2001: A Summer Blockbuster

Via Imaginary Foundation, this trailer for a new summer blockbuster called 2001: A Space Odyssey. In theaters June 4, 1968! "Trailer Recut: How ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ Would Be Advertised in 2012" (FSR)

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This looks exceptionally similar to “Space: 1999″…

And did you get that “David” vibe from the protagonist closeup?
- http://nelc.livejournal.com/ NelC
  
  I totally thought ‘David 8′. I wonder if there’ s a conscious link there, or if it’s just a racial memory.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

Amazing. It’s like they took how I really feel watching 2001 and turned it into a trailer.
- http://www.openbuddha.com/ Al Billings
  
  I just feel sleepy when I watch 2001.
http://www.facebook.com/kokernutz Brian S. Kokernak

This made my day.
Andrew Singleton

Thank you. Now i can show this to my relatives and say to them: This is how this movie feels for me when I watch it.
http://twitter.com/dailyrev Brian Donohue

bang bang boom boom noise noise mindless mindless. Thankfully, Kubrick preferred Strauss and Khatchaturian…
- exile
  
  … and Ligeti. Mustn’t forget Ligeti.
  
  Most things eventually get decorated with wub wub.
- jerwin
  
  The studio wanted Alex North to score the movie.
  Here is the score Kubrick rejected.
  - http://www.jimdraws.com Thorzdad
    
    Wow. That’s some terrible, generic stuff. I’m very grateful Kubrick rejected it.
  - Sparrow
    
    It would make a good soundtrack for a Star Trek episode, but it’s hard to evaulate in the movie because the released version of the soundtrack is so ingrained in my memory that even watching this version I can hear what I’m missing.
- http://twitter.com/timprebble Tim Prebble
  
  agreed, that music is simply dreadful!
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Isn’t that the point?
    - Gimlet_eye
      
      I think so. I hope that the inclusion of the famous bone/satellite cut as a sort of heavy-handed spoiler was also intentional.
- chellberty
  
  unsubstantiated rumor is that Kubrick wanted Pink Floyd to score it.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    We need a deity or a saint to thank specifically for having avoided bad ideas in movies. I mean, Shirley Temple was the first choice to play Dorothy Gale.
    - Felton / Moderator
      
      How about St. Christopher II, after Christopher Reeve, who won out over Warren Beatty, James Caan, Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Nick Nolte, Robert Redford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jon Voight for the role of Superman?
      - niktemadur
        
        Don’t forget Mohammed Ali, also a candidate for a while.
    - chellberty
      
      to those who have not seen the possible sync here -Pink Floyd Echoes & 2001 A Space Odyssey HD
      -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn7MmS3vazU
    - billstewart
      
      But Pink Floyd and Wizard of Oz get along quite well.
      
      (Or so they say, anyway, the combination never actually worked that well for me, even though I was a big Floydhead for a while.)
      
      And here’s Phish mixing in some 2001 with other things.
http://jonathan-peterson.com/ Jonathan Peterson

So full of win. And I rewatched it for about the 5th time only last week.
kiptw

Looks pretty, but if it doesn’t have “O Fortuna” in it, I’ll stay home.
Drabula

It IS in 3D, isn’t it??
- jerwin
  
  Every 3d movie is the same
  - Chentzilla
    
    I like how Brave trailer was the same as the first minute of Skyrim’s:
    http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=tYg0VgPy6Uk&start1=0&video2=RMKJ9fDM2mo&start2=0&authorName=Chentzilla
Chesterfield

I absolutely love the first 90% of that movie.
- http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch
  
  That last 10% was the psychedelic sequence, wasn’t it?
- serpent
  
  That just means recreational drugs are not for you.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    My cousin and I went to see it when I was 10 and she was 11. My uncle picked us up at the theater afterwards and asked us what it was about. Uh, well, um….it was, um, well…
    - FrakSnark
      
      That nicely summarizes how my friends and I felt after seeing 2010: The Year We Make Contact in 1984 at a theater. Also 10 years old at the time. Admittedly an inferior movie, but it was nonetheless a strange combination of WTF and awe for such a young age.
yupgiboy

