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I finally saw 2001: A Space Odyssee

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wp34:

--- Quote from: drventure on January 30, 2010, 02:55:49 pm ---Yeah, 2001 is a tough movie to get into.

2010 was much better, IMHO.

But the sound bites from 2001 are classics  :)

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I just recently re-watched 2010 and it really held up well.  My 15 year-old even liked it and he obviously doesn't get the Cold War storyline. 

ChadTower:

You can't discount the fact that even today current astronauts watch that movie and say "holy CRAP that looks realistic".  Consider that all of that stuff was done before the technology existed as imagined by the guy who also dreamed up the geostationary satellite.  Most of the awe about the movie was how realistic it looked then before any of that was possible combined with how realistic it looks now after all of that stuff has been created, used, and passed by.

bishmasterb:
I saw 2001 for the first time around 1980. As a ten year old hyped up on Star Wars fanaticism, I was initially left with a WTF!? impression of 2001. I braved through it again many years later, and have watched it many times since then. It definitely grew on me each time I viewed it. Reading the book much later definitely helped me understand some of the plot points that had left me previously perplexed.

It's definitely cerebral, and not for light viewing, but I think there is a tremendous amount that the film has to say. Yes, it's very slow in parts, but if you let it pull you in it is a very rewarding picture. I'm definitely no film snob, it took several viewings to get to the point of enjoying it, but it was well worth it.

I would relate the experience of slowing falling in love with it to Dune. I hated Dune upon the first viewing, but after several viewings I really began to enjoy it.

DaOld Man:
I liked 2001.
The book was good too.
2010 answered a lot of the questions left in 2001.
The story is basically an advance life force died out, for no explained reason, but left a calling card for the apes, "helping" them to evolve into humans, then when they were smart enough to make it to jupiter, they were used as building blocks for the old alien race.
It was theorized that HAL may have been an instrument of the aliens, and it was even suggested that HAL was programmed to "mess up" by a government agency.
In a nutshell, what PBJ said.
The movie was very well done for the technology available in those days. And the story had a "Scientology" touch to it, even though I dont think it existed then, but I could be wrong.

danny_galaga:
Shmokes, you've helped 'out' me. I've watched this several times, hoping i would 'get' it each time. More than once, i actually fell asleep during the lead up to the star child thing.

I think i would watch it again some time, just to enjoy the effects.

@daoldman, Scientology was well established by then. But since Arthur C Clarke had been writing a lot longer than L R Hubbard, you could say that Scientology has an 'Arthur C Clarke' feel about it  ;D

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