2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY || FIRST TIME WATCHING || CHATTY COMMENTARY REACTION 

The black screen and music is called an overture. Films used to have an overture, which allowed people to filter into the auditorium and find their seats.

The monolith was buried as an alarm set to go off when man was evolved enough to dig it up and when the sunlight hit it, it gave off the radio signaling the aliens that we evolved that far. It's based on a short story called "The Sentinal"

When I see "2001 First Time Watching", I click. It's my drop dead favorite film of all time.

"Why is there a big floatin' baby in space?" We've all been asking that for 55 years now.

I am sure glad I wasn't sitting behind these two chatterboxes when I saw it on the big screen in 1971.

There is no CGI in this movie. Stanley was way ahead of his time. It was all done in camera and lots of models. We saw this movie in 1972, and when it was over, in the Lobby, everyone was saying, "What the hell did we just see?" 50 years later, we still say, "What the hell did we just see?" George Lukas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, and Christopher Nolan, to name a few, attributed this movie, 2001 A Space Odyssey as the movie that made them want to become movie directors.

2001 is more than a movie. It's an attempt to try to get at that feeling of introspection you get when you contemplate the meaning of existence in your shower. The film is purposefully designed to allow you to interpret it. It hints at feelings we all have but can't quite explain in words. And while the film doesn't change, you do, so each time you revisit it, it can have a different meaning for you. The key thing is you're meant to let it wash over you, in deep focus and introspection, so try watching it again wihtout asking "what does it mean", just let the emotions guide you. It's not about a monolith or a rogue computer. It's about mankind and our relationship to the universe and endless quest to seek out answers. To quote Kubrick: "“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

If you think about it: there was a composer named Richard Strauss, writing „Also sprach Zarathustra“ in 1895. would he have thought, that 73 years later it would be known by millions and associated with space travel? 😊

2010 is a sequel to 2001. it's very good and very approachable.

2001 = 1968 Star Wars = 1977 It also came out before we’d gone to the moon. What I really like is the way it not only inspired every futuristic movie going forward. But it also it inspired a lot of real life technology. Oh and my fav.. HALs eye being exactly the same as the terminators. Two badass scary MFs

2001 began filming in 1966 before filming began of the first episode of star trek. Star Trek was the most expensive show to produce on television. But it was clear then and today that it's budget was just not sufficient at all for what they were trying to do. This has some people in later generations thinking that in mid late sixties that that's all they were capable of producing. People watching 2001 the first time are usually very shocked to see what a project of that era can do when serious money was behind it.

The space scenes are very realistic because next to Kubrick was Arthur C. Clarke. He was a famous science fiction writer but also knew his science. He helped promote the concept of geosynchronous orbit satellites that are the basis of our communications network. He kept it real in this movie.

“Lasso the moon.” It’s a wonderful life.

IIRC, Kubrick used Strauss to fill in the music while Jerry Goldsmith was working on the original score, but then thought Strauss' music fit so well that he decided to leave it in.

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." "What's the problem?" "I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do." Fun Fact: At the beginning, the prehistorical African landscapes are just photographs and not actual clips. Family Affair Fact: The daughter of Stanley Kubrick, Vivian Kubrick, cameos as Dr. Floyd's (William Sylvester) daughter. Movie Magic Fact: Stanley Kubrick worked for several months with effects technicians to come up with a convincing effect for the floating pen in the shuttle sequence. After trying many different techniques, without success, Kubrick decided to simply use a pen that was adhered (using newly invented double-sided tape) to a sheet of glass and suspended in front of the camera. In fact, the shuttle attendant can be seen to "pull" the pen off the glass when she takes hold of it. Voice Play Fact: Frank Miller, who plays the mission control voice, was a member of the U.S. Air Force in reality and a real mission controller. He was hired because his voice was the most authentic the producers could find for the role. Inexperienced and nervous, he could not keep from tapping his foot during recording sessions, and the tapping sound repeatedly came through on the audio tracks; Stanley Kubrick folded up a towel, put it under Miller's feet and told him to tap to his heart's content. Make-Up Effect Fact: To create the facial make-up for the australopithecines, technicians first made a plastic skull substructure with a hinged jaw. After making molds of the actors' faces, the make-up men applied rubber skin to their faces and added hair one strand at a time, as if they were making a wig. Lip movements were achieved by using false teeth and tongues to hide the actors' real mouths. This freed the actors to use their tongues to operate remote controls that moved the lips. Only the actors' eyes were visible, and the masks were made up right to the eye-lids.

