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Summary: poor color, ghosts around objects, many screen artifacts
Review: Very poor technical conversion to dvd. Lacks all of the power of the origional movie.
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Summary: Great film- terrible transfer
Review: The whole point of this film is its stunning visuals. It is a terrible transfer. Somebody should be VERY ashamed of what they've done to this film. Kubrick must be enraged. Don't buy it. Demand an excellent version
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Summary: True cinema, pictures without words
Review: Stanley Kubrick shows everyone what a movie looks like when you dont cheapen it with computer effects. The first true sci-fi space opera.
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Summary: Still the "Best" Science Fiction Film
Review: This film blew me away in the sixties and is still the standard by which all other Scifi. movies are measured. Only problem, the ending, if you haven't read the book?? I had read the book before I saw the movie in the 1960's. Still gets 5 stars.
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Summary: One of the greatest movies ever made
Review: Worth at least twenty stars! "2001" is a movie that simply must be seen in the widescreen format. One of Kubrick's directorial triumphs in a career full of classic work, and one of the greatest concepts in science fiction from Arthur C. Clarke, a master in the field. If you ever wanted to be truly challenged by a work of film, start here. END
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Summary: 2001 deserves better
Review: Take a look at L.A. Confidential, Boogie Nights, and Starship Troopers and then look at the crummy treatment that this glorious movie receives from MGM. Most unfortunate is a missing line of dialogue from the Dave/Hal confrontation at the end. Don't buy this disc and demand that MGM release a re-master. END
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Summary: 2001 DVD no extras
Review: Very disappointed => only a 1968 interview with A.C. Clarke & movie trailers. The trailers had negative scratches. I was hoping for a directors comments track. END
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Summary: The Father of the Sci-Fi genre
Review: This movie is obviously a classic in the sci-fi genre. The DVD version, especially in widescreen, really allows one to see the vision of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. This 30 year old movie still holds up to all the followers like the Star Wars series and Star Trek Hits. It is the most accurate as to the technologic environment of space, i.e. no sound in the vacuum of space, etc. This is a must-have for any videophile Sci-Fi junkie! END
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Summary: The Greatest Science Fiction Movie Thus Far
Review: 2001 may not appeal to everyone.... some of us want tidy little stories with a plot that appeals to the conscious mind. Well... eat your popcorn and watch "Independence Day". This is THE science fiction movie that appeals to the subconscious, the superconcious and the thinkers. Just like REAL space, this one will raise more questions than it answers. Just like REAL life, there is no plot... only a series of experiences.... all so magificently photographed, the movie would be better described as a "MOVING PAINTING"... and in fact, I feel that way about most of Kubrick's films, most notably "Barry Lyndon". Sit back, experience, and allow your eyes to shift into that other part of your mind... the part that cannot predict what will happen next... that part that is filled with awe, mystery, fear, lonliness, fascination, wonder, and view a universe that will never have narration to explain it all to you in neat little sentences.This film is a masterpiece to anyone who truly understands the true art of the medium... visually stunning, sonically mesmerizing, and frame after frame of magnificent beauty.
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Summary: Stanley Kubrick's best film!!
Review: With the death of Stanley Kubrick and the coming of that fateful year, 2001, now is as good a time as any to check out Kubrick's best film, "2001: A Space Odyssey". The movie opens with "The Dawn of Man" and early, plant-eating, man is running the risk of becoming extinct as they fall prey to the more vicious meat-eating animals. Then, one day, early man stumbles upon a mysterious black monolith. Shortly after, man discovers it's first tool, a bone which can be used to kill other animals. The human races' ability to use it's intellect allows it to prosper. Thousands of years later, man has reached the pinacle of it's technical achievements. Man has progressed from using a bone to defend itself and gather food to building massive technologicaly wonderful spacecrafts that dance about the galaxies. The viewer witnesses this wonderful utopia while dismayed by 21'st century man's inability to apreciate the wonder of what they have constructed. We see scientist, Dr. Heywood Floyd, sleeping away as he floats through space and makes uninteresting phone conversations to Earth while a beautiful scene of the moon orbiting around him is seen in the window beside him. Dr. Floyd and a research team discover another black monolith this time, on Earth's moon. They gather around the monolith taking photographs like silly tourists, once again unable to apreciate the magnitude of what hey see. Eighteen months later, a ship is journeying toward Jupiter to make contact after a signal was sent by the monolith on the moon. By this point, technology is so advanced that human beings no longer have any useful purpose. The ship's computer, HAL, makes no mistakes and runs the entire ship. The ship's crew are all in hibernation except for two astronauts, Dave Bowman and Frank Poole; these two characters are little more than maintenance men for the computer. With the human race becoming inferior to the machines they have constructed, HAL, murders all the crew-members except Dave Bowman. Like Early Man, the human race must once again must defend itself in order to move forward, Dave manges to de-program the computer. As he does so, HAL is reduceed to it's basics, as it sings a childish tune, ("Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true...). This ultimate computer has regressed back to a child-like state as if it has regressed back to the womb. With humanity gaining the upper hand, this human, David Bowman, is ALLOWED to journey towards Jupiter where David is re-born as a star child heading towards Earth.
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