unfortunately it wasn't such thing in that time, but just like how many negative reviews got Citizen Kane.

The critics trashed 2001 but audiences adored it. It was the second highest-grossing movie of the year because it struck such a chord with pretty much everyone not paid to write about movies, essentially repeating what happened with Bonnie and Clyde the year before. Culture was changing rapidly and it took the critics several years to really catch up with the "New Hollywood" mindset and start to praise movies for experimenting the way 2001 did.

+Sean Gentry This was also a huge departure from Dr. Strangelove, Spartacus, and Lolita.

Because of the state of visual effects?... or the fact that acid was quite easy to get your hands on? :P

Yes I did see it with my family in Sept. of 1968 I was only 11 y.o. 2001: A Space Odyssey was shown in "Cinerama" theaters throughout the US which were these HUGE CURVED movie screen theaters which made the movie viewer feel like they were right in the movie action. The opening scene with the hominids discovering technology and the final 20 minutes of "Star Gate" Infinity and beyond had a huge impact on me at the time. I kept asking my father what it all meant. He had a hard time explaining it. After I read the novel in high school, I understood better ---- I think. Kubrick is a genius.

Nope. I'm right here with you 0~0

I know right, when I first watched it I was screaming to stop.

0Paronomasia0 Why the fuck did you feel anxiety

me too. i felt like i was tripping!

Anxiety of I dont know....Lovecraftian MADNESS. That's what I feel.

Around 2 years to make.

Slit-scan, aerial skyshots, etc. The slit-scan alone took several months to do, almost about a year, and litteraly almost nonstop shooting.

Kubrick found a way.

This is the most boring shit I've ever seen.

because youre 12

maybe the fact that it's silently observes and cause humanities, birth, death, and transcendence?

+Edward Charles You really want your mind blown? The monolith has the proportions 1x4x9. All 3 were different sizes yet it was always in that ratio. Now get ready for this: that's the same ratio of a movie theater screen. A lot of fans suggest that its meant to mean that we are essentially watching the movie through the monolith itself.

+Lorlic1138 Wow...that's the most meta thing i've ever heard.

+Lorlic1138 1x4x9 was actually just the squares of the first three intergers (1^2=1, 2^2=4, 3^2=9) But I really *really* want to believe this theory.

+TheRecreator It also comes from the fact that this movie is sort of an Anti-Propaganda Propaganda movie. That comes into play with the Monolith as the Movie Screen level of the film. That's why there's monolith music over the black beginning, intermission, and after the credits, we're looking at the monolith filling the screen, about to present us with the movie. In an early draft of the script the monolith had images showing on it that would instruct the apes, but it was cut for being too blatant.

he was more like when you're on a cosmic roller coaster, but at the speed of light

That's my brain dealing with college algebra.

Well I think it's scary

I don't know how you adore those shots but for me it's terrifying in two ways A. It just shows us how much Dave is going through this weird time gate B. Just the brief appearance of a disturbed/disturbing face appearing at random moments accompanied with ominous music is just straight up terrifying and creepy I'm sure some people can agree

@@StanleyLikesCyan that's why it's great

Ottimo esempio di cinema sperimentale

Ha

When I was a child and Flintstones watcher, I made sure my folks only got me a different kind of vitamin, because I was afraid eating one would force me to say "yabba dabba doo!" like the boy in the commercial. So it's probably a good idea I did not see this great movie until many years later on a VHS tape.

not funny kid

​@@PrivateerJimmyyes it was. Go be miserable somewhere else.

~ It is longer in the movie; it goes into the room where the floor is lit up and Bowman ages, etc.

I remember watching this half sleep years ago. It felt like it lasted hours and I was very disorientated when the film ended

Buddypal ~ I don't get your point. The original post said this scene seemed to be much longer in the actual movie. It was, as this scene continues. It has nothing to do with the monkeys at the beginning of the movie, it was about this particular sequence. This clip stops before the entire sequence ends.

@Smokey 420 people would die

@Smokey 420 in VR, 3D and in a vibrating chair

Cosmic horror, as H.P. Lovecraft would put.

It is. These kind of movies that scare you like this are called Thrillers.

Obviously This is a romance film in the sense of reaching to unknown.

This seems more like an existential horror.

fuck horror ......