I talk to myself constantly, too! We call it "thinking out loud" over here, at least I do🤓 Like "Grippy-Grabbers": You MUST trademark that, Lorna, STAT!!

Kubrick used classical composers Johann & Richard Strauss for this soundtrack, so yes, the music came well before the film... "Lasso the moon"? Why, "It's a Wonderful Life", of course! One of your favorites? Ah Lorna, just when I thought I couldn't possibly like you any more than I already do! Has Colin seen it? Will you do a reaction? It should be an exception to the "we've already seen it" rule🌕

True science fiction is about the discovery of the unknown, which this film epitomizes. Back in the old days, long epic films would have several minutes of music play to let the audience know the movie would be starting soon so they could take their seats and be ready. 10-15 minute intermissions were included in the middle to let people go to the bathroom and such before the second part started. The presence of the Monolith is what caused the apes to begin evolving. By touching it and seeing how smooth it was compared to the rough, rocky terrain around them, the realization came into their minds that it was something that was "made." So later one of the apes had an epiphany. Basically, it was "If someone made that giant rock become smooth, what could I make this large bone into?" and figured out that he could take the animal bone and wield it as a weapon. All the consequences that came with that new knowledge followed afterwards. You'll notice the ape throws the bone into the air and then it match cuts to the future with an orbiting nuclear bomb in space in the fictional year 2001 as seen from the 1960s. It's a weapon to weapon cut. The film came out in 1968 but was so accurate in its depiction of outer space and the moon that astronauts afterwards said being on the moon made them feel like they were in the movie. As far as the ending is concerned, Kubrick stated that Dave is transported by the Monolith through a star-gate to an alien world inhabited by a god-like, higher alien intelligence. To them, Dave and the rest of Humanity at that point, are still just a more evolved version of apes (you'll notice Dr. Floyd touched the Monolith on the moon the same way the apes did millions of years prior). So, the aliens basically put Dave in a cage in a zoo to study him. You might notice in our zoos that we tend to dress the animal's cages to try and match the environments that they are used to being in to make them feel more comfortable. Kubrick said that the aliens gave it their best shot and essentially dressed Dave's cage with decor that they figured a human would find aesthetically pleasing and comfortable to live in. The off-screen noises you hear while Dave is in his cage are like the equivalent of what animals might hear when people are watching and talking about them from the opposite end of the glass. So, Dave basically lives out the rest of his life in his cage with a disjointed sense of time and then at the end he is transformed by the Monolith into a super being (officially referred to as the "Star Child") and sent back to Earth for reasons unknown.

The main theme is "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss

Interesting that today we're so used to seeing astronauts in zero-G that the reactors didn't even comment on the weightless effects as being a remarkable.

The reason for HAL killing everybody will be explained in the sequel. 2010: the year we make contact.

Loved when Lorna credited Colin with his pre-watch prediction that story involved A.I. gone bad. May seem like a trifle but actually heart-warming to see couples mutually respect & support each other, without getting mushy😁

They aren't guessing. Just from their comments you know they've seen this before. Otherwise no way would they know about HAL or the monolith on the moon.

I love this film. So much is left to interpretation at the end. My theory was always that Dave made contact with the "creators" of the obelisk and the experience was so far outside his experience as a human it is incomprehensible to us as the witnesses (who's human minds also can't comprehend such an alien experience either). Finally, the fetus shown at the end is the "new being" that Dave has evolved into from making contact. The sequel to this "2010: The Year We Make Contact" doesn't compare as a film to the first, however, helps explain a lot and confirms this interpretation. It's worth a watch for sure. Plus Hal and Dave return!

