Last night, in a surprise, a decent film was being aired on one of my umpteen HBO channels: Full Metal Jacket.

Now I don't know about you, but Full Metal Jacket had a resonating effect on me when I  first saw it in my late teens. The camera work, the setting, the score all meld to establish the most unsettling of moods. Upon seeing it again many years later it hasn't changed much for me. I still see it as the second best Vietnam War film ever made (next to Apocalypse Now of course).

All this got me thinking: Where does FMJ rank on the list of Kubrick's works? Well, at films101 it's 9th! 9th?!?! How could it be that far down the list? Personally, I'd put it at #3 behind The Shining and 2001. But that's just me.

Any thoughts? This is a difficult list to construct. And I must plead ignorance on Paths of Glory. (I'll add that to my queue).