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Channel 4
A Clockwork Orange
10 o'clock
I can't say I'll go out of my way to watch that...
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Trees Lounge
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At least C4 will do it justice on the w/s issue (I hope).
Originally posted by D1 user
Channel 4
A Clockwork Orange
10 o'clock
One of the most overrated films ever.
Just my opinion, mind.
I'm up for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
TV or Movie?
Um.....ahh...
Originally posted by Shearerhairline
At least C4 will do it justice on the w/s issue (I hope).
Was it C4 who last showed The Fifth Element? Advertised as "widescreen" they'd cropped it to fit 16:9, instead of showing it letterboxed to the correct 2.35:1. Just shows that "widescreen" is a relative term in TV land...
I have never seen it in it's entirety before.
It's easy to see what the missplaced furore at the time was about, but it struck me a not that good a film.
Itchy yarbles the lot of ya!
Kermode's at it again, claiming that this is Kubrick's masterpiece. Entitled to his opinion of course, but a further viewing last night convinced me that it's hugely overrated. The actors seem totally at see apart from McDowell - Patrick Magee is always a better actor when the director controls him but his performance here is atrocious in every way and Michael Bates isn't much better. Mind you, it looks jolly nice.
Fascinating to compare to "Straw Dogs", made the same year and still a masterpiece 31 years on. It's a hell of a lot less pretentious too. As for the rape scene, where Kubrick goes for "loads of tits" (his phrase), Peckinpah goes for genuinely unsettling pain and brutality. Oddly, he's condemned as a misogynist while Saint Stanley becomes ever more revered as the years go on and people forget that he was more a flim-flam merchant than a great director.
Kermode was on Radio 5 last week commenting on the DVD release of Straw Dog, to which he was quite generous in its praise (despite the fact that it wasn't directed by William Friedkin). Marky Mark opined that time had not been too kind to Clockwork Orange, and it was a little dated (but still a 'tremendous movie'), but Straw Dogs was still 'very powerful'.
I almost choked on my tea when I heard him make a throwaway comment about Deliverance, which Peckinpah wanted to direct, calling it 'that rare thing; a good John Boorman movie'.
Granted, there are a couple of turkeys in there, but, my God, Point Blank, Excaliber, Hell in the Pacific?
BTW, he added, while slam dunking Red Dragon that he'd picked up a copy of Manhunter on DVD last week for £4.99. Mark Kermode - make a post in the bargain forum now!
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So many films, so little time...
I suspect Mark Kermode has never forgiven John Boorman for <i>Exorcist II</i>, and that colours his opinion of his work.
Mark Kermode is a pretentious *****. 80% of what he says is straight from a film school textbook and can be randomly placed over any similar genre film.
I remember him having an orgasm over the supposed homosexual undertones of Hard Boiled before hearing John Woo say people can read it if they want but he certainly didn't mean it.
It's all subjective, of course, but if it is then why does every late night BBC2/C4 critic get so irate when being disagreed with.
Anyway, there are far more people with less polarised, unfounded opinions based on their experience of the film rather than being ripped out someones rushed dissertation.
Speaking of Boorman - still an underrated talent - I'm sure you'll all be excited to hear that a review of "Exorcist II The Heretic" - probably the most brilliant bad movie ever made - is forthcoming on Halloween.
Speaking of Boorman - still an underrated talent - I'm sure you'll all be excited to hear that a review of "Exorcist II The Heretic" - probably the most brilliant bad movie ever made - is forthcoming on Halloween.
I'm doubly excited...
A Clockwork Orange
10 o'clock
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I can't say I'll go out of my way to watch that...
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or
BB2
Trees Lounge
00.00
:thumbs:
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At least C4 will do it justice on the w/s issue (I hope).
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Originally posted by D1 user
Channel 4
A Clockwork Orange
10 o'clock
One of the most overrated films ever.
Just my opinion, mind.
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I'm up for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
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TV or Movie?
Um.....ahh...
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Originally posted by Shearerhairline
At least C4 will do it justice on the w/s issue (I hope).
Was it C4 who last showed The Fifth Element? Advertised as "widescreen" they'd cropped it to fit 16:9, instead of showing it letterboxed to the correct 2.35:1. Just shows that "widescreen" is a relative term in TV land...
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I have never seen it in it's entirety before.
It's easy to see what the missplaced furore at the time was about, but it struck me a not that good a film.
Itchy yarbles the lot of ya!
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Kermode's at it again, claiming that this is Kubrick's masterpiece. Entitled to his opinion of course, but a further viewing last night convinced me that it's hugely overrated. The actors seem totally at see apart from McDowell - Patrick Magee is always a better actor when the director controls him but his performance here is atrocious in every way and Michael Bates isn't much better. Mind you, it looks jolly nice.
Fascinating to compare to "Straw Dogs", made the same year and still a masterpiece 31 years on. It's a hell of a lot less pretentious too. As for the rape scene, where Kubrick goes for "loads of tits" (his phrase), Peckinpah goes for genuinely unsettling pain and brutality. Oddly, he's condemned as a misogynist while Saint Stanley becomes ever more revered as the years go on and people forget that he was more a flim-flam merchant than a great director.
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Kermode was on Radio 5 last week commenting on the DVD release of Straw Dog, to which he was quite generous in its praise (despite the fact that it wasn't directed by William Friedkin). Marky Mark opined that time had not been too kind to Clockwork Orange, and it was a little dated (but still a 'tremendous movie'), but Straw Dogs was still 'very powerful'.
I almost choked on my tea when I heard him make a throwaway comment about Deliverance, which Peckinpah wanted to direct, calling it 'that rare thing; a good John Boorman movie'.
Granted, there are a couple of turkeys in there, but, my God, Point Blank, Excaliber, Hell in the Pacific?
BTW, he added, while slam dunking Red Dragon that he'd picked up a copy of Manhunter on DVD last week for £4.99. Mark Kermode - make a post in the bargain forum now!
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So many films, so little time...
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I suspect Mark Kermode has never forgiven John Boorman for <i>Exorcist II</i>, and that colours his opinion of his work.
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Mark Kermode is a pretentious *****. 80% of what he says is straight from a film school textbook and can be randomly placed over any similar genre film.
I remember him having an orgasm over the supposed homosexual undertones of Hard Boiled before hearing John Woo say people can read it if they want but he certainly didn't mean it.
It's all subjective, of course, but if it is then why does every late night BBC2/C4 critic get so irate when being disagreed with.
Anyway, there are far more people with less polarised, unfounded opinions based on their experience of the film rather than being ripped out someones rushed dissertation.
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Speaking of Boorman - still an underrated talent - I'm sure you'll all be excited to hear that a review of "Exorcist II The Heretic" - probably the most brilliant bad movie ever made - is forthcoming on Halloween.
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Speaking of Boorman - still an underrated talent - I'm sure you'll all be excited to hear that a review of "Exorcist II The Heretic" - probably the most brilliant bad movie ever made - is forthcoming on Halloween.
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I'm doubly excited...
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