John Landis on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
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rigsby............
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amazing film dont get the acid trip ending but the effects stand up well
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What a great movie.
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a gigantic door the size of the whole installation that opens up like a sliced pie to let in a craft with 4 people??? Ever hear of energy and air conservation?
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it IS monumentally unimaginative. the core story is the old hat theme of a computer taking over people. that concept was outdated when they used it for the 1957 flick The Invisible Boy. Outside the makeup for the primitives and the Pam Am flight, this was dull, absurd in concept, and at the end completely goofy. And these days, outdated...no more soviet union, no colony on the moon (for dirt and rocks research?), no commercial flights into space (a multi-million flight for, what? a total capacity of 40 people???), and no Pan Am!
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The best and most imaginative movie ever made. I saw it in the American Cultural Center in Kabul in 1979. I was nine years old. You can imagine the impact it had on me. I had seen nothing like it before, or since.
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you're a lousy director
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Hard to believe this thoroughly modern looking motion picture was made in 1968. I was four years old at the time.
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hi marcello
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Please give the wonderful William Sylvester, as Dr. Heywood Floyd, his due. His cadence, his way of speaking in this film, have resonated in my subconscious ever since the first time I saw this work of art...
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A landmark movie. There's been some great sci-fi movies thru the years (Planet Of The Apes, Silent Running, Soylent Green, Blade Runner......) but this will always be the Daddy.
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This is totally wrong. The editor actually used classical music as a guiding track. When Kubrick went into the edit he fell in love and dismissed any other music.
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I FINALLY GET IT!
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Masters and Doctoral thesis have been written on this film. Nuff said Ms. Kael!
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John Landis is a murdererrr.
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I had a chance meeting with John Landis, that paid off years later when I met him again. I wrote about it here: http://goo.gl/myp2Kc
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Ku'prick' was an arsehole. A genius, yes; a gentleman, no. He didn't have the courtesy to inform Alex North, who composed an original score, that his music had been replaced by classical music.
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Pauline was this snotty, anally retentive dyke. Her reviews were laughable for the most part.
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Pauline Kael's dismissal of 2001 just proves how short sighted some critics can be. They should al be avoided and treated with contempt. I have never been bored by a Stanley Kubrick film until Eyes Wide Shut when one my second viewing I kept nodding off but 2001 mesmerizes me. It is probably Kubrick's most hopeful film. One of the thrills of my life was meeting Keir Dullea when he appeared for a 2001 Q & A at the theater I work at and actually got to speak to him one on one. I rarely gush and was floating about three feet in the air meeting someone who worked with Kubrick and especially on such an iconic film. He looked exactly as he appeared in 2010, very nice, and autographed a 2001 book for me which is a cherished piece of my Kubrick collection. I wish I had written down a few questions instead of babbling like an idiot. I wanted to throw out my theory about the Star Child and the way its hands were (in my observation) in a Hindu gesture of greeting and peace. The novel's ending of it detonating obiting nuclear satelites could be interpreted as a good thing or a bad thing. I prefer the film's ambiguous ending that has no implication of violence. Or my theory how Kubrick literally beats the acting out of the actors so no one outshines the themes he is presenting. His characters can be a bit unreal at times but it is all to serve the film's theme.
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Pauline kael- I used to have respect.
What an out of tune bitch you were-Rot.
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