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  • This is a kickass movie. It is a shame how more people have seen movies like 2012 and Saw when movies like these exist.

  • maresa berenson in her best and almost only role

  • It's amazing any man ever got laid wearing those wigs.

  • Just got it off Amazon for £4.. Cant wait to see it.. :)

  • This is a serious film made for a mature mind. Unbelievable! They don't make these kinds of movies today!

  • i can't decide if Ryan O'Neal was miscasted or good enough for the role...

  • @fede018 I think he was perfect - however he was actually the second choice as warner bros demanded that for Stanley to get the money to make the film he had to cast a big star to play Redmond Barry.

  • okay...i liked "the last of the mohicans"....will i love this?

  • @charms71 I hate The Last of the Mohicans, but I love Barry Lyndon. Totally different films

  • great film, I grew up watching this over and over. It's like a window into the 18th century. Yet it's so underrated and I can't even buy it anywhere.

  • 240p we meet again

  • Why have i never seen or heard of this film ?

    Why, WHY !!!!

  • This trailer does not do this masterpiece justice in the least.

  • Seems like it could be boring.

  • @Cannibalization No, its a Kubrick film, so some patience is required.

  • @toucansam3 the only reason kubrick's movies, starting with the 1968 movie "2001" require patience is because that's when he started ripping off the slow style of italian director michelanglo antonioni,  no matter what the subject matter, including the j.d. movie CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

    BARRY LYNDON, CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 2001----same way too slow antonioni style.

  • @monk22yrs I don't think its too slow, I love Kubrick's pacing. If anything, Kubrick improved upon Antonini's style. I love 2001, the most brilliant film ever made. Patience may be required, but its never boring.

  • @toucansam3 i like parts of all of kubrick's movies, though the trippy ending of the musical (!) AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is more fun to watch, repeatedly, than the light show of "2001".

    antonioni's THE PASSENGER moved fast enough, till the terrific climax, and then it was all done in one slow shot---which probably annoys the avg viewer; THE PASSENGER ending is as painterly as BARRY LYNDON

    BARRY LYNDON also has some awkward jess franco zooms, though franco used them to work cheap and fast.

  • @monk22yrs Lyndon is a flawed film, there's no arguing that, the biggest flaw being Ryan O'Neal. Unfortunately, the studio made Kubrick go with O'Neal as he had to go with one of the top five grossing actors of the time.

    The "light show" of 2001 is by no means the best part of the film. 2001's problem (and the only problem in my opinion) is that you kind of have to read the AC Clarke book to understand what's going on. Otherwise, the film does seem like a bit of a mess to the average viewer.

  • @toucansam3 everybody, including professional critics, hate o'neal in LYNDON; but for me, hardy kruger and the actor from ALFIE playing a preacher/teacher seem out of place, having seen them numerous times in other films before LYNDON.

    dumb o'neal named a kid redmond---never mind the character was a scumbag; another o'neal kid on heroin.

    "2001" is a classic, though out-dated; the ussr still existing, women before women's lib, and an easy flight to jupiter, ten years ago!

  • @monk22yrs 2001 is dated, but that doesn't hurt it at all, I still think it holds up well. Its special effects certainly do, I think it looks better than many sci fi movies made today. CGI is overused and overblown, less technical means of creating special effects often have a better result. Just compare the original cuts of the Star Wars films to the "special editions", the new special effects only take away from the films.

  • @toucansam3 i wonder if anybody born after kubrick's movie, raised on STAR WARS, has the patience for "2001"...the maker of the STAR TREK reboot claimed even STAR TREK had to have STAR WARS action!

    i like out-dated sci-fi, including 50s stuff---and kubrick, in a couple movies, was influenced by george pal.

    nothing wrong with "2001" effects---though ray harryhausen didn't think much of them. and ray bradbury prefers CLOSE ENCOUNTERS to 2001!!! (cause of the emotional difference)

  • @monk22yrs 2001 was a piece of artistry. i doubt i would have preferred it to star wars as a kid but once i was 18 or so i did. the effects were done in such a subtle way that they hold up these days. he didn't try anything too fancy, i think he was going for a futuristic movie that could stand the test of time, and he had a lot of foresight to do that right.

