*2001: A Space Odyssey* is a cinematic MASTERPIECE...GEN-Z FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

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  • @magp1001
    @magp1001 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    None of the music for this movie was written for this movie; they used the classical tracks (like Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss) as fill-ins before the score was written, but Kubrick liked the classical music so much that he kept it, much to the chagrin of the composer.
    Most space movies look the way they do today because of this movie.
    I'm glad you had the patience for this film.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The music was perfect! And I see how it was such an inspiration to all future space movies!

    • @BubbaCoop
      @BubbaCoop หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Correct.
      Also Sprach Zarathustra was composed in 1896.

  • @dcanmore
    @dcanmore หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    '2010: The Year We Make Contact' is a very good sequel, a different kind of movie that does answer a few questions but leaves some of its own. Arthur C Clarke wrote four books in this series, after 2001 and 2010 came 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Interesting, might have to check them out

    • @mikejankowski6321
      @mikejankowski6321 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@noahzynski 2010 is very different, not done by Kubrick, but pretty good in its own right. Quite worthy.

  • @EricJonPearson1
    @EricJonPearson1 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Back in the day, big-budget stage plays and movies often had a musical "overture" at the beginning. It was a signal for everybody to finish buying popcorn or peeing, and take their seats. This was before the Pause Button was invented, so the intermission gave people a bathroom break in the middle of a long play or movie. Same for "credits at the beginning", which most movies had back then, and, later on, the overture morphed into TV-show opening theme songs. "Hurry up, the show is starting!"

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah that’s very interesting! Not something that’s done anymore and movies are same length lol

    • @AstroXeno
      @AstroXeno หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The other reason for the intermission was so that everybody could go out to the lobby and smoke.

    • @Gregory11811
      @Gregory11811 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The overture also set the tone of the play or movie. The audience got to hear bits of the music that would be played later on in the movie. The overture helps transition the audience from the world outside the theater to the one they’re watching.

    • @plinfesty
      @plinfesty หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It also should be mentioned that these overtures weren’t played on blank screens, but with the curtains closed and the curtain warmers and house lights set to half. This was pretty standard on roadshow films, as this movie was originally shown. This movie, while shot in 65mm (printed to 70mm with 6 track stereo), was projected onto huge Deeply curved Cinerama screens. Overtures and intermissions were mostly standard on these roadshow films.

  • @captainsatellite2112
    @captainsatellite2112 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Someone probably mentioned that stoners liked to watch this movie on psychedelics. Read that when they showed this in SF and they got to that awesome vortex sequence, some guy got up and tried to run into the screen. What a story to tell the grandkids.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Haha yeah!

  • @alienlovearts
    @alienlovearts หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Excellent commentary. It’s truly gratifying to see that someone who grew up in a world of modern computer technology, long after 2001’s influence had permeated modern cinema, can appreciate the genius of this singularly great film. A great movie is one that lives even after decades growing more meaningful upon each viewing. It is truly a piece of art for the ages.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you! This movie was a masterpiece!!

  • @altaclipper
    @altaclipper หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This movie is a work of art with height, width, and duration.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Loved it!

  • @deckofcards87
    @deckofcards87 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I suppose it's worth noting that '2001' is Christopher Nolan's favorite film of all time. That's why it reminds you of 'Interstellar,' which one could argue is a sort of spiritual sequel to 2001. Definitely an homage, if anything.
    Besides pushing film sfx into a new era, Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's narrative structure has been extremely influential on space movies. Both Interstellar and Brian DePalma's 'Mission To Mars' pretty much have the same plot as 2001, and to some extent Ridley Scott's 'Alien' is similar. For me 2001 still hasn't been topped and a big reason is that it remains enigmatic. It asks more philosophical questions than it answers. In that way it's akin to a great painting. This helps keep it timeless.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Truly legendary!

  • @Jeff_Lichtman
    @Jeff_Lichtman หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey in the theater when it first came out. I was only 11 years old. I didn't completely understand it, but at the end I walked out of the theater knowing I had seen something great.
    The opening music is Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, from 1896. Later on the movie uses The Blue Danube from 1866 by Johann Strauss II, unrelated to Richard Strauss.
    Astronauts have said this movie captures the feeling of being in space better than any other.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      A truly special movie!

