Apollo's annual Kubrick Thread

[Apollo]

Yes it's that time of year again, I am one year older and another year has passed that Stanley is no longer with us.

Where were you when you heard the news 12 years ago that Stanley had passed.

I had just done a 40 mile Bike ride and was sitting in the Hot Tub watching T.V. waiting for my girlfriend to come over so we could go out to lunch when I heard the news.

I could'nt believe or imagine that there would not be anymore Kubrick films made.

Heres to you Stanley :cheers thank you so much for all the Classics!

 

[mrbungle]

full metal jacket...........damn fine stuff, sir.

 

[Alan Cross]

He's my favorite director. Smart. Surprising. Funny. Dark. Wished he's lived long enough to do A.I. his way... and Napoleon... Here's to you, Stanley...

 

[GotWookiee]

Huge Kubrick fan. I know it was just weeks prior to the release of Eyes Wide Shut (which I saw opening night). I'm sure I was at my parents house and heard it on the evening news. He wasn't that old. Just 70. Damn shame that he never even made it to the real 2001.

 

[Wes R]

My favorite movie of his is Dr Strangelove, it's pure comedy brilliance between him and Peter Sellers.

 

[Alan Cross]

My favorite is probably Clockwork Orange. Just in terms of the ideas and his execution. First time I saw it I was 22 and at USC film school... "I was cured all right."

 

[CB2001]

I was in high school when I heard the news. I like a lot of his films, 2001, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange and I even Eyes Wide Shut was an interesting film to me. Can't believe it was 12 years ago.

 

[CTF]

That explains why the last 12 years have sucked, then.

Miss you, Stan.

 

[Montagar]

Let's not forget Paths of Glory and Barry Lyndon. :thumbsup

 

[darth_myeek]

A talent that cannot be duplicated.

Where were you when you heard the news 12 years ago that Stanley had passed.

Unfortunately amping up over a movie 16 years in the making..