XPost: rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   From: neverland@GOODEVEca.net   
      
   In article ,   
   Your Name   wrote:   
   >On 2019-08-11 23:43:49 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:   
   >   
   >> On 8/11/2019 1:04 PM, Pete wrote:   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>> moviePig   wrote:   
   >>>> On 8/10/2019 6:00 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "Getting"?!? '2001: A Space Odyssey' was pretentious, weird,   
   >>>>> nonsensical, drug-addled crap a long time ago.   
   >>>>>   
   >>   
   >> Most of the people who complain about 2001 being "pretentious" or "a   
   >> druggie movie" are thinking of the sequence where Bowman travels thru   
   >> the Jupiter monolith.  They completely fail to understand that the   
   >> sequence was SUPPOSED to be bizarre and incomprehensible to depict the   
   >> beyond human comprehension experience Bowman was going thru.   
   >   
   >What the author and filmmakers fail to understand is that they're   
   >making a product *for* humans, so making it incomprehensible to humans   
   >is simply moronically silly ... and hence makes it prententious,   
   >art-farty, and plain pointless crap.   
      
   Hah!  Well.  I've always suspected that I'm not actually human.   
   Guess that proves it!   
      
   	-- Pete --   
      
   [I suppose it's time I connected with the Others, and began organizing   
   our scheduled takeover of the planet.]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)