2001: A Space Odyssey [VHS]

2001: A Space Odyssey [VHS]
by Stanley Kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey [VHS]

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Actor: Daniel Richter, Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea, Leonard Rossiter, William Sylvester
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Producer: Victor Lyndon
Writer: Arthur C. Clarke
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; Russian (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 141 minutes
Release Date: 1999-06-29
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Studio: Turner Home Ent

VHS Movie Reviews of 2001: A Space Odyssey [VHS]

Movie Review: Worthy Update
Summary: 5 Stars

I bought this DVD as a gift for my father. The version he had was in Beta (kind of a long time ago) and was really bad quality. The DVD format works wonderfully for the film, especially during the last scene with all the colors as the character travels through space. The extras on the second CD are very interesting and clear up a few of the doubts viewers are left with after watching the whole film. Fun fact: the film even includes the original intermission.

Movie Review: Better than the DVD, just as good from the theater.
Summary: 5 Stars

I would highly recommend getting this movie in Blu-ray. I have both the DVD and the Blu-ray, and after watching the Blu-ray and then comparing it to the DVD - you can tell a big differance. This movie over all is a classic, it's one of Stanley Bubrick first movies and one of his best next to Full Metal Jacket. I am kind of appalled by some of the 1 stars from people who say that this movie sucks - they may be young guys who have grown up with movies with CGI and other films with better special effect but you have to understand that this movie was made in 1967 also. I love this movie and it's a great film and I would recomend this to anyone who has seen this movie and has a blu-ray.

Movie Review: 2001 ASO: Blu-ray vs. DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

Don't confuse the reviews here between the DVD version and the Blu-ray version. I bought the Blu-ray vesrion and it is GREAT! Like watching it in the theater again. Highly recommended title.

Movie Review: Mommy, there's a monolith in my bedroom!
Summary: 5 Stars

2001: A Space Odyssey, despite having a title that is hard to spell, is one of the best science fiction films I have personally watched. As an aside, I watched this on Amazon Unbox, but they edited out the scene where HAL kills the crew and Frank Poole, but I digress.

2001 starts at the dawn of time, where we follow a tribe of pre-human apes who have a tough time getting food, between the tapers and the other gangs of apes wandering around, scaring them out of their waterhole, etc. Reminds me of high school.

Ah but with the touch of the mysterious Monolith, they gain the knowledge to kill, to use tools and beat up on the apes who want their watering hole. And with a toss of a bone, we segue to..... a Pan-American shuttle, bound for the Hilton Space Station and the Moon.

Clever innuendos and interesting items of what the future (as seen from 1968) will bring, such as freeze-dried food, zero gravity toilets and sure-grip shoes. And Pac Bell will charge your calls to Earth on your credit card.

Dr. Hayward Ford is bound for the Moon to brief the crew there about the necessity of a cover story to disguise what has been found there: a Monolith that was buried deep for four million years. I suppose when Man's technology was high enough to detect the magnetic radiation, he would be ready for his next step in evolution.

It is funny how the astronauts gather around the Monolith for a photo, before the Monolith makes clear it does NOT like to get its picture taken~

The rest of the film revolves around the HAL 9000 computer and its Frankenstein-like ways. Starring Keir Dullea as Dave Bowman (our future Star Child) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood, also known for his earlier Star Trek appearance).

The last 20 minutes of the film involve the Monolith: the journey Dave takes through a trippy color scheme, odd purple-colored landscapes and oddest of all -- a white living-room, dazzling white, as he sees himself evolve, and get progressively older and older and then the climax.

The awesome Strauss music is great to behold; the mysterious choir that seems to follow the Monolith around everywhere, and of course Stan Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke create a bit of cinematic magic -- and without explosions or CGI (which wasn't invented yet, but I digress).

Highly recommended!

There are parodies and other hardcore space adventures that must be watched as well:

2001 - A Space Travesty
From the Earth to the Moon - The Signature Edition
When We Left Earth - The NASA Missions (4-Disc Set) [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: Inspiration
Summary: 4 Stars

Kubrick's masterpiece was the inspiration that began a new age of science fiction films, and his inovations (stargate sequence) led to development of cgi and motion capture.

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Summary of 2001: A Space Odyssey [VHS]

When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on "the proverbial intelligent science fiction film," it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel," 2001 is a visual tone poem (barely 40 minutes of dialogue in a 139-minute film) that charts a phenomenal history of human evolution. From the dawn-of-man discovery of crude but deadly tools in the film's opening sequence to the journey of the spaceship Discovery and metaphysical birth of the "star child" at film's end, Kubrick's vision is meticulous and precise. In keeping with the director's underlying theme of dehumanization by technology, the notorious, seemingly omniscient computer HAL 9000 has more warmth and personality than the human astronauts it supposedly is serving. (The director also leaves the meaning of the black, rectangular alien monoliths open for discussion.) This theme, in part, is what makes 2001 a film like no other, though dated now that its postmillennial space exploration has proven optimistic compared to reality. Still, the film is timelessly provocative in its pioneering exploration of inner- and outer-space consciousness. With spectacular, painstakingly authentic special effects that have stood the test of time, Kubrick's film is nothing less than a cinematic milestone--puzzling, provocative, and perfect. --Jeff Shannon

When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on "the proverbial intelligent science fiction film," it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel," 2001 is a visual tone poem (barely 40 minutes of dialogue in a 139-minute film) that charts a phenomenal history of human evolution. From the dawn-of-man discovery of crude but deadly tools in the film's opening sequence to the journey of the spaceship Discovery and metaphysical birth of the "star child" at film's end, Kubrick's vision is meticulous and precise. In keeping with the director's underlying theme of dehumanization by technology, the notorious, seemingly omniscient computer HAL 9000 has more warmth and personality than the human astronauts it supposedly is serving. (The director also leaves the meaning of the black, rectangular alien monoliths open for discussion.) This theme, in part, is what makes 2001 a film like no other, though dated now that its postmillennial space exploration has proven optimistic compared to reality. Still, the film is timelessly provocative in its pioneering exploration of inner- and outer-space consciousness. With spectacular, painstakingly authentic special effects that have stood the test of time, Kubrick's film is nothing less than a cinematic milestone--puzzling, provocative, and perfect. --Jeff Shannon

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