[ SECRET POST #2324 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4324 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

IA

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, yeah. My Netflix queue has tons of stuff on it that I can't get invested in enough to watch, so I end up watching lame crap or stuff I've already seen.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Crap, sorry for the misfire. I meant this to be under #1.

[tabaqui]

If the summary grabs me, I watch a bit. I either finish, or click out of it. I mean - do you really need a review? Just jump in and see what stuff is like. You'll only lose a bit of time.

I don't know if this will help

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.tvguide.com/watch-this-now/netflix/

^^That was meant for the above secret.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Sorry.

[(Anonymous)]

This is on my list of movies I don't really want to watch but feel like I have to because it's a 'classic', along with American Beauty and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

[(Anonymous)]

One Flew is a great movie (IMO) but it's very heavy and IIRC the sex-gender dynamics in the movie, while not objectionable, aren't necessarily comfortable either. American Beauty is much, much worse and much, much less comfortable, it's shit, don't watch it

wrt Clockwork Orange - I think you can pretty much watch any post-Strangelove Stanley Kubrick movie and immediately know whether or not you want to watch the rest of them or not. He's such a distinctive director. I think The Shining is probably the best choice for that but IDK.

[(Anonymous)]

Life really is too short to watch movies you think you need to watch because they’re ‘classics’. The only one on your list worth watching is Cuckoo’s Nest, and even that can be a tough watch. Read a synopsis and move on with life.

[(Anonymous)]

What movie is this?

[(Anonymous)]

A Clockwork Orange

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

A Clockwork Orange.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks.

I really dislike this movie.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not at all fan of Kubrick's work in general, but this one in particular is really not for me, but some people are really... passionate about it.

[(Anonymous)]

It's an... interesting movie, and the theme has a lot of meaning. But I don't like the movie.

I'd probably feel differently about it if it weren't for one scene that just put me off. I don't like watching that shit.

[(Anonymous)]

I hate people who intellectually jerk off to this movie without reading the book. The movie omits the last chapter of the book and thus misses the whole point of the story. It’s a no wonder burgess started to hate the novel when people kept taking the movie at face value.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

I've read the last chapter and the problem is that it's really hard to be convinced that Alex is actually going to get better in any way. I know Burgess wanted to point out that he didn't even have the possibility of real reformation under the Ludivico treatment, but he is so thoroughly sociopathic through most of the book that all I can think is that he'll be less openly violent about his mistreatment of others.

[(Anonymous)]

The book is much better. I read it as a teen, ironically bc my parents wouldn't let me watch the movie (but were ok with me reading the book).

It turns out the movie is adolescent - it reeeally likes its boobs and codpieces, but erases the truly disturbing bits of the book (like the characters' actual ages).

[(Anonymous)]

A Clockwork Orange is one of those books/movies that isn't personally to my taste, but I recognize probably has some sort of artistic merit. That being said, I feel very uncomfortable when I find out its someone's "favorite"--particularly if that person is a straight white, cis male between the ages of 15-45.

Because in my experience, a certain brand of f*ckboy always relates far too much for comfort to the "poor victimized" antiheroic protagonist than is comforting to most women, LGBT folk, and POC, especially since said antihero usually ends up committing acts of violence and/or abuse, usually against aforementioned marginalized groups.

See also: American Psycho, Fight Club, Taxi Driver, Streetcar Named Desire

[(Anonymous)]

I’d say less that they relate and more that they miss the point. Tyler Durden (and by extension the narrator), Patrick Bateman, and Alex are supposed to be horrible people that the books point out you are NOT supposed to idolize. Then the movies come along and glorify these monsters and you end up with a generation of idiots who can’t think critically for five seconds about what the text was trying to say or take the movies at face value. It’s the Walter White problem tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

NGL, I only watched this movie because people said it was cool and one of my heroes loved the book. It was... eh. Like I don't feel I've wasted my life, but I'm definitely not going to watch it again.

[(Anonymous)]

I've not seen the movie, but I read the book not long ago, and while I appreciated it was well written, it wasn't to my liking and so I have no intention of checking out the film, regardless of what people say about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I had to watch it in one my my movie appreciation classes. I fucking hated it. I understand it's a cult classic but it was just awkward for me to watch.