I tried searching for another "A Clockwork Orange" topic several times because I was sure someone would've already posted about it, but nothing came up, so here I am.

I saw this movie once and fell in love with it. It's amazing. Malcolm McDowell plays the part of Alex perfectly. Anyone else a big fan of this movie?

The title music is pretty addicting.

I had the extreme good fortune to see it at the cinema when they re-released it. Kubrick had originally withdrawn it from any form of release in the UK after the controversy it stirred up here, so you could only get a copy of it on import. A marvelous film that remains true to the book (aside from missing out the last chapter) and yet also stands apart from it as a unique work of art in its own right.

- trag, wanting some moloko vellocet

Great film. Uber Brillance (:

Before I saw this movie I thought I was the only person who wanted to stomp things to the tune of Ode to Joy. It's definitely in my Top Five.

It's one of my fave flicks, too. I read the book before I watched the movie, which is where I fell in love with A Clockwork Orange. In the book, I had a little trouble with the language at first, but there was a glossary in the back... The movie is one of those rare films that still has the power to disturb me even after watching it so many times. Not to mention, when I was growing up my mother routinely used "eggywegs" and "milocko" in her everyday vocabulary.

"....... singin' in the rain......."

I actually just saw it for the first time about a week ago. It was the first movie since Scarface I had no trouble sitting through. It's also the first movie I actually found disturbing, unless you count Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (don't ask).

What, your copy has a glossary? You lucky thing, I had to sort out the meanings of all the words by myself

Awesome film and awesome book.

In my opinion the glossary is not required at all since you can figure out what each word means by the context they're used in, especially if you happen to know any Russian. The copy I read had a glossary but I didn't find it til I'd finished the book, by which point I'd figured out the words anyway.

I didn't have a hard time understanding the language either. Then again, I'd been studying early modern lit when I read the book, so I was pretty used to using context clues.

I found the movie more difficult in a way. Reading all the slang is one thing, but it's kind of funny to hear it spoken. I had to watch it twice because I missed a few bits while giggling.

I read the book in the summer of ninth grade, and have been a fan ever since. I saw the movie a year later, and loved its originality and creativity. The part that was my favourite in the novel (Alex watching the movies with his eyes forced open) was my least favourite in the movie, though. I was watching the movie with two friends who were absolutely freaked out throughout, so the movie's effect on me was less than it would have been if I had watched it alone.

Anywho, I adore the movie and novel, but I cherish the novel more dearly than I do the movie, because I'm always drawn to literature more than to film.




Laura, who should watch the movie again...alone

My Mom saw the movie the first time around, and it must have disturbed her b/c several times during my high school years she made a point of telling me I didn't want to see it b/c it was so messed up.

Well of course I made a point of seeing the movie once I made it to college, though I read the book first to see what could be so deeply bothersome. I really appreciated the book and didn't have difficulty understanding the language, but I did not find anything especially impressive about the movie. If anything I thought it was pretty silly with all the exaggerated swaggering of the teens and surreal situations like the theatre & the milk bar.

That's one of the interesting things about A Clockwork Orange, there's so much of it that has come true. Back when it came out in theaters, it was considered extremely shocking. In fact, I'm told it earned an X rating--in the places where it wasn't banned. These days, there's so much graphic violence in the news alone that the movie seems like a mild R.

Great movie with a few great hidden meanings i have found.
The violence is conciderd graphic but nothing to shocking that i have seen,

Reading this topic made me wanting to see the film again, so I did, last Sunday

It had been a while since I saw it the first time, but this film is just só great! The story is so horribly violent, the music is so wonderful... I just want to see it again and again and again (which is now possible, since I own the dvd)!

I also bought the book recently, but haven't had time to read it yet...

Obviously it seems quite a popular film, but I'm afraid I didn't think much of it at all.
I'd spent years hearing about it all through the time it was banned, and it was one of the only banned films that I didn't actually see whilst at Boarding School (yes, we had the exorcist, the Omen trilogy etc. that were all still banned at the time)
I feel it's a very '60's drugged up film, which when released was probably quite disturbing, but like most things, mellows so much with time that in this day and age is not at all disturbing anymore, just as the exorcist is not frightening and is now very overated in the horror category.
Just my own personal thoughts. My only advice on anything like this though, is see it yourself and make your own decisions.