No CGI No Internet came out 1968 1 year before Armstrong set foot on the moon. It was still in the cinemas 3 years later in 1972 . ..

The movie was released in 1968. It took a lot longer to make that MGM was comfortable with. The music at the beginning was used while people took their seats and the intermission was common back then to give people a chance to use the restroom, get snacks or a quick smoke.

A point on the scaling. You have to remember their "living" deck isn't the same as the upper Control Deck, or the Space Pod Bay. Their Main deck is on its side. The "floor" is the circumference of the sphere, so they are standing on the "wall" that wraps around the ball. Overall it's a very confining ship. As far as the astronauts not tethering themselves when they go from pod to the ship, actual astronauts have discussed how confident it feels to do that, also, we have EVA Chairs, like in "The Martian", which is why that scene in The Martian is SO Annoying...I won't go over it, in case you haven't see it. 😂

A Clockwork Orange & Dr. Strangelove are both Kubrick classics.

Kubrick never went to Africa, he sent a stills photography unit. The ape scenes were all done in a studio on a very brightly lit set with the African backgrounds front-projected onto a screen. And that zebra?....a dead horse painted with stripes. Apparently, it stank pretty bad!

This film was released in 1968. There is no CGI. Everything is practical effects.

The soundtrack of the film was Kubrick's temporary soundtrack that he used for editing. Another composer Alex North was hired to produce the actual soundtrack. However, Kubrick liked his soundtrack so must that he kept it and Alex North's soundtrack was never used, the parts of the soundtrack that Alex North did complete was ultimately released on a CD. Kubrick and Clarke stated if a person understood 2001 after a first viewing then they would have failed, I saw 2001 when it was released, my Father took me to see it, as he knew I was interested in space, the stargate sequence scared me and I had absolutely no idea what the hell was going on at the end. I did read Arthur C. Clarke's novel which was partly based on the screenplay. I have seen the film numerous times since, including various special screenings - one in 2001, one at the BFI south bank of the special remastered edition, I a number of different home video releases. The film itself has spawned a huge number of books that analyse and examine it, a few that I own, plus other books that consider how close are we to creating a real life HAL 9000 that demonstrates "strong AI". As for myself after my Computer Science degree I have continued to work with computer, so you could say in that respect 2001 did influence me. BTW a very strong recommendation for a more recent film that involves AI is Ex Machina.

Is It’s A Wonderful Life wonderful? ‘Lasso the moon’ is what James Stewart said in Bedford Falls, but what a creepy film! Essentially plastics, a petroleum by product, gets them out of hot water. If at the end you’re not wondering why they don’t give back all of the money from their neighbors, then you’re missing something big.

I want my 10 points for "It's a Wonderful Life" line "I'll lasso the moon"

You are both hitting on bits of the story in your intro. Where you are wrong however is that the movie was released in 1968, one year before man had walked on the moon. What you see in all the space shots is what they imagined in some of the earliest days of spaceflight. While the timeline is too short the ideas are actually pretty accurate. This is also before the days of CGI so all of the effects are basically all practical effects and are some of the best ever done.

Next up: the sequel: "2010: The Year We Make Contact" (1984) It answers lots of questions. It's paced like a modern movie and I promise it makes sense.

If the movie is about human evolution, then the baby at the end would represent the next stage of that evolution. My guess is that the baby is the result of the merging of human kind (in the person of Dave) with the forces that have guided us (the monoliths). What I've always liked about the movie is the role of tools. It begins with the discovery of tools, which allows us to evolve to our modern state. Then we reach a point where tools become so sophisticated that there is a conflict in which either we overcome our tools or they overcome us.

Awwww, this is not an easy movie to "react" to, you guys did a great job! Listen: it was NEVER a movie every single person loved! I'm happy you knew going in a little bit what to expect. It's one of the only movies I don't send people blind into! Great American accents, by the way! And I see you quoted Jimmy Stewart in "It's A Wonderful Life". And a good impression of him it was!

