re: #185 mmmirele

Completely off topic, but i watched 2001: A Space Odyssey with my brother back in October. Two of (many) things that struck me about the movie: 1) Wow, that end sequence (before the weird hotel room) must have seemed incredibly trippy to audiences in 1968 and Kubrick or not, (thinking like a movie exec) “that shit is too long and will not fly in today’s world of jump cuts.” 2) Women barely exist in the movie and after a certain point in the movie (where Floyd meets a couple of women), there are no women whatsoever. It’s all men.

The “Time-Warping Stargate” sequence is one I usually fast-forward through when I’m watching it at home - frankly, for me, it’s overlong. That’s my only critique of the film. The rest is a masterpiece.

I had a chance to see it a local cinema on the occasion of that cinema’s reopening after a two-year reconstruction. I dragged a friend along to see it (she heard of it, but never seen it before) and to my surprise, it was just me, her and some guy two rows ahead of us. That was it. Three people in the entire cinema. And on the big screen and surround sound.

The best way to experience 2001: A Space Odyssey.