• It’s quite incredible if you think how well he immagined technology and how fantastic it looks for being 55 years old, which makes it almost look like a generic science fiction film, except that generic science fictions films look like that because he did it before the others. But yes, the pacing is reallly really slow and can be quite boring unless your interest is thouroughly studying every scene in it for it’s symbolic meaning and the cultural impact it had

        •  misk   ( @misk@sopuli.xyz ) 
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          Yeah, sci-fi stuff was definitely boundary-pushing for a movie. Unfortunately our modern attention deficient brains are not compatible with lots of older movies. It makes me really appreciate classics that stood the test of time. Movies like 12 Angry Men or anything by Hitchcock or Kurosawa keep you at the edge of a seat even today.

    • Okay this is my favorite movie. Got to see it in theaters rereleased. It took me almost 10 watches, and being stoned enough, to finally see what it’s really about. The spaceship is a penis, the black hole is a vagina, and humans are the sperm. That’s it.