2001: A Space Odyssey

I thought it were reet boring and crap

also why are all the secretaries (incl. robot ones) female?

In fact, the only flaw in this film is this, and in fact that's not even Kubrick's fault - it's possible Zippy was based on Poole:

http://collativelearning.com/PICS%20FOR%20WEBSITE/stills%206/poole%20struggling.jpg

http://www.btinternet.com/~acbarrett/nzip.jpg

For a second I thought you meant Zippy the Pinhead

Yeah sorry, probably only means anything to thirty something UK people. Zippy was in a 70s/80s kids' program in the UK - he was a noisy guy who talked over everyone, especially Bungle and George, and he was convinced he was always right - a sort of ultimate ILXor.

It's a film that's steadily got better all of my life and it's still incredible how much better it looks

This was the biggest thing driven home for me at last night's Fox Theater viewing. First of all I could not believe how good everything looked, it was absolutely beautiful. And at every crucial fx shot I would look really close to see if I could find errors and they are all still so seamless and so magically perfect. The cheetah attack in the intro I still can't believe that isn't real. Apparently all the spaceship shots were done in-camera with no blue screen, resulting in a very natural and very hi-fi look.

If at times not my favorite movie ever then certainly one of the most beautiful. The sound was amazing too but I've rambled on about all this already on the Kubrick thread Stanley Kubrick: Classic or Dud?

17 minutes of footage Kubrick cut out has been found

i'm amazed that this footage was ever lost - always assumed that SK at least had kept a print of the longer version.

hope they release this on dvd at the same time as the longer tv cut of the shining, which has never been issued on a home video format afaik

Came across this on D3m0n0id today, sounds like a party.

Original film name: 2001: A Space Odyssey
New film name: Plan 2001 From Outer Space
Original Runtime: 141 mins
New Runtime: 80 mins
Amount of time Cut: 61 mins

Your intention for this fanedit:
To remove the art-film pretentiousness from The Greatest Movie Ever Made and turn it into a fun, faster paced sci-fi flick while still retaining what little plot there was to begin with. Kubrick fanboys are advised to stay far, far away.

Cut:
-3 minutes of blank screen and opening credits
-Dawn of Man segment removed
-docking the spaceship shortened
-Floyd's video call to his daughter removed
-conversation with Russian astronauts shortened
-landing on the Moon shortened
-changing the AE-35 shortened
-Intermission removed
-Dave returning to Jupiter One and killing HAL removed
-Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite shortened
-various small chops here and there to help the pace
-rearranged the order of the scenes

Added:
Completely new score featuring music from James Brown, The Edgar Winter Group, Pink Floyd and many more. I tried to make all the additions to the score have some sort of unique meaning to them - sometimes synching through musical or lyrical cues, sometimes for a laugh, sometimes for an "I see what you did there" moment or sometimes just plain fun.

lol demonoid retards

if yr gonna troll, at least cut it down to 22 minutes and add some breakcore, strobing and '2k6 youtube ronaldinho compilation' effects

I showed two clips to my grade 6s yesterday: the Strauss docking scene, and about three minutes of HAL's demise. They seemed especially fascinated by the HAL scene.

I've been completely smitten with this film since I was a small kid, probably like a lot of people I guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nxZOMAFXBgw#!

I noticed that in the viral Prometheus videos David had a totally soft, Douglas Rain style equalisation on his voice.

children's menu tie-in, 1968

http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.de/2013/05/2001-space-odyssey-howard-johnsons.html

Just as the repairman is about to re-enter the spaceship he slips and floats away gets murdered by a psychotic AI

(sorry, spoilers)

In the lost HoJo cut, the space stewardess drops in randomly during the Jupiter mission

The shot where you're looking through astronaut Dave's eyes to old Dave, and Dave walks towards you and suddenly you realise young Dave is gone and OMG perspective shift from first-person-young-Dave to third-person-old-Dave! Literally the most breathtaking movie moment ever. For me.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, December 1, 2005 12:02 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^this. acid trip / nightmare logic p much filmed here for maybe the first time

that definitely blew my mind when i first saw it as a kid

The only time I've used the noun "monolith" has been in reference to this film

I've been completely smitten with this film since I was a small kid, probably like a lot of people I guess.

