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[YT Edit] 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (Patreon)

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2026-01-07 22:34:33
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Hey guys! Here is the YT edit for "2001: A Space Odyssey" which will premiere shortly!

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G

yey! Top 5 favorite movies of all time!!!

Jake McNulty

Haven't seen the reaction yet, but I know I'm gonna enjoy this.

Patrick Switzer

Good job 👍 Cassie I have never seen it before

Stephen Malloy

Most overrated movie of all time. The actors might just as well have been cardboard cutouts.

Christian Becker

Compliments where compliments are due. I immensely enjoyed your reaction to that piece of movie history.

Steven Perez

Don't feel bad, Cassie. Practically no one gets this movie on the first viewing. You're doing better than most.

G

I think this film is more relevant than ever-- AI gives the appearance of evolving, but in fact it is humans themselves-- both spiritually and mentally-- that are the ones that have to evolve if they are to survive rather than rely solely on their technology (the bone, the spaceship, AI) to keep them safe.

Louis Chapman

Reading reviews on this movie for years, you either hate this or love it. I've never watched this movie in full. I'm gonna watch it the short Cassie version.

David

Just remember everyone in the intended audience was in a theater as well.

Rick Moreno

Cassie, glad you watched this one. It speaks a lot to how much you've grown in film the last few years that you went into it with an open mind, and picked up that it's a more sensory experience than anything. The book has a more concrete plot... essentially HAL goes insane because of his orders to keep secrets from the crew, where his directive as a machine is to always tell the truth. He cannot reconcile those two things, leading him to almost literally blow a fuse. I love this movie myself, but I also get why a lot of people don't like it. At the same time, I think a lot of folks that don't tend to be more driven by action rather than conceptual ideas in a film, or nonlinear narratives. The book expands on some of the ideas of the film and makes them a bit more accessible, but both are unique stories on their own.

Bill Maurer

I've tried several times to watch and "get" this movie. I just can't. For all those who "do get it". God bless you all and enjoy. It is a visually stunning movie.

Andrew

Wow, that was amazing and I though that I had scene the Space Odyssey before but it must have been a sequel or a reboot because this was all new. I have no clue what this film was trying to convey but I like the thread of using technology as a tool can result in destruction and knowledge but other than that I was completely lost.

Flounder

You probably saw 2010.

Flounder

I first saw 2001 at Yellowstone National Park in the cafeteria projected on a bedsheet. I didn’t understand the ending either. Couple years later I read the book and that helped a lot. The monolith was buried on the moon so we wouldn’t find it until we became a space fairing species. Please consider watching the HBO series From The Earth To The Moon about the Apollo program. Here are some links to a couple of good scenes from it. https://youtu.be/OLriBAHZdWg https://youtu.be/nMe7dRoPRVU https://youtu.be/DLQeqMaHVYs

Gary Smith

Cassie as others have indicated there is a sequel called 2010. I suggest you watch that. Among other things, it will explain how HAL went nuts. It really wasn’t his fault. I’m pretty sure this was actually 1968. Isn’t that mind boggling that they were capable of doing all of that back then? No CGI, none of the techniques that we have today.

Stan the Man

It’s amazing how audiences change over time and in various countries. In American culture a movie needs to be “got” to be “understood”. Where as in many other places a film is to be experienced. Felt. The journey is as important as the destination. 2001 is an experience. As it says in the title, an odyssey. The narrative drive is 2nd to the imagery, the music, the WONDER. Think of it like a song. Some songs are great despite their meanings being muddled. Now if you want you can delve into the depths of the artist and understand the nuances and story, because there most definitely is a story being told. But the mystery, the wonder. That’s the precious thing about the film.

Stan the Man

Cassie. What you are watching has not been touched by digital tools. It’s from the camera negative shot in the 60s to your screen. And it’s all the more amazing for it.

Steve Holton

Recently finished astronaut Michael Collins autobiography and he saw this film a year before his space mission, and it deeply inspired him. He also loved the only intentional joke in the film, the "Zero Gravity Toilet". Collins also wrote about a similar early challenge for space missions: To allow the first astronauts to discard their body’s liquid waste on missions, NASA developed a special suction tube that had to fit well on their appendage for such an action. So, engineers developed the tube in 3 sizes: “Small”, “Medium”, and “Large.” And, of course, every male astronaut ordered the Large. And subsequently it was a disastrous mess on early missions. Hoping for a better result and desperate to avoid a costly redesign, NASA decided to simply try changing the size designations to: "Extra Large," "Immense," and "Unbelievable." Which, thankfully ended the spillage 😊

Chris Thom

I think the idea of the film is just to let your mind run wild at what the future might be like, or how things could be. Which no one knows for sure, but it's fun to guess how things might change. Or may not.

Chris Thom

Still not sure how they accomplished that light show at the end with the effects available at the time, but it was very neat. Quite pretty to look at.

