Movies that make you think

[Fedallah]

Originally Posted by MisterFishey

2001: A Space Odyssey. I watched the movie, and then went online to figure out what the heck just happened. Especially the last 23 minutes. Too much thought for a movie, geez. I want to be entertained, not confused with extended metaphors within metaphors and wrapped with parallelism...

The book is really far more clear than the movie. Kubrick tries to take the movie places where the book can go quite easily, but in film - it's like putting wheels on a sailboat and driving it on the freeway. You can do it - but you need to be very clever and more than a little bit lucky to pull it off. In the end trying to toss visual metaphors and so on into film is usually more trouble than it's worth, since it's a lot of work to get right and nearly everyone in the audience is going to totally miss it anyway.