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[@tahi3314]

0:46 I can't believe that this image was made 50 years ago with complete craftsmanship and without any CG animation. It's insane.

[@telectronix1368]

You should watch the behind the scenes footage of the models they made for films like Star Wars - not just that they were physical models but that some of the '3D' surfaces were just pure artistic talent painted onto blank sides.

[@JPB9000]

Time to go watch it for the 20th time.

[@russg1801]

Sure, watch it once for me, too. That way I'll be spared two hours of pointless boredom! While you're at it, dig out your Director's Cut of Barry Lyndon;. If you can survive that snooze fest, you deserve a medal!

[@JPB9000]

I'm sorry, man.

[@responsibleparty]

+Russ G It's not for everyone. But it remains one of my favorite movies.

[@YDDES]

+Russ G Well, it's way better than all the pointless "action" movies. In my opinion...

[@produccionesonindependient4566]

YDDES Hi

[@doltBmB]

I had the pleasure of seeing it in real 70mm. The clarity was out of this world, the screen was like a window with the glass removed.

[@MarsFKA]

I saw it on Cinerama in Sydney in 1968. The huge curved screen gave the film a dimension that was lacking in the later occasions when I watched it on a flat screen. I would love to see it on 3D IMAX.

[@linjicakonikon7666]

Yes, I saw it that way. The Oak Brook UA Cinema 150 Cinerama theatre. 70mm. One huge screen. Curved. The curtain opened as the lights dimmed and the Blue MGM stylized logo greeted eager eyes. Then fade to black. The moon, the earth, the Sun in ascending order to the exhilarating triumph of Thus Spake Zarathustra. We were escorted into a dream that offered to take us as far as our imagination was willing to go.

[@andyrowlands50029]

"...it is the best of the best of special effects movies, and it will always be." - George Lucas. Spot on George. For me, 2001 is, and always will be, the greatest movie ever made.

[@ChristianTheChicken]

That's saying a lot coming from George Lucas, whose movies have always been top of the line in terms of special effects.

[@straighttalk2069]

Second best after the Matrix.

[@FilippoBuscemi93]

@@straighttalk2069 u cracked

[@straighttalk2069]

@@FilippoBuscemi93 U below average IQ.

[@Argyll9846]

I saw 2001 when it came out and was totally blown away and in the 30+ times I've seen this movie it never fails to impress. Truly a masterpiece of cinema.

[@AlanCanon2222]

I was born at the very end of 1968. Dad had the gorgeous soundtrack album and I would just read the program notes and look at the pictures while I listened on the hi-fi. Reading the novel as a kid, I did the requisite calculation and realized that I was exactly David Bowman's age ("about 30" in 2001). It felt like the story could be about me. Later, after Star Wars came out, they re-released 2001 to theaters and my family went. By that time I had read the novel a dozen times starting age 7 or 8. I must have been 10 when we went to see it, so the story was a familiar one to me: I didn't have to labor to understand the plot, so I could let the visual and aural magnificence of the movie just wash over me like a tidal wave. To this day (age 52), it's my favorite work of fiction (both film and book). In a very real way, 2001 made me what I am.

[@robbedontuesday]

Only movie that made us watch 3 minutes of black screen without even blinking an eye.

[@knownpleasures]

The razor thin story as Lucas says is my problem with it

[@MarsFKA]

Kubrik set the bar so high with this film that no one since has been able to, or bothered to, match it. As for his special effects; there were no powerful computers back then, so no CGI.

[@alanrogers7090]

I was lucky enough to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Cinerama theater in Pittsburgh in early 1968. I loved the feeling of being immersed in the film due to the three screens. In September, I started college and was able to see it again, but on a "normal" screen. While still being entertaining, it lost something by not being in Cinerama. Much later, I purchased a DVD of the film, and again, it lost something in the translation to a flat screen. I still rank it as my best film, based on my first viewing, 54 years ago.

[@youmeandi100]

I can't think about 2001: A Space Odyssey for too long because I get emotional...nearly teared up. This is the film that made me love cinema as much as I do today. :') Great documentary.

