Posted on 10/24/2014 6:09:38 PM PDT by EveningStar
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is just about to enjoy a digitally restored limited U.K. theatrical release. And to celebrate, here's a lovely new trailer.
(Excerpt) Read more at polygon.com ...
The original didn't have pixels. It had dye molecules, positioned by microscopic crystals of silver. Not exactly analog, but certainly not the rows and columns of optical samples - each representing a fixed-point integer value of brightness in one of three color bands - that we have to tolerate with todays digital imagery.
And you're right about being blown away by the 70mm film format. I remember being amazed by the width of the image. I saw it from about the ninth or tenth row, and it just seemed to be too much to take in all at once.
Also, the sound was incredible. The opening title sequence, with the thundering chords of Also Sprach Zarathustra almost made me dizzy; I had never heard anything like it.
I guess I didn’t really understand it.
It came out during my senior year in high school and our Aerospace Science class took a field trip to see it at the Cinerama in Seattle. It still holds up today.
Actually, it seems an enduring story what with the ebola/entero virus issues. Ok I admit I am biased for the movie - I think it is very good.
Also, the sound was incredible. The opening title sequence, with the thundering chords of Also Sprach Zarathustra almost made me dizzy; I had never heard anything like it.
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These days I kind of think of it as a long classical music video, and seeing it on a big screen back in the 1960’s was out of this world.
I only wish I could see it in Cinerama... oh well.
Big screen is the way to go for this movie.
IMAX would be mind blowing.
Thanks for posting; I was about 15 years old when I saw this movie in the theater, and had been fascinated by the “space race”. Used to sit in the kitchen by the window at night, reading my book about the solar system.
(By the way, does anyone remember the ‘Mushroom Planet’ books by Eleanor Cameron? My absolute favorites as a young kid...)
Can you name the two businesses in 2001 that did not make it to 2001?
Going almost completely unnoticed is this unique scene in the film, tucked into the early going. Bare bones writing and acting, yet strikingly effective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlPMxgHQKg8
Agreed.
I don't think The Andromeda Strain had quite the same majestic depth as had 2001, but as you point out it was Crichton's first novel, written when he was (IIRC) a medical student or a resident at Mass General.
Actually that's not quite true. Crichton's actual first novel - coauthored with his brother - was called Dealing: or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues. No lie.
I thought the clip you linked would be the scene where Dr. Floyd is reading the glowing instructions in zero-gravity restroom.
The AT&T Bell Telephone company is certainly one.
Oh! Pan-Am is another.
good!
One of the best movies of all time. The reality is this is what Van Braun envisioned.
I liked the book much better than the movie.
The special effects of the movie were phenomenal, but if I hadn’t read the book first, the movie would not have made as much sense as it did.
After reading about how ebola kills, it occurred to me that ebola is just a slow acting Andromenda Strain.
“He doesn’t know how to use the three shells!”
the ending is kinda a weird one for me. wish it would have ended differently.
i didn’t think andromeda strain was overrated. i saw it later in the 80s so maybe they overhyped it in commercials for the theater release. dunno.
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