  • @tonybennett4159
    @tonybennett4159 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Noah, I don't know if it's your temperament or if it's because you're so young, but the way you viewed this was perfect. Many older reactors get hung up on wanting an easily digestible plot or lots of action or worse still make endless wisecracks through the movie. You just let it unfold and allowed the images to do the talking.
    I was in my 20s when this first came out so I'm from a different generation, obviously. It was interesting that those in their thirties and over had the biggest problems, the much younger just went with it. For people like me it was an experience that even another first-timer like yourself can never replicate. It was shown on a huge, curved Cinerama screen with sound systems that were new but had never been used in the same way. The opening tune had never before been heard in this context, only in concert halls, so the cliched melody that it has now become was not a thing. We literally had never seen anything like it. Even the mystical ending didn't bother many people, just led to endless speculation and discussion.
    Many people have recommended that you see "2010" where things are "explained". Whether you do or not is up to you. Personally the original mystery resonates far more with me than the explanation, and after all, while some people might like that explanation others may hate it. I disliked it, so even though I saw "2010" I found it very ordinary, and promptly forgot about it. "2001", however, remains extraordinary to this day.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for the kind words! Loved reading this comment it's so cool that you were able to experience this movie in theaters!

  • @dialecticsjunkie7653
    @dialecticsjunkie7653 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Since you really enjoyed this Kubrick you should do "Dr Strangelove"! It's a good contrast -- much more fast paced and absolutely hilarious comedy which makes for good reactions

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’ll add it to my list!

  • @Ianto-tv3fg
    @Ianto-tv3fg หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Was fun to watch you watch. It was set in the year you were born and made in the year I was born xxx

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks!

  • @DRACULAFLOWMUSIC
    @DRACULAFLOWMUSIC หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    cool reaction ! hope you watch more kubrick

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Definitely will!

  • @AlanMitchell585
    @AlanMitchell585 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Just joined you on Patreon before this reaction to my favorite movie of all time. I knew after your The Shining reaction you would get this, and know it is a masterpiece. One of the most insightful, smart, and impressive reactions to 2001 I've ever seen, and I've seen most of them. And you didn't bug out at the ending like everyone else. Bravo!

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you! I greatly appreciate the support!

  • @kylerokeh1089
    @kylerokeh1089 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    “It’s just standing there, menacingly” if you thought you could slip a classic Patrick Star quote passed me, you are mistaken, my friend.
    PS this is the first video of yours I’ve watched and you do a great job. Thanks for doing this!

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Haha glad you noticed that! Appreciate you watching!

  • @robertsonsid
    @robertsonsid 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    HAL is one letter from IBM. 2010 is a follow up movie that explains a lot.

  • @mostlyharmless1
    @mostlyharmless1 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    One more thing, HAL was brought online in January 1992 in Urbana, Illinois. This is the same time Mark Andreeson in real life was developing the first major web browser in Urbana, Illinois, the browser was called Mosaic. I think Kubrick was a time traveller.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Maybe lol

  • @jacquespoulemer
    @jacquespoulemer หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hi Noah, The only music I didn't see mentioned in the other comments is the creepy choral music from the very start and accompanying the monolith. The Composer is Gyorgy Ligeti, an avant garde composer. His Aventures and The Lux Aeterna from his Requiem. Both works are from the 1960s. Ligeti has more mind bending pieces if your curious. (as does the contemporary Polish Composer Kryzyzstof Penderecki)
    Kubrick's film output is worth exploring as well. I enjoyed your commentary. Thanks Jim Mexico, retired

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      The music was perfect!

  • @stevetheduck1425
    @stevetheduck1425 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The opening 'song' that plays over the titles is a piece of music called 'Sunrise' from a 'tone poem' called 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', by Richard Strauss junior.
    It is intended to musically describe the beginning of the world, Earth called into being by an ancient sun god, Zarathustra.
    Fits rather well.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Perfect choice!