[@andrewma9682]

Yeah. It's also sad so many people don't appreciate this movie and can't enjoy it. This movie is like a gift to mankind.

[@claudelebel49]

You were awe inspired!!

[@telectronix1368]

And it started from a short story by Arthur C. Clarke. Just goes to show we can never tell where a work or art might go or what it might be turned into.

[@youmeandi100]

@@telectronix1368 love that

[@777jones]

Kubrick was an artist on the level of Michelangelo. It is pointless to describe him as a mere movie maker. He was a very great master.

[@telectronix1368]

I would love to know what his cut of A.I. would have been.

[@robbedontuesday]

Unfortunatelly, all these pirates of Hollywood are just trying to level him down. So disrespectful to him and his art.

[@christhornley1664]

This film will never be surpassed. I was ten when I first saw it, and of course I didn't understand it properly, but I knew it was a great work. As I grew and came to understand the movie with further viewings, I realised more so how great it was. All kubrick's work is brilliant, but 2001 is the best of the best. He was spot on with everything, he knew exactly what he was doing.

[@nickbell5203]

One thing I really like about these videos is that every great director that ever was naturally recognises Kubrick as the man, he really was a directors director. Head above shoulders.

[@SANTO971]

1968, 52 years ago .. unbelievable, so much ahead of its time..

[@TGoat123]

My favorite all-time movie. Upon about my seventh viewing, I noticed this: In one of the deep space scenes a meteor flys by--and then another. One of them is gold and the other one is silver. Fascinating.

[@FindecanorNotGmail]

George Lucas later decided to make Star Wars in England so that he would be able to hire the same people to make his sets that had previously built sets for 2001.

[@tomasnokechtesledger1786]

Especially, The Dark Side sceneries

[@christiankrueger2330]

Smart move

[@japreet_kah]

Wrong

[@christophermair3349]

Did not know that. Makes sense but the whole tea time break...the after tea second tea with crumpets...and then the...

[@japreet_kah]

No that is totally wrong. He had a disagreement with Hollywood as they wanted a massive cut for producing his films. He refused and he took the work as far away from them as he could. That is the real reason. I dont know where you make this stuff up from and get over 70 likes for it. Totally false

[@leokimvideo]

The saddest aspect is this. Here is the top end of Hollywood explaining how amazing this film is, yet Kubrick was always shunned at the Oscars. 2001 ASO only achieved an Oscar for Special Effects and that award should have gone to Douglas Trumbull but Kubrick took the award even though he was the director. 2001 ASO should have achieved multiple Oscars considering how groundbreaking it is on so many levels. Sadly the Oscars is a mates club of the in crowd ensuring plenty of self awards.

[@garyhoffman503]

Emerson Peabody Excellence in Journalism Award Winner.🥇

[@defaultusername123]

The fact that Oliver! cleaned up that year (including Best Director) over this and Rosemary's Baby (and I am not a Polanski fan) is one of the best cases of the Oscars meaning nothing. Just dumb dumb dumb.

[@Gubble-oq6dn]

You have to keep in mind that the academy is just a club of individual people with different opinions. I doubt anyone speaking here had anything bad to say.

[@RichardFieg]

@@defaultusername123 The Oscars are awards for American Academy of Motion Pictures. Chariots of Fire can consider itself lucky. Then 2001 should have been Best Foreign Film of 1968.

[@tennisbum3686]

I never tire of watching 2001, attention to realistic detail, the deep meaning, the music score is just the beginning of what it means to me every time I see it, it blows my mind, Shear genius!, thank you Mr Stanley Kubrick.

[@hjarten]

'Can't touch this,' When Franco Zeffirelli first saw the film he sent a message to Kubrick: "You made me dream, my eyes wide open". yeah

[@yandhi5016]

Sent him a dm?

[@tomasnokechtesledger1786]

Email?

[@SebastianTinajero]

One of my favorite films it's a shame so many great films do very poorly sometimes because people don't understand or appreciate them at the time but then later they resurface and are appreciated!

We stoner kids saved it.

