A Clockwork Orange

I was horrified at this movie. I couldn't imagine this movie coming out now, and I didn't even think something like this would be allowed to be produced in the 70's. It was horrifying to watch and there were more than a few times when I thought I would have to bail on the whole thing. I would suggest not watching this movie alone; I watched it with my roommate and we stopped halfway through and finished it another day. It's just too damn much of a burden for one person to hold on their own--please watch this movie with someone else. My roommate told me that everything was supposed to make sense in the end, like, there was supposed to be this big revelation and audiences everywhere where supposed to go "OH that's why everything happened and why everyone was so terrible" however, we finished the movie and I was left just as disgusted and confused as the rest of the movie.

Black Mass

When I saw the trailer for Black Mass, I saw a clip of the scene where Jimmy (Johnny Depp) is just casually shooting an automatic gun in broad daylight in a parking lot, and at that point, the main reason I wanted to see Black Mass was to watch that scene. I wanted to see that scene and I wanted to see Johnny Depp in all that makeup (just a step under Steve Carell in Foxcatcher). I was not disappointed. I have previously talked about how much I enjoy violence in movies and I have now realized there is a difference between Quentin Tarantino's over the top to the point of ridiculousness violence, and this serious, cringe-y, very much real violence that came up in Black Mass. Not saying I disliked the violence in Black Mass, I just couldn't derive any joy from it, especially because the people who are killed in this movie are people who are a threat of gangsters, so they aren't doing bad things and in no way deserve to die unlike the amazing violence that takes place in, specifically, Inglorious Bastards.