Guys, just to be clear, in 1968 there was no such thing as CGI. Computers were big as rooms, slower than the worst gaming potato of the 90s and had a few kilobytes of RAM! They could do basic algebra and calculate, but no graphical work like rendering. Everything you saw here was practically done with purely optical tricks and mechanical contraptions…. Like miniatures, rotoscoping and slit screen photography. What a work and challenge. Kubrick at his finest… 🫢

Just discovered your channels, nice one guys. So many questions to answer. The weird vocal music is called Atmospheres by the composer Ligetti, who wasn't impressed to find his music in the film because no one had asked him .... and that was because they just assumed he was dead and the music out of copyright. (Maybe not true? But it's a good story.) No CGI, all practical and model work. Kubrick worked with the SF writer and scientist Arthur C Clarke to get the details as accurate as possible (for the time). Getting hit by meteors and asteroids isn't really a thing - only in movies. Even for real asteroid belts you can fly straight through at full velocity. You won't hit anything. But micro-meteors are an issue, a grain of sand travelling at high speed.

Aww, I remember when my dad used to take me to the movies and we went to an oldschool cinema that still had an interval/intermission. Needless to say it was a long time ago now. It was his favourite bit as a lady used come round with ice creams on a little trolly. A bit like on a plane 😂 great stuff

Yes, came out during the Apollo moon program, space exploration was a popular topic of conversation. Also Planet of the Apes came out the same year, 68. The nuclear age, Vietnam war, space, peace and love, and warnings about technology going too far. See Colossus The Forbin Project from 1970, about AI, the warning about it.

Maybe the only movie ever made that is nearly impossible to “spoil”. You can tell someone everything they are going to see and they will still not know what to expect.

I recently got done re-reading 2001, and reading 2010, 2061, and 3001. In the "Dawn on Man" in the book, the main character, Moonwatcher, is developed a lot more. And the panther(?) or whatever it is -- is a MUCH bigger part of the story. It regularly picks up a kinsman every couple of days. When Moonwatcher first thinks to move a scavenged antelope(?) kill up to his high-cliffside cave, the panther follows the blood that evening. However Moonwatcher and one of his mates desperate to protect their offspring fight back until the panther flees in confusion, as nothing had ever fought back somewhat effectively before. Moonwatcher's cave was further up on the cliff than the panther had ever gone before, and in fleeing, misjudged its leaping elevation and fell to its death. Moonwatcher affixes the beast's head to his bone club to confront the "Others" at the water hole.

No CGI in 1968!

This was the pioneer of what scientists thought space travel would be like. The first moon landing was less than a year before this film. For the moon missions and space shuttles, nasa would show how the various systems worked. So the lingering is to let people see what space travel is like. For modern films, Avatar lingers on landscapes, etc to give people more of a unique experience. This film is more science fact than science fiction films like Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.

I really love this movie. I read that Kubrick didn't know how exactly to show aliens, and Carl Sagan advised him not to show them at all, but only to hint that they exist. And this causes a really creepy reaction - you don’t see them, but you know that they are there and they are completely different from you. And this is what delights and frightens at the same time.

Before home video, movies in cinema often had "overtures" or music before they started as people settled into the experience after the lights dimmed.

Even the music points to Nietzsche's whole ape/man/superman thing.

The Dawn of Man, Space Travel, Artificial Intelligence, Metaphysical Ascension. I don't think it's too many movies in one. I hope this grows on you in time. I appreciate a film that makes you think and wonder. Spoon fed is suitable most if the time, but it's nice to be challenged and with so much style and foresight. Enjoying the channel. Love that I can't understand you sometimes ❤️

You guys should also try out the film A.I. which was (more or less) a Kubrick/Spielberg collaboration. It's not quite as out there in terms of being something in between a movie and an art installation like 2001 can be at times, but it definitely deals with similarly big and hefty themes about existence and the future of humanity. It's a very underrated film. In fact, it's the _only_ film where the legendary film critic Mark Kermode actually (quire recently) made an apology for the review he gave it when it came out, admitting he really didn't get it at the time and in retrospect had come to realise what a masterpiece it really is.

