A Clockwork Orange

[DVTimes]

I was watching A Clockwork Orange last night.

What an amazing film. I cannot believe it was filmed in 1971, as some senses look like it could have been filmed last year.

[ADL Colin]

One of my favorites.

[Lara]

I haven't seen that movie in years. It is pretty intense.

[Homer]

I've never heard about this film

[DVTimes]

I've never heard about this film

Basically it was a classic film from 1971 that was removed/banned by the maker due to copycat killings.

Even the Simpsons did a version of it.

If you watch the gang in it walk down a path with the river to the right of them, its identical to senses in modern gangster films.

What is unnerving is the method used to reform him from being a criminal, and the way its dealt with politically. I see this in today's Labour government.

[Fake Nick]

wow people watching a clockwork orange for the first time in 2005 , amazing ,


were you born in 1990 ??

[DVTimes]

Unseen between 1974 (when Stanley Kubrick himself quietly withdrew it) and 2000 (after his death), it is little wonder that an inflated degree of mythology surrounds this notorious futuristic drama. Dramatised from the 1962 Anthony Burgess novella about anarchic yobs ("droogs") in a dystopian future, it was shocking then and it's shocking today, particularly the scenes of rape and sadistic "ultraviolence" in the first half. Burgess and Kubrick may have been making intellectual points about the state and free will ? Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is brainwashed into submission in the film's more ponderous second half ? but the film doesn't quite live up to the masterpiece status that unattainability has bestowed on it. Fascinating and prescient, yes, and its moral ambiguity is brave, but it's really only essential viewing for cineastes and film students.

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Filmed in: 1971

[Basic_man]

This move is so freak !

[DVTimes]

wow people watching a clockwork orange for the first time in 2005 , amazing ,


were you born in 1990 ??

How did you see it?

It was removed till 2000.

[Fake Nick]

How did you see it?

It was removed till 2000.

I wasn't born in 1990

[mortenb]

How did you see it?

It was removed till 2000.

It is a great movie. One of those movies that you just have to have in your collection. Even though it was not available on the normal market it was pretty easy to find used copies for a reasonable price.

[MacDaddyPlaya]

One of the best ever, a true classic. Gene Kelly's singing in the rain can't hold a candle to our boy Alex.

"No time for the ole in out love, just come to check the meter."

[GatorB]

Never seen it, but noticed that wal-mart was selling in a pack of 3 with 2001 A Space Odessy and the Shinning for $30 or something like that.

[basschick]

i love clockwork orange. it's beautiful and terrible, and very fucking intense. i saw it in 1972 with performance - great double feature!

btw, many of the expressions, like droogs, are bastardized russian. perhaps the england in clockwork orange was taken over by russia, or perhaps they mingled, but the book doesn't explain this - which made it more interesting.

[ssp]

It's on of my favourite movies. Let's do the ol' in-out on some devotchka's later on this notchky!

[Peaches]

I know for sure I tried watching it in the early-mid 80's. Not sure where we got a copy of it, but it was there! Couldn't get into it at all. Maybe I should try it again, but SK's movies have never been favorites of mine.

[Marie]

Intense, that's the right word. Great movie!

[Sarah_Jayne]

try living on the estate where it was filmed. You know the bit where they kill the old man in the garages? Yeah well, I have to walk through that everytime I come home late at night.

[Rick Latona]

I was watching A Clockwork Orange last night.

What an amazing film. I cannot believe it was filmed in 1971, as some senses look like it could have been filmed last year.

The book was really disturbing. That scene where he is with those two girls in his bedroom was actually a rape scene with two 13 year-olds in the book.

[fl_prn_str]

one of Kubricks best.

[nastysam]

I feel curiosity now. Gonna have to look for that MV.

[escorpio]

How did you see it?

It was removed till 2000.

It was never removed in the U.S.

[Tim]

What is unnerving is the method used to reform him from being a criminal, and the way its dealt with politically. I see this in today's Labour government.

Spot on

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Great and disturbing movie. I saw it at an art movie house in the 80's and bought a VHS of it years ago.

Here is a good summary from imdb:

Alex, a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political prisoners. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure. A pivotal moment is when he and his gang break into an author's home: the book he is writing (called "A Clockwork Orange") is a plea against the use of aversion therapy, on the grounds that it turns people into Clockwork Oranges (Ourang is Malay for "Man"): they are not being good from choice (sentiments later echoed by the prison chaplain). The film reflects this: many bad scenes in a Clockwork Orange are accompanied by jolly music; if we are to experience them as we should, we have to do it consciously, by realising they are bad, and not because the director tells us so through the use of music and images.

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[Dina_C9]

a classic

[Manowar]

awesome film.

[Buzz]

did you ever payed attention to the furniture and decorations used in the movie?
it's sold in ikea nowadays

[Violetta]

A good movie indeed! And there is also a porn version: A clockwork ORGY! Good one too!

[Jakke PNG]

[Peter Romero]

Great movie

[DVTimes]

http://www.clockworkorange.com/

[Chio The Pirate]

YARGH! I be singin' in me rain.

[Damian_Maxcash]

My little claim to fame is I had dinner with Kubrick back in the late 80s

It was a waste when I think about it - I was about 18 and had never seen or had any interest in seeing his films - He could have been anybody

[mech]

How did you see it?

It was removed till 2000.

It was only "banned" in the UK by Kubrick himself after he received death threats when it was initially released. After he died his family made it available in the UK again.

[gh0st]

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[facialfreak]

A great film indeed ... disturbing, but great!

[aaron]

fuuuuuuuuuuck yeah

[Marcus Aurelius]

A bit of the ultra violence aye?

[Steve]

How did you see it?

It was removed till 2000.

Land Of The Free
this film is all over cable tv channels

[TheJimmy]

have owned a copy for ages, it's a classic without question...


love the milk bar!

[GiantGnome]

Malcolm McDowell is and will always be one of the very best actors around.

[zvik]

Defiantly one of the best movies ever, they don't make them anymore.... Maybe still the Cohen brothers can produce something good but these are different styles...

Or maybe trainspotting was a bit similar

anyway lets drink for that movie!
I saw it a few weeks ago

[SykkBoy]

one of my all time favorites
the political commentary holds up even today (especially today)

I used to have a website bookmarked that had sort of a dictionary for the movie, but lost the bookmark...

[SykkBoy]

found it
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acad...74/nadsat.html

[wimpy]

I surprised no one posted this tidbit:

The story of Frank's wife getting raped was based on something that happened to the author Anthony Burgess; his wife was raped by 4 GIs during WWII, causing her to have a miscariage.

I always thought it was Kubrick's wife, but I googled it.

[JSA Matt]

[digi]

Ive been wanting to get this on DVD for a while now, never got around to it. It has one of the best opening scenes ever in a movie

[Zoe_Zoebaboe]

The poster is huge! Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite movies and books

[jonesy]

Unseen between 1974 (when Stanley Kubrick himself quietly withdrew it) and 2000 (after his death),

WTF are you talking about?

i bought that yrs ago on video before dvd - its been on the market for yrs

[jonesy]

WTF are you talking about?

i bought that yrs ago on video before dvd - its been on the market for yrs

sorry about that didnt know about the UK -thought you were refering to amaerica