• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    I cannot stand 2001 A Space Odyssey

    It’s glacially paced, there’s like 1 good scene with HAL and Dave and the rotating set is neat with him running around the edge. It’s about 20 minutes of decent movie padded to an agonising two and a half hours of pretentious nonsense.

    People go “oh, but it was groundbreaking at the time!” We’d had Star Trek for two years by that point. It really was not that groundbreaking.

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      3 hours ago

      I feel like you have to go in knowing it’s extremely slow and methodical, it really gives room to breath and take in the sights and such. Idk it’s a very interestingly shot movie and I wish more were like it, seems like people’s attention spans aren’t long enough though.

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      5 hours ago

      exactly how i feel about it too. the 5 minute long segment that was just nature footage with weird visual filters was also particularly hard to watch.

      i also found the whole obelisk thing super repetitive. i was hoping that they would go into more detail about the obelisks, and explore the topic more. but it ended up feeling like they were asking the question “what’s a list of weird times and places where we could put an obelisk”, and that was the extent of it.