I don't understand Stanley Kubrick's works or why they're so highly praised. Maybe I'm just stupid

I fucking love Spartacus, but I wouldn't really call it a Kubrick movie.
He was brought on to replace another director that Kirk Douglas hounded off the set and he was very much just a director for hire.
Him being stuck with the script, and having a rough time with Douglas is a big reason why he became such a control freak on his movies after that. If he had control over the script, crew, and production then he wouldn't have to put up with bullshit from other people.

I tried to sit through Full Metal Jacket but got bored a little after the halfway point and never really got back into it.
As we speak, I'm watching A Clockwork Orange, and not only am I kind of bored but I also don't understand WHAT the fuck anyone is saying. There's a lot of rape happening.
I've heard good things about The Shining, so I'm planning to watch that next.

I really want to like his films because it seems like the people who like them REALLY like them, like they're the best things ever to exist, but I can't get there.

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yes, you are, in fact, stupid

Lolita is the least essential Kubrick film, it really pales in comparison to the novel. Kubrick couldn't go all the way thanks to censors.

I know. :(

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>I really want to like his films because it seems like the people who like them REALLY like them, like they're the best things ever to exist, but I can't get there.
You shouldn't fall into the pseud trap of those obsessed with Kubrick. They tend to overanalyze his films in the worst way possible. Just relax and try watching one complete film, then make a thread about it and we can discuss it.

Shining is his most easy film to understand, alongside with Paths of Glory. Keep on user, you'll have a good time one day. Just don't try to watch 2001 you'll ruin it for ya.

>I also don't understand WHAT the fuck anyone is saying
It's a weirdo future slang that like a cross between soviet and english street slang. In the book there's even a glossary, but you can suss out what he's saying through context. Rewatches help, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil
I'd say read the book, it's interesting, but burgess himself says he just banged out the cheapest pulpiest garbage he could think of because he was on deadline to his publisher and had to give them SOMETHING.

Will do, I'm 31 minutes into Clockwork so far. I'll try to finish it and see what I think then.

Great, I'm looking forward to The Shining and I'll add Paths to my queue.
What's wrong with 2001?

>I tried to sit through Full Metal Jacket but got bored a little after the halfway point and never really got back into it.
ooph

I would start with Paths of Glory. My mother hated pretty much every Kubrick film and even she really likes Paths.

Clockwork Orange - Actual violence pales in comparison to what the government and society as a whole can do
Dr. Strangelove - Everyone is incompentent and we will die
The Shining - Ghost furries

>What's wrong with 2001?
Literally nothing. It's long and slow as fuck, and there's hardly any dialogue in the entire movie. Very long slow shots, it's a very decompressed movie. If you're the kind of person who would complain that a movie is "Fucking boring" then you will be miserable the entire time.
It's really interesting to go between the book and the movie, since Clarke and kubrick collaborated on the screen play, based on an old short story Clarke had written ("the sentinel", I think). The only real difference is that in the book they go to saturn, but kubrick couldn't get the rings right, and changed it to jupiter.
The movie has almost no exposition, while the book is nothing BUT exposition, so they're good companions to eachother if you can't suss out what's happening.

>I'm 31 minutes into Clockwork so far.
Holy shit dude. Stop.
It's not like capeshit where you can just ignore the movie until its time to punch the blue laser, he made actual movies that you need to give your undivided attention.
I saw clockwork orange when I was like 13, looking for tits on HBO late one night, and even though I didn't understand most of what was happening, it still kept me engrossed.

>Maybe I'm just stupid
there you go

THE SHINING WAS OVERRATED.

>OVERRATED
What do you think that word means?

burgess had actually been diagnosed with brain cancer and thought he only had a year to live or something. he wrote several novels in a very short space of time to try to provide for his wife. then he lived until the 90s.

>I tried to sit through Full Metal Jacket but got bored a little after the halfway point and never really got back into it.
Would you say that you were in a world of shit?

They are objectively awful. But it's "cool" to like them, so double digit IQs do what theyre told.

I think when the author of the story tells you the movie was horrible it's a pretty big glue that the movie was not good.

Stephen King wrote a book about his own drug problems, Kubrick didn't care about Stephen King's drug problems. The film was better.

Truth gravitates all OP. I made this same post when I was your age. Yes. Kubrick is a hack.