I was 10 when this came out. My Mom took me to see it. We had never seen a movie like this with these clear, realistic special effects. The computer looks dated now, but it was so stunningly modern in 1968 to me. 2001 seemed so distant then that I thought it might really look like this, but it didn't, did it? My Mom fell asleep, but I talked her into staying to watch the movie a second time. I loved this movie and I still do. Parts still give me goose bumps.
I was only 10 times as well when 2001 came out, it's even more amazing to realize that there's no CGI at all in any of this movie it was all physical to make it! Absolutely stunning and best movie ever made. Of course now interstellar second on my list
This could have been our future, if it wasn’t for Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” welfare scam that has wasted trillions of dollars over the last 60 years.
One of the best movie scenes ever, as directed/created by genious Staley Kubrick. I watched this pinned to my seat in the debut screening as a small boy in 1969. Simply amazing! You should now always watch it in a darkened room on a big wide screen with surround sound to get the full effect.
One of the best executed scenes in all of moving pictures, and probably the highest-quality special effects in any film ever. There is absolutely no illusion-breaking here, every scene looks a hundred percent real.
I was 13 when this came out and I was blown away by. No one had ever made a movie like this, and no one has done so since. Now I'm 70 and I love this all over again.
What's really cool to me as a pilot is that back in 1968, Kubrick invisioned glass cockpits, side stick controls and automated landing systems, things that didn't come into the market until and late 1990s and early 2000s.
Kubrick employed designers and engineers from all across the aerospace industry for this film. These were ideas that people probably knew would exist at some point but the technology wasn't quite there. That's my theory anyway
My dad took me to see this as a 9th birthday treat to the only actual cinerama theatre in London when it first came out. I was totally mesmerised by the story,effects, and music. What a masterpiece from Kubrick, the first real and intelligent sci-fi movie. The scene where HAL sings Daisy Daisy still makes me cry.
When I was 12, our family was living in England. My Father took me to the Odeon theatre in London to see the film in Cinerama l. It was 1969 and I still recall how mesmerizing the experience was. I remember hoping that when 2001 arrived, the world would be just as it was depicted in the film.
There was no cgi in this film at all, including the animation graphics within the computer screens in the cockpit. It was all hand-drawn. The other visual effects throughout the film were also all done by hand and in-camera, with models and matte paintings and other hardware effects. Get the book The Making of Kubrick's 2001, by Jerome Agel, published in 1970, for how it was done. This movie was a masterpiece of visual effects and still beats most cgi-based sci-fi films, in my opinion.
What a fantastic movie ! I was 15 when I first saw this movie ! It was on the screen in Atlanyic Cinema in tehran! Together with my family ! The beginning of the movie scared the hell out of me ! Many thanks to the producer of this fabulous movie
My first time in a plane in 1965 long haul on Pan Am. Still have my paper ticket and boarding card, along with the menu and drink stirring stick from my dad’s free drink.
What an amazing accomplishment. I saw it when it first came out, and it's still looking very good. Kubrick was a genius at using the means at his disposal (very limited compared to today) to create convincing and beautiful scenes. And the choice of Strauss is pure genius.
I was 7 when my Dad took my Brothers and me to see this in the theater when it came out. I was convinced it was all going to happen, in my lifetime. It gave me what I suppose was a kind of naive optimism about the future, but I am glad I had it.
A memory that will stay with you forever! I was 7 when it came out as well but wasn't allowed to see it. (a 7 year old little girl wasn't allowed to do a lot of things. I imagine at 7 it was VERY hard to comprehend the movie as even a lot of adults didn't get it.
@@crazyaces4042 I don't think I understood the more subtle parts of it until the sequel came out. That made HAL a much more sympathetic figure, not an evil machine. It made the humans seem more suspect. Also my Mom was a bit ahead of her time, she was a PhD cancer researcher by the early 70's so we didn't really have a sense of having barriers in front of us.