[@OpenGL4ever]

I love Interstellar. It's a masterpiece.

[@jamesfrench7299]

Looks like Blade Runner 2049 might be among them. Didn't compromise and paid the price financially, but avoided mediocrity which tout can't put a price on.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

@@OpenGL4ever So do I. INTERSTELLAR (2014) is more than a worthy successor to 2001.

[@kenknowlton3085]

I was just a kid when I saw it twice in the theater. I was about as confused as you can imagine. But then I read Carke's novel then went back to watch it a third time and everything made perfect sense. Stunning visual tour de force. The monolith is a teaching tool, a transmitter, a 'star gate', then lastly the device that transforms Bowman from an elderly man into the human evolved starchild.

[@maple1255]

'2001 was shot on 65mm film, which has the same size frame as 70mm. Kubrick and his collaborators kept Cinerama's deeply-curved screen in mind as they made the film, creating an exceptionally immersive experience - especially for those sitting close to the screen.' A profoundly beautiful and engaging movie from beginning to end, superb cinematography.

[@terencesommer5413]

I loved watching this. I appreciate this movie even more than I already had.

[@bassliveevil]

Kubrick was just a master of detail. 2001 is like space itself. Everything is in front of you but its still mysterious and open for interpretation

[@colleenross8752]

Now every time I look at the night sky all full of stars and beauty, I'll think to myself"Okay, Dave, I know you're up there watching over us.I just hope we're making you proud."

[@nielspemberton59]

Well said !!

[@cjkelley333]

This is one of my favorite movies, and possibly the best I've ever seen.

[@brianarbenz7206]

The Orbiter Hilton scenes were immersive. I was in them, not watching them. No other movie has ever done this for me.

[@MrKAmsterdam]

Noven was written by Arthur C Clarke. One of the greatest minds in literature in the 20th century.

[@Firebrand55]

Kubrick reigned yes......but behind him was a legion of dedicated, talented people who brought his vision to the screen....without them, no 2001....with them, a film that transcends the very definition of film. This post has views of the very best of filmmakers, who themselves made unforgettable films. In 1968 I stumbled out of the cinema in a daze, puzzled by the ending; now I know why, from this great post.Thanks for that.

[@tommypetraglia4688]

He had the vision. They were just extensions of his hands. Like when I was a deckhand on a tugboat taking orders

[@justgivemethetruth]

Kubrick really gave the world a real vision of the future from this movie. It is just transcendent.

[@justgivemethetruth]

The sad part was that the future has not kept up ... the very forces the Star Child was there to stop and put an end to have kept us back in the past ... it makes me feel sick that humanity has not really progressed and in fact as regressed.

[@The22on]

@@justgivemethetruth I think we've advanced, but not in space. Where is our moon colony? We wasted 40 years putting satellites in low Earth orbit and America lost the ability to put men in space. Back in 1968 I envisioned manned launches every week to explore, mine, colonize, etc.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@The22on We've advanced? I wonder how you get that delusion. May you maintain it until it actually happens, or right up until he moment of our planetary annihilation.

[@The22on]

@@justgivemethetruth The advances I had in mind were technological: miniaturization in chips, internet, Hubble telescope, universe expansion acceleration discovery, gene editing, etc. We have not changed our basic reptile brains that make us aggressive, etc. We are the same as people in ancient Rome. Is that your criticism?

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@The22on We have exactly the same hardware ... that is certain ... or very close to exactly the same, but the systems we live under, the operating systems that mold our behavior and environment does not seem to be able to change. One of the best books I've ever read came out in the last year called "The End Of the MegaMachine" that went though a reframing of human history. It says it a lot better than I ever could.

[@garylewis4398]

To keithktam, Arthur C. Clarke said, in response to how one should view the relationship between the novel 2001 A Space Odyssey, and the film 2001 A Space Odyssey, "Read the book, then see the film. Repeat the dose whenever necessary!"

[@michaelhoste_]

The novel was actually written after the film - as the novel of the film. The script itself was based on an Arthur C. Clarke short story, The Sentinel, (about the uncovering of an object on the moon that turns on when it detects sunlight and sends a signal into space).

