re: #60 Targetpractice

Was thinking the other day that there is no way 2001 could have been made today. Not without Kubrick and Clarke agreeing to speed up the film, add a lot more gratuitous violence and gore, and turning the final showdown between HAL and Bowman into a 10 minute explosion-filled fight sequence.

“Listen, Stan… can I call you Stan? The focus group was completely baffled by this monolith thing. I mean, what the fuck is that shit? And then it comes back at the end of the movie in a fucking hotel room? We can’t sell theaters on this shit. We have this kid here who worked on Gravity who has a great idea for a script rewrite…”