One thing that has always struck me about this movie, besides the visuals, is that the people, especially the astronauts, act like computers and the computer HAL acts like a person. Also, towards the end of the film, after he's passed through the wormhole, Dave is in a "human zoo" where the aliens are watching him. They then "reward" him, I guess, by turning him into the "starchild" when he proves "worthy." Also, I remember seeing this in an IMAX type theatre, and it was a surreal experience. I was 11 or 12 at the time, and I begged my dad to take me to see it. He did, and when it was over, he turned to me and said: "Don't EVER ask me to take you to another movie like that again." For years afterwards, he would tease me and say things in a HAL-like voice like "Dave, what are you doing?" "Don't do that, Dave." Etc. The opening title music is "Also Sprach Zarathustra," (Thus, spoke Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss. So, yes, in the theatre that was the overture and there was an intermission." The odd-looking animals in the beginning are tapirs.

'2010: The Year We Make Contact' is a very good sequel, a different kind of movie that does answer a few questions but leaves some of its own. Arthur C Clarke wrote four books in this series, after 2001 and 2010 came 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Interesting, might have to check them out

@mikejankowski6321

Ай бұрын

@@noahzynski 2010 is very different, not done by Kubrick, but pretty good in its own right. Quite worthy.

None of the music for this movie was written for this movie; they used the classical tracks (like Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss) as fill-ins before the score was written, but Kubrick liked the classical music so much that he kept it, much to the chagrin of the composer. Most space movies look the way they do today because of this movie. I'm glad you had the patience for this film.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

The music was perfect! And I see how it was such an inspiration to all future space movies!

@BubbaCoop

28 күн бұрын

Correct. Also Sprach Zarathustra was composed in 1896.

Back in the day, big-budget stage plays and movies often had a musical "overture" at the beginning. It was a signal for everybody to finish buying popcorn or peeing, and take their seats. This was before the Pause Button was invented, so the intermission gave people a bathroom break in the middle of a long play or movie. Same for "credits at the beginning", which most movies had back then, and, later on, the overture morphed into TV-show opening theme songs. "Hurry up, the show is starting!"

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Yeah that’s very interesting! Not something that’s done anymore and movies are same length lol

@AstroXeno

Ай бұрын

The other reason for the intermission was so that everybody could go out to the lobby and smoke.

@Gregory11811

Ай бұрын

The overture also set the tone of the play or movie. The audience got to hear bits of the music that would be played later on in the movie. The overture helps transition the audience from the world outside the theater to the one they’re watching.

@plinfesty

29 күн бұрын

It also should be mentioned that these overtures weren’t played on blank screens, but with the curtains closed and the curtain warmers and house lights set to half. This was pretty standard on roadshow films, as this movie was originally shown. This movie, while shot in 65mm (printed to 70mm with 6 track stereo), was projected onto huge Deeply curved Cinerama screens. Overtures and intermissions were mostly standard on these roadshow films.

This movie is a work of art with height, width, and duration.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Loved it!

Excellent commentary. It’s truly gratifying to see that someone who grew up in a world of modern computer technology, long after 2001’s influence had permeated modern cinema, can appreciate the genius of this singularly great film. A great movie is one that lives even after decades growing more meaningful upon each viewing. It is truly a piece of art for the ages.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Thank you! This movie was a masterpiece!!

I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey in the theater when it first came out. I was only 11 years old. I didn't completely understand it, but at the end I walked out of the theater knowing I had seen something great. The opening music is Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, from 1896. Later on the movie uses The Blue Danube from 1866 by Johann Strauss II, unrelated to Richard Strauss. Astronauts have said this movie captures the feeling of being in space better than any other.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

A truly special movie!

Just joined you on Patreon before this reaction to my favorite movie of all time. I knew after your The Shining reaction you would get this, and know it is a masterpiece. One of the most insightful, smart, and impressive reactions to 2001 I've ever seen, and I've seen most of them. And you didn't bug out at the ending like everyone else. Bravo!

