yes bro, you need to constestualize the year it came out, it basically represented an idea of "future" that today we know, for the first time with fresh ideas. Then its ok to dont appreciate the the potery behing the dialogue choices, there was different age...
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you will appreciated it in some years
Yeah the effects were amazing, better than most modern movies. But God damn, the movie was like 10% dialogue, for the climax being watching the life support systems turn off and the guy breaking back into the ship.
I'll grant you that the end is overindulgent. But overall it's a masterpiece, and absolutely mesmerizing.
Many references to Egypt and the desert that go over the head of most people