Been a Star Wars fan for 25 years and that is literally the first time I’ve seen a Star Destroyer in any orientation other than perfectly parallel to the camera’s horizon

@Leopard_211

5 күн бұрын

OHH THATS WHY IT LOOKS SO WEIRD

@sexobscura

3 күн бұрын

Lucas had no idea at all in how to frame an image

@rafaelmmartinez9170

2 күн бұрын

Did you saw how is oriented in The Raise?

All we need now is a scene where a flight attendant reaches for a sleeping Darth Vader’s light sabre to prevent it from floating off

@renetr6771

17 күн бұрын

😆👌

"I'm making the jump through hyperspace...NOW!" "I'm sorry Han. I can't let you do that...."

@poakwoods

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@atticstattic

Жыл бұрын

"What are you doing with that restraining bolt, Han?"

@ZombieGrandpa

Жыл бұрын

Best zinger ever!

@garyl5128

Жыл бұрын

What are you doing, Darth...

@MatsubaAgeha

Жыл бұрын

🤣💦👍

You nailed the Kubrick vibe: 5 and a half minutes feels like 3 hours. Well done! 😆

@BobGolob

Жыл бұрын

Same feeling...

@PeterKnagge

Жыл бұрын

Ultra-violence

@UFOBobTV

Жыл бұрын

Isn’t that the truth.

@davidparkhurst2833

Жыл бұрын

I watched in 1.5x speed and it still felt like 3 hours.

@DuderinoDeux

11 ай бұрын

Open the escape pod bay doors, please R2!

That cut makes the Star Destroyer even more massive. Beautiful.

There's something about seeing massive ships moving in slow motion that give them realism. While today it's fast motion and cutting, here we have slow lingering shots, letting the details and movement sink in. The scenes are not mimicked, but created as new. Even though the shapes were vastly different, the motions were spot on. A very fine and masterful work!

@keithmaloy8642

Жыл бұрын

That is an impressive and creative spin. Loved the detail. What a fun reimagining! Good music too.

@michaelwasiljov8633

Жыл бұрын

That's why I loved the reimagine Battlestar Galactica. The spaceships actually behaved liked spaceships and not fighter jets flying around.

@omenaccipio

Жыл бұрын

So, you mean Star Trek TOS or TNG...

@davidstevenson9517

Жыл бұрын

You have good taste.

@zandaralexander9988

Жыл бұрын

Most definitely!

this makes being captured by the empire look so pastoral..no pursuit, no turbolasers...just dancing.

@zacmumblethunder7466

Жыл бұрын

"You should not have come back old man. When I left you I was the learner. Now _I_ am the master." "Well let's see how you handle a Viennese waltz, Darth."

@Mate397

Жыл бұрын

@@zacmumblethunder7466 Obi-wan and Vader having a classical dance off would be quite a sight.

@l00k4tstuff

Жыл бұрын

Makes me wonder if Kubrick would have portrayed human politics and war as a dance throughout the movie.

@citylights8678

Жыл бұрын

Kinda gives me 5th Element vibes lol

@roguishpaladin

15 күн бұрын

@@l00k4tstuff We have a good example of how he'd treat it - Dr. Strangelove. He definitely viewed it in a very farcical fashion. Honestly, it's not that crazy to think that a Star Wars directed by Kubriock would end up looking slightly like Spaceballs.

The beauty pass of the Star Destroyer, while playing Blue Danube was gorgeous!

@poakwoods

Жыл бұрын

I know. I'm in love with that scene...

As someone who watched "2001" during its first release in the cinema, in full Panavision, as an 8 year old boy...I found this version of "Star Wars" to be quite...relaxing. 😉 And "Moonwatcher" with the Chewbacca voice-over - LOL! 🤣

@partciudgam8478

Жыл бұрын

Not a voice over, it was dubbing.

@sumdumbmick

Жыл бұрын

1968 must have been absolute hell if that's what an 8 year old kid did... god dammit, I'm so sorry for the trauma your generation suffered.

