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Summary: Kubrick
Review: A woman is screaming as the centre of the door splits in two and a manical face bursts through, grotesquely quoting a late night TV show. A young boy's eyes are held open while he is forced to watch horrible brutality while being made sick by an experimental drug. A child girl shoots down one after another trained soldiers as she herself is hunted by the bravest of them. A terrifying parallel is revealed between the age of primitive man and future sivilization as we are dazzled by the same black rock.These are images, sometimes disturbing, sometimes glorious, that Kubrick was the master of. To offer the ultimate movie connoseur(sic) a chance to own every movie made by this great director is a wonderful thing.
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Summary: Lackluster effort and sloppy DVD's
Review: I would have to agree with a lot of editorials in this section. It is a very disappointing effort. The quality of the DVD's were obviously compromised. I think the slipshod job came from a department at the studio who really didn't know who Stanley Kubrick was or maybe they just didn't like his movies! That is a possible explanation! It looks like the studio took the transfer from a "work print" and they let a litter of kittens play with it on the cutting room floor before they did the transfer. (There are many artifacts, vertical scratches, blotches of unwanted color that bleed, sound dropouts, jump cuts, and other major nuisances) Maybe the studio wanted to play one last joke on Stanley Kubrick and they decided to video tape the movies on cable TV and then do a 3rd generation transfer from that video tape; meanwhile letting the cats, dogs, kittens, racoons, and other animals play with the final tape or work print.
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Summary: The Kubrickian Universe
Review: Stanley Kubrick is my favorite director. I have never known a universe without Kubrick. On the day it was released, I bought the Stanley Kubrick Collection, a box of 7 DVDs that span his entire career from Lolita to Full Metal Jacket. Oddly enough I have never owned a single video tape or laser disc or DVD of his work. I suppose I was waiting for the definitive collection and I thought this was it. But I hesitate to give this box of 5 star movies a complete 5-star rating for two reasons. One is that I'm very disappointed with the packaging. It is overly sparse and lacking in some of the extras that would enhance such a retrospective, like a booklet with rare photos, a bio of Stanley, some bits about each film and an extra CD with featurettes and interviews. We do get the legendary making-of documentary about THE SHINING, filmed by one of Kubrick's daughters, in which we get the bizarre image of Kubrick, Jack Nicholson and Kubrick's mother sitting at the table together discussing the script. For this short documentary alone, for the privilage of finally getting to hear the man's voice and seeing him move (he walks! he talks! he directs! he yells at Shelly Duvall!), I praise the box and encourage others to check out this rare but tragically brief glimpse into the working methods of SK. The second reason I have for downgrading a star is that some of the prints are sloppy. I've spotted scratches in the film, blurriness in some of the color and a lack of letter-boxing on some of the films. I would have guessed that Kubrick, a man who hand-photographed every frame of Dr. Strangelove a few years back in order to preserve it in its original quality, would have put more care and time into the quality of the presentations in this box. But then again, while this box was being produced, Kubrick was busy with EYES WIDE SHUT and then he passed away. For those who are being introduced to Kubrick for the first time, this is my advice. Take each film one at a time. Don't rush. Watch them in order and in between imagine waiting seven to ten years before watching the next. Take the time to digest them. Perhaps watch them several times each. There is no rush. You have the rest of your life and there will be no more new ones. Pass these DVDs down to your grandchildren so they can understand what exactly we did when we walked the earth before them. Be prepared to be blown away.
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Summary: Save you money, remastered edition coming out in June, 2001.
Review: For those of you thinking about getting this set, save your money. This boxed set was rushed and poorly done. The new remastered editions come out in June 2001.
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Summary: What is so horrible about this?
Review: I would like to know why everyone thinks this is so horrible. I bought it recently, and I literally worship it. I love it. I especially like Dr. Strangelove. It is true that all of these DVD's are very minimalist, but that is the way Stanley Kubrick wanted them. It is true that all of the films are recorded in Mono, except for 2001, but the sound is still pretty good. It made me cry when I watched the scene in 2001 when the Pan-Am space shuttle is flying through space to the Blue Danube Waltz. I recomend this collection to everyone who appreciates good movies
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Summary: There is nothing wrong with these dvd's
Review: I purchased this collection and there is nothing wrong with the dvd's except Barry Lyndon. They colors are mixed up and the sound quality could need some work. Get the dvd one its better and takes up less space. They cramped the whole movie on one dvd and the quality is horrible. Other than that the dvds are fine I recommend it and I think they should make a Coppola collection he is also one of the greats.