I worked at mgm in the special effects dept on this film, did most of the paintwork on the Orion shuttle .. . We used to work all morning then spend the afternoon in the theatre voting on the best music to be used in the scenes .you know what won 😮 .
of course it was all models and stuff then- ive often thought Clarke must have been disappointed when 2001 came along and we werent doing any of the stuff they do here
Made just 23 years after the end of World War II and released before man walked on the Moon. Utterly mindblowing. More than a movie. A statement about human potential and our expectations about how fast and far we expect to progress. And a work of art. The production values are just stellar. It's sad to consider where mankind actually was in 2001 instead.
I love the stewardess outfit from the hair covering to the grip shoes and the way she walks down the isle lends to what it in reality would be like IMHO
I wanted to see this so badly in a movie theater and that happened when I was 9. This movie probably made me go into science field so fast my parents were worried why I was so obsessed with STEM classes from age 9. I owe this movie my success in life.
Amazing. Saw this first run in 70mm format with six-track soundtrack in Seattle's Cinerama Theatre in 1968. So many things in this film came true 20-40 years later.
Film with best shot composition. Each frame has great composition. Incredible use of rule of 3rd, symmetry and all other compositions technique widely known in photography.
yes it literally hurts me that so much has changed. It makes me so unbearable sad but only one thing is certain in life and that is CHANGE. Even when it's painful.. I hate it though.
It goes like optimistic out to the Donovan sequence for the apes throws the bone up in the air. When it starts with the Blue Danube and showing no ships all have nuclear weapons in them so it wasn't as optimistic as it seems unless you read the book or the book on how they made the movie
Sorry for the typos, after the dawn of man sequence and the ship's flying to the music of Blue Danube o those ships are full of nuclear weapons so it's not as often as it seems unless you read the book how they made the movie
@@malcomchamberlain4799 Thank Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” welfare scam for that! All that money (trillions) that has robbed us of a future that could have been. And still being wasted to this day.
This remains my all time favourite Sci-Fi movie, way ahead of its time. It came out in the year I was born, 1968. I have a claim of Infamy. In the Summer of 1981, myself and my parents flew from London Heathrow Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport aboard the PanAm B747 Jumbo Jet “Clipper Maid of the Seas” - the same plane that, 8 years later was brought down over the town of Lockerbie in Scotland by a Terrorist bomb (currently the subject of a BBC drama series I understand). I used to have a picture of the aircraft, taken at its stand, showing its cargo hold door wide open, but unfortunately it went missing when I lived with my parents in the new village of Bar Hill, just off the A604 (now the A14) in Cambridgeshire, UK.
A lot of people, especially the young just don't understand what it really took to get a human being (or three) from one planet to another. Even today the space programs can't seem to come close to the success of the 1960'-1970's. What a decade and what a time to grow up in! I was born the month and year that Shepard went up in the Mercury capsule! A child of the space age.
Thanks for this good quality video and audio. Two days ago, I watched this great movie again, my 4th time seeing it on a big screen. It's serious, amusing, entertaining, inspiring, ... Kubrick's use of music and image here is amazing.
The greatest film of all time. And let us not forget Sir Arthur C. Clarke, whose short story. 'The Sentinel' was a key factor on the development of the book and movie.
I love how the Danube waltz wasn't originally intended for this scene. Kubrick just had it playing in the background during setup and decided to use the music for the scenes.
The whole soundtrack was originally just the temp track. Alex North composed a complete original soundtrack for the movie (which you can now buy on CD), but Kubrick decided to stay with the temp track, without telling North. North was quite upset when he watched the movie in the theater and his music was nowhere to be heard.
It wasn't really a movie as much as it a work of art and music. It's epic and timeless. ONE OF A KIND for sure! It is kind of hard to watch because it does sort of drag out but WOW what a huge project. If anyone has seen "For All Mankind" the series on Apple+ tv you might notice this "space station resembles the "Polaris" space hotel that "Karen" and "Sam" created. Also reminds of of the ship/station that is in "Interstellar." Now think about the fact that this movie is from 1968! MIND BLOWING! Also, so many other things that seem like predictions DECADES before they were even dreamed of like the sky pads or whatever they called them, etc. I want to watch it again but have to set aside a block of my time where I'm feeling patient. The beginning is probably the MOST MIND BLOWING of all! 👍👍👏👏💯💯
Fun Fact: The earth is painted mostly blue here, because at the time the movie was made, there was no photograph of earth from outside the planet available.
