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2001: A Space Odyssey
Posted on 5/24/12 at 8:04 am
Posted on 5/24/12 at 8:04 am
I watched this last night for the first time ever. I thought it was an incredibly breathtaking movie up until Dave made it to Jupiter and that acid trip sequence started. Watching it now and seeing some of the things that they showed before we even landed on the moon, I thought it was unbelievably well-made. I even started thinking about the whole "are we alone?" stuff and by the end of the movie I was in a total mindfrick.
What are the board's thoughts on this movie?
What are the board's thoughts on this movie?
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Posted on 5/24/12 at 8:10 am to Tiger3048
Here is a thread I started about it (and Clockwork) a couple years ago. Some decent discussion in there.
Another one with solid discussion from last year: LINK
Another one with solid discussion from last year: LINK
Posted on 5/24/12 at 8:22 am to Tiger3048
The jumpcut from the tossed stick to the spacestation is the best transition is the history of cinema
Epic movie
Epic movie
Posted on 5/24/12 at 8:31 am to Tiger3048
quote:
What are the board's thoughts on this movie?
One of the more beloved films on this board. Incredibly well made film.
Posted on 5/24/12 at 8:33 am to Tiger3048
still haven't seen it 
Posted on 5/24/12 at 8:38 am to Pilot Tiger
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still haven't seen it
Do it. Take my advice from one of those threads I linked...go into it expecting to be boredout of your mind, and you'll end up really liking it.
Also, I FFWD'd through the first black screen after a minute or so (it lasts a while), and then again for the kaleidoscope part at the end. Just got bored with waiting for those to end.
Posted on 5/24/12 at 8:42 am to CocomoLSU
yea I've read enough reviews and stuff to pretty much expect a long, laborious experience 
I have a good attention span though so I think I will enjoy it
I have a good attention span though so I think I will enjoy it
Posted on 5/24/12 at 8:47 am to CocomoLSU
quote:
Do it. Take my advice from one of those threads I linked...go into it expecting to be boredout of your mind, and you'll end up really liking it.
Yeah, my parents both really, really hate this movie. They got board and started bitching at the docking scene, one of the best scenes in film history.
Posted on 5/24/12 at 9:54 am to CocomoLSU
You can start Pink Floyd's Echoes at the title card for Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite and it makes that "kaleidoscope part" much less boring. You aren't missing any dialogue anyway and it fits almost exactly.
Posted on 5/24/12 at 10:18 am to Tiger3048
Along with some stunningly good effects for the time.2001 managed to touch on some big concepts about our origin without coming across preachy.
I also liked 2010. Scheider tried to describe the monolith as "a shape for something that has no shape."
I also liked 2010. Scheider tried to describe the monolith as "a shape for something that has no shape."
Posted on 5/24/12 at 11:52 am to OMLandshark
quote:Not really. A lot of people don't like it.
One of the more beloved films on this board.
quote:No argument on that. If you go in expecting long tedious parts it helps. The acid trip sequence at the end really gets me also. I don't like the ending at all.
Incredibly well made film.
Posted on 5/24/12 at 12:47 pm to Tiger3048
Just take a moment and think about the fact that this movie was released in 1968.
This same year gave us :
Funny Girl
The Love Bug
The Odd Couple
Bullitt
Romeo and Juliet
Oliver!
Rosemary's Baby
Planet of the Apes
Night of the Living Dead
Not saying these are bad movies, but, visually at least, one of these things is not like the other.
Kubrick was so far ahead of his time that cinema still hasn't really caught up.
This same year gave us :
Funny Girl
The Love Bug
The Odd Couple
Bullitt
Romeo and Juliet
Oliver!
Rosemary's Baby
Planet of the Apes
Night of the Living Dead
Not saying these are bad movies, but, visually at least, one of these things is not like the other.
Kubrick was so far ahead of his time that cinema still hasn't really caught up.
Posted on 5/24/12 at 3:07 pm to gizmoflak
quote:
The jumpcut from the tossed stick to the spacestation is the best transition is the history of cinema
And more subtly, the slowcut(?) from the watering hole hysterics to the more refined but still very tense coffee table discussion underscored how little humans had evolved and why it was time for another push. We might not have been quite as dirty and even made it to the moon, but we were still a bunch of damn apes divided along tribal lines, squabbling over resources. A dead end. That's a theme in another of Clarke's books, "Childhood's End".
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