@noahzynski

18 күн бұрын

Thank you! I greatly appreciate the support!

Noah, I don't know if it's your temperament or if it's because you're so young, but the way you viewed this was perfect. Many older reactors get hung up on wanting an easily digestible plot or lots of action or worse still make endless wisecracks through the movie. You just let it unfold and allowed the images to do the talking. I was in my 20s when this first came out so I'm from a different generation, obviously. It was interesting that those in their thirties and over had the biggest problems, the much younger just went with it. For people like me it was an experience that even another first-timer like yourself can never replicate. It was shown on a huge, curved Cinerama screen with sound systems that were new but had never been used in the same way. The opening tune had never before been heard in this context, only in concert halls, so the cliched melody that it has now become was not a thing. We literally had never seen anything like it. Even the mystical ending didn't bother many people, just led to endless speculation and discussion. Many people have recommended that you see "2010" where things are "explained". Whether you do or not is up to you. Personally the original mystery resonates far more with me than the explanation, and after all, while some people might like that explanation others may hate it. I disliked it, so even though I saw "2010" I found it very ordinary, and promptly forgot about it. "2001", however, remains extraordinary to this day.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! Loved reading this comment it's so cool that you were able to experience this movie in theaters!

HAL is one letter from IBM. 2010 is a follow up movie that explains a lot.

One more thing, HAL was brought online in January 1992 in Urbana, Illinois. This is the same time Mark Andreeson in real life was developing the first major web browser in Urbana, Illinois, the browser was called Mosaic. I think Kubrick was a time traveller.

@noahzynski

22 күн бұрын

Maybe lol

Since you really enjoyed this Kubrick you should do "Dr Strangelove"! It's a good contrast -- much more fast paced and absolutely hilarious comedy which makes for good reactions

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

I’ll add it to my list!

The opening 'song' that plays over the titles is a piece of music called 'Sunrise' from a 'tone poem' called 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', by Richard Strauss junior. It is intended to musically describe the beginning of the world, Earth called into being by an ancient sun god, Zarathustra. Fits rather well.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Perfect choice!

Long movies, like this, "Lawrence of Arabia", etc., would have an intermission to allow theater goers to use the restroom.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

That’s what I thought it was lol, that’s not something that happens anymore and my first time seeing it lol

@altaclipper

Ай бұрын

​@noahzynski you should just try sitting in the middle of a row in a crowded theater for three or four hours without a bathroom break. My father actually saw this in a theater when it was first released and he took me to see it as soon as it opened where I live. It was not uncommon for people to walk out in the middle just out of frustration and confusion.

Hi Noah, The only music I didn't see mentioned in the other comments is the creepy choral music from the very start and accompanying the monolith. The Composer is Gyorgy Ligeti, an avant garde composer. His Aventures and The Lux Aeterna from his Requiem. Both works are from the 1960s. Ligeti has more mind bending pieces if your curious. (as does the contemporary Polish Composer Kryzyzstof Penderecki) Kubrick's film output is worth exploring as well. I enjoyed your commentary. Thanks Jim Mexico, retired

@noahzynski

27 күн бұрын

The music was perfect!

12:20 If the space program had continued at the pace it was going in 1968, it would definitely have seemed plausible to most people that we'd be sending manned probes to Jupiter by 2001. Star Trek had us travelling all around the solar system in the 1990s...

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

That’s fascinating!

The black in the beggining is you staring at the monolith.

@noahzynski

7 сағат бұрын

Awesome!

7:01 The picture-phone camera even adjusts itself so the top of the little girl's face doesn't go out of the frame when she moves around. I don't think even facetime does that. 8:43 All those instructions! Wee touch of humor. 12:11 This was a landmark picture for its cinematography in 1968. The Godfather came along four years later and that was another big leap forward in the art, too. Before 2001: ASO, science fiction was pretty shlocky. The action in this movie goes so slow compared to adventure films today, but it holds your interest all the way through.

cool reaction ! hope you watch more kubrick

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Definitely will!

