Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey

In article <NdadnYKl9ZOJVmranZ2dnUVZ_jydnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "SR" <no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 2001 made absolutely no sense to me when I first saw it.  The jumps
between 
> various stages of the movie with no sègues left me baffled.  (Don't get
me 
> started about the "Star Child" at the end!)  After reading the book and 
> rewatching the movie, I had a much better appreciation of the movie and
the 
> story being told.

It made no sense to me when I first saw it either, but I'm not quite old 
enough to have seen its original theatre run. I got to see it from time 
to time back in the '70s as the local TV station's Saturday night movie. 
Jumps with no segues? The psychedelic sequence is long enough that it 
usually got two or three commercials breaking it up, and who couldn't 
fall asleep during that? Especially on a TV with no remote control, much 
less a mute button?

I made up for it by seeing it on 70mm at an IMAX back in the '90s. It 
was so wide that I had to turn my head to see both sides of the picture.