The Reel Rejects - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY IS A F***ING MIND TRIP! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watch!

Starting point is 00:00:00 let's embark on this quest together this odyssey this odyssey yes that is the proper choice of words all right coy you're ready to finally see what the hell is going on yep it's a classic let's find out if it holds up let's do it uh okay so i like a movie that makes you go inward um i i love blockbusters i love uh you know film i really like traditionally uh you know i'm known for superhero stuff which is about as opposite of this as it gets like the nature of superhero movies is very formulaic to elicit emotion what i thought was fascinating about this was this was the antithesis of linear in order to elicit emotion so it was finding ways to manipulate your experience but give you just enough to like find a grounding like there was enough gravity to use the the experience to make it feel like

Starting point is 00:00:58 you could think for yourself and i really liked how it kind of just roamed freely with his visuals and it i like the pacing because it allowed you to have time to wonder and and have all and to think and i really think the sound caused more emotion than the visuals but then the visuals would be obviously inspired filmmaking sense but the visuals were so striking and bold but vague at enough times that you got to go inward i don't know it's a really weird experience of a film to try to review because it's it's so emotional not i mean i would say our this is even though it was the first time watch i would categorize it more as commentary because we didn't stop talking because due to the pacing of the movie and due to what the movie is aiming for it kind of wants you to contemplate

Starting point is 00:01:52 yeah that's fair what its experiences are and i feel like a lot of what we've been saying right now was just sort of repetitive of what we said during of what we said during which was a lot during and a lot of the well i was i was really surprised by watching the thesis of at least what the movie was presenting how it unfolded um you know like it's it's pretty cool like the baby ending i can imagine being controversial for the sake of like not laying out clearly what the movie is really all about but you know the to me when at the beginning of the movie it It's showing how the first man got away from nature in the pursuit of the unknown. Like, we never learn what this monolith is.

Starting point is 00:02:35 It is just this crazy curiosity thing that made us want to unpack it and then through that process of it. We created tools and tools and tools and tools ultimately into like artificial intelligence. Then right down to the deathbed where this guy's enriches and everything, he's still like completely alone at the end of it all because you pursued nothing. It's just this black rectangle that they pursued for answers and then being brought back down again to the purest form, the most nature form of a human being, which is being like a baby to it all and the path of what happens when you embark, you know, as a human being. Like this is a big, this is a movie that seems to be questioning what is the point of existence. Yeah. What is the point of humanity?

Starting point is 00:03:20 What is the point of a pursuit? It made me think about like life, like our lives. individual yeah what is the point of meaning that we assign you know uh it is a very contemplative piece in a way that might not be so obvious but it's kind of obvious when you just kind of like talk it out i think i think because we're able to talk out our thoughts throughout the process yeah we're dissecting in real time we can be way wrong but i feel like it's kind of all there in the movie the movie seems to be laying out what it's what it's really speaking about the whole yeah yeah i think that's fair you know and it's a beautiful but it's crazy like on just a technical piece though i have

Starting point is 00:03:54 no idea how they shot most of this movie yeah that was the crazy part because you know they're limited not with having computer generated effects but and so most of it had to be practical at the very least and there are so many shots like how the fuck do they pull that off i i don't even understand how they did this in one shot i'm also always fascinated by how we think technology'll go and it was really interesting to see how right it was but also how optimistic it was and if you think about the distance between like inventing flight to inventing space travel that's such a short window like our our time from you know when the the brothers invented the first biplane to flying right is so much shorter than most exponential increases even in technology so i feel like

Starting point is 00:04:36 kubrick extrapolated off that window to where we'd be 33 years later in 2001 and it's interesting to see how much you got right about AI and about iPads and about a lot of technology and certain things that feel like well yeah that's it but also you know we don't have space is not something we've conquered in any way and and it's interesting to see like the divisiveness of human nature is probably why we haven't because this movie showed all these countries working together all of this united in in a you know a space port all going forward we're all like gathered in space to go either up or down and instead we just fight each other on this little mud pit and we don't go forward and it's really interesting to

Starting point is 00:05:19 think about 68 and the space race and the optimism of of the time and there are plenty of things going wrong in 68 obviously but the the perspective on where he thought we'd be in 30 years versus where we are yeah i feel like so much of it is about survival versus meaning you know when you look at the i think i say striving versus meaning versus surviving versus meaning in a sense yeah yeah i mean i think both are are probably applicable because the first most of this is dedicated to the space time right when when they go to panam starting off there and then most of the runtime is dedicated to that but the whole first like 20 to 30 minutes is just the first the dawn of man when we were just apes and they really illustrate

