2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - 50th Anniversary | "Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick" Mini Documentary
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- Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of "2001: A Space Odyssey" Mini Documentary
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Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey opened the door to all the films and filmmakers who followed it. Through interviews with directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack - as well as special effects professionals and cultural historians - this documentary examines the legacy of Kubrick's masterpiece and its influence on science fiction films, special effects and world cinema.
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - 50th Anniversary
It never ages - the pen floating around when the passenger is asleep, and the space hostess picking it up and putting it back in his pocket ... ALL practical effects, with no deleting of cotton cables as CGI would do today.
How did he do that?
How did he do any of this with only practical effects?
Because these are real models/objects .. they are much more convincing than the CGI that we've been forced to accept as "more realistic" [when it's really just a high res cartoon most of the time]
Here's the difference:
DIRECTOR TO FX MAN: "I want my astronauts to go through a tunnel, and then effortlessly walk 360 degrees upside down and back again .. like it's nothing special."
FX MAN (2018): "We'll need a green screen stage and multiple cameras arranged in a 180 degree semi-circle so that we can rotate the footage - then we'll create the effect on the computer"
FX MAN (1968): "Just build a massive hamster wheel, with the camera rotating on the spindle ..." :)
FX MAN (1968) wins every time - because the camera is capturing something real. There's trickery involved - but it's honest trickery where everything you're seeing is a real object.
He meant action but didn't want sound pretentious ;D
@Cliff Hanley
Statement of person who doesn't know much about story telling and something called open ending 0_0
Cliff Hanley Agreed it's boring but visually it's in a class of its own.
The ending is coherent - read the book
The visuals and special effects in this movie, have aged better than effects in movies that came out 10 years ago.
Good old Douglas Trumbull.
@@aeromundos 10 yrs before CE3K
Just like B/W have been perfected..
Special effects take time to gell to a standard if thats ever achieved..
It's already aged better than Rise of the Skywalker.
Yes, but the main thing about special effects is that you don't see them as effects at all. So in that sense Kubrick understood to make realistic effects....
I still cannot believe this film lost the oscar for best directing to Oliver....
I would so love for a Kubrick bio picture. Starting with his days as a Look magazine photographer, he move to Hollywood movie making, the nasty breakup, the move to England, finishing with the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
That is a marvelous idea. I can't believe it hasn't been done; maybe his family won't let it happen.
Yeah, what were these Erudites thinking?
Perhaps Luddites would be a more appropriate moniker.
Oggatha Christie One L too many.
Keep in mind Kubrick did this movie fucking 50 years ago, that's unbelievable the vision he had back then, even the most respected directors still struggle to desypher how the hell he could pull it off, which He did.
I saw "2001" when I was 12 years old when it was first released in theaters. IT started my lifelong love of Sci-Fi.
"desifer"
Why did you include the obscenity? It diminishes your comments. /
Will people were smarter back then, the world was more insane back then. So logic he made this movie. Now a day they are too much retarded to do this. I hate the downlook on previous generation like they were less then us today. Well sorry to say but that is the biggest bullshit, we actually suck. Thats why we have hipsters nowadays.
Agreed. BTW, *decipher :-)
The biggest screen tv you can get in your house will never equal seeing this movie on a good movie screen ; I was 9 years old. It was amazing.
"Take the ultimate trip." I did. At least 2001 times and loved every micro light speed of it. I managed to come back each time safely. I made my own little tripy video as a tribute to Stanley Kubrick called "Communication: Meltdown." Not exactly Hollywood effects but I got an "A."
2001: A Space Odyssey is the movie equivalent of the American Gothic painting. Grant Wood and Kubrick both gave the world a work that was mysterious for its simplicity. Both have profound indelible imagery yet matter-of-fact moods. Both will permanently spark debate as to whether their meaning is esoteric or straightforward.
A masterpiece...thank God there was a visionary to create this. Simply wonderful. Can't forget this movie. I was only 7 years old when it came out but it memorized when we were still working on Apollo program. Kid's imagination can go a long way for future engineers , technicians, and scientists.
