2001: A Space Odyssey
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Writer: Stanley Kubrick; Arthur C. Clarke
- Producer: Stanley Kubrick; Victor Lyndon
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Considered to be one of the greatest films ever made...why on Earth it got this accolade is a tautological infallability!
Yes, it does have one of the greatest edits ever...but, that comes right at the beginning, the rest remains to be dreary.
As for gay content...HAL's a bit camp!!!
A film best viewed with a finger firmly depressed on the FF button.
We take great joy in imagining the condemnation hurling its way towards us...courtesy of the pseudo-film-academics. Babies, take a reality pill...it's an extremely boring film. The book was good though!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
'2001' is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.
Cast & Characters
Keir Dullea as Dr. Dave Bowman;
Gary Lockwood as Dr. Frank Poole;
William Sylvester as Dr. Heywood R. Floyd;
Daniel Richter as Moon-Watcher;
Leonard Rossiter as Dr. Andrei Smyslov;
Margaret Tyzack as Elena;
Robert Beatty as Dr. Ralph Halvorsen;
Sean Sullivan as Dr. Bill Michaels;
Douglas Rain as HAL 9000;
Frank Miller as Mission Controller;
Bill Weston as Astronaut;
Ed Bishop as Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain;
Glenn Beck as Astronaut;
Alan Gifford as Poole's Father;
Ann Gillis as Poole's Mother