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  • @kevinlemon6537
    @kevinlemon6537 Рік тому +228

    This film is over 50 yrs old . Still hasn’t been beaten .

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 9 місяців тому +6

      As fresh as today

    • @dan797
      @dan797 8 місяців тому +14

      And you really had to see it on a big screen and an old fashioned theater for the full impact of the photography and music

    • @PeterWilhelmZink
      @PeterWilhelmZink 6 місяців тому +1

      IMI Place extraordinar❤️

    • @DetlefTiedemann
      @DetlefTiedemann 5 місяців тому

      Grüße ❤aus 2024

    • @vjrei
      @vjrei 5 місяців тому

      Rogue One.

  • @simonbarnsley6281
    @simonbarnsley6281 Рік тому +120

    Saw it for the first time during that amazing summer of 1969-still brings tears to an old man's eyes !

    • @kenbattor6350
      @kenbattor6350 11 місяців тому +15

      And it still stands up in 2024.

    • @DontrelleRoosevelt
      @DontrelleRoosevelt 11 місяців тому +10

      You're not old, in the least. My dumbass waited too long to finally see this. And now, it's my favorite film ever. It completely changes how I see all science fiction that came after it.
      My Dad saw it in the theatre, in 1968, and it blew him away.
      My grandfather saw The Wizard of Oz, in the theatre, in 1939, and he said the entire audience was in shock, when the sepia film turned to complete color!

    • @weswolever7477
      @weswolever7477 10 місяців тому +3

      My dad took me to see it at the Town theatre in Hillsboro in 68

  • @dspark4068
    @dspark4068 Рік тому +93

    Even 70's and 80's SF they have analog control cockpits with many ramps and buttons but this '68's movie have perfect digital cockpit and control panel looks better then 2020 .. Unbelieable!!

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 9 місяців тому +5

      and they're using side stick controls like an Airbus

    • @DanYHKim2
      @DanYHKim2 8 місяців тому +1

      ​​@@billolsen4360on a recent airline flight, happened to look into the cockpit and noticed that the control consoles, rather than showing the dials, switches, and lights of my teenage years, were much simpler and had LCD screens. I was immediately struck by the resemblance to the cockpit of this space shuttle in the movie.
      There are so many screens! In the final part of this clip where the shuttle is being pulled into the underground hanger, you can see windows into different workspaces. They all have giant screens displaying various representations of status data. This vision was quite a departure from any kind of technical control room of the era. Flashing lights and buttons were the norm, whether you are looking at the controls of a nuclear reactor or an ocean liner. But Kubrick consulted with people who studied use your interface design in different industries, as well as people interested in the impact of technology on the future, and their vision always pointed to these types of interfaces. Interfaces that have now become the norm for this new century.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 8 місяців тому +6

      @@DanYHKim2 That's amazing that Kubrick got people who could see so far ahead!

    • @TheGroundedAviator
      @TheGroundedAviator 5 місяців тому +3

      At the time there were experimental elements of such technology and much more on paper. It was totally sound in concept; it just took time to make practical.

    • @TheViennaSchnitzel
      @TheViennaSchnitzel 11 днів тому +1

      Not to mention what looks like an iPad that Frank Poole is reading in the overhead dinner shot on board the Discovery !

  • @MrPhotodoc
    @MrPhotodoc Рік тому +67

    The large screen monitors inside the underground base would not even be possible for another 50 years when this was filmed. Stanley Kubrick must of had a crystal ball of some sort.

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Рік тому +1

      JumboTron....hit stadiums in the early 80s. DiamondVision developed late 70s.
      Fairly ubiquitous only 15 years after this film, from Times Square to the Olympics, civic staduims, to even posh hotel lobbies.

    • @robcat2075
      @robcat2075 5 місяців тому +4

      Before television became a practical reality, the flat screen form factor was how it was often presumed that television would work. Of course, the CRT was first out of the gate instead, but you can see the flat screen ideal in old sci-fi comics and movies.

    • @carldoenitz391
      @carldoenitz391 3 місяці тому +1

      From the mind of Arthur C Clarke, the inventor of the communications satellite, his vision of the future, the author of 2001 A Space Odessey..

  • @martinstent5339
    @martinstent5339 Рік тому +114

    As one of the people who saw this in the cinema in 1968, it's hard to convey what an impression it made on us all back then. We were really blown away by it. And the image quality was better back then. I mean better than watching it on a computer screen. Not the pixel numbers.

    • @Beamshipcaptain
      @Beamshipcaptain Рік тому +9

      See the film today on the new 4K reissue, on a 65" OLED Samsung screen. Looks as good as when we saw it in CINERAMA, early April of 1968 in Manhattan. It was transformational. I was nearly 7 years old.

    • @stevenlitvintchouk3131
      @stevenlitvintchouk3131 Рік тому +12

      I got to see the movie in Cinerama format shortly after its release. Back then, movie theaters were big and plush, and we were seated in the balcony (yes, they had both orchestra seats and balcony seats). The Cinerama curved screen wrapped the action around you so it felt almost three-dimensional. To watch a spaceship moving by, you actually had to turn your head from left to right.

    • @txdave2
      @txdave2 11 місяців тому

      I saw this in Cinerama in Houston in 1968. I was 14 years old and was totally overwhelmed by what I was seeing on the big screen. The visual effects were so far ahead of anything else at that time. I remember Life magazine did a special edition with a lot of great photos. Come to think of it...I think I still have that magazine stored away.@@stevenlitvintchouk3131

    • @GueroMexicanGT
      @GueroMexicanGT 2 місяці тому

      Were movie showings back then in 4k as well?

