tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777393017106198932.post3922235709995051763..comments2023-09-14T09:15:25.189-04:00Comments on s n a p p e r h e a d: Today is Someday - Book 2 A Clockwork Orangeveach glineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09858630502888259101noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777393017106198932.post-18922994324004359272013-02-17T19:14:46.438-05:002013-02-17T19:14:46.438-05:00I've yet to view 'Barry Lyndon' -- as ...I've yet to view 'Barry Lyndon' -- as much as I'm not a man of period pieces, I've been wanting to see it -- but 'Eyes wide shut' can be safely ignored. It came with the Warner bros Kubrick DVD boxset... which, due to rights issues, is missing a few films from his catalogue; among them, the superior 'Dr Strangelove'... but it does include 'Eyes wide shut'. <i>Hoorah. </i><br />I tried to watch that film <i>twice, </i>and I just couldn't get through it. For one, the dialogue is recorded incredibly low, which is annoying. Another, I don't like Tom SecretlyCruising, and he plays an unlikeable character, so there's that as well. I may give it one more go before I fling the disk into the road.<br /><br />Kubrick was a very polarising director. He certainly took liberties here and there with the original material he was asked to adapt, but I'll take one Kubrick over a thousand bog-standard Hollywood directors any day.Davecathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15890760806211337706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777393017106198932.post-17516609235088208552013-02-11T15:05:04.474-05:002013-02-11T15:05:04.474-05:00Kubrick's direction of Full Metal Jacket, ACO,...Kubrick's direction of <i>Full Metal Jacket</i>, <i>ACO</i>, <i>Strangelove</i> and <i>2001</i> transcend their faults and are some of the finest film-making ever. I will agree with MontiLee, however; <i>The Shining</i>, as well as <i>Barry Lyndon</i>, and <i>Eyes Wide Shut</i> were not good. In any way. I consider Kubrick a love-him or hate-him kind of artist.veach glineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09858630502888259101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777393017106198932.post-92193568417139140922013-02-03T14:14:53.559-05:002013-02-03T14:14:53.559-05:00I'm hardly unbiased; I love both the film and ...I'm hardly unbiased; I love both the film and the book version of ACO, so I have to thank you for posting this, as I didn't know this edition existed. I'd had the version that first hit the States with the omitted chapter, then after lending that out to a classmate in highschool who never returned it, I bought a revised version with the 'missing' chapter. I suppose if I bought Camus' L'Étranger twice, then purchasing ACO a third time should be alright.<br /><br />Much like a lot of Kubrick's literary adaptations, there are a few discrepancies. I'd seen the film before reading the book, and was surprised that Alex was as young as he was. But I suppose allowances have to be made with that sort of thing, especially when making a film in 1971. For Extra Fun Times, be sure to ask why MontiLee why she hates Kubrick as much as she does (hint: it's because his version of 'The shining' only remotely resembles the book it's based off of).<br /><br />Apart from the visceral appeal of the violence and the aesthetic appeal of the dystopian setting, ACO drew me in cos of the nadsat speak. Burgess played language like a really good cello guy plays a cello, and I like that ACO and a few of his other works manage to make the unfamiliar familiar.<br />Also, it's fun, as my friends and I are playing an online game called 'Borderlands', and Vladof, one of the weapons manufacturers, makes sniper rifles with names all based on nadsat terms: http://www.bl2wiki.com/Vladof#Sniper_Rifles.<br /><br />Also! Looks like you've got some spam there!Davecathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15890760806211337706noreply@blogger.com