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Which of these movies directed by Stanley Kubrick is your favorite?

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Movies referenced in this poll:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Eyes Wid Shut
Full Metal Jacket
Killer's Kiss
The Killing
Lolita
Paths of Glory
The Shining
Spartacus

Re:Which of these movies directed by Stanley Kubrick is your favorite?

If I completely understood 2001..., it would get my vote, but since I don't, I'm punting over to FMJ.

Tom

Re:Which of these movies directed by Stanley Kubrick is your favorite?

Of these Kubrick films listed, I've seen:

2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Shining (part)
Spartacus (part)

I don't really count the partial ones.  And, after a few gos at viewing, as it's one of my favorite movies, I feel like I completely understand 2001, so that one's my favorite hands down.  A Clockwork Orange was powerful but too disturbing for my sensitive palette, and Dr. Strangelove was darkly funny and funnily dark, but 2001 is just an amazing film to me on every level.

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What an amazing list of movies!

Even though I got a huge kick out of Dr. Strangelove, 2001 has stayed with me--a classic.

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I love the entire oeuvre!!!  I've seen all of them except for Killer's Kiss which was made before any of these and I guess was before he really found his sure footing.

It's so hard to pick.  He had so many destinctive qualities, but still managed to make masterpieces in almost every genre.  The winner for me had to go to Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a subject so dark, it HAD to be a comedy.

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   This was a tough one but in the end I had to go with  The Shining  (SURPRISE!)...   King, Kubrick and Nicholson had to get my vote.

   I didn't know that Kubrick directed  Spartacus (!)  but that would be a contender for my second favorite along with  Dr. Stranglove  and  2001 .

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Dr_Gor:

   This was a tough one but in the end I had to go with  The Shining  (SURPRISE!)...   King, Kubrick and Nicholson had to get my vote.

   I didn't know that Kubrick directed  Spartacus (!)  but that would be a contender for my second favorite along with  Dr. Stranglove  and  2001 .

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Yeah Anthony Mann was originally the director on Spartacus and did some filming for about a week before being fired by Kirk Douglas.  Then he brought on Kubrick.  Not sure what was wrong with Mann though.  Oh well.

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Risselada:

I love the entire oeuvre!!!  I've seen all of them except for Killer's Kiss which was made before any of these and I guess was before he really found his sure footing.

It's so hard to pick.  He had so many destinctive qualities, but still managed to make masterpieces in almost every genre.  The winner for me had to go to Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a subject so dark, it HAD to be a comedy.

I love the role played by James Earl Jones in ...Strangelove... - what a young guy he was then.

Tom

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So hard since I've seen all but two.

I think I'm going with Eyes Wide Shut. It is the only Kubrick I have seen in a movie theater and it was such an incredible experience that profoundly affected me when I saw it. I could probably say the same about all the others I have seen but being able to see EWS on the big screen in the manner in which it was meant to be seen puts its ahead of the others.

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DON'T MAKE ME DECIDE!!! ;)

Lolita.  Big ups to the ladies!  One of my favorite books as well.