2001: A Space Odyssey useless beginning?

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Originally Posted by Mystique

I just got around watching 2001: A Space Odyssey after buying it from Amazon's BOGO a few months or so ago and man that movie is pretty weird. What I felt was so useless was the first three minutes of the film, where the screen was blank and music was playing. What was the intent of that? To waste time? Overall the movie was pretty hard to get into and I never really did.

Better Theaters.

2001 was from a more elegant age with much grander and opulent theaters then todays edited down version. It was an artistic event on 70mm that no 1080p home theater comes close to duplicating. If you are under 30, it's going to take some stretch of imagination to understand, that despite all the technical advances whose clarity never makes it to the big screen, the movie going experience was much better back then then it is today.

A Few Good Ones Still Around:

• Radio City Music Hall
• Arc Light Cinemas

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