Comment on What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching?
someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
2001 A space Odyssey
No country for old Men.
2001 was a movie that made me go “wait, what? People like this?”
I heard it come up so often and was excited to watch it. Absolutely hated. One of the worst movies I’ve ever watched. I had to look it up a lot after I watched it because I was sure I had to be missing something big. But no, I wasn’t. Really not my kind of movie, I guess.
I watched it with my partner and we riffed on it the whole time. Thoroughly enjoyable. Making fun of the movie’s bad parts allowed me to get past the boredom and appreciate the good.
If you have the chance to see it in a cinema I highly recommend. Something about the big projection and sound, plus ideally an intermission really made it click for me
I mean, it was groundbreaking for its time and it redefined the genre and a lot of moviemaking in general. But yeah, it had severe pacing issues, is undeservedly way too long and it got way too trippy and abstract by the end. Frankly a whole lot of it feels like Kubrick masturbating over how great he is, with a lot of scenes being way too long and serving no real or useful purpose on on the movie.
I could say pretty much the same about Solaris too (the original Tarkovsky version which cinephiles always rave about, not Soderbergh"s, which I actually prefer), and if rumors are true, apparently Kubrick took a lot of ideas from it.
drcouzelis@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
The more I read about 2001 and the more I watch it the more I love it!