[@TheJennyWalaShow]

All you film buff and students ought to watch the complete making of this film. A master craftsman Kubrick was, he pushed sci-fi movie to a new level.

[@starkiller9768]

"If he can do it, I can do it." - George Lucas on Kubrick's 2001...

[@DanDownunda8888]

That's not what he said. He said, "He did it, I can do it." meaning that someone has done this for the first time, it's possible for me to do it too.

[@javiceres]

Well...

[@The22on]

For people like me who are crazy about 2001, here's something you may like. In both 2001 and EWS (Eyes Wide Shut) by Kubrick, he has a kind of 'inside joke'. When people are talking, he often has an item like a newspaper or a sweater sitting on a chair or table. This object appears and disappears during the scene! It's there when the person is being truthful and it disappears when they're lying! In 2001 there's a sweater behind one of the female Russians in the space station scene. Please check this, but I believe it disappears from her chair when Floyd is lying about 'a plague' on the moon. (I don't have my copy of the movie handy). It reappears when he's being truthful. Even the PA on the space station reports, "A lady's cashmere sweater was found..."12 In EWS, when Dr. Bill is talking to Victor Ziegler when they're playing pool, the newspaper on the side table appears and disappears, depending on Ziegler's truthfulness. Cool, huh? Has anyone checked if he does this in any other movies? I bet Stanley was laughing as he was shooting a scene where this happens.

[@cristianelvis5788]

Greatest film ever easily Kubrick was a pure genius RIP to a great Filmmaker.

[@DANIEL99062]

2001 .. Wow .. a mile stone on SCI-Fi.. i first saw it in early 70,s when i was a kid .. totally did my head in !!

[@dannbk13]

Happy Birthday Stanley Kubrick.. a master of his craft

[@MyLittleZerg]

Amol Bhoir The movie was awesome(which by the way means awe inspiring, not cool), not because it was fast, but because it WAS slow. It built up to everything, it didn't force you into some sort of dog fight in space. It was realalistic,no saucers or borg cubes or warp drives or any other nonsense in most movies. Also every scene had a purpose whether small or large which really made you pay attention; you couldn't just doze off or rest your eyes, you had to be ingaged to like. I was born in 1999 and i love the movie, it isn't the time frame you are born in, but the maturity you have.

[@coolcat23]

I love that the pacing gives one time to think, to speculate, and to reflect. Such pacing only works, of course, if there is something to think about, everything makes sense, and there are unexplained matters to explore. With many of today's movies, one only needs the few milliseconds that they allow for contemplation to see how the plot or the characters do not make one bit of sense.

[@Quadrant14]

Stanley was that rare genius to get the right people to do what HE wanted, and boy was his vision tough...I can only think of 1 other movie that I watch over and over and that is Blade Runner.......2001, a Masterpiece still

[@jamesfrench7299]

Quadrant14 Kier Dullea nominated BR as his favorite film.

[@NoosaHeads]

Blade Runner was very special - I'll give you that. Not in the same category as 2001 but it was a seminal film.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

INTERSTELLAR (2014).

[@telectronix1368]

@@Beamshipcaptain Too many plot holes.

[@balto76bourque51]

I Think 2001: A Space Odyssey is the Greatest Science Fiction film of all time and it always will be, for Generations.

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

I say it's a tie with Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker.

[@samanthacooper6776]

It already is for generations! It's been 54 years. It was the end of one era and the beginning of another in film making. The amount of work required to produce a film like this with models is very intense. I remember seeing it at the Warner theater on Hollywood Boulevard, weeks after it first came out. I was an energetic, inquisitive 13 year old who couldn't sit still through anything, but I was spellbound by this masterpiece. Mr. Kubrick was a master!

[@PAULLONDEN]

Definitely an LSD trip atmosphere. Especially near Jupiter interstellar space, and the textures in the rooms at the end......Epic .

[@edsmith1757]

The centrafrugal room where Dave is running reminds me of a Hamster Wheel It's almost as if Kubrick wants to put us in a perspective of being mere Rodents.

