Essential Classic Movies to Watch With The Kids

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I think I was around that age when my Da took me to see the Magnum Opus Kubrick, maybe even younger than that. I certainly didn't get it the first time round, but lo did it haunt me ever after. My old man sho loved him some Kubrick, I was fed it like mothers milk.

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Smitty-48 wrote:I think I was around that age when my Da took me to see the Magnum Opus Kubrick, maybe even younger than that. I certainly didn't get it the first time round, but lo did it haunt me ever after. My old man sho loved him some Kubrick, I was fed it like mothers milk.

This may be an unpopular opinoon, but my favorite Kubrick is the Shining. I love that movie. It tough to name a favorite though
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I see 2001: ASO as the magnum opus, due the scale of the project and the effort that went into the masterpiece of it. It's definitely right there at the top of the Kubrik-eon, but indeed, it's hard to pick an absolute favorite, my favorite is often the one I'm watching in the moment, some days it might be Paths of Glory, or it could be Barry Lyndon, sometimes I feel a little Clockwork Orange, other times "I'm Spartacus". Bat Guano, Sgt. Hartman, Redrum-Redrum, it's all mothers milk to me.
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Kubrik was at my at a freinds wedding reception nearly 30 years ago.
I wish I'd had the courage to ask him about his films.
He was notoriously reclusive but was a neighbor of my freinds parents so there he was ...
Not many people get to say they've partied with Kubrik. 8-)
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Montegriffo wrote:Kubrik was at my at a freinds wedding reception nearly 30 years ago.
I wish I'd had the courage to ask him about his films.
He was notoriously reclusive but was a neighbor of my freinds parents so there he was ...
Not many people get to say they've partied with Kubrik. 8-)
I wouldn't have bothered him about his films, the work speaks for itself, and knowing Kubrick, he'd probably rather talk about his cats.
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Smitty-48 wrote:
Montegriffo wrote:Kubrik was at my at a freinds wedding reception nearly 30 years ago.
I wish I'd had the courage to ask him about his films.
He was notoriously reclusive but was a neighbor of my freinds parents so there he was ...
Not many people get to say they've partied with Kubrik. 8-)
I wouldn't have bothered him about his films, the work speaks for itself, and knowing Kubrick, he'd probably rather talk about his cats.
I'm rather confident the last thing on earth Kubrick would want to discuss with a fanboi was his work product.
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Smitty-48 wrote:
Montegriffo wrote:Kubrik was at my at a freinds wedding reception nearly 30 years ago.
I wish I'd had the courage to ask him about his films.
He was notoriously reclusive but was a neighbor of my freinds parents so there he was ...
Not many people get to say they've partied with Kubrik. 8-)
I wouldn't have bothered him about his films, the work speaks for itself, and knowing Kubrick, he'd probably rather talk about his cats.
I was a bit out of my depth, having arrived on the back of a 1930's Panther I wasn't going to draw any more attention to myself by bothering shy Stanley. These were some seriously upper class people and I was a 25 yr old director of a COOP restaurant. I was only there because the bride was a director as well and because I sailed with the family.
Great fucking party though, two days of port, pot and posh totty...
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