  • @RogCBrand
    @RogCBrand หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Long movies, like this, "Lawrence of Arabia", etc., would have an intermission to allow theater goers to use the restroom.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That’s what I thought it was lol, that’s not something that happens anymore and my first time seeing it lol

    • @altaclipper
      @altaclipper หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@noahzynski you should just try sitting in the middle of a row in a crowded theater for three or four hours without a bathroom break. My father actually saw this in a theater when it was first released and he took me to see it as soon as it opened where I live. It was not uncommon for people to walk out in the middle just out of frustration and confusion.

  • @AstroXeno
    @AstroXeno หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    12:20 If the space program had continued at the pace it was going in 1968, it would definitely have seemed plausible to most people that we'd be sending manned probes to Jupiter by 2001.
    Star Trek had us travelling all around the solar system in the 1990s...

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s fascinating!

  • @juandesalgado
    @juandesalgado หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great choice of movie! Thanks for the reaction.
    Each Kubrick movie is interesting in its own way, as they all go through different genres.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for watching! Super intrigued to watch more of Kubrick’s movies!

  • @batman51
    @batman51 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Allegedly, HAL was named after IBM, just one letter before in the alphabet.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Interesting

    • @backpackmatt
      @backpackmatt 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That is fascinating! 🐧🍏🍎💙

  • @rancosteel
    @rancosteel 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The bone transforms itself into killer satellites. Watch the making of 2001. It’s epic. RIP Stanley Kubrick.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I did watch it! Loved see the process!!

  • @billolsen4360
    @billolsen4360 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    7:01 The picture-phone camera even adjusts itself so the top of the little girl's face doesn't go out of the frame when she moves around. I don't think even facetime does that. 8:43 All those instructions! Wee touch of humor. 12:11 This was a landmark picture for its cinematography in 1968. The Godfather came along four years later and that was another big leap forward in the art, too. Before 2001: ASO, science fiction was pretty shlocky. The action in this movie goes so slow compared to adventure films today, but it holds your interest all the way through.

  • @rancosteel
    @rancosteel 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The black in the beggining is you staring at the monolith.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Awesome!

  • @SpaceOdditiesLive
    @SpaceOdditiesLive หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thanks for a great review - it's always good to see a young person react to this incredible film, in my opinion the greatest film ever made! I saw it on release in 1968 and still watch it regularly; it never gets old.
    Just one thing which very few people have picked up on: the beginning of the movie and the intermission. Several minutes in a darkened cinema with the audience staring at what? A black rectangle.... Undoubtedly this was intentional on Kubrick's part. Nothing, but nothing, was ever done accidentally by Kubrick.
    Thanks again. You should watch the sequel, "2010". It doesn't have the impact of "2001" - what could have? - but it's still a great film, and it does answer some of the questions posed by its predecessor, particularly those related to why HAL behaved the way he did. All the best!

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for watching!

    • @plinfesty
      @plinfesty หลายเดือนก่อน

      The audience was not staring at a blank screen. The specific projectionist instructions called for the curtains to be closed and house and curtain warmers at half . All lights were dimmed out during the music. Screen was not revealed until the MGM graphic hit the curtains. Almost all the original showings were on deeply curved Cinerama screens. This was absolutely typical of roadshow films back in the day. These overtures and intermissions were usually not in the general release versions.

    • @SpaceOdditiesLive
      @SpaceOdditiesLive หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah, OK. Thanks very much for that!

  • @user-bl5yi4uw6j
    @user-bl5yi4uw6j 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    One thing that has always struck me about this movie, besides the visuals, is that the people, especially the astronauts, act like computers and the computer HAL acts like a person. Also, towards the end of the film, after he's passed through the wormhole, Dave is in a "human zoo" where the aliens are watching him. They then "reward" him, I guess, by turning him into the "starchild" when he proves "worthy." Also, I remember seeing this in an IMAX type theatre, and it was a surreal experience. I was 11 or 12 at the time, and I begged my dad to take me to see it. He did, and when it was over, he turned to me and said: "Don't EVER ask me to take you to another movie like that again." For years afterwards, he would tease me and say things in a HAL-like voice like "Dave, what are you doing?" "Don't do that, Dave." Etc. The opening title music is "Also Sprach Zarathustra," (Thus, spoke Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss. So, yes, in the theatre that was the overture and there was an intermission." The odd-looking animals in the beginning are tapirs.

