2001 A Space Odyssey Movie Review pt3 (Trailer)

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[highwind8124]

robag88 on YouTube did a good analysis of the potential meanings of the symbols in the movie. Making the faith based conclusion that this film is about "nothing", that Kubrick simply decided to maliciously fart in our faces for fun, breaking his devotion to his record of making masterpieces, is quite a leap.

I personally can discern some of the themes simply through the film establishing its moods. This is not a mere coincidence.

[Asher8328]

Overall, I like Mathew's reviews, but I could not disagree more with what he had to say about 2001, aka "the movie about nothing." 2001 is about many things, and not necessarily the same things to everyone. Mathew believes this lack of consensus as further proof that the movie is about nothing, which once again I think is completely wrong. It is an unorthodox way to develop a theme, but just because Kubrik purposely clouds the message(s) doesn't mean that he didn't have a message to tell.

[1701EarlGrey]

@buc555 Yes, but in this case he is indeed right. And to emphasise my point I like novels writen by Arthur C. Clarke - "Rama" series, "The Fountains of Paradise", "A Time Odyssey"... A also like most of Stanley Kubrick works - "Spartacus" is one of my all time favorite movie, but "2001"... well it is like failed scientific experiment, it just didn't work. Film without the story, without characters, with very slow pacing.

[buc555]

@1701EarlGrey I would say you could say it about anything.

[1701EarlGrey]

@buc555 and he is right

[buc555]

@highwind8124 CM tried to dismiss all that stuff as "people seeing what they want to see".

[buc555]

@FuzzyNecromancer A question can have more than two possible answers, in this films case they are almost unlimited.

[Chaostos]

@Eldeecue

"Grammar Nazi" skin doesnt help you sound smart.

movie blows btw

[Chaostos]

@InsidiousCorpus

you dont need to stare at black wall of nothing for 3 hours to understand that.

[johnnyrockerfella]

@Eldeecue yeah so... i dont win first prize in the spelling bee contest... i still know when im bored watching movies lol.. from what i have read and seen... ppl praise this movie... just cuz everyone else does.. but when ya really annalyze it ...unbiasedly.. it blows... i even tried reading the book.. got up to about the part them monkeys stood around,, the steel object... i remember in the book it was described as having a unique sound as it hit the ground... something the monkeys never heard

[Eldeecue]

@johnnyrockerfella

They do tend to be more likely to be able to spell 'sycophant' correctly, though.

Jesus, man: a dictionary. It's not hard. It really, really _kills_ any hope you have of sounding smarter than someone else dead in the water.

[johnnyrockerfella]

2001 sux! it fucking sux balls....... and ANYONE who likes it is an arse kissing psychophant... who knows fuck all about fuck all.... this movie BLOWS.....