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Painfully dull, pretentious, self-indulgent garbage


I see some people got my previous post deleted. I guess truth hurts.

This movie is as entertaining as staring at a wall. It's one of the worst movies ever made.

It was so bad I couldn't even finish it.

Just like all Kubrick movies, this dull crap is the cure for insomnia.

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If you didn't finish it, then how can you even begin to make a reasoned judgment of the film as a whole?

Rhetorical question, of course, for just another trollish troll trolling trollishly.

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Like gazing into a finely polished monolith, you only see what you bring to it.




IMDb2000: “Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?”

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You (and people who think like you) are the only good thing about these boards closing. We won't be subjected to your sub-human burbling any more.


The Dumpster gives a whole new meaning to "red" states.

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I'll miss your posts in defense of intelligence & depth in film, though.

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PM me your contact info, okay? We don't have to miss one another, now do we?


The Dumpster gives a whole new meaning to "red" states.

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Butthurt loser.

Go f_uck yourself, you pathetic cockroach.

A person's taste in movies doesn't reflect on their intelligence. You're not better than anyone because of your taste in movies, you retarded ignorant snob.

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Your response speaks trollish volumes.

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This guys a troll, made the exact same post on The Godfather board. You're a pathetic loser and a reason why Imdb is shutting down. Atleast won't have to hear from idiots like you.

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or u too

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The problem I have with 2001 is a person has to have read the book to understand what is going on in the movie.

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What book?

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Just gonna take a stab at 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke, maybe?

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Ah.. thanks!

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The novel and the screenplay were produced concurrently. Clarke's novel is hard science fiction. For example he makes
it clear that the monolith teaches the ape-men new ways of thinking. Kubrick preferred to let it be a mystery how the
monolith changed the ape-men. I prefer Kubrick's approach.
"If 2001 has stirred your emotions, your subconscious, your mythological yearnings, then it has succeeded."-Kubrick.

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wrong, that's your problem, not a problem of the movie. I never read the novel yet it is pretty clear what is going on. Your focus determines your reality. Your imagination fills the voids.

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I found it pretty boring as well tbh
'Ok' enough i suppose...might even have made a fine short film

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I take then that you don't care for "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Strauss)?"

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