  • @ebashford5334
    @ebashford5334 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Definitely a movie pacing that gives you plenty of time to contemplate about things to come or at least what Arthur C Clarke thought it might be. There were some pretty good guesses.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As a reactor I sort of enjoyed the time to think lol

    • @ebashford5334
      @ebashford5334 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@noahzynski Yeah, you didn't have to worry too much about talking over dialogue.

  • @AlanMitchell585
    @AlanMitchell585 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Look forward to seeing what else you got. Good luck with the channel bro

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Appreciate you!

  • @kylewestlake982
    @kylewestlake982 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Keep the Kubrick kick going with Spartacus.

  • @victorsixtythree
    @victorsixtythree หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you have an iPhone, try "Siri, open the pod bay doors."

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just looked it up that’s awesome!

  • @garlooroztox
    @garlooroztox หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The modern music was by Ligetti. you might also enjoy music by Xenakis and Stockhausen. Happy sailing.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks!

  • @makani9004
    @makani9004 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I'm pretty excited for your Kubrick arc. He's probably the most compelling director of all time. Just a weird, driven dude without a stinker in his catalogue.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’m definitely interested in seeing more of his movies!

  • @rayname908
    @rayname908 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    You haven't seen The Wizard of Oz (1939)? So many great films are ignored these days. Keep watchin'!

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep never seen it, I have a lot of catching up to do!

  • @dansiegel333
    @dansiegel333 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I appreciated how you zoomed in on the Alexa in your room when we first met HAL!

  • @hendrsb33
    @hendrsb33 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Two of the most profound (to me) scenes in the movie are...
    1.) ... where Dave Bowman is forced to deactivate HAL and HAL is pleading for his mind. Dave is separated by millions of miles from any other living being in the solar system, with no guarantee of being able to return home, and he's (psychologically) killing the only being he has left to relate to.
    2.) ... the shots of the Discovery in orbit around Jupiter where the ship is so tiny and remote and the Monolith appears so large and threatening. That, and the unsettling music, just reinforces how small and isolated Dave is in this tiny corner of the galaxy.
    I'm glad you had the patience for this movie. It seems most moviemakers and studios today are all about the moneymaking shock and awe factor and aren't interested in making stories of speculation and nuance. Feels like we're purposely being dumbed-down.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Those are great moments! And I agree they don’t make movies like these anymore!

  • @EricJonPearson1
    @EricJonPearson1 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When this movie came out, the only science fiction that most people had seen was the original Star Trek, with its primitive special effects. So yeah, this movie was very impressive on a movie screen, with beautiful stereo audio to boot. The audience really didn't mind all of the long segments of "beauty shots" in space. Modern audiences would get bored by them.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      If the shots weren’t so beautifully done I could see someone getting bored but they weren’t!

    • @mikejankowski6321
      @mikejankowski6321 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Kubrick also made them intentionally disorienting (like the stewardess taking the meals to the pilots on the lunar shuttle and the whole spinning main cabin).

  • @deckofcards87
    @deckofcards87 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Other must-watch Stanley Kubrick films are Dr Strangelove; (1964) and A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Plan of it!

  • @mercurywoodrose
    @mercurywoodrose หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    will watch later. thanks. i watch all the takes on this.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awesome!

  • @rayname908
    @rayname908 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You would love the special effects of the first sci-fi classic METROPOLIS by Fritz Lang. An iconic robot and futuristic city influenced Star Wars as much as 2001. A theory that the Monolith is a movie screen Is interesting. HAL 9000 is a movie camera lens set into a black rectangle shape with a red light behind it. The film activated an evolution in special effects and sci-fi. Sadly few filmmakers encode as much meaning without words. Kubrick continued to omit key moments to leave the explanation up to the viewer. The Shining is a simple story but the key assault of the little boy is never shown. The mystery makes his films stand the test of time. 🙂

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Excited to see more of Kubrick’s work!

