Comments on: 2001: A Summer Blockbuster

By: billstewart

billstewart — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 03:09:00 +0000

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.

By: FrakSnark

FrakSnark — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:44:00 +0000

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.

By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:03:00 +0000

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.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:58:00 +0000

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.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:07:00 +0000

Wow. That’s some terrible, generic stuff. I’m very grateful Kubrick rejected it.

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:49:00 +0000

My god, it’s full of win.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:54:00 +0000

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…

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:56:00 +0000

Read this several times as "Love" is quite boring MMO".

By: serpent

serpent — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:43:00 +0000

That just means recreational drugs are not for you.

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:10:00 +0000

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

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:06:00 +0000

Don’t forget Mohammed Ali, also a candidate for a while.

By: Val Lindsay

Val Lindsay — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:47:00 +0000

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

By: Gimlet_eye

Gimlet_eye — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:47:00 +0000

I think so. I hope that the inclusion of the famous bone/satellite cut as a sort of heavy-handed spoiler was also intentional.

By: yupgiboy

yupgiboy — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:08:00 +0000

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

By: chris jimson

chris jimson — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:21:00 +0000

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!”

By: chellberty

chellberty — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:07:00 +0000

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

By: Jasonclock

Jasonclock — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:05:00 +0000

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

By: Al Billings

Al Billings — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:59:00 +0000

I just feel sleepy when I watch 2001.

By: Felton / Moderator

Felton / Moderator — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:31:00 +0000

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?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:15:00 +0000

Redmond Barry was Irish, so Ryan O’Neil adopted an Irish accent.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:08:00 +0000

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.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:03:00 +0000

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.

By: chellberty

chellberty — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:15:00 +0000

unsubstantiated rumor is that Kubrick wanted Pink Floyd to score it.

By: jerwin

jerwin — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:37:00 +0000

Kubrick produced.

From the Executive Producer of “Paths of Glory?”

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:10:00 +0000

You forgot jiggling cleavage.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:48:00 +0000

Isn’t that the point?

By: rrh

rrh — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:50:00 +0000

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?

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Man, then you should definitely check out “Barry Lyndon”, all swordfights and duels and shit.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:47:00 +0000

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.

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:24:00 +0000

That last 10% was the psychedelic sequence, wasn’t it?