@@jackywhite880 And with good reason. And before the realization of what Johnson’s “Great Society” welfare scam was going to cost us, and is still costing us to this day. Trillions wasted.
You are SO right. People in the USA think the Space Shuttle was "space exploration" when it actually was only up about 200 to 400 miles, and often lower. If Earth was Basketball sized the Shuttle, Skylab, ISS were only about 3/8ths of an inch off its surface. Apollo was the last time men left Earth for real...
An excellent movie....great pictures.... and cool story...and a crazy HAL 2000... I love this movie and I can watch it several times.... (normally I do not watch movies neither twice)
Arthur C Clarke probably knew about as much as they did. He postulated the theory behind artificial geostationary satellites being used as telecommunications relays
Yes. I saw it in a Cinerama theater on an 8x20 meter screen with multi channel sound. When HAL spoke, his voice came from all directions at the same time. You really felt he was over all in the ship.
I have no idea how the model of the rotating space station was filmed. And I don't really want to know, because I love the sense of sheer wonder I get every time I view this sequence. Modern CGI looks like a child's drawing compared to this.
Maybe we do not have a station like that or regular flights to this station or to the moon, but we have individual screen on our planes on regular flights and videoconference is a reality. I love this movie and I can see it many, many times.
It was weird and strange when it came out! People didn't really know what to think of it. Only deep thinking artistic open minded (or stoned lol) people appreciated it until later on. I was only 7 when it came out so I didn't see for years and when I did I was shocked. I remembered people talking about it but had never seen it.
@crazyaces4042 I don't like 2001 a space odyssey and I'm not a Stanley Kubrick fan, the man was crazy and kind of strange, his films are dark cynical and have recurring theme of dehumanization, this movie should be called 1968: a LSD drug hippie odyssey
@crazyaces4042 I didn't like it, I'm not a Stanley Kubrick fan, his films are dark cynical and dehumanizing. 2001 is a very interesting movie, it should be called 1968: a 60s hippie LSD odyssey
There's an added wrinkle to this story: Kubrick initially used Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube as a temporary placeholder while editing 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick had actually planned to use original music for the film, but during the editing process, he found that Strauss' waltz fit perfectly with the scenes, particularly the sequences involving the space station and spacecraft docking. Given that the film was made in the mid-'60s, he was somewhat concerned that older viewers might associate the piece with radio shows and film of traditional Viennese ballroom dancing, with an associated nostalgic, lighthearted context which could undermine the serious, futuristic tone he was seeking. However, the elegance and sense of timelessness that The Blue Danube brought to the visuals made it an ideal choice, and Kubrick ultimately decided to keep it in the final cut. Here it is in all its glory th-cam.com/video/SpvOUnz4T7Q/w-d-xo.html .
The premise that an alien race was so far ahead of us as to actually use intelligent probes to promote scentience on a galactic scale then take a pretty much hands off policy until that race becomes spacefaring is mind blowing in and of itself. The patience to wait 50 to 100 thousand years for that is astounding. Think about that the next time you watch this movie.
The best soundtrack use I know of in a film. Sadly, there are far too many glaring technical errors throughout the movie which stop it achieving greatness.
The movie was made in 60+ years ago and it still remains one of the most accurate depictions of humans in space. But a lot of the realism has to be sacrificed to for the narrative, the limits of practical effects, and the budget.
@@nicholashylton6857 If you watched on a TV (most likely) I feel you. My college student brother and his friend took me a 13 year old kid to The First Showing at a downtown theater and watched on 3 screens from the 3rd row balcony just left of center. 70 Millimeter CinemaScope was brand new tech. You needed to turn your head slightly to see the whole magnificent 'event'. History was made with that film and everyone walking out Knew it. I copied this reply from above and wish people could have the memory I have of this masterpiece.
