Guest Angle-plex Report post Posted October 6, 2002 Can someone please tell me what this film is like? I've been wanting to rent it since I have heard it was pretty good, but I have no idea what it's about. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest godthedog Report post Posted October 6, 2002 it's a pretty bitchin flick. kubrick gets carried away sometimes (i.e., gets too focused on details and bores the viewer), but it's all worth it for the last half hour, which is flat-out awesome cinema. pick it up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Incandenza Report post Posted October 6, 2002 I first saw it when I was 18, and it was the film that made me realize movies could be ART. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Angle-plex Report post Posted October 6, 2002 Ok, so between A Clockwork Orange and Natural Born Killers (Which I've also never seen), which should I pick? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Incandenza Report post Posted October 6, 2002 Orange. I never could stand Killers, but you might wanna check that out at some point, anyway. Most people either really love it or really hate it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Angle-plex Report post Posted October 6, 2002 Is Orange pretty heavy on the sex/nudity (I want to make sure I can watch it with the people that will be with me tonight)? I heard that it was rated X at first. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Incandenza Report post Posted October 6, 2002 Well, I wouldn't watch it with the easily offended. Same goes with NBK. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest razazteca Report post Posted October 6, 2002 where to start? Alex is the main character who is a teenage gang leader that runs around the town causing Ultra Violence on the innocient elderly, homeless and looking for a good time with the ladies. Well after a home invasion Alex gets arrested and sent to jail then discovers religion only to get on the good side of the establishment then volunteer for a experienmental government cure. The experienment goes all wrong and Alex becomes a helpless homeless screwup with some series problems as he is unable to defend himself. one of Kubrick better films its a must see Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Angle-plex Report post Posted October 6, 2002 Eh. Maybe I'll watch it just to offend them anyways. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest razazteca Report post Posted October 6, 2002 it does involve some nudity and a rape scene so make sure your company can handle it. alot of violence and sex, but not hardcore in & out action that you would see in a Ron Jermany film. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Some Guy Report post Posted October 6, 2002 I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain. What a wonderful feeling, I'm hap-hap-happy again. If you like the "ultra-violence" and the "old in-out" then you'll like this movie, if you don;t you won't. The look on the old guy's face when he realizes who is in his house taking a bath still freaks me out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ravenbomb Report post Posted October 6, 2002 Clockwork Orange is totally Crazy Go Nuts Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest razazteca Report post Posted October 6, 2002 it also features HHH 1st theme song....... Even in the movies HHH drives people crazy righty righty govner Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest El Satanico Report post Posted October 7, 2002 I heard that it was rated X at first. Well X wasn't always used for just porn. Back then it was like NC-17. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Youth N Asia Report post Posted October 7, 2002 It would have been an X if that was the case...Midnight Cowboy was given an X afterall...I think it was an R though... righty righty govner That always gives me a laugh. Fuck Natural Born Killers...Clockwork is the way to go Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest evenflowDDT Report post Posted October 7, 2002 I heard that it was rated X at first. Well X wasn't always used for just porn. Back then it was like NC-17. Yea, Robocop's original cut was also given an X rating I believe. Why don't they use the X rating anymore? Everything's either R and cut to ribbons or "unrated". I can't even name any films other than Showgirls to have the lame NC-17 rating anyway. Oh yea, Clockwork Orange is the best film adaptation of a novel I've seen, even if said novel is the American version with a much different ending. Its also a very good film in general, although there are some scenes of rape and violence, there isn't anything I'd really call gratuitous... maybe I just need to get resensitized. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ravenbomb Report post Posted October 7, 2002 I dunno about best novel adaptation, wasn't Godfather a novel adaptation? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ozymandias Report post Posted October 7, 2002 Yep. I'd say Godfather or Jaws were the best adaptions ever. ACR was a brilliant book, so making a brilliant movie out of it isn't as much of a stretch. EDIT: Though I suppose it may be easier to make a great movie from a mediocre book than it is to make a great film from a great book, because there is less to screw up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest El Satanico Report post Posted October 7, 2002 Well, they don't use X anymore because NC-17 is X now. You don't see many NC-17 movies, because it's the kiss of death and most major chain theaters will not accept them at all anymore. I believe unrated movies happen when a movie isn't turned into the MPAA. It probably also happens when they refuse to listen to MPAA and won't edit the movie or take a nc-17 rating. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ozymandias Report post Posted October 7, 2002 Before anyone asks, the reason they replaced "X" with "NC-17" is to distinguish movies from porno which is what people think of when they hear "X-rated".. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest evenflowDDT Report post Posted October 7, 2002 I dunno about best novel adaptation, wasn't Godfather a novel adaptation? Yea, but I've never read The Godfather so if I throw around a term like "greatest adaptation ever" I wouldn't know what I was talking about. Plus, I watched Jaws for the first time the other night and I was really just bored to tears. Plus the shark was really lame, they shouldn't have showed it near the end at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ozymandias Report post Posted October 7, 2002 I watched Jaws for the first time the other night and I was really just bored to tears. Plus the shark was really lame, they shouldn't have showed it near the end at all. *picks up a board with a nail through it* GET HIM! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest godthedog Report post Posted October 7, 2002 i think 'touch of evil' tops 'godfather' and 'clockwork orange', and welles didn't have a best-seller or a seminal work of literature to draw from, just a crappy little pulp novel. EDIT: come to think of it, 'vertigo' was based on a novel too, and that's an even better movie. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Incandenza Report post Posted October 7, 2002 Before anyone asks, the reason they replaced "X" with "NC-17" is to distinguish movies from porno which is what people think of when they hear "X-rated".. And NC-17 wound up getting stigmatized, anyway. Fucking MPAA and fucking Jack Valenti. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest El Satanico Report post Posted October 7, 2002 I watched Jaws for the first time the other night and I was really just bored to tears. Plus the shark was really lame, they shouldn't have showed it near the end at all. *picks up a board with a nail through it* GET HIM! Well he IS right about the Shark being sorta lame looking and that the movie would've been better if we never actually saw the shark. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted October 7, 2002 It was 1975 that's the best they could do with a fake shark. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest El Satanico Report post Posted October 7, 2002 Yeah but the qaulity of the shark isn't really point. There was really no reason to show the shark in the first place. All the suspense was already built up and the absence of a minute of shark footage wouldn't have hurt it. Also sometimes the best monster is the one you never see. Now i shall blame Jaws for breeding generations of movies goers who NEED to see the monster for it to be a good ending. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted October 7, 2002 The best part of Jaws isn't the shark. It's performances. Schneider, Shaw, and Dreyfeuss all do a great job in the movie. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest C.H.U.D. Report post Posted October 7, 2002 I'll take Jaws over A Clockwork Orange any day, although I like both films. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest kkktookmybabyaway Report post Posted October 7, 2002 "I watched Jaws for the first time the other night and I was really just bored to tears. Plus the shark was really lame, they shouldn't have showed it near the end at all." Those final scenes with the shark getting blown up would have been interesting if we didn't see it... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