You are not supposed to completely understand the ending. Dave just encountered something much more intelligent than humans are. He sees things happening, but he doesn`t understand what he is seeing. Think of a house cat. The cat sees you doing things, like reading a book. But the cat has no comprehension of the concept of abstract communication, let alone that it could be conveyed by printed word. As far as the cat can tell, you are just blindly staring at a piece of paper. In this movie the human race is the cat. It`s not just that they don`t understand the alien monolith, it`s that they are not capable of understanding it anymore than your cat understands how electric lights work.

Well, first off this film came out in 1968, one year before Apollo 11 landed on the moon, so this is Kubrick and Clarke's idea of what would be happening 33 years afterward. The moon monolith is the very one that taught our ancestors about tools and such. So when it was dug up the scene shows the first time it was exposed to sunlight in 4M years. This was the point. The actual aliens wanted to know definitively when humankind achieved the next stage of development by actually living in space. Humans will never grow until we actually leap out of the cradle we're in.

I enjoyed this reaction by you guys much more than the first one I viewed. "2001 A space Odyssey" was meant to make you as an audience/person think, and have a dialogue, and it worked for you guys. The monoliths were representatives of an alien race who were creationists. They looked for planets where life was becoming sentient, and advanced enough to go on to another phase. The monoliths were sentinels, they monitored, and did communications, and gave man a reason to be curious, and gave them a push to explore and learn, and to evolve on to another phase of evolution...IF you guys choose to watch the sequel to this one... "2010 the year we make contact" that movie answers a TON of questions that this one left you with as a viewer. It basically tells us what the people of the monolith were planning. I won't tell you why, but HAL isn't really bad, watch the sequel "2010, the year we make contact" for WHY he really wasn't bad.

"HAL's a liar" Yes, and that is exactly what he is not supposed to be capable of doing. What happens when you tell a computer who cannot distort information to deliberately withhold information from the crew? Essentially a mechanical paradox.

The big baby in space is the next evolution of man. apes turned into man, man turned into space baby.

The lesson of the movie is simple: Don't go to Jupiter unless you want to become a giant space baby. -- Right. Now you can tick that off your list.

Thank you for this reaction. I think on RU-vid a short extract from a radio interview with Kubrick in which he explained the ending is available.

It was 1968, the scenes started shooting in 1966! Three years before the Moon Landing. I was glued to my seat the entire movie, some numbsculls walked out but i got it first time.

And one last post. The three main points Kubrick was making with this film are 1) Human evolution had a "jump" through Alien intervention. (See Zachariah Sitchins work) 2) We have far more advanced technology to go into space than is known. And it is easy to make convincing film. 3) That when humans begin to explore the stars, we will be like children (the fetus, at the end) when we take our first steps.

Point of the movie is that any contact with a higher civilization would be so far removed from our experience we would have no frame of reference for it. What basically happened is that aliens took a sample of humanity for testing and further improvement and then sent the result back home. As we might with lab animals. They wanted to know how we ended up due to their meddling with our development at the dawn of man.

The classical music was used for filler, for studio screening of scenes, until the soundtrack could be completed. The soundtrack was completed late and the first public screenings kept this music, and Kubrick liked it and decided not to use the finished soundtrack, which is available on youtube (or it Was, before youtube became such a propaganda platform, so it might be gone now). The classical music has helped to make 2001 such an iconic film.

"saebskhraib and raeng da bail" 😂 I'm sorry, I had to.

What an absolutely horrible way to watch "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY" for the 1st time! You should have watched it in a dark room with a minimum print in 4k with the largest screen you can find, with 6 track sound. And most of all, watch the damn film without Yammering.

The film actually came out in 1968 (a year before the moon landing), the intro song was also originally from 2001 (but literally every other movie stole the song and the sequence *Barbie/Toy Story* and others). The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. actually have/did have a space plane called shuttles named the STS-1 Columbia and the Soviet Buran respectivly, like in the movie. The U.S is currently making a new one called the X-37, the song that was playing during the flight scene was created by Johann Strauss II and the songs name is the Danube Walts it was made in 1867.

