Posted on 03/09/2018 6:09:34 PM PST by Rummyfan
What struck me about the movie was the rationality of the actors roles.
I was in 10th grade, cut class and went downtown on the bus to see it in Cinerama. I’d already read the book so I had an idea of what it was all about. Still one of the great sci-fi movies of all time.
Does that mean that Kubrick's original uncut film has never been seen or available on Blu Ray??
“I’m not HAL and we aren’t in space, Dave”.
In the movie, HAL predicts the communications module failing in the next several hours based on his/it’s analysis of real-time performance data as a pretext to save the secrecy of the mission from the crew.
IBM’s Watson uses exactly the same analysis methodology in real life today. Add one letter to each letter in H A L and what do you get ?
Haha!!! I like that response.
2001...
Absolutely Awesome!
Clockwork Orange came next...
Shocker.
Thanks for enlightenment on Kubrick.
And ...
LOLITA
I guess I saw a different Dr. Strangelove.
The one I saw had a drunken, womanizing Premiere that believed what he read in the New York Times and built a nuclear weapon that would not only destroy his enemy but his own country (more assuredly destroy his own country more thoroughly).
Sure, the movie was a satire on the nuclear arms race but I thought it even handed as far as its dealing with the USSR vs. US.
Hal was also the first name of Clarke’s nonfiction editor at Harper & Row.
I’ve used a snippet of the movie where HAL predicted the module failure in corporate presentations about predictive diagnostics. Absolutely visionary!
There is this:
And I’ve been trying for years to stamp out the legend that the word, that the letters HAL was derived from IBM by one letter displacement. And of course HAL actually stands for Heuristic Algorithmic, H. A. L. But that’s a myth that I can’t quite stamp out. I think that IBM are quite proud of it so I’ve given up the attempt.
– Arthur C. Clarke, the IBM story is “utter nonsense.”
Kubrick directed...
SPARTICUS ?!?
He was dumb. I recently rewatched 2001 and 2010, and was chagrined to see the use of heavy CRT view-screens everywhere. I mean, huge clunky 2 foot deep boxes. Not to mention lots of toggle switches and dumb lights.
You can't say it was because of the times, if you would compare with Star Trek that aired in 1966 or so. Star Trek was more far-sighted. It didn't take a genius to foresee flat screens for monitors in the future.
I don’t think you were supposed to understand it verbally. You were supposed to feel it, it was like dreaming. I was a young teenager then and it did make me feel dazzled by the future.
( how the H*** did I get so old?
I was 14 on my first date when we went to see it. I still remember the theater, Mayfair Movie Theater in NE Philadelphia. Had the old style organ pipes in the lobby. What was the meaning of the steel obelisk?
A movie way before its time. Much like Star Wars in 1977.
I was 14 when it came out.
You had flat screen monitors in 2001?
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