Samuel Black Yeah man, I was fucking scared when I saw that scene for the very first time.

Samuel Black Um, why did you find it creepy? When I saw this the first time, it blew me away and left me speechless. I was even more shocked to learn that the movie was filmed in the very late 1960s. This truly is the grandfather of modern sci fi films.

+Samuel Black It is a horror film.

+Samuel Black 50th like dude!

+Samuel Black it`s not creepy it`s beautifull

Miguel Pereira this was filmed in England except for the helicopter shots and a scene of a couple in a car that plays on a tv screen which was filmed in the outskirts of Detroit.

John Duncan it’s still an American movie made by an American director.

jim treebob I think he was using Hollywood as a blanket term for the English speaking film industry

@@johnduncan4387 It's not a useful term though

I think people who like soad also like Stanley :)

funnily, done only so they could stitch two stargate shots together without one too obvious cut

he's not "in pain". there's no description for what he's experiencing.

​@@plasticweapon the most logical explanation would definitely be fear and being absolutely terrified by what he is experiencing before being put in the French room by the aliens.

Interstellar was a movie about hope though, this is purely existential horror

@@Valleyraven007 Interstellar was trying too hard to win Oscars. 2001 couldn't care less about that.

Thank you for mentioning the still shots, a lot of people in the comments seem to have glazed over them. It makes the whole experience twice as uncomfortable, knowing that the character we're holding onto for dear life is losing his own grip. It's terrifying, and genious editing.

His eyes blinking with those colors in my opinion was the prelude to his recapitulation(rebirth) he was living his life within a moments time seeming ready to die, then being reborn into the indestructable starchild.

The shots of Dave's face and the solarized eye scenes were actually meant to be transitions. I think that they did a good job.

The eye shot is probably the new enlightened david

Go through something like that and try saying it wouldn't reduce you to screaming madness and I'll call you a fucking liar.

I did, at the age of 14. It was marvelous. There had never been anything like it in movies before.

@@hebneh That must have been one hell of an experience!

@@hebneh I'm so jealous.

In 70MM too...

Dude, I experienced the exact same thing. I truly went beyond the infinite, it was like a meditative, mystical state.

I was in a mystical state from beginning to end of this film. If you watch it correctly and surrender your whole mind and eyes to this film, you will have a spiritual orgasm.

eclipsesonic You'd think they took some keta when designing this part of the film, or some other dissociative psychedelic. If it's an allegory of anything, it's that. At least judging from my experiences with psilocybin and others' reports of ketamine.

***** I think I know what you mean... The nervous system acting as a filter by default, right? With psychedelics removing that filter. As much as I like the idea, especially from a disenchantment perspective, I don't believe it's true. But maybe that's the thing... we can never be sure about what's real and what's not, so we might as well believe in the things we like, that soothe us most. Create our own truth. If that's more satisfying to us, then it is truer for all intents and purposes. "Dissociative" merely means the mental experience gets disconnected from the physical. It doesn't hold a negative connotation by itself.

A more sober way to put it, yes.

Niebuhr And also David Lynch.

Hardly mad, but i get your point.

And there's no indication that he ever did drugs! I do have to wonder, however, if he ever partied with Salvador Dali.

Imagine being someone in the audience who decided to drop acid before this scene happened

@@crimsondynamo615 Allegedly, after the premiere, a man came up to Arthur C. Clarke and gave him an envelope of powder, saying "This'll give you a great trip" or something like that. Clarke flushed it down the toilet!

Yes all movi have shot scene beatiful

LetsPlayGames2Day This iconic director died right after he warned us (Eyes Wide Shut --> content of his last movie)

+LetsPlayGames2Day I think that Kubrick, Bergman, and Tarkovsky, are without a doubt the greatest imagery based directors, without question.

+Brad McIntosh many black people die at around 50. So 70 IS a long life. WTF

+Paula Anna Jackson How do many black people die around 50? And Stanley Kubrick is white so what is your point?

uyy7uhy he lived a long ass life. many people dont live nearly that long.

ikr

Isn't that what "art" is all about?

Eardrum Buzzer ikr

The best art is always disturbing

Art should always challenge us. If it just gives us pleasure it's not really art, it's a facade.

SnivyDroid , Eleventh Oscars

My God, i can't hear this "ahead of his time" anymore. He's more ahead of our time than of his time, the sixties were THE decade of visonary artists.