Was fun to watch you watch. It was set in the year you were born and made in the year I was born xxx

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

“It’s just standing there, menacingly” if you thought you could slip a classic Patrick Star quote passed me, you are mistaken, my friend. PS this is the first video of yours I’ve watched and you do a great job. Thanks for doing this!

@noahzynski

8 күн бұрын

Haha glad you noticed that! Appreciate you watching!

Thanks for a great review - it's always good to see a young person react to this incredible film, in my opinion the greatest film ever made! I saw it on release in 1968 and still watch it regularly; it never gets old. Just one thing which very few people have picked up on: the beginning of the movie and the intermission. Several minutes in a darkened cinema with the audience staring at what? A black rectangle.... Undoubtedly this was intentional on Kubrick's part. Nothing, but nothing, was ever done accidentally by Kubrick. Thanks again. You should watch the sequel, "2010". It doesn't have the impact of "2001" - what could have? - but it's still a great film, and it does answer some of the questions posed by its predecessor, particularly those related to why HAL behaved the way he did. All the best!

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@plinfesty

29 күн бұрын

The audience was not staring at a blank screen. The specific projectionist instructions called for the curtains to be closed and house and curtain warmers at half . All lights were dimmed out during the music. Screen was not revealed until the MGM graphic hit the curtains. Almost all the original showings were on deeply curved Cinerama screens. This was absolutely typical of roadshow films back in the day. These overtures and intermissions were usually not in the general release versions.

@SpaceOdditiesLive

29 күн бұрын

Ah, OK. Thanks very much for that!

The bone transforms itself into killer satellites. Watch the making of 2001. It’s epic. RIP Stanley Kubrick.

@noahzynski

7 сағат бұрын

I did watch it! Loved see the process!!

Allegedly, HAL was named after IBM, just one letter before in the alphabet.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Interesting

@backpackmatt

9 күн бұрын

That is fascinating! 🐧🍏🍎💙

Definitely a movie pacing that gives you plenty of time to contemplate about things to come or at least what Arthur C Clarke thought it might be. There were some pretty good guesses.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

As a reactor I sort of enjoyed the time to think lol

@ebashford5334

Ай бұрын

@@noahzynski Yeah, you didn't have to worry too much about talking over dialogue.

Great choice of movie! Thanks for the reaction. Each Kubrick movie is interesting in its own way, as they all go through different genres.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Super intrigued to watch more of Kubrick’s movies!

The modern music was by Ligetti. you might also enjoy music by Xenakis and Stockhausen. Happy sailing.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Keep the Kubrick kick going with Spartacus.

I'm pretty excited for your Kubrick arc. He's probably the most compelling director of all time. Just a weird, driven dude without a stinker in his catalogue.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

I’m definitely interested in seeing more of his movies!

When this movie came out, the only science fiction that most people had seen was the original Star Trek, with its primitive special effects. So yeah, this movie was very impressive on a movie screen, with beautiful stereo audio to boot. The audience really didn't mind all of the long segments of "beauty shots" in space. Modern audiences would get bored by them.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

If the shots weren’t so beautifully done I could see someone getting bored but they weren’t!

@mikejankowski6321

Ай бұрын

Kubrick also made them intentionally disorienting (like the stewardess taking the meals to the pilots on the lunar shuttle and the whole spinning main cabin).

