2001: A Space Odyssey

One of the most visually arresting movies out there that ushered in the modern era of sci-fi. The futurism of is is incredible.

I'm a fan of those agonizingly long shots. I like that you could take a still of that movie at almost any point and it would make a great portrait.

I'm not a movie buff by any stretch, but 2001 is a masterpiece, IMHO.

aircooled wrote:

JoeyM wrote: 2001 is the only Kubrick film I will watch....

You REALLY need to watch:

I've seen it, and hated it. The same is true of Clockwork Orange. I've also seen his version of Lolita, which is a classic example of how to make rubbish by deviating from the source material. When I've seen four movies by a film maker, hate three and think the fourth one is only OK, I know that I'll probably dislike their other films, too. Life's too short to waste time watching stuff just because other people are impressed by it.

K's films are the sort of thing that art and theater majors watch because they THINK it makes them intelligent and sophisticated. In reality, he's not thought provoking; he's just annoying.

FWIW, there's a short list of names that will make me avoid a movie regardless of the subject matter:
- Kubrick (incessant naval gazing)
- Tarantino (stealing from better films doesn't make you an artist. Yes, I've already seen those foreign films. No you're not doing us a service by remaking them.)
- Verhoeven (so stupid he's a waste of oxygen, can't recognize satire on the part of the author)
- Shyamalan (one trick pony, and the "surprise" isn't one when you know to watch for it)

In reply to JoeyM:

I have to agree with Kenny.

And add that hating things that many like doesn't make you edgy, intelligent, or sophisticated. Especially with such a diatribe regarding it.

It makes you a hipster.

JoeyM wrote: I've seen it, and hated it....

Weird.

There may be something wrong in you head

(I suspect someone may be sapping and impurifing all of our precious bodily fluids)

But JoeyM reeeeeallly likes Michael Bay.

Kenny_McCormic wrote: In reply to JoeyM:

z31maniac wrote: I have to agree with Kenny. And add that hating things that many like doesn't make you edgy, intelligent, or sophisticated. Especially with such a diatribe regarding it. It makes you a hipster.

Nope, I'm too old and fat to wear the skinny jeans. Besides, I have a job. Also, I don't have a beard, tattoos, or drink PBR. (...or any beer, FWIW.)

I'm just an old fart who doesn't care about trendy stuff anymore.

Tarantino and Verhoeven are 2 I am not watching anymore either. Tarantino really, really needs someone to proof read his scripts for medical accuracy, at a minimum. And it's weird, because I know a guy that knows a guy that is, umm, an expert in, umm, medical E36 M3, y0, and, umm, is on the set with Tarantino at all his movies, but not to provide accuracy or even continuity, at least in the movie. Verhoeven has made some seriously crappy movies. You should see his Dutch ones, like Spetters and Soldier of Orange. Man, who knew a movie could be that bad?

Kubrick? Navel gazing? Your opinion is wrong. He was the master of the dark comedy, Clockwork Orange in particular will make you want to laugh and throw up at the same time.

JoeyM wrote: K's films are the sort of thing that art and theater majors watch because they THINK it makes them intelligent and sophisticated. In reality, he's not thought provoking; he's just annoying.

I think you're reading too much into it... but I grew up watching Kubrick films long before I knew there was such a thing as "art and theater majors". Of course, I am the son of professional military historian, so those kinds of war/anti-war films were in heavy rotation in our VCR when my father was drinking. And since we only had one TV in the house, we all watched the same things.

Tarrantino is OK, but I watch his films like a sci-fi movie and therefore suspend a certain level of reality.

Tarantino's stuff irritates me for the most part. Reminds me too much of the really campy 1960's Batman stuff.