A Clockwork Orange...

[Snow Patrol]

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[mrmcfister]

Thought it was cutting edge in the 70s... today it is very very tame.

[max_tranmere]

I might try and watch it through to the end next time it's on, it's not that I find the violence disturbing it's just that those scenes are hardly entertaining and show a kind of sadistic cruelness. Also the film was very weird. I read that a lot of it was filmed in Thamesmead, which to you non-Londoners is one of (many) South London neighbourhoods that you wouldn't walk around in the daytime let alone at night.

Thamesmead, one of those post-war mistakes that everyone now regrets. I'm surprsied this person didn't have their camera nicked:

[max_tranmere]

I'm surprised this person made it home alive:

[one eyed jack]

Absolutely love A Clockwork Orange because it was a movie from the 70's done well.

I've never seen Barry Lyndon but I think everything that Kubrick did was great.

His intelligence shines through and his story telling was simple rather than the style over content that seems to dominate cinema today.

[steve56]

Straw Dogs/Soldier Blue were the banned ones ,Im sure SB was shown on tv a few years back.

[andy at handiwork]

If ever a film deserved the comment 'Every frame a Rembrandt' then its Barry Lyndon. A ravishingly beautiful piece, only marred by bad casting and funereal pace.

[beutelwolf]

What you have to remember that by the time the film came out the public had just got used to the idea of a flawed hero, like Don Siegel's Dirty Harry. Alex was something entirely different altogether.

Moreover, it was also stylistically a revelation, cinematography, sets, and music. We just had never seen anything like it - I did see it in a cinema in the 1970s and it just blew me away, and only very few films ever did.

The violence in the film is meant to be disturbing, as violence in the films SHOULD. Regarding the gay insinuations, I have to say that you are way too sensitive here....

[max_tranmere]

Stanley Kubrick (if I've spelt his name correctly) was certainly an alternative director, he had a unique way of doing things, and I do like some of his other movies. This one though I wasn't really into, maybe I'll force myself to watch the whole thing next time it's on with a view and hope of being pleasantly surprised.