The purpose of the monolith buried on the Moon is to let the monolith at Jupiter know that the apes' descendants (the human race) have achieved elementary space travel and that lesson #2 can begin. Lesson #2 is basically doing the same thing to David Bowman that it had done to the apes - take him to the next level. It turns him into a more advanced creature, essentially what it had done to the apes. Dave then returns to Earth with a single thought. The light show was just something the monolith did to distract Dave while it analyzed him to see how Earth people had changed since the apes. The hotel room is simply a traditional place of safety and comfort it had pulled out of Dave's mind so that he could be comfortable while it changed him. The more advanced embryo-like version of Dave is often called the star child. Some excellent movies older than this are: "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951 NOT the 2008 remake), “Fahrenheit 451,” "Forbidden Planet," "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," "It Happened One Night," "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” (only 65 min.), "Miracle on 34th Street (1947 NOT the remake)," "North by Northwest," "Once Upon a Time in the West," "The Pink Panther," "Psycho," "Rear Window," "Rio Bravo," "Some Like it Hot," "Stalag 17," "The Time Machine (1960 version)," "Topper," "Vertigo"

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Appreciate the insight and I’ll keep these movies in mind!!

@mikejankowski6321

Ай бұрын

Actually, the Jupiter monolith is a Star Gate. The light show is a 60s psychedelic representation of Dave's travel to another world. (Very popular to take drugs for heightened appreciation.) The hotel room was captured by TMA-1 from a TV broadcast when it was activated. Great list of additional movies!

@brandonflorida1092

Ай бұрын

@@mikejankowski6321 Thanks. Could you document the bit about TMA-1 recording part of a TV broadcast?

@mikejankowski6321

Ай бұрын

@@brandonflorida1092 It is in Clarke's book from the film. TMA-1 was busy in that brief instant.

@brandonflorida1092

Ай бұрын

@@mikejankowski6321 Okay. I haven't read it in a few decades.

You would love the special effects of the first sci-fi classic METROPOLIS by Fritz Lang. An iconic robot and futuristic city influenced Star Wars as much as 2001. A theory that the Monolith is a movie screen Is interesting. HAL 9000 is a movie camera lens set into a black rectangle shape with a red light behind it. The film activated an evolution in special effects and sci-fi. Sadly few filmmakers encode as much meaning without words. Kubrick continued to omit key moments to leave the explanation up to the viewer. The Shining is a simple story but the key assault of the little boy is never shown. The mystery makes his films stand the test of time. 🙂

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Excited to see more of Kubrick’s work!

You haven't seen The Wizard of Oz (1939)? So many great films are ignored these days. Keep watchin'!

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Yep never seen it, I have a lot of catching up to do!

Two of the most profound (to me) scenes in the movie are... 1.) ... where Dave Bowman is forced to deactivate HAL and HAL is pleading for his mind. Dave is separated by millions of miles from any other living being in the solar system, with no guarantee of being able to return home, and he's (psychologically) killing the only being he has left to relate to. 2.) ... the shots of the Discovery in orbit around Jupiter where the ship is so tiny and remote and the Monolith appears so large and threatening. That, and the unsettling music, just reinforces how small and isolated Dave is in this tiny corner of the galaxy. I'm glad you had the patience for this movie. It seems most moviemakers and studios today are all about the moneymaking shock and awe factor and aren't interested in making stories of speculation and nuance. Feels like we're purposely being dumbed-down.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Those are great moments! And I agree they don’t make movies like these anymore!

If you have an iPhone, try "Siri, open the pod bay doors."

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Just looked it up that’s awesome!

Look forward to seeing what else you got. Good luck with the channel bro

@noahzynski

18 күн бұрын

Appreciate you!

This was about 30 years before Deep Blue beat Gary Kasporov. Also, did you notice that when they have EFFING iPADS? This is 1968! How crazy is this? Also, Star Wars based its special effects off of this, in the moon scene there's actually a shot that looks like a docking bay of the Death Star.

@noahzynski

22 күн бұрын

This movie is so ahead of it’s time!

