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a kennedy

(33,534 posts)
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 02:56 PM Jul 2024

Oh my, A Clockwork Orange......wow....

Had forgotten I really didn’t like it the first time I saw it oh so long ago in 1972 when it first came out. 86% tomatoes, audience gave it 93% tomatoes.

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Frasier Balzov

(4,358 posts)
1. Visually innovative and thematically challenging.
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 02:59 PM
Jul 2024

Some satire and irony thrown in for leavening.

 

MMBeilis

(455 posts)
2. How weird is this. I was just thinking about it this morning, for no good reason. "A little bit of the old.....
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 03:05 PM
Jul 2024

......ultraviolence?"

The Magistrate

(96,043 posts)
3. It Falls Into An Odd Category
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 03:21 PM
Jul 2024

Great movie!

Never want to see it again....

Helluva book, too. Not near so pretty as the movie....

kimbutgar

(25,089 posts)
4. Resaw it again recently and some of the similarities of dooges reminds me of the proud boys, those other right
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 03:43 PM
Jul 2024

Wing milita types who are cruel and hate that woman hate them and are jerks.

EYESORE 9001

(28,257 posts)
5. I've watched it a few times over the years
Sat Jul 27, 2024, 03:44 PM
Jul 2024

I have most of the dialogue memorized, so I don’t need to see it again, but I probably will anyway.

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