  • @fheisk i like "2001"---though it owes a lot to 1950s george pal movies, and the mood is 1960s michalangelo antonioni.

    ray bradbury hated kubrick's movie cause of the antonioni influence.

    special effects artist ray harryhausen thought "2001"'s effects were over-rated.

    the tv puppet show, THUNDERBIRDS, had effects the equel of '2001"; kubrick even tried to get them to do the effects.

    lots of now-cornball stuff in '2001"---but it is a classic, as is STAR WARS.

  • @Cannibalization most kubrick movies...are...boring, thugh they have some really great moments, which is why his fans put up with all the boring stuff in them.

    i even have BARRY LYNDON on dvd; paid 5 bucks for it at nearby grocery store.

  • This movie is truly a piece of fine art, very well done on every aspect.

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  • God trailers used to be horrible.

  • I finally got this movie on dvd! Sweet! This incredible movie is a Stanley Kubrick jewel in itself! Notice the actor in the fencing scene is Steven Berkof! As lengthy as this movie is without a doubt this movie is truly worth watching...even on a rainy day or night! I'm so happy to have this beautiful movie at last plus, I so love the music that accompanies this movie! Watch this movie folks, you won't be disappointed! :)

  • Barry Lyndon was a movie ahead of its time

  • The attention to detail, the incredible effort in this film to accurately and faithfully depict the world of the 18th century is truly amazing!

    I remember one scene, where Barry is having a birthday celebration for his young son. They have a magician performing magic tricks, that is a spot-on recreation of the way it would actually have been done in the late 1700's England.

  • it is me or there are some shots that aren't really well photographed?

  • @BlackLionFilms

    It's the poor quality of the trailer...NOT the original film.

  • @vittoriostoraro I dont know, the scene when the couple kiss is just poorly photographed, you can't see their faces, and it's kind of annoying because of that. At 0:43 there's also a bad shot, in my opinion, or maybe because in my own work i am a perfectionist and i try everything to be simmetric and all. But i agree that the quality of the video isn't the best and makes the film looks ugly.

  • Barry Lyndon. I have really never seen such perfection in a film.

  • It look likes "Candide" by Voltaire.

  • This is a film of greatest beauty. The images and music...wow.

  • My top 10 Kubrick Films. Just my order of preference 10. Lolita 9. Dr. Strangelove 8. Spartacus 7. Full Metal Jacket 6. Eyes Wide Shut 5. The Shining 4. Paths of Glory 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2. Barry Lyndon 1. A Clockwork Orange. This is MY list. No one else's. If this list wasn't in the order you wanted to, don't bother bitching, because it will just be ignored.
  • @Dgamer21 who fucking cares, stop acting like an stuck up bitch!

  • @fede018 Well you seem to care, since you commented to deliberately insult me. Plus, would it ever occur to you that my opinion and general outlook on things could have changed over the course of six months? Don't you have anything better to do than to flip through all the comment pages, just to find the one that pisses you off the most? Get a life, troll.

  • I had not seen Barry Lyndon till a few weeks ago and wow, it was amazing, one of the most beautiful and sumptuous visual films ever made. But it was also filled with scenes of charm, humour, pathos, suspense and humanity. Kubrick is my hero, I love the way that man made movies.

  • OMG it's Chris Farley @ 49 seconds in!

  • It's incredible to me how horrible this trailer is and how it reflects almost none of what the movie actually is. Whereas most trailers now are actually better than the movie.

  • If you could make an epic, luscious painting come alive, it would be Barry Lyndon. Now, where's the bloody Blu-ray?

  • Shamefully underrated. 

  • @Concretshky It came 27th in Sight and Sound's best film 2002 poll which is probably the most prestigious and only semi-accurate best film poll around so I wouldn't really say it's underrated. It's a masterpiece and among people who are serious about film it is a popular choice for Kubrick's best film and considered one of the greatest films ever.

