Sooner Boomer
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The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey came out 50 years ago. I was spending the summer with my dad that year. He had a bunch of errands to run, so he dropped me off at the movies after checking what time the film ended. He asked me what it was about when he picked me up later, and I had a hard time telling him.
The critics hated it when it came out. It was panned as "a thoroughly uninteresting failure and the most damning demonstration yet of Stanley Kubrick's inability to tell a story coherently and with a consistent point of view." I'm not sure if it deserved that harsh of a criticism, but it dragged tediously in several spots. It did set some high marks for following science fiction pictures, and has become a cultural icon. Today it's considered one of most influential films of all time and perhaps the greatest science-fiction film. In 2010, the Moving Arts Film Journal went one step further and named it the greatest film in history.
When did you first see it, and what did you think? Is it any better with age?
One of the funniest spin-offs is the movie "Moonwalkers", about a group of British hippy druggies that are mistakenly hired by the CIA to make a fake movie of the moon landing in case the actual moon mission failed (they thought they were hiring Kubrick, but instead hired Jonny (Rupert Grint), the front man for a failed rock band.
The critics hated it when it came out. It was panned as "a thoroughly uninteresting failure and the most damning demonstration yet of Stanley Kubrick's inability to tell a story coherently and with a consistent point of view." I'm not sure if it deserved that harsh of a criticism, but it dragged tediously in several spots. It did set some high marks for following science fiction pictures, and has become a cultural icon. Today it's considered one of most influential films of all time and perhaps the greatest science-fiction film. In 2010, the Moving Arts Film Journal went one step further and named it the greatest film in history.
When did you first see it, and what did you think? Is it any better with age?
One of the funniest spin-offs is the movie "Moonwalkers", about a group of British hippy druggies that are mistakenly hired by the CIA to make a fake movie of the moon landing in case the actual moon mission failed (they thought they were hiring Kubrick, but instead hired Jonny (Rupert Grint), the front man for a failed rock band.