2001: A Space Odyssey
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Very much so, see "Parallel development of film and novelization" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey...
Eric Mc said:
By modern standards it will always seem a bit dull and pedestrian. But it probably is still one of the most important films ever made and if you can get to see it in a cinema rather than on a TV, then grab the chance.
/\ This.I think that people should make the effort to go and see this seminal film in the cinema.
After a gap of about 45 years I won't be going to see it for a second time;
I'll just live with my 60's 'experience'
I'm absolutely torn right now.
I bought and setup a projector for the spare room and it's great, and 2001 was on the 'List of stuff to Watch' because re-watching stuff on the big screen at home is ace.
But then the sods re-released it at the cinema!
Dunno what to do.
I bought and setup a projector for the spare room and it's great, and 2001 was on the 'List of stuff to Watch' because re-watching stuff on the big screen at home is ace.
But then the sods re-released it at the cinema!
Dunno what to do.
- apologies for the mild humble brag.
tombar said:
Eric, you are a complete star! I wouldn't have seen this otherwise. I was only 3 in 1968 but saw it 3 times in the 1979 reissues, I became obsessed. It simply doesn't have the same power on the tv!
I saw it on the 1979 re-issue as well.I don't think the prints that were issued in 1979 were anything like as good as the 1968/69 release - which I actually saw in a Cinerama cinema (Dublin's only one).
I am hoping that the latest issue will be top notch.
Theres a programme on iPlayer about the BFI's Sci-Fi season "Days of Fear and Wonder", they've been showing certain films throughout the year in different locations, Flash at the British Museum, Silent Running at The Eden Project, and they had a showing of 2001 at Jodrell Bank with a giant HAL 'eye' projected on the radio dish next to the screen they were showing the film on. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p026yyj9/my-l...
tombar said:
I just don't know whether I should take my teenage sons to see 2001 - whether they would be bored rigid or mesmerised.
Showed my son it when he was around 12 and he loved it - he's now nearly 20 and still thinks it is one of the best films he's ever seen 
I was 8 when it was first released, and my dad initially wouldn't take me to see it because one of his colleagues had seen it and thought it was boring. He eventually relented and we went to see it - coming out he said "See, I told you it was boring" and I was disappointed as he obviously hadn't 'got' the film while I thought it was brilliant. The fact that I had devoured SF and 'space' books almost since I learned to read ( including Clarke's The Sentinal which spawned part of 2001's storyline ) while to my knowledge he rarely read any fiction at all may have had something to do with it.
At the age of 11 (when I first saw the film) I hadn't realised that Arthur C Clarke had anything to do with the film or that there was a novel version of it. In fact, at that time I was the proud possessor of only one Arthur C Clarke book, "The Challenge of the Sea" which was factual. I wasn't even aware he wrote science fiction.
I finally discovered his SF stories about two years later and quickly found the book version of "2001". I also very quickly discovered his short stories and "The Sentinel".
I finally discovered his SF stories about two years later and quickly found the book version of "2001". I also very quickly discovered his short stories and "The Sentinel".
tombar said:
It simply doesn't have the same power on the tv!
I nominated the jump cut from bone-to-spaceship in the "great movie moments" thread. I happened to be watching it on TV in the USA (for the umpteenth time) many years ago and that's the moment they used for an ad break, completely destroying the effect.Just got back from the Pictureville in Bradford. What a film this must have been in the 60's.
Reading 2001 was my gateway to an obsession with "hard" sci-if from the age of 10 onwards. This is the first time I've seen the film in a proper cinema and it was excellent, except for them sticking an intermission in the middle which completely broke the spell for a while.
I came away thinking this must be the only on-screen example of proper science fiction. By that I mean a film that is driven by a plot based principally on ideas not just an emotional journey, with science that stands up to at least moderate scrutiny. Dave and Frank behaved exactly as you'd expect a professional astronaut to behave - task oriented, professional, they knew their ship and systems inside out and all their actions made sense in context. None of the gung-ho bulls
t that Hollywood apply to every other space movie I've ever seen.
I enjoyed the spectacle of Intersteller, but it's fundamentally dodgy story makes it a massive disappointment compared to 2001 even with its slow pacing and excessive discordant music.
Reading 2001 was my gateway to an obsession with "hard" sci-if from the age of 10 onwards. This is the first time I've seen the film in a proper cinema and it was excellent, except for them sticking an intermission in the middle which completely broke the spell for a while.
I came away thinking this must be the only on-screen example of proper science fiction. By that I mean a film that is driven by a plot based principally on ideas not just an emotional journey, with science that stands up to at least moderate scrutiny. Dave and Frank behaved exactly as you'd expect a professional astronaut to behave - task oriented, professional, they knew their ship and systems inside out and all their actions made sense in context. None of the gung-ho bulls
t that Hollywood apply to every other space movie I've ever seen.I enjoyed the spectacle of Intersteller, but it's fundamentally dodgy story makes it a massive disappointment compared to 2001 even with its slow pacing and excessive discordant music.
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