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(British voice) *fingering a scone* Oh, yes, it was *terribly* well done....perhaps a bit of a bore though. I mean, a *tad* hardboiled...wouldn't you agree?
Oh, here, take another English muffin, lad, cheer up....
*reverses from British to American accent, like a reverse Jamie Bamber*
Yeah, I mean, if you *like* the old-school, hard-boiled stuff, then this is totes the movie for you....
But, that's not my thang.
I mean, you can talk about how it was all technically NASA-grade (or BBC-grade) back in 1968, but, that brings up the point: 1968 is a long time ago. And if anybody ever tells you that anything labelled as a "classic" will never decline in its popularity or suddenly have its flaws and defects come out in a way that they didn't before, just because it's "classic", well....that's just a deluded false belief.
And yeah, I know that this director has done some stuff which I really do think is excellent....but I just don't think that this movie, is that.
And, in a genre already taken with drama, dry drama, and technical detail, and dull technical detail of the technical specs of imaginary robots and quotes from imaginary documentaries...(and encyclopedias, maybe?)...because it *was* already like that, back then--no, it was way *more* like that back then, *before* Star Wars...or Star Trek, even....
"It's like throwing gasoline on a flame."
And, you know, it's also a great example of this sort of, basically, snobby sci-fi, even worse than Patrick Stewart's campy Shakespearean Trek, this sort of "hard", hard-boiled, *way* harder than RDM, even, who, let's face it, is kinda hard.....and yeah, I'm sorry I'm being a bit of a Revan here, guys.....but, yeah, it's just this let's-win-awards, lets-show-the-NY-Times-that-were-real-hardcore-nerds-and-real-snobs....and, you know, the guys at the NY Times, or BBC, or whatever, are *never* going to respect you guys or think that you're "real" snobs....that's why they got their fancy uni job, or paper job, *or whatever it was*, so that they could be the "real" snobs, whereas you guys are just the "wannabe" snobs.
And, you know, to me, and a lot of other average "average", "normal" people...or, okay, sometimes wannabe-average, wannabe-normal....you're uh....still snobs.
*British voice* But cheep up, Yank, if you can't muster together the sterling to go on the Grand Tour, you can still go see Shakespeare in Plays in the Park, eh?
*British voice de-activated*
And, yeah, if you get all the way to the end, you get the funny line... about the door.
And, you know....if you're *really* clever, you might find a way to connect the "theme" (basically: "the thing it's really about", the thing, basically), of betrayal (via the robot), with, uh....well, certainly not with what I just did to you, eh?
*British voice* Here, have a scone and some jam, Junior....
....although, actually, I think that that movie was somewhat better. And it was also *not* sci-fi....kinda.
P.S. I suppose it's also as good of an example as any of the sort of sci-fi guy who thinks he's destined to become "a sort of minor prophet", but, I don't know. Really? I mean....
Really?
(6/10)
