Man, I love your videos. I've tried so fucking hard to understand this movie and it's praise and you provided a lot of insight. Genuinely, you are a great reviewer. I am so sick of people trying to be needlessly pretentious and intellectual and less human. THANKS.
I'm so glad you made your American Psycho analasys which allowed me to discover this channel. Love your view on movies and i hope to enjoy your stuff for years to come.
Every time you put one of these out, you point out something I never realised about a film, but it's never too far-fetched or pretentious. Great fucking job as always, keep it up.
Very well said, Josh. I also saw "Interstellar" and I believe that "2001" will outlive it by far. I was dazzled by 2001 when I first saw it in a Cinerama theater in 1968 and I am still dazzled by it.
You've got to be one of my favorite critics out there. You give the perfect level of insight. Never going so far as to alienate by being to presumptuous or too simplistic. And you are one of the few critics who has reviewed In Bruges (one of my favorite films). I really love this series and look forward to hearing about more films I can love.
"But they turn up their noses at movies made before a certain date." - well said. Most people I know think of movies that were made before 2000 as being "old" and therefore automatically boring/outdated etc. Some even try to be friendly by saying stuff like "considering how old this movie is, it was actually pretty good", as if movies have an expiration date or something. I always tell them that the oldest movie is older than the oldest living human being, and that a 50-year-old film therefore technically is "younger" than a 50-year-old person, but no one ever sees the logic in that.
DUDE YOU ARE SO RIGHT ABOUT THAT CERTAIN DATE STUFF. As much as I love it, The Godfather is the film where audiences are like "Yeah, there was nothing good from before this" but they are so wrong! The Godfather just invented modern cinema, so people are scared to watch everything else because it's so...different, I guess you could say.
When you do videos like this, you need to stick to a certain volume level, like a news caster. You sometimes end your sentences too abruptly and/or the last word fades into silence. It's improving things like these that will help your videos look and become more professional. The content itself is good I liked the video.
+Movies I love (and so can you) I hope you took note of this. The unconstant volume does take a lot away from the well prepared analysis foundation you had. And please, attend to comments like this (those that actually give you constructive criticism) rather than those 'thoughtless' comments that are just trying to be 'funny'...
Thank you for your review of 2001: A Space Odyssey! I just watched it for the first time this evening and this has really helped me to further process it. :)
+NDfor SPDadsdas Actually Kubrick was on record that he made it so long and slow paced so that after watching it people would feel like they had really been on a long space odyssey.
That may be so, but I don't think he ever would have done it differently anyway. There's so much beauty and wonderment in each shot. It flows like an epic piece of music. I think the pacing is perfect. Even the talking segments establish important motifs, themes and build a gravitas for the other parts of the film. To describe it as boring, even intentionally-so, is fundamentally incorrect. In my opinion, of course.
2001 can and has bored me to literal sleep. It remains the only movie to have done this. I find parts of it interesting, attractive, and once or twice entertaining, but those paltries can't save a movie that isn't enjoyable to sit through. There are things that could -- there are movies I love more for historical, ideological, even technical reasons -- but even those don't become my all-time favorites, and DO end up being enjoyable to reflect on if not to experience. I respect that you DO seem to get a lot of enjoyment out of the movie, but you seem convinced that everyone likes this movie. There are serious arguments against it.
GamingRanger So is the evolution of mankind not enough of a story for you? Sure, I complete understand why someone would not like this movie and that's perfectly fine, it wasn't made for everyone. That said, that does not mean the movie is about nothing, this is very close minded thinking
Arthur C Clarke said that he never quite forgave the astronauts of Apollo 8 [the first manned flight around the far side of the moon] for not reporting the presence of a huge monolith as soon as they were back in radio contact with Mission Control.
I have been Following this video and and trying to really get the deep meanings of this movie to no avail. I imagine if I was alive and old enough in 1968 my mind would've been blown away but I recently saw this movie and fell asleep. It has its moments and the effects are really really good for that era and even better than in some more recent films. My dad had a Memento of this movie on the wall and I get it, it's a classic. I've spent many a sleepless nights thinking about how to give Kubrick his due for he was a great film director but at the same time recognizing directors today who are making movie masterpieces. My Insomnia paid off when I discovered a few films by a genius director. My dad naturally thinks its blasphemous to consider any modern day filmakers as equal or even greater than Kubrick but I consider myself a Dark Knight in this endeavor. The Prestige of fighting for what one thinks is true is very rewarding . The idea was "Implanted" into my head by chance when I happened upon a movie that changed my life. It was a moment of "Intergalactic" proportions. A mainly silent war movie with no back story for the characters but instead just their experiences about a battle and rescue operation of WWII off the coast of Dunkirk. After witnessing the majesty and sublime craftsmanship on the screen I'm glad I held on to the initial Tenet of my conviction.
