Found this New Yorker article...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/2001-a-space-odyssey-what-it-means-and-how-it-was-made
Like Apocalypse Now, opened to a negative reception.
Kubrick had to cut it down. Compared to two David Lean movies, "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago"
IMO, not incorrect comparisons. While I like to ridicule Zhivago, it really is a quite good movie. Lawrence really drags, however. Space Odyssey is visually spectacular, like both aforementioned movies, while it drags in places, it really is quite good and appropriate in retrospect. I can get how hippies on acid were the only ones to like the movie, however. Dawn of Man is creepy, slow, but fascinating. Kind of like early chapters of Genesis.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/2001-a-space-odyssey-what-it-means-and-how-it-was-made
Like Apocalypse Now, opened to a negative reception.
Kubrick had to cut it down. Compared to two David Lean movies, "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago"
IMO, not incorrect comparisons. While I like to ridicule Zhivago, it really is a quite good movie. Lawrence really drags, however. Space Odyssey is visually spectacular, like both aforementioned movies, while it drags in places, it really is quite good and appropriate in retrospect. I can get how hippies on acid were the only ones to like the movie, however. Dawn of Man is creepy, slow, but fascinating. Kind of like early chapters of Genesis.
