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The film's projections of the cold war and antiquated product placements may look quaint now, but the poetry is as hard-edged and full of wonder as ever.
It was a freshening attitude then, though its long-term effects haven't been all to the good.
It is an extraordinary, obsessive, beautiful work of art.
Yup, you guessed it -- a religious experience.
Now, seen in the actual 2001, it's less a visionary masterpiece than a crackpot Looney Tune, pretentious, abysmally slow, amateurishly acted and, above all, wrong.
[Retains] its artistic magnificence after more than 30 years.
Matched Kubrick's photographic eye to a story about watching, transformed him into a director of the epic, and made one giant leap in sci-fi cinema that's never been matched.
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the greatest films of all time and it is the director's most profound and confounding exploration of humanity's relationship to technology, violence, sexuality and social structures.
Perhaps the beauty of 2001 is appreciating that some of the best stories are the ones that are half-told.
With his virtuosic adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Stanley Kubrick invented the modern science fiction film.
Kubrick's sci-fi masterpiece is still relevant.
Kubrick's film not only changed the way I viewed film, but the way I experienced art and life
Kubrick set out to make "the proverbial good science-fiction film," but he came out the other side with something far more ornery and profound.
My God, it's full of stars: a fitting DVD package for the greatest film ever made.
Central to the profundity of the film is the notion that few things are more meaningful than a child's first steps, the emotive impact of this scenario manifest in every one of the film's dizzying set pieces, albeit multiplied to epic proportions.
2001: A Space Odyssey is an undeniable masterpiece and one of the greatest cinematic achievements ever committed to film
2001 certainly is a colossal bore, unless you're on its wavelength, in which case it's one of the greatest films of all time.
...take any frame at random from the film and you could hang it on your wall. (HD DVD Edition)
For all the essential coldness of Kubrick's vision, it demands attention as superior sci-fi, simply because it's more concerned with ideas than with Boy's Own-style pyrotechnics.
It has reached the status of Art, meaning that it's going to go on provoking strong opinions.
Home video can't compete with giant wrap-around screens, but Warner's new '2000 digital master' edition offers the best substitute so far.
What else can such a film be called but ART?
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