I must say that I'm a huge fan of Sci-fi movies, grew up with stars wars and star trek and even if I still love those sagas, when I saw Odyssey 2001 only in 2015, I felt like I was being fooled my whole life, like all those special effects and shots, were just merely low quality copies of something much greater made many years before. I have watched Odyssey a couple of times and I'm still amazed by the quality the effects, the sound and the whole atmosphere of this movie. BTW great documentary, is incredible to see all of these masterminds of Hollywood pay their tribute to Stanley's work.
Some of these characters in the video were probably Kubrick's fierce enemies. When he is gone, it is all roses of course.
Do you often treat rampant speculation as an established fact? Enemies? Really? Ffs. That is a kind of childlike worldview.
This is a kind of movie that we can see it over and over again. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍
Sensational. Look at the faces of the most important filmmakers of our time and listen to what they have to say. Kubrick was a genius and the list of producers and directors he's inspired is simply fantastic.
I did not see one really important film maker of our time there. They are all popular filmmakers but that should not be confused with enduring or creators of important, seminal or enduring films.
If 2001 was released today it would still be received in awe.
I think with the current Internet era that many would certainly not appreciate the craftsmanship and style that would be put into this. They certainly would be yawning and looking at their phones. Those who truly appreciate visuals, wonderful music and how a film is put together would truly be awed.
Don't forget the extremely odd fact that the only academy award it received was for special effects. And it wasn't given to Douglas Trumbull, who pretty much single-handedly invented and executed it all, but to Stanley Kubrick. Watch some documentaries about the guy. He's a legit visual genius. Hard to imagine a lot of Mr. Trumbull's team, and he himself, were thrilled about that. How many times in the (modern) history of the Academy has the award for special effects gone to the director? I don't know the answer, but my guess would be....never.
This film was made in 70mm to be seen in cinerama. I saw it December 1968 London Casino, totally amazing, there is no cinema experience that matches cinerama
ads every 10s, very immersive
Stanley must have loved star trek. Great characterization, great everything.
I saw 2001 on opening night in the theater, and at least 50 more times in the next couple of months. It became something of an art form to time your acid so you were peaking when the light show started.
My favourite director.
I find it so hard listening to Lucas and Spielberg talk about Kubrick as though they have any insight into art
Maybe the next time they all get together to figure out what the film actually means they should consider reading the Arthur C. Clarke novel that was written in tandem with the script? Next up: a documentary about the classic Lennon & McCartney Beatles songs where we spend 30mins talking about Paul while completely omitting to mention John.
When they say Kubrick was cutting edge, example is the use of classical music. When I saw the movie as a 10 year old in 1968, the music made sense. Years later I read young people got it, old people did not (they wondered what does Strauss music have to do with space travel?).
All the Hollywood brains don't want to tell you that Kubrick said he could have hired the best movie music man in Hollywood but the music would not have been as good as the classical music. He wanted to show the heights of human accomplishment.
Stanley Kubrick, the greatest film director of all time.
The key to good film-making. Take your time to tell the story.
My favorite film of all time...and the reason I feel humanity has been cheated because we are so far away from achieving this.
Quite amazing some of the things 2001 predicted. We hadn’t yet been to our moon, we were only just beginning to explore our solar system around the time 2001 came out.
It still inspires me. Still amazes. Always said the truth.
Damn annoying ads, if at least you were part of the organization that made that documentary. Shameless!
2001 is still my all time favorite science fiction movie
Everyone has missed one major flaw when Bowman goes to the hatch to shut down HAL. One can very clearly see that his left glove is NOT attached to his suit when he opens and goes through the hatch. You can see his bare wrist. I'm puzzled that Kubrick didn't noticed it, or if he did was it too late to re-film that piece.
Remember the good old days when TH-cam videos had just one annoying ad?
I remembered to use an ad blocker.
Considering the film created a realistic version of what real space travel for humans of earth would be in the future, its visual look remains astounding. It's great that people can take in the ideas of existentialism and admit they don't completely understand it. After seeing it again recently, the only thing that seems to be missing is the idea of portable technology.
I've never understood the people who say they didn't understand the movie, or that there's some mystery that we have to solve for ourselves. It's a very straightforward story, I'd almost say simple. Kubrick is an artist and he tells it visually. It isn't explained, it's shown. Simply put, our early ancestors are struggling. An alien intelligence intervenes and aids us in our evolution. The monolith is left on the moon to signal our readiness to progress further just as we are in danger of destroying ourselves (the bone club becomes an orbital nuclear weapons platform). Bowman's mission is diverted to the large monolith which brings him to the alien intelligence where he is advanced to the next stage in our existence. The movie ends with him contemplating the Earth. What is left for us to ponder is what happens next.