    • @martinstent5339
      @martinstent5339 2 місяці тому +3

      @@GueroMexicanGT Mostly they were showing films in 35mm which is about 6K in modern terms, but without any of the digital artefacts like unfocussed moving backgrounds etc. But a lot of cinemas were showing 2001 in 70mm which is about 12K in modern terms. And that kind of resolution playing on a big screen sucks your soul out of your body and puts you IN the action and you forget that you are in a cinema!!

  • @hansenfiet2539
    @hansenfiet2539 Рік тому +240

    Every time I see this movie, I have to remind myself that it was made in 1968….nine years before Star Wars! No CGI. And it still stands the test of time on breathtaking scene quality!

    • @u2mister17
      @u2mister17 Рік тому +15

      Hans Enfiet-
      My college student brother and his friend took me, a13 year old kid, to the very first showing
      downtown 3rd row center balcony.
      A little of the crowd reaction.... coming out of the theater passing by the 3 hundred or so
      waiting to get into the 2nd showing, with open mouth and dumbfounded mind numbed
      zombie faces sliding past the countlessly asked question..."was it good"...we could only,
      and I am serious here, mumble from our lips.
      One gentleman looked dead into my eyes and asked and all I could do was nod.
      I would pay some good money to watch that pristine, 70mm, 3 screen Masterpiece again.

    • @DarkVoidIII
      @DarkVoidIII Рік тому +6

      @@u2mister17 It's a little known fact that Star Wars Episode IV featured 40 seconds of CGI. And all because Lucas wasn't satisfied with the effects he got using other methods.

    • @rictusmetallicus
      @rictusmetallicus Рік тому +12

      2001 does not stand the test of time. Instead, it is the test other movies have to stand.

    • @caligulapontifex5759
      @caligulapontifex5759 Рік тому +9

      Middle of the Apollo moon landings. People watching this in 1968 believed this scene was entirely possible in real life by 2001 if not sooner.

    • @rigo1124
      @rigo1124 Рік тому +3

      Just like the moon landing

  • @weirdshibainu
    @weirdshibainu Рік тому +129

    This is 55 years old in 2023 and yet still looks fresh. Amazing.

    • @itstheterranaut
      @itstheterranaut Рік тому +4

      So am I, as it happens- Feb '68, it was all happening.

  • @robinhossain3876
    @robinhossain3876 Рік тому +66

    I was born in 69... i'm an electronic and software engineer... and I am still thoroughly shocked at how they conceived so much in this movie.

    • @stargazer7644
      @stargazer7644 Рік тому +4

      You've apparently never read Clarke.

    • @timothyirwin8974
      @timothyirwin8974 Рік тому +8

      Imagine how shocked we were seeing this in the big screen theater at 15 in 68.

    • @davidschwartz8125
      @davidschwartz8125 Рік тому +7

      Go study the history of movie effects if is a fascinating study in how to make people suspend their disbelief. But as for this movie: rotoscoping, painted backdrops, and practical effects account for most of what you see here.

  • @B1900pilot
    @B1900pilot 2 роки тому +52

    Ed Bishop from "UFO" plays the Captain on the shuttle :-) He was also in a couple of Bond movies, "You only Live Twice" and "Diamonds are Forever"

  • @kzinful
    @kzinful Рік тому +52

    Oh my, all those years ago. My father dropped me off at our local movie theater, with four other people in attendance..and myself. I was enthralled by the spectacle, it was magical.
    Thank you, Stanley, from that once young person.

  • @michaelosborn3134
    @michaelosborn3134 Рік тому +47

    I don't like to use the word genius but with Kubrik I think it's appropriate.

    • @Nebulous6
      @Nebulous6 5 днів тому

      Along with Doug Trumbull.

  • @ramoth777
    @ramoth777 Рік тому +31

    One of the greatest movies ever made, with one of the greatest soundtracks ever made.
    Change my mind.

    • @authorknown1623
      @authorknown1623 5 місяців тому +5

      You have no argument from me!

    • @RCAvhstape
      @RCAvhstape 5 місяців тому +4

      A composer was hired and created a score for the film but Kubrick decided against it, preferring to use existing classical compositions instead.

    • @AllenJones-w3p
      @AllenJones-w3p Місяць тому +1

      The composer whose music Kubrick never used was Alex North. The music Stanley DID use was: excerpt from ATMOSPHERES(George Ligeti); excerpt from ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA (Richard Strauss); excerpt from REQUIEM(Ligeti); excerpt from THE BLUE DANUBE(Johann Strauss Jr.); excerpt from GAYANE(Aram Khatchaturian); and excerpt from ADVENTURES(Ligeti, electronically altered by Kubrick).

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 27 днів тому

      Yet it's number 97 in IMDB's list of top movies, so it's the 97th greatest. And I do not care about your mind.

  • @Buccaneer9
    @Buccaneer9 3 роки тому +171

    This will forever be, one of the most beautiful scenes ever put on film. This is a true work of art. I have seen the entire Blue Danube scene more that 100 times, and I still get choked up. Kubrick's vision of what our future could become, was inspirational.

    • @alexthompson9516
      @alexthompson9516 3 роки тому +13

      I think what I find most moving is the jump cut from bone to spaceship. The whole sequence is perfect, of course.

    • @stargazer7644
      @stargazer7644 Рік тому +8

      He had a little help from Arthur C Clarke.

    • @PRH123
      @PRH123 Рік тому +4

      Totally agree, absolutely beautiful. And all the more pleasing because they tried to show space flight as how it actually might be then, including weightlessness. not space fantasy.
      To be fair, the concept of the space stations and vehicles and whatnot is straight from Werner Von Braun’s work.

    • @VintageMovieChannel
      @VintageMovieChannel Рік тому +1

      it is called By the Beautiful Blue Danube...

