Actually this movie began production late 1964. It was RELEASED in 1968, so it’s more advanced in speculation than you think
BTW, Whirlpool and the British food company that advised this film (for the food scenes) had a booth at the Montreal World’s fair and samples of that food you see here. It was surprisingly good! Way better than airline food at the time. Don’t let the pastey look fool you. They wanted to sell to the Navy for nuke submarines but were beaten out. VERY expensive!
Just saw the new I-PAD by Apple on the news tonight. Great insight from the mid 60′s when these guys ate dinner watching their I-PAD. Also, Flat panel displays? Even 2010 (made in 1984) didn’t get that one right…they used CRTs. The thing that dates this movie were the nixie digit displays, but damn, 2001 special effects and sets were made starting in the early 60s. A fabulous movie!!
The cue @ 8:40-8:50 is almost identical to the one from James Horner’s score for “Aliens”. The cue can be heard during the opening credits where Ripley’s life craft is limping through space .
People don’t seem to understand that the film is an adaptation of the book by Arthur C Clarke. The majority of the genious behind this lies with him, he wrote it afterall. Not that Kubrick isn’t brilliant, I just feel Clarke doesn’t get the credit he deserves for the greatest science fiction novel ever writen.
I prefer the book to the film, it’s more timeless and I feel there is no way of understanding the film fully without reading the book.
one of the deepest counciousness study made in history of cinema, related to Kubrick wish to make artifitial inteligent, and the starting point to the saga of : machines vs human being (terminator, etc). one step beyond, like mozart of bach of cinema. this movie will never grow old, even being false “2001″ as the selected year
This movie is beautiful and terrible at the same time. It’s makes understandable the horrors of eternity and describes the vanity of our existence. Are we truly alone in this vast emptiness? Even after the entirety of the universe is colonized, will we find our purpose? It is beautiful because it portrays the success and the near omniscience of the human civilization; that there are no frontiers left to conquer; that our destiny has been fulfilled.
This movie is beautiful and terrible at the same time. It’s makes understandable the horrors of eternity and describes the vanity of our existence. Are we truly alone in this vast emptiness? Even after the entirety of the universe is colonized, will we find our purpose? It is beautiful because it portrays the success and the near omniscience of the human civilization; that there are no frontiers left to conquer; that our destiny has been fulfilled.
This movie is beautiful and terrible at the same time. With it’s incorporation of dramatic music, it makes you think about the vanity of time and existence. It is terrible because even after we colonize the universe, we would still not find a purpose for our existence in this vast, endless infinite. It is beautiful because it displays the the success of mankind; the beauty of the near omniscience of human civilization; that there are no frontiers left to conquer and our destiny fulfilled.
@lulle103: I’ve always liked the idea of a soft female voice for computer voice output.
Especially in the case of an all male crew it has been proven to have a relaxing effect on them.
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Actually this movie began production late 1964. It was RELEASED in 1968, so it’s more advanced in speculation than you think
BTW, Whirlpool and the British food company that advised this film (for the food scenes) had a booth at the Montreal World’s fair and samples of that food you see here. It was surprisingly good! Way better than airline food at the time. Don’t let the pastey look fool you. They wanted to sell to the Navy for nuke submarines but were beaten out. VERY expensive!
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that’s what food will look like in 100 to 200 years
no more home cooked meals
I guess we really are living 2010 the second odyssey…
This movie was made in 1968, note the tablet idea then. The iPad arrives in 2010!
Just saw the new I-PAD by Apple on the news tonight. Great insight from the mid 60′s when these guys ate dinner watching their I-PAD. Also, Flat panel displays? Even 2010 (made in 1984) didn’t get that one right…they used CRTs. The thing that dates this movie were the nixie digit displays, but damn, 2001 special effects and sets were made starting in the early 60s. A fabulous movie!!
wow… soundtracks in space…thx for posting anyway- now I know what I wasn’t missing all these years
Kinda remindes me of TV dinners.
Funny because the two films share the same editor
lmao. no that’d be some incredible foresight. I can just imagine on all those computer screens “LOL” “OMG” ROFL”
cool story, bro
hey want to know something weird?
Take the name “HAL”
Now take every letter in the name and move it to the letter in the alphabet one up from it.
You will find that it spells IBM
curious isn’t it?
The food looks disgusting
The cue @ 8:40-8:50 is almost identical to the one from James Horner’s score for “Aliens”. The cue can be heard during the opening credits where Ripley’s life craft is limping through space .
People don’t seem to understand that the film is an adaptation of the book by Arthur C Clarke. The majority of the genious behind this lies with him, he wrote it afterall. Not that Kubrick isn’t brilliant, I just feel Clarke doesn’t get the credit he deserves for the greatest science fiction novel ever writen.
I prefer the book to the film, it’s more timeless and I feel there is no way of understanding the film fully without reading the book.
That chess scene reminded me of that part in “the thing” With Kurt Russel, “Cheatin’ Bitch”
one of the deepest counciousness study made in history of cinema, related to Kubrick wish to make artifitial inteligent, and the starting point to the saga of : machines vs human being (terminator, etc). one step beyond, like mozart of bach of cinema. this movie will never grow old, even being false “2001″ as the selected year
This movie is beautiful and terrible at the same time. It’s makes understandable the horrors of eternity and describes the vanity of our existence. Are we truly alone in this vast emptiness? Even after the entirety of the universe is colonized, will we find our purpose? It is beautiful because it portrays the success and the near omniscience of the human civilization; that there are no frontiers left to conquer; that our destiny has been fulfilled.
This movie is beautiful and terrible at the same time. It’s makes understandable the horrors of eternity and describes the vanity of our existence. Are we truly alone in this vast emptiness? Even after the entirety of the universe is colonized, will we find our purpose? It is beautiful because it portrays the success and the near omniscience of the human civilization; that there are no frontiers left to conquer; that our destiny has been fulfilled.
This movie is beautiful and terrible at the same time. With it’s incorporation of dramatic music, it makes you think about the vanity of time and existence. It is terrible because even after we colonize the universe, we would still not find a purpose for our existence in this vast, endless infinite. It is beautiful because it displays the the success of mankind; the beauty of the near omniscience of human civilization; that there are no frontiers left to conquer and our destiny fulfilled.
omg its hal the coputer the evil robot that wants to cause choas
3:14 It looks like one of the computers is saying OMG. (Yes I know its saying DMG but I just looked funny.)
03:48 oh my god its AUTO!
@lulle103: I’ve always liked the idea of a soft female voice for computer voice output.
Especially in the case of an all male crew it has been proven to have a relaxing effect on them.
incapable of error… does not apply when making decisions. conception fail.
LOL, if the screen at 0:50 was blue, it would look like a BSOD!