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Gamera

i mean it is bad, but good-bad

Das Boot

I just watched this movie wednesday for the first time. I might have enjoyed it if scenes didn't run 15 minutes longer than they should have. They show a craft landing for 8 minutes. it slowly lands, cut to the cockpit and the pilot, cut to the craft landing again, cut to the pilot, cut to the craft landing, cut to pilot (he hits some buttons this time), cut to the craft landing. SO MUCH FILLER in this movie. This movie could have been 45 minutes if you cut out all of the drawn out scenes. The first 30 minutes is of those damn apes. easily could have made that a 5 minutes scene. Ruined the whole movie for me.

I just watched this movie wednesday for the first time. I might have enjoyed it if scenes didn't run 15 minutes longer than they should have. They show a craft landing for 8 minutes. it slowly lands, cut to the cockpit and the pilot, cut to the craft landing again, cut to the pilot, cut to the craft landing, cut to pilot (he hits some buttons this time), cut to the craft landing. SO MUCH FILLER in this movie. This movie could have been 45 minutes if you cut out all of the drawn out scenes. The first 30 minutes is of those damn apes. easily could have made that a 5 minutes scene. Ruined the whole movie for me.

The first time I saw 2001 I was like 15 or 16 and I watched it all by myself on my couch and it blew my fucking mind. I couldnt believe how real everything looked, it had better special effects than any movie I have ever seen before, and it was made in the 60s. I knew I was watching a work of art and I was mesmerized. I still havent had a viewing experience like that one ever again in my life.

I will admit the visuals are great for its time. It does not excuse the fact that every scene draws on 10 minutes longer than needed.

I will admit the visuals are great for its time. It does not excuse the fact that every scene draws on 10 minutes longer than needed.

that isn't a fact. that is an opinion. and it is a completely ridiculous opinion

The middle part of the film is brilliant but the beginning and very end are pretty pretentious. I think it aged somewhat poorly. It was a technical marvel of the day, the likes of which few had ever seen before. It made sense to linger on the realism. The effects largely hold up to this very day, but the pacing is another story.

I agree with him. There's a time for celebrating exploration, discovery, progress, etc., and then there's literal 20 minute stretches of nothing while classical music plays.

The middle part of the film is brilliant but the beginning and very end are pretty pretentious. I think it aged somewhat poorly. It was a technical marvel of the day, the likes of which few had ever seen before. It made sense to linger on the realism. The effects largely hold up to this very day, but the pacing is another story.

It reminds me of that ~5 minute scene in Star Trek: The Motion Picture; it slow-panned over the enterprise for a hilarious duration at a slow pace. It was a big deal for fans to see the ship with high budget visuals, in theaters, for the first time ever, but on subsequent viewings it just drags.

Now make that scene 5 times longer and put it in more than one place and that's 2001

I love Kubrick. Dr. Strangelove and Barry Lyndon are number two and three on my all time favorite films list respectively.

2001 is the film of his I like the least and I find it largely boring and feel like a lot of people tell themselves they love it more than they do. .

But I feel the same way about Vertigo. I love watching cinephiles roll their eyes at me when I tell them that one.

I'd agree that filmmaking has come a long way but that not all of the way it's come is necessarily good.

2001 is the film of his I like the least and I find it largely boring and feel like a lot of people tell themselves they love it more than they do. .

Haven't seen that film (and won't) but this is how I feel about the first Alien. I love Sigourney Weaver but that movie was very silly. If the xenomorph were presented the same way today the movie would be considered a comedy

I love saying the opposite of what people think

I love saying the opposite of what people think

"You may only express the hive-approved opinion"

lol

But I feel the same way about Vertigo. I love watching cinephiles roll their eyes at me when I tell them that one.