― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 December 2005 02:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 2 December 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link
In theater viewings, I always find the StarChild shot tremendously moving. As I do Nicole Kidman's "Fuck" (his second-most optimistic ending).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
the only good part is the opening credits set to randy newman's "burn on."
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Any opinions on the discarded Alex North score that Kubrick dumped for the Strausses? I know it came out.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 2 December 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
i still haven't heard it, but i'd like to. anybody got a copy?
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 2 December 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes! But, it's packed away along with 2000 other CDs (DYS?) awaiting this mythical house move.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry, Friday, 2 December 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
That's kinda the point (or one of them) -- the characters are all caught up in being concerned with their phones and their zero-g toilets and their Hilton lounge meetings and their turkey sandwiches that they can't be bothered to spare a moment to be amazed by the fact that they LIVE IN OUTER SPACE. None of the 21st-century humans in the movie have learned yet to look beyond their mundane tools and machines to something transcendent, and when they do find something amazing -- the Tycho monolith -- they line up to take touristy pictures in front of it.
― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 2 December 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
i liked it!
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Just remembered this recent news about the jettisoned prologue:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/news/article321643.ece
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
But not ethically, or metaphysically.
x-post I always liked that Tarkovsky moved the material w/Berton up front rather than revealing it in the middle.
― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
j/k. i like the book a lot.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost- yeah i've never really known the whole chronology, tho i think he explains it in the introduction. but the thing is, if the shooting was finished, he prolly would've written them as going to jupiter instead, but what do i know?
HAL is very well done. In the book it's mentioned that he's neural-net-based,which was a very radical thing to say in the late 60s, but dead-on.
well clarke was pretty hot on anticipating new technologies.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link