@SuperWillHatch I do remember indeed, was it not First Contact? I actually had that in mind when I said that below. I'm not sure what you mean though by comparing ideals to slow, tedious science? I was referring to the fact the nations of this planet hardly all work together towards a common goal, what with conflicts, wars, east/west divide etc
Those who complain these extended sequences are boring are unable to imagine the effect they had on their initial audiences in 1968. Nothing like this had ever been seen before, nothing. The most sophisticated adult space epic til then was probably “Forbidden Planet”. “2001” really did look like the future of space travel. The philosophical side may be baffling and open to many interpretations, but the technological side was wondrous.
“The Conquest of Space” and “Flight To Mars” were a bit more advanced, although less well known-I see your point though. This film represented a quantum leap for intelligence and technical accomplishment.
OK. As they say: "The beauty is in the beholders eye". It's my personal opinion that Kubrick created very beautiful scenes in most of his films. And, also I happen to be interested in space flight. But, of course I can understand if You have a different opinion
I don't think the shape of the entrance matters as long as it's large enough. Sychronizing the rotation wouldn't be as difficult as getting the correct angle of entry; which would be just as problematic no matter what shape of the entrance.
This is one of the most brilliantly executed and filmed movies of all time.
I was 10 when this came out. My Mom took me to see it. We had never seen a movie like this with these clear, realistic special effects. The computer looks dated now, but it was so stunningly modern in 1968 to me. 2001 seemed so distant then that I thought it might really look like this, but it didn't, did it? My Mom fell asleep, but I talked her into staying to watch the movie a second time. I loved this movie and I still do. Parts still give me goose bumps.
Me too. My favorite movie of all time. Goosbumps. Ingenuity....I first have watched it in about 1975 when I was 10...
Beautiful music and beautiful scene
I was 8 when I watched it at the theater, I had no idea what was going on but it was interesting.
I was only 10 times as well when 2001 came out, it's even more amazing to realize that there's no CGI at all in any of this movie it was all physical to make it! Absolutely stunning and best movie ever made. Of course now interstellar second on my list
This could have been our future, if it wasn’t for Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” welfare scam that has wasted trillions of dollars over the last 60 years.
I could only see this movie once from beginning to end once but I tell you: it's worth every second!!! Just brilliant!!
One of the best movie scenes ever, as directed/created by genious Staley Kubrick. I watched this pinned to my seat in the debut screening as a small boy in 1969. Simply amazing! You should now always watch it in a darkened room on a big wide screen with surround sound to get the full effect.
One of the best executed scenes in all of moving pictures, and probably the highest-quality special effects in any film ever. There is absolutely no illusion-breaking here, every scene looks a hundred percent real.
I've seen attempts to recreate this scene in CGI and they looks worse than what Kubrick did 56 years ago...
I was 13 when this came out and I was blown away by. No one had ever made a movie like this, and no one has done so since. Now I'm 70 and I love this all over again.
What's really cool to me as a pilot is that back in 1968, Kubrick invisioned glass cockpits, side stick controls and automated landing systems, things that didn't come into the market until and late 1990s and early 2000s.
An 11 year old comment causing me, a student pilot, to realize something I never realized since I’m so used to seeing glass cockpits and side sticks
Kubrick employed designers and engineers from all across the aerospace industry for this film. These were ideas that people probably knew would exist at some point but the technology wasn't quite there. That's my theory anyway
Yeah but it was set in 2001 der!
My understanding is Kubrick had many NASA and aerospace engineers as consultants during filming.
Children call it "The Space Movie". We call it Art. We love it for its spectacular imagery. Thank you Mr Kubrick.
My dad took me to see this as a 9th birthday treat to the only actual cinerama theatre in London when it first came out. I was totally mesmerised by the story,effects, and music. What a masterpiece from Kubrick, the first real and intelligent sci-fi movie. The scene where HAL sings Daisy Daisy still makes me cry.
i learned one thing- never trust a computer!
When I was 12, our family was living in England. My Father took me to the Odeon theatre in London to see the film in Cinerama l.
It was 1969 and I still recall how mesmerizing the experience was. I remember hoping that when 2001 arrived, the world would be just as it was depicted in the film.
There was no cgi in this film at all, including the animation graphics within the computer screens in the cockpit. It was all hand-drawn. The other visual effects throughout the film were also all done by hand and in-camera, with models and matte paintings and other hardware effects. Get the book The Making of Kubrick's 2001, by Jerome Agel, published in 1970, for how it was done. This movie was a masterpiece of visual effects and still beats most cgi-based sci-fi films, in my opinion.
