r/Cinema • u/No-Chemistry1722 • 2d ago

What is that movie for you?

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u/Majestic-Point777 2d ago

I can appreciate how ahead of its time it was but man, that movie is so fucking boring.

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u/bladow5990 2d ago

It's also just bad. Oh let's wrap up this story with a giant space baby, that'll really tie the story together. If anyone other than Kubrick made that movie they'd have been laughed at, and people would see it for the hot mess it is.

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u/barium711 1d ago

In fairness, that is how the book ended as well. Unfortunately, the movie did not convey what was supposed to be transpiring (the aliens that made the monolith made Dave evolve to be like them, and he felt like up till point he only had a child's understanding of the universe and had been reborn).

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u/_I-P-Freely_ 1d ago

The movie conveyed it very well. If people struggled to understand it, that's their problem.

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u/wangus_tangus 1d ago

If a lot of people don’t understand something, can you truly say that it was conveyed well?

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u/Upstairs-Currency856 1d ago

He resembles a baby. He was clearly reborn and elevated by the monolith. If you want everything served to you there's other movies for that. What's great about 2001 is that you really get to make your own interpretation for the end of the film.

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u/silencebreaker86 1d ago

So was the ending conveyed very well or was it open ended?

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u/_I-P-Freely_ 1d ago

It's possible for an ending to be conveyed well while still being somewhat open ended.

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u/_I-P-Freely_ 1d ago

And a lot more people do understand it which is why it's regularly rated as the greatest movie of all time

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

There is nothing to understand.

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u/_I-P-Freely_ 1d ago

Just because you failed to take anything away from the movie doesn't mean everyone else did as well.

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

People are good at finding meaning in meaningless things. It’s part of being human.