@sumdumbmick

Жыл бұрын

@@partciudgam8478 dude... he saw 2001 in the theater on purpose. he's suffered enough to excuse just about any mistake like that.

@armorer94

Жыл бұрын

Funny when you consider that Stuart Freeborn designed both the ape masks for 2001 and the Chewbacca mask for Star Wars.

@skateboardingjesus4006

Жыл бұрын

@@sumdumbmick As opposed to the reduced mental capacity and lacklustre humour signifying your own generation? Seriously, my sympathies.

The synchronization of the movement and rotation of the two craft was a really nice touch, reinforcing the fact that activities in space take place in three dimensions, not just two with some arbitrarily defined "this side up".

@zacmumblethunder7466

Жыл бұрын

When George Lucas was trying to get more money out of Twentieth Century Fox to complete the movie, he put together a rough cut of what he'd filmed so far and used footage from Second World War movies such as The Battle of Britain and The Dambusters to stand in for the effects shots that hadn't been done yet. That seems to have locked in the Star Wars concept of there being an up and down in space.

@347Jimmy

Жыл бұрын

@@zacmumblethunder7466 there is at least one instance of 3d movement in Star Wars During the chase sections in Empire (when the Star Destroyers almost collide), the Millennium Falcon turns downwards, retreating to what would be nadir from their point of view There might be other examples, but not that I can immediately recall It's certainly not the norm in SW, which is why it always stood out to me

@nameprivate2194

Жыл бұрын

@@347Jimmy : Yeah, even with no less than the Space Epic _Star Wars_ [1977], we Earthlings still tend to think in 2D, relative to 3D outer space. Hm, stands to good reason, whatwith being indigenous to the 1G of gravity our Earth affords. Of course our skies are more 3D, but plenty to crash 'n smash into, unlike outer space.

@hernerweisenberg7052

Жыл бұрын

I had hoped they wouldn't only flip around to move to the music, but to perform an orbit entry burn at the same time. Missed opportunity.

@hernerweisenberg7052

Жыл бұрын

@@zacmumblethunder7466 There is an up and down in space, depending on the definition ofc. Either up and down a gravity well, or up is where the north poles of the celestial bodies are pointing at. Workes for any solar system, as most bodys will be rotating the same way due to the conservation of momentum from the dust cloud it formed from. North is where the bodies move counter clockwise around the star and the bodies will rotate counter clockwise. I just made this up, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone defined it this way as it seems to make sense for me ;D

As someone who watched BOTH "2001: A Space Odyssey" and the original "Star Wars" in the theater when they were first released in 1968 and 1977, this had me giggling throughout. Well done! Kurbrick would have made the first 30 minutes be about the star destroyer docking/capturing Princess Leia's CR90 corvette.

@wrongway1100

Жыл бұрын

Well the first 9 minutes would have been a black screen.

@demoscat

Жыл бұрын

@@wrongway1100 Absolutely true! 😸😸😸

@carrbender

Жыл бұрын

The first two minutes would have been a black screen with creepy Ligeti music, then a yellow print 20th Century Fox logo against a blue background as “Also Sprach Zarathustra” starts playing, then it would be the opening (which is the Also Sprach Zarathrustra music with Tatooine and the Death Star), and this would go on for another two minutes, and then we would get a 15 minute prologue about the Wookiees learning to use tools from bones, and then we would get this scene (which would go on for like 15 minutes)

@rogermwilcox

Жыл бұрын

Did you notice the eerie similarity between the "space shuttle docking with the space station, as seen from inside the station" scene in _2001_ ... and the "Millennium Falcon being drawn into the Death Star's docking bay" scene in _Star Wars_?

@Akasacarafilm

Жыл бұрын

You watched BOTH in cinema !?!?!?! You have my highest envy dear Sir/Madam...

There is something weirdly beautiful how they dance together in space

Somewhere, George Lucas is asking himself "Why didn't I think of that one?".

