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My Sci-fi unpopular opinion is that 2001: A Space Odyssey is nothing but pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. I’ve tried watching it multiple times and each time I have absolutely no patience for the pointless little scenes which contain little to no depth or meaningful plot, all coalescing towards that 15 minute “journey” through space and series of hallucinations or whatever that are supposed to be deep, shake you to your foundations, and make you re-think the whole human condition.
But it doesn’t. Because it’s just pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. Planet of the Apes was released in the same year and is, on every level, a better Sci-fi movie. It offers mystery, a consistent and engaging plot, relatable characters you actually care about, and asks a lot more questions about the world and our place in it.
Not sure how unpopular this is, but I think Interstellar was fantastic and loved everything including the climax (which everyone seems to hate).
I didn’t know people disliked the climax. Weird! I thought that was one of the best scifi movies in years. Instant classic for me.
I don’t know that I’d go so far as “fantastic”, but I found it an enjoyable movie. I actually wasn’t aware that there was hate for it.
It’s funny, I hate almost everything about Interstellar except the climax, which had an example of an immutable self-consistent time loop. I’m a sucker for a good ontological paradox.
The rest of the movie was just characters doing things that made no sense, and flagrantly violating basic physics in the process while the audience went “ooh, this is such a physically accurate hard science fiction film!”
Everybody loves that film. I despise it. I think I might be the only one.
I’m with you, there are dozens of us, dozens!
I actually have such a different opinion to the rest of the world that I feel I need to watch it again just to check, but it’s about 17 hours long I think and I don’t want to invest that much time on it.