Thread 213906267

Do filmniggers know that boomers thought this shit was pretentious slop when it got released too?

I keep on seeing arthouse faggots and film students running their mouths about how people have fried attention spans and how they just can't appreciate old cinema. But reviews for 2001 A Space Odyssey were pretty mixed at release, with a lot of average people writing it off as pretentious boring shit.

This movie had slow pacing and little going for it even by the standards of the 1960s.

>>213906267 (OP)
>boomers thought
Could you please add citations? thx

>>213906306
Literally every normie boomer I asked about it.

>>213906336
I think you may be dishonest.

>>213906364
Rarely have I seen an OP get this thoroughly BTFO

>>213906357
Not at all. I remember watching it when I was a teenager back in the 2000s and asking basically every boomer at work, home at school about it. I got a lot of negative reviews on how it just dragged on.

One woman said she went to it high on acid.

>>213906364
>not even top 5
Oh ononoononono monkebros, what went wrong?

>>213906267 (OP)
Are you the same guy that posted last night that you watched it for the first time and you got filtered?

>>213906728
I watched it like 10 years ago, and again a few months back because it was on Netflix.

The only good parts were Monke kino, the Blue Danube space flight and the early parts on the ship when they're showing the routine.

The rest is tedious, even the conflict with Hal gets tedious because of the pod-bay doors and slow moving vehicles.

>>213906267 (OP)
Not really accurate. It wasn't well received by critics, but found an audience with the hippie counterculture. That is, boomers made it successful. Critics at the time were not baby boomers.
>>213906965
Is this supposed to be criticism? You didn't like the movie. Who cares? Say something interesting or move on.

>>213906267 (OP)
So?

>>213906267 (OP)
Yeah, the monkeys and the ending are too drawn out, like we get it Stanley, you are a great artist. But holy shit this film also has the best retro-futuristic space age vibe to it.

>>213906267 (OP)
>>213906364
Kill yourself OP

>>213907139
>retro-futuristic space age vibe
Gen Z genocide can't come soon enough.

>>213906267 (OP)
>Do filmniggers know that boomers thought this shit was pretentious slop when it got released too?
It became really big because it was shown late at night, and the trippy stuff happened right about when the drugs kicked in.

>>213906267 (OP)
>Filtered by babbys first slightly unorthodox movie
Lmao @ ur life

It was a cinematic nuclear bomb. When you get to it you're struck by how much of its influence you've already absorbed elsewhere, as well as how beautifully it holds up on its own merits. It's the film equivalent of stepping into a cathedral.

>>213906267 (OP)
Who gives a shit what boomers thought?

Of course people would be mad about an actual science fiction film that explores the trajectory of mankind instead of another movie with cars flipping over.

>>213906267 (OP)
The movie is excellent, you just don't understand it. Read the book. Seriously, it's a short book and a very good read. It explains what you couldn't explain visually.

>>213910563
Exactly you mental midget. Low attention span exists now and it existed back then as well. Glad we agree retard.

>>213910637
Except it was a popular movie back then. Plenty of people were willing to go along for the ride.

>>213910603
The joke is they did explain everything visually and the book adds nothing

>>213906267 (OP)
Did people hate the slow pacing in general or the cringy extended black screen start.

>>213906267 (OP)
It was a pretty big hit film when it came out

>>213906267 (OP)
you just don't get it.

>>213906267 (OP)
One of the few highly regarded movies where the words "It insists upon itself" is 100% accurate

>>213910685
It was first a movie after all. The sequel novels are pretty nice tho.

>>213906267 (OP)
50% of the populace isn't above average intelligence... and you expect low iq brainlets to understand what's going on in something that isn't an obvious in-your-face plot?
Also know that most of the people who watched the movie didn't read the book.

>>213906267 (OP)
Why are you presenting the fact that most people back then were morons just like they are today like some insightful revelation? Is it because you are a moron as well?

>>213906364
To be fair the median boomer age was something like 13 at the time. Clearly Silents were the ones watching it.

>>213906267 (OP)
You forget that boomers lived in a time where special effects on the level of this film has not been done before and could easily just glaze over their eyes and be taken in by it’s aesthetics

>>213906267 (OP)
Dont care.

When i was 7 and saw the scene where HAL flatlines the astronaughts the scene stuck with me for months. Loved the shit out of the ending where he unplugs HAL

I dgaf what boomers thought

>>213911172
The older I get the more I realize, we need morons. Morons are great at enforcing shit
Would you really want a security guard whose whole job is keeping people off a plaza to have an existential crisis and be like "that kid is just trying to smoke his joint without blowing smoke on people, I'll let him finish his doobie and beer before I harass him" or do you want a guy who goes "y'a need to geddoff the plaza, nobody is allowed here after 8. It's just my job, No fuck you I'll fuck you up" if he's gonna listen to some guy saying "you're gonna cause a constitutional lawsuit about public spaces cause I have a lawyer" he's just gonna get written up by his equally stupid boss.
Think how shitty you'd think music or movies were if it was all stuff for deep thinking college educated artistic types. If all you had is broody arts movies you'd not have anything to compare it to
Marvelslop, Bad Bunny's Music, t-shirts produced by the millions depicting famous Star Wars characters
It all makes it so that you can listen to music, watch movies and get dressed in a way that makes you enjoy it more

>>213911138
>50% of the populace isn't above average intelligence.
Yes because over 50% of the population have average intelligence.

>>213906364
5/10 great movies, not bad.

>>213906267 (OP)
If you only watch the parts with HAL and the ship it's a pretty standard thriller. Everything surrounding that is pretentious filler

>>213911902
Another dumb opinion in a thread filled with dumb opinions.

This 'movie' is such a pretentious trash that I can barely bring myself to even classify it as a film.
The odd part is that the book (and its sequels) are so fucking good.

>nu-/tv/ falling for bait
Pretending like 2001 is some unsurmountable or pretentious has been the go-to troll on movie forums since IRC newfriends

>>213912143
Imagine being this much of geek.

>>213911724
You have the most fundamental misunderstanding of statistics

>>213912193
Average intelligence is usually defined as having IQ within one standard deviation of the mean, that's approximately 68% of the population.

>>213912223
There's no such thing as average intelligence and it's all just a cop out by /pol/ types to say they were born better than the guy who has a job even though they don't have a job

>>213912349
>brainlet doesn't believe in smart people
bold cope

>>213912184
I guess that's me. I read the books first, and I was very hyped when I learned there's actually movies made after them
But actually watching 2001 was the most bizarre and disappointing movie experience I ever had. Utter trash, imho.

>>213912661
>Kubrick cocksucker thinks he's genius for liking Kubrick
You're remarkably average

>>213906267 (OP)
>Do filmniggers know that boomers thought this shit was pretentious slop when it got released too?
Are you capable of forming coherent sentences?

>>213908885
how did you manage to find a film board lol