There is something majestic about seeing a Star Destroyer wafting silently through space.

@davidwuhrer6704

Жыл бұрын

WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY

@davidwuhrer6704

Жыл бұрын

@John Ashley Well, the cosmonauts on the ISS say that in space, _everyone_ can hear you fart.

@ARWest-bp4yb

Жыл бұрын

@@davidwuhrer6704 Right!👍🤣🤣

@JoshRichmanDesign

Жыл бұрын

Blasphemy!

@carrbender

Жыл бұрын

@@davidwuhrer6704 LOL, Spaceballs

Kubrick picked the "Blue Danube" because the melody invoked ROTATION a characteristic of any waltz. The space station's rotation was the movement. Kubrick commented older people didn't like it as the waltz invoked different emotions.

@aliensoup2420

Жыл бұрын

The choice of classical music was made by a projectionist during the screening of dailies. Kubrick liked the idea and discarded the original composed score.

@terrylong8894

Жыл бұрын

@@aliensoup2420 Actually, it was Kubrick who picked Strauss as the temp track for the space place sequence, but yeah he decided that he like Blue Danube better than the composed score and the rest is history.

@FalconakaSkyranger

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm... What if he would used Chaikovskiy Nutcracker?)))

@Farley5927

Жыл бұрын

The waltz made a lot of sense with the dance of the space station and shuttle docking as a precisely orchestrated dance.

@dudovich13

Жыл бұрын

First time I ever heard the Blue Danube in a semblance of its entirety. I was 11 or 12 when we saw the movie. Been in love with it ever since.

This actually does give a better representation of the technical achievement of one spaceship being able to snatch another ship in flight.

Lingering on the docking of the Blockade Runner with the Star Destroyer as you do made me realize something, something that several viewings of Star Wars never made me contemplate. It's awfully convenient that a Star Destroyer happens to have a docking bay that is exactly the right size for the Blockade Runner.

@kittyhawk9707

Жыл бұрын

hahah ..I was thinking the exact same thing when i saw that scene .. Good point ..

@Thenogomogo-zo3un

23 күн бұрын

Thats what I thought when first seeing the film in 1978. As well as how much smaller the Blockade runner was.

1:21 That flyby of the Star Destroyer is beautiful! And the music fits.

Imperial officer: Lord Vader, the Rebels are escaping! Vader: Comense the Waltz!

I loved the silence of the ships in space, which they would be! And the balletic treatment of this scene is just gorgeous. (It also means SW would have been at least 5 hours long, if Kubrick had done the whole thing.)

@M0butu

Жыл бұрын

more like 15. probably like 7-8 movies for the original trilogy. 😆

"Open the trash bay doors, 3PO!"

The rebel troopers running in the hallway was hilarious.

@SeanVito

Жыл бұрын

Gave me more of a Terry Gilliam vibe at that moment haha. Was expecting a slo-mo laser fight with the calm music.

@Thenogomogo-zo3un

23 күн бұрын

They should have been floating. C3PO and R2 look like they are waltzing together 😂😂🤣🤣

I can't believe how good this is! It is beautiful and hilarious at the same time, how is that even possible? Amazing video! You are obviously very talented. Thanks a lot!

Wow. Excellent work! 2001's and SW's aestethics already fit well together, but the cinematography here really adds so so much.

I'd love to see a Space 1999 tribute done in this style. The Eagles are ideally suited to this

@poakwoods

Жыл бұрын

Why not? Maybe one day 👍

@kumbah2006

Жыл бұрын

I second this - it's stunning, to say the least ! :)

@zacmumblethunder7466

Жыл бұрын

I remember an article Gerry Anderson wrote in "Look In" comic when Star Wars came out. He heavily criticised Star Wars for the way the space ships raced around, which he felt was unrealistic to how actual spacecraft would move. As a judgemental 14 year old I thought it was sour grapes because people had been saying how much better the effects were in SW than in Space 1999. I later realised that Anderson felt that the innovative work that he and his effects people, many of whom actually worked on Star Wars, were being disparaged unfairly. If it hadn't been for the techniques Century 21 had developed, Star Wars would have had very little to build on when the space battles were being visualised.

