I used to love it, but now I realize it's mediocre

Rating: 6/10 (3 June 2007)

I used to love the movie, but now, I realize that while it has amazing cinematography, the film itself is boring. It's put together in a brilliant way, but the story is just not compelling. Not to say that there aren't sequences of beauty and brilliance, but I realize now that my love was for the cinematography and craft of Stanley Kubrick not the entertainment value of the film, which just wasn't very watchable. If you wanna see Kubrick at his most artful, well that's Barry Lyndon, but A Clockwork Orange is a close second, and what I really wish is that Kubrick could have put all the brilliance he put into Barry Lyndon into a good film. I also wonder, if the film had originally been as sexually explicit as the original version before it was edited down to PG, would it have been better.