What’s with the Warner Brothers logo?
- jerwin
  
  It should be MGM, shouldn’t it?
Scurra

It’s doomed, I tell you. No A-list stars to headline? No trendy popular beat combo to provide the music? All the best one-liners all in the trailer already? (No, wait, that happens with everything.) It’ll be lucky to make its money back.
brainflakes

It’s like something out of a Hexstatic gig :)
vonbobo

wow! goosebumps!

bravo!
Toxa

Somewhat similar to the amazing trailer of “Love”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiYmAixzpMg

“Love” is quite boring IMO, but evidently inspired on 2001.
- Chentzilla
  
  Read this several times as “Love” is quite boring MMO“.
Evan Rappaport

I think it just needs to be colorized orange and blue and I think you’ve got a hit.
http://otherthings.com otherthings

“This is how this movie feels for me when I watch it.”

You feel paranoid and you can’t stop grinding your teeth? You feel like punching somebody? Help me out here.
jerwin

For those with slow bandwidth– it’s not worth watching in HD.
jerwin

It’s interesting how Kubrick discards his usual languid obsession with mise-en-scene for jump cuts and coverage. Good for him. I look forward to seeing the film.
- niktemadur
  
  Man, then you should definitely check out “Barry Lyndon”, all swordfights and duels and shit.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    You forgot jiggling cleavage.
    - niktemadur
      
      The jiggling cleavage of Keira Knightley as Lady Bullington, and as Barry Lyndon… who else but the incomparable Nicholas Cage?
      As I recall, Ryan O’Neil didn’t allow a petty matter, such an authentic English accent, get in the way.
      
      Nick Cage should be copy-pasted into every movie ever, as an awesome form of protest.
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        Redmond Barry was Irish, so Ryan O’Neil adopted an Irish accent.
ackpht

Entertaining for a trailer, but nothing at all like the film- fortunately!
- niktemadur
  
  Yep, this gives the scent of:
  “2001: A Space Odyssey”, starring Nicholas Cage and Megan Fox, with a whiff of:
  “From the producers of (some box office flavor-of-the-month four years ago) comes the most thrilling ride of the millennium”. With no mention whatsoever of the director.
  - jerwin
    
    Kubrick produced.
    
    From the Executive Producer of “Paths of Glory?”
rrh

Missing the BWAAP! And the shots at the beginning are straight cuts when they are contractually required to be fading in and out of black.

(Reads other, favourable, comments)

Wait, do you mean they might be … sincere?
Jasonclock

1:35 Keir Duella still has (had) one of the most amazing faces, ever. Also, 2nd “exile”‘s Ligeti comment above. Hear hear.
http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson

When I was a kid, and cable TV was still a new phenomenon, “2001: A Space Odyssey” came on HBO. It blew my mind. But my friends in Junior High were unimpressed. ”It was boring, nothing like Star Wars!”
yupgiboy

Yeah, it was MGM. A real film geek would have put a “Cinerama 70 in selected theaters” logo at the end, too.
Val Lindsay

I love it for no other reason it shows how modern trailers destroy movies before you see them. Can’t we go back to the time of trailers like The Shining, please?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6qDqdYY6-Y
- penguinchris
  
  In college (graduated 2008) I was part of the movie club, and we showed second-run movies every weekend on campus (we got the 35mm prints for cheap around the same time that the movies showed up in the cheap theaters). For three years my job was to put together the promo stuff for before the movie, including trailers for upcoming films.
  
  One year for Halloween we showed The Shining (a 35mm print!) and I was stunned when I found the trailer for it (even though I’d seen the film before). I was obsessed with movie trailers at that point because I was watching so many of them, and that one still blows me away.
  
  So I was really excited when that trailer was going to play before the previous two weeks worth of films. I went in the theater (actually a large lecture hall) to watch how people would react. I was disappointed though because I couldn’t tell if anybody even cared. But, then four or five times as many people showed up for The Shining than they did for most movies we showed so that was good.
snagglepuss

My god, it’s full of win.