Hey man, just discovered your videos, really enjoy them. I also do movie reviews and was wondering how you go about monetizing them when you use footage and audio from the films? Thanks.
I love Charlie Kaufman, but I haven't seen that one. (Also, word around the campfire is that Clooney rewrote a lot of it and Kaufman didn't approve of the final product. Not that any of that matters on whether or not it's good or whether or not I like it, but yes, I haven't seen it.)
Your reviews are really good and well edited. I subbed. At first it was hard to get through the whole movie. But after watching it the second time I realized how more intriguing looking and actually good it is with their ambiguous themes of the future, the unknown, robots, god, aliens. Hey Josh I also have a channel where I review movies and I recently did a comparison to Interstellar. I don't know if you would like to check it out and see what you think? See ya :)
Dirk Reurslag No but it is based on Carl Sagan's fictional book of the same name. Sagan also knew Arthur C. Clarke or at least held an interesting discussion with him and Stephen Hawking about science and philosophical questions. It's somewhere here on youtube. But anyway, yes. Contact was great, I loved. It definitely had layers you can dissect after multiple viewings.
'But they turn up their noses at movies made before a certain date.' So true. I know a guy turned off by movies made before 1990 simply because of how the audio sounds. Sad but true.
I like what Ebert said about black-and-white movies. I think it's applicable to some people having a distaste for older movies. "Moviegoers of course have the right to dislike b&w, but it is not something they should be proud of. It reveals them, frankly, as cinematically illiterate. I have been described as a snob on this issue. But snobs exclude; they do not include. To exclude b&w from your choices is an admission that you have a closed mind, a limited imagination, or are lacking in taste."
MarcusHalberstram88 That's a good point. When I think about people being pretentious, it usually involves them proudly declaring their distaste for something. Even when they're bigging something up, they do it by putting something else down.
Why is that sad? Why can't you just let people enjoy and not enjoy whatever movies they want? You're the one being close minded by implying that your taste in movies is final. Some people don't like movies made before the 90's, some people don't like movies made after the 90's. There's nothing wrong with either opinion.
It's honestly one of my favorite movies. Not sure I could do it justice though. Plus, another (more famous) youtuber is in the process of releasing an analysis of it, in several parts, and his analysis is excellent. I doubt I'd have anything more to add.
I love the sequel more. " _What's going to happen? Something wonderful. I'm afraid. Don't be._ " I just wanna add about " _He fell asleep going to the moon, that's how boring it is!_ " I too would fall asleep, but not because it's boring, but because it's a long trip and I'd have front-row seat to one of the best views ever which is comfortable. I mean, who wouldn't want to be wrapped up in say a bed with the Earth or Moon in our? Just my five cents! 8:14 - NO! WRROOOOOOOOOOOOONG!!!! Hence why I love the second movie more as it expands on HAL-9000.
It pisses me off to an irrational extent that so many people don't watch movies older than themselves, with maybe two exceptions. These people have never seen anything from John Ford or David Lean or Billy Wilder or even Alfred fucking Hitchcock. What kind of life is that?
'the purposely trying to bore us' part i cant appraise any film maker for purposely boring people. its just reaching. its like those people who look at mundane boring pieces of art and then try to find some deep meaning that doesnt actually exist. I liked 2001 but not the boring parts.
I'm sure this was a great commentary, but you need to slow down and enunciate more. I often had no idea what you were saying, as you slurred your words together.
MarcusHalberstram88 I vote 'There Will Be Blood.' When I first saw it I thought I was missing something, but still loved it. Then I saw it a second time and thought I wasn't missing anything after all, but still loved it. Would be curious if there's anything between the lines I haven't managed to read.
I liked it. There was a lot to like about it but plenty of problems. I didn't love it (like a lot of people) and I certainly didn't hate it (like a lot of people).
This was a good analysis but it does make me appreciate the movie less. Seems self centered to have humans as the "chosen species" out of all the rest.
I think that's only because we happen to be the pinnacle of evolution thus far. Other species like snakes or fish don't have the potential that humans and apes do, not even based on intelligence but based on our dexterity and design. I suppose it could have been aliens from another planet, maybe Mars or even something from Andromeda, but that would make the movie lose the little bit of surface reliability that is there. especially since we have no knowledge of what another intelligent being would even be like, don't you think?