The movie is a masterclass in show, don’t tell. I’ve seen horror movies that aren’t as scary as that shot of Hal reading the astronauts’ lips.
So how did he do the scene where Bowman Ejects from Pod into the ship ? On a Reduced Gravity Jet=AKA Vomit Comet ?
LRoy Shreding it’s all in the lost worlds of 2001 book. Actor dropped down a well-like tunnel with camera underneath but supported by wires hidden from camera. Scary
Muren, Tippett and Trumbull could be triplets! Love this docu.
If Stanley didn't do it himself can you imagine being the lighting director on set? You better have your shit together.
I would LOVE to have seen Kubrick’s version of “AI”, that would’ve been something else! I remember reading about his concepts and treatments for that movie in “Omni” magazine as far back as the mid-80’s, and thinking it would be incredible to see that on screen! It’s a real shame he didn’t have the time to do it himself. I’m sure it would’ve been extraordinarily…..and a more fitting finale to his career than “Eyes Wide Shut”.
I think the black pillars that keep appearing in the film represent the advancement of technology, and the humans and apes are both in wonder and fear of the structure.
This film was design to look specific like modern science magazine graphic design with beautiful cinematic image that realistic and more practical. Beginning in 1950s all film is produce in widescreen with color technic, I think this movies realese because of the U.S joining space race with Soviet Union, so they use the film to promote U.S efforts in space program.
"I think it was the first time people really took science fiction seriously." Certainly in cinema. Novelists had long passed the L. Ron. Hubbard Purple Prose era; Asimov, LeGuin, Bradbury and many other brilliant writers had written great philosophical, hard science or epic space forays, but most movie and TV SF was hokey, low-budget and non-science. THIS was REAL. (Until it wasn't, but by then the magic had you.)
All this creativity and attention to detail, and yet there's a shadow of a fucking chopper in the opening scene of the shining...
That documentary is not from 2018, right? I'd swear many of the interviewees look older today than they look here. Anyway happy anniversary to the central pilar of sci-fi movies!
I think they come from an older doc.
Some of the people interviewed died years ago.
This is extra material that came on the Blue Ray release. It has copyright on 2007, meaning it is more than 10 years old.
Kubrick hired James Earl Jones as thin navigator in Strangelove which had B-52 model with wingtips accurately bent upwards like a real flying plane.
There's a direct correction between the amount of research, thought, takes, inhuman focus and effort and the audiences' rewards for repeat viewings. I could sit and gawk at this film, or Barry Lyndon, etc. all day long. And then there's the musical, audio and still image iconography. It's as if that brilliant intellect is ressurected each time.
At the dawn of the online age, I stumbled across a website that allowed the downloading of frames of 2001 in what for that day was high-resolution images and it took days and the end result was astounding, as it you had put a magnifying glass over the screen yet lost none of the film's fractal beauty, as it he had anticipated even that. A few years later my hard drive crashed and I lost it and it felt like grief.
This film is over 50 years old and the special effects, visual effects and cinemotagraphy are still way better than most films today!! Way ahead of his time! RIP Kubrick
ALL-- not most.imo.
It's a shame that Arthur C. Clarke isn't mentioned at all, because he created the original ideas and worked very closely with Kubrick through the entire process.
A lot of the science in the movie probably came directly from A. C. Clarke. Clarke had written at least one book on the exploration of space when the film was shot and he really understood the science (the appendix to this book includes all the equations - really nice). Acknowledging the contribution of A.C. Clarke does not take anything away from Kubrick on the contrary it shows one of his qualities which is to know his limitation and get the right people to complement. I think he found the best complement there.
This documentary was made around the time of the DVD release of the film. On that DVD & the Blu Ray release they have additional documentaries one of which focuses much more on the collaboration between Clarke and Kubrick.
Probably a tough subject. There some version where Kubrick mislead and misdirected Clarke about the screenplay story. Not showing Clarke the actual shooting script.
I always like the connect between movies. Like the connection between Bladerunner and Super Mario Brothers.
