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?
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?
Read the book. The movie is not based on the book and the book is not based on the movie. They were written at the same time, collaboratively, by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. The book is much more fast-paced than the movie and actually explains everything. The movie is definitely more art than entertainment, while the book is more entertainment than art.
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They are like 75% the same, 25% different. In the book, the prehistoric ape-humans have a lot more description. The monolith is clear instead of black. There is also big sub-plot about nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament. And it makes clear the transhumanist storyline, that the point of the Monolith is to help humans evolve even more - beyond the flesh.
The book also clearly explains what's happening with David at the end. I remember it goes into great detail about things we'd regard as supernatural, like spaceships that somehow operate by adhering to certain ratios, or aliens that can see every moment of time at once. When I read it for the first time I thought Clarke was trying to show something transcendent yet mundane at the same time, and I think it worked. I really love that book.