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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:21 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:43 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:57 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:40 pm
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Ah... A Clockwork Orange. This is one of those movies that you have to see multiple times to truly understand and enjoy. It's like the sushi of cinema - it's an aquired taste. The first time I saw A Clockwork Orange I was like "WTF. What did I just watch?" Then I saw it a second time, and I was like "Alright, I understand now." And then after the third time, I was convinced that this was one of the best movies ever made.
But looking back now, and having just recently rewatched it again, I see that compared to other distopian future society movies, it seems to be lacking slightly. The book is definately amazing, and the satire is just astounding and mind blowing. But the movie seems to fall under the classic Kubrick pretension curse. I mean, don't get me wrong, Kubrick is a great filmmaker, and in his 40 year career he never made a bad movie, but I always find that his movies say "Yeah. We're being smart and provocative, and we know it." Kubrick was a filmmaker who was ahead of his times, and the industry should be thankful for the advances that he allowed.
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:52 pm
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I had to read the book my freshman year of college for a class. It's a very hard read, and I would recommend downloading and printing out a Nadsat dictionary before reading it. The book is written in Nadsat, which is the slang of the book. And when I say all of it, I mean all of it! If you don't have that printed out dictionary in front of you, you'll get to the end of the first paragraph and say to yourself, "what on earth did I just read?"
With that said, I am not suprised that Stanly Kubrick filmed it. Personally, I think he concentrated more on the sex of the film than the story. For example, when Alex takes the two girls back to his place and screws the heck out of them, that could have been taken out in exchange for something more pertinent to the story. He also added much more sex to the movie than was there in the book. All be it, there was sex and rape in the book, but Kubrick went overboard with the sex parts in the book. Watching that movie makes me wonder how many hard ons he would get on set.
I wasn't impressed. IEditYourWorld
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:06 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:11 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:39 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:55 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:59 am
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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:49 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:04 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:54 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:18 am
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