2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

[joecct]

Mine were the "great" Kubrick films. CWO and 2001 are absolute rubbish.

Kubrick: Paths of Glory. Along with All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the best anti war films ever made.

[Slap Shot]

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I've enjoyed CWO more with each additional viewing. I've had the opposite result with 2001. My first reaction to 2001 was, "Not sure what just happened, but I am intrigued". 3 or 4 viewings later it was, "F##k you, you ***#ing piece of s##t!".

[dxmnkd316]

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The 20-minute colorgasm was enough to go right to the second stage for me. It was the most useless scene I have ever had to watch.

[Kepler]

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I've enjoyed CWO more with each additional viewing. I've had the opposite result with 2001. My first reaction to 2001 was, "Not sure what just happened, but I am intrigued". 3 or 4 viewings later it was, "F##k you, you ***#ing piece of s##t!".

Give the book a try. It's kind of a hard read because he wrote it in the dialect. But as usual it's much deeper and richer than the movie because it has more time to develop and explore.

For some reason I remember the "horse on the stairwell" scene from The Commitments as actually having been in Anthony Burgess' book. That might just be because he spends a lot of time describing the anonymous housing that most people live in. Kubrick did a great job of highlighting this in contrast by filming the stolen speeding car going out to the wealthy suburbs.

Also the book has a glossary and an essay on the language, which is a mix of English and Russian. Also, being Burgess, it's VERY political.

In any case, since seeing the movie of CWO I've never been able to hear the William Tell Overture again in the same way.

[FreshFish]

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A Clockwork Orange is perhaps the most disturbing and yet enthralling movies I've ever seen.

That, Natural Born Killers, and The Deerhunter. Great works of cinematic art that I will never watch a second time. and I really like the movie Singing in the Rain. Hard to see it the same way since.


I've never seen the movie version of Lord of the Flies but if they did as good a job with that movie as the author did with the book, that's another movie that would fit the "disturbing yet enthralling" category. Though it's hard to imagine the irony of the boys being "rescued" by a warship during wartime would resonate as much on film as it did in text.

[Kepler]

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I've never seen the movie version of Lord of the Flies but if they did as good a job with that movie as the author did with the book, that's another movie that would fit the "disturbing yet enthralling" category. Though it's hard to imagine the irony of the boys being "rescued" by a warship during wartime would resonate as much on film as it did in text.

I've never seen it (or, somehow, read it) but I've heard the movie is not nearly as disturbing as the book.

In that vein, another thing that's really disturbing is the 19th century public (meaning: private) school 1971 BBC TV serial "Tom Brown's School Days." It portrays the hazing of younger boys by the older boys, hinting at if not actually showing rape, in a way that as a 12 or 13-year old watching it completely freaked me out.

[MissThundercat]

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Never seen Clockwork Orange, but does "Requiem for a Dream" fit under "disturbing, yet enthralling?"

I own the DVD, played it once (back in 2004), and haven't played it since.

[Russell Jaslow]

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I've never seen it (or, somehow, read it) but I've heard the movie is not nearly as disturbing as the book.

In that vein, another thing that's really disturbing is the 19th century public (meaning: private) school 1971 BBC TV serial "Tom Brown's School Days." It portrays the hazing of younger boys by the older boys, hinting at if not actually showing rape, in a way that as a 12 or 13-year old watching it completely freaked me out.

I remember that TV series. Parts of it still resonate with me today.

[Slap Shot]

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I The Jury was extremely effed up to me when I first saw it age 14. Haven't watched it for 30+ years so it may or may not come across as bizarre.

[Kepler]

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WADA gives up all pretense of even trying.

Less than a month ago, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suspended its accreditation of the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory, which was supposed to handle all drug tests related to the Rio Olympics. WADA—which is as inept and corrupt a sporting body as you’ll find on this planet—cited a vague and unspecified “non-conformity” in its reasoning for pulling the plug on the only lab anywhere close to Rio de Janeiro.

Today, they changed their minds and decided to reinstate the lab.

[Scarlet]

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Russian track and field athletes banned from participating in the Olympics in Rio.

[Russell Jaslow]

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Russian track and field athletes banned from participating in the Olympics in Rio.

Technically, they were already banned.

It's just that the appeals court upheld the ban. Now the other half of the fun begins -- what decision is made for the rest of the Russian athletes?

[Hammer]

Technically, they were already banned.

It's just that the appeals court upheld the ban. Now the other half of the fun begins -- what decision is made for the rest of the Russian athletes?

Ban them too.

[mookie1995]

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Ban them too.

....And The Banned Played On

[Kepler]

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....And The Banned Played On

Nicely done.

There was a story on the artistic synchronized swimmers getting the shaft on BBC. Pretty clearly they never did anything wrong but if the whole team is banned they will be too. I guess the only ones who would be allowed to compete under a different flag are those who were training in another country. If there are non-Russian athletes who trained with the Russians they would be banned too, which would REALLY suck. Back in the Soviet era the Russians used to help train African teams for the international goodwill -- not sure if they still do.