+John King "Natural Selection"- A term misapplied by the public. Darwin did not mean you have to be strong or smart to survive. He viewed natural selection as the ability of species passing their genes to the next generation. The realization that species adapt or "evolve" to continue reproducing is when the word evolution came about. It's a social construct to say humans are the "best" because we made skyscrapers, spaceships, and language . That's the humans version of "best". But what about ants? Do you think ants need to build skyscrapers to survive and do they need a spoken language to build a colony? Ants have their own way and humans have their own way but it's all about surviving. Like to conclude to a calvin and hobbes quote Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
"it bored the characters to sleep and it bores the audience"......im sorry but,,, it doesn't take a genius to bore people to death.....this movie is complete utter pretentious garbage
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Man, I love your videos. I've tried so fucking hard to understand this movie and it's praise and you provided a lot of insight. Genuinely, you are a great reviewer. I am so sick of people trying to be needlessly pretentious and intellectual and less human. THANKS.
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That was a wonderful analysis!
I'm so glad you made your American Psycho analasys which allowed me to discover this channel. Love your view on movies and i hope to enjoy your stuff for years to come.
Every time you put one of these out, you point out something I never realised about a film, but it's never too far-fetched or pretentious. Great fucking job as always, keep it up.
Very well said, Josh. I also saw "Interstellar" and I believe that "2001" will outlive it by far. I was dazzled by 2001 when I first saw it in a Cinerama theater in 1968 and I am still dazzled by it.
You've got to be one of my favorite critics out there. You give the perfect level of insight. Never going so far as to alienate by being to presumptuous or too simplistic. And you are one of the few critics who has reviewed In Bruges (one of my favorite films). I really love this series and look forward to hearing about more films I can love.
The breathing during those scenes is actually Kubrick's.
Matthew Adlard After that he turns to the dark side
"But they turn up their noses at movies made before a certain date." - well said. Most people I know think of movies that were made before 2000 as being "old" and therefore automatically boring/outdated etc. Some even try to be friendly by saying stuff like "considering how old this movie is, it was actually pretty good", as if movies have an expiration date or something. I always tell them that the oldest movie is older than the oldest living human being, and that a 50-year-old film therefore technically is "younger" than a 50-year-old person, but no one ever sees the logic in that.
DUDE YOU ARE SO RIGHT ABOUT THAT CERTAIN DATE STUFF. As much as I love it, The Godfather is the film where audiences are like "Yeah, there was nothing good from before this" but they are so wrong! The Godfather just invented modern cinema, so people are scared to watch everything else because it's so...different, I guess you could say.
When you do videos like this, you need to stick to a certain volume level, like a news caster. You sometimes end your sentences too abruptly and/or the last word fades into silence. It's improving things like these that will help your videos look and become more professional. The content itself is good I liked the video.
+Movies I love (and so can you) I hope you took note of this. The unconstant volume does take a lot away from the well prepared analysis foundation you had. And please, attend to comments like this (those that actually give you constructive criticism) rather than those 'thoughtless' comments that are just trying to be 'funny'...
As a Kubrick fan - you nailed it!
Thank you for your review of 2001: A Space Odyssey! I just watched it for the first time this evening and this has really helped me to further process it. :)
This was reeeaally well done. Touched on a lot of idea's I hadn't thought of before which makes me want- no need, to watch this again. Thank you
It's not intentionally boring, it's captivating.
+NDfor SPDadsdas Actually Kubrick was on record that he made it so long and slow paced so that after watching it people would feel like they had really been on a long space odyssey.
That may be so, but I don't think he ever would have done it differently anyway.
There's so much beauty and wonderment in each shot. It flows like an epic piece of music.
I think the pacing is perfect. Even the talking segments establish important motifs, themes and build a gravitas for the other parts of the film.
To describe it as boring, even intentionally-so, is fundamentally incorrect. In my opinion, of course.
I don't know what to say other than thank you, your channel is a work art.
I watched 2010 first and liked it as a kid. So I rented 2001 and didn't understand it. As i grew up i understood it better.
2001 can and has bored me to literal sleep. It remains the only movie to have done this.
I find parts of it interesting, attractive, and once or twice entertaining, but those paltries can't save a movie that isn't enjoyable to sit through. There are things that could -- there are movies I love more for historical, ideological, even technical reasons -- but even those don't become my all-time favorites, and DO end up being enjoyable to reflect on if not to experience. I respect that you DO seem to get a lot of enjoyment out of the movie, but you seem convinced that everyone likes this movie. There are serious arguments against it.