  • @LiamCrowley1990 Alright, but I wouldn't exactly consider polls and writings as a full token of appreciation for any film. I'd rather analyze how the films are treated in cultural references - like when people speak of The Godfather and Citizen Kane the masterpieces of filmmaking. Barry Lyndon is missing among such glorifications even though it deserves its praise . It's also quite neglected among other Kubrick films such as A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove or 2001.

  • @Concretshky Yeah, I can see what you mean. If you asked the general public what their favourite SK film was I imagine you wouldn't hear Barry Lyndon very much. It is a shame, I prefer this to Citizen Kane to be honest, I think this is tremendous.

  • You've got two more days to catch it on Netflix "Instant Watch" if you haven't seen it. HIGHLY UNDERATED, funny, sad, and just downright EPIC.

  • Seven people have no appreciation of film.

  • @rationalexpression Or maybe that just don't like the trailer, like i don't. Though, i love the film.

  • This is easily the best movie I have ever seen. It totally blows my mind, every time.

  • rip pat roach and leonard rossiter ,both great actors

  • Epic film! not so epic trailer

  • Barry Lyndon is the perfect movie, nothing less. Barry, 2001, and Clockwork are all I need.

  • @RyanR3volution woa no eyes wide shut and full metal jacket??? or the shining!!!

  • Thumbs up if you're here because of the ZEISS PLANAR 50mm f/0.7 lens.

  • @Zknightblack HaHa! You know it!

  • @Zknightblack I feel like such a nerd. That actually is why i'm here.

  • @Zknightblack so is this a common lens because i heard its from nasa or some thing like that.

  • In my opinion, Kubrick's most underrated film. This one needs more praise. It's brilliant!

  • @Moviefan7359

    Also Lolita, Spartacus, and The Killing are very underrated.

  • Barry Lyndon is not a movie you just watch one time and remember it. He just lives in you, and grows in you. This movie takes a place in my mind that any other movie takes ( even Apocalypse Now that I considered for a long time as the best movie ever filmed ). This film is, I think, the most perfect movie ever created about life.

  • About Kubrick, I would say the same thing I said about Beethoven. I wouldn't say that Beethoven was the best composer of history ; I would say that Beethoven was the best Beethoven of history. Well, Kubrick was the best Kubrick of history. It's this kind of artists who just are them, and nothing else. Kubrick films are not films, this is Kubrick's films. It's not the same thing. Kubrick's films are so different from other films that this is not just films ; this is KUBRICK's films.

  • As a lover of Kubrick flims since I was 10 years old, this was one flim, that oddly, did not catch my eye. I fact, I had never seen any pictures from the movie, no trailer for it nor read about it. It did not interested me based on the cover for the film - I still believe it was a bad choice. I was it was on netflix instance, so I decided to watch it. I am so happy I saw this flim without knowing a thing. Spielberg was right, once you start watching his movies, you just cant stop

  • You have got to love the ending...perfect Kubrick sytle. I loved it.

  • what an amazing movie havent seen a movie so great in a long time! 10/10

  • im looking for this movie... could any one tell me how can get a copy of this one ..kindly email me,,,or send me a message..

    greetings from the philippines

  • @waibes23 It's everywhere man. Amazon, Netflix, Wal-Mart, video store. Anywhere.

  • The guy talking over the movie scenes completely ruins it for me.

  • I love this movie. And I didn't realize it until the end where I found myself missing it.

  • For all who don't understand, watch again. For kissing a man: (paraphrase) ''Kiss me my lad for we shall never meet again''. He lost the only man who cared about him and loved him. 3 moments for tears: death of Grogan, confession to chevalier and death of a son. Sincere, emotional, hearthbreaking Kubrick's work. Touch of a master.

  • The story of a parvenu. A very ambitious man with poor origins wants to climb into high society y and get accepted, and he pays a price. A class-conscius world dominated by the importance of money and social position. Today Barry Lyndon would be an unscrupulous executive of Lehman Brothers.