  • @mostlyharmless1
    @mostlyharmless1 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    LOL you were born in 2001! And yes, this song came from this movie :D

  • @Ocrilat
    @Ocrilat หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Spoilers: The meaning or interpretation of the meaning of the film is endlessly debated. My view as to what happened in the film:
    The Monolith was a tool for unseen aliens. Its job is to seek out intelligent life in the universe and to help it along. It arrives on Earth where the ancestors of Mankind are struggling. They are gatherers, eating only the plants they can scrounge and are on the brink of starvation. The Monolith teaches the man-apes technology in the form of tools that allow hunting, ending their starvation. The side effect of that technology is the second water hole scene. We see the first war, now made deadly with the advent of weapons. Technology is a double-edged sword that brings life and kills. Bone gets thrown into the air, jump-cuts to the satellite.
    In act 2, we go to the Moon, where another Monolith was found, deliberately buried. When that Monolith is exposed to sunlight for the first time in 4 million years, it sends a radio beam to Jupiter. It’s a way the aliens know mankind is advanced enough for the next step. The people who find the Monolith on the Moon lie to keep its existence a secret, because reasons.
    Act 3 sees the astronauts going to Jupiter. The tech crew (Bowman and Poole) are awake for the trip there but don't know about the real mission (they think it's just the first manned mission to Jupiter). The science crew (Hunter, Kaminsky, and Kimball) were briefed on the alien thing found on the Moon and then frozen, to keep the secret. HAL was also told the truth but instructed to lie to Bowman and Poole. HAL goes crazy, since lying went against his original programming. When HAL starts to crack up, he begins making mistakes...blaming those mistakes on the crew. He kills off the fallible humans so they don't ruin the secret mission. Bowman shuts down the higher functions of HAL's brain, in the process activating prerecorded briefing materials informing him about what was found on the Moon and what the real mission is.
    Act 4 Bowman investigates the giant Monolith orbiting Jupiter, but when he gets close, it turns into a sort of stargate and drags him to a pre-planned location set up by the aliens (the aliens themselves are long dead). After the trip (and incidentally seeing many mysteries of the Universe), he is put into a cage of sorts, made to look like an Earth hotel suite so he feels more comfortable. The weird thing where he keeps seeing himself I think is representing time being affected...so he sees 'time jumps' of himself on multiple occasions. Bowman is drained of all his memories and humanity, which is transferred to his new existence, the Star Child. The Monolith, the thing that gave humanity a gentle 'push' down the evolutionary path of tool making and technology, now gives him a new 'push' to the next phase of evolution, from existence as matter to existence as pure energy. Bowman/Star Child then returns to Earth, and the next step of Mankind's journey begins. That's how I see it anyway.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I like your interpretation!

  • @f1hotrod527
    @f1hotrod527 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When you watch a Kubric movie, you know you have watched something. It gets better watching it again. I like your reaction. Other people almost try to overthink it. I don't know if anyone knows what the movie is really about. I think I read that it might be ambiguous on purpose, and your mine will create the meaning.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Really makes you think!

  • @brandonflorida1092
    @brandonflorida1092 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The purpose of the monolith buried on the Moon is to let the monolith at Jupiter know that the apes' descendants (the human race) have achieved elementary space travel and that lesson #2 can begin. Lesson #2 is basically doing the same thing to David Bowman that it had done to the apes - take him to the next level. It turns him into a more advanced creature, essentially what it had done to the apes. Dave then returns to Earth with a single thought. The light show was just something the monolith did to distract Dave while it analyzed him to see how Earth people had changed since the apes. The hotel room is simply a traditional place of safety and comfort it had pulled out of Dave's mind so that he could be comfortable while it changed him. The more advanced embryo-like version of Dave is often called the star child.
    Some excellent movies older than this are:
    "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951 NOT the 2008 remake),
    “Fahrenheit 451,”
    "Forbidden Planet,"
    "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,"
    "It Happened One Night,"
    "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,"
    “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” (only 65 min.),
    "Miracle on 34th Street (1947 NOT the remake),"
    "North by Northwest,"
    "Once Upon a Time in the West,"
    "The Pink Panther,"
    "Psycho,"
    "Rear Window,"
    "Rio Bravo,"
    "Some Like it Hot,"
    "Stalag 17,"
    "The Time Machine (1960 version),"
    "Topper,"
    "Vertigo"

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Appreciate the insight and I’ll keep these movies in mind!!