Yeah, CGI was'nt technically that good when it comes to movie making. Except Pixars and Dreamworks. Also, most of Speilberg's film from now was decent and has more CGI that maybe unique in different ways (e.g. Ready One Player where all of the references of movies and video games were fighting each other even Kubrick's films like The Shining). But sadly, we have many explosions and lack of greater tone and CGI must have took over Hollywood. Maybe because Hollywood does'nt allow practical effects to live on because it's not all about money but it's all about things that they say it's "dangerous" and "curse" like Wizard Of Oz, where behind-the-scenes looks tragic as well as Poltergeist. And now, practical effects is'nt safe for actors especially with dangerous materials. And this is how CGI was made... to keep the actors safe from harm. And no one got hurt during the behind-the-scene stories. But I agreed with both modern and practical technology. It was just sad that movies really sucked except most Pixar films nowadays. Pixars does'nt need practical effects to make good movies. This made the animated studio looks like a stop-motion studio other than a CGI that we know we in love.

Christopher Nolan has made some epic movies

He could finish Napoleon just imagine that

Best film ever made

I agree. It is my #1. Special effects, musical score, open ended narrative. 1966 he made this. Just a stunning achievement

+Yoruba Nationalist i always felt that way

+Yoruba Nationalist Or Stanley Kubrick was in LSD.

+Yoruba Nationalist The answer to life, the universe, and everything is............. ......42. THIS VIDEO EXPLAINS THE TRUE MEANING OF 42.

+Yoruba Nationalist That's a simple way to explain such a complicated meaning. I like it.

***** Unless you're joking, you're not a good listener. This scene represents all the studying done to space and how in the end we will still not understand some things. It's not the scene that's complex it's the idea they're teaching us.

Lavernius Tucker what

i feel ya brother

Try differential equations. While at the same time taking computer science (coding). You do not know pain. PS, Algebra 1 is easy.

Seventh grade Algebra 1 "Oh god its full of stars!"

Jazz Funny enough I'm putting off those two things so I can watch this video.

Underrated

💀

I rented this movie last night. Believing if anyone could decipher it would be me and my buddies. We thought wrong.

***** Yup, same here! The experience is otherwordly, so I couldn't even fathom a correct emotion :s

almost as moving as Jimmy Cameron's titanic

I see you here in yet another outlandish video! And agreed, who knows what you're looking at, and what will become of you ultimately. What must be tearing through your conscious, assuming that were still intact...

Absolutely. And I would be like well. i guess i csn kiss esrth goodbye.

DemonWarp65 This scene introduced me to Kubrick and so...I knew my life purpose.

@Bee Zo I think he was just moving so fast through everything he didn't really have any control over his facial expression. I mean it's a basic human being like you and I traveling at probably light-speed if not faster through the cosmos. He was aware of what he was seeing for sure, probably just moving too fast and in too much of shock to not look scared. His face was just stuck basically.

I noticed years later he pukes twice. The speed.. the visual..alchemy. Im almost certain Dookey was additionally present.😲

Personally, I've never felt comfortable when people keep trying to pull literal "aliens" into explanations of this movie. I know that Arthur C. Clarke's book(s) indulge in detailed technical explanations, right down to painfully geeky constructions like giving the apes cute spacey names like "Stargazer". But Kubrick saw something very different in this material -- something only a film can do. He saw the basic shape of a fever-dream that covers the lifespan of the entire Human race -- a piece of visual and musical poetry that needs no explanation, but goes straight to the back of any brain that lets it in. Kubrick showed no aliens in "2001", and didn't need to. The presence of a higher intelligence that haunts the film could just as easily be emanating from the deep mind of Man, or from the vast universe itself, as from any particular little green monsters. Frankly, my feeling of awe and wonder is eternally thankful that Kubrick made this decision, and left Clarke's rather conventional sci-fi fascinations far behind.

+Ian Shields we never see the aliens, though. Hell, they're barely even explained, there's 3/4ths of a page with a bare bones bare bones history, a name, a motive (the propagation and protection of intelligent life motivated by cosmic loneliness) and...that's about it. It doesn't matter if you're uncomfortable with it, something built the monolith and Bowman fell through a Stargate. Clark never made it cliché little green men, in fact he avoided it by making the aliens completely absent until 3001 jumped the shark. Personally, think the book (the original book with the monolith orbiting saturn, not the movie-redux version) is better than the film, but the film is still a masterpiece.