This film was more than just movie, It was a unique experience.
What a fantastic movie ! I was 15 when I first saw this movie ! It was on the screen in Atlanyic Cinema in tehran! Together with my family ! The beginning of the movie scared the hell out of me ! Many thanks to the producer of this fabulous movie
Pan Am. Gone, but not forgotten. 🤔🖖🚀
I still have a card deck from Pan Am.
My first time in a plane in 1965 long haul on Pan Am. Still have my paper ticket and boarding card, along with the menu and drink stirring stick from my dad’s free drink.
Even Stanley Kubrik's choise of music was extraodinary😮
What an amazing accomplishment. I saw it when it first came out, and it's still looking very good. Kubrick was a genius at using the means at his disposal (very limited compared to today) to create convincing and beautiful scenes. And the choice of Strauss is pure genius.
Where the hell would we all be without Stanley Kubrick?
Simply Brilliant !!!!!
I was 7 when my Dad took my Brothers and me to see this in the theater when it came out. I was convinced it was all going to happen, in my lifetime. It gave me what I suppose was a kind of naive optimism about the future, but I am glad I had it.
A memory that will stay with you forever! I was 7 when it came out as well but wasn't allowed to see it. (a 7 year old little girl wasn't allowed to do a lot of things. I imagine at 7 it was VERY hard to comprehend the movie as even a lot of adults didn't get it.
@@crazyaces4042 I don't think I understood the more subtle parts of it until the sequel came out. That made HAL a much more sympathetic figure, not an evil machine. It made the humans seem more suspect. Also my Mom was a bit ahead of her time, she was a PhD cancer researcher by the early 70's so we didn't really have a sense of having barriers in front of us.
Just about every single scene is a visual masterpiece of art.
I worked at mgm in the special effects dept on this film, did most of the paintwork on the Orion shuttle .. . We used to work all morning then spend the afternoon in the theatre voting on the best music to be used in the scenes .you know what won 😮 .
of course it was all models and stuff then- ive often thought Clarke must have been disappointed when 2001 came along and we werent doing any of the stuff they do here
I was about 19 when I saw this and fell in love with it this scene from the film , to me this is a classic masterpiece.
Spectacular and beautiful as this scene is the full majesty can only be appreciated on the wide screen with surround sound,stunning.
Seeing this on the huge screen 70mm was visually and audible awesome experience as it was meant to be.
Made just 23 years after the end of World War II and released before man walked on the Moon. Utterly mindblowing.
More than a movie. A statement about human potential and our expectations about how fast and far we expect to progress. And a work of art.
The production values are just stellar.
It's sad to consider where mankind actually was in 2001 instead.
I love the stewardess outfit from the hair covering to the grip shoes and the way she walks down the isle lends to what it in reality would be like IMHO
My Dad took me to see 2001 A Space Odyssey as soon as it came out. Still remember it. 😊
Somehow this feels more exciting than those CGI space battles in the new Star Wars trilogy.
This is art. Stanley Kubrick is a genius
I wanted to see this so badly in a movie theater and that happened when I was 9.
This movie probably made me go into science field so fast my parents were worried why I was so obsessed with STEM classes from age 9.
I owe this movie my success in life.
I saw this movie on a cold winter night in 1972 when I was ten years old. It literally changed my life.
I love the Pan am logo on the Orion. Funny how they went out of business in 1991, a full 10 years before this movie was supposed to happen. 😁
The opening scene, at the water hole, was worth the price of admission. How to explain thousands of years in a few minutes.
i found it a bit long- and sinister- but Barbie started off withaexactly the same thing!
What blows me away about this movie is that it was released a year before we landed on the moon.
This is the scene that made me cry as a kid, and why this is my favorite movie. I guess I'm romantic about stuff like this.
Amazing. Saw this first run in 70mm format with six-track soundtrack in Seattle's Cinerama Theatre in 1968. So many things in this film came true 20-40 years later.