    • @mikejankowski6321
      @mikejankowski6321 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually, the Jupiter monolith is a Star Gate. The light show is a 60s psychedelic representation of Dave's travel to another world. (Very popular to take drugs for heightened appreciation.) The hotel room was captured by TMA-1 from a TV broadcast when it was activated.
      Great list of additional movies!

    • @brandonflorida1092
      @brandonflorida1092 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mikejankowski6321 Thanks. Could you document the bit about TMA-1 recording part of a TV broadcast?

    • @mikejankowski6321
      @mikejankowski6321 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brandonflorida1092 It is in Clarke's book from the film. TMA-1 was busy in that brief instant.

    • @brandonflorida1092
      @brandonflorida1092 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mikejankowski6321 Okay. I haven't read it in a few decades.

  • @somthingbrutal
    @somthingbrutal หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    someof the dawn of man scenes were shot on a London rooftop

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      That wild!

    • @stevetheduck1425
      @stevetheduck1425 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The only 'outdoor' shots in this film are the up-shots of the monkeyman smashing bones and throwing them up as pieces.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stevetheduck1425 that’s insane!

  • @mostlyharmless1
    @mostlyharmless1 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This was about 30 years before Deep Blue beat Gary Kasporov. Also, did you notice that when they have EFFING iPADS? This is 1968! How crazy is this? Also, Star Wars based its special effects off of this, in the moon scene there's actually a shot that looks like a docking bay of the Death Star.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      This movie is so ahead of it’s time!

  • @RobertSmith-js2kz
    @RobertSmith-js2kz หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The granddaddy of ALL modern "space" films as we know them. The standard was SET. There was no going back. No more campy, half-baked special effects. This was the dawn of a new age. Not ironic at all ;) There is a sequel. 2010 - THE YEAR WE MADE CONTACT. Ignore any of the other nonsense that comes after that.
    You've come this far (far back I mean) ... maybe it's time to to check out PLANET OF THE APES. Also from 1968. What a year for cinema! Really enjoyed your reaction.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you! Will definitely consider watching PLANET OF THE APES!

    • @RobertSmith-js2kz
      @RobertSmith-js2kz หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@noahzynski It's on the same intellectual (and cinematic) level. Films like this change your entire perspective on our place in the universe.

  • @jaxonfreeman1756
    @jaxonfreeman1756 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My father took me to the theatre to see this movie when I was 6. It had a profound impact on me and set me on a course of philisophical introspection from that day forward. Perhaps I was too young in retrospect. Remember it like it was yesterday.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s awesome!

  • @toastnjam7384
    @toastnjam7384 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This became a popular movie for stoners back then. Some theaters had this as a midnight showing for several years after its released.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      That makes sense lol

  • @grodesby3422
    @grodesby3422 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very rare for the effects of zero gravity in space travel to be shown on screen even nowadays.
    The mindset to appreciate these kinds of slow, epic movies is to focus less on the story, and more on the inspiring beauty of the cinematography, which needs a good TV

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I enjoyed it all the way through!

    • @plinfesty
      @plinfesty หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or a giant Cinerama screen from a 70mm film print. I’ve been able to see it in the past couple of decades in Los Angeles theatres on numerous occasions. Always draws a big audience.

  • @Dennisdman124
    @Dennisdman124 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The sequal to this movie 2010 is worth checking out as a companion peice .

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Interesting didn’t know there was a sequel…

  • @robertcartier5088
    @robertcartier5088 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    As they gathered around it, the monolith telepathically whispered to the apes, _"What do you want?"_
    Just a little wink to all Babylon 5 fans out there. ;-]

  • @user-kd2ij7te5v
    @user-kd2ij7te5v 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    You should watch an even older film. Real old. Metropolis by Fritz Lang. It was as ahead when it hit theaters.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That could be interesting!

