@Mainebot i think i identify too much to find it boring, every character is just perfect enough for me to love them

@CobaltVelvet no it's a very good film :) I can definitely see how it's trying to be a Kubrick film, but feels really front-street about some stuff. But I did like it :)

@CobaltVelvet my only issues start towards the end of the film, around the time they encounter Matt Damon.

I was probably holding it up to the immeasurable 2001 too closely...

agree, the characters are very good. I want to be reincarnated as TARS or CASE. :)

@wohali idk i find 2001's main plot to be uh boring and artificial, like a human had to think that up to make a sf film, not watch it happen as an important pattern that would genuinely be the outcome of such adventure

@CobaltVelvet I had trouble with suspension of disbelief. My sciency-mind didn't like the "inside the singularity" stuff. And I didn't buy a lot of the plot with Damon (aside from my dislike of him as an actor in general, even prior to recent events).

I should watch it again sometime; I haven't seen it since I saw it in the theatre first-run.

@wohali oh mine loved that. i mean higher dimensions are one of the rare genuinely mysterious things i can think of. and playing with time so flawlessly is just so good i can't help but contemplate it like it's the first time i see a mobius strip

@CobaltVelvet Based on your recommendation I promise to give it another watch, then :)

the whole "the only god you need is your future if you make it possible" is possibly the coolest and most beautiful theory humans ever thought about

- 🤔 some higher being created us for some reason we can't understand
- everything is absurd
- we will create ourselves so we can have existed

to make any sense at all it requires giving up time being linear and that alone is beautiful

@CobaltVelvet very Tralfamadorian (SH5 version)

how often does a movie make you reconsider the nature of time? it's a great movie