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    Is anyone here that was there when Don flew his MIG that night...the hundred foot fly-by over the big-top at over 500 MPH???



    :)


    Well...duhhh:P

  2. Is anyone here that was there when Don flew his MIG that night...the hundred foot fly-by over the big-top at over 500 MPH???

  7. Best - Robin Trower, Frank Zappa, Rod Stewart(...yes)

    Worst - Van Halen

    My girl friend at the time made me take her to see Rod Stewart in the early 80s. I really like him in the 70s, but couldn't stand him after he started doing the pop/disco thing...he rocked the house with everything from Maggie May to Stay With Me. Many older people walked out long before the show ended because he was rockin out so hard.

    Saw Van Halen when they first came on the scene, they sucked! - Black Sabbath (w/o Ozzy) opened for them and they were outstanding.

    Saw Head East and they were pretty good - after their show, the gave out free tickets to see a nothing band later that evening...that was Molly Hatchet!

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    First, CO was not as much an entertainment movie,
    but a commentary on British politics of the day.
    So, a discussion is more at home in Speakers Corner.

    They needed a villain to really polarize opinion and
    produce discussion/outrage. He was a great one.
    No one disputes the excessive violence, etc.

    What follows is how British politics entered the picture.
    The film used caricatures of each party and the central figure as their pawn.

    The right was tormenting the guy. The left used him as
    a tool to attack the right. Putting him on the correct path with care, after all the abuse.

    So, seeing it again won't make it more enjoyable.

    As a parallel to the genre in the US, Easy Rider.
    Drug-taking hippies who ride motorcycles and
    have sex. Destroying the fabric of American society.

    At that time in the US, society was very polarized on
    what seem like non-issues today.

    The riders were shot and killed. People walked out of
    the theater and thought they were right, no matter which
    side of the issues they were on.

    If the point of some art is not entertainment, but to be thought-provoking, then Kubrick succeeded.



    okayyyy...I guess that part of the movie went way over my head, but I can see exactly what you're talking about!

    What I took from it was more along the lines of a what-comes-around-goes-around kinda thing, or payback and irony.

    He commits crimes, payback is he goes to prison.

    He still doesn't really take responsibility for what he's done and wants to get our of prison before serving his time and is willing to subject himself the the experment. Payback is the experment really fucks him up.

    He was a horrible son to his parents, payback is his parents replace him with another son while he's in prison and he is out on the streets where he gets treated the way he used to treat others.

    The real irony came into play when his partners in crime became cops - and the fact that he wound up back at the HOME he victimized early on in the film. I thought he was going to end up paralized when he jumped from the window - that would have made me happy!

    Easy Rider was a great movie and a great story - you nailed it!

    Jon

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    Think of how happy you'll be when your house is all shiny, tidy and dust free!

    What? Other people don't get excited about that like I do? :)



    :)
    :P

    ...you crazy girl:D

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    Good movie but the book is better



    Seems to be a common feeling around here...I think I will try to do a little more reading this year. I doubt this one will be on my priority list, though - maybe next year.

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    "A Clockwork Orange" from Stanley Kubrick is a classic "birazzo" movie not to be confused with any of the other modern day drivel that comes from Hollywood these days. Stanley Kubrick has a history of making bizarre movies that make you sit back and think "WTF did I just watch". The mere fact that you ask yourself "Did I just waste 2 hours of my time, or should I watch it again" shows Stanley did his job on this movie.

    Personally I vote for you to watch it again, but that's just me. :ph34r:



    I think I'll do that, Steve.

    NetFlix is totally cool.

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    I liked it, but that was about 30 years ago, and I was about 20 at the time. I don't know what I'd think if I saw it again today.

    I'll tell ya this, though: it ruined the song "Singin' in the Rain" for me.



    I, also, wondered if I had seen it 30 years ago if my take on it would have been different. I still dig "2001 A Space Oddesey", but it looks kinda corny now-a-days.

    +1 on "Singing in the Rain"

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    I just happened to watch it on TV when I was a teenager (20+ years ago), having never even heard of it, so it was a real WTF??? at that time, and it really stuck in my mind. (And I had a crush on Malcolm McDowell for a while after that. :)) If I saw it for the first time today, I'm guessing the shock value would be a lot lower, so I don't know if I would like it as much.



    You watched it on regular TV or unedited cable?

    After seeing him with the wire thingys in his eyeballs...you still had a crush..it's either eeek;) or maybe, how youuuu doin:$

  16. Watched it for the first time over the weekend and I'm trying to decide if I wasted 2 hours of my life, or if I need to watch it again.

    I found the story to be very slow moving until about a half-hour into it. I kept waiting for the "wow moment" and I'm still not sure I ever got it. I'm not saying it wasn't interesting...it just didn't grab me the way I thought it would.

    If you loved, hated, or was indifferent to the movie, tell me what made that way for you.

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    Boogers can form at any time of the day. So do you just wait until your shower?

    I'll pick that crap out anyhow I can, but I do it in the bathroom or in privacy. I much prefer a clear breathing pathway than a clogged one.



    Why the hell is that people think no one can see them when they're driving their car - nose picking at 70mph...cracks me up:)

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    You kinda look rough but that pickup makes you look like a cute and fluffy bunny, pickups aren't made for taking abuse anymore... they are sissy luxurious "hey look i have a small penis" vehicle



    You, sir, have proven yourself to be an idiot...may I ask what kind of "small penis" pickup you drive...or is there a different vehicle that people with a small brain drive?

    Jon