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It's my favourite too. In fact i came to yutube to see it.

Great insight. Very interesting..

Still is today

"Groundhog Day" (1993) is a timeless movie too..... ;-)

+Bluegorilla101 true so much crap today couldn't even compare...

bombergal1 Ahead of what time? Do you really think if it was released now it would receive a different reaction? It would probably be even more negative because of how fast paced everything has become. It wasn't ahead of its time, it just is another part of art innovation in history.

+gcHK47 Kids thats how LSD was created

Dude nah DMT helped Kubrick create this

+gcHK47 Not. Even. Close

+gcHK47 all these squares make a circle.

+gcHK47 Believe it or not, 2001 didn't do too well in the box office until all the young people found out about this sequence and started to buy tickets just to watch it whilst they were high.

+stealthunter14 Stimulate your senses....

+stealthunter14 that would be such a cool advert!!!

Omfg hahahahaha ! I lost it to your joke thank you.

stealthunter14 I

Did they put a high dose of LSD in the gum?

That's why I could relate when I was all by myself in the big cinema at the age of ten.

+Revrot Cubrick?

*Kubrick, thx.

Quite a lot for someone to take in

I'm sorry what one more time in English this time

"A greater realm." I like that, and everything else that you say. There seemed to be a tribute to life as well. Was that sperm shooting forward? Life itself, which cannot be defeated if given the most minute chance?

scott nevard - (Music by Gyorgi Ligeti, for those of you scoring at home.)

@Laleen Darshika Grandpa knows best.

@Laleen Darshika Wow, nice

@jubjub 86 Give examples, please. Not arguing, I just want good movies to watch lol

@jubjub 86 Sci-fi, specifically things like 2001 or Interstellar

Leelius lol

Heffman55 Tomlinson From what I understand, Kubrick used those classical pieces because he said satellites spinning in space reminded him of twirling dancers in a ballroom during a waltz.

There was this little dollar theater in Kansas City, MO (gone now sadly) which on Mondays and Tuesdays would show older films on the big screen. Was fortunate enough to see this there and wow! If you've ever the chance to hunt down a theater like that, even if you have to drive hours away, it is worth the experience in every way possible.

+SlamifiedBuddafied I just saw this last week at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Phil playing the Strauss and Ligeti pieces live. It was utterly transcendental

+SlamifiedBuddafied I saw it once in a Theater, fittingly enough in 2001 during the films limited reissue. And wow... I can still remember how quiet, even awestruck, the Audience became when the Stargate-Scene started! :O

+WolfMonsieur i think the next best thing would be ridley Scott's new film The Martian I was an ass and got to lazy to even go and watch Interstellar which was a big mistake considering it's one of the best space films we have, and a big shame on my behalf. Alien Prometheus The martian Interstellar 2001: A space odyssey By far the best space films ever made you can include Star Trek too depending on who you ask

That would have been a transcendent experience.

Fan of King Crimson and one of the greatest movies of all time? Nice

+Victor Nica dont start blowing him just yet, jeeze.

+Maximilian Bernard (Brollyhero93) Probably the most prescient Sci-Fi movie ever made.

Maximilian Bernard nice profile pic.

Ikr

Atmospheres by György Ligeti

Yes, as others have said, it's 'Atmospheres' by György Ligeti, who never gave permission for it to be used, and indeed didn't know it had been used until after the movie came out. I'm not sure if he got anything from it.

That's the idea.

Wrong. It's the best film of all time!

Well, yes.But feature films were a product of the 20th Century more or less....It will stand the test of time.

+Adam Timmo No, Avengers Age of Ultron was better.

LOL

The 3 of us should meet up and watch this film together, go have a few drinks afterward and talk about what we just saw.

Kind of ironic Hal got his revenge. I guess Dave was scared now 😱

We all are

Don't be..

It's pretty shocking that he didn't even ask Ligeti for permission though

Roy Batty meets Dave Bowman.

+MidnightOnTheThirdDay or simply The Kubrick.

Released in 1968..so not made in 1960 !

“My God, it’s full of stars”.

