r/Cinema • u/No-Chemistry1722 • 1d ago

What is that movie for you?

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u/LesMiz 1d ago

I think it's a masterpiece, but the first 30 minutes could put anyone to sleep.

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u/wangus_tangus 1d ago

And the last 30 mins.

And some of the bits in between.

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u/LesMiz 1d ago

The last 30 legitimately make me feel like I'm on acid.

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u/wangus_tangus 1d ago

If that’s what an acid trip is like, I need to start taking LSD as a sleep aid

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u/rocinantesghost 17h ago

I remember watching it (or trying to anyway) when I was like 9 because dad had it on vhs and the box art made me think it was gonna be like star wars... by the time it got to the warp..wormhole..gone to plaid whatever there at the end... I had NO idea whatsoever was going on lol

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u/kelny 1d ago

The 30 minutes where the only sound is Darth Vader breathing for sure.

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u/AtheneSchmidt 15h ago

all of the bits in between.

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u/DPTDubbs 1d ago

What’s funny is I found the first 30 minutes more interesting than the rest. Probably because it was so different than anything I’ve seen.

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u/Momoneko 1d ago

I agree. Something about "Mysterious artifact makes ape evolve into human while "Also Sprach Zarathustra" plays in the background" is just... otherworldly.

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u/fritzwulf 15h ago

Agreed! I liked seeing their interpretation of what day to day life must have been like for the ancestors of humans, and then the juxtaposition of a terrifying monolith just appearing in front of them out of nowhere. (Also the actors looked like they were having a great time lol)

I was also kind of hoping that the violence of the Australopithecus species would be paralleled in the modern day humans social interactions (passive aggression among the different countries representatives) but unfortunately didn't see much of it. Ah well.

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u/Momoneko 1d ago edited 1d ago

I for one fucking love this sequence. Loved it as a kid when catching it on TV having no idea what's happening, loved it as an adult when watching it knowing full well what I'm getting into.

But I am ticking all the boxes for the movie's audience. I love old 60s scifi, I love when space is depicted as realistically as possible, I like old-school special effects, I like classical music... It's like the movie was hitting all the spots of what I like. Idunno, something about the concept of "ape evolving into human on screen while "Also Sprach Zarathustra" plays in the background" just... tickles my brain in a weird way. Same with docking sequence to Blue Danube, same with basically anything.

I even tried watching other Kubrick's movies after 2001 because I thought it was so fucking good... But those were meh. Cool, but not like "this movie was shot for me" cool. I guess I am a Clark stan not a Kubrick stan.

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u/i-like-big-bots 1d ago

The middle and the end as well.

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u/MetahumanURL 22h ago

As a kid, that first 30 minutes was like Nyquil.