Starting point is 00:06:02 what that life was like where we're just living amongst the animals you know it's just kind of civil we're not eating the animals either yeah we're just living we're just one with earth and then once we create something then it become then you're watching the evolution of what man eventually becomes which they start eating the animals they start killing each other they start creating things for things that are like greatness and that's why i meant by survival versus because as you are seeing them having to just sort of survive that's i mean by strive versus yeah in the beginning they were surviving but they weren't evolving they weren't achieving when we ate meat as creatures our brains had enough protein to grow and like we as carnivores turned into this and

Starting point is 00:06:42 they showed that but that was us striving for more versus just baseline and it's also like instinct versus intelligence. Yeah. I think it explores a lot. You know, a true detective is one of the coolest shows of ever,

Starting point is 00:06:54 I was in the first season, but whatever that quote is that Matthew McConaughey has about essentially saying how consciousness is like the worst than they could have ever happened to man. Yeah. And it could have happened to earth consciousness

Starting point is 00:07:04 and you sort of watch how that kind of unfolds throughout this experience. That was so cool. It was a really cool movie. I personally, I was just on a personal level, I would have liked

Starting point is 00:07:16 some interesting characters. I don't feel like any characters were particularly interesting. You know, good acting is one thing, but like, it would have been cool to how the Hal was the most interesting character. I don't know what his name. What? Doug? Dave.

Starting point is 00:07:29 Dave. I, like, I get it. It's not about traditional storytelling. It's not about linear storytelling. So much, this is one of those rare movies where it really is about the, the character is the directing. Like, that's the character. The character is the atmosphere and all the other things of what the directors of

Starting point is 00:07:48 emotions that he's expressing on a very subconscious level so it's like a very stream of consciousness kind of experience from stanley kubrick and that's the real character of the of the story i personally feel like yeah just having a little bit of that elevated touch with having like a character or character human characters that have more interesting lines or something like that's the heart you were talking about that interstellar captures i feel like interstellar is this plus heart yeah and and that character set i don't even know if i need a heart necessarily just like i'm literally just going back to just an interesting character would have been nice you know because i would really find myself very sucked in throughout most of it and the only times i would get kind of pulled out is when

Starting point is 00:08:28 the characters were talked and there's barely any talking in this movie yeah but that's how that's how not that interesting i found the characters yeah and that was the only thing i really wish was there but it's i know it's not about that and i could greatly acknowledge that because the rest of the film is truly a fucking trip yeah that wasn't and i've never ever experienced it's weird to be like this movie come from 68 it's one of the biggest films of all time there's so many movies that are clearly inspired from this one movie like yeah yet just changed film yet i can't say i've ever experienced a movie like it even though so many movies have tried doing it you know 100% you could see aesthetic choices you could see the use of sound

Starting point is 00:09:10 choices there's a lot of choices that you're like oh i can see how you know from from ridley scott to Cameron, to Nolan, to a bunch of other filmmakers, even Doctor Who I could see it all, but yet I'm like, I've never seen a movie like this. That was so special. Strangely, yeah, it's a special time. We have one question. It's funny how our page,

Starting point is 00:09:30 one of the biggest movies of all the time. We're going to get no questions. This will get seven views, Greg. No, man, I don't know, man. I think it's going to be great to watch people watch this. I can't imagine. We had Jay Rushin asking us, would you ever want to visit outer space? No, I don't really care to, honestly.

Starting point is 00:09:43 It sounds like it would be cool for, I'd like to do it if I can only be up there for like a couple hours. I'm not interested in really after that. More and more, I don't even really want to get on planes. Yeah, me too. I got stuff to do. I don't know if I'd want to go to space. And like see space through like a tiny window.

Starting point is 00:10:03 I'm pretty claustrophobic. It'd have to give me a big window, you know? It's like when you think about going on a plane, you're like, oh, cool, I'm going to get the view. I think you like this tiny window. There's a giant wing blocking the view. Also, and this sounds so entitled. And it is. But we have so much technology that can make it look like you're looking out that big window. And I wouldn't be able to ever know if it was real or not. Like, I would never feel any difference between looking at a big window of projected image and big window of I'm in space.

Starting point is 00:10:29 You know what I mean? Because you're not going anywhere. Unless you're looking through the window as you're going up, it could be pretty terrifying. But you can project that. Like, if I go to the moon, I'm touching it. I'd be down with the projection. But you know what I mean? Like when I go to, when I fly to New York, I land in New York. When I'm in the plane, I'm bored. True. So, like, I feel like going to space would be all the boredom. And you could just give me the visual, which is so entitled, but, like,

Starting point is 00:10:52 I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. And also, everything I've heard about it seems just awful, exhausting. Yeah, this movie is anti-space. Yeah, it was all about optimism, but fuck space. I'm overwhelmed by that movie.

Starting point is 00:11:05 That was incredible. Yeah, that hurt my head. All right, guys, what do you think about 2001 of Space Odyssey? Leave your thoughts down below. We'll see you soon. Reject Nation. Thanks Prepper for editing this down.

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The Reel Rejects - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY IS A F***ING MIND TRIP! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watch!

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