One of my favorite movie scenes. 🚀
Oh what dreams we had back in 1968. I hoped I would have my 60th birthday at the lunar Hilton on the Sea of Tranquility.
Indeed they were dreams. No one has been to the Moon in half a century.
Film with best shot composition. Each frame has great composition. Incredible use of rule of 3rd, symmetry and all other compositions technique widely known in photography.
The Man dances with the World at his feet!! Stanley Kubrick is a Genius, is a Divinity!!
Yes he sure was a genius that's for sure!
Wow this movie was so ahead of it's time, it's a shame the optimism and hope for the future of the late 1960's was lost...
yes it literally hurts me that so much has changed. It makes me so unbearable sad but only one thing is certain in life and that is CHANGE. Even when it's painful.. I hate it though.
It goes like optimistic out to the Donovan sequence for the apes throws the bone up in the air. When it starts with the Blue Danube and showing no ships all have nuclear weapons in them so it wasn't as optimistic as it seems unless you read the book or the book on how they made the movie
Sorry for the typos, after the dawn of man sequence and the ship's flying to the music of Blue Danube o those ships are full of nuclear weapons so it's not as often as it seems unless you read the book how they made the movie
@@malcomchamberlain4799 Thank Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” welfare scam for that! All that money (trillions) that has robbed us of a future that could have been. And still being wasted to this day.
This remains my all time favourite Sci-Fi movie, way ahead of its time. It came out in the year I was born, 1968.
I have a claim of Infamy. In the Summer of 1981, myself and my parents flew from London Heathrow Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport aboard the PanAm B747 Jumbo Jet “Clipper Maid of the Seas” - the same plane that, 8 years later was brought down over the town of Lockerbie in Scotland by a Terrorist bomb (currently the subject of a BBC drama series I understand).
I used to have a picture of the aircraft, taken at its stand, showing its cargo hold door wide open, but unfortunately it went missing when I lived with my parents in the new village of Bar Hill, just off the A604 (now the A14) in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Words are not necessary in a movie when things move. Brilliant.
Thank Stanley Kubrick and Johann Strauss
strauss and kubrick, what a combination!
Richard, or Johann? Or both?
When you watch this you realise that space travel is mankind's greatest achievement
A lot of people, especially the young just don't understand what it really took to get a human being (or three) from one planet to another. Even today the space programs can't seem to come close to the success of the 1960'-1970's. What a decade and what a time to grow up in! I was born the month and year that Shepard went up in the Mercury capsule! A child of the space age.
Thanks for this good quality video and audio. Two days ago, I watched this great movie again, my 4th time seeing it on a big screen. It's serious, amusing, entertaining, inspiring, ... Kubrick's use of music and image here is amazing.
The greatest film of all time. And let us not forget Sir Arthur C. Clarke, whose short story. 'The Sentinel' was a key factor on the development of the book and movie.
I love how the Danube waltz wasn't originally intended for this scene. Kubrick just had it playing in the background during setup and decided to use the music for the scenes.
The whole soundtrack was originally just the temp track. Alex North composed a complete original soundtrack for the movie (which you can now buy on CD), but Kubrick decided to stay with the temp track, without telling North. North was quite upset when he watched the movie in the theater and his music was nowhere to be heard.
@@jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii North's music eventually ended up in the movie "Shoes of the Fisherman".
North found out that his composition wasn’t used at the film’s premiere. Kubrick never told him. 😮
It wasn't really a movie as much as it a work of art and music. It's epic and timeless. ONE OF A KIND for sure! It is kind of hard to watch because it does sort of drag out but WOW what a huge project. If anyone has seen "For All Mankind" the series on Apple+ tv you might notice this "space station resembles the "Polaris" space hotel that "Karen" and "Sam" created. Also reminds of of the ship/station that is in "Interstellar." Now think about the fact that this movie is from 1968! MIND BLOWING! Also, so many other things that seem like predictions DECADES before they were even dreamed of like the sky pads or whatever they called them, etc. I want to watch it again but have to set aside a block of my time where I'm feeling patient. The beginning is probably the MOST MIND BLOWING of all! 👍👍👏👏💯💯
i love every frame of this movie with all my heart. and what music!
