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Summary: best
Review: seee this movie. good movie. great movie. i luv it. "time for a bit of the old ultra-violence!"
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Summary: viddy well, o my brothers, viddy well...
Review: you can't give this movie anything BUT 5 stars! i saw this movie after reading the excellent novel by anthony burgess, then ran out and bought it inside a week. well worth it!!! it's the misadventures of little alex burgess/de large [he's called both things in the movie...weird, ne?], a compulsively violent teddy-boy in imaginary 90s england [yes everyone, that's supposed to be the 90s!]. the biggest twist of the story is the way it forces you to just love and accept alex. if you saw the movie from any other point of view, you'd hate his sodding guttiwuts, but by experiencing it with him, you feel sympathy for him as dim smashes a milkbottle over his gulliver, rather than feel sorry for the rape and gang violence victims in the early parts of the movie. but after watching this, you'll definitly come out a little droog ~
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Summary: Best Kubrik Ever
Review: Why do people think that this is a bad movie? They say that they don't like the pointless violence, even though that was the point, and the art in the movie was terrible, but once again, that was the point. Others say that it has no plot. To them I ask, have you even seen the movie? Plot: Group of kids go around commiting acts of violence for fun. The book explains this much more than the movie. To clarify for people, they are doing this because they enjoy it. Some question why, but they say, nobody questions good so why question evil? Alex gets caught by the police, is sent to jail, goes through a rehabilitation that makes him incaible of even thinking violent thoughts without feeling sick. This movie shows, later, how dark society and government is, as several people use Alex, and his story to give them political power, and eventually try to provoke him into killing himself so that they can use his death in a story to overthrow the existing government. It uses classical music in the scenes where Alex attacks his friends, fights another group of kids, nearly kills himself, kills the cat woman, and he sings singin in the rain while beating a man, and forcing him to watch his wife be raped, to desensitize you to what they are doing. Another thing I love about this, is that even today this is such an offensive movie to people. I love how this movie portrays the media, society, government, and shows Evil in a new light than how society sees it, which is why it's still so offensive. Bad things are done, graphic immages are shown, but they go to show a message about good, evil, and society, which is why I love this movie so much.
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Summary: One of the best films ever
Review: I first saw ACO when I was 13, and it mesmerized me. Unlike many films that I saw at that age, it made me go out and buy the novel and read it ! The visions of Stanley Kubrick (who is without question one of, if not the greatest director of our time) are compelling, vivid and often darkly humorous. The rape scene near the start of the film is truly disturbing...not for being graphic, but for the depiction of Alex's enjoyment of the violence and mayhem he distributes on his victims. A fan of the bizarre and out-of-the-ordinary will like this film. Those who are offended by violence and sex in film should NOT see this picture. In reality, the scene most disturbing to me is when Alex is forced to listen to Beethoven after his "treatment", and the music which he once loved is now killing him. A very powerful picture...my only complaint with the package is the sound! Why was this not remastered in Dolby 5.1? It would have been AWESOME ! The scores to all of Kubrick's films are great, and ACO is one of the best of the lot.
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Summary: Ultraviolence done to a tee
Review: Stanley Kubrick to film is like Jesus to Christianity...ok, maybe taking it a bit to far...but the man is amazing, brilliant, and dead. I just wish he could have finished AI, now that sap-master Steven Spielberg has taken over production, it is bound to be so-so, when it could have been a masterpiece...you dig? Spielberg's only film worth mentioning is Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He makes hits, not good movies.But back to the review. Malcolm McDowell is the broody, violent, intense, teenage sociopath Alex in Kubrick's film adaptation of Burgess' famous novel "A Clockwork Orange." With his droogs (georgie boy et al) he involves himself over-mischievious acts of "ultraviolence," rape, drinking laced milk, and listening to the beloved Beethoven. Set to an amazing classical score rearranged with synthesizers to portray the dark, knee-book reality that is Alex's life, we are swept into this dark world that Burgess has created and Kubrick brings to life. I will never listen to Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" the same again. Some people may say that after he is "reformed" the movie turns slow, but I believe it is brilliant. And to everyone who believes that this movie is way too disturbing, grow a pair. Kubrick lives!!!
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Summary: Cult Film
Review: This is a Cult film that explores a troubled young cynical adult. Character development in this film is good and the DVD Quality is very good. This is not a story for the faint of heart or people who are offended easily. There are a few rape scenes that some people will find very offensive.
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Summary: DISTURBINGLY BRILLIANT
Review: The essence of Stanley Kubrick's visionary CLOCKWORK ORANGE is that people come with their own natures - and where, amidst the depravity of a changing world, is morality if not within the individual himself??? As played on the screen, this idea takes shape in a futuristic world where a band of intelligent savages play out their most violent fantasies in life. You will find it hard to look and listen to some of this film, but if you go with Kubrick's vision, you will be rewarded with a brutal slam to the head -- one that shakes up your way of thinking and opens your mind. As a teenager I was haunted by the images in this film for years; as an adult, I appreciate the mastery of Kubrick's touch -- he never manipulates; he almost defies you to pay attention. Stick with it (with no kids around) -- it's cathartic.
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Summary: Kubrick's best
Review: Stanley Kubrick was a master of cinema. I feel this is his best work. (yes, even better than Dr. Strangelove)
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Summary: Shocking for its time
Review: This movie about a bunch of white gangsters is probably the only one that was out in the 70's. Stanley Kubrick was well known after writing this masterpiece. I can't compare this movie to any other because there are no movies about futuristic gangsters. Its just amazing. A story about a boy who has a violent head and still appreciates the art of music like mozart and beethoven. Then getting caught commiting a crime, going to jail and then totally turning from evil to good... then he goes through another process again from going from good to evil. Its very interesting.
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Summary: Kubrick's Classic
Review: Director Stanley Kubrick's masterful satire on crime and punishment in the ultra-violent future. Excellent performance by McDowell as the murderous misfit captured and reprogrammed by the equally sadistic government. Based on the prescient novel by Anthony Burgess. In the Britain of the near future, a sadistic punk leads a gang on nightly rape and murder sprees, then is captured and becomes the subject of a grim experiment to eradicate his violent tendencies in this extraordinary adaptation of Anthony Burgess's controversial novel. The film is an exhilarating experience, with an outstanding performance by McDowell as the funny, fierce psychopath. Many memorable, disturbing sequences including a rape conducted while assailant McDowell belts "Singing in the Rain." Truly outstanding, provocative work from master filmmaker Kubrick.
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