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It’s much worse in Alex’s narration. It’s such a shame. The video is excellent. And the earlier 5.1 Leon Vitale did for the remastered DVD (also on the Blu-ray) was a great mix. Why they downgraded it is beyond comprehension. I emailed the Kubrick Estate recently to give them a heads up and...

Fair enough. Again, I stand by my opinion that it’s not necessarily “over the top”, and that people in general have a skewed but irrational bias in favor of naturalistic acting, which is illusory because it too is stylized. If you really compare the way people act in standard dramas to real...

I honestly don’t see Deltoid or Mr. Alexander as being any more zany or “over the top” than George C. Scott or Sterling Hayden in Dr. Strangelove. I know you’ll have some rationalization as to why you think I’m wrong, but I think any honest observer would have to say that the performances in...

A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, and Team America are all👌 And if people misunderstand satire that’s on them. Most South Park fans are morons. That doesn’t change my opinion on Trey Parker being a brilliant satirist. If people fetishize the violence in A Clockwork Orange, that just means...

Exactly. And besides, satire deals in caricatures to begin with. It would be like somebody criticizing Team America: World Police for “dehumanizing” non-Americans by portraying America as the center of the world — but that was precisely the point of the satire.

Does anyone know the best way to contact Warner Brothers about quality control? I’m sure the Kubrick Estate would want to recall A Clockwork Orange’s 4K botched soundtrack.

I would absolutely agree. In fact, the more I listen and scrutinize the new 5.1 the more I hate it. Certainly Leon Vitale’s earlier 5.1 is far superior. And although it’s nice to have the mono track, it would be even better to have a lossless mono rather than this version which was released with...

Time code is 0:08:44, when Alex is narrating in the car. It’s hard to describe exactly what’s going on. The “t” in “west” seems to boost and scratch, and the “sur” in “surprise” sorta drops out a bit, followed by a subtle bit of a scratching when he says “laughs and laughing”. I’ve tried two...

I’ve noticed what seems to be botched audio for the 5.1 track on the A Clockwork Orange 4K. When Alex and his droogs are causing mayhem with the stolen car, during the narration — “... then we headed west. What we were after now was the old surprise visit, that was a real kick and good for...