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Based on my experience, 2001 should be on this list. I have seen people sit through this film in complete confusion, waiting "for the movie to start", and after
by lqet 3y ago
Based on my experience, 2001 should be on this list. I have seen people sit through this film in complete confusion, waiting "for the movie to start", and afterwards refusing to believe that anyone would voluntarily give up 2.5 hours of their life to watch this a second time.
- cogwheel 3y agoConsidering the list was generated from data, not just the author's opinion, I wonder what criteria you're using for "should". My guess is a lot more of the general population feels the same (negative) way about it, but your sample of people you've seen reacting to it is giving you selection bias, thinking more people enjoy it
- me_me_me 3y agonot many people have seen it, these days only limited and niche people would see 2001. For that reason the stats on it would be skewed towards people who would view it more favorably.
- ghaff 3y agoIt's a film a cinemaphile would watch today for either nostalgia or historic interest. Whatever its place in the film canon (which it richly deserves) I'm pretty sure the random theater-goer today would hate it and I wouldn't really recommend they go watch it.
- ericbarrett 3y agoI laugh so hard at the opening of 2001. Not the monkeys dancing around the monolith; rather, the opening title: the orchestration of Also sprach Zarathustra crescendos on "Stanley Kubrick." What an arrogant monument to himself! One wonders if he took it so seriously or if there was a wink and nod behind it. I do love the movie though. It drags on, and it's psychedelic in a way that doesn't really translate to modern, sober viewing; yet the special effects and researched realism larded into it would take Hollywood many more decades to embrace. And HAL is still a character for modern times.