Stylistically, 2001 went in the completely opposite direction. It's been four years since then, but I'm still not ready to step into the cold reality Kubrick showers his audience with again. By the 1960s, sci-fi was in a position to start ditching those cliches in favor of more realism because we were closer to the future of space travel than we ever had been before.
Totally agree with you here it's crazy scary. That, or we are making the 'rest of it' that will then propagate intelligence throughout the universe. Fatal Attraction (1987) is a Vile Movie.
The invention of tools allowed us to dominate first each other and then our environment in a way that was qualitatively different than could be done pre-tool. This is what I always do whenever I think about a groundbreaking movie that for no good reason at all, has been fobbed off as “overrated.” The Godfather (1972) is one of those films. The most significant thing in 2001: A Space Odyssey that marked a clean break from sci-fi is HAL. However, as advanced as the 1960s were, movie and TV sci-fis were still using dated visual cliches. By 1966, there were enough real life photos, footage and articles about the space program, advances in computer technology and outer space to use as the basis for his movie. The flight attendants were dressed in the styles of the 1960s, and the men at the briefing in the beginning of the movie were wearing suits.
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But I never got to get anyone watch it for the visual.
I saw 2001 for the first time before I really knew much about Stanley Kubrick. Let’s take a look at specifically what the movie did that had future sci-fi filmmakers and TV producers finally dropping pointy-ended rocket ships, green aliens, bubble helmets and comic book colors for the last time. Will we have our own HAL meltdown or worse?
And if you did want clarifications, there was always Arthur C. Clarke's novel, which did flesh out a few things left unexplained along the way. thanks again for the feedback and i hope you enjoyed the video. Another major break that 2001: A Space Odyssey made from previous sci-fi were its interfaces and consoles. Frankly, it's terrifying.
There are also spaceships, which are fun ;).
It introduced aliens as benign, if still superior, 8. I love 2001: A Space Odyssey but when I try to explain why its so great, I have to get over the fact its so weird. In particular, there is a scene where Crassus' army assembles on the plain below the mountain where Spartacus' group of escaped slaves are holed up. It's science fiction, but it's got no space battles or laser guns or super heroes. The poetry of the former and the majesty of the latter perfectly captured the moods that the filmmaker wanted to evoke. I'll work on it. I get the scary side, if nothing else then because of this: https://youtu.be/HhwWAciO6F4.
Why?
But the statement that the movie is “overrated” is not an opinion. While there have been a lot of good and even great sci-fi films made since the genre was born -- heck, it's almost as old as cinema itself if you consider 1902's A Trip to the Moon as "film zero" -- there aren't many that can be said to capture the sweep, majesty and cosmic awe of the genre at its finest.
By the mid-1960s, many iconic futuristic buildings had been built (such as the Seattle Space Needle), and so-called space age furniture was seen as the epitome of hip. Why couldn’t TV and movie sci-fi start borrowing futuristic elements from art and design instead?
Spartacus wasn't his first film. He could’ve still used the visual sci-fi tropes of the past but didn’t.
One reason why “2001: A Space Odyssey” is said to be one of the most boring films of all time is because of its extremely slow and long nature. 1968 was an interesting year for sci-fi because it saw not one, but three highly anticipated movies: Planet of the Apes, Barbarella and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Slow and ponderous and at times boring. Most of the filmed sci-fi of the years before 2001, with a handful of exceptions, portrayed extra-terrestrials as intruders, invaders and monsters to be feared and fought.
I always tell people this is my favorite horror film. There are scenes in … You could have everyone and everything still look like the present as long as you made the technology in your movie believably futuristic. The beginning of the film however is far more optimistic. Don’t get me wrong. The crater where they find the monolith. Earth from space was shown realistically for the first time–not as a painted wooden globe with surface lighting but as a glowing ball giving off reflected light.
Another reason why 1960s sci-fi was stuck in the past is that for the longest time, things like space travel, robot technology, etc. By using Clarke's story "The Sentinel" as the starting point for 2001, and bringing Clarke in to both co-write the script and a concurrent novel, Kubrick afforded Clarke -- and the genre he was associated with -- a level of respect it had long been denied. You see a progression from life before tools to life with tools so advanced that they become almost sentient.
So, to make a convincing portrayal of the future, you had to have everything in a sci-fi look as goofy and outlandish as possible. The problem is that B movie, comic book and pulp novel sci-fi imagery had been cemented in the public’s consciousness for so long that that no one could imagine sci-fi movies or TV shows looking any other way. The technology just didn't exist back then so everything they're seeing took incredible effort to create.
It's just too much to handle.
To modern eyes, this may not seem like such a big deal but remember–in 1968, computer screens and sleek consoles of this type did not exist. It’s so easy to just write it all off as “genius.” But since this blog is called “Films, Deconstructed,” I would rather pick Kubrick’s brain. So that's the thing that's weird in 2001.
If anything, it’s underrated now because so many people today insist in calling it overrated. Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is another.
It is trying to make your opinion prevail. Released in April 1968, the film was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and written by Kubrick and legendary science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. I'm not 100% confident speaking on camera so it was probably just me being a bit to nervous to be articulate.
A blockbuster is a film that has almost 100% approval. Films, Deconstructed is a blog dedicated to looking at films in a new way. Others are not commercial but pure cinema and bliss. And it’s okay, you don’t have to have everyone looking like they just escaped from the set of Barbarella. Previously, sci-fi was mired in the cartoony look of comic books, B movie serials and pulp novels.
Here are 10 reasons why 2001 remains the greatest sci-fi movie of all time: 2001 is one ambitious film: it attempts to tell the entire story of the evolution of humankind, from primitive ape creature of the distant past to advanced star-being of the near future, while also exploring ideas like man's place in the universe, artificial intelligence ("personified" by the complex computer HAL 9000) and technological progress -- and all in 137 minutes! It’s the difference between saying, “I don’t like chocolate ice cream,” and “Chocolate ice cream is the worst ever,” or, “Chocolate ice cream is overrated.”. Practical long boring physics is meticulously observed.
It's very convincingly something that could actually happen.
Because he looked to the art, architecture and design world instead of the usual suspects, he created a movie that was not only stylish but looked like nothing that anyone had seen before in sci-fi.
Most of the filmed sci-fi of the years before 2001, with … If you like it I am thinking about making more and would love your feedback. It’s not being “browbeaten” to have it explained in detail why it’s wrong to believe that something is overrated. This is how you design space ship and space station interiors.
If you found the movie boring, no one can argue with you about that any more than anyone can argue about you disliking chocolate ice cream.
I don't think he scariest is emphasised enough.
The Orion III was so realistic, it almost looks like an early prototype of the Space Shuttle. We aren't destroyed by HAL and the rise of AI, but rather change form and transfer the collective intelligence and complexity of humanity from meat-based to computer-based life.
The shots of spaceports are sterile and boring. No one tried to browbeat you.
There were in 1968. This is an awesome movie, and was an SF groundbreaker.
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