  • @1957Shep
    @1957Shep หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This might be the most realistic alien contact movies ever made. And you are not really supposed to understand the ending. Humans just came into contact with something much smarter than they are. Dave Boman saw events take place without understanding them. Think of it like a housecat. Your cat sees you doing things but comprehends only the most basic actions you take. The cat sees you reading a book. As far as the cat can understand, you are just staring at a piece of paper.
    In this case, humans are the cats.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s great!

  • @sebastianeickhoff2394
    @sebastianeickhoff2394 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love Kubrick.
    Shining and Full Metal Jacket next pls.
    And if you want something very different i recommend asian cinema.
    Oldboy (2003) is a banger. Watch it blind it will shook you.
    Keep up the good work

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Plan on watching all these!

  • @miller-joel
    @miller-joel หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    00:50 Black rectangular screen...just like the monolith.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awesome!

    • @plinfesty
      @plinfesty หลายเดือนก่อน

      But not in the original theatrical release. A) the curtains were closed during the overture. B) the original engagements weren’t shown on rectangular screens but on 146 degree curved Cinerama screens with Curtains that didn’t start opening until the stylized MGM lion hit the curtains.

  • @chrischreative2245
    @chrischreative2245 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amazing special effects for its time. Many say George Lucas changed the visual effects game but I think it’s this movie 2001 😊

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agree!

  • @rayhill5767
    @rayhill5767 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Saw it in a theater a few years back. If you have a chance don’t miss it or Blade Runner

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Definitely would be cool to see in theaters!

  • @OroborusFMA
    @OroborusFMA หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ape. Man. Overman. It's all a homage to Nietzsche with an AI gone wrong subplot.

  • @harrynewman6988
    @harrynewman6988 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Kubrick did a pretty good job in finding experts predicting much of the technology in use today, but right after the Apollo moon missions.. NASA was slated for Mars exploration. Budget cuts meant it went with the reusable space shuttle instead. There’s a lot in the book by Clarke that didn’t make it into Kubrick’s film. Didn’t care for the books (2001, 2010, etc..) personally but they help with the 1 film.
    [Book spoiler]
    That creepy interstellar baby is actually Bowman transformed into the superpowerful “Starchild” who then zaps and destroy some of those floating satellites seen around earth when the space sequence starts; some of these contained nuclear weapons the superpowers aimed at each other, so the implication is Starchild did away with weapons of mass destruction.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fascinating!

  • @Otokichi786
    @Otokichi786 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    0:23 "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) is the OLDEST movie you've ever seen!? You don't know what you've been missing... But then the first movie I saw in a movie theater was "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954). Have a great time with this mind-expanding film, which I saw in an ex-Cinerama theater. It was an Experience, even before Dave Bowman's FTL voyage. In the real world, there used to be a Monolith standing behind the University of Hawaii's Chemistry building. It emitted a low hum.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have a lot to catch up on!

  • @michaelwebster8389
    @michaelwebster8389 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    You should try watching Tarkovsky's Solaris, which is kind of the Russian equivalent to this movie. I actually prefer Solaris. Don't watch the American remake.

  • @larryk731
    @larryk731 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    All the music was preexisting classical

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah but I’m sure this movie made even more iconic!

  • @dq405
    @dq405 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "A bold choice." Actually, no: overtures and musical intermissions were commonly used for long, "epic" films: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and DOCTOR ZHIVAGO come to mind, and if I recall correctly, THE SAND PEBBLES, too. A late example, with an overture but without an intermission, was STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE. Of course, the most famous intermission of all was in MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL....

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Since this is the oldest movie I’ve seen I never thought about the fact that movies had intermissions lol

    • @mikejankowski6321
      @mikejankowski6321 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Most famous ending, too!

