A Clockwork Orange

Rating:
Summary: Poor Brits
Review: I am one of those poor British people who has a problem with this film in that our short sited censors in the UK have banned A Clockwork Orange from being sold here. Maybe they had a point when it first came out but society changes, however it seems the censors do not seem to.

I would dearly love for Amazon to sell a PAL version for the unfortunate and deprived UK audience.

Rating:
Summary: Awesome ultaviolence!
Review: Every day is a good day for the old ultra-violence.

Rating:
Summary: Droogs Don't Run
Review: Stanley has created another fantastical world in 'A Clockwork Orange'. This movie has to be one of the best sci-fi movie in existence, though it is not recommended for sensitive audiences. Basically, Alex, the main character, is a youth heading in the wrong direction. A life or crime and rape finalizes in a murder which sends our Alex to prison. Eager to escape the walls that contain him, he manages to enroll as a guinea pig in a new procedure that is said to turn criminals into upright citizens (thus easing the already overcrowded prisons). After the completion of the procedure, he is set free in a world that is out for revenge...and he is helpless. The story ends in a very intelligent and humourous finale (watch to find out). This movie is original, intelligent, and should be viewed as a work of art and pure genious!

Rating:
Summary: Another Genius Turn for Kubrick
Review: I'm glad to see that this film is still getting a lot of attention. So many of the noteworthy movies of the 70's (a great era for American cinema) have fallen by the cultural wayside. This is Kubrick's masterful interpretation of Burgess' controversial, difficult brainchild. Burgess envisioned a polyglot, dystopian future, an amalgam of Huxley, Golding, Orwell and Mad Max. Kubrick took the raw bones of the narrative and fashioned an entirely self-contained work of art. I couldn't get over, when first viewing this film on a wide screed, upon its initial release, the incredible clarity and crispness of the print. It was like seeing an entirely new kind of movie. There was a bright, distinct aura to it, unlike anything I've seen before or since. It has to be one of the most carefully controlled and executed pieces of filmmaking ever executed. Every frame, every bit of business, every prop, every line, is perfectly realized. I to this day can't comprehend the kind of artistic rigor and planning that went into creating this masterwork. There isn't a wasted shot or a throwaway line in the entire film. It is perfectly sequential. It is the essence of intelligence in combination with artistry.

Many reviewers have commented on Malcom McDowell's uncanny performance and I would agree that he is brilliant as are all cast members. I would beg to differ that this was his debut, however. If I am not mistaken, he had already starred in Lindsay Anderson's potent portrait of youthful rebellion, "If." I notice, as an aside, that "If" is not listed on Amazon and I wonder if that has anything to do with Littleton and other recent school tragedies. The subject matter of that film has to do with a group of students who go on a shooting rampage in an English public (US private) school.

I would love to see Clockwork Orange on a large screen again. Kubrick was one of the true geniuses of American and British cinema and his talents are already sorely missed. He did pretty well for a kid from Brooklyn.

Rating:
Summary: Enjoy it me DROOGS
Review: Violence, sex, and drugs a must have in any movie...joking this disturbing little film tells the tale of one young (the movie doesn't tell how old, in the book I think it's 15) man who takes pleasure in every thing our society has deemed "inappropriate".

His gang takes their nightly constitutionals looking for "A bit of the ultra Violence" as they put it. This consists of the three things I mentioned at the top. On one such evening they find a particularly nasty bit o' the ultra violence, raping and murdering a woman. Alex, the lead, is left by his droogies (gang) and arrested. He is of course convicted and sentenced, but whilst serving his sentence he is informed of a way to get out within two weeks and without knowing how, what, why, or where he jumps at the opportunity.

Little did he know he would be subjected to a series of film clips portraying rape, murder, etc. The clips are played with Beethoven as the soundtrack, which was always his favorite composer this added to his trouble. Now I will stop to prevent from blowing the movie.

To wrap things up: great acting, great script, and hauntingly terrific music.

Rating:
Summary: Way ahead of it's time and a great classic
Review: The futuristic settings that are laughable by today's standards set the scene for a Kubrick masterpiece. This film was very controversial and as a result, alot of people turned their noses up at it. What a shame, as the story is as relevant now even more so as it was back then. We see the breakdown of society where young hoodlums prey upon the old and weak. The government must decide what to do about the crime and the solution they come up with should scare the daylights out of any thinking person; mind control/manipulation. Kubrick's masterful use of classical music throughout enhanced this unforgettable film. The acting is superb, Malcolm McDowell is at his sinister best and the message the film sends us better wake us up before it's too late.

