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As a kid into Star Wars, 2001 appeared on TV one Christmas. It looked terrible and I was bored to tears. Just did not get it at all.
A few years on; now a teenager with my 8ft ‘scope screen up and running I was hiring super 8 features and thought I’d give it another go.
Right from the opening shots I realised, “Oohhh, part of this is just that it’s supposed to just look great!!”.
I get that people find it boring, but I find it, well, “fascinating”. Its real merit is that, ok, you could make it today in a fraction of the time and with a fraction of the money. But would it look any better?
Ironically, it is a good sharp print as it was one of the later Derann scope prints. We were harassed by a fellow collector to watch a 1200fr reel of it but his GS1200 started to play up and we didn’t get any further.
Another overrated movie is There’s no Business like Show Business. The only good bits are Marilyn Monroe the rest of the cast are drips. Ethel Merman should be shot of sight.
The 200ft digest contains all the relevant scenes plus the Derann super 8 feature print had focus variations that you had to keep correcting all the time on the projector.
Now 2010 wasn't half bad (ah hell, I like any film with Roy Schneider, truth be told 😁.) The first Matrix was OK, but boy, did it blow a lot of great films out of the water when it came out! Overrated films? Nearly anything Oscar worthy these days!
Looking back 2010 in Scope and on Super 8 is one feature I regret not getting. We watched at the cinema when it came out and always thought it was good. To date I have never heard of any Super8 collector owning a print, although I am sure there must be some out there. However luck did come my way with a 35mm print which looks great
I think George Lucas would see the funny side of this, as he saw the funny side of Spielberg using a Star Wars character very briefly in E.T. without permission........ and they were both sitting next to each other at the time !
I also think Mr. Kubrick would even have chuckled at this.
Very amusing !
Most overrated film can be a lot of things to different people. One I certainly agree with is "Doctor Zhivago". I remember the countless previews to this film shown every time I went to the movie theater for about a year it seemed. I was not allowed to go see it when it arrived, but much later and to this day I never have gotten through it. A soap opera in the snow with main characters I didn't care about makes the length of the film even more insufferable. Two I certainly disagree with are "2001" and "Gone With the Wind". Two monstrous achievements in film making and ones I really enjoyed seeing on the big screen. To each his own as they say.
I happen to own a partial print of "2010". I bought for cheap as it was missing reel 3, but it appears that some of 3 must have been added to reeks 2 and 4, as those two reel's are spilling over the edge, ( on 600ft reels), so, though it is technically a "digest", I'm happy enough w ith it. 2001 has taken a lot of hits on here 😈, but to tell the truth, if I could get just a few parts of it, I wouldn't mind making a digest of it, especially if it had that whole sequence from "Dave's" POV, passing thru the obelisk (?) and an abbreviated last sequence, ending on the "Star Child". 2001 is a film that just has to be seen on that big scope screen or I'm betting, even better on that Cinerama style screen. Don't even bother to watch it on an old flat "academy ratio" screen!
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