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2001: A Space Odyssey
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| Rated:
G |
1968 |
Color |
139
min. |
Awards |
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| Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain |
| Produced
& Directed by:
Stanley Kubrick |
| Screen
Writer: Arthur
C. Clark, Stanley Kubrick |
| Based
on the short story The Sentinel by
Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Music:
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Movie
Co.: MGM |
| Production
Co.: MGM, Polaris |
SFX
Co.: MGM |
| Critique
Section |
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HugeReviews.com's
Official Rating System:
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Wimpy
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HUGE |
| HugeReviews
Critics |
Mark
Capitelli
SUPER |
Mike
Flanagan
Rating |
Christian
De Matteo
Rating |
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| Relevant Sites: Official
Site, Great
2001 Trivia! |
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Space Odyssey Store
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Reviews:
2001:
A Space Odyssey
by Mark Capitelli
Super
2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the greatest, and most borrowed from,
science fiction films ever made. The concepts presented in the
film are, and will forever be, compelling. Why isn't it
Huge? Simple, because it feels so long. There are many
scenes that are just there to dazzle you with special effects. Although
this was fascinating at the time, by today's standards it just seems
like filler. Don't get me wrong...I love this movie. It's
just that I always feel the need to muster my strength before sitting
down to watch it; it's more like an event than a fun time. If you
have never seen it, I strongly suggest you give it a shot, but maybe not
on a date or when you need a pick-me-up.
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| Awards:
Academy Awards: Best Special Effects
National Film Preservation Board: National Film Registery
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Trivia
The screenplay was written primarily by Kubrick and the novel
primarily by Clarke, each working simultaneously and also providing
feedback to the other. As the story went through many revisions, changes
in the novel were taken over into the screenplay and vice versa. It was
also unclear whether film or novel would be released first; in the end
it was the film. Kubrick was to have been credited as second author of
the novel, but in the end was not. It is believed that Kubrick
deliberately withheld his approval of the novel as to not hurt the
release of the film.
Kubrick planned to have Alex North (who wrote the score for Kubrick's
Spartacus) write a musical score especially for the film. During
filming, Kubrick played classical music on the set to create the right
mood. Delighted with the effect, he decided to use classical music in
the finished product. North's score has subsequently been released as
"Alex North's 2001."
Clarke once said: "If you understand 2001 completely, we failed. We
wanted to raise far more questions than we answered."
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