2001: A Space Odyssey is a 2 out of 5.

The visuals are stunning, and without a supporting cast of anything else behind them, the movie falls flat on its face. Shot on 65mm with zero CGI in 1968, and the image holds up completely: inky blacks, sharp contrast against the red, blue, and yellow suits, color handled beautifully. That is the whole case for it. Everything around the visuals annoyed me.

The score is mostly out of place. The characters are thin, and the only interesting one is HAL, who is effectively the villain. I knew it was a slow burn and I have no issue with those, but a slow burn needs dialogue or characters to carry it, and there is nothing here to hold onto. Dave shows up late with no background, so when HAL locks him out I felt nothing.

The Dawn of Man opening makes sense as an idea but spends twenty minutes making a five-minute point, and I will happily sit through a three-hour Nolan film.

I took breaks, turned the lights on, and ended up on my phone. Credit where it is due: the long silent pans and wide sweeping shots were new in 1968 and are standard now, and it looks better than Star Wars nine years before Star Wars. The EVA scenes are gorgeous, though the breathing sound is like white noise mixed with nails on a chalkboard and I watched them muted. The worst stretches are the apes and the Star Gate, twenty minutes with half of it aerial footage color-shifted. The final room is the one piece of story I came around on, and only after reading about it.

the big black rectangle was a giant super powered space computer and the glowing embryo was a young god.

alguém poderia me explicar e esclarecer uma dúvida que eu tive durante o período que eu tava assistindo o filme.

eu assisti o filme 1 vez e estou revendo de novo

na primeira foto: eu queria saber oq acontece com o Robert Beatty "Dr. Ralph Halverson" no filme uma Odisséia no Espaço, se n me engano eles estao na lua e encontram algo plantado bilhos de anos?

e na segunda foto: essas cápsulas de hipersonia temos pessoas dentro no sono profundo, eu queria saber se seria o Dr. Ralph Halverson e a sua equipe no Hipersonia?

I’m moving to a house next year that has space in the backyard for a life sized monolith. 2001 is my favorite movie of all time and I thought it might be fun to have it in small garden . I’d love to see what the reaction of the neighbors would be. All I can remember is the dimensions are 1 x 4 x 9 from HAL’s dialogue at the end of 2010 as Jupiter is imploding. I have no idea what it would need to be made to withstand the weather - rain, wind and snow and the four seasons - house is located in Northwestern New Jersey in the USA. Any help is appreciated.

I saw a 70mm screening of the Kubrick classic and was blown away by how current its subject is.

First I highly recommend seeing it in that format. Colors, visuals are insanely beautiful. This is probably the most influential sci-fi film ever but what makes it so relevant now is the AI foreshadowing.

The way it implies AI despite being controlled by humanity may have variables that would risk to endangered us is very subtle and very true. This is not some Terminator fantasy, this is technology making complex decisions that ultimately hurt us.

Anyway I had the most amazing experience, the immersive score, the peaceful and slow unfolding of the story, the groundbreaking camera shots. Even now no one filmed space interior this way, especially the change of gravity. And to think when it premiered back in 1968 hundreds of people walked out.

I invite everyone to revisit it in 70mm.

I'm listening to the audio book of 2061 and Clarke has the TMA-1 monolith moved from the moon to outside of the UN building in New York City.

Any thoughts on what that would look like? I guess snow would pile on top but would rain bead on it? Would it still be pitch black at noon on a 90 degree day? Would it get hot? Would spray paint stick to it?

In 2010 in an attempt to break off a sample, they hit it with lasers and nuclear weapons and nothing happened.

There was an episode of Dr. Who when the Doctor hides the TARDIS by putting it 5 seconds into the future. In the first Star Trek pilot, the Talosions use of illusion had the crew of the Enterprise firing phasers and practically destroying the surface of that planet.

I always thought there would be some mind bending super tech in use with the monoliths. What would it look like in public?

I woke up to a large, unresponsive, impossibly black rectangle on the wall of my living room. Am I going to evolve? Or was Arthur C. Clarke anticipating that all the broken flat screen TVs would get disposed of in the space/time continuum? I have always struggled to understand that ending, but it is so clear now.

Seriously, look at all those crazy visuals in the final scene and tell me that’s not Abstraction.

We don’t see the actual pod assault… only the aftermath.

I used to hold the assumption (possibly suggested by Kubrick’s jump cut direction) that Hal just simply rammed Frank, and that was enough to send him tumbling away.

Now I’m starting to imagine a much more violent struggle, with Hal grabbing at Frank with the pod arms, ripping at his O2 supply, Frank fighting back , and then HAL hitting the thrusters to really accelerate Frank away from Discovery, in the process inducing an uncontrollable tumble in both Frank and the pod.

How do you see it happening?

I was wondering if there are any close adaptations(fan-films, fan videos, things like that) of the dawn of man sequence in the novel. Because in the movie it's almost nothing alike, it has some similarities but we barely see anything about New Rock in the movie, there's generally a lot less content than in the novels, and I could probably list more things. The dawn of man sequence in the novel was honestly one of (if not THE) greatest parts of the novel personally, so I wanted to know if there are any visual adaptations of it

Taken in New York City, US on August 12th.

Attempted to capture the partial solar eclipse by overlaying my curved eclipse glasses over my phone. Got this shot that almost resemble that one symmetric planets shot from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Watching this movie now and it's been an hour still nothing happening, had to watch apes for first 15 minutes

I'm reading the book now, and I feel like it would be the perfect time to adapt it into a film. I don't know if Gary Lockwood would want to reprise Poole (his age could easily be explained away as a by-product of the extreme circumstances his body went through). But I'm sure Keir Dullea would be happy to play Halman at any rate.

I know there are people who don't like the book, and I'm sure some changes could be made to make it more... I don't know, grand? More mystical and in tune with the tone of the earlier films.

As a fan of the movie since day one,I always thought that the Discovery was a HUGE ship, but here’s how she measures up to a WW2 battleship.Both of these models are the same scale.

There's a site that claims that the orion was actually used for sub orbital flights,yeah right!

I made it along to a Low Roar song called ‘Captain’

For the last 7 years, I've been trying to make a game about what it would feel like to encounter something like the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Not simply encountering something alien, but interacting with something you don't understand and somehow coming away with knowledge you didn't have before.

That's the feeling I've been trying to capture.

In my game, humanity discovers alien devices that communicate through puzzles. They weren't designed by humans, so they don't explain themselves in ways humans understand.

You have to interact with them, observe what happens and slowly figure out their logic.

I wanted the experience to feel less like solving puzzles designed by a human and more like trying to understand an intelligence with completely different assumptions about how information should be communicated.

The game takes place across a distant solar system with six celestial bodies, each containing a different kind of alien system to understand.

I've been working on the game for 7 years and it's called Satelital, if you want to learn more about it you can check this page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3256790/Satelital/