SappYoda
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I just saw the movie, and my face looks like this:
I wanted to see the movie since all the references in Portal, Futurama, and other science fiction films, series and videogames. and see what the deal was and wow. Also I love all the Stanley Kubrick's movies I've seen so far, so this was a must for me.
Well... How can I start this?
Some group of monkeys have lost a pond to another group of monkeys. A monolith appears, the monkeys observe the monolith, then learn how to use objects as weapon and they reclaim their pond. The end.
Then we go to the future, a doctor travels to the moon to study with a group of doctors a foreign object. The government prevents access to the area and makes a cover story. The foreign objects ends up being a monolith like the one that appeared to the monkey. They approach the monolith, a loud high pitch sound is heard and looks like its hurting them. The end.
And 18 months later. A group of astronauts is sent to Jupiter with a HAL 9000 computer in charge of monitoring the mission.
The film holds up really well in my opinion in the photography department since most scenes are quite beautiful and has a damn good image quality. Does not feel like an old movie at all, apart from the obvious old style of clothing and manners.
The problem is the pacing in my opinion. The movie is slow, and when I mean slow, I mean really slow. Thank god movie players got a jump forward button. Usually the movie is about the camera staring at some space scenery watching the earth, the moon and some space ship, approach a station veeeery slowly from different angles, while classical music plays.
Maybe in 1968 staring at space was the rage, but in 2011 its not a novelty anymore and its boring. Until this point the film feels like a documental.
The star of the movie is HAL 9000, and its definitively the best part of the movie. The interaction between the crew and the computer makes up for all the previous "slow" parts of the film.
The sole crew member who survives the disaster fights against the rouge AI like we all love and enjoy and we get a lot of the references from that Futurama episode and Portal. This part delivers like expected.
But then it happened. The movie turn into a 8 minute acid trip that makes no sense whatsoever and ends like a David Lynch movie throwing random shit to the screen until the film runs out, leaving a bad taste, and a bit of headache. I did not skip the acid trip and maybe I should have, the astronaut faces we get from time to time sums pretty much my reaction to that part. My mind is going.
It's been fun seeing how wrong they got life was going to be ten years ago.
What's your opinion on the movie?
I wanted to see the movie since all the references in Portal, Futurama, and other science fiction films, series and videogames. and see what the deal was and wow. Also I love all the Stanley Kubrick's movies I've seen so far, so this was a must for me.
Well... How can I start this?
Some group of monkeys have lost a pond to another group of monkeys. A monolith appears, the monkeys observe the monolith, then learn how to use objects as weapon and they reclaim their pond. The end.
j/k
Then we go to the future, a doctor travels to the moon to study with a group of doctors a foreign object. The government prevents access to the area and makes a cover story. The foreign objects ends up being a monolith like the one that appeared to the monkey. They approach the monolith, a loud high pitch sound is heard and looks like its hurting them. The end.
Of this part lol
And 18 months later. A group of astronauts is sent to Jupiter with a HAL 9000 computer in charge of monitoring the mission.
The film holds up really well in my opinion in the photography department since most scenes are quite beautiful and has a damn good image quality. Does not feel like an old movie at all, apart from the obvious old style of clothing and manners.
The problem is the pacing in my opinion. The movie is slow, and when I mean slow, I mean really slow. Thank god movie players got a jump forward button. Usually the movie is about the camera staring at some space scenery watching the earth, the moon and some space ship, approach a station veeeery slowly from different angles, while classical music plays.
Maybe in 1968 staring at space was the rage, but in 2011 its not a novelty anymore and its boring. Until this point the film feels like a documental.
The star of the movie is HAL 9000, and its definitively the best part of the movie. The interaction between the crew and the computer makes up for all the previous "slow" parts of the film.
The sole crew member who survives the disaster fights against the rouge AI like we all love and enjoy and we get a lot of the references from that Futurama episode and Portal. This part delivers like expected.
But then it happened. The movie turn into a 8 minute acid trip that makes no sense whatsoever and ends like a David Lynch movie throwing random shit to the screen until the film runs out, leaving a bad taste, and a bit of headache. I did not skip the acid trip and maybe I should have, the astronaut faces we get from time to time sums pretty much my reaction to that part. My mind is going.
It's been fun seeing how wrong they got life was going to be ten years ago.
What's your opinion on the movie?
