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  • 10-03-2000 8:42am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭


    Was in Virgin last night and noticed they are now running Clockwork Orange


    GO SEE IT


    that is all


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39 Shaft1


    Its released on 17th March make sure you go see it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    It'll make a change to see it without the ol Dutch subtitles alright smile.gif


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    I must agree with El_Pres here - a fantastic film and a definite must see for all!

    All the best,

    Dav
    @B^)
    http://homepage.eircom.net/~davitt


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭Shinji


    Picked up the book in HMV to prep me for seeing it on the big screen at last... I never realised before that Kubrick left out the last chapter of the book in the movie! Odd, that. Apparently the original release of the novel in the states was missing that chapter as well, although it was unedited in Europe.

    Ja,
    Rob

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭El_Presidente


    Thats half the fun Blitz, go see it.

    Oh I was wrong about Virgin, that was just a preview last thursday, sorry frown.gif

    But the 17th, mark it in your diary


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    i remember trying to read it while on holiday about 3 years ago.
    took a bit of getting used to the language. i think it was a bas7ardisation of english and some russian dialect mixed together to give it a type of 'real' feel to it.
    its a bit violent and very depressing in the end, but good. will go see it in the flicks next week though.
    whsich reminds me conor. you fancy going next saturday about 5 or 6 ish and a few beers afterwards?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Could do, could do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,660 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    wtf is it about? The ad is anything but informative.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,660 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    I'm not going to some film by an over rated director without even knowing what it's about!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Gamblor


    Originally posted by Blitzkrieger:
    I'm not going to some film by an over rated director without even knowing what it's about!
    Dont go out then ???? come on some of the best movies i've ever seen i've just gone to not known who directed them .. but i sure as hell remembered after !!!!!



    ***** Feel my Evil Neon Claws *****


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    ahh come on!
    every ones seen at least one stanly kubrick film. such classics as....ummmm, nope, actually ive never seen a stanly kubrick film i liked.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Ah Jesus Eamo, if you're trying to tell me you didnt like Dr. Strangelove, then I am going to have to kill you!!

    CT.

    p.s. Alternatively if you just havent seen it yet, then get it out or watch it next time it's on TV, lest an agonising doom be yours. smile.gif I may even have to kill and eat you, once I've finished off Draco that is smile.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Excelsior


    I've said it before, I hope by God I get to say it again, but Blitzkrieger- you brighten my life with an intellect as vast and corageous as the cathedral dome like blue of the sky! smile.gif Your genius bruises me when I read it.

    We are superfriends
    Super friends are we




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Excelsior


    I really am the king of understated sarcasm, amn't I?

    We are superfriends
    Super friends are we




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    yes, you are.

    and yes, if you didnt notice it, that was sarasm as well. and well beneath yours in terms of understatment. guess i win on that count.
    however, i was not aware that kubrick dirested dr strangelove, which is an excellent film starring peter sellers, peter sellers and..peter sellers.
    all his other films that i know of were crap though.
    damn..theres always one exception to the rule isnt there!

    Your Dungeon Is On An Incline.
    Irate Creatures Cannot Play Marbles.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Gamblor


    Seei don't kow you or the majority of people on here .. so i'm doing what all irish people do at that stage ...
    I'm staying neutral !!!! wink.gif

    ***** Feel my Evil Neon Claws *****


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 880 ✭✭✭Von


    WWman I agree. Paths Of Glory, The Shining, The Killing (rip off of reservoir dogs) and of course the big snore that is 2001 are all toss.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    2001 is a load of pretentious $hite.


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    The Shining is good, but 2001 is a little... arty... for my taste. No laser battles and not a tie-fighter to be seen!

    DeV.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,660 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    r u calling me stupid frown.gif


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    It's like a bizarre interlink, but The Shining plunged in my estimation after I saw that the 'riding off into the sunset' sequences from the original crappy ending of Blade Runner were outtakes from the Shining's opening sequence.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Radovar


    Von, are you taking the ****? The Killing was made forty years before Reservoir Dogs.





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,660 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    I HAVE decided to go see the film. Why? Because, the ******* of satan itself, BSkyB showed enough of a clip to arouse my interest.


