Just watched 2001:A space Odyssey

2010 offers less...

Nah 2010 is better

I loved the movie, never saw 2010 though...

Wow.. Incredible synchronicity!!!

My last post on before I reloaded the GLP main page and saw this thread was: "I've seen more realistic space images on that movie.. What was it called? Oh yeah! 2001: A Space Odyssey."

On this thread: Thread: Moon Hoax Apollo 11 : Astronaut Neil says -One Giant Leap For Walt Disney Bullshit

2001 is epic,
2010 is normal SciFi...

watched both back to back and I agree

Watch it again OP.

Its all high masonic allegory. The porch Masons wont understand.

Has anyone ever figured our WHY they are named as such? The two different dates?

It's now 2010!

Ribbit

2001 space oddity, Kabbalah, tree of life, path to the stars and enlightenment, formerly alchemy, just a bunch of stupid junk. But hey, at least it keeps the people that feel the need to join secret cults in the right place, hehehe.

Maybe 2010 is really 2012 after all???

I liked 2010 a lot. It helped explain or make sense of some parts of 2001 that made no sense at all.

the book is easier to follow no doubt about it.

Tried it again to no avail. I think it allows to much thought time with all the dead space. Epic hmmmm I can't see it. Time consuming yes the story line just drifts along then the end again "OMG" a color fest even my daughter made a comment "is anything going to happen daddy" Nope!

THIS IS CETI ALPHA V!

thought 2010 wasn't that great, 2001 is better

i tried to watch it again with my 12 year old. i told him what a great movie it was. we quit after the monkeys. monolith had just created man.

HAL. Next letter after H is I. After A is B. After L is M.

2010 the movie and 2010 the book were not really very close.

+1

2010 is way better

OOOOOOhhh sooooooo sssllloooowwllllyyyyyy it creeps.

No. 2010 at least tells you what in the Hell is going on.

thus spake zarathustra

i thought it was going to show how apes got so smart
but no,it was all pointless

this is the most retarded movie ever.

do not watch this movie

i want 2 hours and some mins back of my life

i repeat.do not watch this crap

2001 had plenty of meaning.

The monoliths were placed by aliens to spurn spontaneous evolution by influencing minds, they were essentially 'broadcasting' ideas and intellectual evolution. When the monkeys encountered the first one it was broadcasting the idea to use tools. That one single event triggered the entire rise of man.

When man found the monolith on the moon, it activated the Jupiter monolith, as man was now ready for it's final evolution.

During the space mission, HAL began to go crazy because as they approached the Jupiter monolith, it's broadcast began to affect him. It was designed for a human/organic intelligence, not HAL, but since he had rudimentary intelligence it affected him as well, with bad results.

In the book, the Jupiter monolith was actually a stargate, that sent Dave to an alien world to meet the makers of the monoliths.

In Kubrick's version however, when Dave reached the Jupiter monolith, it evolved him to a higher life form, to meet the higher dimensional beings who created the monolith. The crazy light show we see is Kubrick's way of visually illustrating Dave's mind being evolved, his perception of dimension and reality shifting drastically, and his mind struggling to comprehend it.

The final mindfuck scenes, are Dave existing in the higher dimension, dying and letting go of his earthly body and who he thought he was, at which point he is reborn as a new being.

It couldn't be more meaningful, and awesome. I'm sorry there weren't wookies and spaceships blowing up, but if you watch it in the right frame of mind, it's a pretty meaningful film.

Kubrick's Odyssey II Trailer

[link to www.youtube.com]

Ahh, front row - bag of brownies.

How come you are still awake?

just search kubrick's odyssey
part 1 and 2

at pirate bay
and watch it