Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Already Viewed- "2001: A Space Odyssey"

I am going to come right out and say that this is the worst movie i have ever seen in my life. I saw this movie last year during spring semester. Honestly, this movie was so bad. It started with some apes beating each other up, then people on the moon, then a computer going to Mars, and ends with a fetus looking at the Earth floating in space. I was so confused the entire movie I had no idea what the plot was and what was going to come next. Then, the ending doesn't even tie everything together! The only consistent part of the movie was this mysterious black door.  The music was good and if you watch it you will recognize the music score immediately, but this movie should not be on any classic list. Unless you want a movie to make you fall asleep, don't watch this movie.

"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, and William Sylester


SUMMARY:

The movie starts off in an African landscape with a group of apes (are apes called a pack or a family or a herd?). Anyway, a leopard attacks and ape and then another group of apes start screaming at the first group of apes. The first group of apes find a bone and realize they can hurt people with this bones. They use it as a weapon and defeat the aggressive group of apes. Now we are fast forward to a doctor man who is heading to the moon. At the moon station a group of scientists have discovered this mysterious black door which is the same one that the apes saw before they received the bone. Then as the scientists pose in front of the door it emits a loud piercing scream that hurts their heads. Now we are in a spacecraft that is headed to Jupiter. There is a very sophisticated computer system on this spacecraft called HAL. He is supposedly foolproof, but he starts to go crazy and kills one of the astronauts and almost kills the other. The one who is still alive disconnects HAL. When HAL is shut off it is revealed that intelligent life off of Earth has been discovered and that is why they are on their way to Jupiter to find out where this door is from. Close to Jupiter, the astronaut is in another pod and there is some weird light and he flies over a lot of different landscapes. He is then in a room with an older version of himself eating, then another older version of him sleeping, then he becomes a floating fetus staring at the earth.

As you can tell this movie skips to a lot of different places and is very confusing, but this is just my opinion.

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