    • @hamilton9651
      @hamilton9651 Рік тому

      What our future could become? Beautiful space stations and lunar cities. What it did become. Ugly, crime infested cities and no space program. WOKE government officials and people dying because someone wants power! Yeah sign me up....NOT!!

  • @sidineybottega1837
    @sidineybottega1837 Рік тому +16

    For me, this era of science fiction has an aesthetic, a raw beauty and a line of thought that has never been surpassed. Even though many good things were done later, nothing had that "weight", if I can put it that way. This clip alone shows that. I'm not a huge fan of the movie itself, but it's impossible not to be impressed every time.

    • @ramoth777
      @ramoth777 5 місяців тому

      @@sidineybottega1837 Well said!

    • @ernesthill4017
      @ernesthill4017 28 днів тому

      If you mean "weight" in a metaphorical sense, "gravitas" is the word that best describes it 🛸

  • @thomasb1889
    @thomasb1889 Рік тому +28

    I was 12 when my parents brought me to see this movie and even over 50 years later I still have moments where I realize what a scene was all about.

  • @Stanf954
    @Stanf954 5 років тому +72

    Amazing film for its time. Now here we are in 2020 an haven't been back to the Moon in 50 years. Sad.

    • @marooneer2016
      @marooneer2016 4 роки тому +6

      I disagree. Setting up on the moon means that we are truly a planetary civilization. That means we won't easily go extinct if earth gets shifted on. Furthermore, going to the moon allows us to expand even more out towards other planets. Besides, we don't even know everything about the moon yet. I promise u

    • @andrewparker318
      @andrewparker318 4 роки тому +2

      Anti-Tik Tok Coalition building a base on the moon would be one of the most long term beneficial investments humanity could possibly do, this video explains it far better than I could so I highly suggest you watch it
      ua-cam.com/video/NtQkz0aRDe8/v-deo.html

    • @johnnie2638
      @johnnie2638 4 роки тому +4

      I was a kid back when this movie was out. I remember my mom had the paperback version of the novel & in the middle were stills from the movie. I was too young to appreciate the story but just looking at the pictures of the Orion landing on the moon & of the Discovery 1 with the HAL computer & the astronauts heading out to Jupiter filled me with wonder & awe. I was an Apollo era kid & back then it was so easy to believe this kind of future was a certainty. Back then in the late 60s & early 70s there was such a feeling of optimism in this country and a sense that the type of future portrayed in the film was a certainty & it excited me. The pessimism of the mid-late 70s hadn't set in yet. In the 80s there was a renewed sense of positivity to be followed once again by skepticism & pessimism in the 90s. The pendulum always swings. Today I'm once again optimistic about this country's future in space when I see SpaceX & other private companies establishing their own toe-holds in Earth orbit. I truly hope the government's monopoly of space is coming to an end. Space should truly belong to each of us.

    • @andrewparker318
      @andrewparker318 4 роки тому +5

      @@johnnie2638 That was beautiful! I don't know if you recently heard about SpaceX's test launch of Starship yesterday, which is the rocket they plan to send to send the first humans to Mars! I think we are well on are way to reach both the Moon and Mars before the end of the decade!

    • @johnnie2638
      @johnnie2638 4 роки тому +2

      @@andrewparker318 I know. It's very exciting. The launch of Starship SN8 earlier this week was a testament to a new generation of thinking. Watching the SN8 perform the belly flop maneuver and then reignite the engines to stand upright on the landing approach was an excellent example of thinking outside the box. That's something I don't think NASA would have ever tried. Even the crash landing will yield valuable information for the engineers. The test went beautifully.

  • @crusinscamp
    @crusinscamp 5 місяців тому +8

    Ah, the Aries-1B. I made a 2001 mobile for art class in 9th grade back in '71. It had the Aries-1B, Moon Bus, Pan Am Space Clipper, the Discovery was the backbone of the mobile and it even had poor old Frank Poole, floating in space...
    Such a beautiful future, that was never to be.

    • @Emdee5632
      @Emdee5632 2 місяці тому +3

      Who knows what the moon looks like in 2060 or 2100. But not now. Not in 2030 or 2040. The Chinese are a emerging superpower and they have a very ambitious space program. Maybe we need them for the next space race...

  • @christopherrosewarne6520
    @christopherrosewarne6520 3 роки тому +64

    I’ve seen this movie so many times and just realised this ship landing is a ‘fertilised egg’ being delivered to the moon - just as the initial ship entering the floating space station can be seen to symbolise a sperm entering the cell. The necessary precursors to the final ‘birth’ of the star child.

    • @kingofthequicksave6482
      @kingofthequicksave6482 3 роки тому +11

      Never thought about it like that, interesting

    • @rev.markcarrier1894
      @rev.markcarrier1894 Рік тому +2

      Since the initial ship emerges out of the image of the broken bone, the rounded lunar transport ship can be seen as the evolution of the use of space from military applications to peaceful exploration.

    • @stainlesssteelfox1
      @stainlesssteelfox1 Рік тому +6

      @@rev.markcarrier1894 The initial ships shown in the space sequence all represent orbiting satellite weapons stations. They are basically a continuation of the bone in purpose.

    • @FredPlanatia
      @FredPlanatia Рік тому +5

      Its an interesting idea makes a lot of sense. Up above i said some sequences (pod legs deploy, space port doming opening) remind me of flowers opening in stop-action video. That too brings an association with fertilization.

    • @DanYHKim2
      @DanYHKim2 8 місяців тому +2

      That would be "implantation" of the fertilized egg into the uterine lining

  • @lesb_socal
    @lesb_socal Рік тому +23

    One of the greatest motion pictures ever made

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 27 днів тому

      Yet it's number 97 in IMDB's list of top movies, so it's the 97th greatest

  • @arwoz6681
    @arwoz6681 7 місяців тому +10

    Every time I hear the Blue Danube I replay the shuttle rendezvous in my mind, A perfect mix.

