http://imdb.com/title/tt0062622/board/nest/15755255
for a facinating conversation reguarding Stanly Kurbric's 2001: A Space Odssey. Some people have interesting stuff to say, others have nothing to say, and most are total idiots.
I didn't feel like actually posting my opinion there, so I'll just say a few things here.
2001 is actually an amazing movie. But honestly, I didn't get it at all the first time I saw it. I thought it was stupid and boring. But now I've taken a few film classes and I really can appriciate the artisticness of the film. It really is very good. You have to be in a certain frame of mind to really understand it. I'm not going to go into details or go on a rant here, but it definantly should not be discarded. Kubric is really a genious. He's right up there with Tim Burton on my list of favorite Directors.
Just got done watching Garden State. God...I want to make movies so bad. Really. I mean, its just so beautiful. The saturated color, the camerawork, the framing, the lighting, the sound track, the everything. I literally teared up when they were all screaming outside in the rain. Not because it was sad, but because it was it was so beautiful and I want so badly to make something that amazing. And the thing is, will I ever actually get to do it?
I dunno...but I just want to so badly it hurts. Forget all the pretentious film bullshit, who cares about any of that. I just want to make something beautiful. Movies can be so beautiful, aesthetically and emotionally. I just want to do that. I mean, I have the vision, I have the drive...sometimes it just seems so clear. I want to make movies. period. I've never felt so passionate about wanting to do something before. And I don't care, I don't want to think about what the odds are that I'll actually make it. I just want to do it so badly, that it stirs me to my very fiber. maybe i do have a calling after all...
