This movie was big for me. I'm an 80s kid so after I heard about it from an older kid in chemistry I had to rent it. I'll never be the same. Not sure if it was my first Kubrick movie or not. Where did you see it and what did you think of it?
Saw it in 71 as it was in a theater. Can't remember exactly as I was higher than a kite; could a been trippin.
The very first time I seen it, it was overdubbed in to German (Düsseldorf 1995) and I don't even speak German, my friend Enzo gave me a running commentary in his broken English, so if nothing else it was fun to watch! At the time I was visiting Enzo and he had a lot of VHS films and I told him it was one film that I wanted to see because at that time it was banned from been released in Ireland on VHS and maybe in the UK too, but not sure!
I worked in the video store in the 80s and I rented it and was blow away. I remember talking about it was a customer later and he told me he went to watch in a porn house (It was rated x at one point) and didn't realize that "this wasn't a porno"
I can’t recall whether I read the book before or after seeing the movie. One thing is for sure, if I hadn’t read the book, I wouldn’t have caught the references on David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars.
i saw it some time in the 80's, in high school, at a rep theater ...... wickedly subversive is what i thought ..... not just in content, but in style, and aesthetic
I knew about Clockwork Orange cause my older brother had the soundtrack album, and he told me the gist of the story. I may have read the book first, don't remember. Anyway, myself, a cousin, and my little brother who was around 12 or 13 went to see it at a midnight viewing at a nearby theater, circa 1977-78. The theater called my dad at home to ask if it was okay to let us in. He said sure thing!. Thanks dad. It was life changing in a way. I loved it.
I saw it for the first time in 1975 on the big screen at a theatre in Toronto. By that point, I’d read the novel a couple of times, and practically memorized the screen play, which was published in a paperback in 1972, with two or three B&W stills on each page.
I saw it for the first time during a double date at a drive-in theatre in 1972. It was part of a double feature with Ken Russell’s The Devils. How’s that for surreal? Surprisingly, the girl didn’t dump me.
Clockwork Orange is brilliant. And the jump cut from the starchild's face at the end of 2001 to Alex is cinema's greatest meta moment.
Extremely impactful movie for me. I ended up writing a very long paper about the novel for one of my English lit classes in university. It also got me hooked on Walter/Wendy Carlos's electronic versions of classical music. I can easily understand why people would have a negative reaction to it, though. I can't really watch it any more myself. It's quite possible that the real brilliance is actually the novel by Anthony Burgess.
