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Seriously they ripped off a scene from 2001 - A Space Odyssey.

posted a year ago by bond998 (1213)
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How Pretentious.

[–] capuchin (3182) a year ago

Was it pretentious when Mel Brooks did it? What about The Simpsons? Everything Everywhere All At Once? Or the countless other parodies and references to 2001: A Space Odyssey in comedy media since 1968? Or is it just the Barbie reference that's pretentious?

Old hat, I'll give you. 'Pretentious'? I doubt it.

[–] Kowalski (75520) a year ago

I WAS GOING TO POST SOMETHING...NEVERMIND...CAPUCHIN SAID IT PERFECTLY...DAMN.🤣

[–] BrandNewPoster (10996) a year ago

I thought that scene was funny. I think it was an homage (or maybe a parody), not a rip off.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14381) a year ago

And it was insulting towards motherhood.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

You don't even say what the scene IS! Are you afraid of spoiling 2001... somehow?

[–] orangeflava (1858) a year ago

It was the dawn of man revelation scene

[–] [deleted] a year ago

Oh, that. Nothing really, then. As a famous YouTuber once described that scene: "landscape... landscape... landscape..."