GamingRanger So is the evolution of mankind not enough of a story for you? Sure, I complete understand why someone would not like this movie and that's perfectly fine, it wasn't made for everyone. That said, that does not mean the movie is about nothing, this is very close minded thinking
Your videos are extremely underrated
Arthur C Clarke said that he never quite forgave the astronauts of Apollo 8 [the first manned flight around the far side of the moon] for not reporting the presence of a huge monolith as soon as they were back in radio contact with Mission Control.
Your a genius and thank you. How about analyzing Fargo, would much appreciate
yes
Being a symphony? Holy shit
Or talk about Synecdoche, New York
hey man, youre good at this. i hope you get more followers. keep up the good work
Your last line moved me to tears ... sob sob
I have been Following this video and and trying to really get the deep meanings of this movie to no avail. I imagine if I was alive and old enough in 1968 my mind would've been blown away but I recently saw this movie and fell asleep. It has its moments and the effects are really really good for that era and even better than in some more recent films. My dad had a Memento of this movie on the wall and I get it, it's a classic. I've spent many a sleepless nights thinking about how to give Kubrick his due for he was a great film director but at the same time recognizing directors today who are making movie masterpieces. My Insomnia paid off when I discovered a few films by a genius director. My dad naturally thinks its blasphemous to consider any modern day filmakers as equal or even greater than Kubrick but I consider myself a Dark Knight in this endeavor. The Prestige of fighting for what one thinks is true is very rewarding . The idea was "Implanted" into my head by chance when I happened upon a movie that changed my life. It was a moment of "Intergalactic" proportions. A mainly silent war movie with no back story for the characters but instead just their experiences about a battle and rescue operation of WWII off the coast of Dunkirk. After witnessing the majesty and sublime craftsmanship on the screen I'm glad I held on to the initial Tenet of my conviction.
Love your description.
Well done, and thank you sir!
Hey man, just discovered your videos, really enjoy them. I also do movie reviews and was wondering how you go about monetizing them when you use footage and audio from the films? Thanks.
Wow so true The Godfather is the arbitrary film date people watch movies
And yes i have seen a lot of classics, Im a huge movie buff myself, Stanley Kubrick's 2001 was amazing but Interstellar was also amazing.
Man I love your videos, have you ever thought of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind?
I love Charlie Kaufman, but I haven't seen that one. (Also, word around the campfire is that Clooney rewrote a lot of it and Kaufman didn't approve of the final product. Not that any of that matters on whether or not it's good or whether or not I like it, but yes, I haven't seen it.)
Right, then I highly recommend it, it's a very fun movie. :)
god Damn you're good at this
Are you proud of me, Pa?
Very interesting video. Thank you!
Superb review of this film. I totally agree with you.
Your reviews are really good and well edited. I subbed. At first it was hard to get through the whole movie. But after watching it the second time I realized how more intriguing looking and actually good it is with their ambiguous themes of the future, the unknown, robots, god, aliens. Hey Josh I also have a channel where I review movies and I recently did a comparison to Interstellar. I don't know if you would like to check it out and see what you think? See ya :)
Have you seen Contact(1997)? That movie has similar themes and is hugely underrated too. Though I wouldn't dare put it up against a Space Odyssey.
Dirk Reurslag No but it is based on Carl Sagan's fictional book of the same name. Sagan also knew Arthur C. Clarke or at least held an interesting discussion with him and Stephen Hawking about science and philosophical questions. It's somewhere here on youtube. But anyway, yes. Contact was great, I loved. It definitely had layers you can dissect after multiple viewings.
it doesn't take skill, talent or genius to bore someone.
It’s not the discovery of a tool it’s the discovery of a weapon
'But they turn up their noses at movies made before a certain date.'
So true. I know a guy turned off by movies made before 1990 simply because of how the audio sounds. Sad but true.
I like what Ebert said about black-and-white movies. I think it's applicable to some people having a distaste for older movies.
"Moviegoers of course have the right to dislike b&w, but it is not something they should be proud of. It reveals them, frankly, as cinematically illiterate. I have been described as a snob on this issue. But snobs exclude; they do not include. To exclude b&w from your choices is an admission that you have a closed mind, a limited imagination, or are lacking in taste."
MarcusHalberstram88 That's a good point. When I think about people being pretentious, it usually involves them proudly declaring their distaste for something. Even when they're bigging something up, they do it by putting something else down.
Why is that sad? Why can't you just let people enjoy and not enjoy whatever movies they want?
You're the one being close minded by implying that your taste in movies is final. Some people don't like movies made before the 90's, some people don't like movies made after the 90's. There's nothing wrong with either opinion.
