Best film: 'A Clockwork Orange' or 'Backdraft'?

[Johnnytheboy]

I'll keep this simple: I've just had a heated - albeit lighthearted - drunken argument with Mrstheboy about which film is best, occasioned by 'Backdraft' (the seminal 1991 movie about firemen, starring Kurt Russell) being on TV this PM, and the fact one of us has always avoided watching 'A Clockwork Orange' (a 70s film about violence, starring Malcolm MacDowell) that we own on DVD.

So, a simple poll of the PH community.

Which will obviously trump any further debate.

I've done my level best to avoid my own bias creeping into this post, I really have.

[Johnnytheboy]

...to fill in the story, my OH wanted to record Backdraft and make me watch it with her later, and I (being an inveterate bargainer) made her commit to watching Clockwork Orange on DVD, thus an argument on the relevant merits of the two films developed.

She has an aversion to violence in films if it appears to have any pretension to being art.

Hence - bafflingly - Clockwork Orange and American Psycho are "too violent", but the likes of the Saw series and numerous teen slashers get the thumbs up.

[Johnnytheboy]

marcosgt said:

Odd choice... Neither figures on anything approaching a 'best film' list for me.

M

...purely occasioned by one being an unwatched DVD and one coming on the TV.

I wouldn't saw CO was the best film I'd ever seen but it might be descibed as 'important'. Backdraft managed to be noticeably rubbish while I was tipsy, about 20, and round a friends house, circumstances in which most films should at least manage to be inoffensive.