  • @omarfirestone9414
    @omarfirestone9414 4 роки тому +80

    The anecdotal history is that a tech initially selected "random" classical music so the scene would not screen in silence for Kubrick. However the Director kept it because he subconsciously connected the Newtonian mechanics (of rotating on an axis while orbiting) to waltzing a box pattern while simultaneously making a grand circuit of the ballroom.
    Ridly Scott, in the Director's Voice-over (alternative sound-track) for "Alien", says "Thank you, Stanley", (for initially imagining the Instrument Graphics Display) when the Nostromo lands on Lv426.

    • @planetdisco4821
      @planetdisco4821 Рік тому +4

      Yes! I’ve watched it too. You can also hear Ridley lighting cigars and pouring himself a brandy during the voiceover. Required viewing 👍👍👍

  • @luthermcgee432
    @luthermcgee432 5 років тому +102

    Fantastic music. This scene brings back so many memories from when I first saw 2001 back in 1970. The genius it took to make this film is in itself breathtaking. Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clark, were the icons who made one of the greatest Sci Fi epics of all time.

    • @GDM223SR
      @GDM223SR 2 роки тому +4

      I've read that the music that ended up on the soundtrack were temp tracks, which is normal. SK commissioned a new soundtrack from Alex North, received it, but decided to use the original temp tracks. He didn't tell North, who found out at the premiere. He was a bit miffed. You can buy North's soundtrack.

    • @Beamshipcaptain
      @Beamshipcaptain 2 роки тому +1

      @@GDM223SR North's soundtrack is terrible.

    • @tomhanhart5921
      @tomhanhart5921 Рік тому +4

      @@Beamshipcaptain I like Norths Soundtrack, it’s not that bad. But of course the classical masterpieces of the tmp track fit the epic and majestic style of the pictures much better.

    • @Beamshipcaptain
      @Beamshipcaptain Рік тому +2

      @@tomhanhart5921 The music was well-chosen in the end. Gives me chills, its so good and so fitting. Like Hans Zimmer's incredible score for Chris Nolan's INTERSTELLAR (2014), a modern masterpiece.

    • @karabardin
      @karabardin Рік тому +2

      You guys are discussing this music like you don't know that it's an extremely famous 19th-century waltz by Johann Strauss II

  • @georgestergios
    @georgestergios 27 днів тому +2

    I saw this with a lovely lady friend in London when it came out. We went to a party afterwards and were both in a state of shock. It’s the nearest to a religious experience that I ever had. Magnificent!

  • @TK42138
    @TK42138 2 роки тому +21

    I will never get tired of watching this sequence. First time I saw it was when the BBC premiered it on New Years Day 1982 - and it was the 70mm version too so big black bars top and bottom of the screen - which made it feel even more special.

  • @EliezerAamesINTL
    @EliezerAamesINTL 4 роки тому +388

    ...and remember kids, this was made way BEFORE CGI ❤️

    • @Tadfafty
      @Tadfafty 3 роки тому +22

      The model of this ship is the only one which survives.

    • @thegameranch5935
      @thegameranch5935 3 роки тому +9

      @@Tadfafty wait they destroyed all the models

    • @Tadfafty
      @Tadfafty 3 роки тому +21

      @@thegameranch5935 Yes, they wanted to avoid having a sequel made, so they destroyed all the model to make it harder to make a sequel.

    • @thegameranch5935
      @thegameranch5935 3 роки тому +21

      @@Tadfafty at least give it to a museum or something
      People need to remember this movie

    • @Beamshipcaptain
      @Beamshipcaptain 2 роки тому +23

      @@thegameranch5935 This model was recently discovered. Its 24-inches in diameter. Mobius models makes a fantastic 10-inch diameter model of this. Building it now. It has retractable landing-struts like the mechanized model in the film. A thing of beauty!

  • @chrisjames7887
    @chrisjames7887 5 місяців тому +5

    I love the detail of the technicians and controllers moving in the various observations bays and control rooms while the ship is landing. Plus, the active flight display screens. Everything was thought out.

    • @robbhahn8897
      @robbhahn8897 2 місяці тому +2

      Lots of neat little scenes within scenes.

  • @PeBoVision
    @PeBoVision Рік тому +13

    It is good to remind oneself that this film was made in 1968.
    The era of FX we saw in Lost in Space, Star Trek and TV Batman, the year that gave us Barberella and Planet of the Apes, and 10 years before the Atari 2600.
    Kubrik was an artist who had to create reality from scratch. Watching these clips now, cannot describe how it felt to see these images in a movie theatre for the first time in 1968. Jurassic Park didn't come close to duplicating that awe a quarter century later using computers 1000's of ttimes more powerful than the ones that actually brought us to the moon.
    There are motion picture classics, but 2001 is not among them.
    It is in the order of motion picture milestones.
    What are you doing Dave ?

    • @carlo70no
      @carlo70no Рік тому

      The same fx expert Brian Johnson made the fx of Space 1999 in 1973

  • @jennifersman7990
    @jennifersman7990 Рік тому +29

    All these years later and this film STILL looks decades ahead of everything else

    • @texaswunderkind
      @texaswunderkind Рік тому +2

      Only _Starship Troopers_ exceeds it.

    • @jamescarter5042
      @jamescarter5042 Рік тому +1

      science fiction movies afterwards tried to copy and imitate this movie space sciences.

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 27 днів тому

      Yet it's number 97 in IMDB's list of top movies and 96 exceed it!