@tomstamford6837

Жыл бұрын

@@zacmumblethunder7466 I dunno if you watch this channel below, I came across this the other day and you might find this interesting considering the Anderson angle you brought up. I won't spoil the video but it has an interesting connection between Space 1999 and Star Wars. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gGWDy8RpdszFnZc.html

@zacmumblethunder7466

Жыл бұрын

@@tomstamford6837 I've only recently started watching, so thanks for pointing that one out. I shall relay the 1999 Eagle +1 and bigger = Millennium Falcon to my friend who's also into this with haste. I remember being very disappointed in Gerry's attitude towards Star Wars and the way in some articles he seemed to want to distance himself from the puppet shows. Years later, I read his obituary in Starburst magazine and it was really sad to realise that the man who's work was such a large part of my childhood felt that he'd never got a chance to show his full potential as a filmmaker.

Outstanding! Apart from the questionable choice to slow down the interior footage, this is a work of genius!

The first shot of the Star Destroyer going by is GORGEOUS!

I’d rather watch this on repeat than the Disney trilogy again.

You really have it spot on for the Kubrick vibe

What a wonderful take on 2001 and Star Wars. So lovely to see these models treated so poetically.

im gobsmacked by the lighting and shadows on those 3D models ! excelent work there !

@poakwoods

Жыл бұрын

I will present your compliments to the rendering engine... I think he will appreciate it very much 😉

@toweri_li

Жыл бұрын

@@poakwoods It was *you* who set up the lighting! Give the credit to whom it is due.

That was awesome! I'm a fan of both movies and I truly enjoyed the melding of the imagery and soundtrack with the differing cinematography. Well done.

ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING! Wow! I understand that things happen very slowly in Space, out in the real world. They captured that completely! Congratulations, and may the animal bone, uh, Force be with you!

And the Emperor speaks with the HAL-9000 voice, which would be so creepily unnerving. "Luke, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye". Then blasts of Force lightening.

@davidwuhrer6704

Жыл бұрын

That's from _Return of the Jedi._. The emperor was not in the original film.

The space ballets in 2001 are among the most beautiful things ever filmed. These no less so. Thank you.

That is so graceful , the two ships maneuvering around each other . And you have got the light just right !

The mix of space opera aesthetics and hard (er) sci-fi motion and callbacks is brilliant, and makes me feel odd. I love them both, but I tend to keep them separate - space 'ships' over here, realistic spacecraft over there. They don't really work together...until now. It's brilliant.

@davidwuhrer6704

Жыл бұрын

Space ships are a real thing. Space ships with keels bobbing around on the space waves, coming to a dead stop when the engines are stopped, and drifting if they aren't moored to space buoys or space ports, are pure fantasy though.

OMG, this is brilliant, taking two of the most defining sci-fi movies of the 20th century and blending them together like this. Excellent work. The only regret I have is to be to offer only one like.

@poakwoods

Жыл бұрын

Well, you can also subscribe…

@davidwuhrer6704

Жыл бұрын

I didn't see _Shape of Things to Come_ in there, just _2001_ and some fantasy film.

@fdahm

Жыл бұрын

@@poakwoods Indeed, I have happily subscribed and shared with many friends. 🙂

That's absolutely beautifully done. I love 2001, and this captures the grandeur amazingly well.

Love it! Very nicely done. The BD waltz will always be, for me, music to fly through space by thanks to Kubrick. I first saw 2001 when it came out, in a giant Cinerama theatre. My dad stopped at a bookstore on the way home to buy Clarke’s book because he wanted to find out what the hell he had just watched. 😂

@ThomasEWalker

Жыл бұрын

I was the perfect age to love 2001:ASO; 14. Total nerd teenager, infected by Star Trek.

