I've just wasted an hour plus watching the first half on 2001 A Space Odyssey.

So far, it has to be the most boring pointless movie I have ever, ever seen.  I must have tried to watch it in some prior year, and no wonder I switched off.

But now, having invested that hour plus, I am gonna see the rest.

Terrible move so far.

The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical sports drama film based on the Invercargill, New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle] Munro set numerous land speed records for motorcycles with engines less than 1,000 cc at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, and was produced, written, and directed by Roger Donaldson.

Burt Munro is portrayed as being an affable, ordinary, New Zealander with a passion for speed.  He travels to Bonneville in Utah with his motorcycle and along the way he encounters many helpful people such as a transexual Motel Clerk, policemen and various cowboys and Indians.  He meets in particular an Air Force pilot on leave from Vietnam, just before he reaches Bonneville.  Once there, he finds he should have registered his bike months before and he has to convince officials to let him run, which he does.  They allow him to run and he discovers his bike is unsteady at high speed so he decides to put a lead brick in it's front from melted down car batteries.  However he finds it doesn't fix the problem so discards the idea.  While doing his official trial, he loses his goggles and totals his bike.  It seems he goes back again after the movie finishes and makes his promise of having the fastest Indian good.  A movie well worth watching.  Hopkins excels as Munro, a likeable character.  10 out of 10.   

Aussie wrote on Nov 21^st, 2023 at 6:10pm:


I have finished watching this garbage.  Okay, I get it.  It was made in 1968 but what the f was it about?  What on Earth did anyone get out of the long scenes of the same image/message apart form agonising boredom?

Is it that we went from Ape to Human.  Big fing deal, even in 1968 that was as boring as bat poo.

The erect tablet the apes were fingering has me stuffed.

There is a mission etc the Moon, wow, then to Jupiter, then a HAL stuffs around, then some long scenes of changing coloured lenses, then some wanker in a suit looking at another wanker on a table, dramatic music...go to embryo..end of movie.

WTF?

Absolute crap.

Watch it again, or for the first time, and tell me it is anything other than gimmickry, long drawn out scenes.

The whole movie could have sent the same message (whatever that was/is) in less than five bloody minutes.

Nah.

Trash.

Convince me otherwise with detail and reference to the movie.

WTF did it have to do with 'English?'

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How so.

It truly is crap.  Fair dinkum.  Where is the subtlety, what is any subliminal message?  What was the point of making it other than  so show old gimmicky photography which now looks like something a one year old would come up with.

It is rubbish and people probably have tried to make it something it is not by ascribing stuff to it which is just not apparent or even credibly implied.

The tablet was symbolic for a TV set?  What?

Watch it again now (Netflix) and tell me how the long boring meaningless scenes actually mean something.  For example, I physically got up to check the TV at the start when all there was was a black screen with music playing which went on and on for minutes.  WTF was that for other then to ensure I was immediately bored sless?

I was reminded about why I detested being forced to read poems and then being asked..."What does the author mean?"  The only true answer is..."Whatever the f they intended it to mean, not what I reckon might have been in their bloody mind!"  It was all the rage to impute a quality to the poem which the author probably was not talking about at all.  It amounts to po faced intellectual snobbery.

Bah!

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Dumb that down for this cultural desert please. I saw no obelisk.  HTF does even an obelisk provide anything?

Mate, you are dreaming up stuff to impute a meaning.

I neither read the book nor had any idea WTF the movie was about before I watched it. I went in with an open mind, had no expectation, and with that open mind, by the time it reached the end....it was just a trashy, boring as s, inexplicable in overall, and even specific sequence, movie to watch.  It ended in scenes which made no sense whatsoever to me.

Aussie wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2023 at 12:29pm:


Monolith.

Aussie wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2023 at 8:15pm:


Happier with FMJ?

No Highway in the Sky (also known as No Highway) is a 1951 black-and-white aviation drama film which stars James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Janette Scott, Elizabeth Allan, Ronald Squire, and Jill Clifford.

It was one of the first films that depicted a potential aviation disaster involving metal fatigue. Although the film follows the plot of Shute's novel in general, with James Stewart starring as Theodore Honey, an American Boffin working at Farnborough that is convinced that the tail on the Reindeer is unsafe.  He proceeds to Labrador to investigate a crash and encounters on the journey a film star, played by Dietrich and a stewardess played by Johns, traveling by a Reindeer.  Alarmed he informs the captain of the danger and the movie star and the stewardess.  The captain believes him as does the movie star and the stewardess.  They land at Gandar Airport and Honey collapses the Reindeer's undercarriage rather than allow it to fly on.  The airline want him hung, drawn and quartered and his superiors at Farnborough are unsure.  He goes through an investigation and Dietrich wants to stay but leaves, Johns declares she is going to marry him and the tail falls off the test airframe.  An excellent movie, well worth watching.  9 out 10.