Movies to Help Pass the Time

[Snattlerake]

Want your mind blown? Watch 2001 A Space Odyssey and try to understand the ending.
2010 The YearWe Make Contact is a much better movie and kinda explains the first one.
It is based on Arthur C. Clark's novel 2010 Odyssey Two.

 

[Snattlerake]

Last night I watched "THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD" (1965) on Amazon Prime. I watch a lot of old movies but I had never seen this one.

It is a Cold War spy movie starring Richard Burton. I recommend it if you're into these type of films.

Good movie.

 

[gerhard1]

Want your mind blown? Watch 2001 A Space Odyssey and try to understand the ending.
2010 The YearWe Make Contact is a much better movie and kinda explains the first one.
It is based on Arthur C. Clark's novel 2010 Odyssey Two.

This is my take on 2001:

Talk about films that are unwatchable, I'll put 2001: A Space Odyssey in that category. I know, I know, it was artsy-fartsy to beat hell, one of Kubrick's best films and all that, but to me, it was a dull plodding monstrosity. In this pointless film, Kubrick was a pure 'Toscanini of tedium', to use Vincent Bugliosi's apt phrase.

I had heard such good things about this film, how utterly brilliant it was, how profound, how Kubrick had achieved the pinnacle of the art of film making. So when I saw the DVD in WalMart I bought it, expecting to see a masterpiece. I put it in my DVD player and immediately thought that something was wrong with the disc. I went on IMDb and found out that, no; my DVD was fine and the posters there urged me to continue the movie, that I was about to really enjoy a lofty cinematic experience. Yeah, right.

I had to struggle through this disaster. I had to watch it stages because otherwise, I'd have been bored to tears. I was anyway.

When I told the folks on IMDb how I felt, I was immediately denounced as a troll, on the grounds that this, and another Kubrick film I said that I didn't like, were such fine films that everyone had to like them. That seemed to be the gist of their reasoning, anyway.

Toscanini of tedium; it fits. Thank God, all I was out was $3.78 + tax.

 

[O4L]

Two Mules For Sister Sara is coming on GRIT right now!

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Just finished Wild Horses... Don't waste your time.

 

[nich018]

Wife hates violent war movies b/c her brother was in Viet Nam. Found out on a third date. lol

 

[surjimmy]

I haven't read all the post's, so if this has been posted sorry. I just started watching Memorial Day on Prime, I'm about 20min in it and it is shaping up to be a Doozy.

 

[O4L]

I haven't read all the post's, so if this has been posted sorry. I just started watching Memorial Day on Prime, I'm about 20min in it and it is shaping up to be a Doozy.

Which version?

1983

1998

2012

I'm guessing it's the 2012 version. The other two are rated pretty low.

 

[surjimmy]

Yes 2012

 

[thor447]

Star Trek....just saying. Content to keep you occupied for weeks on end, and 95% of it is pretty good.

Just finished 'The Highwaymen' on Netflix. Pretty cool flick about the Texas Ranger investigation and eventual shootout with Bonnie and Clyde (although it was more of a firing squad than a shootout). Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson.