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Ironically, it was his experiences with bad movies that convinced Kubrick to turn to a life of filmmaking. While working as a photographer for Look magazine, Kubrick attended screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and was surprised at how poor many of the films were...
...course, Kubrick did far more than make movies of slightly better quality than those that he saw at the MOMA. Though his filmography is limited (he made only eight movies after 1960), Kubrick's works stand out as some of the hallmarks of film-making in the late 20th century...
Indeed, it sometimes seems that there is not a bold or original movie that comes out today that deals with a theme Kubrick didn't touch first--and with far greater skill...
...biting satire and political commentary of Wag The Dog seems tame next to Kubricks apocalyptic fairy tale, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Even the most sexually-driven movies today, from Basic Instinct to Dangerous Creatures, look childish next to the sophisticated eroticism of Kubrick's Lolita--an eroticism created through words and glances and not a single scene of naked flesh. As for violence, a director like Quentin Tarantino is put to shame when one looks at the cold but gleeful presentation of crime and pain in A Clockwork Orange, which...
...While there is much hype about the realism of recent war movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line, neither is so chilling or disturbing as Kubrick's Vietnam War epic Full Metal Jacket. When it came out it was touted as the greatest war movie ever made, and it seems that title still stands, recent contributions to the genre not withstanding...