2001: A Space Odyssey

[Eric Mc]

Everybody can't like everything. I think if you saw it at a certain age in a proper cinema (like I did) it would have a lasting effect on you.

Seeing it on TV or after "Star Wars" and all the sequels and decades of mega CGI effects etc, it's impact would be lost. I still love it though.

[superkartracer]

nbetts said:

i Just thought was crap

I think Porsche cars are crap , many love them , everyone has their personal opinion and i still don't get why people care a toss what others think really.

Me personally , one of the best films ever made ( the man was a genius ) .

[Matt_N]

nbetts said:

I have tried to like 2001 a few times now. There are certain aspects of the film that I do like.

HAL is a badass computer and I like that storyline... but the whole Psychedelic ending that last 10 minutes or so... i Just thought was crap if I am brutally honest.

The whole filming in space stuff was good especially for its time - but really in my opinion Never has so much hyperbole been given to such an OK film...

Now tell me, I did not get it or something...?

I agree to an extant, watched it twice and really didn't strike a chord with me.

[Eric Mc]

Matt_N said:

I agree to an extant, watched it twice and really didn't strike a chord with me.

On a TV?

On your own?

When?

What age were you at the time?

[Pilotguy]

Saw it in a proper cinema when I was young. It can’t have been when it was released, hard to believe it came out in ‘68! I was probably 11, 12 when I saw it. I still think it’s an amazing film.

[Matt_N]

Eric Mc said:

On a TV?

On your own?

When?

What age were you at the time?

Yeh a 50" TV, DVD version.

On my own, about 31 first time and 33 or 34 second, I'm 35 now.

Some bits were brilliant but the film as a whole just didn't grab me.

[giveitfish]

Matt_N said:

I agree to an extant, watched it twice and really didn't strike a chord with me.

I read the book as a child and loved it but never really gelled with the film until seeing it in full Cinerama at the Bradford Pictureville cinema last year (complete with intermission!).

The difference it makes being fully immersed is amazing, both my wife and I were utterly absorbed and blown away.

[Eric Mc]

Matt_N said:

Yeh a 50" TV, DVD version.

On my own, about 31 first time and 33 or 34 second, I'm 35 now.

Some bits were brilliant but the film as a whole just didn't grab me.

That's the problem. It's a bit like looking at a famous and great painting as a picture in a book on art - rather than the original. The film was made to be shown and experienced in a certain way. Most people who have seen it since 1980 have NOT seen it in the form that it was designed to be seen in.

Get to a cinema, preferably with as big a screen as possible whenever you have the opportunity and see if you feel differently about it. The problem of course is that you will have a predetermined mind set now so even the cinema experience may not sway you.

That's a pity.

[Gameface]

You like it.

Others don't.

Whats your issue with that?

[Eric Mc]

Gameface said:

You like it.

Others don't.

Whats your issue with that?

No issue at all. I've already said that.

My point is that, as with any work of art, seeing it as the artist intended helps the viewer understand what the artist meant.

I'm not looking for a fight.

[Gameface]

When he said he didn't like it, you immediately came out with this.

Eric Mc said:

On a TV?

On your own?

When?

What age were you at the time?

Questioning him as if you know best. And if he didn't like it, he's too young and didn't view it correctly.

That looked condescending to me.

Not looking for an argument either.

I like certain aspects of it but not all of it. And I've seen it in the cinema and at on the small screen.

It's not for everyone.

[Eric Mc]

You are entitled to interpret what I say any way you like.

Even if you are reading FAR too much into it.