This is sooo genious! 🤩 I love Kubricks 2001 and i'm a Star Wars Fan since the first Movie! Star-Destroyer dancing on Johann Strauss! 🤣 What an idea to make a crossover of them both! 🖖👍

A brilliant piece of work.The magnificence of Kubrick,Lucas and space itself has been rendered immortal.

You are truly an artist. You merge a beautiful piece of music, and make it meld with the silly and serious. Kudos, my friend. Outstanding!!!

Excellent work. Models, lighting and animation were really well done.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

Anthony Daniels said it took 103 takes to get him to turn his head just right.

MAGISTERIAL! and hilarious. Kudos to the amount of work put into this.

HAL: I am foolproof and incapable of error. HAN: How foolproof? HAL: More foolproof than you can imagine! HAN: I don't know, computer, I can imagine a lot of fools.

Well I must say this is the first time the star destroyer has ever been shown off and such a majestical way. You did a really good job with your 3D animation your lighting all the camera passes are really good and it really shows off how big space is and that you can literally move in any direction there is no up and down it's all over great job

When I first saw the Imperial Star Destroyer come on the screen I thought of the Discovery One. Granted, 2001 had been a little under a decade earlier and I hadn't seen anything like it until SW, but once I saw that opening, I knew it would be good.

Beautifully composed visuals and a feast for eye and ear. A privilege to have watched it.

Seeing how docking scene takes whole 5 minutes of my life, I'm glad it was directed by George Lucas.

So good! That slow acquisition of the Blockade Runner by the Stardestroyer - pure magic.

Would have been hilarious to see the storm troopers struggling in zero-G with those velcro socks to stick to the walls.

Fantastic animation! I can't believe how well considered everything is!

I really liked this. Quite good and original, esp. the spaceship shots which aren't just lifted from the Star Wars movie. Would be curious you (or you doing Kubrick) might do the Battle of Yavin. Once again, congrats on a fine video!

The things they can do with visual effects never ceases to amaze ! That X fighter was probably the Vader man looking around for Luke or any disturbance in the FORCE

At this rate 'star wars' would have been about 14 or 15+ hours long and I don't think anyone would have minded, lol. And just like Kubrick's close-up of the Pan Am grip shoes, I would have loved to have seen C3P0's foot in close-up, moving across the Tantive's floor in slow-mo; beautiful.

Thank you for creating and then sharing this amazing production from your beautiful mind. I have seen both of the films several times. Your melding of the scenes, music and interpolated style of Kubrick is emblematic of one possessing a remarkable imagination.

@poakwoods

Жыл бұрын

Too kind... thanks

This looks absolutely amazing, you have far too much time on your hands :) Just wondering how many days long Star Wars would have been if shot by Kubrick LOL :)

@poakwoods

Жыл бұрын

I just retired... time is not a problem, now... 😉

"The Empire have hired a new guy to hunt us down. Goes by the name of Newton. They call him... "The Mechanic."

This is brilliant!! Meshing of the view from inside the space station to the external rebel ship was quite well done. All about the dance. Wow!

beautifully done - really works well 😊

Wonderful mashup of styles!

Wow!! This is GREAT!! Saw both "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Star Wars" (Star Wars IV: A New Hope) in Theaters the years they Premiered! This is a Great Mashup!

Dude! That was elegance-in-motion... technology can be sooo sexy sometimes!

...and that, children, is why sci-fi adventure movies don't use real life space physics. 😁 Seriously, though, this was amazing!

@davidwuhrer6704

Жыл бұрын

If they don't, what differentiates them from fiction without science?

Amazing work. Thank you for this. 👍

I love these videos. The awesomeness of a Star Destroyer really lends itself to the slow, lingering Kubrick approach. I love the inclusion of the original 2001 docking sequence

4:34 really makes you feel the massive "weight" of a spacecraft in space. Genuinely awesome.

