Update/Movie Question

[packbat]

What's up: not much. Still getting started at work, am rereading my favorite book (Watership Down), just rewatched "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (which is not a comedy), and the latest TSAT just came out.

Okay, now the question. What is the best movie you've never seen? I know you can't answer for sure – especially since your "best movie" will be judged differently than anyone else's – but what's your best guess?

(My rules for 'never seen': may have seen trailers, overheard dialogue, but never sat down (or stood nearby) and watched for any period of time. So, I can't do "Pi", because I watched bits of it over my brother's shoulder.)

I think, in my case, the answer is probably 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's a total guess, but I value science fiction over almost all other genres, and have a natural preference for hard science fiction – Arthur C. Clarke's genre.

And, what little I've heard about it impress me. AIs are fascinating, and unlikely heroes, daring and unconventional stunts ... they're good, at least in potentia.

Oh, and please – no spoilers.

Comments

[feech.livejournal.com]

That is also my favorite book.

About Space Odyssey, I have seen it, and never enjoyed it, except maybe a moment or two of it. I guess I'm not a good fan for it. Best movie I've never seen ... hasn't been made yet?

Spoilers can also become a problem if, besides not having TV, one never sees movies in the theatre anymore and waits a long time before getting around to them sometimes on DVD. Oh well.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yeah, I've heard of other people having that kind of reaction. Well, I'll see when I see it – don't know what else I might guess.


Best movie I've never seen ... hasn't been made yet?

Yeah, you're probably right. I just wanted to guess something.


Spoilers can also become a problem if, besides not having TV, one never sees movies in the theatre anymore and waits a long time before getting around to them sometimes on DVD. Oh well.

Very true. Then again, it's not impossible for the trailer to spoil the movie before it even comes out; "The Adventures of Pluto Nash", a much-underappreciated Eddie Murphy movie, had one trailer which exposed the biggest plot twist in the film!

[feech.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, yeah, come to think of it, I have noticed that one of the _Pitch Black_ trailers gives away part of the ending. But without watching it in sequence in the movie, a person might not know for sure how that part comes out. Another part, a line spoken, gave away something else, in that one character's voice out of context gives away something about the character.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't remember that trailer – was it that character? The one who's not what you'd expect?

Anyway, Pitch Black was definitely superb. It must have been incredible in the theater.

[feech.livejournal.com]

Yep, _that_ character, and also there's a bit in some trailers that, if you know for sure how the creatures behave, indicates a death for certain, but when watching the movie it kind of fades from memory until it actually happens and then is recognized in the trailer again. But the voice, out of context, of _that_ character clued me in way ahead of time.

It gets better each time we watch it so far-- but my experience in the theatre would have been improved by the removal of certain badly behaved, rude, insert-curse-words-here in the audience.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Oh, poo. If only it'd been like "Bulletproof Monk", where I had the theater to myself!

Or not, since that'd mean they'd not make any more. Drat!

[packbat.livejournal.com]

(Long-belated reply...)

You were right. I didn't like it.

*si-i-ighs*

[feech.livejournal.com]

Well, you now have viewed it in the interests of classical/pop culture self-exposure quotas.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

True! I feel much better now.