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Summary: the story still applies today
Review: My parents made me see this movie with them soon after they kept me awake (I was 4 years old) to see the Apollo 11 dudes jumping up and down on the moon. I can't go too long without my Stanley Kubrick fix. "2001" is surprisingly accurate, although we have been focusing (rightly so) more on the education of our children (this area needs help beyond Arthur C. Clarke's imagination) than on the requirements of a space program. Nonetheless, a world collaborative is creating a space station as I write, and I suppose in a few years I may walk the radius of the main hall, just as in the movie, but without the cheesy '60s outfits, unless they're back in style again.
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Summary: Greatest Movie Of All Time
Review: This is the greatest movie of all time. 2001 has changed the way people will view movies and the stars forever. Many who say it is boring lack the scope or the appreciation for the hard work, dedication, and engineering that Kubrick poured into this film. The way he uses the music to show the "ballet" of space travel is pure genious.
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Summary: THE BEST FILM I'VE EVER SEEN ALONG WITH APOCALYPSE NOW
Review: 2001 is the best movie i've ever seen along with APOCALYPSE NOW. Every time (or almost every time)i view 2001 i discover something new. That's the best thing about watching this definite masterpiece. The special effects are a standout.
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Summary: Still Wondrous After All the Years
Review: Kubrick's "2001" is still justifiably one of the "10 greatest" of American movies. The fact that one must see this work, originally released in Cinerama, on a small TV screen is unfortunate. However, I've seen both the "formatted" and the "widescreen" versions and must recommend this, the letterbox format. There are grand sweeping scenes and periphial details in many scenes that simply get lost in the formatted version. I would not be deterred by the comments about the insertion of the "overture" and "intermission" segments by Ted Turner. When originally released, this movie DID have overture music before the beginning, and it DID have an intermission (at a logical break in the story line). So, if anything, Turner's video version is more true to the spirit of the original movie release than the other versions. Yes, condemn him for that awful colorization, but here he does the spirit of the original film experience some justice. If you must have a video copy of "2001" -- this is the one to get.
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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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Summary: HAL is the man.
Review: One of my favorite films of all time. A little long for my taste, but worth the time spent watching it. The direction is truely amazing. And Hal kept me from leaving the room. 2010 wasn't that great. It lacked everything 2001 had.
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Summary: A Shaggy God Story!
Review: Kubrick's "2001" is without doubt the best science fiction movie ever made. Possibly a litte dated now but when you consider the genre and age of this film, and think of some of its contempories it has survived very well indeed. It's a real pleasure to watch a film that is imaginative but doesn't insult your intellegence. Arthur C. Clarke's story is fantastic in the real sense of the word but as you watch this movie you are convinced by Kubrick's attention to detail that you are witnessing something astonishing for real. Hal's "death" scene has got to be one of Stanley Kubrick's finest moments. A wonderful film to watch time and time again and see something different each time. Stanley Kubrick's talents will be greatly missed.
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Summary: the best
Review: this is certainly among the finest films i have ever seen and i question the judgement of those of you who tag the film 'boring.' heaven forbid nothing blows up to jolt that three-minute attention span of yours. to clear up a couple of things--kubrick and clarke co-wrote(respectively) the screenplay and book, simultaneously. they each bounced ideas off the other and, i believe, the movie was released before the book. 'the sentinel,' clarke's short story, covers merely the part of the movie that takes place on the moon. also(in response to a previous reviewer), kubrick inserted the overture and intermission, NOT TED TURNER! from where that bit of insight came, i do not know. lastly, i noticed that a few people referred to kubrick as an 'idiot.' he may not be john woo...he's just the finest film-maker moving pictures have ever seen. i have the widescreen VHS version and the DVD, and i have no problems with either. this movie supercedes any technical problem put before it.
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Summary: ONE OF THE MOST EXTRODINARY SCI-FI FILMS OF MY LIFE
Review: Very outstanding performences by the actors and very realistic sequences of the way the movie was laid out. Stanley Kubrick is one of the most amazing directors I have discovered.
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Summary: One of the greatest films of all time...
Review: This is what all new filmmakers should aspire to. Elegant and timeless. Anyone who finds it irrelevant really needs to do some serious soul-searching.
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