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Rubber (2010)
Hugely Disappointing
This isn't one of those movies that is so terrible that it's good, it's just terrible.
I'm a big fan of cheesy, over-the-top, crap but entertaining films such as The Room, Plan 9 From Outer Space or Sharknado...but this film is just hands down terrible. I'm also a big fan of work-out- the-meaning-yourself films such as 2001 A Space Odyssey, but from the opening scene, it's shown that this movie has no purpose and that the events depicted happen "for no reason".
There's a smidgen of attempted humour at some moments, but the acting and dialogue from most of the characters are just so horrible that it's far from enjoyable, which doesn't help the film giving the impression that it's trying to be serious. The only redeeming quality is that it's shot and produced well, and I still can't figure out how they got the tyre to move on its own.
I normally try and focus on the good points of movies, no matter how bad, but this is first film I've ever seen that I actually felt I'd wasted 80 minutes of my life watching. Watch it if you're still curious and maybe you'll get something more out of it than I did.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Beyond Excellence
I'm 23 and finally got around to watching 2001 for the first time last year...I had lent it to a friend who watched it before me and returned it to me along with the complaint that it was the biggest waste of time he'd ever spent.
I didn't hesitate to get it watched and see what the fuss was about and I have never disagreed with someone as much. I absolutely loved it; the cinematography, the music, the (truly) epic-ness, the nostalgic-yet-unaging feel, the tension and unease throughout parts 2 and 3, the mystery and interpretativeness, the depth and the hidden meanings. Silence is used more effectively in 2001 than in any movie I'd ever experienced, the most chilling being when Dave is awaiting HAL's response to open the pod-bay doors. The universe I watched within that movie was more believable than 99% of anything else I'd ever seen.
Never had I seen a movie that seemed so much a form of art.
Everyone needs to see this movie.
I still obsess over it, it has become my favourite sci-fi film, arguably my favourite over ALL genres. I'm constantly at odds trying to persuade my other friends to watch it with me. I'm just awaiting the day I can see it on a big screen the way it was meant to be watched.
(A word of warning though, I can understand why some people would find it boring as there are long moments of panning shots, floating ships and no dialogue. I personally could have watched twice the amount more of it, but that's how art is, some can grasp and appreciate it, others can't.)