2001: A Space Odyssey
by Stanley Kubrick
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Actor: Daniel Richter, Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea, Leonard Rossiter, William SylvesterDirector: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Producer: Victor Lyndon
Writer: Arthur C. Clarke
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.20:1
Running Time: 141 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-06-29
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
DVD Reviews of 2001: A Space Odyssey
DVD Review: A Classic!!
Summary: 5 Stars
2001 is a classic film that is truly amazing at it's best!!
Stanley Kubrick knows how to make a great and interesting film that is also colorful, yet it still steers right onto the path of realism and fantasy.
I recently purchased 2001 on Blu Ray and I will say that the picture quality is amazing and the colors are even better than ever!!
It's truly a classic that deserves to be watched again and again!!
5 stars for blu ray quality!!
DVD Review: Amazing transfer
Summary: 5 Stars
This blu ray edition of 2001 is amzing and gorgeous to behold! I've owned previous versions of 2001 on dvd and this one looks
and sounds the best out of the ones I've seen. Alot has been said about the story so I'll skip that part. The dvd has some great
extras that provide more insight into the movie that I haven't seen before. A true classic that deserves the hd treatment and the
blu ray price is unbeatable!
DVD Review: Decent 1.5 hour movie trapped inside a 2.5 hour movie
Summary: 2 Stars
I really wanted to enjoy this movie. I love science fiction and enjoyed Kubrick's "The Shining". Unfortunately, the movie seemed much too long for what it contained. The scenes of the astronauts on the spaceship with HAL were very interesting and largely ahead of its time. What would happen if a computer with artificial intelligence was left in control? What if a computer developed its own ideas and was in fact sentient? It would certainly be amazing and rather helpful; however, it also has the possibility to be rather dangerous. The astronauts' mission itself was intriguing also, even if its conclusion was puzzling. People have discovered a mysterious monolith which is millions of years old. Its purpose and origin are unknown.
This entire story could probably be done comfortably within a 1.5 hour movie; unfortunately, this movie is 2.5 hours. The scenes with the apes were too extended. While I enjoyed the music and like good cinematography set to classical pieces, I thought it was overused. A few sequences like that sprinkled throughout the movie would've been sufficient. As it was, there were many like this leading up to the scenes with HAL. And whatever meaning there might be behind the scene with the myriad colors, it did not need to be that long.
DVD Review: Amazing video for a visual/spiritual film
Summary: 4 Stars
Looking to a blu-ray film like this I think how some films shot today can still have a bad video quality. And when the industry will stop to sell DVDs. 2001 is a visual movie that make us think about what we are, from where we came and where we are going to, if the machines will make us slaves, if there is ETs, Gods ... The frontal scene when the man/monkey breaks the bones on the ground with a bone in his hand is one of the most intense and unforgottable scenes I ever saw in a movie.The voice of HAL is frightening. The colors and the light of some shots are amazing. And this blu-ray has legends in Portuguese!!! And, how any intelligent people know the man NEVER put his foot on the moon, I am shure that in 1969 (one year after this movie was finished) NASA had the contribuition of a director with similar capacity of Stanley Kubrick to show the world the biggest lie ever told. DVD Review: WoW
Summary: 5 Stars
So, Who would have thought that Kubrick's classic, from 1968 could look and sound this good. The original was filmed in 70mm which allowed for a great conversion to blu-ray. Also the audio on this BR comes to you in LOSSLESS 5.1 quality. Worth the whole $8.99 and then some.
Description of 2001: A Space Odyssey
When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on "the proverbial intelligent science fiction film," it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel," 2001 is a visual tone poem (barely 40 minutes of dialogue in a 139-minute film) that charts a phenomenal history of human evolution. From the dawn-of-man discovery of crude but deadly tools in the film's opening sequence to the journey of the spaceship Discovery and metaphysical birth of the "star child" at film's end, Kubrick's vision is meticulous and precise. In keeping with the director's underlying theme of dehumanization by technology, the notorious, seemingly omniscient computer HAL 9000 has more warmth and personality than the human astronauts it supposedly is serving. (The director also leaves the meaning of the black, rectangular alien monoliths open for discussion.) This theme, in part, is what makes 2001 a film like no other, though dated now that its postmillennial space exploration has proven optimistic compared to reality. Still, the film is timelessly provocative in its pioneering exploration of inner- and outer-space consciousness. With spectacular, painstakingly authentic special effects that have stood the test of time, Kubrick's film is nothing less than a cinematic milestone--puzzling, provocative, and perfect. --Jeff ShannonWhen Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on "the proverbial intelligent science fiction film," it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel," 2001 is a visual tone poem (barely 40 minutes of dialogue in a 139-minute film) that charts a phenomenal history of human evolution. From the dawn-of-man discovery of crude but deadly tools in the film's opening sequence to the journey of the spaceship Discovery and metaphysical birth of the "star child" at film's end, Kubrick's vision is meticulous and precise. In keeping with the director's underlying theme of dehumanization by technology, the notorious, seemingly omniscient computer HAL 9000 has more warmth and personality than the human astronauts it supposedly is serving. (The director also leaves the meaning of the black, rectangular alien monoliths open for discussion.) This theme, in part, is what makes 2001 a film like no other, though dated now that its postmillennial space exploration has proven optimistic compared to reality. Still, the film is timelessly provocative in its pioneering exploration of inner- and outer-space consciousness. With spectacular, painstakingly authentic special effects that have stood the test of time, Kubrick's film is nothing less than a cinematic milestone--puzzling, provocative, and perfect. --Jeff Shannon
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