Not a resume -I'd- be bragging about, frankly.
Full Metal Jacket - wholesale demonization of the military.
The Shining - how to turn a great book into an absolutely awful movie. I mean, seriously - when a book hands you a fantastic practically-made-for-the-movies ending sequence (the house goes up like a roman candle with the main villain desperately trying to save it and failing) and you turn it into a godawful boring chase through a hedgemaze that winds up with the main character freezing to death (what, he couldn't get back inside why?), what kind of an idiot do you have to be? And if you want me to -not- care, not even a little, about what happens to a main character (his wife), have her played by a woman who has never been well-cast as anything other than Olive Oyl. Kubrick also seemed pretty racist to me in his editing, taking a major role for a black actor and reducing it to a bit, useless part. The TV version of the Shining (with Rebecca DeMornay and one of the brothers from Wings) was infinitely better and inarguably far more faithful to the book, IMO.
Dr. Strangelove - funny, but unintentionally so, IMO. Another attempt to portray conservatives as rednecks and nazis.
2001: A Space Oddysey: Great special effects for it's time, and a good score, but beyond that? Could've been, and could still be, done a hundred times better, IMO. A tremendous amount of footage that was totally inexplicable unless you had actually read the book. No way to understand what the heck was going on otherwise.
Never saw Paths of Glory.
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LOL That thing was certainly more faithful to the book but sheesh, what a stinkbomb.
Well, Kubrick's one of those love him or hate him directors.
I've only seen Full Metal Jacket and The Shining. Don't care for Full Metal Jacket. Very disjointed and some scenes are inexplicably strange for no good reason. The Shining though, I think it is superb.
Actually, the funniest thing about Dr. Strangelove was the discussion of nuclear strategy. Absolutely comical--and taken word-for-f***ing-word out of RAND reports. When you can do comedy from a RAND report, it becomes obvious that the RAND researchers need an irony supplement (c8
Great movie. Rent it.
I watched Space Odysee many years ago. Touted as one of the greatest movies of its time. I found it bo-o-o-ring. They should have cut out one hour and condense it.