Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of "2001: A Space Odyssey"

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1. there is no answer no one can have the question to the meaning of our being
2. The centrafrugal room where Dave is running
   reminds me of a Hamster Wheel
   It's almost as if Kubrick wants to put us in
   a perspective of being mere Rodents.
3. Saw it in 1982 on our new vhs machine and it's stayed with me ever since. This was the year just before Return of The Jedi came out and I thought 2001 was every bit as visually stunning as anything around at the time.
4. 6:22......... the audio mutes to censor the point ? what did he say ?
   
   
   NB: I found the answer he said the words "was just great"....... :)
5. that was stupid film
6. Yep , it's a seminal American movie. Written by a Brit , and made in Britain .
7. whats the piano bit from 17:48 onwards?
8. Why do people say they don't know what it meant? Didn't they read the story or novel version? The end scenes where the old man is aging was a means of transition. He looks up to see himself older. A device to show that he lived his life out in that room. The room was designed by the alien intelligence which were not biological but with machine bodies. They live forever. The star child at the end is a metaphor for mankind now being ready to start learning on a new level, now being at last ready. It is all in the book.
9. Kubrick would be really disappointed with A.I..if he's alive..Spielberg didn't pass the "test" in any sense..
10. I find Spielberg's insight the most interesting and useful.
11. Growing up I always looked forward to seeing this movie but always miss the chance for some reason; then at the age of 17 after I came home from work It happen to be on. By the time the movie was over it felt like I had a religious experience; I remember thinking "Wow, I don't know what I just watched but, Wow". It’s been 30 years since and I still feel the same after watch this movie. I'm now able to pass it on to my 17-year-old son who enthusiastically feels the same way.
12. Happy Birthday Stanley Kubrick.. a master of his craft
13. Saw 2001 around the time it came out. I was only about 8 and my older brother took me. When it was over he asked me what I thought it meant. I didn't know. Wasn't bored at all by it then, though admit that today I sometimes FF through the monkey parts and a chunk of the stargate sequence out of impatience, but that's me. It looked and still looks unlike anything else. It put me in a weird place, almost mind altering, you felt in your gut that you were elsewhere else and a little lightheaded, like you were really being shown the future. Of course, it's what many of us expected of the future for many years afterward. It still makes me feel weird when I watch it. Planet of the Apes, another visually innovative experience, came out around the same time. Seemed weird and still does that apes figure in both. Inspiring what magic design can work. Kubrick sure had a unique eye.
14. I wish reality had followed closer to Stanley's idea and we had a real orbiting space station employing centripetal force, a real underground moon base allowing for planetary exploration, and a real sense of planetary unity... Sometime fiction just seems so more real...   2001 is the iconic dream of a lot of us..
15. Lol, to this day in 2016, there is not one sci-fi movie that can hold a candle to this film shot in 1968! You really can't add War of the Worlds, or Metropolis, or even Star Wars. [Although credit to Lucas with THX1138.] 2001 hit the nail on every head in every way. Thank you Kubrick for inspiring so many, RIP.
16. kubrick & leone. 2001: ASO & OUATITW - by far the two most outstanding movies ever ( IMHO ). they don't make movies like that anymore. i hope lucas is right "on day, this art will come back". i hope i will still be alive then.
17. you'd think there'd be a consensus here as to how to pronounce 'Kubrick', but no... most people in this video say 'Koo-brick' but some people say 'Q-brick'
18. 10:49 what is the title of the background music? Anyone knows?
19. Yes, 2001 is a great film, no question. But to belittle all of the science fiction before it as kiddie nonsense is untrue and unfair. Remember, the studios at the time thought of sci-fi this way and didn't put a lot of money into these films. But there were some great sci-fi films made before it like Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Thing and especially The Day the Earth Stood Still, that were smart and thought provoking. Stanley was a great film maker true but some people look at him with two much awe and think everything he did was great. It wasn't. I can't think of anybody who'd willingly sit through Barry Lyndon or Eyes Wide Shut again.
20. AT 6:21
    John Dykstra says even enjoying smoething that much was [BLANK] [CUT OFF]
    what the hec did he say?
    was WHAT???
    why was it cut off?
    FUCK CENCORSHIP