There is an interesting book by Clarke on the topic of the creation of 2001 called "The Lost Worlds Of 2001".
In that book Clarke details the endless re-writes and provides some of his early draft material. These earlier drafts feature a walking talking C-3PO type HAL, obviously at that early stage in the process Clarke didn't yet quite understand what Kubrick was going for with this picture.
The book gives off the impression that Clarke, while being co-author on the story, is in no doubt that Kubrick had final say.
In fact on the DVD/Blu Ray release there is a separate documentary specifically on the topic of Kubrick's collaboration with Clarke filmed before Clarkes death featuring extensive interviews with him. I wouldn't buy into the stories of Clarke being annoyed or put out by Kubrick, it seems if anything he is extremely proud of the film and happy to have been involved, and rightly so!
Today's so-called "special effects" are nothing more than cartoons. Totally fake and unrealistic .
Kubrick gave the viewer the sensation of actually being in space. A work of genius....52 years ago!
This was incredibly slow paced movie but it was so impeccably and masterfly made you couldn't keep your eyes off the screen. A true masterpiece of filmmaking.
steve jorfi
really excellent comment 👍
The most immersive film of all time
Summed up perfectly 👌
It's funny to hear about how Kubrick wasn't content to make simply a "genre film" in each of the genres in which he worked, whether it be 2001 (sci-fi), Barry Lyndon (period piece), The Shining (horror), Full Metal Jacket (war), etc. He literally remade the standard of every genre he worked in.
Each genre he did he set a standard in
Not true for war in my opinion. Apocalypse Now is the pinnacle of war films.
Natan's Notes don’t forget Dr. Strangelove one of the best comedy films out there
What genre is Clockwork Orange? It’s one of my favorite of his.
@@randysmith4331 Dystopian.
9:03 "Even if he had the digital technology we had today, I don't think he would change it." Geez George, seems like you could learn something here
I agree with that statement. The film definitely looks like something that's from 1978, 1988, or even 1998! Its production is superior than its sequel 2010 and I think its a shame they had its director, Peter Hymns is this documentary!
@@matthewb774 1998? Heck, some 2005 film has more blurry quality
I know
You know that Kubrick wanted to make A.I artificial intelligence (he died before making it) boy in cgi, right? and he was always pushing technology forward(? Like, not just 2001 but also things like the steadicam for the shining...of course he would have made better films than the star wars prequels (obviously) but I'm pretty sure he would have used CGI a lot, in fact it's a shame he couldn't see what you can do with cgi nowadays
Best movie ever made 👏
Ha! Good Avatar.
I totally agree; my all-time favorite. The Shining and Barry Lyndon are phenomenal as well.
@@Powerhaus88 2001 is the greatest of the great, hands down. Nobody makes films like Kubrick did, and nobody ever will.
I don’t know, Jingle All the Way was way ahead of its time
Absolutely no doubt.
I tried several times when I was young to watch 2001, knowing it was a masterpiece, and fell asleep each time... I was frustrated because I tried desperately to appreciate it. But then a few years later I just watched it (almost as an after-thought) and literally fell in love w/ the film just for its Kubrick-esque beauty, and then the entire film washed over me..... And I was able to appreciate its greatness. It was hard for me to see what the difference was; a diff. attitude, more patience, or I know not what....but it was like a switch being turned on. In the end I stopped getting in the way of the film experience & fell in love w/ it moment-by-moment. Truly a transcendental movie but you can't go in expecting anything other than to experience it on its own terms.
And now thanks to the legalization you'll be able to try it stoned, which is how 80% of the audience saw it back in the 1960s
lol, that's me exactly!!!
@@tim71pos -- 80%???
Same
Me too , I think it takes a mature perspective to understand Kubricks true sense of art.
I've been saying it for over two decades and I'll say it again now with no hesitation - 2001 is the best film I've seen in my entire life. Two artistic heroes of mine from the 20th century: John Coltrane and Stanley Kubrick.
Agreed 🤝
It's not an obilisk...its a monolith.
Potato put Todd oh… Tomato tomahto (… Or you might be right - runs to dictionary :-)
Actually, in the book it is referred to as a monolith. The actual meaning of the word is single stone. Whilst the actual makeup of TMA 1 is unknown, it is undeniably a single piece.
He's a Warner Bros suit, they're a special kind of stupid. :)
It's a big black thing.
