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Originally Posted by Frownland
I feel the same way about a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange" and Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" are two great works, but in their own way. I'd say it's a wash on that film.
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IMO A Clockwork Orange is the most faithful-to-the-book movie I've ever seen, just ahead of James Dickey/John Boorman's Deliverance. There's two elements to the movie that set it apart from most movies for me 1. That if was made so brilliantly on such a shoestring budget, literally financed through a passing-of-the-hat 2. The abuse Malcolm McDowell undergoes in the movie, and I don't just mean the cinema scene. Notice the scene where Dim dunks Alex in a barrel of water. There are no cuts in that scene.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
However, I was very underwhelmed by the novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" but the film is fantastic.
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Absolutely 100% lockstep agree with this
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I haven't yet read The Shining but I do love the film. I didn't like the television version of The Stand nor did I like the novel, it's just too cheesy tbh.
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I like the book a million times better, and I don't really care for most of Stephen King's work and am a major major Kubrick fan. The problem I had with the movie, other that the plot changes (I fecking loved the hedge animals in the book, the maze was a serious letdown by comparison) was that I really didn't care for the two actors Danny Lloyd or Shelley Duvall, I didn't believe either one of them. Nicholson totally carries that movie.
Agreed on The Stand, esp the hokey TV series