A Clockwork Orange?

[XemaSab]

:shrug:

Please read all the choices before responding.

[IzaSparrow]

1. I voted ok...

I did feel kind of awkward while watching it. I was in JH and didn't really know what to think.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Xema!

I voted other...

I've only seen a little bit, and I thought it was awful!

I have NO desire to see any more of it, EVAH!

Oh, and BTW...I'm female...:P


:hi:

[XemaSab]

8. This was inspired by your post in the "horrible movie" thread...

This may be the ONE film that just NAUSEATED me. Like, really.

[Capn Sunshine]

22. I liked it better after ten years

The first time I thought it was pretty gratuitous, but with a longer view the message seemed better.

[Ptah]

3. ewww

I am male and I found it VERY uncomfortable to sit through... I did NOT enjoy it at all

:scared:

[ghostsofgiants]

4. I thought it was great.

Loves me some Kubrick.

[tigereye]

11. we just saw a great Kubrick documentary and were thinking about a

Kubrick film fest in house. Amazing man. Brilliant.



They we watched Scorsese's doc. about how he was influenced by Italian pre and post war cinema. fascinating.

[ghostsofgiants]

23. I picked up that Kubrick box set that Warner put out a few months back.

Came with 2001, Clockwork, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut and Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures, plus bonus discs for 2001, Clockwork, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. Pretty awesome box set.

[DarkTirade]

5. None of those quite fit for me.

I found it to be uncomfortable and hard to watch... but I didn't think it was a bad movie because of that.

Kinda the opposite of how some movies can be stupid fun movies.

[DarkTirade]

17. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it again

but I intend to at some point, just to see it from a different perspective now that I've seen it once already.

Who knows, I may end up liking it or hating it if I see it again. :shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. I had the same reaction...

I thought the movie was well done; but I don't have any wish to see it again. It turned my stomach.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. Male/terrific.

I am also a terrific male. :P

[The Magistrate]

7. Great Book, Ma'am, But A Ghastly Movie

I would go out of my way to avoid seeing it a second time, after seeing back on its first run. Mr. Kubrick had a bit too much fun making the thing, in my view....

[edbermac]

9. Great book, great movie.

Great direction by Kubrick, great acting by McDowell.

[Aristus]

10. I thought it was a great film.

Great films don't necessarily have to be easy to sit through. I wonder if the level of discomfort people experience when watching it is related in any way to the fact that the society depicted in the film is not too far removed from our own.

The Minister of the Interior described perfectly our own real-life approach to "punishing" criminals: "Lock them all up together, and you get concentrated criminality; crime in the midst of punishment".

[blueraven95]

28. I agreecompletely

Difficult film to watch, but often the best ones are.

[PassingFair]

12. I am a female. It was a terrific film...

AND it was uncomfortable to sit through.

:hi:

[Rhythm]

13. I found it completely fascinating...

Saw it the first time while still in high school... watched it with some friends one afternoon.

Amazing how something so disturbing and compelling can keep a half-dozen teenagers completely silent for over 2 hours.

[Robeson]

14. Other. I watched it doing two hits of acid, waaayyy back in the day when I ...

...did such things. Under that influence at the time, the movie was mind bending, and a great experience. I'll leave the battle of sexes to others....

[XemaSab]

21. It's not about the battle of the sexes per se

It's about the PERSONAL reaction different genders had to the film.

[BlooInBloo]

15. The best combination-disturbing -and-good movie ever....

Only Requiem competes in that uber-specific category, to my mind.

When I think of disturbing songs, I thing Country Death Song (femmes). When I think disturbing movies, I think Clockwork Orange.

Biggest issue (quietly) raised by the story: Is the cure worse than the disease, or not?

[begin_within]

16. You'd have to foricbly stretch my eyelids open to get me to watch it again.

I found it stupid.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

19. OTHER

I am female :hi:

I thought it was an excellent film for its time and genre.

I was uncomfortable through parts of it due to violence. I am quite squeamish when it comes to torture and violent scenes in any movie so this is no surprise

I thought the acting and characterizations reflected Kubrick's vision.

I met Kubrick and discussed this very topic. What he told me in a nutshell; He wanted a very surreal feel which he sought to obtain by visual effects, i.e. using bright color and by directing the manic acting.

It is not the kind of movie that has broad appeal but it is in my opinion artistic and not without merit.

Would I want to sit through it over and over?

No.

BUT, if I were to teach a class in film making, I would use it as an assignment piece because I think it draws deep emotional response from the audience.

That is all.

[DainBramaged]

20. First Kubrick film I ever saw

Went to NYC to see it with friends WAY back when it first came out. I remember thinking at the time, "Man this is what a bad acid trip is all about".

I loved it. And now Malcolm McDowell is in Hero's all old looking like me.

[OmahaBlueDog]

24. It's a very good film

It's designed to make one uncomfortable.

If I'd been presented the book in 1969, I'd have told you it was unfilmable. I think Kubrick did a great job bringing it to the screen.

I'm male, I'm 42, I saw the movie in rep theatre in '82 or '83 (so I was like 17). I had read the book, and I later read the so-called "lost chapter" in Rolling Stone.

About 10 years ago, I was listening to Alastair Cook talking about having interviewed Anthony Burgess. Burgess (whose writing of the book was based, in part, on the rape and murder of his own wife during the Blitz), according to Cook, came to regret having written ACO.

[hunter]

25. How it is properly viewed...

No thank you.

After that and Eraserhead, I'll stick with light romantic comedies, please.

[Iggo]

26. Kinda scared me when I was a kid.

Now I think it's great.

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Just a note: Of COURSE it was uncomfortable to sit through. That's kinda the whole point.

[Book Lover]

29. Despite the poor script, self-absorbed direction, and adequate acting, it is a necessary film

for people to have seen. Once. Read the book first.

[mitchum]

30. It's Kubrick's only good movie, but the novel is better