A big "thank you" to my parents for letting me watch this since age 4 or so, aside from the political discussions it's an easy film for a kid to grasp

Love this blog:

http://typesetinthefuture.com/2001-a-space-odyssey/

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/photos/2001-kubrick-s-space-epic-among-new-movie-stamps-copyright-royal-mail-photo-1399976903111.html

Did i fuck that up? i am hopeless at these things. One more try (it is the new 2001 first class stamp)

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/photos/2001-kubrick-s-space-epic-among-new-movie-stamps-copyright-royal-mail-photo-1399976903111.html

fuckit

(also first response hall of fame)

http://www.designweek.co.uk/pictures/464x350fitpad%5B238%5D/0/1/9/2079019_2001-A-Space-Odyssey-Stamp-.JPG

thank you, it's nice isn't it (also slightly contentious entry as a 'british film')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqOOZux5sPE

I saw Jodorowsky's "Dune" and there is a clip from this in it, it's from the Blue Danube section, and even just as an isolated 20-second movie clip w people occasionally talking over it, it is still the most brilliant and beautiful alignment of imagery and music I may ever witness. Everything about it is perfect, from the snail pacing to the color timing (those faded blues OMG heaven must be that color).

finally getting to see this on the big screen next weekend, pretty stoked

"2001 should be played in a temple 24 hours a day" — John Lennon

that's super expensive to have an empty flight for just heywood and they still make him sit in business class.

this film is an incredible thing. have loved it since i was 15 but seeing it in a theatre somehow makes everything fall into place in a way it never did before. and yeah definitely the best opening/credit sequence in all of film history -- i was tearing up a bit.

dominique's post upthread about how the pacing is "like giant gears of a celestial rollercoaster unlocking" is so otm. feel like i've been searching for that phrase for years to explain to ppl why this film isn't "boring."

I saw this for the first time* on bluray the other night

*I attempted to watch it twice before but I always fell asleep somewhere between the apes and HAL

Now I'm really mad at myself for not giving more attention earlier, and I'm suuuuuuuuuuper jealous of Mr Veg who first saw it in a big cinerama dome when he was 10

I can't imagine anything more awesome than seeing this as a kid, seriously anyone itt who has that memory congratulations you win at life.

There's so much I love about it that it's kinda hard to even say in detail because you guys all know but thank fuck he worked so hard to NOT do what was expected, and god love everyone who worked on that movie for committing to the sheer level of detail needed to pull it off. Those space scenes are fucking immaculate

I cried when HAL got shut down ;_; ...and I didn't even know about the whole 'Daisy' song being a real thing (ie Bell labs) until I watched the special features

Can anyone recommend a good 'making of' book that I should read? I would love to know more.

the worst part about it taking me so long to see 2001 is that I've loved so many of his other movies, saw Eyes Wide Shut in the theater ffs, like WWWWHAAAAT IS WRONG WITH ME lol

it just always seemed intimidating I think. and I always exhausted myself going 'ok what does this mean, why is the ape doing that, what's that for, what's it represent blahahaahha' and this time I was like fuck it, I'm just gonnna watch the bloody thing like a bloody movie the way Kubrick intended ppl to watch it and not get all nerded out until afterwards

^^ learning recently that that attitude pretty key to tackling any big cultural object.

this movie remains a miraculous thing.

Good book: The Making of Kubrick's 2001 - Edited by Jerome Angel. Mentioned upthread I think (probably by me). Contains tons of details about the movie, the story, the novel, lots of theories and suchlike, reprints of reviews etc that came out at the time.

Can anyone recommend a good 'making of' book that I should read? I would love to know more.

'The Lost Worlds of 2001' by Arthur C. Clarke is a mixed bag of early screenplay bits, the original short story that the film was partly based on ('The Sentinel'), and recollections about working with Kubrick.

'2001: Filming the Future' by Piers Bizony is more a conventional 'making of' with a lot of technical detail but it also goes into the people behind the scenes, not just Clarke and Kubrick. There's also a chapter in the book summarising Kubrick's other films, which really helps put '2001' into context.

The Jerome Agel book is pretty good.

this is a great essay going around a while back about the fonts
http://typesetinthefuture.com/2001-a-space-odyssey/

totally didn't know those were IBM spacesuits

I started watching 2010 the other night -- I don't mind it but god is there anything in the original that isn't a) driven into the ground and/or b) completely over-explained, sheesh

haha that movie is so bad

i feel bad for them re the space scenes.

A lot of '2010' is a huge expo-dump. The only way it could avoid feeling clunky is for people who haven't seen '2001'. Having said that, I like '2010' a lot.

it's much more a sequel to clarke's '2001' than it is kubrick's

I can't imagine anything more awesome than seeing this as a kid, seriously anyone itt who has that memory congratulations you win at life.

:D

So happy to hear about your first 2001 screening! I would give anything to see it again for the first time!

and the bluray is legit gorgeous

I didn't see it as a kid, but I did see it (as I've probably already mentioned upthread and am too lazy to check) several years ago in an AMAZING 70mm print at the AFI Silver Theater in Maryland. It was absolutely mind-blowing.

I didn't even know about the whole 'Daisy' song being a real thing (ie Bell labs)

OK, I don't think I know what this means. Wha?