It's not an obelisk nor a monolith. It's a CubeBrick.
No mention of Arthur C. Clarke is a shame.
"The future isn't what it used to be" Arthur C. Clarke!!!!!!!!!!
... did Johann Strauß mentioned ?
I am 88 yo, social behavioral scientist...I saw "2001" and really intellectually impacted me. I loved the ape violence scene of casting the bone... and it morphs into a space ship. The music is so fitting.
Point of correction: It's not so much a spaceship as it is an orbiting nuclear weapons platform. No one to know that without reading the book though.
It's not merely a movie. It is an achievement like no other.
This film has aged better than whatever Disney/Lucasfilm will release *thirty years from now.*
George Lucas: 'He did it. I can do it". hahahahahahahah
the subjective shot in the monolith scene in the moon really made me feel there. i could feel the imponent and mysterious presence of the monolith and that music during the scene just made me feel uneasy and terrified. Geniusly directed
It's not one of the three greatest films ever made. In my opinion it's *the* greatest film ever.
2001 Space Odyssey is the greatest sci-fi film ever made. No matter how many times I've seen it, it's still thrills me every time
No word about LIGETI ?? the whole film lives from his music !
Had the honour of watching it when it was re-released in 2014...twice.
I didn't know the film was supposed to have voice over narration at the start. Thank god Kubrick scrapped that idea.
best diretor to ever grace the planet. 50th Anniversary of the most important film ever.
I simply can't add to that, you've said it all.
yes, yes, yes...
The most important motion picture ever ― like totally!
Kubrick should’ve got it for 2001. But Carol Reed (Oliver) should’ve gotten it 20 years earlier for The Third Man - an equally profound (in a totally different way) masterpiece. Like 2001 many still don’t get it, thinking it’s just a “film noir” with long shadows and tilt camera angles...
Should've gotten what?
At 9.57 the guys says "science fiction movies that came before it were crude" and they show 1956's Forbidden planet, which was anything but crude
Quite correct, the use of electronic music in the Forbidden Planet was also revolutionary at the time.
I think he meant crude in style and production value. Not in a bad way. Just referring to how those 50s sci Fi movies have that campy look to them
Forbidden planet did pretty well on the production values. Better than The Day the Earth Stood Still, for example. Kubrick worked hard to "make it real," even including corporate logos on the control panels and gear. That sort of stuff makes it look tangible to the audience. Most of those corporations are still around, too.
This movie, was way way ahead of its time! And still holds well today.
I saw this film as a child in the early 90s (around the time Jurassic Park came out) and I had no idea that it was an “old film”, I assumed it was relatively recent. That’s how amazing the effects in this film are.
I was 12 when I saw this movie with my dad I am now. In 2019 almost 63. My dad has since died . And I am 12 agin in the savoy cinema Limerick Ireland . I have come to accept what the message in this movie is all about . It’s not very subtle . Thanks Stanly
Lucas gets it spot on, a silent film in the era of sound. he states so simply the genius of Kubrick.
2001 is still more realistic film about Man's interaction with space than any other sci fi film since. You notice there is no loud engine thrust, laser cannons etc. There is silence. And it is beautiful in its sublime majesty.
One of THE greatest cinema achievements EVER. A towering motion picture in so many respects. I watch it every couple of years, still engrossing, enthralling, compelling. /
"It's a silent movie in the sound-era, and I think we'll get back there." Thank you, Mr Lucas, for helping to open a door to those who want to make movies which explore more deeply the PRIMARY raison d'être of movies: the PICTURE, and put everything else in the background. Why should movies have an easily digestible, linear story, played out by actors telling us how they feel, and what they're doing, and why they're doing them? That can, as pretty much every movie ever made in Hollywood be fun and functional, but there are also other ways of making movies! Some of the movie-greats have explored silence in their movies: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Greenaway (I'm sure I'm missing some even more glaring and obvious examples; I'm not a movie expert, just a movie-lover!). Just as there are books which are challenging in the way they progress (Cortazar's Hopscotch, Saramago's way with "dialogue" not to mention Ulysses by James Joyce) why shouldn't movies?! In abstract and non-representational art, painters and sculptors have long represented the world not as it "is" but as they see it; why shouldn't movie-makers?! I understand that for the most part, this sort of thing will remain independent fringe-productions, since more and more the big movie companies only invest if they're fairly certain of good returns, and the average consumer of movies, tv, books, art, etc, expects to be entertained and NOT challenged, at least not too profoundly. Silence is horror to many people these days: it makes us think; about ourselves, the world around us, and what we take in during silence (views, taste, touch, a.s.o.) can have profound effects on the thoughts during and after that silence. Meditation..
