Made in the 90s but based in the mid 70s...76 I think...it's basically about the last day of school, high school for some, grade 8 for others. I would expect I probably would have enjoyed it a bit more if I was around in the 70s...or graduating in the 70s...but I do appreciate it, and I've heard from talking to people who did graduate mid 70s that the movie is pretty spot on. Favourite character would have to be Slater...the pot head played by Rory Cochrane.
Fun fact of the day...in this movie the word 'man' was said just over 200 times (I would guess 80% of those were from Slater :P) and the word 'fuck' just over 60.
Matthew McConaughey makes a creepy appearance as an old graduate...I'm sorry, but I find him so disgusting...his little blonde mustache, ugh it's just so gross.
I kinda liked that his character was there though...him being the old graduate, hanging out with the new graduates, hanging out with the soon-to-be freshmen...it was kinda neat. And alotta fun. The movie was just fun...
With a kick ass classic rock (well, now classic rock) soundtrack consisting of Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Nazareth, Black Sabbath, The Runaways, Kiss, Foghat etc.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun, and it was funny without being overly cheesy which I can imagine would be very easy for that type of movie.
7/10
Monday, October 18, 2010
2001: A Space Odyssey
So, I had really really high hopes for this movie when I finally decided to sit down and watch it. I really enjoy Stanely Kubrick and I've heard that this is considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made...kinda a cult classic?
However, I have to say I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to.
The movie is divided into fourish pieces.
The first one is these ape-like animals who I assume are supposed to represent humans pre-evolution kinda thing. This big black monolith appears and in touching it and being around whateve this may be emitting...they suddenly aquire the ability to use tools. They use a bone...as tools and eventually as a weapon.
The second part follows a scientist I believe who is about to travel to a base on the moon. A group of people confront this scientist about an epidemic that is rumoured to be going on on the moon. The scientist doesn't deny it...implying it's true. When he gets to the moon h meets with fellow scientists where they reveal that the epidemic was a cover up for a monolith discovered on the moon. They go out to see it where again, it emits a loud...radio signal?
Part three, two scientist/astronauts are on a spaceship on their way to Jupiter. They're accompanied by three...hibernating? Astronauts in these chamber kinda things along with HAL, a computer helping them with the mission. HAL is said to be totally and completely foolproof and never makes errors. Eventually HAL tells the guys that their is some issue with some machine that needs to be fixed, however the humans back home say that THEIR HAL computer is telling them that thiers is wrong. This gets the men questioning HAL and despite their caution when expressing their concerns, HAL realizes this and murders one of the men when he's fixing thr apparent problem by severing his oxygen. When the other man goes out to retrieve the body, HAL kills the three hibernating astronauts, and gives the man difficulty getting back into the spaceship. When he finally got in, he dissabled HAL as HAL was begging him robotically not to. Upon dissabling it, he gets a video message telling him the actual purpose for his trip to Jupiter...it was because the signal from the monolith on the moon was aimed there. He continues to Jupiter.
In the last part of the movie, the astronaut makes it to Jupiter to find another monolith. He suddenly is like...sucked into this...I dunno what, but I do know it's very colourful, noisy, and lasts like five minutes. He then sees himself in different stages in his life, in a room...middle aged, older, then elderly...When he's old and lying in bed, a monolith appears at the foot of his bed. As he reaches for it, he transforms into a fetus and hovers in space over Earth.
So, the movie is definately slow, but I appreciate that for sure...there's definately enough substance to keep me fairly interested. So, that's not what made me dislike it...well, I didn't even dislike it actually! I enjoyed it but it didn't wow me like I had expected. I felt like there was kinda a theme of the monoliths allowing for evolution or progress or enlightenment...but then it doesn't really seem to be all that it's cut out to be. For example, the use of bones as a tool...then turns into a weapon and spurs on violent actions etc.
My favourite scene was probably when HAL was begging the astronaut not to unplug him. He has this super monotonous voice, being a robot, but you could sense the attempt at emotion...as he was begging and telling him that he was hurting him. Eventually he is eliminated to everything but his core, which happened to be him singing a song..."Daisy, daisy...." as he slowly fades out completely. I really liked that scene, I thought it was really creepy.
I'm going to let this one marinate a bit...and what i would rate this one now is actually even higher than what I had in mind before I started writing.
7.2/10
However, I have to say I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to.
The movie is divided into fourish pieces.
The first one is these ape-like animals who I assume are supposed to represent humans pre-evolution kinda thing. This big black monolith appears and in touching it and being around whateve this may be emitting...they suddenly aquire the ability to use tools. They use a bone...as tools and eventually as a weapon.
The second part follows a scientist I believe who is about to travel to a base on the moon. A group of people confront this scientist about an epidemic that is rumoured to be going on on the moon. The scientist doesn't deny it...implying it's true. When he gets to the moon h meets with fellow scientists where they reveal that the epidemic was a cover up for a monolith discovered on the moon. They go out to see it where again, it emits a loud...radio signal?
Part three, two scientist/astronauts are on a spaceship on their way to Jupiter. They're accompanied by three...hibernating? Astronauts in these chamber kinda things along with HAL, a computer helping them with the mission. HAL is said to be totally and completely foolproof and never makes errors. Eventually HAL tells the guys that their is some issue with some machine that needs to be fixed, however the humans back home say that THEIR HAL computer is telling them that thiers is wrong. This gets the men questioning HAL and despite their caution when expressing their concerns, HAL realizes this and murders one of the men when he's fixing thr apparent problem by severing his oxygen. When the other man goes out to retrieve the body, HAL kills the three hibernating astronauts, and gives the man difficulty getting back into the spaceship. When he finally got in, he dissabled HAL as HAL was begging him robotically not to. Upon dissabling it, he gets a video message telling him the actual purpose for his trip to Jupiter...it was because the signal from the monolith on the moon was aimed there. He continues to Jupiter.
In the last part of the movie, the astronaut makes it to Jupiter to find another monolith. He suddenly is like...sucked into this...I dunno what, but I do know it's very colourful, noisy, and lasts like five minutes. He then sees himself in different stages in his life, in a room...middle aged, older, then elderly...When he's old and lying in bed, a monolith appears at the foot of his bed. As he reaches for it, he transforms into a fetus and hovers in space over Earth.
So, the movie is definately slow, but I appreciate that for sure...there's definately enough substance to keep me fairly interested. So, that's not what made me dislike it...well, I didn't even dislike it actually! I enjoyed it but it didn't wow me like I had expected. I felt like there was kinda a theme of the monoliths allowing for evolution or progress or enlightenment...but then it doesn't really seem to be all that it's cut out to be. For example, the use of bones as a tool...then turns into a weapon and spurs on violent actions etc.
My favourite scene was probably when HAL was begging the astronaut not to unplug him. He has this super monotonous voice, being a robot, but you could sense the attempt at emotion...as he was begging and telling him that he was hurting him. Eventually he is eliminated to everything but his core, which happened to be him singing a song..."Daisy, daisy...." as he slowly fades out completely. I really liked that scene, I thought it was really creepy.
I'm going to let this one marinate a bit...and what i would rate this one now is actually even higher than what I had in mind before I started writing.
7.2/10
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