Must-see: yes; as good as they put it: maybe no.

Rating: 6/10 (24 December 2014)

Well, Barry Lyndon was made in 1975, and I remember reading somewhere that is the first movie made using a steadicam, I can't recall it exactly to be honest (make your search on this, please) so it's a good starting point for the already famous movie.
The photography, of course, maybe you have heard a lot of it, and YES, is just amazingly beautiful, most of the scenes are made without artificial lightning (according to the legend; I wasn't there), and they made custom lens with an aperture of (f/0.7), the highest as far as we know for this movie.
Why I'm only talking about the technical aspects? well, it's because the screenplay is awful, maybe you have read some people saying that is a dull movie, if you are not interested in cinema or painting probably it will be. I couldn't believe it when it started, the first scenes are so bad... I thought that it was bad acting, but soon I realized that was the script, there are some really stupid lines, I don't use this kind of words often but it's just that: stupid. It gets a little better as is advancing, is not the worst thing neither, but yes is dull.
Now, the last thing. This is the second time I watch the movie and I had it in a 8 point qualification; it's down to 6 now.
Watch the movie; after all, it stills a Kubrick and Kubrick was great.