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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2016 6:03:08 GMT -5
Time to settle it once and for all.
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 7, 2016 7:10:25 GMT -5
I saw this in the cinema about 18 months ago. There was a stretch - Heywood Floyd traveling to the moonbase - where the audience was slightly restless, but they soon snapped back into place.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jul 7, 2016 8:48:43 GMT -5
I think it's a movie with very dehumanised people (Floyd is a bit of a corporate nonentity, as Dellarigg alludes to) but it's engrossing to me even then. |
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Post by pairesta on Jul 7, 2016 9:58:52 GMT -5
The first few times I saw it, I thought it was criminally dull. So I certainly understand that viewpoint. But now, if I happen across it, I usually get hypnotized by it and watch it to the end.
Although I do admit the journey through the monolith and Big White Room stuff at the end gets a little tedious.
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Post by Paleu on Jul 8, 2016 1:07:59 GMT -5
I'm a pretty strong no, since the movie draws me in like few movies can, but I can also totally see how someone could find the movie to be unbearably dull. Very much a case of different strokes for different folks.
ETA: And while I love it high or sober, this is an excellent movie to watch stoned.
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Post by Invisible Goat on Jul 8, 2016 8:15:25 GMT -5
I've only seen it once. I would say not boring on the whole but admit that I was bored at times.
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Post by Buon Funerale Amigos on Jul 8, 2016 8:43:12 GMT -5
Although I do admit the journey through the monolith and Big White Room stuff at the end gets a little tedious. Not if you take a few bong rips and sync it with "Echoes". Fuckin' Floyd, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jul 8, 2016 8:45:36 GMT -5
Although I do admit the journey through the monolith and Big White Room stuff at the end gets a little tedious. Not if you take a few bong rips and sync it with "Echoes". Fuckin' Floyd, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. And are Andrew Lloyd Weber. |
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Post by pairesta on Jul 8, 2016 9:37:47 GMT -5
I do have to say one of the key turning points in my relationship was the movie was catching it while recovering from being doped up for a dentist visit.
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Post by MarkInTexas on Jul 8, 2016 10:20:07 GMT -5
The movie can be dull at times, but I suspect where you watch it plays a big impact. I've never seen it on the big screen with an audience, and I'm guessing the experience might be different than watching it at home on the TV.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jul 8, 2016 10:46:19 GMT -5
It's a movie you absolutely have to choose to give your full attention to. If you go in to it looking for a diversion, it won't work. It would be like taking Aristotle's Nicomachaean Ethics to the beach and wondering why it wasn't keeping you awake.
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