Review of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Parith — 22 May 2015
Overrated and boring. An impersonation of greatness that people can't tell from the real thing. Dramatic music and scenes from different times convince the impressionable that the film is epic. Two completely unrelated things struggle to be the stars of this movie - the AI and the monolith.
Why? Because the movie has no worthy story, just a heaping of mysterious omissions and dramatic slowness. But with two mysterious things you double the illusion that you are seeing something interesting.
Legitimate mystery can be interesting, but this is story telling by omission. Where the author fills in a lack of vision and creativity with omissions that they try to sell as mysterious. This is a great fraud.
And I've watched it a few times in search of it's alleged genius. I wonder how much of the praise of this film is people following the herd saying it's smart to seem smart since they think other people think it's smart (like you see in so many things - wine, food, art, literature).
This review of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was written by Parith on 22 May 2015.
2001: A Space Odyssey has generally received very positive reviews.
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