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*2001: A Space Odyssey* YT Edit (Patreon)

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2025-10-02 14:05:01
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*2001: A Space Odyssey* Broke My Brain! Movie Reaction

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Bill Maurer

I've tried watching this movie about 5 times .... it just bores me all to h*ll. I may try again along with Ames, but I feel it will be the same thing all over again

Toc

Great thumbnail, HA! And title! Looking forward to this edit, see what you kept in!

Kinokind

Fun Facts: Kubrick started out as a still photographer, so he had a deep knowledge of optics and lenses. HAL's eye is a lens. Think about that. The effects in this film are still flawless, not just good for 1968, but excellent still. Consider that when the film was made we had not yet landed on the moon, and Star Wars wouldn't be made for a decade yet. Contrast it with the same year's "Planet of the Apes". There have been no digital alterations made to the film and when it was made there would be no CGI for about 25 years. You MUST see it in a theater if the chance arises. Big cities often do revival showings. 70mm film (which has better resolution than 4k), 6-channel sound. You can see why some repeat viewers would light one up during the intermission for the last half. In the theater it was so immersive - no one left. I'm sorry to say that, as with so many older films, it's not that the film was "slow", it's that the attention span of a viewer used to phone-scrolling, video gaming, texting and other short attention span activities has become used to constant gratification. Life has become a Michael Bay movie. Ames, I think you did remarkably well in reacting to something so long, immersive, and cryptic. You are correct - it is intended to be interpreted. That being said, there is a very good sequel which, although it's no Kubrick, and is much more linear, is very good, and explains much. Especially regarding the failure of HAL. BTW, shortly before this film was made, a room-filling IBM (note that IBM is only one letter away from HAL!) computer was taught to sing a song. It was "Bicycle Built for Two", also known as "Daisy, Daisy". Ta!

JM63

Someone on YT left a comment theorizing that the black screen during the overture is us (the apes & humans) staring into the monolith. That's definitely in my head canon from now on.

JM63

2001 is probably the biggest and most important art film of all time. I'm in awe of Kubrick's artistic integrity and obstinacy to perfectly realize his vision. But it almost ended his career. Thanks to the success of Dr. Strangelove (1964), Kubrick was able to secure a deal with almost complete creative control from MGM. Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke spent hundreds of hours writing the screenplay throughout pre-production in 1965, and even after filming started in Dec. ’65 Kubrick’s typical day was 12 hours at the studio followed by another 3-4 hours at home revising the script. To ensure that the special effects looked as pristine and unprocessed as possible, the use of blue screen compositing was minimized in favor of time-consuming hand-painted matte backgrounds and in-camera multiple exposures (where parts of the film were blacked out, the film was rewound, and elements were painstakingly layered on top of the negative). The initial budget was set at $6 million (about 4 times the average Hollywood film) with a release scheduled for Christmas 1966, but it ultimately ballooned to $10.5 million (about $100 million today) and didn’t premiere until April 2, 1968.

Happy Hanukkah

0:25 "Is this supposed to be somebody waking up from a deep slumber?" !!! The movie proper hasn't even started yet, and you've already deciphered it! :-) 4:43 "As much as I don't want to go to space, I would love to see the Earth from space. I think that would be remarkable." Personally seeing the Earth from space without going from Earth to space would indeed be most remarkable! :-P :-)

Flounder

I remember watching this projected on a bedsheet in a cafeteria at Yellowstone Park and being completely mystified by the ending. Reading the book helps. The second monolith was buried on the moon so that we wouldn’t find it until we had mastered space flight. The spinning space station is spinning to create artificial gravity. We need to get you into Kerbal Space Program…

Joe R

It is very likely that when we first discover evidence of alien intelligence, it may be way beyond our ability to understand it. I think that is the point. I'm always impressed that Kubrick had the foresight to use flat screens on all the monitors instead of CRT tube monitors. Flat screens weren't around til the late 80s. This movie initially bombed at the box office but developed a following among psychedelic drug users, it was the 60s after all. You just needed to time the peak of your acid trip to the last 15 minutes of the movie!

Sweetish_Jeff_25

The first time I watched this I was in my 20s. I jokingly said to someone, “It’s a fantastic movie…if one has insomnia.” 😉 Years later, I watched it again and I came to appreciate it. We are so used to the action-packed science fiction movies from the last 40 years. “2001” admittedly plods along and it’s similar to the first “Star Trek” movie. But in retrospect it’s brilliant filmmaking and it’s Stanley F’ing Kubrick.