5 Fav Kubrick Scenes/Lines

[J. Herzog]

We can't forget Slim Pickens riding that H-bomb to oblivion, can we?
 
EWS is fatally miscast and contains not one scene that's even up to the best
of Kubrick's weaker films. It does seem unfinished.

For all the talk of Kubrick not being an actor's director, it's strange how
many of his best movies really did rely on strong performances. From
Sterling Hayden in The Killing to Kirk Douglas at his most restrained in
Paths of Glory and on to the comic horror grotesques of Dr. Strangelove and
A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick's actors might have sometimes been caricatures,
but they were never boring. (the astronauts in 2001 were, but it was
intentional). 

        On a purely visual level, EWS disappoints as well. The black and
white dream sequences, supposedly suggesting Harford's sexual jealousy and
paranoia, play like lame outtakes from the Playboy channel. In this film
Kubrick's usual machine tooled precision and olympian distance really does
become the cold empty mannerism that his detractors accused him of.  The
masked orgy seemed like a satanic ritual in a Hammer horror film. A big
disappointment.