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Summary: Best Director, Best Movies, Worst DVDs
Review: 5 stars for the movies, 1 star for the DVDs. Kubrick is my favorite director and he made some of my alltime favorite movies including Strangelove, 2001, and Clockwork Orange. Definitely see these movies (several play almost yearly in some theaters), but I highly suggest viewing (renting) at least some of the DVDs before buying this box set. These are among worst quality DVDs, I have purchased. Maybe it's becuase I work with digital video and notice these flaws more than others, but still the problems with the quality is significant and you must be warned. These could be great and they are not. They are bad not because the older films are all mono and not widescreen. And it's not due to the lack of extras, although I personally would enjoy several commentaries for each. It's that there are quality issues which had these DVDs been done properly would not be there. These films were not digitally re-mastered or restored, rather they are 3rd generation copies digitized/encoded from the analog D-1 video masters (made from the films) and it shows. As a result the DVDs are filled with every example of bad MPEG encoding - color banding, moires, mesquito-ing, draping, etc. For example, in 2001, starfields jitter and jump, at times the blackness of space has ugly chunks and stripes of draping, jittering black mud, the smooth gradients of the sunrise were turned into an ugly sequence of color-by-numbers quality color banding, just to name a few. None of this is in the original of course, and most of this wouldn't show up in viewing of the analog laser disc. Some of the bad MPEG artifacting could have been avoiding with just smarter encoding software that made better choices about palettes and keyframes. Nonetheless, they should fully restore/remaster these digitally for DVD to match the original intended theatrically experience as much as possible (relative to DVD format). That's not to say all the mono should be remastered into an artificial 5.1, but at least do basic clean up and set the levels properly and if a stereo source was mastered to mono for theaters consider doing it in stereo. (I know it's minor, but how could someone let audio like that one the Clark speech extra on the 2001 DVD be that bad?). Digitally remove scratches, and repair damage to video, etc We can only hope that the Estate of Kubrick decides to do these right. These are great films and they deserve better.
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Summary: The BEST director, and the BEST movies
Review: This is the best ox set on the market for anny Kubrick fan like myself. The box set includes Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb, A Clockwork Orange, The Shinning, Full Metal Jacket, 2001 A Space Oddissy, Barry Lyndon, and Lolita. The dvd's themselves don't have a overwelming amount of special features other than the theatrical trailer. On the other hand the shinning has a very good behind the scenes documentary about the making of the film. I stongly recomend it to annyone that is a fan of Kubrick or just a fan of one of his movies.
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Summary: Best formats, best movies, best director, Gotta have!
Review: Yea, I know, the price seems a little steep... but it's not. Not when you consider that Stanley Kubrick has been one of the finest directors and his movies are some of the very best made. Making history with these movies covering the best of his career films from 1961 to 1987, you just can't go wrong. The power that these movies carry is inspiring. DVD Format! Excellent choice. WideScreen! Excellent choice. Thorough collection! If you enjoy movies, this collosal gathering is the best I've found. Grab it!
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Summary: Was This Truly Kubrick's Intention?
Review: Initially I bought the box set to complete the adoration I have for Kubrick's films but felt mislead upon watching them. This is not the first time I have noticed Warner Bros. compile a half-baked package, the UK release of Blade Runner was simply an insulting affair, launching straight into the movie (which so deservedly needed at least an aesthetically pleasing title screen). My feelings are divided, whilst delighted that I now own again the entire collection of Kubrick's masterpieces there is a feeling his absolute dedication to mise-en-scene which still has not been challenged today despite CGI in other films disguising laziness (just my opinion), has not been taken into consideration by Warners. No doubt his overall intention was to deliver a perfected collection which parallels the pain-stakingly accurate way in which he creates films; but it merely seems he gave the go ahead before his tragica untimely death and allowed Warners his trust. Knowingly, there is very little information such as "Making of's" or "Cast&Crew Interviews" because Kubrick (with the exception of the Making of The Shining) maintained an extremely tight and secure set, shunning any outside contact, thus we have a limited basis with which to fill the title screens. But does this excuse the fact that the way in which the DVD's are put together are half-hearted on top of the fact we do not have cleaned up versions of these films? In theory I am more than pleased with what I have, the films themselves still immerse me into the vision and have always influenced and to some degree educated me; with which I say Kubrick laid a personal foundation for me personally to broaden my understanding and faith in films. But my argument is with Warner Bros. Whose intention was this to re-release Kubrick's films and negate the fact they should have been completely polished (only to reflect Kubrick's own standards)?
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