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Summary: Dated and I try hard to get into it
Review: Dated is not unkind...This movie is beautifully filmed and given great epic pace to explore every nuance. However, as much as I love the pace and the artistry, I am forced to say I skip huge portions of the entire serving. I don't have five minutes of life to trade for the "Monkey Scenes" they are not enjoyable nor are they in some other way (perhaps so subtle) meaningful other than in Kubrick's demented mind. Which I happen to love dearly. But just not in this movie. The good parts are too few and too spread out amongst that which I don't like about the movie. Hanging around and waiting for some cool videography and maybe dialogue is grueling. I love Kubrick I don't enjoy this movie.
It would be fun to do an ambient music dub over edited portions of the space shots...that I would buy.
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Summary: If you don't like it, fine...
Review: but don't show your stupidity by claiming its the worst movie ever made... what the hell do YOU know!? Take a look at the list of movies these "people" reviewed. Their reviews will give you some insight into their level of maturity. Enough about them. One of the things I like most about this movie is its use of "silence"... or non-use of action and dialogue. No, there's not a lot of dialogue in this movie. No, there's not a lot of action in this movie. But, the silence is poetic, the space and uncluttered feel of this movie is a thing of beauty. Silence in music is just as important as the notes. At least it is truthful regarding sound in space - or lack thereof. Come on, how many space movies have we seen that feature spaceships accompanied by "propulsion noises"... things you would never really hear in space. I like the authentic feel of space in this movie. I think you'll definitely appreciate the movie more if you read the book by A. C. Clark. Even so, the movie kinda loses me at the end... I think it could have been done a little better. Up until the last chapter I think I have an idea what's going on in the movie. The "Jupiter and beyond infininity" chapter is a bit psychodelic and seems to have been written for the sole purpose of tripping on acid... I've never done acid, this is only a guess. If it weren't for the utter wierdness of the last section of the movie I would give it 5 stars, but its just a little too bizarre. I would really like to see this movie remade more inline with Clark's vision of the story. Not to take away from Kubrick, but I don't think his imagination was up to the task of what this movie truly deserved and should have been. I think the movie should have been about an hour or so longer than it is... no need for a disappointing sequel to tell the rest of the story.
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Summary: A Timeless and Classic Masterpiece
Review: This grand masterpiece is a "moving painting" more than a moving picture. It has no plot anymore than a voyage in a spacecraft does .. it is NOT about a plot or story... but rather about an event.... the first proof that man is not alone in the universe..... and about the way man handles that knowledge. It is a film that a thinking person will be dazzled by, and like me, will want to see again and again for its sheer beauty, and for its purity of statement. It was judged as one of the 100 greatest films of ALL TIME according to the American Film Institute... and most critics and film historians agree. A timeless and classic masterpiece.
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Summary: Way Over Rated
Review: 2001 has come and gone and it looks nothing like what happened in Standly Kubrick's and Arthur C. Clark's tale of human evolution and discovery. An hour could be easily cut out this movie, it is filled with segments of spaceships taking off, floating, and landing to classical music. The actually time is spent on charter and plot development is a tenth of what it should be, out of 148 minutes only about 60 of it is devoted to story. The sequel 2010, is better in story telling and pacing then 2001 When a strange monolith is discovered on the moon it is concluded that this block of blackness was placed there roughly 3 million years ago. 18 months later a mission was sent to Jupiter to look at the monstrous monolith that is a hundred times bigger. But the Ships Super Computer, the HAL 9000 goes bonkers and kills everyone except one crewman name David Bowmen. Bowmen throws caution to the wind and looks into the monolith, when he is suddenly catapulted into a life and an existence that is one step below God.
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Summary: you are all idiots
Review: Whoever says or even thinks about 2001 as being a bad movie is a complete and total dumb@$$. THE WORLD NEEDS LESS STUPID PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND MORE IMAGINATIVE AND CREATIVE GENIUS'S LIKE STANLEY KUBRICK. Get a life retards.
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Summary: A Masterpiece.??!... please!
Review: Easily one of the most boring movies ever! It totally sucked! The first half hour of "human" apes; what a joke (wow. look how far we've come...yeah.) Don't even waste your time with this crap. Boo.
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Summary: Wow
Review: It is unbelievable to me how stupid a large portion of America, and the world in general, truly is. To give this movie a one star review pretty much confirms your complete and total stupidity, considering the fact that 2001 is an absolute astounding work of art which covers more deep and complex ideas than you could have ever even began to contimplate yourself during the span of your dull and pointless life. Just because you are sad that your life has no meaning whatsoever and you will die an un-happy man, not to mention your lower than average intelligence and imagination involving anything other than the classic shot em up action flick, does not give you the right to give 2001, the greatest movie ever made, a bad review. LIGHTEN UP. OPEN YOUR EYES. Here is my suggestion to to you: Take a day of work and watch 2001. When you are 83 and dying of cancer, frantically looking back on your life and searching for its meaning (you probably won't find one) the day you watched 2001 will pop into your mind and you will be complete. (a little too dramatic, i know.)
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Summary: Maybe I just don't get it...
Review: How many scenes were cut out for this version? I haven't seen anyone else complain about it, so I'll assume this is the full cut (it was the first time I've seen it). It was entertaining at time, I particularly like watching the monkeys evolve at the beggining, and think that should have been drug out to it's full extent from the book, rather than shortened so much (I've only read part of the book, but I thought it was pretty good), and I thought the showdown with Hal was exilarating, but I didn't get the ending. I plan to rewatch it soon, and maybe then it'll make more sense.
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Summary: Solitude in the hills
Review: I Its simply, a state, a place to go when you need to strip it all down again, to the pure core, in peace. Like being up in the mountains looking up into a clear sky at night. Clears your head. I
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Summary: Essential.
Review: Not having this movie in your collection is like saying I have a complete library without a dictionary. It is an essential. Although I can see where people who aren't as infatuated with movies as I am could find this movie boring and pointless. But it is movie history. Great movie history in my opinion. :)
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