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List Price: $24.98 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 06 April, 1968 DVD Release : 25 August, 1998 |
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2001: A Space Odyssey description When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on "the proverbial intelligent science fiction film," it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel," 2001 is a visual tone poem (barely 40 minutes of dialogue in a 139-minute film) that charts a phenomenal history of human evolution. From the dawn-of-man discovery of crude but deadly tools in the film's opening sequence to the journey of the spaceship Discovery and metaphysical birth of the "star child" at film's end, Kubrick's vision is meticulous and precise. In keeping with the director's underlying theme of dehumanization by technology, the notorious, seemingly omniscient computer HAL 9000 has more warmth and personality than the human astronauts it supposedly is serving. (The director also leaves the meaning of the black, rectangular alien monoliths open for discussion.) This theme, in part, is what makes 2001 a film like no other, though dated now that its postmillennial space exploration has proven optimistic compared to reality. Still, the film is timelessly provocative in its pioneering exploration of inner- and outer-space consciousness. With spectacular, painstakingly authentic special effects that have stood the test of time, Kubrick's film is nothing less than a cinematic milestone--puzzling, provocative, and perfect. --Jeff Shannon |
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| Kubrick may not have gotten it 100% correct in 1968, but he was prophetic in many ways. Try working with your computer when trouble breaks out and there's no Hal to respond. Try to guess the number of computers launched into the trash, out windows, into oblivion by ballistic consumers every year. Try arguing with Hal and his offspring; 411 comes to mind instantly, so does my bank statement. Would you believe "Dr. Strangelove"? Anyway, any movie that could have aroused students in Orono, Me. 40 years ago, sending them 8 miles into Bangah to see it, must've been special indeed. It was,and is, groundbreaking material,certainly not "Get Smart" or "The Wild, Wild West', which seemed to have a certain flair up there. One reason for its continuing popularity seems to me the premise that the wiewer has it completely correct in his mind even after umpteen viewings, only to be cotradicted by others' opinions. Most of the language used by our gang is unprintable, but we all survived to argue another day;anything but academics for us. One question we never could figure out was the repeated use of Strauss' "Blue Danube". Any ideas on this out there? | |
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