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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 9745892" data-attributes="member: 7808">I'd move a few things around.- FMJ needs to be much higher.For me, the fact that the two halves fit together so oddly is why it's perfect.  IMNSHO, FMJ manages to capture the awkward transition between two connected but dissonant parts of life more perfectly than any other film.  In a way, it does what so many other "coming of age" movies try to do, but does it so much better.  I would love to see someone make a high school graduation or college transition movie the same way that Kubrick did FMJ.  It would be a blatant rip off and wouldn't work as well, but it would be good.- Dr. Strangelove needs to be much lower.Okay, I like this movie a lot.  It's a great movie.  And it's hard to judge comedy amidst a bunch of dramas.  But Strangelove, more than any other Kubrick film, has diminishing returns for me where I enjoy rewatches less and less.One big reason for this is probably that I've done a double feature of Strangelove and its stoic partner film: Failsafe.  And I'll say that not only is Failsafe is a better film, it makes Strangelove look worse.- The Shining should be ahead of Clockwork Orange.  Snarf said it straight up: "I'd argue that this film is perfect."  As I lack Snarf's ineffable emotional connection to Clockwork Orange and haven't seen Barry Lyndon, the Shining is the only choice for the #2 slot.- 2001 is #1.  That's all there is to it.  Snarf nailed this one.- Anybody wanna poke AI: Artificial Intelligence with a 10' pole?  I liked it a lot, but think it would have been better as a long-form 50s sci-fi radio show.  Which feels like much more of a dig than intended against a movie that put so much money into the visual effects.</blockquote>

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