2001: A Space Odyssey Breakdown | Easter Eggs, Hidden Details, Making Of & Ending Explained

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I had the opportunity to see 2001 in IMAX back in 2018 for the 50th anniversary. I was one of just TWO people in the theater and the scenes in space freaked me out as I felt as if I was actually in space myself because the theater was so immense and dark. It was definitely an experience and the final half of the film felt super creepy with the eerie music.

I watched this alone on a rented VHS when I was about 13 and it was by turns terrifying, intriguing, boring, confusing, fascinating, awe-inspiring, heartbreaking, and haunting. What a cinematic experience this is

'Open the pod bay door, HAL' "Dave's not here, man..."

A couple years ago Keir Dulla attended a "classic movie" screening of 2001 at my hometown theater as a guest speaker. It was freakish, he literally looked like he walked out of the hotel room, aged, white hair and all, and sat down to answer questions. Awesome night.

The BEST cinema experience I've ever had was when I watched 2001 in 2001. When the movie ended not a SINGLE person said a word or got up during the credits. Everybody sat there pondering while the credits were rolling until the screen went finally blank. Epic.

I was 14 in 1969. No one - and I mean no one - knew what this movie meant. Many discussions around the dinner table and many discussions passing around the weed. People were perplexed. Now I feel we have grown into this startling film. Brilliant work.

Actually, the book 2001 came out AFTER the movie. The screenplay was developed from the original story the Sentinel, and the story was expanded with additional material (basically the whole Discovery storyline). Clarke then expanded the final screenplay and changed a few things to make it more to his liking.

It's interesting how just about every look into this film misses the recurring theme of the Monolith shape in many scenes. It even seen in the shape of Hal. It's the shape of the lighting in some scenes and lots of other elements. It's almost like Kubrick wants you to be super saturated by this shape.

I don't recall if they go over this in the movie but in the book it is a bit more spelled out (though you still have to read between the lines a little) that HAL was driven insane by the contradictory instructions given to it at the beginning of the mission, specifically "give the crew accurate information about the mission" and "keep this part of the mission secret from the crew." HAL could not reconcile those two competing but contradictory instructions and decided the only way it could fulfill both was by killing the crew.

I was 17 y. o. when 2001 came out; it was a visual masterpiece. The movie story was a great topic of conversation in college classes. Not surprised it is still holding up!

This is definitely one of the greatest movies ever made. You don't gotta like it, or have it on your top ten, but you can't deny it's a real piece of art.

My all-time favorite movie. I loved the jump cut from the bone to the space craft, and was surprised to note something similar in the 1944 Powell-Pressburger film A Canterbury Tale, a cut between a falcon and a Spitfire. I thought that might be where Kubrick found his inspiration for his awesome cut.

The monolith is actually terrifying. Forget primitive hominids, I would be freaked out if I woke up one morning and there was one standing in my front yard.

I saw this film during the original release in the Cinerama Theater in Honolulu. The multiple projectors on wrap-around screens and multi-track sound through synchronized speakers created a sense of motion so real the audience was actually there in the story. It was fascinating and horrifying all at the same time.

Isn't funny how much more we appreciate a non-CGI movie when it is done so well? The early Bond movies too, where the stunts were actually done by real people. It is incredible that our perception and brains are capable of discerning the difference.

Arthur C. Clark wrote, in his autobiography, about his working with Kubrick on the film. He also ended up attending the Academy Awards ceremony. That was also the same year that "Planet of the Apes" came out. When the award for best makeup went to "Planet of the Apes" with their rubber monkey masks, which weren't in the same league as the characters in "The Dawn of Man" scenes, Clarke wrote: "I stood up and wondered, as loudly as I could, 'WHAT DO YOU THINK? THAT WE USED REAL APES?"

2001 isn't a movie, its art

I like your catch about HAL learning to read lips while playing chess. Here's another--when Dave shows him the drawings, HAL asks him to bring them closer. That's significant because HAL is actually looking closely at the pictures, thinking about them. He's not just feigning interest to humor Dave. It suggests some interiority. He freaks out, because he makes himself vulnerable to his closest confidant, Dave, about his deepest secret, and Dave doesn't get it. He basically sees HAL as a machine, not a friend.

I was 8 years old when my mother took me to see it. While I didn't understand most of what happened, I liked it while my mother hated it for basically the same reason. After I found the novel at the local bookstore, I begged my mother to buy it and she did. My like turned into love. Incidentally I met Keir Dullea at a media SF convention 10 years ago. I asked him if he met Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL, and he said "No." When I asked him if he and Gary Lockwood kept in touch, he said "Yes. A few years ago, I was his guest when he attended a Star Trek Convention." I was pleasantly surprised by the second answer and just surprised by the first.