Masterpiece. I am thoroughly convinced that this is my favorite movie of all time. I watched it earlier this week for the first time and have watched it again twice since then. How can a film be so perfect? It’s so good that it makes me depressed thinking that I’ll never be able to see another film as amazing. Schuberts Second Piano Trio might be the most beautiful piece of music I’ve ever heard and makes me unbearably melancholy every time I hear it. Are there any other films that might live up to this one?
Holy shit, how is this movie so good?
Leo Powell
Levi Mitchell
is the narrator reliable or not?
Hudson Sanchez
I think the narrator is 100% objective and hammers home the theme of fate vs luck. He comments on events before they even happen in the film, making them appear set in stone; fate.
Grayson Brown
It's definitely in my top 5. I didn't watch it for the first time until about 2 years ago. Drank an entire bottle of port while watching it on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Perferct. I prefer Handel's Sarabande though.
Jayden Allen
Great poster
Not sure if reliable or not, but clearly based. Also the book is not reliable, movie is probably completely reliable.
The Duelists is also kino but not of this caliber.
Juan James
I wanted to see the Duelists so bad, I finally dowloaded it the other only to have the audio all fucked up. such a bummer
Brandon Stewart
I'm a Kubrick fan I need to watch this. Wish I had more time for kinos, lads
Tyler Long
You have to go back.
"Barry Lyndon is Kubrick's best" is the clearest pseud-marker in existence. His fumbling imitation of a painterly style and period-piece aesthetics, mastered by Griffith half a century earlier, is as dull as it is derivative.
Shooting on 'le special NASA stem lens' is always brought up as if it were some empirical evidence of genius. It isn't unique. David Lean had a lens specially made just for one shot in Lawrence. Hitchcock had to do extensive modifications to create the Vertigo effect without having a zoom lens. Welles was one of the first to utilize 18mm in Touch of Evil. Jacques Tourneur did amazing things with filters and Technicolor to mimic watercolor vistas in Way of a Gaucho. To say nothing of what Griffith accomplished with 1910s technology.
But even aside from the over hyping of the film's technical aspects, Barry Lyndon is worthless. It's a Bresson-ified 30s costume picture incapable of escaping its lowbrow picaresque entertainment roots (dissertations about fate et al.) Just like everything with Kubrick, it's calculated to appease the middle and lowbrow. To make them feel as if they are experiencing culture, as if they are "learning" something profound. This is peak cinematic art for people that have never seen more than 20 films from 1900-1938 tops.
Kevin Walker
This is a convention of the picaresque novel I think. They are essentially biographical stories of rogues looking back (often first person but not always) but in themselves a kind of parody of more heroic stories where the victory of the virtuous is preordained.
Jason Martin
Why are you assuming that the only thing anybody likes about the film is the camera work? As if it offers absolutely nothing else of value?
Nathaniel Richardson
Is this pasta?
Brandon Thompson
is it another slow-paced borefest like the ones tv fooled me into watching?
James Jones
It's very formally impressive but it lacks SOUL.
Jason Hernandez
prog rock-tier cinema
Lucas Richardson
Did you just make this image or do you have it saved only for the purpose of proving a shallow argument against one of the most lush, gorgeous films ever made? Is the only way for a shot to be interesting if it’s doing something that’s never been done before? If so, Touch of Evil is one of the most visually uninteresting films ever made. Dutch angles and long takes had long been perfected before the film was made. Does that mean it has no value? Grow up.
Blake Perez
Matthew Wright
Yep, certified 11/10, favorite dramatic film
Austin Jones
The narrator's sarcastic asides are some of the funniest bits of the movie, he's great.
Chase Lee
the visuals are great but honestly i love the story first and foremost. Barrys rise, and fall to the dark side and then taking advantage of lord bullington and ultimately being redeemed in a way by allowing himself to be bested in a duel.
Benjamin Martinez
Movies like this are the only way I’m filling my new found self isolation fueled free time. Seize the day and watch it. If you like Kubrick’s other emotionally detached and nihilistic themes, you can’t go wrong
Jose Gonzalez
Well, a quarantine is as good a time as any. And yes, this movie is certified 18th century intrigue kino.
Matthew Miller
i greatly enjoyed the setting and way it was filmed and such, visually it was a superb movie, but i personally didn't find the plot of a scum bag doing scummy things very enthralling even if he gets whats coming to him in the end
perhaps im just missing something
John Miller
Yes, it was made by Griffithfag as far as I'm aware.
How anyone can claim that a movie with scenes like this lacks soul is beyond me. What movies do you think have soul?
Lucas Collins
It was too fucking long and boring like most Kubrick films.
I can't believe people still pretend to like old movies so they appear 'cultured' and intelligent.
Camden Myers
The story is so overshadowed by the visuals and “tHeY uSeD nO aRtIfIcIAL liGhtInG.” Barry’s character, or lack there of, is my personal favorite part of the movie.
Owen Cruz
I have the normal release poster in my living room always get a comment from girls about it. Never make a girl watch it though, they will not, I repeat NOT, fuck with the movie
Luis Perez
good cinematography ≠ soul
>What movies do you think have soul?
Accattone, Nazarin, Opening Night, Buffalo 66, Diary of a Country Priest
Just to name a few
As for Kubrick, his most soulful movies are Eyes Wide Shut and Paths of Glory
Cameron Wood
The movie is about a dude who is an innocent idealist getting kicked in the nuts enough times that it turns him into a cynical bastard who uses underhanded tactics to successfully get ahead in life. You're not supposed to root for Barry or even to root against him, you're supposed to think about the fact that in life many bad people are successful because even what they do is morally wrong it is effective. You're also supposed to think about what morality means to you and if you're willing to make moral sacrifices even if you know they probably will fail. Most of all you're supposed to think about what you have that's good and what you love and to cherish those things because fate is cruel and random chance could pointlessly take those things away from you. The first lines of the movie talk about how Barry's dad died pointlessly while he could have been very successful.
Don't watch this movie as a good guy vs bad guy plot, it's not about that at all.
Samuel Garcia
>but i personally didn't find the plot of a scum bag doing scummy things very enthralling
>perhaps im just missing something
Virility. Manhood.
Kayden Cook
Same here , to be honest it was boring from the start , only few visuals were nice , this 3 hour movie does not feel like 1 hour for me , it feels like 4 hours of boredom and life drama, so funking dense.
Ayden Johnson
Aight, zoomer
Jonathan Garcia
Not everyone is obligated to like the movie
Jose Clark
It's alright if you don't like a movie but saying you don't like it because it's "long and boring" makes you look like a pleb. If he didn't like it because he didn't like the setting or couldn't connect to the characters that's one thing but the dude sounds like the worst kind of fucking zoomer who should stick to capeshit.
Lucas Bennett
Sure you are, you wretched youngster. I can not respect anyone who doesnt like this movie and I invite you to duel or to remove yourself from this board.