From: jrs9jrs9@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 4:23:29 AM UTC-4, Klaus Meinhard wrote:   
   > > 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.   
   >    
   >    
   > --    
   > Mit freundlichen Grüßen,   
   >    
   > Klaus Meinhard   
      
   The music is The Blue Danube, a waltz by Strauss and probably the most famous   
   waltz there is.  Just like the docking was a dance.   
      
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