  • There is a background theme/lesson in each of Kubrick's films. The theme in Barry Lyndon is one ot lust and greed, the desire to achieve a place in high society where one does not belong and the consequences that await. A story of jealousy and envy and the misfortunes that might await an underserving social climber. AND...a damned good story if you just stay awake. The Oscar winning cinematography should keep you riveted to the screen anyway. One of my very favorite films of all time.

  • There is a background theme/lesson in each of Kubrick's films. The theme in Barry Lyndon is one ot lust and greed, the desire to achieve a place in high society where one does not belong and the consequences that await. A story of jealousy and envy and the misfortunes that might await an underserving social climber. AND...a damned good story if you just stay awake. The Oscar winning cinematography should keep you riveted to the screen anyway.

  • can anybody explain this movie to me please? I just watched it and it was really good but I couldn't figure it out on my first viewing.

  • is it the movie where Ryan O'Neal had to kiss a man ?

  • @frenchfries56789 But wht was that?

    was his Character gay or bisexual ?

  • @ilovesexilovenaked

    His character was neither gay nor bisexual.

    The kiss was to express a platonic love; the kind of love that one has for one's friends.

    Yes, it's easy for us to exclaim, "But I would never kiss my friends!"

    But, remember one thing: Today's society and culture are very different from those of the past.

  • @Tammy166 thanks. i watched it lately. the thing is this movie is strange. i nearly didn't understand anything out of it.

  • what is this movie really about

    apart from what the trailer showed

  • This movie is vastly underrated and criminally unwatched. it is a haunting and brilliant masterpiece from one of the the greatest directors of all time.

  • @Sobchak420 I agree, but Stanley Kucbrick is also the most pretentious director of all time, i am not a Kubrick fan personally, but i'm not a nerd and i've watched most of his movies, except for A Clockwork Orange, because i am not sure that i will like that kind of movie. Even i didn't like 2001.

  • @WiltatKansas What are you retarded or something?

  • @lanser87 I'm actually pretty smart i would say.

  • @WiltatKansas What exactly do you think is so pretentious about Kubrick anyway? Just curious because people like to throw around that word like it means something.

  • @lanser87 What? 2001 is the most pretentious movie of all time. Even his wife admited that Stanley was verfy spoiled by his parents when he was a child and, of course, he was anyway a genius, but he liked to seem more genius than he already was.

  • @WiltatKansas Fuck his wife. Every single Kubrick film is adapted from a book so if anyone is pretentious it would be the writers of the books he adapted to screenplays. Or maybe his taste in literature was just too pretentious? LOL!

    I thought 2001 was amazing not only for its beautiful cinematography conveying the circular nature of life but its theme of our tools overtaking us. It's very much a prophetic film that I can't imagine being topped.

  • @lanser87 2001 is a movie that even today I couldn't understand, even the critics say that's suspicious of to trying to draw attention to Kubrickself.

  • @WiltatKansas Fuck critics too. They rarely know what they're talking about because film is an art form. It's subjective.

    Apparently you only took pretension from 2001 but i whole heartedly disagree. It's a mile stone film that has influenced a whole generation of filmmakers including myself. You're speaking blasphemy because everyone knows Kubrick was God. But ofcourse that's only true if you take the time to understand his films.

  • @lanser87 I hate when i do not understand a movie becuase i'm thinking to myself, wtf, i came here to watch a story not to watch how a director shows his vanity.

  • @WiltatKansas LOL the story is still there. And i think by vanity you mean self indulgent but none of his films are self indulgent. They're seamless.

    Just because the ideas aren't simple doesn't mean there isn't a story. I could understand if you were talking about a David Lynch film that tends to throw random shit at you and expect you to understand but this is Kubrick. The man's work is very structured, seamless and straight forward in my opinion.

  • @lanser87 That's not the word i used, i'm referring to the oyster scene in Spartacus, to the moon with the face of a baby in 2001, to his last movie eyes wide shut, i'm just saying that he looks like if he was a little self-conscious and he needed to prove always a little more than it's just necessary.

  • @WiltatKansas I don't think he was ever trying to prove anything. He was just trying to make great films, and he succeeded.

  • @WiltatKansas I think a lot of people just lack the patience for Kubrick.

