2001: A Space Odyssey useless beginning?

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Originally Posted by Beta Man

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I don't think it's the part about her not enjoying the film, but the fact that she said the beginning should have been cut etc.... That's like me saying that movie about robots shouldn't have been made because it sucked (and that's how I feel about it) if I didn't like it, that's fine, but if I'm going to suggest ways to make it better, I should be prepared to defend myself against those who liked the Director's well.... "Direction" !

EDIT... I see she didn't suggest changing it directly, she just said it was "useless"

Again, she was talking about the Overture, the three minutes of music over black screen, and not the movie itself-- in her own words, "where the screen was blank and music was playing." It's been repeated enough times here; I don't know how you keep missing it. You're making it sound like she's talking about the beginning to the actual movie, and she's not; she's talking about the Overture that precedes the movie.