I begged my mother to take me to see this when it came out. I was nine years old. When it was over she asked "what was that about?" "The evolution of man.....and mankind" was my reply. I stand by that 50 years later.
joseph humphrey yeah right
What'd she say?
@@princekyle4132 she clapped.
So you’re as simple minded and dumb as you were when you were 9? Interesting
@@joseph-ow1hf you did not say that🤣🤣
A bow to the unknowable. Perfect way to describe this film.
I feel much better now... I really do.
Killing four people always does that!
*dave continues on to HAL's memory vault* 😅
" I feel much better now...I really do.."
..yes ,
that quote is well picked out (out of the many...
"...you're working up on your crew psychology report HAL...right...??? " )
..it's a bute
'2001- A Space Odyssey is a monumental cinematic achievement and arguably the most important film ever made. I find comments by other contributors suggesting that the film's storyline was weak or even 'nonsensical' deeply puzzling. After all, this audacious film charted the entirety of human history and 33 years beyond. How much more narrative do you want? In this context, it is also worth remembering that '2001' was primarily intended as a visual and largely non-verbal experience. Compare this to the relentless and meaningless verbiage common to most modern cinema . Kubrick proved that less is more.
And then ? . . .. George Lucas ignored everything he ever learned from Stanley Kubrick
This comment makes no sense. You can say Lucas took the best to his eyes to make money and teenager movies but you can't deny the fact that Geroge Lucas HAS learn from Kubrick. It's stupid.
ZiplineShazam Lucas is an idiot.
@@ScottMccain117 Well. . . .ok Jar Jar
@@lucasmossman3820 That is true. . . and then. . .Jar Jar
@@ZiplineShazam ... From 6 movies that's all you remember ? Star Wars is a wonderful space opera for kids and a pillar of the pop culture. Actually, i can admit that these movies are not VERY good to be honest (dialogues, direction, scenario), but still, Lucas DID learn from the master Kubrick. Saying the opposite is just a denial of the reality.
I just fell in love with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY two days ago. I am now reading the book.
Wonderful fmj crew member.
Bless you. I'm going to see it with an open mind for the first time in my life on Tuesday at my local Cinema. I've seen clips but not experienced the film in full. I'm really excited to be transported to a new world. I hope I fall in love with it as much as you have.
I was 19. I saw it three times -- during one week! I went home, made drawings ... dreamt about it ... Later, I saw the first Star Wars: "Oh, well ... popcorn, anybody?"
The intent of Star Wars was so very different. 2001 is hard science fiction. Star Wars is pure space opera. Both were excellent at realizing these related but very different visions.
A space-based setting alone does not make a story science fiction.
I did my first oil painting using the back of the album of the soundtrack. The one where they are on the moon and an Ares is landing in back of them.
He he, same here ;-) seen it in theaters 18 time. When it was showing, I would go multiple times. Finally saw it last month as movie-concert and oh my my !!!!
My parents allowed me to drive over 300 miles to see the film at a large theater in Dallas, Texas. I was 16 years old! Can you imagine letting your 16 year old drive a new Mustang 300 miles to see a film?
Hated Star Wars, 2001 was a masterpiece! I loved Ridley Scott’s Alien too. I see 2001’s influence on that film as well.
I went to see this film for the first time at the cinema last week at 19 years old, its so damn powerful and uses practical effects in such a way it makes modern CGI look amateur.
That is so cool that you appreciate 2001 at your age. I have a 17 year old that I'm going to have watch this documentary before watching the movie. Maybe, just maybe he'll enjoy it ,even though a lot of it is slow paced.
Saw it in 1968 at the Cinema Stage on it's huge screen with surround stereo sound in Chicago the first week it was released. I was 20 at the time. I now realize how lucky I was to see it so early and in it's intended form.
This film draws you in, locks you in and then transports you to another realm. All of which Kubrick intended.
