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A Clockwork Orange

  • 15-07-2001 9:45pm
    #1
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone (who's seen it, obviously) care to comment on this "all time classic movie" ?

    I've bought it on DVD, having never seen it (it was dead cheap) - and I'd like to get a couple of opinions on it from youze lot before I watch it (tonight, probably- tomorrow more likely).

    Cheers in advance.
    Bard
    I've got a plan... and it's as HOT... AS MY PANTS!!!" - Lord Flashheart.


Comments

  • #2
    T.G Catter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭T.G Catter


    Book is way better.


  • #3
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    I'd say normally to go into a film with an open mind and see what you make of it yourself....

    but since you asked.


    I found it to be an excellent watch... very powerful and a brilliant lead performance by MacDowell.

    I haven't read the book but I believe that the film leaves out the last chapter completely which makes a huge difference to the overall message.

    I don't want to go into any more detail about that so as not to ruin it on you.

    All in all though - a great film. The drowning scene is one that had a particular effect on me - very very long take.

    As for the by now infamous scene with the eyes etc. I found that I'd seen it parodied so many times that I felt like I'd seen it a thousand times before.


  • #4
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    *cough*

    oh yeah-... no spoilers please wink.gif

    I'm going to watch it tomorrow (Monday) night...
    Bard
    I've got a plan... and it's as HOT... AS MY PANTS!!!" - Lord Flashheart.


  • #5
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan



    its boring.
    its not shocking, theres nothing new in it (now), and it looks old.
    its like logans run with violence.
    boring boring boring.
    like most kubrik films actually.


  • #6
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    There's a slight possbility it looks old, because it was, in fact, made 30 years ago. I hate that 'oh it looks old so it's crap' approach, or 'it's in black and white and has subtitles and is so beneath me' attitude.

    It's an interesting watch, nowhere near as shocking as it presumably was thirty years ago. It does have some traditional Kubrick flaws, no doubt about it. The closing scene should stay with you for some time.


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  • #7
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Haven't seen it yet.

    Very much planning on it soon though.


  • #8
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Whoops! Forgot all about it... (silly me)

    I'll watch it tonight and see if I concur with what youze lot have said.

    Cheers,


    Bard
    I've got a plan... and it's as HOT... AS MY PANTS!!!" - Lord Flashheart.


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