The most universally hailed and hated film of all time

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2002)

Let's say that you are a director. A very succesful director who has lots of clout and access to all of the best cinematic technology that money can buy. You then spend four years trying to figure out what to do with all of the expensive sets and crew that you have hired. You never figure out what to do with them and so you string together some excuse for a narrative,never clearly defining what it is you are attempting to say. The punchline to the joke is that the masses latch onto your undefined ideas and immediately take them as brilliance. It then becomes as contagious as the black plague and pretty soon everyone seems to "know" what the director was trying to say even though the director himself had no idea what he was saying. Multiply this by 34 years and you have a certified classic. This was the perfect marriage of eye popping visuals with a plodding, empty headed script. Kudos to Doug Trumbull's effects.