
One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at 2001 A Space Odyssey:
Rented this one just to laugh at how movie-makers in the 50’s and 60’s thought the world was going to look in the year 2001. I figured we would see ridiculous flying-cars, jet-packs, meal-in-a-pill, talking-robots, etc. Then I figured I was gonna write a review here talking about how wrong they were (since the year 2001 has already happened and it was nothing like that)and reccomend it just for a laugh. Here’s how it really went. I popped it in the player and to my surprise it just looked like a fake documentary about monkeys with a couple of guys in really fake looking monkey costumes. Kind of like Planet of the Apes. 5 minutes in: Still monkeys (no narraration or anything either). 10 minutes in I asked myself “How are they going to stretch this out for a whole stupid-movie?!” I will never know. Because when a monkey threw a bone up in the air so high that it went into space and morphed into a rocket-ship I was done with this garbage. Who on earth would predict the year 2001 would be like that!? I returned it shortly after that and rented Mortal-Kombat 2 which was way more realistic with better fighting. In conclusion, you would be much better-off renting a documentary about apes, or even Gorillas in the mist, or maybe Planet of the Apes which this movie is trying to be. AVOID!! Later.
Very boring and slow. The special effects may have wowed the 60’s generation but are simply no longer special. Here’s the story: apes discover a monolith, humans discover one on the moon, a computer which controls a mission to Jupitor goes haywire and kills, the lone survivor passes through a psychadelic nebulae to emerge in a white room, shot of a rotating fetus, the end. One for tripping hippies and Kubrick groupies.
This is easily the worst movie of all time. It’s a bunch of spaceships and special effects, but there’s NO coherent plot. The opening with those animals made NO sense! Folks who want to appear intelligent (even though they’re not) will swear this is a good movie, when they really don’t understand it. It’s time for a little honesty, people. “2001″ is a turkey.
I don’t understand why people like this movie at all! I saw the movie because of the recent death of Kubrick. I was with great expectation. However, I was totally disappointed. I only saw it for the first 30 minutes because it is so boring and slow. If it is not Kubrick, I would stop at the first 15 minutes. For the first 30 minutes, there were hardly any dialogue at all, just music. I have difficulties to keep my attention focusing.
Alright this is a good plot, with the evolution and the mans destruction by technology. But the director absolutley screwed up. Can somebody say cut. I looked at this guy in a cheap monkey suit for 20 minutes. Nobody should have to do that. the nazis went easier on the jews.
Apparently, the creators of this film figured that everybodywho watched this movie had read the novel. I’ve been told that themovie makes sense after reading the novel. Well I never read a novel, and I didn’t understand it. What was with the ending? The ending doesn’t make sense. It seems like they cut out different parts of the film and put them back together randomly.
The cinematography is the best there is, but why does it have to be so boring, don’t get me wrong I really like science fiction movies and especially love Stanely Kubrick films ( A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket) there seem to be no story here. A classic film?? I think not!!!
I know that as a film student, it’s my duty to like this movie, but I’m sorry. I just can’t. I saw it in a theatrical setting (ie. hard chairs, full-blast surround sound, large screen, but only one bathroom break) and it was easily the most miserable 3+ hours of my life to date. Sorry, but I resent any movie that leaves me with a headache and sick stomach.







