A clockwork orange

i have only seen parts of it and i found it really confusing.....didnt seem to have a plot or anything....i guess that must be something a lot of people like about it

 

Check it out on IMDB there is some cool trivia. I really liked the movie, but I read the book when i was around 14 so I don't really recall it. I guess it was not that great because i can't really remember it. It was one of those rebellious things you read in high school to say you did. I am sure I would feel differently if I read it again tomorrow.

 

confusing, no plot.... dude are you watching the right moive?

 

i have to read the book. I tried to read it in swedish but it was kinda childish. Like how the translate drougs: drougisar. If you speak swedesh you really must hate that.

 

herd it was a good movie

 

ACO is on HBO or Cinemax (cant remember which one) so I'll be checking that out. I havent seen it in a long time. Good movie.

 

i was sure i already posted in this thread, but it must be a new one...

i hated the movie, loved the book. loved, loved, loved the book. i thought the movie was pitiful compared to the book. also, this definetly isn't a film that you can watch before reading the book. you'd miss alot of the story, and not really understand what was going on, i'd think. the NADSAT language is just too complex, and it took me a couple of re-reads of some parts of it, just to understand what he meant. (that, and i had a NADSAT dictionary my gfs brother printed off the net.)

 

Very weird, but good film. It's typical Stanley Kubrick style -- lots of symbolism and weird camera angles. I would definitely say that it's worth watching.

 

Amazing movie.

About the Spielberg remake- there was a (very funny) satirical piece floating around about Spielberg making a sequel to A Clockwork Orange. A lot of people either took it seriously or didn't read it all the way through, and a rumor started making the rounds of an actual sequel or remake. I don't have a link to the original article but someone on another message board posted the text, so I'll copy/paste it for all you cool people. Enjoy.




Los Angeles - Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg took an enormous chance in the summer of 2001 by releasing his version of AI, a project left unfinished by equally famous director Stanley Kubrick after his death in 1999. Although critically savaged and popularly snubbed, Spielberg has gone on the record as stating that he felt that he preserved Kubrick's vision, based on conversations they had before Kubrick's demise. To that end, Spielberg announced today that he was writing and directing the official sequel to Kubrick's adaptation of A Clockwork Orange.

"I know Stanley isn't here to argue the righteousness of this decision, but I'm reasonably sure that he wouldn't say a word if he was here right now. Even if he was, it's not like I'm thinking of doing a sequel to 2001. I've got an Oscar: I don't do follow-ups to Peter Hyams movies for anything."

In keeping with his tradition of working with young actors, Another Clockwork Orange stars Haley Joel Osment as Skiffy, a troubled youth with a heart of gold who finds the temptation to push society's buttons at every opportunity. "Lighting flaming bags of doggie doo, setting off firecrackers in mailboxes, and mooning the little old ladies across the way, " said Spielberg. Sent off to teen boot camp for smashing pumpkins at Halloween, he confronts Alex, the troubled youth from the original film, now twenty years older and working as director of the boot camp. When boot camp doctors want to reprise Alex's controversial and experimental psychiatric treatment after Skiffy starts a fatal food fight, Alex fights to preserve Skiffy's freedom of choice, and ultimately adopts the boy as his own.

"It's actually a quite affirming story, " Spielberg said. "In the sequel, we see Alex all grown up and regretful of his wanton ways in his youth, and when he sees the opportunity to mentor and protect a child going in the same direction that he did, he naturally wants to step in. I wanted to get Malcolm McDowell to reprise his role, but he had problems with the group shower scene at the boot camp, so we're in the process of casting an appropriate Alex. I'd like to give it to Michael Jackson: he's baaaad. But I'll take Sting if I have to."

Response from the film community was swift and terrible. Video critic Aaron Davis, long an opponent of Spielberg's serious films (and of his frivolous films, for that matter) excused himself, and then plucked his eyeballs out with two grapefruit spoons. Afterwards, he said "Why? WHY! Why couldn't he have done this to Barry Lyndon? Nobody remembers the original; why would they care about a sequel?" The response of other individuals and publications was equally corrosive, except for one unnamed group that only went by the initials "NAMBLA". "We like all of Spielberg's movies, " a press release from group spokesman "Kinko the Kid-Loving Clown" said, "really really."

In unrelated news, a team of physicists have been dispatched to the site of Kubrick's crematory urn, where strange phenomena were noted the moment Spielberg made his announcement. According to reports, the contents of the urn started revolving at such high speed that the urn levitated and started showing effects of time-space dilation as detailed in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Spokespeople had no comment about the phenomena, but one of the physicists was heard to say "Man, he's pissed. We should be thankful he's spinning in an urn instead of a coffin." Reports that similar phenomena were seen at the gravesite of Anthony Burgess, the author of the original novel, could not be confirmed at press time.

 

i agree with inbloom, read the book before you see the movie, unfortunately i didnt, so when i read it, i was having the movie in my mind and i dont think i got a real grip of what the book meant, but still enjoyed it and since i was reading so much of it at once, i caught myself saying moloko instead of milk a few times, and when i said devotchka in english class, my teacher bursts out laughing saying "i cant believe you know what that is!!!" it made for a great conversation after class

 

dont run around and hate things =)

 

I saw it last night and I hated it. I saw no point to it at all. It was hard to understand, had a stupid ending and a stupid plot. Maybe the book is better. I don't know. Maybe I'll read it and see, but the movie blows.

 

one of the greatest movies i ever saw and one of the greatest books i ever read. Stanley Kubrick was a genius.

 

poetic justice comes to mind.

 

Amazing film.

 

I agree that ACO is a great movie... probably my favorite of all time. Stanley Kubrick is a god among men.

 

Stanley Kubrick is an incredibly skilled director and screenwriter and

 

Stanley Kubrick is an incredibly skilled director and screenwriter and A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorites by him (I like Barry Lyndon and 2001: A Space Odyssey just a little bit more). I like the book more, but only a little bit more.

 

it's an enjoyable movie and i love that it's such a weird movie. actually saw the infamous real alex, or the man that played him in philly a few months back.. they were giving an award to him. it was fun..

 

When me and some friends first watched this in jr. high, we thought it was funniest movie ever. Liked it so much I created a role-playing game based on it.