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When I first saw the movie, I did not understand it. I later read the book and that helped quite a bit. Not sure what they cut from the movie, but it was almost impossible to comprehend the movie version I saw without reading the book.
Open the pod bay door, Hal.
saw it in its first run up in Hollywood, at the Cinerama Dome IIRC.
I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.
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While often extolled as one of Kubrick’s best, I thought it sucked.
Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket were all masterpieces though.
The pinnacle of movie-making art.
I think the movie is terrible, except for the music.
My favorite movie. I just watched it again with my children. They loved it.
Kubrick was a true genius. It's an overused word these days, but Kubrick actually WAS a genius. His IQ has been estimated to be close to 190.
He was a chess master, writer, director, photographer - but he knew a lot about many, many subjects. It is said he could read 50+ books over the span of a few days, and recall almost everything.
His films have deep, deep, deep layers of meaning.
He mysteriously died only 3 days after giving the studios the screening of Eyes Wide Shut.
Many people, including me, believe that Kubrick was murdered for revealing too much about the Illuminati.
He had an iron clad contract that he, and he alone, could change the final edit for the film. After he died, the studio cut several scenes, including one purportedly dealing with child sex and sacrifice.
I often feel like Dave Bowman when watching Congress.
“My God, it’s full of tards!”
I thought I understood it when it first came out - except for the ending. Had no idea whatsoever what that was all about.
I got to see it in Cinerama. Didn’t understand it, but was gobsmacked nonetheless. The only space movie I’ve seen that showed weightlessness and the silence of space realistically. The scene where the astronaut is entering the airlock and you only hear the sound as the outer door is closed and the air rushes in is one example.
The product placements were a bit overdone. When the scientist calls from the space station and carefully uses the word ‘telephone’ instead of ‘phone’ is one example.
It was released in’68 and envisioned our having bases on the moon by ‘01. Here it is 2018 and we can’t get to the moon at all now. And where is my flying car?
“Also Sprach Zarathustra” (opening theme) —> Nietzsche (book of the same name) —> common man dominated (Nietzchean philosophy) by technology —> development to a final confrontation against technology (”open the pod bay doors, Hal”) —> final crisis of transformation (light show) —> new reality —> star child (Übermensch).
See how simple that was?
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??
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 ?
I’ve used a snippet of the movie where HAL predicted the module failure in corporate presentations about predictive diagnostics. Absolutely visionary!
The first time I saw it, I was stoned. That helped.