  • @bigdmac33
    @bigdmac33 Рік тому +28

    Just superb. Everything about the sequence is pure believable and logical - from the Aries to Clavius, design, mechanics, flight behaviour and parameters - nothing is left to chance. Kubrick's perfectionism was a stunning success in this movie.

    • @keith6706
      @keith6706 26 днів тому

      The one thing they screwed up was the dust on the landing. Dust doesn't act like that in a vacuum.

  • @orionsuniversepart2932
    @orionsuniversepart2932 3 роки тому +18

    0:57-1:26 this part of the waltz exactly matches up with the lunar descent in that as the waltz drops in pitch, the Aries lunar spacecraft also descends in altitude.

    • @Beamshipcaptain
      @Beamshipcaptain 2 роки тому

      Not in PITCH, but in TEMPO. Poco Retard, I believe is the musical terminology.

  • @adampeters7947
    @adampeters7947 4 роки тому +24

    I love the computer screen displays. They really do not look dated at all. I guess because of their simplicity

    • @w9gb
      @w9gb Рік тому +1

      Computer screens (HAL) used MANIFOLD typeface, which was an IBM Selectric “typewriter ball”.
      The HAL Project recreated that typeface (electronically) in the past 2 years.
      That project has recreated every HAL 9000 screen used in film to 4K modern resolution !!
      The original 1960s special effect was multi-cells layered to achieve graphics and text.

    • @vladikuz
      @vladikuz Рік тому +5

      Here everything worked out by coincidence: at that time it was more difficult (and more expensive) to show a dashboard with a lot of CRT screens, so Kubrick simply used frosted glass for rear projection from 16mm movie projectors. And thanks to this, the screens turned out to be flat and with right angles, which even now looks quite modern (and not convex, with oval corners, like on TVs of the 60s).

  • @ErnestCF
    @ErnestCF Місяць тому +1

    As a big aerospace fan, I usualy see a lot of mistakes in space-related movies, but I can say for sure that 2001 its the most realistic space film ever made.

  • @phillipholmes4466
    @phillipholmes4466 6 місяців тому +2

    Saw this on the way to the ARMY in 1968 and was blown away by I t and still impressed by it!

  • @malcolmabram2957
    @malcolmabram2957 Рік тому +6

    I was a kid during the Apollo years, in the 60s and early 70s. The advances in space exploration was so fast during the 60s that this film, looking 30 years into the future, was a realistic expectation. Gosh how wrong we were. Now, 50 years later, it is still pretty much a pipe dream. Great movie though, by a superb director Stanley Kubrick, who directed many other superb films.

  • @rodrigohernandez1345
    @rodrigohernandez1345 Рік тому +5

    SPACE ODISSEY es como la calidad de un rolex . Por mucho que pueda pasar el tiempo nunca ..nunca deja de verse actual.

  • @kaykiekid
    @kaykiekid Рік тому +2

    The first time I watched this movie was 1975. It was a field trip with my school to Radio City Music Hall from Jersey City, NJ. and we all got to see a special show with the Rockets also. Wow! Wonderful field trip that was watching 2001 A Space Odyssey and the ladies doing those high kicks. 😊👍❤️💕

  • @kennethneece4838
    @kennethneece4838 Рік тому +35

    As far as I’m concerned, that 2001 space odyssey was( and still is ) the ultimate space movie ever made!

    • @a.p.e.x3195
      @a.p.e.x3195 Рік тому

      Indeed. I dont care if there isnt really a solid plot. It’s awesome

    • @zmiguens-no1yf
      @zmiguens-no1yf Рік тому

      Try "Solaris" from Tarkovsky.

    • @knightwind6628
      @knightwind6628 Рік тому

      That is a bold statement but I see no arguments here.

  • @KraxzLorcan
    @KraxzLorcan Рік тому +4

    This is way ahead of it's time

  • @edwardwood9031
    @edwardwood9031 5 років тому +22

    It never ceases to amaze me, how the shuttle can fly a quarter of a million miles, and hit that little platform dead center.

    • @danielallenbutler1782
      @danielallenbutler1782 5 років тому +4

      Sea turtles, mate....

    • @cancelanime1507
      @cancelanime1507 4 роки тому +5

      Edward Wood Precise maneuvering and a good computer system will get you that..

    • @zhaomarina8786
      @zhaomarina8786 4 роки тому +3

      NASA has a lot of smart people

    • @Beamshipcaptain
      @Beamshipcaptain 2 роки тому +2

      Its easy with today's technology of 2022. Look at Elon Musk and Space-X. The boosters and the entire ship like the new starship land right back on their launch pds, or on barges off the coast of Florida. Even Hobby Drones have gyrostabilizers, and GPS and your phones and tablets have GPS, etc. and the equivalent of an HD film-studio is in your pocket, razor-thin. Imagine today's cell-phone or tablet, in 1968!

    • @robertross6670
      @robertross6670 2 роки тому +6

      Apollo 12 landed 600 feet away from Surveyor III (sent much earlier) to demonstrate target landing on the moon. And that was just on the second manned lunar landing... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12#/media/File:Surveyor_3-Apollo_12.jpg

  • @r.bstorm8963
    @r.bstorm8963 4 роки тому +18

    Most relaxing song for a hardy space mission

  • @photobobo
    @photobobo Місяць тому +2

    I notice that the landing craft has the faint suggestion of a face, something that I did not notice when I first saw this movie.

