Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Bambi B (A) on October 07, 2005 at 00:25:01

In Reply to: Very much with you on this posted by Road Warrior on October 6, 2005 at 17:04:58:

Road Warrior,

I agree that "2010" had some good acting: Scheider made some brilliant moment out of some trite dialogue.

[The probe sent to look at possible life in a crater on Europa has just shot past them at incredible speed. The inference is the probe did not shoot itself at Jupiter to amuse itself]:

Russian guy: O.K. Vat do YOU thindck it waz?

Pause, Cut to Scheider casually leaning on a nuclear reactor.

Scheider: A warning.

And I liked the Helen Mirren character too- well underplaying the trite political dialogue. I'm not an expert, but her incomprehensible Russian was good incomprehnesible Russian.

The Lithgow character and Russian counterpart weren't quite so subtle:

[Russian guy and Lithgow have floated over from the Russian ship to the ol 2001 ship- now a giant spinning cosmic hambone. This floating over was a scary thing to do]:

Russian Guy: I was scarezdd first time I'm doingziz 2 .

Lithgow: How many times have you done it?

{ba-ba-BA bum!}

Russian guy: This was my first time.

But, I really hated the mere fact that this movie did intend to answer the questions posed by "2001".

It was the emotional sparceness and the cold, faceless mystery of the monolith, the unexplained screaming when it was on the Moon. The monolith- as it symbolizes technology and it's relation to small "c" creation- should remain ultimately a mystery- and it's true depths unknown.

To have ol whozits come back and drag us in bits through the explication of the recapitulation of the backstory flashback plotpoints is a solution that doesn't even fool a Bambi ! Weren't there several series in the US with ghosts and/or angels fluttering around helping everyone- no doubt giving wise guidance through difficult home refinancing?

There are some questions that completely lose their elegance when answered- and this reflects back on the origianal and makes it seem simplistic- oh the monolith was some spaceship that was bringing life to colonise Europa and is clever eough to compress Jupiter until it becomes a star?

But, it was never answered- the critical point that we all now must know: Who bought the furniture in old Dave Bowman's room with the wall to wall floor lighting?

Hey! Road Warrior- Wait!- Coming to a theatre near you!, "2032: The Search for Petrol" And Mel Gibson will hurtle down dusty Australian roads in a RHD 2005 Mustang with a big supercharger and spikes on the front- and swinging a chain.

Cheers,

Bambi B