  • Barry Lyndon, or "perfection"

  • This is my favorite Kubrick film. They all are good and reveal something about the way things work around us but this one is shot beatifully, the music is awesome and the story is presented simply.

    I love the part in which he will meet the best people like the best people who stayed at the Overlook hotel and who have strange sex parties a la Eyes wide Shut.

  • Unbelievably beautiful film. The zoom lens makes me come.

  • @lanser87 someone makes beautiful images,others can make necessary ones.So simple.

  • Favorite Kubrick ... 1. 2001 2. A Clockwork Orange 3. The Shining 4. Spartacus 5. Barry Lyndon

  • Awesome film...

  • this film is extremely entertaining, amazingly beautiful, emotionally draining, visually stunning, utterly engaging, unbelievably epic, well- acted, and perfectly shot. for any other film to win best picture over barry lyndon is total blasphemy and blatant robbery

  • I say that - this film is excellent, but this trailer is pretty poor from all the "so and so says"

  • I love this movie.

  • it's unfortunate that for most of us the local video store will never have it on hand or shown on TV...at the tender age of 39-I've been watching war films and Kubrick sine I was knee high to a grasshopper and until 15 minutes ago I had never heard of the film/book. Although I just say Dr. Strangelove.is was on the best movies ever made- watch it with The Russian are coming as a Cold War Comedy double feature, if there's time make it a triple and include Wilder's One, Two, Three!

  • 1. A Clockwork Orange

    2. Barry Lyndon

    3. The Shining

    4. Dr. Strangelove

    5. Full Metal Jacket

  • Kubrick's my favourite director

  • Incredible and yes terribly underrated film about Barry's inferiority complex after the betrayal of his beloved cousin... :D

    Is anybody disturbed about Grogan's role in the deception to Barry that he KILLED SOMEBODY, was being chased by authorities and then compelled him to join the army after shamefully losing what he believed to be his entire family fortune? And still Quin is with his girl at the end of all that! I'd be fuming :)

  • I adore this film. And it has one of the most beautiful scenes I've ever seen (with Lady Lyndon at the card-playing table).

  • Kubric was always ahead of his time, the so called critics underestimated him and look where he is now, the best director of all times!

  • It's good, but it doesn't compare to AMADEUS.

  • i haven't seen it yet, but it looks pretty fucking boss.

  • it is, do yourself a favor and watch a movie you'll never forget

  • LOL I can't believe they showed Barry Lyndon kicking the shit out of Lord Bullingdon.

    This is excruciatingly long for a teaser.

  • It''s a good a thing I didn't see this trailer before watching the film; I would have never seen it if that were the case. Not only does it show scenes critical to the movie, but the man doing the voice over simply quotes reviews in a monotone voice.

    They should have taken a page from ACWO's brief trailer.

  • come on, when they qoute playboy it must be good :O)

  • Good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor - they are all equal now.

  • Its the celluloid version of an artist/artist's master work(s).

    Gainsboro, Constable, Hogarth etc etc

    Some of the interior shots are just 'mind blowing' in form, texture...and exquisite lighting...they really do look like barely moving 'oil paintings'.

    Almost forgot...a brilliant story, superbly told and acted...they don't make them like this anymore and unfortunately I don't think they ever will.

    Looked stunning on large LCD upscaled 1080p...I am so looking forward to the blu ray version.

  • The greatest film of the Kubrick archive...

  • @itsCorsdt

    I totally agree !!

  • One of...

  • what are talking about? all his films are the best!

  • @itsCorsdt No my mna, the greatest film that Kubrick ever directed was Paths of Glory and he should thank a lot to Kirk Douglas.

  • i like

  • i dont understand why the actor playing bullington never got an oscar!!!!!????

  • because he isn't that good !!! compare to barry

  • LEON VITALI is his name.

    He became Kubrick's personal assistant on all of his following films. He did a nice job in this film. I totally agree.

    Might be Kubrick's best film next to Paths of Glory.

    In my opinion.

  • WONDERFUL

  • One of the best films ever, a true Masterpiece.

