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2001: A Space Odyssy, by Stanley Kubrick
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flashbandit16
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An absolute audio visual masterpiece; the soundtrack is amazing and so is everything else.
This is my favorite scene:
As for the story it's pretty simple:
But that wasn't main point of the movie it was trying to show what the future could be like and in great detail (space stations, spaceships, artificial intelligence, etc).
This is my favorite scene:
As for the story it's pretty simple:
A space artifact lands on earth and starts the evolution of man; then fast forward to 2001 man has reached space and is colonizing the moon. They find a space artifact on the moon and see it is sending a signal to Jupiter. So they send a spaceship to Jupiter with a artificial intelligence that malfunctions and kills a crew member and the other crew member has to stop it. The ending is up to how you interpret it.
But that wasn't main point of the movie it was trying to show what the future could be like and in great detail (space stations, spaceships, artificial intelligence, etc).
flashbandit16 said:An absolute audio visual masterpiece; the soundtrack is amazing and so is everything else.
This is my favorite seen:
As for the story it's pretty simple:A space artifact lands on earth and starts the evolution of man; then fast forward to 2001 man has reached space and is colonizing the moon. They find a space artifact on the moon and see it is sending a signal to Jupiter. So they send a spaceship to Jupiter with a artificial intelligence that malfunctions and kills a crew member and the other crew member has to stop it. The ending is up to how you interpret it.
But that wasn't main point of the movie it was trying to show what the future could be like and in great detail (space stations, spaceships, artificial intelligence, etc).
The ending is not open to much interpretation. The ending is A CIVILIZATION ENTIRELY ALIEN TO YOUR EXPERIENCE AND EONS IN ADVANCE OF YOURS IS TRYING TO DIRECTLY COMMUNICATE AS CLEARLY AND OPENLY AS IT CAN. It just feels alien to the viewer, for obvious reasons.
Its experience with first human contact allows it to parse and better interpret for the subsequent human contacts.
didn't realize there was an easy way to do it.CoffeeJanitor
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Dammit, I'm starting to think about the film again. I'm getting tingles. not kidding.OuterWorldVoice said:
That movie scared the shit out of me
That's my absolute favorite aspect of the story and the film. It has the balls to show what it would be like to be contacted by an intelligence beyond our comprehension. So many film goers are babied into the notion that a movie *must* spell everything out to them because they are the viewer and not the protagonist. Screw that. I love it when movies dare to give NO MORE explanation than the protagonist gets. It's more immerse and more believable.OuterWorldVoice said:
Other films that do the same thing are Primer and Memento. Basically, you see only what the protagonist sees and are forced to actually use your brain to piece the story together.
MetalAlien
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Love it. I also like 2010.
totally unbelievable how it's supposed to be all futuristic and shit where you can take a plane to the moon, but then all the proper spaceships are slow as fuck. It was like watching a sci-fi re-imagining of the Oregon trail.
People only like Kubrick because his films are random anyway. It's like family guy before they invented cartoons.
People only like Kubrick because his films are random anyway. It's like family guy before they invented cartoons.
Regulus Tera
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Cartoons were invented before Kubrick was born though...
I don't like it as much as some.
I LOVE the middle SO MUCH and like the beginning, but jesus do I hate the ending.
A friend of mine claims the DP (I think) spoke at their school while they were attending film school and they did a showing, apparently he walked out near the end and after said it was because the ending sequence doesn't work on the small screen and it kills him to see it that way.
Don't know if this is true, but I'm willing to accept that as an excuse.
Not exactly sure why this would bug a DP though... he didn't make that part right?
Guy refuses to believe other people actually enjoy it genuinely.
I LOVE the middle SO MUCH and like the beginning, but jesus do I hate the ending.
A friend of mine claims the DP (I think) spoke at their school while they were attending film school and they did a showing, apparently he walked out near the end and after said it was because the ending sequence doesn't work on the small screen and it kills him to see it that way.
Don't know if this is true, but I'm willing to accept that as an excuse.
Not exactly sure why this would bug a DP though... he didn't make that part right?
Guy on internet doesn't like something.Brobzoid said:
Guy refuses to believe other people actually enjoy it genuinely.
Bitmap Frogs
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Brobzoid said:
Not really. The spaceships are extremely fast by today's standards. To give you an idea, the Jupiter mission reachs destination in less than two years - present tech probes require 6 years to get there.
They feel slow because they didnt add the effects, dialogue and flare common in sci-fi flicks to make the viewers "feel" the speed - what you see on 2001 is a good aproximation to how it feels to be in a space ship. You got to realize the only thing you feel in a ship is the acceleration.
CoffeeJanitor
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Hey nowBrobzoid said:
Trent Strong
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moniker said:
Wild Hogs.
The Culture Vulture
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Brobzoid said:
Yeah I think if you would have got that on page 1 people would have got the joke but we are almost having a serious conversation on page 2......almost.
thezerofire
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I have Enter the Void on my instant queue. Haven't gotten around to watching it yetThe Culture Vulture said:
Seraphinianus
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Enter The Void is pretty great.
to be fair, it's pretty obvious what's going on in that movie at all times. I don't think it would be fair to call it pretentious, as it sort of smashes you over the head with its concept.
I think the director for it was definitely influenced by 2001's ending.
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to be fair, it's pretty obvious what's going on in that movie at all times. I don't think it would be fair to call it pretentious, as it sort of smashes you over the head with its concept.
I think the director for it was definitely influenced by 2001's ending.
HK-47 said:
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Escape Goat
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if you dont like it maybe you should watch some michael bay
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Seraphinianus
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so, skinemax used to run a porn called 2069: A Sex Odyssey. prettay cleverrrrr
Treefingers
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What in the fucking fuckmeadowrag said:
Also I gotta agree with flashbandit16, that scene is my favorite.
BattleMedic
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Oddly I just watched it a few nights ago, I was very impressed but unaware of what a mindfuck it would be. I'll definitely be watching it again soon but this time I'll be preparing myself for the ending.
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Trent Strong said:
I was going to say you have horrible taste, but you have a Darkplace avatar, so... I'll let this one slide
lazybones18
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I consider the movie to essentially be one big moving painting. It lets the visuals themselves do a majority of the talking
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