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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
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| Length: | 141 minutes
(2 hours 21 minutes) | | MPAA Rating: | G | | Sorting Category: | SciFi |
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Synopsis: Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.
Reaction: Iconic and seminal. However, there are segments that will confuse and/or bore people who aren't all that into the film.
Personal Rating: 8/10 |
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Random Trivia For This Title: - An early draft of the script had narration.
- Evidence of Stanley Kubrick's attention to detail: there are visible replacement instructions for the explosive bolts in the ejection apparatus of the pods.
- According to [?] Douglas Trumbull, the total footage shot was some 200 times the final length of the film.
- All of the special effects footage had to be printed on the original negatives. Stanley Kubrick thought using copies of the negatives would harm the visual quality of effects shots.
- [?] Marvin Minsky, one of the pioneers of neural networks who was also an adviser to the filmmakers, almost got killed by a falling wrench on the set.
- The entire centrifuge section of the Discovery spacecraft was constructed as a single set. It was designed to rotate for shots such as the sequence in which Frank went jogging so that the actor remained on the bottom.
- HAL 9000 never once says, "Good Morning, Dave," despite this line being one of his most recognized quotations.
- There is no dialogue in the first 25 minutes of the movie (ending when a stewardess speaks at 25:38), nor in the last 23 minutes (excluding end credits). With these two lengthy sections and other shorter ones, there are around 88 dialogue-free minutes in the movie.
- The phrase "See you next Wednesday" is heard for the first time during the scene in which Poole receives birthday greetings from his parents. The phrase would become a trademark of director John Landis who would use it in many of his movies.
- The last movie made about men on the moon before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked there in real life. 40 years later, conspiracy theorists insist that this is not a coincidence, claiming that all footage of Armstrong's voyage was a hoax film directed by Stanley Kubrick using leftover scenes and props from this movie.
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