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Rating: 3/10 (30 June 2019)

This movie had some good directing, some innovative concepts, and some remarkably impressive scenes for being filmed in 1968. There were a bunch of scenes where I was really wondering how they pulled that off in 1968, especially the zero gravity and artificial gravity scenes. This movie clearly influenced many future Sci-Fi movies. Even with all that, I really hated this movie. I hated it more than a 1.5 but I had to give it credit for what I mentioned before. I was SOOOOO BORED. There were points in the movie when I wanted to cry from how bored I was. Every scene was overdone, every scene went on too long.
the acting was horrendous, there was no character development. The dialogue was abysmal. the narrative and pacing were discombobulated. there wasn't much of a plot and the story doesn't make any sense. It just makes up a bunch of madness and uses lots of symbolism and metaphors, hoping you will chalk it up to an "ambiguous" ending. screw that. this movie was garbage.
what takes real skill is being this ambitious and making it actually make sense. Interstellar does this perfectly. And I know everyone will say that interstellar got so much inspiration from this movie, which it clearly did, both based on the similarities and Christopher Nolan saying he loves this movie. But Interstellar took some ambitious concepts and made a real, all-around great movie out of them. (1 viewing)

SPOILERS

There was a 3 minute long intro with a black screen and music playing. The dawn of man intro was almost 20 minutes long with no dialogue. The first dialogue was spoken 26 minutes into the movie. And we didn't really get much of it excluding some long monologues. We also had about 15 minutes of trippy colors with no dialogue or indication as to wtf was happening.
When Dave realizes Hal killed the other astronaut and has decided to leave him to die, he doesn't seem concerned, or afraid, or distraught. No acting to be found.