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Overrated. Filmbros was the worst.


The visuals are good, but so are Avatar 2's visuals. That doesn't make it an interesting, let alone good, movie.

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Maybe you had to be around in 1968 in order to appreciate it?

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Are you sure about that. Because Rock Hudson walk out of the Premiere saying “Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?” in fact there was 240 people who walked out. Not a great start.

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Obviously I’m not sure. That’s why there’s a “maybe” at the beginning of my post, and a question mark at the end of it.
However, I find myself questioning my own enjoyment of the film, since I’ve been informed that Rock Hudson himself was puzzled.

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"240 people who walked out"

That seems a lot , what proportion of the premiere do you think this represents?

Also is it customary for celebs and Hollywood luminaries or whoever attends "premieres" to register their discomfort by "walking out" ?

It seems incredibly disrespectful and even more pointless than when the average punter walks out of a normal showing of something.

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Me no like contemplative movie. Me want big explosions. Bang, boom, pow!

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the Line between "I want to see things go boom" and "i want a movie to have a basic plot". Isn't really that fine.

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Things have changed. Once upon a time the audience for 2001 was a mix of film aficionados (some of them fairly pretentious) and fans of science fiction. The film is now available to a vast new audience of people brought up on the concept of "sci-fi", a category which seems to contain most fantasy, superhero and Kaiju films along with the increasingly silly Star Trek movies and the always science fantasy of Star Wars.

2001 is not comparable to most of those. It is simply different. I'm telling you that for some of us it is still very interesting and it is good. Your opinion is just... your opinion.

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It's about so much more than the visuals, though. It's more like a symphonic tone poem that's meant to be experienced more than analyzed—although it's certainly open to extensive analysis & always has been, of course.

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Michael Bay's filmography is always available.

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borefest

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