The first incarnation had enough unnecessary piffle in it that a remake/reboot is a Very Bad Idea.

Well, considering how pitiful the book is, it's unlikely they can male a movie that will be significantly worse.

"MOM! Phineas and Ferb are making a title sequence!"

…and then again, it might not have been.

I think he saw it after he finished the book. By his own admission, the book was dashed off quickly, pretty much strictly for money. Probably very little deep thought involved.

Those are after-the-fact rationalisations.

The title "A Clockwork Orange" has nothing to do with "the organic combining with the mechanical" - it's from a bit of Cockney slang for something strange and outre - "Queer as a clockwork orange".

Because they have so little sense of humour they think they have an excellent one? Apparently Dunning-Kruger applies to humour, as well.

Actually, i believe that "Kodak" was chosen because it was a none-existent word that could be trademarked safely (unlike, say, "yo-yo", which turns out to be the actual name of the thing in Tagalog, and so Duncan lost the trademark…)

Kodachrome had a definite rosy-red warm bias. I preferred Ektachrome, which gave a much cooler cast and tended toward the blues and greens.

I don't care - i didn't watch the first film when it came out, either.

… Staying Alive, the unnecessary Saturday Night Fever sequel directed and co-written by Sylvester Stallone …

So glad to see the hideously overrated "Wizard of Oz" isn't 100%.

eeewwwww

McQueen did NOT do his own driving. In fact, best i can discover, his last driving bit was when he made a wrong turn and burned back out of it backward, and it looked so good they left it in the film.

It's lovely country - citrus groves and such. I was mainly around Catania, at the foot of Mt Etna. Since it's been 45 years, anything else i could tell you would be sadly out-of-date.

And "Christine" and Carpenter's "The Thing"

In 1971 it would have got you a dollar.

When i was in Sicily in the Navy (1971 - 1972), the lira was 600-some to the dollar, went up to 500-some when Nixon cut the dollar loose to float.

No, she had recently given birth. Check the Wikipwdia article referenced in this article.