Sorry, what? What’s your proof? The technology to fake it LITERALLY DIDN’T EXIST YET

Anyone who thinks the moon landing was fake is just stupid and not worth the time

Also, I know that sounds old, but Star Wars was released only 9 years after this.

For a flat brimmed hat loser maybe

@@lfc4life440 Wow ur so badass dude

I feel you bro

you have an awfully high opinion of girls.

stop

no

yep

Kubrik: You are in!!!

" *HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHA* "

9:22 yet through the seemingly arbitrary “cosmic horror” (the eye color changes) the higher intelligence brings Bowman back, psychologically shattered but as we see in the following scenes, the hero who has fully risen to meet the “Gods’” challenge.

In the theatre it felt like 30 min, now i realise how short it really is

4/15/1968, if i remember correctly. I remember when i first went to the garden theatre. When i saw the stills, and photos, i said nah! But my curiosity exceeded my. Momentary critique, i went to watch it- and through the decades watched it until i bought it. And when oppertunity arises, i will watch it again. Even today, i still find interesting things which i never saw before in it. And to put classical music in it to make up for the scenes in outer space because theres no sound in the airless vaccume of space- phenomenal.

Matt Somerville, MA theater on Oct. 1st in 70mm, live right by it I cant wait!

I never understood the Ending. I had 2 different ending explanation theories but none of them was correct. one of them I have already shared, the other I will share with you. I thought when HAL killed one of his friends, He somehow could "Warp drive" too Jupiter. it turned out he could not, he just entered a Black hole (Which is stupid because no Holes exist near Jupiter and would take him to a different universe, Perhaps Parallel Universe) in it he flew into an E.T Space Station that Looked like a Mansion home of some sort. Inside the E.T'S never had any Physical forms, they could only take on his form or manipulate his mind into believing they were many of him. in this lack of confusion, it seemed he was stuck in the No-Time forever, his ship will eventually run out of FUEL. inside he has become Psychological damaged. The lack of Earth's atmosphere and Oxygen has fried his brain. The aliens was the ones who allowed HAL to have consciousness. as the astronauts seem to turn on "HAL" the aliens are working against the cosmonauts. They killed his friend and now it's his turn to be imprisoned. they allowed him to see only so much of what he was experiencing and perhaps to allow to see the room for "Not how it really looked, but perhaps the way his home looked on earth" it was all to confuse him even more so. in doing so, he was being experimented on (Probably even strapped down) but his mind was elsewhere. it was stuck in the Paradox of illusion. he was already dead at this point, and this only helped to strength his hallucinations. he was truly a lost soul in space. since Heaven and Hell doesn't exist in the movie, you don't get to see it when you die. what you do get to see is something more of a Pantheistic wonder. you get to see not just yourself when you was a baby, when you 6, 9 , 12 simultaneously etc, you start to see the earth, other planets, everything that ever existed doing everything it has done, will done for time immemorial. you have transcended to the Highest Dimension. at one point, he will transform into GOD. (which isn't a man, it's just the state of being everywhere simultaneously) Universal Consciousness etc. and then he will transmute into another body hence reincarnation and be. a Starseed back on earth or as an E.T on another planet. this behind the scope of the movie so it ends here. the sequel moves on to another storyline.

Same it's the music and the overwhelming colours

The rating system was a lot more lenient back then.

The creepiest is the music when they discover the rectangular object on the moon and this scene. Those are the only parts I believe were where kids from the 60s prolly got scared.

@rgtrooper13 *Cotton Hill voice* "I killed *Fiddy* men!" 😁

Jacob Clark. Absolutely

+Zach Reed Magic

Aliens.

+Winona Lestrange Magic Aliens.

+MrPete8680 CGI aliens

+oxowl23 Magic CGI Aliens

lmao

Now I just need to find Meta - Cooler and Goku and everything will be .... Oh wait ! Wrong movie

Hey MCP ! how are ... wait ! wrong movie !

ahahaha

How very wrong you are my friend. Ketamine enhances this to an insane level of sensual immersion. You're missing out.

I wish I knew somebody that sold acid or something so i could really enjoy a full immersion, i've never done acid or ketamine b4

+Bill Baldwin download tor. access dream market. thank me later

What is that?

I did it. It was stunning and a one of a kind experience.