Sure, they are technically proficient works of cinema. But have you ever noticed how cold and hollow they feel? Like his movies have no humanity, no love? This is no accident. It is intrinsic to Kubrick's intellectual narcissism and tyrannical directorial style. Kubrick couldn't work synergistically with actors. They were just chess pieces to him, to be moved around around a board and sacrificed if necessary. Robert Duvall knew about his too. But people are reluctant to admit they dislike Kubrick films because liking Kubrick is the most common way ordinary people try to signal they have sophisticated taste in cinema.

>>212885370 (OP)
>have you ever noticed how cold and hollow they feel?
literally every movie "critic" on earth has pointed this out, lil bro

The Lava Chicken scene mogs this whole movie in terms of objective entertainment value

>>212885395

Not everyone wants to watch Kurbrick edge his flaccid dick for 3 hours.

>>212885370 (OP)
esl thread

>>212885370 (OP)
>But have you ever noticed how cold and hollow they feel? Like his movies have no humanity, no love?
Who cares? They're still good movies and impressive on multiple levels. The fact that he made movies that were completely different genres and tones, and have them all be really good, is a testament to how good Kubrick really was.

>>212885477

Yeah, but Full Metal Jacket is a shit Vietnam movie. And A Clockwork Orange stinks.

>>212885370 (OP)
>people are reluctant to admit they dislike Kubrick films because liking Kubrick is the most common way ordinary people try to signal they have sophisticated taste in cinema
Elaborating on that statement, saying that Kubrick sucks or is overrated is the most common way ordinary people try to signal they have even more eclectic taste in cinema

he's the Faulkner of cinema

*Shoots a Vietnam movie in a London suburb with London weather and not a single trace of jungle.*

He's a genius! How do you know how much I love the genius film making of Stanley Kubrick!

>M-I-C
>K-E-Y
>M-O-U-S-E

>>212885526
>Full Metal Jacket is a shit Vietnam movie.
Then name a good Vietnam movie, and you can't say Hamburger Hill since that's the definitive Vietnam movie. Just a "good" Vietnam movie, name it.
>And A Clockwork Orange stinks.
Watch it again, but with more patience than an ADHD tard.

>>212885477
>They're still good movies and impressive on multiple levels.
Kubrick has made one - if you are extremely generous, maybe two - good movies. His films are usually polished, yet mediocre.

>>212885395
Sorry I guess I’ll read more movie “critics.”

>>212885370 (OP)
>how cold and hollow they feel
I notice this tenfold for Nolan movies.

>>212885370 (OP)
Nolan has that clinical feel to his movies too. I like it though.

>>212885664
>>212885677
We are the same but opposite.

>>212885677
Nolan is worse because he tries to shoehorn sentimentality into his cold movies. The "love transcends spacetime" bullshit in Interstellar still makes me cringe

I don't get the last scene in Dr Strangelove. Everyone is standing around the War Room after the Doomsday Machine has been triggered discussing plans for giant bunkers that would take years to build. But the bombs have already been dropped. It would be completely futile to have this conversation.

>>212885696
He's also completely inept when it comes to aesthetics and tries way too hard to play at being a "hard sci-fi" guy

>>212885696
What's wrong with that implication? It's self-important but why not? We're the only sentient life form we know of so far.

Babys first analysis

Barry Lyndon proves you completely and utterly wrong. Fucking retard.

>>212885726
>implying this isn't aesthetic

>>212885370 (OP)
idk how you could watch Strangelove and say this when that film is pure mirth

>>212885696

Kubrick tries to shoehorn humor into his films but it's as wooden as the ship his ancestor's sailed in on.

>>212885636
Not the guy you're responding to, but:
>Apocalypse Now
>Platoon
Full Metal Jacket is a great film, don't know what that other scumbag is yapping about.

>>212885370 (OP)
I used to have the same opinion back when I was 15, then I became an adult, revisited his movies and it's all certified kino. The Shining, FMJ, Eyes Wide Shut, Barry Lyndon, all masterpieces.

>>212885787
You clearly haven't seen Full Metal Jacket. What is more, this is organic humor, not even necessarily intended to be funny or have a punchline.

>>212885761
Lol I actually don't hate this but he's obsessed with "blue energy" sci-fi.
I know that doesn’t mean anything but it's hard to really describe his lack of

>>212885845
Yeah, it's hard sci fi and he goes for more minimalistic designs. It boils down to personal preference but I like the lack of pompousness and color. Practical also makes a difference.

>>212885831

The funny lines were all material R Lee Ermey brought to the set.

>>212885911
Not an excuse

>Kubrick's tragedy may have been that he was hailed as a great artist before he had become a competent craftsman. However, it is more likely that he has chosen to exploit the giddiness of middle-brow audiences on the satiric level of Mad Magazine. The ending of 2001 qualifies in its oblique obscurity as Instant Ingmar.

