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Summary: Not for everyone, take me for example
Review: Although there is much intriguing & innovative about this movie when it premiered I think I heard much of the audience left bewildered or annoyed. There is good reason for this. I've tried to watch this movie all the way through several times & failed each time. I grant this is movie I'm supposed to love & find brilliant, but the fact that I & others don't doesn't mean we should be labeled idiots. I'm just not interested in things this abstract & symbolistic.
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Summary: One of the best stories ever put on film.......
Review: and definitely not for brainless pricks. I have read many ignorant,amateurish customer reviews of this film. The people who write those type of reviews obviously have the brain of a five year old. Anyway,there's nothing much I can say about this spellbinding film that other reviewers haven't already said.
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Summary: A Question For All Mankind
Review: Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick took advantage of a futuristic anvironment to reset the most ancient question of mankind: Where we came from?; where we are haading to? and what is the real purpose of our existance?Despite it's innovative production for its time, it is important to focus on the main topic of the movie, which starts with the innuendo referred by the music theme by Richard Strauss, close related to Nietzche's book Also Spoke Zarathustra, followed by the theory about the dawn of men, the step foward achieved on artificial intelligence with HAL-9000 and Astronout Bownam's mission going far beyond Jupiter itself. A must see for every philosophy-science fiction film lover.
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Summary: A film for the arts
Review: I really hated this film. It is the only film I have not been able to sit through and watch the whole thing. This film was recommended to me by a lot of my friends as a film that requires watching simply for the cultural value it holds. In this respect I'm sure it was a wonderful film and brilliant for its time. However, I really cannot see how half an hour of monkeys jumping around followed by a further half hour of haunting music can induce anyone to sit through the rest of the film without forcing themselves to. I felt obligated to watch it so that I would be able to reflect on the cultural experience it was trying to put across. However, the film just bored me and I just went out leaving it running. I didn't like this film at all.
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Summary: Challenging from the get-go.
Review: For anyone who wants to see a traditional sci-fi movie, 2001 is not for you. It has almost no dialogue, less action, and no easily-identifiable plot worth mentioning. My opinion - and, I hope, also the opinion of the filmmakers - is that this movie works hard to transcend these standard aspects to deliver what is, more than any other movie I have ever seen, a truly emotional experience. When I first saw the movie (I was about 10 at the time), I, like several other viewers, was horribly bored. But upon watching it (on TV) years later, with a bit more patience and willingness to "work" at understanding it, I found it an amazingly compelling work. I was shocked at the depth of the experience, the scope of the story (yes, there really is a story!), and how it almost subliminally conveyed its message by stunning musical and visual effects. _Contact_ at its best is able only to mimic the sheer breathless wonder of space; 2001 replicates it perfectly and astoundingly. The more I watch Contact, the more annoyed I get at how the writers felt that Jodie Foster's continued statements about sending a poet entirely kill the scene. With this perspective comes the realization that 2001 manages its power through the conspicuous absence of dialogue. I truly wish I had been able to see this movie in the theater, to get the total feel of it. Nevertheless, watching 2001 in a darkened room with no distractions is still incredible. I find myself obliged to borrow from what other reviewers have said about 2001: if you want to see a work of art, you must see 2001. If you want to see a movie, perhaps you would be better off elsewhere. In any case, be warned: if you see 2001 and enjoy it, you will find yourself unfavorably comparing it to every other sci-fi movie you see.
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Summary: I respect it, but it is not my favorite
Review: I first saw this movie when I was about 12. I really didn't get it then....after watching it many years later for the 2nd time, I appreciate what is being done, but at the same time, the plot is very puzzling and leaves so much to the imagination that I really didn't enjoy it like Dune or other sci-fi movies of high quality. I wanted to really like it, but in reality, that was not the case.
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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: That was so cool when HAL locked that guy out of the spaceship. HAL reads lips! Brilliant! (By the way, if you go the next letter up for each letter in HAL, it spells IBM.)
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Summary: Great movie, but DVD missing a line of dialogue
Review: This has always been my favorite movie, but you have to see it on the big screen to appreciate the special effects. The DVD is missing a line of dialogue, however! When Dave tries to re-enter the ship, HAL says, "Affirmative Dave". The "I read you" part that follows is missing. How inept can these film transfer people be?
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Summary: this movie sucked
Review: i rented the 25th anniversary of this movie hoping id be amazed when it finished..i was dead wrong. i was bored throughout the entire movie. it basically had 45 mins of the entire damn movie that there was actual dialogue. the rest of the movie was pure music, and everybody breathing hard. 33 mins went by showing the stupid apes playing around with bones...and the rest was pure crap. no offense to kubrick, but i hated this movie, and i hope i never have to see it again...ever
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Summary: Ignore the braindead masses
Review: I've seen dozens of films, but none of them are as good as 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick's almost insane attention to detail makes this film. Ignore the short-attention span tennagers that bicker about being bored. It's just as good as it was in 1968. It makes the viewer think after watching it. I haven't watched it for three months and I'm still thinking about it. If you can't think, don't watch it; Watch Armageddon, it's about as thought-provoking as a Slim Jim commercial. I apprecaiate that someone finally decided to end that "Buck Rogers" nonsense. Also, the whole "Dawn of Man" scene was thrown in for the sake of showing off the latest makeup techniques. If you were paying attention you'd see the point.
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