A Clockwork Orange

[Shar]

I was watching this in media today (haven't finished watching all of it yet) and I found it highly disturbing but rather hilarious at the same time in some scenes.

Has anyone else watched it, if so what's your opinion on it?

[Judas]

i haven't actually seen it yet but i plan to as i love kubrick and i still can't believe i haven't got round to it yet :P

[Stephen]

is that the film where the guy beats the woman with a rocking penis or something like that

[Misawa]

Yes.

Great movie.

[Teabags]

It's a great film, it's just abit dated. I mean sure it's got a rape scene and that, but considering films nowadays its really nothing shocking.

Reminded me of Warriors (1979) tbh.

[Shar]

i haven't actually seen it yet but i plan to as i love kubrick and i still can't believe i haven't got round to it yet :P

I love him too, I still haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey yet :(

[Judas]

I love him too, I still haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey yet :(

i just bow to the shining. nice sig btw

[wixard]

yeah i really enjoyed it
especially


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQCQRLA05AA

linking it cos embedding is disabled, but also this forum is so behind it would also classify it as 'explicit' :S

Edited by Shar (Forum Moderator): Remember to add spoilers to explicit content, thanks.

[davecool656]

i haven't actually seen it

[Fez]

I love him too, I still haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey yet :(

I am disappoint.

Clockwork Orange is one of my favourite Kubricks. Probably his most bold effort.

[peteyt]

i just bow to the shining. nice sig btw

I didn't care for the film that much, but the book is amazing, but then that's Stephen King for you.

This film was okay, but it wasn't as great as I expected.

Strangely in a library my mate found the book for A Clockwork Orange in the children's section.

[Mathew]

A guy in my Psychology class has spoken about it on numerous occasions, trying to persuade the teacher to let us watch it but to no avail. What is it actually about? I've heard some say it's wayyyy inappropriate, apparently it's banned in some place... yet others say it's amazing? :P

[Misawa]

When watching The Shining, you can't compare it to the book really becuase it's so different. It's a great film in it's own right, but thing of it as Kubrick's movie, rather than his adaptation of a very, very different book.

[Shar]

A guy in my Psychology class has spoken about it on numerous occasions, trying to persuade the teacher to let us watch it but to no avail. What is it actually about? I've heard some say it's wayyyy inappropriate, apparently it's banned in some place... yet others say it's amazing? :P

Kubrick himself banned it in the UK during 1972 I think..
I'm terrible at explaining things so here's the link to IMDB :P http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/

[Mathew]

Kubrick himself banned it in the UK during 1972 I think..
I'm terrible at explaining things so here's the link to IMDB :P http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/
Oh how interesting. Thanks for the link. :D Aversion Therapy.... that's why it was brought up in Psychology! :)

Kubrick looks like Misawa.. :O!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/KubrickForLook.jpg

[Fez]

Oh how interesting. Thanks for the link. :D Aversion Therapy.... that's why it was brought up in Psychology! :)

Kubrick looks like Misawa.. :O!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/KubrickForLook.jpg

Eli Roth, Zachary Quinto and now Kubrick? Adam you're on a roll :P


When watching The Shining, you can't compare it to the book really becuase it's so different. It's a great film in it's own right, but thing of it as Kubrick's movie, rather than his adaptation of a very, very different book.

It's an interpretation and not an adaptation, something which Snyder's Watchmen absolutely fails at. It's so faithful in style and some of its substance that the liberties it takes don't fit in with the puzzle. It even twists bits to suit its political commentary on the *sigh* Bush administration and flips many of the action scenes to high set-pieces rather than tense slow plods of character just to suit the 'average movie viewer'. Kubrick's Shining decides to just make a film based on the material rather than try and slap the material on screen and it succeeds. In many ways I prefer it to the book but I also prefer the book's interpretation too, the two rather complete each other.

[Misawa]

I haven't seen Watchmen based on the incredibly naff trailer.

[RandomManJay]

I loved watching it a few years back, and then when I saw it in HMV about 2 years ago I just have to buy it and watch it again :D.

[David]

No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.

Love this movie, one of my favourites.

[RockyHorror]

It was the one film my dad banned me from watching, needless to say I watched it. Like other 'cinematic gems' I found it boring and pointless.

[Neversoft]

I love it for the dialogue.

"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence."

[David]

This has given me the urge to see it again, I'm downloading just now :P!

[peteyt]

Eli Roth, Zachary Quinto and now Kubrick? Adam you're on a roll :P



It's an interpretation and not an adaptation, something which Snyder's Watchmen absolutely fails at. It's so faithful in style and some of its substance that the liberties it takes don't fit in with the puzzle. It even twists bits to suit its political commentary on the *sigh* Bush administration and flips many of the action scenes to high set-pieces rather than tense slow plods of character just to suit the 'average movie viewer'. Kubrick's Shining decides to just make a film based on the material rather than try and slap the material on screen and it succeeds. In many ways I prefer it to the book but I also prefer the book's interpretation too, the two rather complete each other.

While the shinning is an okay horror film and its a while since I've seen it, I did find it pretty overrated and a lot claim its Kubrick's worst film

[!!BeWise!!]

This has given me the urge to see it again...

Me too! :) I also want to re-read the book as well!
It's really wicked:P

[Zenci]

Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

The movie is brilliant. Definitely my favorite of Kubrick's.