triumphantogre
Joined Jul 2018
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I understand why people really don't like this. It does seem tailor made for those whom think they are intellectually superior to all us plebs.
The plot? Well, not much happens for (many) minutes at a time.
The characters? We don't get much info about the characters.
The setting? Once we're in the future (2001 is still the future, right?) it's all very sterile.
The music? Okay, the music is good.
Despite all that, I think this film is fantastic and have seen it a few times (alas, never on the big screen). In the hands of most film makers this would have been an epic disaster of crushing boredom (which for me was achieved with Memoirs of a Geisha), but in the hands of Kubrick... well, if this was the only film he made he'd still be regarded as a master.
The plot? Well, not much happens for (many) minutes at a time.
The characters? We don't get much info about the characters.
The setting? Once we're in the future (2001 is still the future, right?) it's all very sterile.
The music? Okay, the music is good.
Despite all that, I think this film is fantastic and have seen it a few times (alas, never on the big screen). In the hands of most film makers this would have been an epic disaster of crushing boredom (which for me was achieved with Memoirs of a Geisha), but in the hands of Kubrick... well, if this was the only film he made he'd still be regarded as a master.
I'm frankly baffled why people went crazy for this film.
The characters are too flat to be emotionally engaging, and the Naavi (sp?) are clearly designed to make us feel sympathetic to them. E. T. Was a far more evocative alien despite being an ugly potato man.
The plot... At no point in the film did anything unexpected happen. It's like James Cameron, while looking for an idea for his next film, found a notebook with a story that he wrote when he was 10 years old about humans fighting on an alien planet; everything is signposted a mile away, so not only do we have uninteresting characters, but they move from one predictable scene to the next.
Admittedly the visuals are impressive, but it reminded me of running 3DMark around 1999/2000: looks great but with no content.
James Cameron has made some absolutely great films, but this is not one of them.
The characters are too flat to be emotionally engaging, and the Naavi (sp?) are clearly designed to make us feel sympathetic to them. E. T. Was a far more evocative alien despite being an ugly potato man.
The plot... At no point in the film did anything unexpected happen. It's like James Cameron, while looking for an idea for his next film, found a notebook with a story that he wrote when he was 10 years old about humans fighting on an alien planet; everything is signposted a mile away, so not only do we have uninteresting characters, but they move from one predictable scene to the next.
Admittedly the visuals are impressive, but it reminded me of running 3DMark around 1999/2000: looks great but with no content.
James Cameron has made some absolutely great films, but this is not one of them.
Why did the chicken cross the road? We don't know, but during the opening titles we get to see someone dressed as a chicken cross the road multiple times. Sometimes they fall over for no apparent reason, though unfortunately never in the path of an oncoming car which may have cut short this travesty of a film.
The script was written by some chump that found an old 1970's joke book down the back of a sofa in a seedy motel. The chump then handed the script to a scientist whom, as an experiment, programmed it into their fancy AI. The AI, having no concept of humour, then built a bunch of emotionless robots to serve as the cast and director. I can't think of any other explanation as to why this is so bad.
The script was written by some chump that found an old 1970's joke book down the back of a sofa in a seedy motel. The chump then handed the script to a scientist whom, as an experiment, programmed it into their fancy AI. The AI, having no concept of humour, then built a bunch of emotionless robots to serve as the cast and director. I can't think of any other explanation as to why this is so bad.