I've been avoiding to watch this shit all my life because I kind of knew this will be one of Kubrick most pretentious movies but holy shit I didn't expect that. It felt more like a showcase of what 1968 technology could do with movies or something with a pretentious allegory tucked in and that's it, so many long fricking scenes with pretty effects, so. fricking. boring. Maybe it even revolutionized some movie stuff or the allegory was smart, I don't give a frick, the movie as a movie was empty and pointless with a basic disjointed plot, empty characters, long boring scenes full of nothing and an ending that only cared about the fricking allegories but not an actual plot
How the frick do people talk so highly about this shit, are pretentious fricks incapable of being genuine once in their lives?
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It's the ultimate you either love it or you hate it movie. What I like most about it is that the monolith scenes give me a thrill of the mystic and sublime. Kubrick got as close as I've ever seen any filmmaker get to putting a real transcendent superhuman force on screen, something divine and terrifying. Sneaky good cosmic horror movie.
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I'll grant that. Too bad those scenes were in a bad movie.
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Even The Void does cosmic horror better than this, it didn't even feel terrifying to me, more like mysterious and grand, the movie barely gives a reason to be scared of it
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