Spoilers: The meaning or interpretation of the meaning of the film is endlessly debated. My view as to what happened in the film: The Monolith was a tool for unseen aliens. Its job is to seek out intelligent life in the universe and to help it along. It arrives on Earth where the ancestors of Mankind are struggling. They are gatherers, eating only the plants they can scrounge and are on the brink of starvation. The Monolith teaches the man-apes technology in the form of tools that allow hunting, ending their starvation. The side effect of that technology is the second water hole scene. We see the first war, now made deadly with the advent of weapons. Technology is a double-edged sword that brings life and kills. Bone gets thrown into the air, jump-cuts to the satellite. In act 2, we go to the Moon, where another Monolith was found, deliberately buried. When that Monolith is exposed to sunlight for the first time in 4 million years, it sends a radio beam to Jupiter. It’s a way the aliens know mankind is advanced enough for the next step. The people who find the Monolith on the Moon lie to keep its existence a secret, because reasons. Act 3 sees the astronauts going to Jupiter. The tech crew (Bowman and Poole) are awake for the trip there but don't know about the real mission (they think it's just the first manned mission to Jupiter). The science crew (Hunter, Kaminsky, and Kimball) were briefed on the alien thing found on the Moon and then frozen, to keep the secret. HAL was also told the truth but instructed to lie to Bowman and Poole. HAL goes crazy, since lying went against his original programming. When HAL starts to crack up, he begins making mistakes...blaming those mistakes on the crew. He kills off the fallible humans so they don't ruin the secret mission. Bowman shuts down the higher functions of HAL's brain, in the process activating prerecorded briefing materials informing him about what was found on the Moon and what the real mission is. Act 4 Bowman investigates the giant Monolith orbiting Jupiter, but when he gets close, it turns into a sort of stargate and drags him to a pre-planned location set up by the aliens (the aliens themselves are long dead). After the trip (and incidentally seeing many mysteries of the Universe), he is put into a cage of sorts, made to look like an Earth hotel suite so he feels more comfortable. The weird thing where he keeps seeing himself I think is representing time being affected...so he sees 'time jumps' of himself on multiple occasions. Bowman is drained of all his memories and humanity, which is transferred to his new existence, the Star Child. The Monolith, the thing that gave humanity a gentle 'push' down the evolutionary path of tool making and technology, now gives him a new 'push' to the next phase of evolution, from existence as matter to existence as pure energy. Bowman/Star Child then returns to Earth, and the next step of Mankind's journey begins. That's how I see it anyway.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

I like your interpretation!

This became a popular movie for stoners back then. Some theaters had this as a midnight showing for several years after its released.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

That makes sense lol

LOL you were born in 2001! And yes, this song came from this movie :D

When you watch a Kubric movie, you know you have watched something. It gets better watching it again. I like your reaction. Other people almost try to overthink it. I don't know if anyone knows what the movie is really about. I think I read that it might be ambiguous on purpose, and your mine will create the meaning.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Really makes you think!

My father took me to the theatre to see this movie when I was 6. It had a profound impact on me and set me on a course of philisophical introspection from that day forward. Perhaps I was too young in retrospect. Remember it like it was yesterday.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

That’s awesome!

I appreciated how you zoomed in on the Alexa in your room when we first met HAL!

Very rare for the effects of zero gravity in space travel to be shown on screen even nowadays. The mindset to appreciate these kinds of slow, epic movies is to focus less on the story, and more on the inspiring beauty of the cinematography, which needs a good TV

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

I enjoyed it all the way through!

@plinfesty

29 күн бұрын

Or a giant Cinerama screen from a 70mm film print. I’ve been able to see it in the past couple of decades in Los Angeles theatres on numerous occasions. Always draws a big audience.

will watch later. thanks. i watch all the takes on this.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Awesome!

someof the dawn of man scenes were shot on a London rooftop

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

That wild!

@stevetheduck1425

Ай бұрын

The only 'outdoor' shots in this film are the up-shots of the monkeyman smashing bones and throwing them up as pieces.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

@@stevetheduck1425 that’s insane!

0:23 "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) is the OLDEST movie you've ever seen!? You don't know what you've been missing... But then the first movie I saw in a movie theater was "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954). Have a great time with this mind-expanding film, which I saw in an ex-Cinerama theater. It was an Experience, even before Dave Bowman's FTL voyage. In the real world, there used to be a Monolith standing behind the University of Hawaii's Chemistry building. It emitted a low hum.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

I have a lot to catch up on!

