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Summary: Phenomenal movie, but sub-standard DVD mastering
Review: Without a doubt, this is the most realistic sci-fi movie ever. I believe it comes close to capturing what space exploration could feasibly be like in the future. The cinematography is spectacular--Kubrick had major talent here. MGM should have treated this movie like royalty, and produced a brilliantly mastered DVD. Unfortunately, it appears MGM put a low priority on quality, and the DVD came out sub-standard. One can only hope they'll take seriously all of the negative feedback and produce a high quality DVD in time for the year 2001.
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Summary: An Amazing work of Art
Review: I am a teenager in the 1990's. Supposedly, we are impatient and incapable of appreciating movies to their fullest unless it has explosions and sex in it. Well, seeing 2001 was one of the most moving movie experiences I had ever had. It would be fallacious to think I did not know the tale already, but the incredible scope and wonder of Kubrick's work were more breathtaking than I had imagined. Not that there is anything wrong with sex, but some things transcend all that, and the ideas they bring to your mind make you feel like this whole human race you're involved in might truly be something special. 2001 was one of those things.
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Summary: 2 hours long and 40 minutes of dialogue. Seriously.
Review: This is one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. The plot just never comes together (apes discover monolith, man discovers monolith, computer goes crazy, man discovers bedroom on the other side of the universe). What is the monolith anyway? And just why did Hal go crazy? I give this movie three stars because Hal is a great bad guy, and I love the scene where he sings "Daisy". Very cool special effects, esspecially that psychaelic nebula. Other than those few points, Stanely Kubrick is a sick man. Just watch A Clockwork Orange and The Shining to find out why.
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Summary: Once you understand it, it is completely amazing
Review: The first time I saw this, I kinda understood what happened, but not that well. Then I read the book (which I highly recommend if you want to get the full effect of the movie). After watching it again, I have completely changed my view of humanity. Although the movie seems to drag on at some points, it gives you a just a taste of the monotony and boredom that space travel entails (at our technological state). The characters are VERY flat, although this is not a bad thing. They are cut off from the world, and feel more and more dehumanized as the weeks and months crawl by on their lonely voyage. The "acid trip" scene is a little too long (although it looks REALLY cool!), and the scene in the "hotel" near the end is confusing at first, but otherwise this is a nearly perfect film. The only downside: if you truly understand this movie, you will realize that you are pretty insignificant in the universe. In fact, our ancestors may have gone extinct if it weren't for outside assistance, so we shouldn't even be here today!
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Summary: Ponderous + obscure + old = classic?
Review: Very boring and slow. The special effects may have wowed the 60's generation but are simply no longer special. Here's the story: apes discover a monolith, humans discover one on the moon, a computer which controls a mission to Jupitor goes haywire and kills, the lone survivor passes through a psychadelic nebulae to emerge in a white room, shot of a rotating fetus, the end. One for tripping hippies and Kubrick groupies.
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Summary: Film deserves 5 stars, but the DVD presentation 3
Review: With this new edition of 2001 as part of the Kubrick collection, one would expect Warner Brothers to go back and update the interface and add extras (like the missing 17 minutes of footage in another section). Instead, what we get is essentially a repackaging of the first DVD release.The picture quality ranges from good to very good. The DVD version doesn't improve much on the laserdisc edition put out by Criterion several years ago (or Turner-MGM's laserdisc). The sound has been remixed for 5.1 which is a big plus compared to previous laser editions. The extras are pretty skimpy. The interview with Clark is actually a talk he gave at the premiere. No attempt to discuss the film and its making as a second audio track has been made (it's possible Clark wasn't interested, but was he even asked?). This edition, like the previous DVD, features the original trailer for both 2001 and 2010. While it is important to recognize Kubrick's role as a film director with this re-release, Warner doesn't live up to the potential of DVD with this dual layered disc.
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Summary: Better than Star Wars !!!!!!!
Review: beautiful ! Kubrick brilliantly creates another time and has a great ending that leaves me with tears in my eyes .It is way better than George Lucas' space film . 10 times better !Yes , there are intelligent people in mississippi !
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Summary: THE Sci-Fi Epic of all time!!!
Review: No science fiction movie before or since was been more recognized, more styled and more confusing than any other sci-fi movie ever. Kubrick uses 70 millimeter to the hilt with great special effects and shows space as what it is. Quiet, cold, and deadly. Not high on dialogue, and the actors are more secondary to the story line, but still unbelieveable. If you get confused, watch its near-epic sequel 2010.
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Summary: There wil never be a better movie.
Review: No film on this Earth matches the brilliance or quality of this one. And so many people like it only for it's visuals, which, don't get me wrong, take your breath away. But the film's strong point is it's story, which is too complicated to even try to describe. It is one of the landmark films in cinema history. It's a landmark film because of it's usage of visual effects, along with it's very little usage of dialogue. The film, like every Kubrick film, answeres no questions, and it let's the viewer decide the meaning of the film by themselves. Kubrick is the greatest director to ever walk this Earth, and here he gives us the greatest film ever made.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: This is one of the greatest films ever made. By the way, for the reviewer from Faro, Cananda, the music during the ending credits *is* The Blue Danube. Thus Spake Zarathustra is the music played during the opening titles and the star child sequence at the end, in addition to several key points in the film.
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