What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

**Frownland** · 08-22-2016, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Yup. Fantastic movie. I thought Gleeson was really good in Frank too.

I thought he was good in it too, but doesn't it seem like almost exactly the same character? The marked similarity is what's making me question his acting skills.

Chula Vista · 08-22-2016, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I thought he was good in it too, but doesn't it seem like almost exactly the same character? The marked similarity is what's making me question his acting skills.

Ya, I know what you mean. His dad is much more versatile.

innerspaceboy · 08-22-2016, 07:42 PM

Popping the popcorn for tonight's flick. Introducing my new wife to Strangers on a Train.

Clearly I haven't thought this through properly.

Tristan_Geoff · 08-22-2016, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

Popping the popcorn for tonight's flick. Introducing my new wife to Strangers on a Train.

Clearly I haven't thought this through properly.

I showed my girlfriend 2001 and kinda regret doing so.

I mean at least her comments were hilarious.

Blank. · 08-22-2016, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff

I showed my girlfriend 2001 and kinda regret doing so.

I mean at least her comments were hilarious.

I must hear her comments!

Or read. Whichever works.

Tristan_Geoff · 08-22-2016, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by 1blankmind

I must hear her comments!

Or read. Whichever works.

Can't recall all of them. We ended up looking summaries and interpretations afterwards but she couldn't stop with "this is the ****tiest movie I've ever seen" along with claims of pretention. I didn't deny the latter.

Her favorite movie is Interstellar too so she kept pointing our simularities.

Oh, and when he was pointing at the Obelisk in bed, she was like "he beat not turn into a baby or anything." She died in the next scene. I really do miss her.

JGuy Grungeman · 08-23-2016, 10:07 AM

Captain America: Civil War. It lacked in story, but it was awesome nonetheless. Some of the best fight scenes I've ever seen. And of course, great cast. 90/100.

Chula Vista · 08-23-2016, 10:36 AM

Always liked Ebert's take on 2001 written at the time of the movie's release back in 1968:

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Kubrick's universe, and the space ships he constructed to explore it, are simply out of scale with human concerns. The ships are perfect, impersonal machines which venture from one planet to another, and if men are tucked away somewhere inside them, then they get there too.

But the achievement belongs to the machine. And Kubrick's actors seem to sense this; they are lifelike but without emotion, like figures in a wax museum. Yet the machines are necessary because man himself is so helpless in the face of the universe.

Kubrick begins his film with a sequence in which one tribe of apes discovers how splendid it is to be able to hit the members of another tribe over the head. Thus do man's ancestors become tool-using animals.

At the same time, a strange monolith appears on Earth. Until this moment in the film, we have seen only natural shapes: earth and sky and arms and legs. The shock of the monolith's straight edges and square corners among the weathered rocks is one of the most effective moments in the film. Here, you see, is perfection. The apes circle it warily, reaching out to touch, then jerking away. In a million years, man will reach for the stars with the same tentative motion.

Who put the monolith there? Kubrick never answers, for which I suppose we must be thankful. The action advances to the year 2001, when explorers on the moon find another of the monoliths. This one beams signals toward Jupiter. And man, confident of his machines, brashly follows the trail.

Only at this point does a plot develop. The ship manned by two pilots, Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood. Three scientists are put on board in suspended animation to conserve supplies. The pilots grow suspicious of the computer, "Hal," which runs the ship. But they behave so strangely -- talking in monotones like characters from "Dragnet" -- that we're hardly interested.

There is hardly any character development in the plot, then, as a result little suspense. What remains fascinating is the fanatic care with which Kubrick has built his machines and achieved his special effects. There is not a single moment, in this long film, when the audience can see through the props. The stars look like stars and outer space is bold and bleak.

Some of Kubrick's effects have been criticized as tedious. Perhaps they are, but I can understand his motives. If his space vehicles move with agonizing precision, wouldn't we have laughed if they'd zipped around like props on "Captain Video"? This is how it would really be, you find yourself believing.

In any event, all the machines and computers are forgotten in this astonishing last half-hour of this film, and man somehow comes back into his own. Another monolith is found beyond Jupiter, pointing to the stars. It apparently draws the spaceship into a universe where time and space are twisted.

What Kubrick is saying, in the final sequence, apparently, is that man will eventually outgrow his machines, or be drawn beyond them by some cosmic awareness. He will then become a child again, but a child of an infinitely more advanced, more ancient race, just as apes once became, to their own dismay, the infant stage of man.

debaserr · 08-23-2016, 11:41 AM

^ Nice interpretation, thanks for that.

JGuy Grungeman · 08-23-2016, 12:47 PM

I actually agree with a lot of that. I agree that character development should have been greatly imporved on concerning the human characters. I understand part of the plot is to develop HAL, but that doesn't mean the humans should still be one-dimensional like robots.

Having said that, that's literally my only complaint about the film. 2001 was ahead of its time.

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JGuy Grungeman Primo Celebate Sexiness Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,662	I actually agree with a lot of that. I agree that character development should have been greatly imporved on concerning the human characters. I understand part of the plot is to develop HAL, but that doesn't mean the humans should still be one-dimensional like robots. Having said that, that's literally my only complaint about the film. 2001 was ahead of its time. __________________ I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me.