    Prob still be a **** film tho


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭Hecate


    you dont review films for the sun by any chance? smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭the celtic tiger


    don't even want to see the film.....rather make my own film about this appollo mission where it's touch and go whether or not the astronauts will make it home or not. It will star Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Tom Hanks. As always, I'll have a small part for GOD Clooney to play. I'll call it...... "WILL THEY BE ABLE TO MAKE IT HOME TO EARTH OR WILL THEY CRASH AND BURN IN A FIREY BALL SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE OUR ATMOSPHERE?"

    tct

    eek.gif




    And with that I stand down as leader of this ancient and very sacred society. I just hope you will treat your new leader with as much love and respect as you have shown me. I bid thee farewell.
    thank you


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    ahh the shining was excellent, so i will reposition my stance on mr kubricts merits as a director.
    he had some good films such as apocalypse now, the shining and dr strangelove. but i didnt like any of the others that i have seen.
    and yes, it is a bit bizarre to have cut scenes from blade runner at he begining of the shining. now what was that all about?
    surely he didnt run out of cash after the first 10 minutes smile.gif

    all work and no play makes jack a dull boy....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Excelsior


    rory I will give you my bank details now to go make that movie. It will be tense
    Blitzkrieger I wouldn't say you're stupid... that would be mean, and just ask the ppl on the street, Kevin is a shinin example of niceness.

    This movie by the way was not good. I suspect Kubrick withdrew it not due to its ultra violence (which is tamer than a recent edition of Hollyoaks) but because he knew it sucked.

    Well, that is what my mom reckons anyway and she doesn't know much about movies but she once met Sinead O'Connor and Michael Stipe in the same week. She preferred the second bald one.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    This movie by the way was not good. I suspect Kubrick withdrew it not due to its ultra violence (which is tamer than a recent edition of Hollyoaks) but because he knew it sucked.

    actually he withdrew it because there was copycat violence in real life and he didnt want to be associated with that sort of cary on. aparently its ok to inspire people to brutality once yer dead wink.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Excelsior


    Stunned by revelation that Kubrick withdrew due to copycat violence. aww, where'd you find that out. my gut feeling on the man is, seeing as he liked to see himself as someone people would talk about after his death, he may have just found it convienient to withdraw it as the movie was vague and confused in the deliverance of its message and was not visually arresting in the kubrick manner we have become used to and some of us revere. its just not up to his other work and i think he might have known it
    ps- does anyone know belle and sebastian. they be pretty good they do.

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    Super friends are we




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Originally posted by WhiteWashMan:
    ahh the shining was excellent, so i will reposition my stance on mr kubricts merits as a director.
    he had some good films such as apocalypse now, the shining and dr strangelove. but i didnt like any of the others that i have seen.
    and yes, it is a bit bizarre to have cut scenes from blade runner at he begining of the shining. now what was that all about?
    surely he didnt run out of cash after the first 10 minutes smile.gif

    ach Eamo, Kubrick didn't direct Apocalypse Now, that was Francis Ford Coppola, you muppet smile.gif and it's outtakes of The Shining that appear in Blade Runner, not vice versa.

    The reason they appear there is cos after audiences tested badly to BR's original ending (the one which was restored in the Director's Cut), Ridley Scott inserted the 'happy clappy' ending as seen in the original cut. He had no time or money to recall Harrison Ford and/or Sean Young to reshoot the ending fully, so he used stock footage not used in the Shining. Hey, if stock footage was good enough for Edward D. Wood Jr. it was good enough for Ridley Scott smile.gif

    There are a couple of other shots in BR that are obviously inserted later - the prime example is when Rutger Hauer releases the dove near the end. The sky above is pitch black and the building is neo-gothic in appearance, yet the dove flies off into a blue sky with some smoke in, beside a building that looks a lot more modern. The answer? Scott shot the dove scene in Reading, England, after the film wrapped cos the dove they had on set wouldnt do what was required for the shot.

    The building in question is a steelworks outside Reading smile.gif

    Castor 'mine of information about Blade Runner' Troy.




  • Subscribers Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭Draco


    What I heard about Kubrick withdrawing the film is that someone rang him up and threatened to react the rap scene in his house with his wife. Apparently.

    Draco


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Edge


    biggrin.gif

    getting around to all the forums today

    Tom


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    now i am confused.

    anyway, the reason for the withdrawl is the one i gave.
    for your other extrapolies on the subject, we'll i reckon youre gonna have to communicate with the dead to see if youre right.

    and there was only ever one decent film in the histry of films.......
    sleepless in seatle.
    what a tale


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,414 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    hehe, don't you mean "what a tail?" smile.gif

    Al.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Radovar


    Hahha, yeah, it was fear of that Rap scene that did it. Unbeknownest to most cinema historians, Kubrick had an inherent fear of vocal acrobatics and homies busting moves in his living room.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Gamblor


    Originally posted by Draco:
    What I heard about Kubrick withdrawing the film is that someone rang him up and threatened to react the rap scene in his house with his wife. Apparently.

    Draco
    Rap scene ????? Let me guess Vanilla Ice was there !!!!! smile.gif



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