A Clockwork Orange.

[InFlames101]

Discuss this godly work of art (either the book or the movie).

 

[Parasite]

The first time I saw it, I was like, 11, and didn't get it really, but I thought it was one of the funniest fucking things I ever saw.

The second time I saw it, was when I did drugs, and was fucked when I watched it, so It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

I finally saw it, mature and sober, two years ago, and it really is brilliant.

I've never read the book, is it much different?

 

[Voice of God]

The book is great and not too much different IMO, some stuff have been softened up for the film though. The weird language is more obvious in the book. In A Clockwork Orange Kubrick doesn't change the book that much as in The Shining.

I like both, but I don't consider them "godly". Film is great like anything Kubrick has done, but not even in top ten films of mine. The book (which I read for school) was nice and different, but same top ten thing goes for it too.

 

[Hywel]

Great film, haven't read the book. Do remember coming out of the cinema with a stitch from laughing

 

[DogVomit]

I saw the film last night, actually!

I nearly died laughing. Is it supposed to be that funny? It nearly killed me!

 

[bonecraft7]

Personally I like kevin smith but I think he's a little too in love with his characters. I really wish he'd try something serious for a change.

 

[xenophobe]

What does Kevin Smith have to do with Clockwork Orange?

Kevin Smith is a brilliant guy, though a few of his films don't show it...

Has nothing to do with the book, the movie or Stanley Kubrick....

 

[NAD]

Kubrick was brought up, maybe that's why Kevin Smith arose into the conversation. They are both directors, after all, and both brilliant.

Watched the movie several times since I was about 10, I understand more of it each time. Started to read the book once but got distracted by the other 50,000 books I have that I haven't read yet. Oops.

I have the movie poster hanging in my office, but I have to hide it behind me door because a few people here would freak out. Sheltered fools.

 

[West Virginia Mule]

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[Board]

I saw the film a couple of days ago and I wasn't really impressed. I'm nice when I put the grade "nothing special" on it. Maybe I just didn't get it. I didn't laugh as far as I recall, so maybe I didn't. For me it was a film that soon will be forgotten like so many other movies. Although I have seen a fair amount of older movies I'm not too big a fan of movies before the 80's. I think a lot of them is kind of messy and hard to figure out what's going on and remember who's who and so on. I like the old James Bond movies ("Octopussy" is the newest one I like), "One flew over the cuckoo's nest", "Casablanca" & "The postman always rings twice" (the one from 1946), "Kelly's heroes" and maybe some more which I don't recall right now.
Kubrick's "2001" was a little weird IMO. It's one of those movies where I can't say if it's good or it's crappy. I liked the sequel better. It was actually alright!

 

[NAD]

For me it was a film that soon will be forgotten like so many other movies.

Uhhhhhmmmmmm... well it's over 30 years old now and still isn't forgotten!

 

[Board]

Originally posted by NAD
Uhhhhhmmmmmm... well it's over 30 years old now and still isn't forgotten!

I said "For ME it was a film that soon will be forgotten like so many other movies." Which means that I won't look back at it in 5 years and say "Hey, that's a great movie". I will just say "naah". I've seen loads of films that I'll remember before I remember this, but hey - everybody got different taste!

 

[NAD]

Board:

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.... I get it now. Sorry.

 

[SculptedCold]

Stanley Kubrick was overrated. A Clockwork Orange is a very good film.....but....that's about it. Most of his other work is, in my opinion, too concerned with utterly esoteric, surrealist visualization to be anything other than incomprehensible and/or just lame moviemaking.

 

[revenge drama]

i masturbate to this movie. the score rules.

 

[Board]

I've also just seen "Eyes wide shut" the other day and it was nothing special either! I wrote a review of it at imdb.com, so you can check it out there if you like.

 

[the G Scott]

Anthony Burgess first published the novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962. Strangely, the US version had the final chapter cut from it by the New York publisher before publication. The rest of the world got the full version. But Kubrick? He based his film on the incomplete version, the US version of the novel. What happens in the last, the 21st chapter that was omitted from the film?

that was my biggest beef with the film. it was the book's end which made the meaning of the story for me and where the film ended left the tale as something else altogether which I didn't really personally concur with

 

[AFSilverstar]

movie owns, nuff said

 

[Mazinger]

Originally posted by xenophobe
What does Kevin Smith have to do with Clockwork Orange?

Kevin Smith is a brilliant guy, though a few of his films don't show it...

Has nothing to do with the book, the movie or Stanley Kubrick....

I don't know about Kevin Smith being a brilliant director.

He's a good writer, but he's nothing special when it comes to directing. Not even in the same leauge as Stanley Kubrick.

 

[NAD]

I think Kevin Smith is a better writer than director, but I like both aspects of him.

Clockwork Orange and The Shining are my favorite Kubrick movies, but I have only seen about half of them. Oh wait, I absolutely LOVED Dr. Strangelove, one of my favorite movies of all time.