SuperHoeCakes Why can't you let me enjoy my close minded comment regarding close minded people?
I don't know if you have seen Synecdoche,New York by Charlie Kaufman, but I think you should analyze it. Its an extremely deep and intriguing film.
It's honestly one of my favorite movies. Not sure I could do it justice though. Plus, another (more famous) youtuber is in the process of releasing an analysis of it, in several parts, and his analysis is excellent. I doubt I'd have anything more to add.
I love the sequel more.
" _What's going to happen? Something wonderful. I'm afraid. Don't be._ "
I just wanna add about " _He fell asleep going to the moon, that's how boring it is!_ "
I too would fall asleep, but not because it's boring, but because it's a long trip and I'd have front-row seat to one of the best views ever which is comfortable.
I mean, who wouldn't want to be wrapped up in say a bed with the Earth or Moon in our?
Just my five cents!
8:14 - NO! WRROOOOOOOOOOOOONG!!!!
Hence why I love the second movie more as it expands on HAL-9000.
Amazing review!
You should talk about The Tree of Life.
Are you gonna do one for The Social Network?
It pisses me off to an irrational extent that so many people don't watch movies older than themselves, with maybe two exceptions. These people have never seen anything from John Ford or David Lean or Billy Wilder or even Alfred fucking Hitchcock. What kind of life is that?
'the purposely trying to bore us' part i cant appraise any film maker for purposely boring people. its just reaching. its like those people who look at mundane boring pieces of art and then try to find some deep meaning that doesnt actually exist.
I liked 2001 but not the boring parts.
AFGalwayz Like he said in the video, boring isn't really the best word. It is really is like a moving painting to me
I want to log a request for A Long Goodbye. I look forward to your next video, whatever the subject.
Tops!
I'm sure this was a great commentary, but you need to slow down and enunciate more. I often had no idea what you were saying, as you slurred your words together.
What other movies are you going do for the movies I love segment in the future
Good question. Right now, I have tentative plans for The Social Network, There Will Be Blood, 500 Days of Summer, and Zodiac.
MarcusHalberstram88 I vote 'There Will Be Blood.' When I first saw it I thought I was missing something, but still loved it. Then I saw it a second time and thought I wasn't missing anything after all, but still loved it. Would be curious if there's anything between the lines I haven't managed to read.
Please do The Social Network. I think TSN, Her, and Birdman are the 3 best films of the 10s.
MarcusHalberstram88 if at some point you get bored, I think you could do a twenty minute video about Magnolia. One of the finest movies around.
MarcusHalberstram88 The Social Network is my favorite film of all time, PLEASE
This movie is torture for gen z because our attention spans have been fucked by modern tech.
Interstellar was ok?............. really.
I liked it. There was a lot to like about it but plenty of problems. I didn't love it (like a lot of people) and I certainly didn't hate it (like a lot of people).
Tapirs are American. Prehistoric Africa could not have had tapirs.
I really loved skipping through the pointless dragged out scenes of this troll film. And I didn't fall in the trap of praising it.
This was a good analysis but it does make me appreciate the movie less. Seems self centered to have humans as the "chosen species" out of all the rest.
I think that's only because we happen to be the pinnacle of evolution thus far. Other species like snakes or fish don't have the potential that humans and apes do, not even based on intelligence but based on our dexterity and design.
I suppose it could have been aliens from another planet, maybe Mars or even something from Andromeda, but that would make the movie lose the little bit of surface reliability that is there. especially since we have no knowledge of what another intelligent being would even be like, don't you think?
+John King "Natural Selection"- A term misapplied by the public. Darwin did not mean you have to be strong or smart to survive. He viewed natural selection as the ability of species passing their genes to the next generation. The realization that species adapt or "evolve" to continue reproducing is when the word evolution came about.
It's a social construct to say humans are the "best" because we made skyscrapers, spaceships, and language . That's the humans version of "best". But what about ants? Do you think ants need to build skyscrapers to survive and do they need a spoken language to build a colony? Ants have their own way and humans have their own way but it's all about surviving.
Like to conclude to a calvin and hobbes quote Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
it's a good looking movie, but I really don't like it, because of a lack of cohesive story.
I find this movie really boring 😂 I really enjoyed HAL tho
"it bored the characters to sleep and it bores the audience"......im sorry but,,, it doesn't take a genius to bore people to death.....this movie is complete utter pretentious garbage
Women do not like this movie.
my thoughts:..worst movie iver ever seen
I hate this movie
The fool who makes these videos needs to go to college.
Edruezzi why?