangelove_, and _Full Metal Jacket_, in that order. I’ll go against the grain and mention that I absolutely love _Barry Lyndon_, but then I seem to be able to sit through many a movie that others frequently find tedious (like _2001_, come to that). OTOH, I’ve never been much of a fan of _The Shining_ or _A Clockwork Orange_. Both have amazing visuals and great performances, but in the former case I just don’t care much for the horror genre, and I find the latter a bit too simplistic regarding plot. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541/49 "2016-07-24T14:53:36Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > On a related question: am I the only one who found _Barry Lyndon_ tedious? I mean, I recognize the artistic merits of the film but I was bored. Really bored. (Also, hearing “La Folia” now makes me shudder). I really love _Barry Lyndon_. It’s a long movie, and slow. But I was thinking about it recently, and I realized that I like it for a lot of the same reasons I like _Breaking Bad_. It’s very methodical, deliberate, gorgeously filmed, and each scene builds up more and more dramatic tension as this entitled outsider tries to worm himself into an insular group where he doesn’t really belong, only for it to be his own downfall. I gotta dig out that DVD again. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541/50 "2016-07-24T16:40:40Z")
_Barry Lyndon_ all the way, it was hugely influential on the next generation of filmmakers such as Ridley Scott (watch his first film _The Duellists_ and you’ll see what I mean.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-stanley-kubrick-movie/760541.md?page=2)