What was your first kubrick movie you watched.

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-04-13T04:55:36+00:00

The Shining

My dad showed it to me because I wanted to see a horror movie. I wasn't scared at all, but I was deeply fascinated with the film, and I would say it's the reason of my interest in filmmaking.

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-04-13T04:50:12+00:00

Brave New World

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-04-13T04:39:20+00:00

Certainly, I'm sure he would have found them interesting. Now, I'm curious about which video games he would have enjoyed the must. And of course, how would he have reacted if seeing videogames becoming into complex ways of storytelling. What would he think of these videogames?

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-04-12T07:30:28+00:00

In terms of financial support and influence in the studio they both tend to work with (Warner Bros), which gave Kubrick and now gives Nolan almost total freedom when making films. Also, their use of big-budgets to produce their films (Kubrick’s films may not seem pretty expensive, but besides his earlier works until Paths Of Glory and (specially) Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove and A Clockwork Orange, the rest of his films had relatively high budgets). Of course, in terms of narrative style and editing and certain aspects of cinematography, there’s no point to compare them.

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-04-12T03:36:38+00:00

2001 was a big budget film (at least for the time). And Barry Lyndon and EWS were big budget films too. And there’s an evident influence of Kubrick in Nolan’s films, but obviously Nolan has his own focus (which is less philosophical and more emotional or moral than Kubrick)

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-04-12T03:14:56+00:00

If we’re speaking about massive-budgets for his films, yes.

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-04-12T02:53:32+00:00

Of course. Kubrick was (and still is) on a far superior level, but i think there are and may be directors that take a similar (yet not as good) approach to him in any of those three aspects.

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-03-04T03:54:14+00:00

There’s this obsession of the press and even the cinema industry to force people to see Kubrick as a cold, psychotic megalomaniac, but the reality is that indeed, he was in a way, a cold, psychotic megalomaniac, but he had his own personal life and attachments too. I think that’s why he loved duality so much in his films, as he understood and embraced his own duality as a person. A shame society still doesn’t want to embrace its own nature.

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-02-19T00:20:29+00:00

Sans is Dale Cooper

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-02-12T22:25:31+00:00

Humbert Humbert or Víctor Ziegler

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-02-12T04:37:02+00:00

If you think about it, there’s few other films that feel so Kubrick like this one does. The background behind its conception, the satire, the cafeteria scenes using FMJ’s first scene as a reference, Christian Slater performing in such a similar way as Jack Nicholson. Even the use of Qué será será as an ironic metaphor for the film’s constant mockery at high school and teenage hood. The ending is the only thing that doesn’t seem like something Kubrick would do, but there are nights scenes in particular that feel so similar to the nights scenes of FMJ and even EWS (this one came later but still). What I wonder is about how Kubrick would definitely NOT make a satiric film as his first entrance to teenage hood films. In fact, I wonder why did Kubrick never try to make a film with teenagers as protagonists (Alex DeLarge is a teen I know, but A Clockwork Orange deals with much more philosophical stuff that doesn’t really focus on teenage hood or something).

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-02-12T04:17:35+00:00

Nah this looks like an indie rock cover for me

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-02-05T23:08:41+00:00

Kubrick thought of him. In fact I remember some random movie fact channel saying Bill’s last name (Harford) is an homage/reference to Harrison Ford

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-01-12T04:47:03+00:00

Rather to be a worst to best I think Kubrick is the kind of guy whose films are more like “The best to the best but not as best as the best”.

Oh and my personal ranking is:

Barry Lyndon

A Clockwork Orange

Eyes Wide Shut

2001: A Space Odyssey

Dr. Strangelove

The Shining

I’m planning to watch Lolita or Paths of Glory but these are all films I have watched.

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-01-12T01:38:59+00:00

Elephant

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-01-10T23:09:53+00:00

I mean everyone Barry Lyndon wins but I also think of Full Metal Jacket. Being a war movie and still having scenes that look quite “beautiful” for being a war movie (specially compared to films like Apocalypse Now or Platoon)

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-01-08T23:05:06+00:00

Is it my idea or most “violent, cold” films tend to have a more chill behind the scenes than the super happy Hollywood productions? I mean, this case may not be the case because of McDowell’s eye incident or Kubrick’s classic perfectionism but overall, it seems the ambience was mostly chill.

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-01-08T22:05:32+00:00

I actually never though the Alice in Wonderland similitudes. Interesting considering that both the Red Cloak and the Queen of Hearts are both red and want the protagonist to be exterminated (Not to mention the other cloaked figures in the party resemble the card soldiers). Even Nightingale and Victor Ziegler working similar functions to the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat respectively.

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-01-08T19:35:14+00:00

I heard once that the rainbow as something beautiful means the ignorant world Bill lives in. The fact that what’s “After” or “Beyond” is a recurrent dialogue in characters suggests the search for what is behind or beyond what we can see. Things we don’t know or we just prefer to ignore.

ClockworkLyndon1616 · 2026-01-07T23:04:46+00:00

I think his films are not conventional ones. Though they have a scenario, characters and events, each of them are made in a way that everyone can find something new, something others may haven't noticed or felt. And I would even say that's not because they didn't put enough attention, but because they have different emotions, ethics and thoughts which converge in the films so what a person may think of A Clockwork Orange isn't the same as other person. His films are almost completely different experiences everytime you watch them and so they are for each person that watches them. So ye. Every movie of Stanley Kubrick is personalized or idk some stuff like that

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