  • @BananaPhoPhilly
    @BananaPhoPhilly 4 роки тому +28

    The Composer for this film was told by Kubrick to write an original score and at the last minute Kubrick used Blue Danube and all the other licensed music that the composer didn't write. So when the composer went to see the film, he was dumbfounded that his score wasn't even in the movie for even one minute.
    Still for the best tbh lol you can't beat this. The stars aligned for this movie to be made (no pun intended)

    • @bryanstephens4800
      @bryanstephens4800 2 роки тому +1

      That sort of sucks

    • @PointyTailofSatan
      @PointyTailofSatan Рік тому +5

      Actually, Kubrick was watching preliminary versions of several special effects shots, like this one, and Alex North hadn't provided his music yet. So Kubrick just had some classical music played to cover the sound of the projector. It was pure luck that the classical music worked so incredibly well. So classical music was used from that point, and the shots reedited to fit the music. BTW, a lot of the original 2001 Alex North music ended up in the movie The Shoes of the Fisherman.

    • @nel1962
      @nel1962 Рік тому +1

      @@PointyTailofSatan And a bit of it in Dragonslayer too.

    • @w9gb
      @w9gb Рік тому +3

      That composer was Alex North, who had earlier written the original music for Kubrick/Douglas “Spartacus”.
      Sadly, Alex only discovered the switch at the film’s premiere.
      However, Mr. North reworked un-used pieces of his score for “The Shoes of the Fisherman” (Anthony Quinn), which received an Academy (Oscar) Nomination and WON The Golden Globe for that Original Score.

  • @narrengold
    @narrengold Рік тому +4

    old DOS game "Frontier: First Encounters"...does anyone remember the music of the landing computer?
    (I bought my C64 back in the 80's just because of this game.)
    You're exactly right, it was Johann Strauss "An der schönen blauen Donau" as here in the clip

  • @toplaycool21
    @toplaycool21 2 роки тому +10

    This film was overwhelming in a good way for me. The effects were so astounding and breathtaking. Then the score, it made space into a ballet. So stunning.

    • @Beamshipcaptain
      @Beamshipcaptain Рік тому

      The Music of the Spheres, in a cosmic waltz...

  • @tsr207
    @tsr207 Рік тому +4

    The wonder of 2001 is that the hardware looks real - not like the cheap, shoddy CGI that blights modern films - every SCI FI film that comes out with a spacesuit - I compare it with the 2001 ones - never seen one that betters it !

  • @CoolDrifty
    @CoolDrifty 3 роки тому +27

    Watched 2001 high off my mind at like 1am on my flatscreen, all other lights off, and this was just one of the most beautiful film sequences I’ve ever experienced

  • @howardgreenman2908
    @howardgreenman2908 25 днів тому

    I was 16 in 1968 when i saw this for the first time on the big screen. It was revolutionary and unforgettable. Even at that young age i knew this was something different that would change movies forever. I was awestruck and that experience has been repeated with every subsequent viewing.

  • @aniketadhane8356
    @aniketadhane8356 3 роки тому +9

    THE BEST THING OF THIS SCENE IS AWESOME SONG!!!!!

    • @Beamshipcaptain
      @Beamshipcaptain 2 роки тому +3

      "The Blue Danube", by Johann Strauss. Very beautiful. Peace.

  • @povertyspec9651
    @povertyspec9651 22 дні тому +3

    Greatest movie of all time

  • @123reivaj
    @123reivaj 5 років тому +100

    One of the best movies in history :)

    • @LaurentDuval
      @LaurentDuval 3 роки тому +10

      You can safely remove the "One of" (but keep your helmet)

    • @sanchoodell6789
      @sanchoodell6789 2 роки тому +5

      @@LaurentDuval Wise advice (about keeping the helmet) as you don't want Hal to lock you out in the vacuum of space!

  • @thefavoritesongcollection7508
    @thefavoritesongcollection7508 Рік тому +23

    It is not merely a movie, but an artistic masterpiece. It will likely become a work that humanity will never forget.

    • @kenprice1961
      @kenprice1961 Рік тому +1

      An idiotic slow plodding movie that took forever just to show one scene. A real sleeper.

  • @Steph_7d7
    @Steph_7d7 4 місяці тому +1

    I saw this movie dozens of times over the years but this past may I saw if in the theater for the first time and It felt like the first time all over again. One of the true cinematic achievements that I can't see being topped anytime soon.

  • @1218omaroo
    @1218omaroo Місяць тому

    I was six when my older brother took me to the cinema to see this. I still remember it like it happened yesterday. Since then I must have seen it over 100 times. One of the greatest films of all time… still.

  • @jamesmoore4827
    @jamesmoore4827 3 місяці тому +1

    And 55 years later with all the modern special cgi effects 2001's visual effects have still never been surpassed.

  • @billb9917
    @billb9917 Рік тому +1

    great blend of classical music and special effects. the toilet use instructions on the shuttle are hilarious

  • @rationalthought846
    @rationalthought846 Рік тому +3

    Greatest movie ever- a work of art. If you can see it off a 4k disk with an OLED TV- it is even more beautiful. I saw this when I was four on opening night in 1968 (with intermission) and it was my favorite movie since.

  • @stephenspencer4672
    @stephenspencer4672 11 днів тому

    This is still such a visual trip of a film. Kubrick was a genius.😊

  • @rossstorey8660
    @rossstorey8660 3 роки тому +3

    Genius Creativity - Unforgetable. I watch it again and again.

  • @ernesthill4017
    @ernesthill4017 6 місяців тому +1

    Arguably the greatest Sci-Fi film ever made.
    Full stop.

  • @nuniobinez4066
    @nuniobinez4066 11 місяців тому +2

    Amazing what you can do with a model, proper lighting, and slow motion camera work! In that regard CGI kind of takes the fun out of special effects.

  • @deltonlomatai2309
    @deltonlomatai2309 Рік тому +1

    The effect still look fantastic. The matte backgrounds could use some updating.

