http://ambival.net/movies/a-clockwork-orange Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:46:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/movies/a-clockwork-orange#comment-7129 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » My Top 100 Movies [current] Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:56:59 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/a-clockwork-orange#comment-7129 [...] A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick [...] [...] A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/a-clockwork-orange#comment-7118 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Fight Club Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:32:28 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/a-clockwork-orange#comment-7118 [...] Jeez, another of my faves shockingly sans review as yet. There was a moment early on here where I worried I’d picked the wrong time to watch this movie again, especially for a “first review” (I’m sure I must’ve written about it before on a previous and lost incarnation of the site) – like, I don’t really “need” this movie as much right now as I have in the past and probably will again. This review is gonna be shorter than I’d like, but sort of the same as I was with A Clockwork Orange the other day, I don’t know if it’s really necessary for me to do anything here beyond point out that this movie is just perfect, it just is. It is a little slow starting, the cynicism and passive aggressiveness becomes plain stifling as the minutes pile up before Tyler shows up proper – but then, it just never stops building, layer up layer upon layer … and when the time comes, it gives you the ending required by all that building – it damn well explodes on you. Again as with A Clockwork Orange, I’m struck by the combination of intelligence, shock and humour, and again, not so much by the language as the dialogue – the way the bulk of the movie’s now well-known soundbites (“This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time,” “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero,”) are thrown out on an almost subliminal basis – like mid-exposition, Norton will come out with one of these sentences that almost makes no sense at the time, but the more they pile up, the more you get it. The entire cast is brilliant, the visuals beautiful, the Dust Brothers’ score rocks. It just strikes me as beyond talking about, this one – anyway, I just remembered the first rule [...] [...] Jeez, another of my faves shockingly sans review as yet. There was a moment early on here where I worried I’d picked the wrong time to watch this movie again, especially for a “first review” (I’m sure I must’ve written about it before on a previous and lost incarnation of the site) – like, I don’t really “need” this movie as much right now as I have in the past and probably will again. This review is gonna be shorter than I’d like, but sort of the same as I was with A Clockwork Orange the other day, I don’t know if it’s really necessary for me to do anything here beyond point out that this movie is just perfect, it just is. It is a little slow starting, the cynicism and passive aggressiveness becomes plain stifling as the minutes pile up before Tyler shows up proper – but then, it just never stops building, layer up layer upon layer … and when the time comes, it gives you the ending required by all that building – it damn well explodes on you. Again as with A Clockwork Orange, I’m struck by the combination of intelligence, shock and humour, and again, not so much by the language as the dialogue – the way the bulk of the movie’s now well-known soundbites (“This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time,” “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero,”) are thrown out on an almost subliminal basis – like mid-exposition, Norton will come out with one of these sentences that almost makes no sense at the time, but the more they pile up, the more you get it. The entire cast is brilliant, the visuals beautiful, the Dust Brothers’ score rocks. It just strikes me as beyond talking about, this one – anyway, I just remembered the first rule [...]

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