8:45 "CGI" 😄 Love it Brother. Great reaction gang. Questions, huh? Kubrick and Clarke wanted to you draw your own conclusions. Watch 2010: The Year We Make Contact or read the books for more answers. Thank you.

My fave movie of all-time. Very deep and thought provoking. Glad you guys appreciated it. You should explore more Stanley Kubrick films. He was brilliant. Enjoy!

So, did HAL make a mistake? Or was it actually running a different program? After all, solely because of his actions, the end part of the film could happen.

There is an Easter egg in Star Wars Episode 1 the phantom menace. In Watto's junk yard, one of the Pods can be seen in the background amongst a pile of other junk. A pod also shows up in the background of Ready Player One in the garage scene.

The black screen at the start is us looking at the monolith on its side. the soundtrack is us hearing it.

Kubrick's movies are to make you think and provoke a conversation about what you have just seen. Dam. Now I have to think about what to say about Kubrick movies.

But honestly, I do feel so sorry for HAL as he fades away. It’s the eeriest thing. He becomes childlike again, singing the first song he learned so to speak. It’s extremely “human,” in a way like when he was bargaining for his life. In a way, he is just this simple almost childlike thing. Or it’s like we see through the film, many stages of man as an individual and a species. I like your note about the planet at the end being faintly reminiscent of earth at the beginning, which is sort of in line with the er embryo we see after Dave ages. An older memory becomes more predominant. He seems to be afraid and slows down. And then it’s like we experience someone’s death from inside, hearing their last breath and experiencing their last thoughts. 🔴

Kubrick pretty much exclusively used music that had been written before that he'd thenselect to fit the mood of the scenes, rather than having music written for the films. The 3 minutes of black screen in the beginning middle and end of the film has a purpose. The monolith is a sort of teaching device, (rotate it 90 degrees and you'll see what it's representing) and you are watching one with this movie. There's a surface story of aliens "helping" us advance, firstly by teaching early man to use tools, later leaving a monolith somewhere we'd have to have developed space travel to find, then reach their third one where the human who finds it is transformed into a higher lifeform. When they find the second, the alarm goes off when the lense flare aligns with the camera filming the monolith..sort of a feedback loop of our screen (or monolith) lining up with the monolith on screen. There's several subtly different stories happening at the same time depending on the cues you follow, one that's very optimistic about space travel but some accidents like the computer malfunctioning happen, another where the world you are seeing is deeply cynical, secretive and authoritarian, and another that is a 4th wall breaking commentary on cinema, Kubrick's anti authoritarian world view, and cinema's power to teach and expand peoples' minds or conversely brainwash them, with the Dave character becoming aware of being within a movie and breaking out of it's confines (that last one might feel like a reach, but the film has a lot of visual references to film reels and other processes of film making, like the trippy stargate sequence using the colour grades from the films previous scenes...like an abstract sped up blur of the movie we've just seen. The original cut even had a moment where the film literally breaks and stutters when Dave reaches for the border of the screen he's within...that got cut as too many audience viewers complained that the film they'd watch was broken). There's an interesting subtlety with Frank's death. You're not shown the pod hitting him, and as the pod turns round a reflection of something kinda rock shaped shoots past, so it's possible HAL was trying to save Frank from being hit, rather than killing him. It's one of the things i love about Kubrick's films is that he does leave scenes very ambiguous but with enough cues to piece together a coherent interpretation that tracks. Your comment about Dave possibly being in the cryogenic capsule is very on point. The Jupiter sequence is very blurry and dreamlike, and each little shot of dave shaking is described in the revival process for those sleep capsules (there's a shot of the instructions earlier and what he experiences follows that sequence)

I am subscribing because you chose to watch this film so early in the life of your channel. I saw this in the theatre when first released and I still have questions about this film. Thanks for doing this one. If you want to watch another esoteric sci-fi film check out "The Last Starfighter"

It's a Wonderful Life! George Bailey! Oh boy, 10 points!😂

The best summary of this movie is given in the movie 5-25-77 by Patrick Read Johnson. These themes are all expanded upon throughout that movie, and there is a very complete explanation of what this movie means. And it is a good movie, too. 😉 But the explanation is completely accurate according to both Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.

