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I can't be the only one who thought this movie was stupid.


Before anyone leaps down my throat about having no attention span, slow movies are some of my favorites. I like all genres and styles (including artsy) and I think that the part of this movie with Dave and HAL was very interesting and well done and they could have made a whole movie about it. But the more I think about it the more I feel that if this movie came out today, nobody would call it visionary or one of the greats, and they would be correct. I get the feeling that people are only pretending to understand it. I'm pretty good with finding allegory and metaphors and the meaning of imagery and things like that in film, but to me this seemed just too bizarre and dull. Is it just because it was Kubrick that everyone praises it, or is there something that I truly am just missing about this movie?

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I can't be the only one who thought this movie was stupid.
Not even slightly.




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I don't blame someone for not getting it and especially not being into it, but don't say other people are "wrong" just because of your personal preferences, because then you're no different from the fans of this movie who can't accept the fact that some people don't like 2001, and the vicious cycle of people calling different opinions wrong begins anew

I, for one, don't care if people don't love this film as much as I do, or even if they dislike it.

But, almost without exception, those opinions are given a rationale that would consign to Kubrick various and sundry varieties of ineptitude.

As such, those statements can and should be challenged, especially here.

There is no sort of equivalence of argument and thus no vicious cycle.

For those who might sincerely not get what all the fuss is about, I would gently suggest that they put aside what might just be the blinders of bias and expectation.
Who knows, great rewards may ensue...

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Yeah I agree with you mate! This was just.. you know boring.

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You are not... plenty of other stupid people thought the exact same thing!


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