King Kubrick: Ranking Stanley's Best Films

[haakon1]

Dupe, caused by bards.

 

[General_Tangent]

I would say the best Vietnam War movies are:


- “84 Charlie MoPic”, if you want to name something obscure but actually pretty good, just to prove you did your homework.

I saw 84 Charlie MoPic as part of the Videodrome series presented by Alex Cox on BBC2, it took me ages to finally find a copy on DVD and only after I found a copy of the script online. A great example of an early found footage film.

 

[Cadence]

I have some huge gaps in my literary and cinematographic experience. In the early 2000s we started picking off some of the consensus top 100 films, but never got to 2001 before that effort got sidetracked.

Finally saw it tonight.

There are many (not very positive) reviews summarized on Wikipedia that I agree with, but I wonder if I would have thought differently of it decades ago.

It does make Disney's Black Hole being made make more sense to me. (I am not comparing the two in terms of cinematography, or music, or some compelling scenes that 2001 is orders and orders of magnitude better at ... but the endings...)

I liked it better than any of my three attempts to read Ulysses.

 

[Parmandur]

I have some huge gaps in my literary and cinematographic experience. In the early 2000s we started picking off some of the consensus top 100 films, but never got to 2001 before that effort got sidetracked.

Finally saw it tonight.

There are many (not very positive) reviews summarized on Wikipedia that I agree with, but I wonder if I would have thought differently of it decades ago.

It does make Disney's Black Hole being made make more sense to me. (I am not comparing the two in terms of cinematography, or music, or some compelling scenes that 2001 is orders and orders of magnitude better at ... but the endings...)

I liked it better than any of my three attempts to read Ulysses.

The movie makes more sense kf you read the novel 2001, which was written alongside the script and makes the subtext of the film into text and provides explanations for mot everything: makes it a middling novel, but a great prism to understand the film.

 

[Cadence]

The movie makes more sense kf you read the novel 2001, which was written alongside the script and makes the subtext of the film into text and provides explanations for mot everything: makes it a middling novel, but a great prism to understand the film.

There are a variety of movies over the years where I had already read the book - but I think it was usually a book I liked. Does make me wonder which of those movies I wouldn't have liked without having read the book first.

 

[Parmandur]

There are a variety of movies over the years where I had already read the book - but I think it was usually a book I liked. Does make me wonder which of those movies I wouldn't have liked without having read the book first.

For very good reaaona, 2001 the mkvie is better remembered than the novel, one of the few cases of definite improvieon over a novel by a film. Bit of an odd case, since Clarke and Kubrick wrote them simultaneously in the same room, but hey, you know...

Believe it or not, every headscratcher in the film gets explained...throughly...in the novel. Makes an interesting case study of show vs. tell, and it is fascinating how much of what ia explicit in the novel and not really explained in the film gets across...doubly so if you know a bit more from the book (for example, Clarke explains the history and motivations of the Aliens operating the Uplift project for the Solar System).

In 1968, for serious sci-fi magazine reading fans of writers like Clarke...almost certainly a wild in-theatre experience. I can affirm the movie is amazing on a big screen. I am not a bit entertained by it, but have watched it multiple times and...it holds up really well to re-watching.

You are right that a lot of 70s/80s sci-fi that wasn't going for Star Wara style was majorly influenced by it...like The Black Hole, or Alien.

 

[Deset Gled]

You are right that a lot of 70s/80s sci-fi that wasn't going for Star Wara style was majorly influenced by it...like The Black Hole, or Alien.

2001 - > Dark Star - > Alien makes the line much more direct.

 

[Parmandur]

2001 - > Dark Star - > Alien makes the line much more direct.

Accurate.

 

[TiQuinn]

I have some huge gaps in my literary and cinematographic experience. In the early 2000s we started picking off some of the consensus top 100 films, but never got to 2001 before that effort got sidetracked.

Finally saw it tonight.

There are many (not very positive) reviews summarized on Wikipedia that I agree with, but I wonder if I would have thought differently of it decades ago.

It does make Disney's Black Hole being made make more sense to me. (I am not comparing the two in terms of cinematography, or music, or some compelling scenes that 2001 is orders and orders of magnitude better at ... but the endings...)

I liked it better than any of my three attempts to read Ulysses.

I love The Black Hole and think it’d be good for a remake, especially if they lean into the horror aspect a bit more. That movie shook me up when I saw it as a kid!

 

[dragoner]

Where the robot goes to hell.