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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Wednesday 16th BBC Four 23:00
quirkyquirk
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No doubt an influential, iconic classic but also one that seems to be a love/hate movie that divides opinion.
I've never seen it so I'll be setting the recorder.
I've never seen it so I'll be setting the recorder.
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Wow. Thanks for this. I had heard that it was on this week - for some reason, I thought that Film 4 would be showing it.
Yes. It tends to divide people. I have seen it before. Trouble is - I really do think that the small screen doesn't do it any favours. It really does need to be seen on a big screen - and in 70 mm - like it was intended to be seen. However, there are themes and ideas in the film - it's difficult to get into - but there's stuff in the film.
It is just a coincidence that they are no longer my friends.
I saw it at the Gaumont, Aberdeen, when I was 11
I was never the same since, and I nearly got beaten up on the way home
And Leonard Rossiter is in it, for goodness sake!
He was also in Barry Lyndon, Kubrick's best film IMO, but sadly one which most people don't seem to have heard of.
Of course I'm joking. In it's day I imagine there was a real sense of wonder in those sequences. They still hold up visually, but OMG are they boring!
Gaze in wonder as the space ship carrying SpaceDad slowly makes it's way to the moon. Then it lands on the moon. Slowly.
Soon we shall witness a spaceship rotate as SpaceDave walks around it. Slowly.
2001: Slowly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before.
It starts in darkness, then we see the Sun and the Moon from the Earth. Everything is so laden with symbolism. The movie never lets up after that.
I agree that the movie is even better on the big screen. I was lucky enough to see the 2001 on a giant screen in the Thompson Dry Dock in Belfast where the Titanic was built. Totally surreal experience.
haven't read the book though, but did so with 2010 and love that movie .....
HD doesn't do the opening scenes any favours: it shows up the front projection plates of the African backgrounds rather obviously.
The rest still looks incredible.
I have...............its absolutely brilliant.
I'd heard a lot of negative stuff about Barry Lyndon but loved it - one of the most beautiful films ever made, every scene is a work of art.
As for 2001, it's my all time favourite movie. There's a big lecture theatre in my former workplace and, during the holidays, I had a private showing one day on a big screen - awesome
using those NASA cameras for the candlelit scenes
Great movie but Kubrick fell out with Arthur C Clarke over the ending. If you watch the film try to read by novel that Clarke wrote (not the short story the Sentinal) based on the screenplay.
The end was changed making it a bit confusing.
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I have that box too. 2001 is a fabulous film (and I did read the book first).
I bought that Blu Ray box set (a Black Friday deal) just to get Barry Lyndon, which is only available separately on import.
It's the only Kubrick film (including shorts) that I've not seen so that's scheduled for a Christmas treat.
As a film you experience rather than follow, it has few, if any, peers.
When I watched it recently I did feel that part dragged on a bit too long. I also thought it hadn't aged very well, but considering when it was made it was certainly the best Kubrick could have done at the time.
And you are in for a treat. The scene where Barry meets Lady Lyndon at a candlelit gaming table is absolutely sublime. The lighting, direction and acting are a joy to watch, you'll see what I mean. The whole thing is great.
can't watch that bit without thinking of Terry Gilliam's p1ss tale on Monty Python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLfN9psJo_E