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The last movie I saw in a theater – in March, just days before the U.S. took covid-19 seriously – was 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I had never seen before. It w
by danso 6y ago
The last movie I saw in a theater – in March, just days before the U.S. took covid-19 seriously – was 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I had never seen before. It was pretty fantastic to see it big screen a 70mm print (not that I can really tell, heh), especially with a packed theater full of longtime fans and fellow latecomers. But I honestly don't know if I could've sat through its long stretches of weirdness if I had Netflixed it in my living room; I was not at all prepared for how long the opening apes scene would go on for, having only previously experienced it as parody in The Simpsons.
- jedberg 6y agoHeh, funny you mention this. I saw 2001 in a theater in the 90s, and that may have been the first time I saw it. I sat down to watch it again on HBOMax recently, and found myself wearing out the skip-10-seconds button on the remote. I even thought to myself, "this movie would never fly today". I then even thought about how I could probably edit it down to about 40 minutes and have the same storytelling, albeit with much less visual candy.