Collar City Guy

I was just little when this came out but I remember my uncles came to our apartment after seeing it and just would not shut up about how it was the greatest film they had ever seen, how its special effects blew their minds, and on and on, the same way I carried on after seeing Star Wars 9 years later. That transition from flying bone to orbiting space craft is one of the best of all times. If you're up for it Cassie, the sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact, starring Roy Schieder, Helen Mirren and John Lithgow is a much more enjoyable and understandable film.

Mannygogou

I think that actually no one would get this... upon watching. Maybe after a few years one might watch it again and still not get it... It is intended to be challenging. I remember trying to watch this many times and I would always fall asleep. I see that maybe I was always tired and this triggered a sleep response in me lol. Then one time I was watching it over a weekend and I saw parts of it here and there until finally saw all of it and I thought I _got_ something... Anyway and then later it was fun to come up with explanations. I think it's a good exercise to think about it and come up with your own ideas as to what it means. There is a funny one... an explanation that said the shape of the monolith coincides with the shape of a widescreen picture screen except it's turned on its side. And so it's a metaphor that cinema is a form of art that inspires people and communicates ideas and incites thought which leads to evolution perhaps as a society. We are also captive of the screen like Dave... and the movie trolls us, it tasks us in its inexplicable ness... and yet we are fascinated and have been wondering about it for decades. You can see how it's more fun to come up with your own explanations.

Johnny Salinas

One of my absolute favorites You pretty much got the gist of it 😉

Kevin O'Donnell

I'm sure it was a spectacle in cinema when released, but I don't think it's a great movie. It has obviously a lot of good elements like cinematography, sound design and music. The movie for me began on the discovery. The first 45 mins would have been heavily edited if done now. I don't hate it, there's a lot to like, but too slow. I am probably alone here but I thought 2010 was better and more interesting

Chris Thom

Star Wars definitely took that effects template and ran with it in a big way. Very cool how Lucas borrowed some of the class and seriousness of 2001, and mixed in fantasy, adventure, religion, myth, etc. etc.

Chris Thom

Kubrick definitely seemed to have a thing for audience participation in his films. There's always a load of easter eggs and subliminal things that get your head spinning.

Richard Maurer

Here's my best summation of the film's ending, The aliens took him on an overly long psychedelic trip across the universe, then put him up in a fancy hotel, with nice towels, which as anyone who’s read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy knows, is very important. Then he kept catching himself aging, only to turn into a space fetus (don’t tell me I’m wrong, my interpretation is as good as any). I do like this film, I just don’t take it as seriously as some people do.

Chris Thom

Forty thousand views and eighteen hundred comments in just thirteen hours. Not bad for a movie from 1968! Comments on this one have been especially fun to read.

Kristin

Monkeys....space....starchild....

Kristin

Not alone...I've seen this movie many times and it's such a yawn.....

Mannygogou

audience participation, yes! I'm a believe in that a film is not the book. A film is a collaboration of creative minds that come together to birth something new. Yes they can "hide" and disguise and obfuscate and misdirect question by pointing to the book and hand waving certain points... But it side steps the obvious fact that a complete film exists and usually it is watched by a viewer without a team of explanators standing by and also should not be asking you to read other material to explain what you just watched. Pointing to explanations elsewhere is disrespecting the team of people that worked on the film... who created the film with a purpose or goal in mind... and even beyond that a film stands on its own shaky legs to meet the world as its own completed piece of art... to be lambasted or praised on its own. Because Kubrick does not want to stand there explaining it to you... no, the expectation is that the work stands on its own. In fact Kubrick did it like that on purpose... with the help of a community of creatives... A film simply must stand on its own. Yes, you either have to sing odes to it or you bury it in the ground... where someone will dig it up later maybe to appreciate it better.

Flounder

Much of it used a technique called “slit scan photography”.

Joe J

Douglas Trumbull figured that one out. Creative people came up with new ways to achieve what was needed.

Joe J

Everything has to dumbed down and spelled out for most people...it's sad really.

Christian Becker

I do not know whether Cassie has already seen Disney’s “The Black Hole”. IMHO, that movie has a similar WTF? ending, but I like it in a weird kind of way.

Chris Thom

Always wanted to see that. They were actually planning a big attraction for the TomorrowLands at the Disney parks at one point.

Chris Thom

I'm very pro-adaptations. Love them. Especially ones based on Shakespeare. There's probably some ethical concerns with them, but I tend not to care too much, because the book or movie that came first will always stand on it's own imo.

Chris Thom

Yay found a vid today that explains it. Going to watch it now.

bgb1975 (Brian)

It has been a long time since I've watched these, but if I remember correctly, watching "2010: The Year We Make Contact" helped a little bit.

Jamie van Brewen

Funny you mention the "atmosphere". The opening overture playing over the black screen before the start and then later in the "stargate sequence" is titled "Atmospheres" by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. He composed it as a straight piece of music, not as a movie soundtrack. If I remember right, he didn't even know it was being used in a movie. He also composed the chorus music that played during encounters with the various monoliths.