2001: A Space Odyssey
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Special Edition
• NTSC
In Theaters : 06 April, 1968
Video Release : 30 June, 1993 |
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2001: A Space Odyssey Customer Reviews
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Trippy? Slow? Breathtaking? Boring? Amazing? Yes...
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I would consider myself a moderate Science Fiction fan. I am definetly not to the "Have a tatoo of Leonard Nemoy on my butt" level but may one day reach the "Own over 10 space ship replica models" level.
I had heard about 2001 for years. I had heard mostly bad things from friends who just like stupidly entertaining comedy movies. (I love Bio-Dome too, but best movie ever? Come on!) I knew this would likely be a movie that I enjoyed, so I decided to splurge the $10 on the Kubrik Collection DVD a few months back. I purchased this along with some other "classic" movies (including Clockwork Orange) and slowly worked my way through all of them over the next few weeks.
When I first watched 2001 I was tired, bored, and generally confused. I wasn't really that into it, short of laughing nonstop during the monkey scene in the beginning. I finished it, turned off my DVD player, and went to sleep confused.
The next day was spent reading interpretations of the ending and wishing I was a Space Baby. Time went on and it collected dust on the shelf.
As I said above, I bought another one of Kubrik's films, Clockwork Orange, at the same time. Similarly to 2001, I watched it, went to bed confused, read about it online, and forgot about it. As months went by, I found myself wondering more about Clockwork Orange and eventually was convinced to rewatch it. To my pleasure, I thoroughly enjoyed Clockwork Orange the second time throguh.
Yesterday I found myself with three free hours and have had 2001 in the back of my mind for months. Like Clockwork Orange, I decided to give it another go. Low and behold my jaw stayed dropped during roughly 2/3 of the movie. The stunning visuals, the interwoven music, and the minimalistic dialogue came through more clearly upon watching the movie the second time through.
One of the scenes I did not remember that absolutely blew me away was when the Aries 1B ship (that takes the Doctor from Earth's gravitational pull to the Moon Base) is landing on the moon base. The large port doors slowly open, showing the Aries 1B approaching from above. The craft lands smoothly and my jaw was on the floor. It completely took my breath away. However, like much of the movie, it was followed by a slow 2 minute scene depicting the circular ship being lowered into the landing bay. This is one example of the scene going on for too long.
Therefore, this is a movie for a certain type of person in a certain type of mood. Based on my viewing of 2001 last night, I give this movie a 5. Based on forcing myself to watch it when I didn't really want to the first time I would give the movie a 2. Therefore I will score this movie a 5 with the assumption that I will never watch it when not in the proper mood.
Long, slow, & dull at times? Yes.
Breathtaking, trippy, and some of the finest cinemetography ever? Yes.
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