Not only that...he made Joe Pesci. When I worked with Joe, he used to tell us stories about Marty and how he gave him his first film, "Raging Bull." Joe was working at a restaurant when he was discovered.

ive got to go with steven spielberg, he makes entertaining films, but nothing more nothing less

I used to love 2001 when i was young but now it seems very cold, empty and inhuman. For me the one great film Kubrick directed is The Shining, with Paths of Glory and The Killing being pretty good too. Yes, Spielberg was very good once wasn't he! Close Encounters is my personal favourite, and then Jaws, and you have to give the man credit for how he has made important historical events into great successes - Schindlers List, Private Ryan. Just my opinion!!

Hello strangelaughingman, I prefer Nabokov's novel of Lolita, it's more subtle and gets under your skin, Kubrick never seems capable of dealing with sex very successfully. Eyes wide shut was a big failure for me too. With Full metal jacket i didn't feel connected to the film very much nor care about the characters, prefer Platoon. However i reckon there are better films that dealt with vietnam but in an indirect way - Who'll stop the rain, Ulzana's raid, etc. Clockwork Orange? I don't really like violence, especially when it's done for it's own sake and so explicitly. Personally, i think that Anthony Mann or Mizoguchi had a much stronger conception of how to show violence so that it disturbed, moving the camera away and being more suggestive than explicit. But don't let what i say say affect your love of Kubricks films!!

Are you on Meth? M. Night Shyamalan has done total GARBAGE except for "Sixth Sense" while Kubrick has been praised by many filmmakers and actors. The Village? Signs? Wastes of celluloid. Personally, I hated extremely long and drawn-out shots of guy moving from one ond of a space craft to another in 2001: A Space Odyssey. While it was done for a specific reason, I was bored. But Kubrick's body of work far exceeds anything Shyamalan has ever done. Get real. "Clockwork Orange" is on many people's top 20 film lists. M. Night is talented, yet ALL (but one) of his films SUCK. So, it is because of your statement that I can't take you seriously. :roll:

The guy was saying that Kubric wasn't overrated, and Shyamalan was. Which I think is false. Syamalan is an amazing director, his movies look amazing. The problem with him, and what takes away from his talent, is that he also thinks he's a good writer. The only truly good movie he's made so far is Unbreakable. If you like subtlety, then you have to like unbreakable, it was only subtlety.

Yikes...Okay...then I retract my last post to Sorg. I had just gotten up - I was groggy. My bad. To be clear, Kubrick was a much better filmmaker than M. Night Shyamalan is.

Agreed. Kubrick is my personal favourite-never a bad movie. What about overrated films? Goodfellas-what is everyone chatting about? So inferior to Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, the King of Comedy etc.

Whoooaaah! You worked with Pesci? Legend!

Okay, i've had a think about it and i think that i have been a bit harsh on Scorsese, so i'm going to take him off my list of the most overrated and him with John Ford and Andre Tarkovsky. No doubt someone will complain.

Hey Strangeman: Also, I need to tell you that Scorsese offered Joe Pesci to direct a mob film. Pesci's reply? "I'll pass. I just wanna act in two or three more films and retire to f***ing my wife, playing golf and smoking cigars." And let me tell you, Pesci's wife is younger and ULTRA hot. 8O Atta boy, Joe!

By the way MP-lol over Pesci-he was a funny guy. That's a good point Zabriskie-what merits a good director? Is it just the quality of his films or the truths and messages they portray? Is it the emotional value or the political message? How much does the truth of the films a director makes reflect upon his greatness-say in the Western genre is it fair to criticise a director who makes great stories that bear little truth about the true nature of the West? I personally believe that Ridley Scott half-ruined a fantastic directorial effort in Black Hawk Down with the rubbish 'Team America' style storyline-while it's the bullcrap of The Patriot which pissed me off so much-then again the truth of My Darling Clementine being untrue did not really bother me.

I'm sorry that I missed Munich in the theaters. Is it out on video yet?

I do not think Munich is on DVD yet, although it should be soon. I could be wrong, though.

Well, It is an amazing film. but probably not one you'd watch every day. well worth watching though.

Don't know if I can come up with 10, but the first ones to come to mind are Quentin Tarentino, Spike Lee, and Michael Bay. To me, just because you can do all kinds of cool grip tricks with your camera does NOT make you a great storyteller, and the same goes for filling your films with blood, violence, and profanity. Not to say those don't have their place, they do. But, they're like spices: they must be used properly and sparingly. I also cannot respect any director who belittles their crew or cusses them (or the public) out on the set, as I've seen Bay do.
'Course who am I to say anything? Considering all the money these guys have made compared to me, they must be doing something right. Or maybe they just have great connections.

how is someone overrated when it's simply a matter of opinion or if the person has a large following? If you like humanist films, then Satyajit Ray is a master -- but yeah, you won't get a Spielberg-type kick out of him, eventhough Spielberg took E.T. from one of his stories. Not to mention, to call Satyajit Ray overrated is nuts when you think about the amount of work that he created that was based on his OWN WRITINGS!!