{"id":71,"date":"2006-01-20T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T04:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2006\/01\/20\/2001-reasons-to-put-out-your-eyes\/"},"modified":"2006-01-20T00:02:18","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T04:02:18","slug":"2001-reasons-to-put-out-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2006\/01\/2001-reasons-to-put-out-your-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"2001&#8230; reasons to put out your eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a413'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some movies so terrifyingly awful that they evoke a fight or flight response, and Kubrick&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">2001: A Space Odyssey<\/span> is one of them. Now, I admit to a certain Pavlovian response because I&#8217;d seen parts of it while suffering from a fever as a small child, but it&#8217;s also quite possible that it was the movie that induced the fever. All I know is that today, having wasted the last 2 hours watching this travesty (I made insufficient use of the FF button), I am still working off the adrenaline and hostility to its profound pretentiousness. The art snobs who have put this film in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062622\/\">IMDB<\/a>&#8216;s top 250 clearly viewed it with medicinal aid, because any normal person&#8217;s natural reaction to this film would be to chew off his leather bindings (no one would watch it willingly) and run away, far away. As one of the saner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062622\/usercomments?start=30\">IMDB commentators<\/a> noted, &#8220;3 days after I&#8217;d seen<br \/>\nit,<br \/>\nI was still trying to ease my brain with the mantra that it was just a<br \/>\nmovie, and not a piece of propaganda from a Russian concentration<br \/>\ncamp.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some movies so terrifyingly awful that they evoke a fight or flight response, and Kubrick&#8217;s 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of them. Now, I admit to a certain Pavlovian response because I&#8217;d seen parts of it while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2006\/01\/2001-reasons-to-put-out-your-eyes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}