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In Reply to: I used to work on operas. posted by Analog Scott on January 4, 2007 at 16:20:13:
Just a quick comment on that opera thing and then need to run, might come back to do the second part later.I love opera, and listen a lot to it, in fact have the ipod with nothing but opera in my car at the moment. For the life of me I can't understand your rejection of bel canto, but hence the rub - I do not have such reaction towards the sci fi movies, none at all. I actually love them as light form of entertainment. But I also find that what the American cinema has done to that genre truly sucks - it turnd it into a monster - pun purely intended... with nothing but row upon row of drooling ugly creatures. Sci fi can be intelligent, insigntful, psychological, entertaining and more - and that is how I recall it.
But today's dirty wave of "creaturism" is revolting.
But like I said - I do not see any similarity between your feelings towards the opera and mine regarding the sci-fi films. Give me a good one and I will enjoy it.
Follow Ups:
Here are some from the better one.-The day the Earth catch fire.
-Blade Runner ( first version ) this film is poetic and have a vision.
-The Thing ( Hawk version of course!
-Matrix only part one.
-Metropolis- Lang opus still rock.
-And Solaris which I used to consider a sleeper, and must revised it as this director ( Tarkowski ) in the meantime maybe in my eyes as the best universal director of all time.
But I was under the impression that you were about as fond of genre movies as I was of opera. I remember way back I asked you to come up with a short list of genre movies that you liked and you couldn't come up with anything other than one of the Sinbad movies, as very light entertainment.
...let me just state once again that I have nothing agains that or any other genre... heck, I dig the teenage films with cute babes... so it is just the matter of meeting a good one.The 2001 is one such good film, it is a fine work from many perspectives, it just fails, in my view, live up to the highest prase some people bestow on it.
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You are certainly not alone.
I have done extensive research into the 2001 phenomena over the last 20-25 odd years. My compiled research tells me that of the total no. of people who have watched 2001 - actually, make that "tried to watch" 2001 - somewhere between 25% to 50% fell asleep.
If you go into 2001 expecting to be entertained, you will probably end up a sleeper.
I agree with Analog Scott - it is a thinking movie. It leaves you with lots of questions and few answers. No ideology or philosphy is foisted onto you - but there is a lot to ponder afterwards if you want to.As an engineer, I loved it instantly for its totally realistic vision of space travel, which IMO is unsurpassed. I can't suspend my sense long enough to relax and enjoy Star Wars or any other modern sci-fi film - they are all 5th Element to me - just fun stories with gobs of mindnumbing CGI effects done because without the effects they'd have no movie at all.
The fact that almost nothing happens for much of the film is fine with me, the guys who one day travel to Mars or Jupiter will do nothing for most of the time as well.
Cheers,
John K
"Natura abhorret a vacua"
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