There are a lot of interpretation in this film that you can read online. The end in my mind is about Dave being observed in an alien zoo. He was placed in an environment the Aliens figured would be comfortable and familiar to Dave. Like we do in zoos around the world. The rebirth at the end represents the next step in our evolution. Thw monolith shows up every time mankind stagnated and needs a little push. The apes and tools to fight over the water source for example.

This film will never leave you.

Imagine the 1st race to reach a space age and feeling lonely as a species. They build a 'highway system' through the universe entered through the large slabs in different solar systems. The slabs are like a universal machine that can do anything required of them. Finding no other races, they start a program to drop monitors on planets that look promising. Did the race that started this project die out and leave the monitors to function by themselves? Did they evolve and not really focus on the project anymore? No one knows. So, if the slab notices a species with the possibility to evolve, it pushes it in a direction to evolve. Then they provide puzzles to test if the species is ready to go forward and evolve further. The monolith on the Earth probably got lost to time or moved elsewhere once its task was completed. The one on the moon was buried. Test 1: Get to the moon. Test 2: Be able to detect the field it emanated and dig it up. Test 3: Be able to realize that the signal it sends when discovered points them towards Jupiter. Now the species has to be able to get to Jupiter. Once there, a member of the species is taken through the interstellar highway system to a place where the person is allowed to live out its natural life while its evolution is determined. Then the person is transformed and sent back to observe and monitor the species further. Despite being greatly evolved, this new being is still basically no more than a pet or lap-dog compared to the beings that started the project. Not to spoil the 2060 movie, but HAL and another species is found as alternative species to humans for future control of Earth's solar system and further evolution/education.

God, I love your heavy Scottish dialect! It is so endearing, probably the loveliest accent existing, you could read the telephone book to me…. It is also reminding me of Paul McGillion in Star Gate Atlantis 😍😁. Cheers, buddies, from Uruguay 🇺🇾 Mike. New subscriber here in Latinoamerica, olé

The Sharks touched the Monolith and it gave them an intellectual leap to kosh tech, The Jets didn't get a Monolith meet and greet, so they didn't progress. You're not wrong about the proto-human pivot to weaponry: before the Monolith, we see them as potential prey to predators and hiding out in caves, awake and kinda scared of what might be out there. The bone toss to spaceship cut is maybe the best flash-forward in cinematic history. Famed film critic for The New York Times Pauline Kael kind of trashed this movie when it came out, but it's stood the test of time and many people revere it as one of the best films of the 20th century.

Out there??? Hee hee... Try 2010... It will answer many of your questions...

Great reaction to one of my favourite film. You've got a new subscriber here.

17:28 The zero-gravity toilet on the real International space station is basically a vacuum hose

If you notice, all of the areas that are in zero gravity, there are black straps and panels so that the boots can grip and keep the astronaut secured to the floor. Only the spinning centerfuge has normal gravity.

I saw this Film Experience in the same ex-Cinerama theater that would show "Star Wars" (1977), "Alien" (1979), and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981). We begin with Early Man, specifically a less successful Ape band that reacts to The Monolith and becomes The Killer Ape, taking over the water hole. "Modern Man" made orbiting satellites, described as armed with nuclear weapons in Arthur C. Clarke's novelization. Looking back from 2023, where are the commercial space liners? Where's "the wheel in space" station? Where's the Moon base? Oh well, space travel is done by robots, instead. The OST made of "place holder" Classical music compositions became a Pop music sensation. For a time, Richard Strauss' "Also Spracht Zarathustra" became an audio "something big is about to happen" theme in movies of the time.