[@ivanavila4674]

The greatest filmmaker I have ever witnessed, no one could put music to picture like that guy could, just no one,bar none..

[@jago76]

My favorite movie. In addition to all the technical advances discussed, the movie was the first serious attempt to inquire into the possibility (or really the certainty) of intelligent extraterrestrial life. Whenever that occurs, it will be the greatest of all discoveries of the human race.

[@znentitan4032]

The future we were promised (and never got)

[@en-men-lu-anabad-tibira5680]

I saw this the first time in Calgary, Canada the week it opened. I have seen it at least 100 times since. It has always been my favourite movie.

[@hollysterland]

This film is a complete masterpiece... This was the first film I watched after I was born (5 hours after i was born according to my parents) and I still watch it today... This is my favourite film personally :-)

[@Beamshipcaptain]

2001 was my favorite film for 9 years. Then STAR WARS came out nine years later.

[@dt9913]

Watch it in 4K Holly it's astounding!

[@hollysterland]

@@dt9913 I now own a 4k 55" TV with a 4k hd disk... THIS is what technology was made for! Absolutely stunning

[@dt9913]

@@hollysterland How right u are! That's the exact setup I have. I'm also using an Onkyo Dolby Atmos sound system which is phenomenal!

[@hollysterland]

@@dt9913 We're using a Panasonic surround sound setup, it's amazing!!!

[@RubyMarkLindMilly]

still awestruck every time i watch this literally otherworldly! the genesis of man

[@beyond_the_infinite2098]

I experienced 2001 at a Cinerama in 1968 at age 13 with a friend. Mesmerized and left speechless at the end, we're kinda in a state of shock from being thrust into space and another dimension. i've watched it every year since its opening.

[@dt9913]

I did as well at age 16 and it blew my socks off!

[@williamjones7163]

When I was in college in 1985-86 I was in charge of the student film program. We showed 2001 and 2010 as a double feature. 2001 was far and above the best even though it was made in 1968 and 2010 was made in 1984.

[@NoosaHeads]

2001, Blow Up Metropolis The Kid The Great Dictator Fargo, Barry Lyndon Dr. Strangelove, North by Northwest, The Third Man Goldfinger Casablanca Rebecca The Lavender Hill Mob The ladykillers (1951 version) I've seen these movies so many times and I never get tired of them. Sure, there are plenty superb movies (in the past and present) but the ones above have a special place in my heart.

[@bhardnavares5903]

This film can still pass as a modern sci-fi film! That's how much a masterpiece this film is. 💯 Kubrick was really ahead of his time.

[@MrPhotodoc]

Most will not admit it, but some of us were on Acid while watching this in the 70's. As far as I can recollect.

[@matthewdavidwyre699]

A good movie is you watch it and, yeah it was good. A great movie is you watch it and every time you watch it again and again and again, you see more and more and more that you missed the last time you saw it. Kubrick living in heaven in 5D + or R.I.P What an eye!

[@LeofromFreo]

If you’re a youngster and haven’t seen 2001: A Space Odyssey yet, then do yourself a favour. It’s astonishing. ☑️

[@ronagoodwell2709]

I like the special filmmakers in a Volkswagen metaphor. And... Kubrick was driving. You can talk forever about his influence on film but Kubrick influenced the future, how we see the future. We're still exploring his vision of what is to come.

[@Edubarca46]

2001 is the best of the best. Unforgettable. Kubrick, a genius.

[@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649]

kubrick & leone. 2001: ASO & OUATITW - by far the two most outstanding movies ever ( IMHO ). they don't make movies like that anymore. i hope lucas is right "on day, this art will come back". i hope i will still be alive then.

[@richardscally694]

The pinnacle of filmmaking by the cinemas Master Craftsman, it's still and always will be a Masterpiece.

[@davidbirt8486]

Kubrick was co-operating with Arthur C Clark on this film.I used to have a paperback Titled " The lost worlds of 2001 " which told how Kubrick developed the film and Clark developed the novel. It all started with an Arthur C Clark short story called "The Sentinel". It was a fascinating read.