  • @jackyduverger8110
    @jackyduverger8110 18 днів тому

    Chef d'œuvre absolu du cinéma de SF de mon point de vue. Indépassable

  • @barryf7253
    @barryf7253 Рік тому +2

    I love how the touchdown corresponded with the change of tone in the music.

  • @SSmith-fm9kg
    @SSmith-fm9kg Рік тому +11

    I saw this for the first time when it was released during the summer of 1968. Still one of the most incredible movies I've ever seen...
    it is not watched, it's experienced.

  • @DeepEye1994
    @DeepEye1994 3 роки тому +28

    Dunno why people find this boring. Like, I get 2001 isn't everyone's cup of tea, but boring? This?
    It never fails to give me goosebumps by doing something so simple. Plus, again, the fact that THIS was made in 1968 and it rivals the effects in the original Star Wars films. There will never be another film like 2001 itself.

    • @kaleholt
      @kaleholt 2 роки тому +2

      Star wars happened because of this. They use many for the same effects I think some special effects people who worked on this worked on star wars too. I've never watched this movie though only seen snipers because people think it's boring. I really need to watch it.

    • @JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke
      @JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke 2 роки тому +2

      @@kaleholt It's my favorite SF movie of all time.

    • @cappuccinoloffler
      @cappuccinoloffler 6 місяців тому +1

      @@kaleholt Make sure you see it and be prepared to get something different from what you expected. I was 13 years old in 1968 when I saw it for the first time and didn't understand it at all. But in the meantime I've seen it countless other times and as I've matured I've naturally understood more. Among its many characteristics are the style, the calmness and expressiveness of the images. Sometimes, when I don't want to watch the whole movie but still want to take in a few beautiful moments, I pop in the DVD. But every time I end up watching the whole movie because it is so captivating.

    • @hirisk761
      @hirisk761 3 місяці тому

      I think it's the fact that the first words aren't spoken till 20+ minutes into the movie

  • @darrylrajamae4855
    @darrylrajamae4855 Рік тому +1

    amazing how it was made with out high powered computers the people behind the movie showed true skill making this film

  • @cinemaipswich4636
    @cinemaipswich4636 Рік тому +5

    I will love Kubrick until i die.

  • @kylewinward8847
    @kylewinward8847 8 місяців тому

    3:31 I hadn't realized before how the red light in this docking station scene forshadows HAL's eye.

  • @blacksquirrel4008
    @blacksquirrel4008 Рік тому +1

    My Dad and I went to see it way back when. He was a big Sci-Fi buff, had all the old Galaxy mags, etc. We were transfixed.

  • @rochellehewston9367
    @rochellehewston9367 5 місяців тому +1

    This is a masterpiece and the music is so perfect

  • @willywilmouth
    @willywilmouth Місяць тому

    .......................Tout simplement magnifique !! Incroyable de penser que dans 4 ans, il en aura 60 et sera toujours au Top des meilleurs films de SF (n'en déplaise à ceux qui ne l'aiment pas, parce qu'ils n'y ont rien compris!!!)

  • @getvnews1918
    @getvnews1918 5 років тому +8

    We like your video version of the earth shuttle to to moon its the best one on youtube channels without all the extra fanfare. NO other channel has a true full earth to the space or shuttle to moon without all that extra fanfare or animations of these scenes. thanks.

  • @allanegleston4931
    @allanegleston4931 12 днів тому

    this film, close encounters of the third kind and star trek the motion picture were the best photogenic picture in my mind .

  • @jeffreychatman4376
    @jeffreychatman4376 4 роки тому +8

    Watching this, it's very obvious that this movie directly inspired the design of the TV series Space 1999. Especially the design of the Moonbase.

    • @sanchoodell6789
      @sanchoodell6789 4 роки тому +2

      This film clearly influenced a lot of Sci-Fi Space movies and TV series that followed. The lunar shuttle rocket bus was the inspiration for Space 1999's Eagle space craft. The scene where you see Heywood Floyd's space plane approaching the wheel shaped space station viewed from inside the docking area looks eerily like a scene from Star Wars.

    • @andrewhillis2269
      @andrewhillis2269 4 роки тому +3

      Yes the moonbase in 2001 is similar to moonbase Alpha in Space:1999!

    • @Beamshipcaptain
      @Beamshipcaptain 2 роки тому

      Gerry Anderson hired the same people who worked on 2001, such as expert miniature-effects man Brian Johnson. Living legend. RIP SPFX legend Derek Meddings (THUNDERBIRDS, UFO, SUPERMAN:THE MOVIE, JAMES BOND, etc).

    • @w9gb
      @w9gb Рік тому

      It also influenced countless aerospace engineers as aviation moved to “fly by wire” and glass cockpits.
      Look at the differences between space capsules by: Lockheed Orion; Boeing Starliner; and SpaceX Dragon.
      When SNC’s Dreamchaser migrates to manned spacecraft by end of decade - it may be more advanced.
      SpaceX is almost all Touch screen, while Boeing was more conservative (787 cockpit).
      The Pad used by Frank Poole (and Star Trek original series) influenced Apple’s iPad design !

  • @sanghoonlee5171
    @sanghoonlee5171 Рік тому +5

    Impeccable moviemaking craftsmanship on display here. Technology changes, but craftsmanship is timeless.

  • @SwissTanuki
    @SwissTanuki Рік тому +1

    I saw this movie about 20 years ago in a movie theater in 70mm and 6 magnetic channel on a huge screen. What an amazing experience.