Kubrick did a pretty good job in finding experts predicting much of the technology in use today, but right after the Apollo moon missions.. NASA was slated for Mars exploration. Budget cuts meant it went with the reusable space shuttle instead. There’s a lot in the book by Clarke that didn’t make it into Kubrick’s film. Didn’t care for the books (2001, 2010, etc..) personally but they help with the 1 film. [Book spoiler] That creepy interstellar baby is actually Bowman transformed into the superpowerful “Starchild” who then zaps and destroy some of those floating satellites seen around earth when the space sequence starts; some of these contained nuclear weapons the superpowers aimed at each other, so the implication is Starchild did away with weapons of mass destruction.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Fascinating!

The sequal to this movie 2010 is worth checking out as a companion peice .

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Interesting didn’t know there was a sequel…

You should watch an even older film. Real old. Metropolis by Fritz Lang. It was as ahead when it hit theaters.

@noahzynski

5 күн бұрын

That could be interesting!

The granddaddy of ALL modern "space" films as we know them. The standard was SET. There was no going back. No more campy, half-baked special effects. This was the dawn of a new age. Not ironic at all ;) There is a sequel. 2010 - THE YEAR WE MADE CONTACT. Ignore any of the other nonsense that comes after that. You've come this far (far back I mean) ... maybe it's time to to check out PLANET OF THE APES. Also from 1968. What a year for cinema! Really enjoyed your reaction.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Will definitely consider watching PLANET OF THE APES!

@RobertSmith-js2kz

Ай бұрын

@@noahzynski It's on the same intellectual (and cinematic) level. Films like this change your entire perspective on our place in the universe.

This might be the most realistic alien contact movies ever made. And you are not really supposed to understand the ending. Humans just came into contact with something much smarter than they are. Dave Boman saw events take place without understanding them. Think of it like a housecat. Your cat sees you doing things but comprehends only the most basic actions you take. The cat sees you reading a book. As far as the cat can understand, you are just staring at a piece of paper. In this case, humans are the cats.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

That’s great!

00:50 Black rectangular screen...just like the monolith.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Awesome!

@plinfesty

29 күн бұрын

But not in the original theatrical release. A) the curtains were closed during the overture. B) the original engagements weren’t shown on rectangular screens but on 146 degree curved Cinerama screens with Curtains that didn’t start opening until the stylized MGM lion hit the curtains.

Ape. Man. Overman. It's all a homage to Nietzsche with an AI gone wrong subplot.

Love Kubrick. Shining and Full Metal Jacket next pls. And if you want something very different i recommend asian cinema. Oldboy (2003) is a banger. Watch it blind it will shook you. Keep up the good work

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Plan on watching all these!

Amazing special effects for its time. Many say George Lucas changed the visual effects game but I think it’s this movie 2001 😊

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Agree!

As they gathered around it, the monolith telepathically whispered to the apes, _"What do you want?"_ Just a little wink to all Babylon 5 fans out there. ;-]

60 minutes did a story about the Quantum computers that are coming in the next decade. They said problems that would take today's supercomputers MILLIONS of years to solve, will be solved by these new computers in just MINUTES. They are THAT fast.🤯 It sounds like we are about to experience an unprecedented EXPLOSION of technological advances. Life is about to RADICALLY change. If it's possible for fantastic things like fusion generators, warp drive, or a fountain of youth drug to exist? These computers WILL figure it out. The scary thing of course are these scenarios illustrated in 2001 and the Terminator movies. But even if THAT doesn't happen, I'm worried about what the military will do with this technology. I'm sure it will FIRST be used to perfect defense and weapons systems. And if we DO develop a foolproof defense system? We might be tempted to start WW3, while we have the upper hand. Before the Russians and Chinese have the chance to do the same. Let's hope these nightmare scenarios don't actually happen, but nobody really knows for sure, how all of this computing power will play out. 😬

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Crazy times...