Rating:
Summary: naranja mecanica., una de las mejores peliculas que he visto
Review: la naranja mecanica, como se subtitulo en espanol es una de las mejores peliculas que he visto. se trata de un grupo de jovenes descarriados que van por la ciudad haciendo desastres. no les voy a contar la historia, pero la sociedad que en ella se describe es una sociedad aopocaliptica en la cual se vive al borde, nuestro heroe o deb decir antiheroe es sometido a un experimento para reformarlo y lo logran pero lo dejan inhabilitado de escuchar musica, ya que el tratamiento de rechazo sicologico que se le impuso iba acompanado de musica clasica. es increible esta pelicula, esta descripcion tan morbida, tan pervertida y acertada de nuestra sociedad o lo que podria llegar a ser en un futuro. no he leido el libro pero pronto lo hare, aunque he dsifrutado la pelicula , quiero hacer la comparacion de los elementos que han quedado fuera de la pelicula. pero veanla a ustedes que tiene cerbro, que odian a van damme a niko y a rambo, fuchiiiiiiiiiiii a ustedes que les gusta el cine de verdad y no esos espertentos de peliculas se la recomiendo

LUIS MENDEZ [e-mail]

Rating:
Summary: THE Best Movie I have ever layed eyes upon!
Review: THis is my favorite movie of all time. I loved everything about this movie. The laughter, which was kept to a minimum. And everything else.

This movie is 1001% brilliance. It tells the story of a sadistic gang of "droogies" led by the most interesting charachter on screen, Alex (Malcom McDowell). Stanley Kubrick has broken now groung with this earthshattering moving epic of a movie.

This movie shows the happenings in the future that will always be there. This future will always, and should always be ahead of us. If our society reaches the scenes in A Clockwork Orange, then our species is doomed. If the future dissapears into the presnt, the world will be over. This is what the beginning of the Apocalypse is.

This movie is one of the best forms of art ever. I llove how Kubrick speeds up the camera for the orgy scene and then slows it down for when he beats up his fellow droogies. Kubrick didn't give a rats a** about the ratings. This is the most beautiful, frightening, disturbing, controversial piece of work ever

DO NOT IGNORE THIS. This movie will move your mind into another state of thinking. It will open your eyes. It will mentally affect you...an all in all this movie is the best.

Rating:
Summary: Surpasses Anthony Burgess' novel
Review: Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" is the rare case of a film that even surpasses its already very good source material. In fact, this is one of the best films of Stanley Kubrick (or anyone else).

Not only is the film brilliantly acted, scripted and photographed. It has also one of the most original production designs I have ever seen in a movie. But what really makes the picture transcend the novel is Kubrick's brilliant use of music. This adds a dimension to the whole enterprise the book did not have. The scene in which Alex is forced to watch documentary-footage of the Nazis underscored by the ninth symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven is unforgettable. Actually, the whole movie is one memorable scene after another.

This film has been largely and uncritically admired as a cult hit by fans of violent movies. Other felt uncomfortable after it because it just shows problems without giving answers. I think that this is the film's strength. Kubrick invites us to figure out for ourselves what his film is all about and this includes the possibility of different answers (or no clear answer at all).

Rating:
Summary: Certainly not Kubrick's best...
Review: But God knows Kubrick's worst (which this isn't) is higher than so many bests of other directors.

I don't really need to outline the plot, because it has been outlined many times, so I'll discuss the effect this film has.

As I said, this is not Kubrick's best. However, this film shows a great mastery of techniques balanced together perfectly, whether it be fast motion or dizzying and disturbing close-ups. The electronic versions of classical pieces in this film are certainly something worth mentioning; they lend a certain feel that wouldn't have been achieved with symphonic versions of the same pieces. They lend a sense of futuristic, mechanical detatchment, which can be argued as the theme of the film.

I certainly don't think that anyone should be pushed away from this film by the violence. It's certainly a very violent and explicit film, but not to an excess and all the violence is central to the story.

Mechanically, and also in content, this is a brilliant film. Get it. You'll like it.