Universal Love TRTT Part 10: Ken Things I Hate About You

[Del165198]

Clockwork is the fav fillum of many a tryhard.

Says the guy who only listens to 1930s country music and has to quit to the board when people call him a hipster

 

[raman]

That's all kinds of wrong

What do you not understand about the word "correct"?

 

[Duck Farmer]

The correct order (post 1960) is this:

2001 = Barry Lyndon > Dr. Strangelove > Lolita = Full Metal Jacket > Eyes Wide Shut > The Shining > A Clockwork Orange

Pretty good ranking but can't agree with Eyes Wide Shut. Tom Cruise was the worst piece of miscasting since John Wayne played Genghis Khan.

 

[Del165198]

2001 was boring as batshit

 

[Del165198]

Pretty good ranking but can't agree with Eyes Wide Shut. Tom Cruise was the worst piece of miscasting since John Wayne played Genghis Khan.

Mick Jagger as ned Kelly?

 

[bomberclifford]

Clockwork is the fav fillum of many a tryhard.

Watched it many a time at Trak cinema in the 80s and 90s. It’s a great film.

 

[raman]

Pretty good ranking but can't agree with Eyes Wide Shut. Tom Cruise was the worst piece of miscasting since John Wayne played Genghis Khan.

His character was a sexually repressed robot who existed in a baffling dreamscape. I'd call that appropriate casting.

 

[Del165198]

Watched it many a time at Trak cinema in the 80s and 90s. It’s a great film.

Watched it on blu ray a month or so ago after the internet died. Still brilliant

 

[raman]

Watched it many a time at Trak cinema in the 80s and 90s. It’s a great film.

I think it's a great "event", assisted by its long term pseudo-banning. Not a great film as such.

 

[Del165198]

I think it's a great "event", assisted by its long term pseudo-banning. Not a great film as such.

Malcom McDowell should have won an Oscar. I can't be bothered looking up which bum won it instead. Poor fella got relegated to b sci fi movies for 30 years

 

[raman]

Malcom McDowell should have won an Oscar.

I agree with that. Pity literally every other actor in the film was (deliberately directed to be) terrible. That's one of the reasons it's not a great film.

 

[JimmyBC]

Says the guy who only listens to 1930s country music and has to quit to the board when people call him a hipster

Send me ya Kenny Rogers playlist hot show.

 

[raman]

Send me ya Kenny Rogers playlist hot show.

 

[Macca19]

I enjoyed Clockwork. Its a jarring film. Very well made.

 

[Del165198]

I agree with that. Pity literally every other actor in the film was (deliberately directed to be) terrible. That's one of the reasons it's not a great film.

It's the vibe man
That's part of what makes it great

Plus the yelling prison guard guy is gunnery Sgt Hartman before he existed but angrier and britisher

 

[Duck Farmer]

Watched it many a time at Trak cinema in the 80s and 90s. It’s a great film.

Production design was iconic.

 

[bomberclifford]

I think it's a great "event", assisted by its long term pseudo-banning. Not a great film as such.

It‘s an iconic interpretation of an interesting novel that influenced cinema, fashion, music, and design for decades. The portrayal of Alex by McDowell was insanely good and the fact that Chewbacca is in it, as a bespectacled, short-short wearing, body guard/intimate care giver, is the cherry on top.

Not his best movie, I grant you, but at least as good as FMJ.

 

[raman]

It's the vibe man
That's part of what makes it great

Plus the yelling prison guard guy is gunnery Sgt Hartman before he existed but angrier and britisher

Oh that character was sub-par Basil Fawlty before Basil Fawlty even existed. Terrible.

I just want to add that A Clockwork Orange would be the best movie of the year in most years. But we're talking about the rarified standards of Stanley Kubrick here.

 

[raman]

It‘s an iconic interpretation of an interesting novel that influenced cinema, fashion, music, and design for decades. The portrayal of Alex by McDowell was insanely good and the fact that Chewbacca is in it, as a bespectacle, short-short wearing, body guard/intimate care giver, is the cherry on top.

Not his best movie, I grant you, but at least as good as FMJ.

Vader, not Chewie

 

[Del165198]

I agree with that. Pity literally every other actor in the film was (deliberately directed to be) terrible. That's one of the reasons it's not a great film.

The writer at the end after he realises its Alex always trips me out. His over acting is turned up to 11

 

[Del165198]

Oh that character was sub-par Basil Fawlty before Basil Fawlty even existed. Terrible.

I just want to add that A Clockwork Orange would be the best movie of the year in most years. But we're talking about the rarified standards of Stanley Kubrick here.

Basil Fawlty is one of the best characters in the history of characters so being sub par isn't really an insult
Anyway the dude is hilarious

 

[bomberclifford]

Vader, not Chewie

Yes, whoops.

 

[raman]

Anyway Barry Lyndon is the absolute duck's nuts. I saw a shockingly pristine print in a Perth theatre in the early 2000s and have never been the same since.

The number of times the audience noticeably sighed at the beauty of an establishing shot.

 

[Dylan8]

Haven't seen a single Kubrick movie lol!

 

[bomberclifford]

Fun fact: up until a few years ago, there was a residence on South Terrace with the word ‘Home’ in glow in the dark letters reminiscent of the writer‘s letterbox in CWO.