Anyone like “2001: A Space Odyssey?”

[BadgerBadger92]

I have always been a Stanley Kubrick fan, and 2001 is in my opinion one of his best besides “A Clockwork Orange” and “Dr. Strangelove.” All of them get the same rating to me.

My favorite scenes are where the apes evolve to humans and the wormhole scene at the end (at least I think it was a wormhole)

Any one like this movie or Kubrick in general?

 

[DennisN]

Any one like this movie or Kubrick in general?

Oh yes, he was a remarkable filmmaker!

And I also like Barry Lyndon and The Shining.

By the way, by coincidence a friend of mine sent me a link to this clip about 2001 recently:

The Moment You Realize It's 1968 And That Technology Doesn't Exist
Quote: "It’s 1968, that ain’t CGI, the technology does not exist in any studio, and that's exactly the problem. Stanley Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey without ever going to space, yet the astronauts who landed on the moon a year later said the film felt more accurate than the mission itself. Over 50 years on, nothing made since has come closer."

 

[pinball1970]

Some classic films that will stand the test of time.

 

[DaveC426913]

2001 is a classic, without a doubt.

 

[BillTre]

I also liked the 2010 follow-up film. It was fun and cleared things up to a degree.
It was of course not so ground breaking since 2001 was first.

Aliens (vs. Alien) got around that by being a different kind of a film. intense action vs. a great suspense film.

 

[BadgerBadger92]

Oh yes, he was a remarkable filmmaker!

And I also like Barry Lyndon and The Shining.

By the way, by coincidence a friend of mine sent me a link to this clip about 2001 recently:

The Moment You Realize It's 1968 And That Technology Doesn't Exist
Quote: "It’s 1968, that ain’t CGI, the technology does not exist in any studio, and that's exactly the problem. Stanley Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey without ever going to space, yet the astronauts who landed on the moon a year later said the film felt more accurate than the mission itself. Over 50 years on, nothing made since has come closer."

I loved that scene. I love the song used “Blue Danube.”

 

[DaveC426913]

I loved that scene. I love the song used “Blue Danube.”

Not a lot of people know this but a lot of these scenes were filmed on Earth to save production costs.

 

[jtbell]

My favorite scenes are where the apes evolve to humans

See pages 1 and 2 of "201 Minutes of a Space Idiocy", my all-time favorite MAD magazine parody.

The soundtrack was one of the first albums I ever bought, in high school, after my parents bought me an early tape-cassette player. Johann Strauss's "Blue Danube" was of course well known before then, but the album also gave a boost to the (then-) contemporary Hungarian composer György Ligeti. (scroll down a long way for discussion of his music used in Kubrick's films including '2001")

 

[Ken Fabian]

A lot I liked about 2001, especially visually, ie the depictions of space technologies and zero gravity, which so many SF movies get wrong. But better the first time around. Re-watching I found the pacing far too slow - something I have found with some other Kubrick movies too. Were I to watch again now I would probably be wondering what that space station is for, how those moon bases were funded and what the people all did or if they would have been better using uncrewed remote-robotics.

 

[sbrothy]

I know this is an unpopular opinion but I like the 2010 version better. It's somewhat zeerusted but the plot is better IMHO.

 

[symbolipoint]

BadgerBadger92, yes; 2001: A Space Odyssey is an excellent (or maybe even better than that) movie. As much as the first thirty-five minutes with those apes was extremely interesting. The movie helps to promote thinking of the developments of technology. Think of that as predictions or worries about the future as technologies develop; Predictions and Warnings!

As for the some slow boring parts of the movie, my view is that they serve a purpose. Let me avoid trying to explain that. You think about it!

 

[BadgerBadger92]

BadgerBadger92, yes; 2001: A Space Odyssey is an excellent (or maybe even better than that) movie. As much as the first thirty-five minutes with those apes was extremely interesting. The movie helps to promote thinking of the developments of technology. Think of that as predictions or worries about the future as technologies develop; Predictions and Warnings!

As for the some slow boring parts of the movie, my view is that they serve a purpose. Let me avoid trying to explain that. You think about it!

I thought it meant to outline the evolution of apes to humans, but everyone experiences art differently.

The movie is definitely “spacey” but I think that illustrates symbolically the emptiness of the universe

 

[sbrothy]

I thought it meant to outline the evolution of apes to humans, but everyone experiences art differently.

The movie is definitely “spacey” but I think that illustrates symbolically the emptiness of the universe

Try to look up how they shot the pen floating in zero-gravity. That was before computer special effects. It was quite creative!

 

[sbrothy]

And don't let the alien theory convince you:

Undergrad Post in thread 'Solve Fermi's Non-Paradox: Astronomers Weigh In'

Aug 13, 2020

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1. The Drake equation is a product of not very well circumscribed factors
2. Fermi was a pretty bright guy

...

1,) Yes and using proper statistical distributions (and monte carlo sims? It's been a little while since I read it but) I seem to remeber that the number they arrived at was somwthing like a 50 to 90% probability that we are in fact alone in the observable universe. Bad news for space opera scifi writers bit good news for thise of us who'd rather not meet another spacefaring aggressive apex-predator out there.. :)

2.) Yes, but it's been awhile and...

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EDIT: Then again I know you really didn't. Cudos to your cynical worldview!