  • @vytallicaq.6881
    @vytallicaq.6881 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    60 minutes did a story about the Quantum computers that are coming in the next decade. They said problems that would take today's supercomputers MILLIONS of years to solve, will be solved by these new computers in just MINUTES. They are THAT fast.🤯 It sounds like we are about to experience an unprecedented EXPLOSION of technological advances. Life is about to RADICALLY change. If it's possible for fantastic things like fusion generators, warp drive, or a fountain of youth drug to exist? These computers WILL figure it out. The scary thing of course are these scenarios illustrated in 2001 and the Terminator movies. But even if THAT doesn't happen, I'm worried about what the military will do with this technology. I'm sure it will FIRST be used to perfect defense and weapons systems. And if we DO develop a foolproof defense system? We might be tempted to start WW3, while we have the upper hand. Before the Russians and Chinese have the chance to do the same. Let's hope these nightmare scenarios don't actually happen, but nobody really knows for sure, how all of this computing power will play out. 😬

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Crazy times...

  • @fatherman9
    @fatherman9 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    A whole 10 min without speaking English - Try the movie called Quest For Fire. The whole movie is spoken in neanderthal grunts

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That would be interesting lol

  • @somthingbrutal
    @somthingbrutal หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    if the political will had been there we would already have sent people to mars

  • @juliell2139
    @juliell2139 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Watch the sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'll add it my list!

  • @robertfindley921
    @robertfindley921 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Yes, that song was written for this movie (I think). Keep in mind that computers almost didn't exist back then. Slide rules were how you calculated. And this was released over a year before man first landed on the moon! WAY ahead of its time!

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amazing!

    • @robertfindley921
      @robertfindley921 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@noahzynski I heard that the name HAL was chosen because each letter was one off from IBM.

    • @Otokichi786
      @Otokichi786 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you talking about "Daisy Bell?" A 1961computer lab hit: th-cam.com/video/x3bPY6i8vJE/w-d-xo.html

    • @miller-joel
      @miller-joel หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" is a song from 1892.

    • @mikejankowski6321
      @mikejankowski6321 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Modern-ish computers got their start during WWII. The late 40s/early 50s made significant strides. There is a clip out there of Arthur Clarke (author of the book and co-author of this screenplay) talking about and showing computers in the early 60s. They were just big and not too powerful.

  • @botz77
    @botz77 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And the overture confuses yet another TH-cam reactor.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’ll happen

  • @strettoasino9006
    @strettoasino9006 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Within the 1st minutes you failed yourself...

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      How so?

    • @strettoasino9006
      @strettoasino9006 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mindset...
      The ability to just watch...

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@strettoasino9006 this is a reaction channel I have to say stuff

  • @theironherder
    @theironherder หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sorry, Noah, I don't have the time or patience to watch another insipid reaction to this film. Your youth is one strike against you, but the length of your reaction leaves no time for any thoughtful analysis. Oh well, you will likely gain a more mature perspective in time.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s ok, I loved this film and didn’t feel the need to say anymore than I did.

  • @TTM9691
    @TTM9691 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hey, that was such a great edit and great commentary! So happy you liked it! Especially on a first viewing! I totally agree: gorgeously shot. I'm sure you've seen and read all there is to consume about the making of it. All of Kubrick's movies are visually incredible as he came from a photography background. (The only other director I can think of that comes from a photo background is Agnes Varda). All of his movies are "one of a kind", and totally different from each other. He followed it up with a wild weird movie that's as fast as this one is slow, the demented "A Clockwork Orange". And the movie he made before this was a black comedy/satire about nuclear war! I'm sure you've seen "The Shining", one of the great horror movies. Anyways, absolutely loved this reaction!!! Thanks so much for sharing it!!!!! I'm a very happy subscriber! I don't get to see every video, but I appreciate every one of them!!

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thanks for the kind words! I’m very interested in seeing more of Kubricks work! I’ve never seen the shining or any of his other movies so I’m glad I’ll be able to share my first time reaction!

    • @TTM9691
      @TTM9691 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@noahzynski Oh you're in for a treat! Very cool! Well, I'm on the ride with you! He only has, like, ten movies. He took a real long time to make each movie. "2001" took a few years, as you can probably tell! PS: "2001" opened on the same exact day the original "Planet Of The Apes" opened, just for comparason. Not sure if you've seen that one. All of his movies from "The Killing" (1956 - his first real movie) to "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) is worth checking out.

    • @noahzynski
      @noahzynski  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TTM9691 I’m excited!