... the fact that I have yet to see a Kubrick film I liked...
Well, for me there's Doctor Strangelove, and ... um ... Okay, I was stretching a bit when I said "many".
What about A Clockwork Orange?
Okay, that was a fair adaptation of Burgess' novel (or all but the last chapter of it, anyway ). And I thought The Killing was a decent crime caper piece, and Full Metal Jacket is worth seeing just for R. Lee Ermey's performance if nothing else. But the only one I can say I truly loved was Strangelove.
I've actually never seen ACO; so many people have urgently pressed me to watch it, that my reaction has been to avoid it like the plague. (I enjoyed the book, but I find it a lot easier to take violence in print than in film.)
FMJ was great, and I did like it, which runs counter to my usual opinion of "war movies". (Aside: our basic training flight voted the line "What is that, Pyle, a jelly doughnut?" as our flight slogan. Such pride.)
I appreciated Dr. Strangelove, but couldn't summon anything like the utter devotion to it that everyone else seems to have for it. It is this disparity that makes me shy away from ACO.
2001, as other mentioned before me, was visually stunning, but too austere for my tastes. Like everything I've read by A.C. Clarke, it was great and grand, but left me cold.
Eyes Wide Shut was just an agonizing slog, like I'd imagine a Universal Studios Tours ride through a pristine replica of set of the sewers of Paris would be. You go in expecting to see and smell and feel the dankness, and instead you get a distant sanitized, plastic version with nothing happening. Even Tom Cruise wasn't Tom Cruise Crazy enough in that one.
And don't start me on the Shining... the "dramatic tension" created by what seemed like a full 10 minutes of a kid on a Big Wheel (tm) riding through the hotel bracketed by the terrifying words "Tuesday" and "Wednesday"... Jack Nicholson growing increasingly angry that Shelly Duvall can't act... Scatman Caruthers getting "axed" a lot of questions by an overly-cute "Eight is Enough" reject...
But that's just my opinion... I could be wrong.