Stanley Kubrick's controversial film, A Clockwork Orange, opened in the Republic yesterday 29 years after it was first released.
The film - which Warner Brothers were prohibited from promoting as "the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra violence and Beethoven" - failed to shock filmgoers at the Screen Cinema in Dublin.
Mr Paul Duffy, a soldier based at Cabra Barracks, said the film "would have been shocking in the early 70s because of the rape scenes and the violence", but was on the same level as Natural Born Killers and Reservoir Dogs.
Mr Rowan O'Neill of Kilmainham said: "It's got some slightly shocking material, but ultimately there's a serious point. It makes you think in every frame."
A Clockwork Orange was rejected when it was submitted to the Irish censor in 1973.
Mr Kubrick subsequently imposed his own ban after the film was said to have triggered copycat crimes.
After Mr Kubrick's death last year, the film was resubmitted to the present censor, Mr Sheamus Smith, and passed with an 18 certificate and without cuts.
