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   Klaus Meinhard to All   
   Re: "Interstellar"   
   20 Jun 17 17:16:20   
   
   From: k_meinhard@gmx.de   
      
   Hallo Your Name, Gutless et al.,   
      
   >>>> More like *minus* 4 out of 5 ... it's a hopeless mess. It starts   
   >>>> off okay, but gets weird and incomprehensibly silly towards the   
   >>>> end. It's basically a modern day version of the equally hopeless   
   >>>> "2001: A Spce Odyssey".   
   >>>   
   >>> Have to agree with you on this one. I just couldn't finish it,   
   >>> there was nothing credible on screen at all.   
   >>> I still haven't seen "2001:ASO" and have no desire to see it. I   
   >>> just can't understand the attraction of both these movies.   
   >>   
   >> I have seen 2001. The only movie I've ever seen more   
   >> incomprehensible and incoherent is Cyborg with Jean Claude Van   
   >> Damme.   
   >   
   > Thankfully I've never seen that one ... nor anything else with Van Damme in   
   it.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >> The ending of 2001 was completely nonsensical, so I read hte   
   >> book. Which really didn't make that much mores sense.   
   >   
   > Yep. I read the awful book as well. I've got the sequel book (or books,   
   > can't remember now), but have never bothered to even try reading it /   
   > them.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >> The one paragraph descriptions of Interstellar made it sound too   
   >> stupid to be any good, but not stupid enough to be so bad it's   
   >> good.   
   >   
   > At least "2001" had the slight excuse of being from the drugged-out   
   > hippy age ... "Interstellar" has no such excuse, so it's simply weird   
   > garbage.   
      
   of course you don't realize that your opinion of these great and classic   
   SF films tells more about you than those films :-)   
      
      
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   Herzliche Grüße,   
      
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