2001: A Space Odyssey

[EightMilesHigh]

I've been thinking about this film a lot lately, and I think I completely understand, almost. I'm thinking of re-renting it once more.

Any thoughts?

[Riva]

I always get annoyed at the very end of the film. **** ambiguity.

[Four Ton Mantis]

I'm writting an analysis on it for school. It's a brilliant movie.

[Dylan S]

I've never seen it :lol:

[Kingofdudes]

Supposively, Pink Floyd's "Echoes" synchs up with part of the movie(They regretted not doing the soundtrack, or something).

[Dylan S]

I heard that somewhere too :)

[Squirrel]

If you want to understand it, read 2061 and 3001, then it makes a lot more sense. But they were merely written for profit, not to further the greatness of the original works.

Arthur C Clarke once said: "If you understand 2001 completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered."


Other than that, it's a brilliant film, but i do have to say i prefer 2010.

[TheCrimsonKing]

"Im Afraid I cant let you do that" :)

[griftadan]

trippy

[Kurtz]

"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?"

[Robert Crumb]

Absolute classic, one of my favorites.

It's been scientifically proven that if a viewer is high enough, any Pink Floyd material will automatically synch with any recorded event ever.

[BassVirtuoso]

I can't watch it without falling asleep, I here it requires patience and/or drugs.

[Kingofdudes]

Absolute classic, one of my favorites.

It's been scientifically proven that if a viewer is high enough, any Pink Floyd material will automatically synch with any recorded event ever.
Heh, well I actually think there is some truth with echoes, seeing that they were approached to do the soundtrack for the album :p

[TheCrimsonKing]

Absolute classic, one of my favorites.

It's been scientifically proven that if a viewer is high enough, any Pink Floyd material will automatically synch with any recorded event ever.


I think your on to something :lol:

[thedeadwalk!]

I found it too boring to watch it through; maybe another go around will prove different. At least it's still better than 2001: A Space Travesty. :shudder:.

[BlindWriting]

This is one of the best movies ever made, without a doubt.

[YDload]

Well, it's one of the slowest movies anyway. You can put it in fast-forward mode and it looks almost like normal speed for the space pod/docking sequences.

However, I was never confused by the ending at all. I read the book beforehand, and everything is explained in complete detail :) If you'd like to understand it, please read on below SPOILER ALERT!...


































Dave gets sucked into the black monolith by Jupiter (it's Saturn in the book) which is like a gateway or wormhole the whole way through the other side of the universe, where the beings that built the monolith live. The beings have evolved beyond the need for bodies, so they're just omnipresent when Dave arrives in their corner of the galaxy. They read his mind and replicated a home-like environment (that's where the fancy rooms out of nowhere come in), then when Dave falls asleep his physical form ceases to exist. He is turned into a higher form of life by the aliens and he's now the Starchild. So the Starchild goes back to Earth (where a nuclear showdown is imminent) and stops the war from occurring. He has godlike powers over the people of Earth and you can see at the end, he's pondering his next move.




:)

[gaslight]

I've never seen the movie, I'm waiting for it to be on Foxtel at a convenient moment.

I took some audio quotes from it once though, and mixed them over the instrumental version of Refused Are ****ing Dead. Good times.

[EightMilesHigh]

(insert crazee spoiler here)

Hmm. I guess that makes sense.

[Daniel!]

I watched that movie when I was 10 and thought it sucked. I've never felt the need to see it since.

[PianoDan]

I saw this movie recently. It was one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. It was also a terrible movie, plot-wise etc.

[jeffro]

I rented it Saterday but havnt got around to finishing it yet b/c I fell a sleep just after the intermission. Its a good movie, but its just so slow.
Does it pick up the pace, or is the whole movie like that?

[Badmoon]

I refuse to ever sit through it again, but I do like the plot and such.

[Four Ton Mantis]

I rented it Saterday but havnt got around to finishing it yet b/c I fell a sleep just after the intermission. Its a good movie, but its just so slow.
Does it pick up the pace, or is the whole movie like that?
Nah it's pretty slow the whole way through. But Kubrick had imporant reasons for making it that way. Evolution is a slow process, space is vast and most of it is occupied by nothing; also it's a very stimulating film visually - Kubrick wanted the audience to bask in its beauty.... oh.. and monkeys are funny.

[Badmoon]

If anyone wants a pretty good explanation...

www.kubrick2001.com