Hidden Secrets in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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  @Joepacker · 1 year ago

  It is amazing how well this film holds up almost 60 years after it was released. It truly was a film before it's time and my favorite film of all.

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  @johngray9431 · 11 months ago

  Having grown up in abject poverty, in Fresno, and in foster homes where child abuse was the norm, I was accidentally but fortunately taken along with another family I was staying with to 2001: A S O when I was 12 years old. I had never scene anything like it and the film truly changed me as a person, as an American and as an optimist. <br>Forever grateful to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark. Favorite film ever!

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• KZ

  @kzinful · 1 year ago

  My father dropped me off to see 2001 at our local movie theater in that small Texas town of Lake Jackson. I was thirteen. And there I sat alone with only three other people. That night I wasn&apos;t in that theater, I was with Dave Bowman soaring through the Stargate and finally emerging as the Starchild. <br><br>It was dazzling, It was spectacle, and it was.. <br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Magical

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  @lindabaker667 · 1 year ago

  I remember going to the theater to see this for the first (of many) times. The scene of the bones twirling through the air transforming in a split second to the spacecraft scene was a &quot;take your breath away&quot; moment. The entire theater gasped. Kubrick was beyond genius.<br>Great video. Thank you.

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• TI

  @TimCinkenosha · 1 year ago

  Realeased in April 1968. Apollo 8 orbited the moon on Christmas that year. I remember a story where James Lovell radioed mission control and said &quot;Tell Stanley he got it right&quot; after witnessing Earth rise. A true visionary.

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• BR

  @BryanPopRobson · 1 year ago (edited)

  The initial comments are technically wrong the book may have been written alongside the film, but the original story was based on one of Arthur C Clark’s short stories called “The Sentinel.”

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• MI

  @mikelfrance-l6x · 1 year ago

  People who watch this movie today cannot understand why its so special. &nbsp;The reason is, so many things we never imagined before 2001 are common today. &nbsp;Flat screen wide color TV&apos;s and monitors, TV screens built into airplane seats playing movies, artificial intelligence, talking computers, walking and traveling across the moon, video conferencing, the credit card, the Space Shuttle, computer graphic animations, voice print identification, etc. &nbsp;About the only thing missed was the cell phone. &nbsp;Even the idea of the international scientists working together (including a Russian) was hard to imagine during the Space Race / Cold War period.

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• CA

  @Carusus1 · 11 months ago (edited)

  It&apos;s not just a film. It&apos;s an experience, a true work of art. True to science it showed the silence of space where there is no sound and respected Newton&apos;s laws., which we didn&apos;t get to witness again until Gravity. Kubrick&apos;s choice of music was, as always, amazing: it put Ligeti on the map. <br>2001 encompassed the evolution of life, of human dexterity, of technology, while at the same time conveying the mystery of existence itself. So much so that Pope Paul VI stated that the film was the most convincing expression of the human condition he had ever witnessed.<br>The film holds up today 100%, and its special effects remain a reference that CGI has never equalled.

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• WO

  @worldclass777 · 9 months ago

  2001 A Space Odyssey is and will always be a stunning visual masterpiece that ages like fine wine.

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• FI

  @FissionChips · 1 year ago (edited)

  I saw this film in 1969 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London with my new girlfriend, later to become my dear wife for 54 years. Probably, one of the best films I&apos;ve ever seen . .

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• WT

  @wtmayhew · 1 year ago (edited)

  I first saw this movie in 1968 in a theater equipped with a Cinerama screen. &nbsp;Though 2001 was not filmed in Cinerama,* the ending sequence projected on the curved screen made it an all-consuming experience. &nbsp;I felt completely exhausted and incredulous over the daunting end of the film. &nbsp;2001 remains an unmatched cinematic experience. &nbsp;To truly experience the power of the film, it has to be seen on a large screen which thoroughly envelops the viewer.<br><br>*2001 was filmed in 65 mm Super Panavision. &nbsp;Prints were made to exhibit in Cinerama 70 mm Roadshow format with a 2.2:1 aspect ratio. &nbsp;While not Cinerama per se, it was about as close as anyone got after the final Cinerama movie, The Battle of the Bulge in 1965.

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  @TheMotleyPatriot · 1 year ago

  As a 7 year old I was engrossed in the uniqueness of it&apos;s story and as a big fan of Star Trek at the time, I was left with a new curiosity that serves me to this day.

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