Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 1.0
The movie is just awful....dreadful...dated....bad....
I like movies. I've watched a lot of bad movies. I've even liked a lot of bad movies (I loved Ishtar), but after years of hearing what a "classic" Clockwork Orange is I finally got around to seeing it last month (3/2001). And OH MY GOSH it was bad.Not bad it a fun, provocative, campy, entertaining way. But bad in a way that makes you question your need for a VCR in the first place. The story was non-existent, the editing was frantic and distracting, the violence was pointless (which some will say WAS the point) and it made no sense.The story of alienation, ennui, post-war angst has been told in so many better movies since CO came out that I guess I might be missing the "ground breaking" aspects of this film, but I have to say that this movie has not held up well over the year.If you have two hours to waste just saw your arm off with a rusty butter knife. It will be less painful than watching Clockwork Orange.