Film buffs please don’t crucify, but I couldn’t finish that shit it was so boring. My “Classics” are shit like The evil Dead and American werewolf in London.
Do you have to be like wired differently to enjoy that film?
It’s one of those films that you have to want to watch, if you’re looking for a particular cinema / film experience. For me, it’s almost peerless because I totally sink into films where nothing much happens or it happens very slowly and because it is science fiction - those two things together are entirely my thing. But it’s not for everyone - just in the way I have no real desire to watch fantasy things like LotR, Witcher, or whatever.
Kubrick’s movies are slow but get better each time you tackle them. Most also have pretty obvious leftwing messages: Spartacus is about a slave revolt (the writer was blacklisted I believe), Paths of Glory is anti-war, The Shining is about American genocide and the horror of the bourgeois family, Eyes Wide Shut is about Kubrick getting assassinated because he discovered Epstein decades early. 2001 might be his most rightwing film? It’s about human evolution and tools and has a strong Nietzschian element, but the film’s writer, Arthur C. Clarke, was not a rightwing dude and was definitely interested in cooperation at least between the USA and the USSR (which is positively depicted in 2001 and 2010).
Yes Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted
I took the course in college and it was in fact pretty mindblowing. Watch it back to back with The Shining and pay attention to the color palette - visually and thematically, The Shining is pretty much a perfect continuation of 2001.
That makes me want to take a class on it. Was the class under film studies or what department?
Film studies! It was a grad level course that I somehow talked my way into auditing. The professor was exactly the sort of alcoholic that you would want to teach a class on Kubrick, too - it was exactly what you’d imagine.
It’s just a slow movie. You have to nestle in and wait for it to happen.
Psychedelics help. It’s a unique movie and has no parallel. It’s Stanley Kubrick and he famously pulled no punches when it came to making his movies accessible.
Assuming you meant Evil Dead 2 and not the original, that’s a horror/slapstick combo. Yeah, 2001 isn’t for you. I’d suggest Smokey and the Bandit instead.