At a guess the light show etc at the end is meant to represent a technological environment beyond our understanding, just as the middle bit would have been beyond the ape's understanding. Presumably the overall story was the monolith transformating the apes into equally violent humans into a giant space baby, which maybe is peaceful at last.

You do NOT want to inhale and hold your breath in a vacuum. Your lungs would likely rupture if you do that. You'll want to exhale before entering a vacuum. Great reaction you two! 👍

The First Monolith, TMA-0, which You see at the beginning was discovered buried under rock in Africa in 2513.

Big movies used to have an overture while the audience came in and sat down. Long films also used to have an intermission for a snack opportunity. West Side Story is another example. You can skip if you have physical media as they have chapters. 'Planes into space' 1981 the space shuttle. It about aliens uplifting the apes and moving evolution on. 4 million years ago they alter vegetarian apes into tool using meat eaters. They leave a solar powered 'alarm' buried on the moon. The alarm will trigger when it is dug up, meaning the apes have enough technology to get to the moon and trigger the alarm. They take an evolved ape 'Dave' and uplift him further into a being that can live in space unaided. It's a baby, suggesting more growth is to come.

At the very end, the Starchild whichmwas the higher evolution of man was rturned to earth and he detonated all the satellite-based weapons that were orbiting the planet. It's in the book, but Kubrik didn't feel any pressure to make it clear. He didn't feel any pressure to expalin anything at all, actually.

There was no CGI back in the 60s when this film was made. All fx were practical. The pig-like animals are called Tapirs.

Hi Lorna & Colin!🙂I waited until I was in the mood for this one, as I know it is spacey.😉Oh Lorna, that is from "It's a Wonderful Life". A classic ahead of its time. There was very little space stuff on TV and movies in 1968. The original "Lost in Space" TV series was airing, but that was not very serious. I believe it was in the 60s and 70s that they had intermission breaks at the movie theaters for long films, so people could get food or use the restrooms without missing anything. It definitely leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Nice reactions kids, I wasn't sure how you would feel about this one!!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽There is a sequel "2010: The Year We Make Contact" (1984)

2001:A Space Odyssey came out in theaters in 1968 and lasted until 1972.

Embrace the uncertainty of the ending. 🙂 Some movies are left intentionally ambiguous, and our uncertainty of the origins of our species, space travel and extra terrestrial life certainly fit well with this enigmatic ending.

The "wrong scale" effect is because of a phenomenon called "Forced Perspective" where objects that are far away seem to be just as close as objects nearby because of the the two-dimensional screen. This is more prominent in space where there are no other objects in view to compare the size of familiar object to. The makers of the Lord of the Rings movies use forced perspective very well to make people that are similar in size seem very short or tall compared to each other. This was probably done on purpose in the movie, 2001, under the guidance of scientist and author, Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote the novel at the same time.

I love this movie, it's one of my favorites! There was also a 2010: Odyssey Two. And Arthur C. Clarke continued the book series, but I believe 1 and 2 were the only ones made into movies. 🙂 If they ever show this movie in IMAX in Great Britain, that would be the best way to see it. I'm not old enough to have seen it when it first came out (my dad is a baby boomer, I'm generation X!), but when I was in the Navy I saw it at the Cinerama in Seattle, which is a huge movie screen also but unfortunately it ended up being closed down. But I think there is an original size IMAX at least in London. You gotta keep an eye out for any announcements that they are going to show it again in theaters....it does happen from time to time! 🙂

I subscribed to you because you’re Scottish. My ex wife is from The Glasgow area (Lanarkshire) and I learned to love the accent. I used to think it was kind of harsh. 2001 a space odyssey is amazing. It was made starting around when i was born 1967. Where are you located. When you said “I got such a fright” made me laugh because i used to hear that a lot😅😅.

Of course the end was very popular in the 1960's as it simulated tripping on drugs. To this day, people get high or drunk to watch that sequence.

As a film fan, I'm here for the movie. As an American, I am staying for the accent! All in good spirit. Carry on.

There is no more a single dark side of the moon than the dark side of the earth. The dark side of any body, that is shaded from the sun, we call it night.