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By Tim L. Scott
Format:DVD
This iconic, 5-star film has never been equaled, but the film transfer on this DVD is as poorly engineered as any DVD I have ever seen. Video compression artifacts abound, and the disc is a literal museum of DVD technology problems. Exposure errors litter the transfer, along with strange grids and patterns in high-contrast scenes, color smears, and false color modeling of objects (see the monolith in orbit around Jupiter). Save your money on this fancily-packaged product and buy an old-fashioned Criterion laserdisc if you want to see this movie as Kubrick intended (he personally approved the Criterion laserdisc transfer).
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I really enjoyed this movie. The special effects were really ahead of their times. I remember seeing it at the theatre when it came out. It really left quite an empression on me.
By Allen
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The added material on disk two is very informative. There is not much else to say about the movie as it is a remake or reformat of the original. Some of the old boring factor is present when some of the scenes go on longer than necessary but that is not the fault of material but the direction and the cutting room personal.
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Slow but Great
The first time I watched this movie, I was a little bit tired and I fell asleep 20 minutes in, concluding that it was the most boring movie I had ever seen. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Jimbo Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars
From Ape to Man to Srarchild
This 1968 science fiction will always be a classic. It is a story starting 4 million years ago, lasting to infinity. No movie on earth has had that length of time. Read more
Published on Nov 17 2010 by Kemila Zsange
2.0 out of 5 stars
Long, dated and visually disappointing
I saw the original 2001 in the theatre, and my mind was blown. I have seen it, either on TV, VHS, or DVD, several times since, though not in the last 8-10 years. Read more
Published on Mar 14 2010 by B. Breslin
5.0 out of 5 stars
The greatest science fiction film of all time
Once upon a time, when the year 2001 seemed aeons away, director Stanley Kubruck (Dr. Strangelove) contacted author Arthur C. Read more
Published on Dec 23 2009 by LeBrain
5.0 out of 5 stars
Impressive feat regardless of personal philosophy
2001: A Space Odyssey Very few films deal with humanity in an abstract
verb very well, often despite trying to give a universal message about
humans they end up giving a... Read more
verb very well, often despite trying to give a universal message about
humans they end up giving a... Read more
Published on Aug 15 2007 by Rob Larmer
4.0 out of 5 stars
Look at the far future with optimism.
Look at the far future with optimism.
This review contains possibly a spoiler. I explain what happens at the end of the film. Read more
This review contains possibly a spoiler. I explain what happens at the end of the film. Read more
Published on July 17 2006 by Jan Dierckx
3.0 out of 5 stars
I don't quite get it, but I think I'm dense
I didn't really enjoy most of this movie very much, excluding the part with HAL which was all that really made the movie worthwhile for me. Read more
Published on April 13 2006 by R McLeod
5.0 out of 5 stars
They don't make them like this anymore...
I have seen this film many times but not for a long time. I was startled by the sheer experimentation of it all and I want to know what MGM executives thought when they saw the... Read more
Published on Nov 12 2005
1.0 out of 5 stars
What the Heck!?
Rented this one just to laugh at how moviemakers in the 50's and 60's thought the world was going to look in the year 2001. Read more
Published on July 31 2005 by Howard Tuttleman... howardtuttleman@howardtuttleman.com, Lover of the Arts, Teenage Genious, Master Critic
5.0 out of 5 stars
the movie that set the standard in sci fi
in 68,this movie was the best sci fi film ever.in it there is this force referred to as the monolith.it shows up at different points in time. Read more
Published on July 18 2004 by abe
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