2001 - A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray]

2001 - A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray]

2001 - A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Ed Bishop, Edwina Carroll, Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea, Penny Brahms
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: John Alcott
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Composer: Gy?rgy Ligeti
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.20:1
Running Time: 141 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of 2001 - A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: Classic Science Fiction (Kubrick at His Best) - Blu-Ray version
Summary: 5 Stars

When I first saw this film in 1968 in a bonafide Cinerama theater, I was certain that no television presentation could ever adequately present this movie. However, the Blu-Ray issue seen on a large screen (46" at a distance of 8 to 10 feet) does begin to suggest how achingly beautiful this film originally looked to me. The processing of the disc is everything I could have hoped for. Warner appears to have given the loving attention this picture deserves.

The creepiest parts of the picture were all the product placement brands that are no longer with us: Pan American (the shuttle in orbit), The Bell System (vision-phone), Howard Johnson (Earthlight hotel) and RCA Whirlpool (on the food warmer) -- this last readable only in the blu-ray.

I also appreciate the overture of Ligeti's music presented with a black screen instead of some still shot with "Overture" written across it in big letters (I suppose for the sake of those viewers who would panic at the sight of a black screen and immediately begin adjusting their tv's).

In the Cinerama theater, the curtains were drawn across the big screen and the overture came from behind them while the house lights slowly faded. When the theater was totally dark the curtains were quietly pulled and the MGM stylized logo filled the gigantic screen. What a show! No more of that these days!
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A space mission that could reveal man?s destiny is jeopardized by a malfunctioning shipboard computer. A dazzling journey that tops them all ? and showed the way for other effects-packed films that followed.
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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