Bravo! A joy to watch. I definitely enjoyed this Kubrick version even more that the original Star Wars and I reckon it will age much better (I know, sacrilege).

@poakwoods

Жыл бұрын

BLASPHEMY! AT THE STAKE!!!! 😂

This was a masterpiece !

Very cleverly done. I like how Moonwatcher sounded like Chewbacca.

Having been a fan of 2001 and Star Wars since I watched them in the cinema when they were first released (there are some advantages to being old!), I enjoyed this very much. A worthy tribute to one of the greatest scenes ever captured on film.

Nicely done, ever considered working for ILM?

Brilliantly done!

It must drive flat-eathers out of their minds seeing all these nice, round, perfect planets in sci-fi movies...

@poakwoods

Жыл бұрын

"It's a conspiracy!"

When the bone went up flying, I was for a moment expecting it transmuting into a light saber, and Darth Vader catching it... ;-)

Ha! That was beautiful!

I cannot describe just how perfect this is for me. Thank you.

I love the moment when the Tydirium Shuttle passes by. So elegant.

There’s part of me that wants to enjoy the majestic dance of the starships, and part of me that just wants to scream “get on with it!”.

You don't understand the power of the monolith.

@poakwoods

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 👍

Very well done. As someone who loved Kubrick's 2001 and loathed Star Wars, this is a great send up of the beauty and artistry of the one and the silly comic book vision of the other.

It takes an expert in the genre to parody it perfectly. Well done, amazing 😂

I swear, this is like watching that endless video of someone running toward camera lol 💙

This short, with it's five minutes and twenty-six seconds of content, has more class than the last three Star Wars movies.

@danreed7889

Жыл бұрын

Snap! And true!

Oh my goddddddd!! Incredible! This is how Star Wars should have been done!!!!! 54 years later and 2001 has still not been equaled!!!!

@davidwuhrer6704

Жыл бұрын

In think _Europa Report_ is better in some ways, but the time jumps and expecting the audience to be familiar with the concept of manned space flight (which has been a real thing since the 12th of April 1961, how is this still new to anyone) can be confusing. So the story telling is smoother in _2001,_ but most people still don't understand what the contact scene means. (To be fair, visualising multi-dimensional space, and being turned into something there is no word for which the original human being is only a fraction of, is difficult to depict, although _Lucy_ gave it a fair shot.)

Downright hysterical! You did such an excellent job with the effects and also captured the movie's hypnotic style.

This was an interesting mix of Star Wars and ASO 2001! Beautifully done and choreographed!

The jump cut to the tie fighter was genius. 👍

I was 13 when 2001 first came out. I went to the theater with great anticipation, but was literally bored to sleep. I saw it a second on cable 20 years later, and was again too bored for words. Finally when I was in my 60s I saw it again and appreciated it.

I like this! It is a good depiction of how space really is. There is no up and down and ships don't have to be on the same level like ships at sea. The shots of the rebel cruiser drifting in space, apparently powerless as the Star Destroyer slowly moves in to capture it is excellent!

"Just a moment... Just a moment... I'm detecting a fault in the FW-01X forward momentum thrusters. A star destroyer tractor been has engaged. I predict the ability to repel the beam is 100%. There is a 100% chance this ship will be boarded in 38 minutes."

GOOD WORK. Now for an encore, Hollywood ALWAYS has remakes, SPACEBALLS BY KUBRICK

Funny...the blue Danube song gave this scene an even more ominous feeling than John Williams score...lol

In The original 2001 some satellites around Earth were launchpads for nukes.

Beautiful. The most elegant mickey-take I have ever seen.

Incredible...but here's a challenge... To do the original Flash Gordon (1936)..by Kubrick. I've always wanted to see those old ships done like this

This is much better that the original. So peaceful.

Open the Death Star doors C3PO... Sorry, Luke, I can't do that.

Beautiful scene of the Shuttlecraft Tiderium flying casually.