Reply #25: Actually

[sir_captain]

you said there were cuts to 2001 before release, and I pointed out that this was not really accurate, as the cuts were technically after release.

You're right about the pie-fight scene too, except that it wasn't really a cut--it was an alternate ending that Kubrick chose not to use.

I skimmed the analysis--it's a little too lit-crit for me, but I do actually quite like EWS, so we are mostly in agreement there and I would certainly never suggest that EWS does not represent the essential idea of what Kubrick had in mind.

Anyway, I just thought you were being a little combative with your use of the word bullshit, but if you didn't mean it that way, that's my bad.