  • @martinblunden4689
    @martinblunden4689 Рік тому +7

    Absolutely marvellous movie,incredible special effects, and still stands up 60 years after it was released

    • @MarkFoster321789
      @MarkFoster321789 Рік тому +2

      55 years - 1968 - however next year will be the 60th anniversary of 2001’s initial conception of the project which began in April 1964 when Stanley Kubrick wrote a letter to Arthur C. Clarke, declaring that he wanted to make ‘the proverbially good science fiction movie…’

  • @HistoryGe3k
    @HistoryGe3k 4 місяці тому

    I have never managed to get through this movie without falling asleep.
    It is the perfect answer to insomnia

  • @internationaldonuts
    @internationaldonuts 6 місяців тому +1

    This film still looks fresh today

  • @GeorgeDoughty-m8e
    @GeorgeDoughty-m8e 4 місяці тому

    The opening scene was worth the price of admission. The rest was gravy. Beautiful gravy.

  • @marcioaraujo1782
    @marcioaraujo1782 2 місяці тому

    Esse filme choca, emocionamente. Antigo, atual, insuperável e único. Só essa cena já garantiria um Oscar pela mensagem embutida.

  • @TedNomura
    @TedNomura Місяць тому

    First saw this film in 1969 at the zoo Cinerama theater in Vegas, just before Apollo 11. Still got that great mood before CGI.

  • @garypayne2157
    @garypayne2157 4 місяці тому +2

    Yeah, no CGI. The first film to utilize any CGI was "Star Wars" 1977, whereas ILM (Industrial, Light & Magic) was used. This was released in 1968, whereas the visionary brilliance of Douglas Trumbull and L.B. Abbott was used in the visual effects category. They were the pioneers!

    • @Nebulous6
      @Nebulous6 5 днів тому

      I think the first CGI in a film award goes to Westworld.

  • @dbaider9467
    @dbaider9467 Рік тому

    Thanks for posting this segment. It was and is truly remarkable.

  • @Peterthegreat1234
    @Peterthegreat1234 6 місяців тому +2

    I just noticed. This shuttle deploys its landing gear.But
    It is a space station to moon shuttle. It has no reason to retract its landing gear or even have the ability. It will never feel an atmosphere.
    Too bad 3001 hasn't been made.

    • @Nebulous6
      @Nebulous6 5 днів тому

      Maybe to allow for gear maintenance without having to go out into space?

    • @Peterthegreat1234
      @Peterthegreat1234 5 днів тому

      @Nebulous6 ???

  • @gonfishing118
    @gonfishing118 Рік тому +1

    i think i have to thank this film for starting my love of classical music

  • @gamegenes
    @gamegenes 5 місяців тому +2

    After watching this I must say movie industry are evolve.. BUT BACKWARDS

  • @gobbletegook
    @gobbletegook 4 роки тому +10

    And to think, that at one time, PAN AM still existed and was big enough to have a role in this. Not to mention, THE BELL SYSTEM.

  • @daviddunster9305
    @daviddunster9305 Рік тому +1

    Have to Admit. Great animation at the time, very classic film.

  • @PlasmaCoolantLeak
    @PlasmaCoolantLeak 10 місяців тому

    I saw it the first time in its re-release in the early 70s with two of my high school friends. It remains one of my favorites.

  • @stu176mmm
    @stu176mmm Місяць тому

    Superb sfx and the music, wonderful ❤

  • @MichaelRomanov-li4gt
    @MichaelRomanov-li4gt Рік тому +5

    Still one of the most beautiful films ever made!

  • @cancelanime1507
    @cancelanime1507 4 роки тому +8

    This scene is SO COOL! It looks very similar to the Apollo 11 landing but this the future and its now become common place!

  • @davidlockett4207
    @davidlockett4207 Рік тому +2

    If we grade cinema by sight and sound then 2001 is the apex of that and should be regarded the number one film of all time.

  • @campeaodetudo100
    @campeaodetudo100 4 роки тому +9

    Épico.
    Ainda mais quando projetado em cinerama na tela do Cine Astor em Porto Alegre, com direito a 8 faixas de som.
    Era 1968, e, para as crianças que assistiam esse filmaço, não havia limites no céu.

    • @robertomichelson5839
      @robertomichelson5839 Рік тому +2

      Ou o Cinerama Majestic 70mm em São Paulo em 1968 quando com apenas 10 anos meu pai me levou para assistir 2001. Que momento magico e inesquecível.

  • @ronjon7942
    @ronjon7942 4 місяці тому

    This ages really well. The audience must have been just enthralled.

  • @jamesdrynan
    @jamesdrynan Рік тому +19

    Kubrick's decision to scrap Alex North's score and use classical compositions by Strauss, Ligeti and Khachaturian was a good call. It's astonishing to see the practical effects Kubrick and his creative team devised for the film. One visual they muffed a bit was how Earth looked from space. Remember that this was before the moon landing. The Earth looks more colorful than represented in 2001.

    • @Inflec
      @Inflec Рік тому +6

      The same was true for the depiction of Jupiter in the film. It was shown with washed out colors, but that was only the faithful reproduction taken from Earth-based telescopes. This was something that was corrected in the sequel, 2010, having the benefit of the Voyager photographs showing Jupiter in its full glory.

  • @monsieur5370
    @monsieur5370 2 дні тому

    le MEILLEUR film de tout les temps...

  • @Nebulous6
    @Nebulous6 5 днів тому

    It wasn't until I saw this on Blu-ray that I noticed the people working in the various rooms behind glass. Prior to that I thought the shot in Cloud City in Empire was the first to pull off a shot like that.

  • @starpawsy
    @starpawsy 10 місяців тому

    THE best 4 minutes of the whole movie. This hasn't aged well - you would not do it this way now - but it is still fantastic.

    • @Nebulous6
      @Nebulous6 5 днів тому

      How would you do a landing differently/better now?