Why is Arthur Clarke mentioned not once in this documentary?
Richard Reese
They were leaving it as a competition for the comments section.
You won! 🤣
It's about it's and Kubricks contribution to cinema
Possibly because nobody wants to talk about an accused paedophile if they can talk about Stanley Kubrick instead.
It was due to a failure in the AE 35 unit.
This master piece was so underappreciated it's unreal, still to this day not enough people have witnessed the greatness of this film...
While clockwork orange is my favorite of his, god 2001 is just amazing. Literally a perfect film.
The 9000 computer is just like Google, never made a mistake or distorted information. SO BE AFRAID, VERY AFRAID
Feel really sorry for young people who never saw this on the huge wide Cinerama screen. It was absolutely mind blowing.
It was a mind blower. Also consider that we didn't have the enormous visual stimulation in those days as is the case now from all the e-devices. The film came out when I was in the 6th grade and at my house we had a black and white TV that we got maybe 4 channels on it. It's hard to describe the effect the movie had on my young pristine mind not have been pummeled with the over stimulation from media that generations since have experienced. Unfortunately, a film can't have that affect on people now that it did then for that reason.
Should be showing there again
Zoe Kouf I've seen it already at the arclight. Really beautiful. Wanted to see it again but it was only for a week
Yeah, I saw it Cinerama at age 13 when it came out in 1969. Blew my mind.
Years later I saw it with mary jane. It was intense. Blew my mind then, and Still blows my mind !
Saw it in 70MM for the 50th anniversary screening ! So thankful I did not see it on a television or computer screen
one of the most important films ever
É realmente um filme mágico. Uma verdadeira obra de arte. Sem dúvidas o melhor filme de ficção científica já feito!
I saw it in 1968. It was, in a word, an experience. Jaw-dropping visuals, the juxtaposition of classical music and outer space. The most confounding finale ever filmed.
Saw it in 1973 and felt the same, still do.
Did you jizz yourself back then? 😂😂
Yes, I saw it in Cinerama in London in December 1968, sitting in the front row with my girlfriend . The photos of the rising Earth from Apollo 8 were in the London Times,in colour. We noticed 2001's Earth wasn't blue enough.
I was fourteen years old when I first watched this movie as a SF movie fan. I watched the movie eight times in a year, most in a CINERAMA theater in Tokyo. I felt I was in real space while I saw a space station and the bright earth on huge CINERAMA screen. When the movie came to ending, I understand this movie is not a SF drama but an abstract art. Every seen is perfectly beautiful, or too perfect. Kubrick's message in this movie is still vague and mysterious and it is one of the reasons I like this movie. For my eyes no movie has got beyond yet. From Japan with love
The quality still stands today... I was 8 years old when I saw it on the big screen. It was easy for me to understand what the unknowable deliemma implied. I even got the idea of the evolution of man for the first time right then -- great presentation given very little verbal. It set into motion my interest in science and aerospace. It's so hard to imagine it was made before the Apollo 11 landing. So far ahead of it's time.
the quality is still unsurpassed in some scenes.
We were fortunate enough to see Stanley Kubrick's personal 70mm copy of 2001 back in the 80s. It was amazing!
WOW! How was that?
15:55 "In space there is no gravity"
Also: NO SOUND. Keep the "space rumble" for Michael Bay please.
That rumble wasn't in the movie. Whoever made this documentary added that in.
You can tell Stanley appreciated Chess
Best Science Fiction movie ever. This material is more than 10 years old though.
Can't stand hearing hack Lucas pontificate on an actual good filmmaker.
I saw it when I was 12 years old. I had read a LOT of science fiction before this. I had also watched the Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, The Outer Limits, Science Fiction Theater, etc, on TV. I had seen War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Robinson Crusoe on Mars. So when I saw 2001, I was totally comfortable with it, and got the ideas. I thinks it the best movie ever made.
Same here. Some movies go into your collection because of nostalgia, acting, SFX, overall theme, writing, viewing pleasure, and realism.
2001 hits all the points.
Forbidden Planet is next.
Then the many B-grade and television (Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond) productions.
It's all about being able to suspend your level of disbelief.
Biggest joke of all time is that it lost out for best movie to that steaming pile of dogshit The Producers
Colin Field Excuse me, what the fuck?