Clumsy about the execution?
More like FLAWLESSLY PERFECT.
Maybe you mean his funniest movies were in black and white and his more serious movies in color.
Or the fact that his reputation as THE PERFECT DIRECTOR was cemented with his color films, thus you're watching "A KUBRICK MOVIE" when you watch his color movies and perhaps "a Kubrick movie" with his B&Ws.
But there is no director who has ever been more disciplined or on-point than Kubrick.
We're talking DOWN TO THE FRAME.
You can easily make a case for 9 of his films being PERFECT, not a single note in error.
Discipline isn't something one can have a veneer of.


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