Posted on 04/03/2018 6:01:25 AM PDT by C19fan
Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the original release of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," a seminal film in motion picture history and one that has awed — and confused — thousands over the years.
"2001" is often credited with paving the way for science-fiction films that took a realistic approach to depicting the future. A few decent sci-fi dramas were made before Kubrick's space exploration story — "Forbidden Planet" and "The Incredible Shrinking Man" come to mind — but most were strictly B-movie pulp with low production values. After "2001" came "Silent Running," "Star Wars", "Alien" and "Aliens", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "E.T", "The Fly" (1986) and other well-received films of the genre.
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It loose a lot of impact when not seen in its original format.
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