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2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] (1 disc) ... |  | |
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Length: | 141 minutes (2 hours 21 minutes) | MPAA Rating: | G | Sorting Category: | SciFi | Sorting Tub: | Hotel |
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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: - The last movie made about men on the moon before Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong and Buzz AldrinBuzz 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 KubrickStanley Kubrick using leftover scenes and props from this 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 LandisJohn Landis who would use it in many of his movies.
- 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.
- [?] 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.
- All of the special effects footage had to be printed on the original negatives. Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick thought using copies of the negatives would harm the visual quality of effects shots.
- An early draft of the script had narration.
- Evidence of Stanley KubrickStanley 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.
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