Fun Fact: The earth is painted mostly blue here, because at the time the movie was made, there was no photograph of earth from outside the planet available.
That pen was stuck to a piece of very clean glass which was waved slowly in front of the camera. Brilliant!
Nothing quite like looking up at a single, lone object in the desolate infinity that is space as Strauss plays his single greatest piece ever...
Always nice to revisit Kubrick's masterpiece.
That was such an amazing shot at 5:00!
First words spoken in the movie, about 20 minutes in: "Here you are sir, main level."
This film amazad me when I was 18, back in '69. Since then, I've seen it more than 16 times
I was 13. Saw this at the drive-in movie with my cousins. We put the speakers on the top and sat on the hood. Great movie!!
All of this - set in 2001. How confident we were.
@@jackywhite880 And with good reason. And before the realization of what Johnson’s “Great Society” welfare scam was going to cost us, and is still costing us to this day. Trillions wasted.
This won't even be possible in 2101...what a crying shame!
Incredible video! Incredible movie! Thanks for posting!
@ 2:02 the most fameous product placement ever pilot pens, just love the entire sequence .would love to have seen that space wheel completed .
Stanley Kubrick is the best director in the human history !!!!!!!!!!!
thats an awesome perspective, thanks for sharing!
You are SO right. People in the USA think the Space Shuttle was "space exploration" when it actually was only up about 200 to 400 miles, and often lower. If Earth was Basketball sized the Shuttle, Skylab, ISS were only about 3/8ths of an inch off its surface. Apollo was the last time men left Earth for real...
I remember when this was first released in London and you could still smoke in cinemas, a lot of the good stuff was used. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Huh...I never would have even noticed that! Thanks for pointing that out!
I love this movie to the death.How can someone cannot be fascinated by 2001?
An excellent movie....great pictures.... and cool story...and a crazy HAL 2000... I love this movie and I can watch it several times.... (normally I do not watch movies neither twice)
Never seen this movie, but these sets look like some of the best I've ever seen.
Even being in the 60's....maybe BECAUSE it's the 60's.
Extraordinaria pelicula, quedo marcada en mi infancia al verla en cine de Coya en Chile.
Yes. Arthur C Clarke consulted NASA engineers to make sure the scenes were technically plausible and realistic (i.e. there is no sound in space)
Arthur C Clarke probably knew about as much as they did. He postulated the theory behind artificial geostationary satellites being used as telecommunications relays
This movie was made 4 years before I was born (1972) and it is still amazing!
Yes. I saw it in a Cinerama theater on an 8x20 meter screen with multi channel sound. When HAL spoke, his voice came from all directions at the same time. You really felt he was over all in the ship.
This is THE best space scene in any film,ever
The first film I bought when I got a Blu-ray. Definitely well ahead of its time - it's as old as me!
SACRÉ KUBRICK
Il nous a quand même pondu de sacrés chefs-d'œuvres !
C'était ça ou :
🎶🎶 "Tu me fais tourner la tête
Mon manège à moi c'est toi " 🎶🎶
I have no idea how the model of the rotating space station was filmed. And I don't really want to know, because I love the sense of sheer wonder I get every time I view this sequence.
Modern CGI looks like a child's drawing compared to this.
Best montage ever!
Maybe we do not have a station like that or regular flights to this station or to the moon, but we have individual screen on our planes on regular flights and videoconference is a reality. I love this movie and I can see it many, many times.
The movie was kind of weird strange to me im not a sci fi buff, but the special effects were stunning, Stanley kubrick has a strong visual style
It was weird and strange when it came out! People didn't really know what to think of it. Only deep thinking artistic open minded (or stoned lol) people appreciated it until later on. I was only 7 when it came out so I didn't see for years and when I did I was shocked. I remembered people talking about it but had never seen it.