>>212885891
>lack of pompousness
idk about that.

>>212885953

The jokes Kubrick had in the script were all that stale shit Joker says - who, BTW, has to be one of the most annoying protagonists in a major motion picture.

>>212885697
Nuclear bombs always target population centers. You have all the empty land in the US and plenty more in Russia to build on.

>>212885962

It was a rite of passage for Boomers to drop acid and watch 2001.

>>212886656

That doesn't explain how they would build the bunkers and corral the people into them after the Doomsday Machine has detonated the salted nukes and troggered the Soviet counter-strike.

>>212885370 (OP)
>Like his movies have no humanity, no love?
youre insane. clockwork oranges central theme is about loosing and regaining your humanity, even the darker aspects. fucking full metal jacket is about stripping the humanity of your soldiers and enemies. how stupid of you to even say that just to get your uneducated brainlet contrarian take

>watch Apocalypse: now
>see FMJ a few days later on HBO MAX
It's terrible by comparison, and can't watch more than 20 minutes

>>212886927

It isn't about the thematic content of the films but the working relationship between director and actor. The tyrannical narcissism of Kubrick is what makes his films so clinical. There is no organic collaboration between actor and director that adds genuine human warmth to the films. When people are cocreating art there is love. All Kurbrick's films radiate is emptiness.

>>212885696
Nolan's movies are unique and interesting, but he always has a incredible cast of actors working with him

>>212885891
>>212885726
>nolan
>hard sci-fi
jesus christ the absolute state of normalfags

>>212885370 (OP)
I don't care about kubrick's flicks, they feel like someone is shooting a wikipedia article.
Only exception is Barry Lyndon for me.

>>212885526
zoomies are cooked on god fr fr

>>212885696
Yup, it's exactly why he's the shlock-server extraordinaire.

>>212885756
Obviously OP never watched it because there were no pseud youtube essays on that one to stir his interest.

>>212885756
Nah, he's right. Barry Lyndon is completely cold and soulless.

>>212885370 (OP)
I don't like you either so we are on hand

>>212885787
>straight face during Dr. Strangelove
Stop lying, faggot.

>>212885395
>>212885370 (OP)
>Le hard films
Bro, just load up Minecraft movie or the Mario movie again.

>>212887398
So what's tenet then, retard? The prestige? Intersteller? Batman trilogy? All grounded stories amirite?

>>212887398
>simping for the most normalfag director
>calls others "normalfag"
2deep4u

>>212887078
I think your opinion says a lot more about the viewer than the creator...

>>212887580
the slop of the goy

>>212887601
Anon is posting 2016 reaction images, clearly a tourist.

>>212887601
how the fuck did you deduce simping from my post? are you fucking lobotomized, retard?

Summerfags and their consequences...

>>212887639
His movies are sifi, pseud. Pipe down.

>>212887078
>It isn't about the thematic content of the films but the working relationship between director and actor
something that you read into and isnt present on screen. aka projections. get this pseudcore reddit shit out of here.

>>212887078
Who cares about hollywood whores' feelings?
Kubrick was right.

just go watch superman again OP, stop trying to have opinions.

>>212887078
Kubrick didn't make films about human warmth so he succeeded

>>212887819

Just so.

>>212885370 (OP)
All of his movies are typical Jewish psychological assaults on European civilization.

>>212885370 (OP)

Full Metal Jacket looks worse than "The Green Berets". Kubrick rented out a disused industrial plant outside London and got his gofers to put up palm trees they bought from some gardening supplies shop in Croydon. Boom: there's your Vietnam. The magic of cinema!

>>212887882
he did, they just werent schmaltzy hollywoodesque fantasy crap, they were riddled with the reality and darkness of the human nature. you can have warm and cold in the same movie, actually, you have to. barry lyndons first half is explicitly very humane and adventurous only to be torn to shreds in the second half and we find barry to be in the same place where he started out from. OP either is acting stupid to get a thread going or is stupid. its hard to tell these days

>>212888128
Knowing all this, the movie still looks great to me. Not a single frame takes me out of the intended setting of the story.

>>212888238

Fair enough.

>>212885370 (OP)
cold yes, kinda. hollow no. i have always deeply enjoyed his movies. it's not even a cool director to like, he's like radiohead. he's great but not cool to like because he's too popular. lolita, dr. strangelove, full metal jacket, eyes wide shut: riveting watches. s-tier cinema. the thing about kubrick is he had immaculate taste/artistic instincts but his movies are also gripping. you rarely get that combination.

>>212885370 (OP)
Post a few examples of films that you consider superior to Kubrick's so I can judge you.

>>212888557

I like films like "Get Out", "Boyhood". You know, classics.

>>212885636

Danger Close, We Were Soldiers, Ambush

>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPLgcHmZ7Bg

>>212885370 (OP)
Yes, but thats exactly why I like it.

>>212888621
how about you pretend to be smart for a change, attention starved faggot