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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mrneutron: [QB] A few thoughts on 2001. First of all, as I posted previously, 2001 (the film) isn't a traditional/mainstream film narrative, so demeaning it for not following the conventions of mainstream cinema is a little like criticizing jazz musicians for making it up as they go...that's the point. 2001 is a film of images, period. It's intentionally slow, it's intentionally flat, and repetative. Kubrick himself said "nothing important is conveyed in the dialogue", because the film is about the images and their juxtaposition, comoposition and color. As to the ending making sense, personally, I think I "get" the film all right. And in my mind the point it makes is much more powerful than the book's. I won't launch into a treatsie on it, unless someone wants me to. :D Finally, using "entertaining" as criteria is to lop off all other possible experiences you can get out of the film. I don't watch 2001 to be entertained any more than I do going to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Matisse's works don't have to entertain for me want to linger over them. The same with 2001. Seriously, and as stated previously, we're so conditioned by mainstream films and television that we expect all movies to fall into a narrow, cookie cutter form. For me, what's sinful isn't that a film isn't necessarily entertaining, but when a film that is INTENDED to be entertaining, fails miserably at its appointed task. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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