cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1145119
I know most of us have seen it, but if you haven't (or it's been a very long time), this is your assignment this weekend. Watching this film with the reverence that it deserves will leave a lasting impression on you.
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I think seeing this movie in theaters in the 60s would have a drastically different impression on me. Being in my 30s I obviously wasn't alive when this movie was released. I have seen so many other wonderously imaginative works of science fiction leading up to having seen this one a few years ago. It is difficult for me to imagine this movie, which still holds up today, as being one of my first introductions into the genre in a time where such visuals and concepts were not really a thing yet.
the book makes some of the themes a bit more obvious. the film adaptation left a lot to be desired (though, like you, I'm in my thirties and never saw it in theater.)