@crazyaces4042 my dad thought it was very deep as psychologically, has a recurring theme with Stanley Kubrick on dehumanization
@crazyaces4042 I don't like 2001 a space odyssey and I'm not a Stanley Kubrick fan, the man was crazy and kind of strange, his films are dark cynical and have recurring theme of dehumanization, this movie should be called 1968: a LSD drug hippie odyssey
@crazyaces4042 I didn't like it, I'm not a Stanley Kubrick fan, his films are dark cynical and dehumanizing. 2001 is a very interesting movie, it should be called 1968: a 60s hippie LSD odyssey
There's an added wrinkle to this story: Kubrick initially used Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube as a temporary placeholder while editing 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick had actually planned to use original music for the film, but during the editing process, he found that Strauss' waltz fit perfectly with the scenes, particularly the sequences involving the space station and spacecraft docking. Given that the film was made in the mid-'60s, he was somewhat concerned that older viewers might associate the piece with radio shows and film of traditional Viennese ballroom dancing, with an associated nostalgic, lighthearted context which could undermine the serious, futuristic tone he was seeking. However, the elegance and sense of timelessness that The Blue Danube brought to the visuals made it an ideal choice, and Kubrick ultimately decided to keep it in the final cut. Here it is in all its glory th-cam.com/video/SpvOUnz4T7Q/w-d-xo.html .
It does fit because it is like a dance in space between the shuttle and the station.
Reconhecida produção do cinema......e uma grandiosa obra de Johann Strauss !
The premise that an alien race was so far ahead of us as to actually use intelligent probes to promote scentience on a galactic scale then take a pretty much hands off policy until that race becomes spacefaring is mind blowing in and of itself. The patience to wait 50 to 100 thousand years for that is astounding. Think about that the next time you watch this movie.
I think there's some footage missing here, but I appreciate the effort.
The entire movie... GENIUS!
masterpiece
@arsenal140 - VERY indulgent, however beautifully executed. I still can't believe this was filmed in 1965-1968.
I thought this sequence was longer, with more time dedicated to getting the rotations of the two craft synchronised!
The best soundtrack use I know of in a film. Sadly, there are far too many glaring technical errors throughout the movie which stop it achieving greatness.
The movie was made in 60+ years ago and it still remains one of the most accurate depictions of humans in space. But a lot of the realism has to be sacrificed to for the narrative, the limits of practical effects, and the budget.
@@nicholashylton6857 If you watched on a TV (most likely) I feel you.
My college student brother and his friend took me a 13 year old kid to The First Showing at a downtown theater and watched on 3 screens from the 3rd row balcony just left of center.
70 Millimeter CinemaScope was brand new tech. You needed to turn your head slightly to see the whole magnificent 'event'.
History was made with that film and everyone walking out Knew it.
I copied this reply from above and wish people could have the memory I have of this masterpiece.
Technical errors? I've seen this movie hundreds of times I have never seen any technical errors? Where are they in the movie
@@jeffrichmond2942 Do you see my comment?
I was 12 in 1968. Some of my friends said it was boring. I thought it was the best movie ever made. Especially for the time and subject.
It IS the best movie ever made!
boy do i love kubricks sense for music!!!
Best movie ever.
@SuperWillHatch I do remember indeed, was it not First Contact? I actually had that in mind when I said that below. I'm not sure what you mean though by comparing ideals to slow, tedious science? I was referring to the fact the nations of this planet hardly all work together towards a common goal, what with conflicts, wars, east/west divide etc
Those who complain these extended sequences are boring are unable to imagine the effect they had on their initial audiences in 1968. Nothing like this had ever been seen before, nothing. The most sophisticated adult space epic til then was probably “Forbidden Planet”. “2001” really did look like the future of space travel. The philosophical side may be baffling and open to many interpretations, but the technological side was wondrous.
“The Conquest of Space” and “Flight To Mars” were a bit more advanced, although less well known-I see your point though. This film represented a quantum leap for intelligence and technical accomplishment.
OK. As they say: "The beauty is in the beholders eye". It's my personal opinion that Kubrick created very beautiful scenes in most of his films. And, also I happen to be interested in space flight. But, of course I can understand if You have a different opinion
I don't think the shape of the entrance matters as long as it's large enough. Sychronizing the rotation wouldn't be as difficult as getting the correct angle of entry; which would be just as problematic no matter what shape of the entrance.
Timeless
I agree, epic masterpiece, and my No. one forever..............
majestic
A British American collaboration that actually worked
Pretty good graphics considering its 1968!