[@mahe-2268]

This documentary is superb. It lives up to the expectations of anything bearing Kubrick's name on it.

[@TheSteveBerlin]

Beautiful, rich documentary of this astounding genius. Happy 93rd birthday, Stanley Kubrick. What a beloved mind you were. And are. Thank you for posting this, Warner Bros.

[@GentlemanAmerican]

There are few movies that were so far ahead of their time and that still look visually stunning and futuristic today. "2001" is one and "Blade Runner" is another. Douglas Trumbull was involved in the special effects of both movies.

[@leehargreaves7473]

My Mother took me to see it in about 1969, when I was 7. I still remember being shit-scared of the Ape-Men but that's all I remembered. Now, almost half a century later, it is my favourite film. It's what BluRay. large TVs and sound systems were made for. Epic film (and reading the book helps a lot with the understanding of the film). "For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.”

[@YDDES]

Stanleyville Kubrick may have been a genius, but he let some faulty special effects scenes slip through. For example the scene up here at about 9:00. The shadows on the space station should have moved over it as it rotated. As it is now, the sun must be orbiting the station in a sychronous orbit.... Also, ”Discoveries” parabola antenna rotates around the whole time. They should have lost the contact with Earth long ago

[@drakeequation521]

Films are like dream states. The audience cannot interact with the film but can be drawn in. Kubrick's films were very dreamlike with slight continuity errors thrown in just as the cracked logic of any dream's events always leave one scratching one's head upon wakening, wondering what that was all about. 2001 was released on April 4, 1968. It was first quarter Moon that night. The film didn't take off until three weeks later and that coincided with the New Moon, the night I went. The Michael Todd Cinestage was located on the east side of Dearborn near Lake Street in Chicago. With the film beginning right near sunset, it meant the audience sat at an interface. The real Moon was between the backs of those in attendance and the Sun while film began with the Moon facing the audience, the lunar north pole to the right instead of left as it was for the real Moon, a violation of mirror symmetry. The first of several science errors was right there as any astronomer could tell by recognizing craters Grimaldi and , Gassendi and Mare Humorum. That means Stanley put the far side of the Moon facing Earth in the film, an impossibility but he made it look so real that several science friends didn't pick it up. Parts of the film violated angular momentum, linear momentum, Newton's third law and he shifted around the phases of the Moon and Earth into impossible chronological and even positional arrangements. 80% of all communication lies in body language, 12% lies in tone and only 8% is in words and Stanley was aware of it. He left us coming away scratching our heads and then using them. I am grateful and miss his films.

[@Btouhy1]

+drakeequation521 Nice... thank you...

[@luthermcgee432]

Me too. He really was a genius.

[@yandhi5016]

What surprise me and I still don’t understand, is why the image looks so good, as if it was HD. It’s looks so much better than films from the 60’s, 70’s, 90’s and even 00’s. The first time I saw a fragment of the movie, I thought it was kinda new

[@MrGeoffHilton]

If you think Blueray (2k) is HD or even 4k is HD, this movie was filmed in 65mm which is probably equivalent to 20K.

[@rikb728]

I can watch this over and over.

[@rogerwilco2]

"The best (film) in history" - Steven Spielberg.

[@gruff5]

yep, some like to be cautious and say the best science fiction movie in history, but really it is simply the best in history.

[@luthermcgee432]

WOW! From one of my favourite horror writers.

[@luthermcgee432]

@Vlodec 🤭🤭

[@siegfriedkleinmartins7816]

2001 is not the most important sci fi movie ever made..... It is the most important movie ever made ! Greetings from Brasil

[@YA_ALI_MADAD88888]

6:21 he clearly says the movie is ''whack'' but it got censored.

[@Alan-lv9rw]

Best film of all time.

[@shopliftfilms]

The best film! Love watching it on silent as well.

[@oncledan8509]

This documentary is a gem and, by consequence, an ode to Stanley Kubrick. Don't you wish we had another Genius like him in Hollywood?