  • the little boy Brian is so cute!!

  • Most underrated film in movie history.

    Kubrick's unknown masterpiece.

  • sadly true!!! this movie is in every way the masterpiece..

  • @tommybass40 agreed, it's very overlooked

  • @tommybass40 Not underrated, but boring as hell and cine is not only a great picture, but an entertainment.

  • @tommybass40 I agree. I love Kubrick. I have been in love with most (most since, at the time, I had not seen all his movies) of his movies. Now, at current, I can say all his movies. This movie really did not interest me, based on the cover. I know, bad move!! I still believe it is a bad cover. This was a VERY well done film. I bet he spent years on this project, and it paid off. Lastly, I will add, I was shocked it was in color. I had never seen pictures or a trailer...just the cover

  • this is probably the most beautiful movie i've ever seen....and its my top 2 fav movie....the first is clockwork orange....but ya i love this movie...

  • This trailer was completely mishandled marketing in my opinion (looking at it now). Was Kubrick involved in this trailer like his others?

  • Good point, I am not sure though. If there were hidden meanings in his movies, he would give hints to the fact in the trailer, prmo posters and so on. I am going to read more about this movie, find out about it's sub text. for example, Barry is doomed from the start, when ever you see him the camera will zoom out to a huge landscape shot, the idea being that Barry is under the influence of a greater picture, ie, he has no individual control.

  • 1.33:1 kind of hurts the presentation of this movie. At least, I think it does.

  • wow they did not make good movie trailers back then.

  • nope, but they make good films.

  • Magnificient Film. Horrible Trailer.

  • brilliant ! just seen it . sadly his most underratted film

  • I demand satisfaction!

  • Really bad trailer with far too much spoilers!

    Film is great of course!

  • you ever seen the trailer for soylent green? they flat out say that it's made out of people. which is supposed to be the mystery of the picture.

  • SoylentGreenlSHUNGRY : Really ? This is so stupid ! Luckiky I hadn't seen the trailer before seing the movie =) Great movie, Soylent Green, by the way ! Barry Lyndon is so great too.

  • The greatest film ever!

  • Marisa is so beautiful, then and now!

  • ryan o'neal was so beautiful in this film prettier than marissa berenson really.

  • Rumor has it director McG (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, We Are Marshall) is in talks to direct a remake of Stanley Kubrick's 18th-century epic Barry Lyndon.

  • How awful! All of his films are awful! Why must films be remade?! They're never as good, look at the remake of Psycho or even the remake of Kubrick's Lolita, which, the original version, is my favourite film.

  • Apparently Nicolas Cage will play the lead role of Barry.

  • WHERE do you get this kind of information???!

  • Because Lolita is a book by Nabokov and Barry Lyndon is a book by Thackeray, so Stanley Kubrick doesn't have the monopoly over them.

  • ...but Kubrick changed the content for the screen in both those books, in fact, many of his movies, he changes the book's content to suit himself. He would use the pulling power a book has, use it to get finance for his films...and then change things to meet his own means. Kubrick, you could argue, had little respect for his source material. An already existing work of literature would still not be as important, to Kubrick, as the movie he was about to make, if you follow what I'm getttng at.

  • That's because Kubrick saw making a film as something which shouldn't just be copied from the source material. In other words he did stamp his identity onto it.

  • there were, of course, those artistic reasons, but he was no fool either. He knew, for example, doing a best selling Stephen King novel would attract studio money and get bums on seats. He was as much a pragmatist as he was an artist.

  • Indeed.

  • damn son, you wanna hear blasphemy? people hear stanley kubrick, they go, "oh yeah, that's 2001, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, and Dr. Strangelove. Meanwhile, this gem of modern cinema goes overlooked. Nigga, I looked for fifteen days and I didn't see a single Blockbuster that had this on DVD.

  • ch- thas why you go to netflix, sheee.

  • Hah, good comment

  • If this is true, I will personally demand satisfaction from the studio head who greenlights this.

  • And my ass is gonna direct a remake of The Godfather.

  • that's not even funny.