You should try watching Tarkovsky's Solaris, which is kind of the Russian equivalent to this movie. I actually prefer Solaris. Don't watch the American remake.

"A bold choice." Actually, no: overtures and musical intermissions were commonly used for long, "epic" films: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and DOCTOR ZHIVAGO come to mind, and if I recall correctly, THE SAND PEBBLES, too. A late example, with an overture but without an intermission, was STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE. Of course, the most famous intermission of all was in MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL....

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Since this is the oldest movie I’ve seen I never thought about the fact that movies had intermissions lol

@mikejankowski6321

Ай бұрын

Most famous ending, too!

if the political will had been there we would already have sent people to mars

Saw it in a theater a few years back. If you have a chance don’t miss it or Blade Runner

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Definitely would be cool to see in theaters!

All the music was preexisting classical

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Yeah but I’m sure this movie made even more iconic!

Watch the sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

I'll add it my list!

A whole 10 min without speaking English - Try the movie called Quest For Fire. The whole movie is spoken in neanderthal grunts

@noahzynski

13 күн бұрын

That would be interesting lol

And the overture confuses yet another KZread reactor.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

That’ll happen

Yes, that song was written for this movie (I think). Keep in mind that computers almost didn't exist back then. Slide rules were how you calculated. And this was released over a year before man first landed on the moon! WAY ahead of its time!

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Amazing!

@robertfindley921

Ай бұрын

@@noahzynski I heard that the name HAL was chosen because each letter was one off from IBM.

@Otokichi786

Ай бұрын

Are you talking about "Daisy Bell?" A 1961computer lab hit: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmeWsrtvmZvceqg.html

@miller-joel

Ай бұрын

"Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" is a song from 1892.

@mikejankowski6321

Ай бұрын

Modern-ish computers got their start during WWII. The late 40s/early 50s made significant strides. There is a clip out there of Arthur Clarke (author of the book and co-author of this screenplay) talking about and showing computers in the early 60s. They were just big and not too powerful.

Within the 1st minutes you failed yourself...

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

How so?

@strettoasino9006

Ай бұрын

Mindset... The ability to just watch...

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

@@strettoasino9006 this is a reaction channel I have to say stuff

Sorry, Noah, I don't have the time or patience to watch another insipid reaction to this film. Your youth is one strike against you, but the length of your reaction leaves no time for any thoughtful analysis. Oh well, you will likely gain a more mature perspective in time.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

That’s ok, I loved this film and didn’t feel the need to say anymore than I did.

Hey, that was such a great edit and great commentary! So happy you liked it! Especially on a first viewing! I totally agree: gorgeously shot. I'm sure you've seen and read all there is to consume about the making of it. All of Kubrick's movies are visually incredible as he came from a photography background. (The only other director I can think of that comes from a photo background is Agnes Varda). All of his movies are "one of a kind", and totally different from each other. He followed it up with a wild weird movie that's as fast as this one is slow, the demented "A Clockwork Orange". And the movie he made before this was a black comedy/satire about nuclear war! I'm sure you've seen "The Shining", one of the great horror movies. Anyways, absolutely loved this reaction!!! Thanks so much for sharing it!!!!! I'm a very happy subscriber! I don't get to see every video, but I appreciate every one of them!!

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! I’m very interested in seeing more of Kubricks work! I’ve never seen the shining or any of his other movies so I’m glad I’ll be able to share my first time reaction!

@TTM9691

Ай бұрын

@@noahzynski Oh you're in for a treat! Very cool! Well, I'm on the ride with you! He only has, like, ten movies. He took a real long time to make each movie. "2001" took a few years, as you can probably tell! PS: "2001" opened on the same exact day the original "Planet Of The Apes" opened, just for comparason. Not sure if you've seen that one. All of his movies from "The Killing" (1956 - his first real movie) to "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) is worth checking out.

@noahzynski

Ай бұрын

@@TTM9691 I’m excited!