[@SanctuaryLife]

Yes, sadly it seems he was a unicorn like Einstein

[@mauriciosimoesdealmeidabot5641]

Many people say it is incomprehensible. Just read the novel adaptation of the film by Arthur Clarck. All the explanations you need are there. It will even enhances the filmic experience you are about to have.

[@UNSCPILOT]

Having listened to the audiobook, I'm still in awe months later, Ironically I have yet to watch the movie but I'll solve that soon

[@rob7290]

Agreed, I read the book before seeing the film, everything is made clear.

[@hypercomms2001]

it is now just over 50 years since I saw this film for my birthday in August 1969 at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne, and I worked with Avionics, and I am amazed at the presentation of avionic spacecraft displays [eg 11:52], and to think they were doing this with 16 mm projects whereas now our flight decks look almost exactly the same... yet, one would think that Kubrick is using computer animation!

[@christianleonardotalarico7080]

What a great hommage to a True Master of Filmmakers!

[@andrewma9682]

It's not just important though, it's a movie that is epic and one of my favorites to watch which is why it was so influential.

[@drsous6400]

This was Paul Dirac's favourite film..And for one of, if not the greatest mathematician's and theoretical physicist's of the 20th century..A man who founded quantum mechanics and quantum electro dynamics, not to mention a man who lay'd the foundation's for quantum field theory..A genius in every sense..to qualify that, to me is a profound endorsement of Kubrick's cinematic genius..And one that is well deserved.

[@fathertime1331]

The best film . . . period.

[@SanctuaryLife]

I think I’ve watched this movie more times than any other

[@tranquil65]

Growing up I always looked forward to seeing this movie but always miss the chance for some reason; then at the age of 17 after I came home from work It happen to be on. By the time the movie was over it felt like I had a religious experience; I remember thinking "Wow, I don't know what I just watched but, Wow". It’s been 30 years since and I still feel the same after watch this movie. I'm now able to pass it on to my 17-year-old son who enthusiastically feels the same way.

[@bobert4him]

They end the piece with the airborne bone flying through the sky. But instead of cutting to the space transport as expected, they fade to black and roll credits. It's a hand-off to the viewer. They're saying, "Here you go... Your turn..." Brilliant

[@masterkief628]

Stanley influenced George. Whoa, amazing!

[@SanctuaryLife]

Even Nolan has modelled much of his career off his work. Kubrick really is the master of film.

[@brianpetkovic4579]

A FAN MADE THIS .thank you . LOVED IT.

[@superbmediacontentcreator]

I saw the movie having just become a teen and when it first came out in a classic restored ornate 30s movie theater that was able to show it in its original anamorphic format and I so believed that this would be the future since 30 years ahead at that time seemed so far away. This was at the beginning of the Vietnam War and It has disappointed me so that the true promise of 2001 never has come true and mankind continues to be embroiled in petty political power struggles the stupidest of land grabs and the subjection of others.

[@philmfan]

Saw 2001 around the time it came out. I was only about 8 and my older brother took me. When it was over he asked me what I thought it meant. I didn't know. Wasn't bored at all by it then, though admit that today I sometimes FF through the monkey parts and a chunk of the stargate sequence out of impatience, but that's me. It looked and still looks unlike anything else. It put me in a weird place, almost mind altering, you felt in your gut that you were elsewhere else and a little lightheaded, like you were really being shown the future. Of course, it's what many of us expected of the future for many years afterward. It still makes me feel weird when I watch it. Planet of the Apes, another visually innovative experience, came out around the same time. Seemed weird and still does that apes figure in both. Inspiring what magic design can work. Kubrick sure had a unique eye.

[@cmillerg6306]

First saw it in a large-screen theater at age 8. The screen was very large and curved, but i doubt it was the full-blown Cinerama. I was captivated. And in the last act, frightened. So Kubrick did a fantastic job of transmitting the awe of the unknown. At one point in production, Kubrick used some part of Mahlers 3rd to accompany the film. I'd love to know what part of the symphony he used.

[@brushfuse]

The SpaceX Crew Dragon reminds me of the excursion Pod from 2001. Watching it dock is very reminiscent of the Dragon docking with ISS.

