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 ...
Ageed. Would love to see this in IMAX.
It might have made more sense if the final scene had included action from the book, in which the "star-child" reaches out a finger (perhaps the finger was just a metaphor for some sort of thought-field) and detonates all the Earth-orbiting atomic weapons, one at a time.
Either (a) that was too much for Douglas Trumbull's special effects team to accomplish, or (b) Arthur Clarke added that detail to the accompanying book after the movie came out.
‘201 minutes, a space idiocy.’
I loved the Mushroom Planet books! Totally forgot about them.
I found the sequel “2010” with Roy Scheider better. It was faster paced and seemed to tie up the loose ends from the first film. Helped me understand 2001.
I remember seeing it on a superwide and tall screen and it was spectacular. The original. In 1968.
Yep. We did waste the chance. Instead of 2001, we ended up as A Clockwork Orange.
I'll repeat that for myself, with a few alterations:
No single experience, other than Christ's salvation, had a greater influence on my path in life than that of seeing this movie when it first came out, in 1968, in Tokyo as an eighth-grader.
good to know. i just can’t read clarke.
Howard Johnsons.
I worked for them in the early 70s washing dishes!
You have no clue that that's the case, watching the movie. You have to read the commentary, by Clark and Kubrick, to understand what they are doing there.
The idea is - more or less - "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
The bone used by the ancient apes turns into the super-high-tech orbiting nuke. Each a tool for accomplishing exactly the same thing, on a vastly different scale.
Ahh! There's a HoJo on the space station?
Which was a Hilton property, IIRC.
A 45 year old scifi movie that STILL holds up! And the tech predictions were fairly accurate.
Yup, check out the first 10 seconds, right before the Doctor videophones his daughter...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwo6JpMceg
Wow! Very good! I didn’t notice that, or forgot it.
This could be an incentive for me to go to one of those new Ultra HD TVs.
Just an incredible movie. I love my “Star Wars,” but 2001 was just something so unique and special. I hope Interstellar can capture some of the emotive visuals that this movie possesses.
The little iPad-like devices that the astronauts use to watch the news are not as good as today's actual iPads.
For one thing, no touch screens.
Also, they have to watch them while they sit on a table in front of them.
Of course, projecting the news program on their screens as they were held on laps or propped up against something would have been far beyond the animation capabilities of that time.
I've often noted that - in some ways - the high-tech gadgets we have today are considerably better than what the SF writers of the sixties were able to visualize.
Exactly. I was 11 or 12 when I saw it and hadn’t read the book so it was not very understandable. The visuals were spectacular but that was about it except maybe HAL was a fun character in a way. Sort of Spock like with no body. Eventually I read the short story and the book tie in and came to understand it a bit better. Kubrick is not a favourite of mine but this one movie clearly shows he was a major artist in the film world.
Class of 72?
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