From: k_meinhard@gmx.de   
      
   > It's a movie (and book) made by 1960's drug-addled loonies ...   
   > *THAT* is why it's an incomprehensible mess.   
      
   If you don't understand something, somebody else has to be to blame, of   
   course.   
      
   > It's also not helped by the first half or more (after the monkeys)   
   > being mind-numbing boring   
      
   So sorry that sequence isn't up to Fast 'n Furious. Probably life was   
   pretty boring, during the absence of cave bears at that time. But the   
   first encounter of proto-man with an alien artifact and the ensuing   
   uplift that this symbolizes could be seen as quite sensational.   
      
   The crossfade of that flying bone into a space transporter was seen as   
   quite ingenious at the time.   
      
   > (including the "two-hour"* docking sequences to nothing but awful   
   > ballet music), so everyone has gone to sleep by that point and wake   
   > up at the end not knowing what's going on.   
      
   It's not ballet music, even if it is a space ballet. And the first and   
   best realistically filmed at the time, at that scope, done that way to   
   give you a feeling of how it would really be to sit in that shuttle.   
      
   So perhaps you should try to keep to Transformers 19.5 and refrain from   
   judging films you are obviously not equipped to understand.   
      
      
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   Mit freundlichen Grüßen,   
      
   Klaus Meinhard   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)