I mostly love Space Odyssey because of how idiosyncratic it is. "You mean you want to make a three hour long film, you want to spend 12 million dollars*, and the script has FIVE MINUTES OF DIALOGUE????????" It just strikes me as the kind of project which is utterly impossible under Capitalism. The visuals are cool, and rather than trying to jam a narrative down the viewer's throat, it is open-ended and somewhat thought provoking. They screened it locally in 2018 for the 50th anniversary and it was pretty cool to see on the big screen.
* 12 million dollars in 1968 would be 94 million dollars today. That's more than the $93M budget for Fellowship Of The Ring. :agony:
I mostly love Space Odyssey because of how idiosyncratic it is. "You mean you want to make a three hour long film, you want to spend 12 million dollars*, and the script has FIVE MINUTES OF DIALOGUE????????" It just strikes me as the kind of project which is utterly impossible under Capitalism. The visuals are cool, and rather than trying to jam a narrative down the viewer's throat, it is open-ended and somewhat thought provoking. They screened it locally in 2018 for the 50th anniversary and it was pretty cool to see on the big screen.
* 12 million dollars in 1968 would be 94 million dollars today. That's more than the $93M budget for Fellowship Of The Ring. :agony:
The original Lord of the Rings Trilogy didn't have massive budgets. It was a weird property and an untested director.
OK, but it's also less than half of the budget of any of The Hobbit films.