[@ole9421]

Please excuse me. I apologize for not double checking your age before recommending this movie. My hats off to you for your remarkable self restraint. A very noble quality that is much lacking in todays youth. Bravo young, man, bravo. P. S. - Do not rush into this movie. It is not by definition, "an enjoyable experience". I'd even go so far as to recommend you wait till your 18.

[@edwardj.coxjr.3031]

I wish reality had followed closer to Stanley's idea and we had a real orbiting space station employing centripetal force, a real underground moon base allowing for planetary exploration, and a real sense of planetary unity... Sometime fiction just seems so more real... 2001 is the iconic dream of a lot of us..

[@Beamshipcaptain]

We already have the ISS, and the SPACE FORCE, and the BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION. Look at the Navy;s new Patent for an underwater/interstellar craft! We have gone beyond even 2001, and INTERSTELLAR (2014).

[@brianarbenz7206]

@@Beamshipcaptain But the locations portrayed in the movie were supposed to be paid for. The stuff we have today isn't; we are now running up 2 trillion or more in additional debt in one single year, and our needs on Earth are not being met. The space force is a toy for a manchild-led government. There's no Kubrick vision in any of that.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

@@brianarbenz7206 Trump just signed papers yesterday authorizing the mining of the Moon and Mars by corporations and the Military.

[@luthermcgee432]

If we as people did get together internationally, early enough, and there was no two world wars, we probably would have pulled it off. Unfortunately, we fall into the catagory of HP Lovecraft's idea: " The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of man to correlate all its contents. We live on an island amid black seas of ignorance, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

[@lesbsocal9107]

In the intervening decades the US has been blowing the national budget on the military. Mere crumbs are left for space exploration. The military "unaccounted for" billion$ dwarfs the space budget.

[@afonsovieira5608]

Esse filme foi um marco histórico em termos de ficção científica. Simplesmente maravilhoso.

[@Leshutchens4]

Exactly..... as with most masterpieces, and unlike most films made today, it INSISTS... that the person experiencing it, TAKE the time to examine it. It is not a film intended to spend an evening with (like Transformers or Gravity), but a lifetime of examining and re-examining... like the Mona Lisa. Don't worry, the more the children age, the more they will come to appreciate the 'art' aspect.

[@andye9396]

Brilliant comments - Thank you

[@Dra741]

Forbidden Planet was way ahead of his time it was a masterpiece and it really activated our minds as children and they was out before I was born

[@cjkelley333]

Thank you, sir. That's one of the best compliments I've ever heard. It does sound like an interesting film, but I don't think I'm ready for it.

[@tedmikos2443]

Great piece. I just finished reading 'Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece'. It makes me appreciate the man and the movie all over again, with new enthusiasm. I saw 2001 when it was released and still think it's one of the greatest films and stories ever created. What was required to make some of the effects that we now take for granted, boggles the mind! Read the book. Stanley, and his vast army of geniuses did make a masterpiece.

[@lawrencet83]

Everyone has missed one major flaw when Bowman goes to the hatch to shut down HAL. One can very clearly see that his left glove is NOT attached to his suit when he opens and goes through the hatch. You can see his bare wrist. I'm puzzled that Kubrick didn't noticed it, or if he did was it too late to re-film that piece.

[@1998xXag]

I do! Stanley Kubrick is my favorite director. I've watched all of his movies.

[@korenle9178]

i read the book too. i remember seeing hippies tripping out in the front row when i saw it at a theater as a kid. awesome movie even in 2016

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Kubrick got the look of the Earth and Jupiter all wrong, though! Even the moon.

[@claudelebel49]

Amazing that this dates back to 1968 but then again it was the Apollo era which was a huge leap in itself.

[@chocolatnoir1108]

Blue Danube Waltz😍 you guys should check he used Waltz No.2 in Eyes Wide Shut👍🏿 brilliant!!!

[@stanburton6224]

The ships were designed by Arthur C Clarke, himself a trained engineer. Which is why all of his SF was rooted in actual science.

[@cortadew]

greatest film in cinema history