2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 Directed by Stanley Kubrick

The Ultimate Trip.

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Keir Dullea Gary Lockwood William Sylvester Douglas Rain Daniel Richter Leonard Rossiter Margaret Tyzack Robert Beatty Sean Sullivan Frank Miller Ed Bishop Edwina Carroll Heather Downham Penny Brahms Maggie d'Abo Chela Matthison Judy Kiern Alan Gifford Ann Gillis Vivian Kubrick Kenneth Kendall Kevin Scott Martin Amor Bill Weston Glenn Beck Mike Lovell John Ashley Jimmy Bell David Charkham Show All…

Alternative Titles

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Review by dEL 71

8 A.M. Sunday, 12th of January, 2014. HAL'S birthday. I'm tired as fuck.
HAL.
IBM.
HAL/IBM. HAL=IBM. IBM=HAL.
H+1 = I
A+1 = B
L+1 = M
So HAL is indisputably IBM. Just go one letter on in the alphabet from H, A and L and you get I, B and M.
But what is IBM? A computer company Kubrick had a grudge against? Or are we just missing a "T" in the greatest riddle known to mankind? Confused? Allow me to demonstrate.
IBM
I= 9th letter of the alphabet.
B= 2nd letter of the alphabet.
M= 13th letter of the alphabet.
9+2+13= 24.
X= 24th letter of the alphabet.
X= 10 in Roman numerals, so IBM= 10.
HAL
H=…
Review by Matt Singer ★★★★★ 34

Dear College-Age Matt Singer, who thinks this movie is long, boring, and pretentious:
You’re a fucking idiot.
Love,
Your Older, Smarter Self.
Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 57

Ever since I joined Letterboxd, nothing has scared me more than the idea of trying to write about 2001: A Space Odyssey. The fact that everything has "already been said" about this masterpiece has itself already been said so many times that there's not even an original means of expressing my lack of originality left at my disposal. So with the knowledge that I will probably never be able to fully encapsulate what makes this my favorite movie of all time—let alone say something truly unique about it—here is a small list of a few things I love about it.
I love that the monolith has remained an enigmatic symbol capable of being read in any number of different ways…
Review by Mary Conti ½ 289

2001:A Space Odyssey is quite simply the worst thing to happen to cinema ever. Its forced profundity has caused millions of people all over the world to force themselves to like what is quite simply nothing more than an exercise in style.
Kubrick has no idea what he is doing here. His film jumps around with little to no sense of unity. The great film makers of the world create a series of events that contain clarity of information, something Kubrick couldn't bet his life on.
What is the purpose of what is going on here? Is there any coherent message? I have heard suggestions that it is Kubrick's message about the future of humanity, but what future is that? Does Kubrick even know?
This is Transformers for the art house crowd. Pure style over substance. Nobody actually likes this film, they just like to be seen liking it.
Review by Lucy ★★★★★ 7

“i can feel it. i can feel it. i can feel it”
maybe the most monumental film in history, and even better on the big screen. and while rewatching it today, i finally realized why it hits me so hard every time: it doesn’t feel like fiction to me. i know it is, but it feels tangible, like an eventual future, even in the abstract. there’s a thread of truth running through it, sparking a fear and wonder in me that no film has ever matched in the same way, the most colossal and terrifying inevitability of our current existence: we are not alone
Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 24

I've had this movie on Blu-Ray for maybe 4 years now and I've always been worried to watch it because it seemed like something I had to be in "the right mood" for. When a friend told me it was playing at the Arclight in 70mm, I said "fuck the mood" and bought myself a ticket, presuming that a 70mm theater screening is the best way to see this thing.
Honestly? I still don't know if that's true. It felt like a huge experience. But this is the second time I've seen a 70mm movie in theaters (the first time being The Hateful Eight) and both times I came away thinking: it doesn't really look better to me. And with…
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★★ 16

saw it in IMAX. i know this is an unpopular opinion but this movie is great!
Review by Charlie Morris ★★½ 130

I had a disclaimer at the top of this review but everybody went off telling me how wrong I was anyway, so scrap that, you'll just have to remember that this is merely one person's opinion and that we're all entitled to one.
First of all, I like Kubrick's films, love some of them in fact, but I can't even pretend to like this one. Of course I understand the influence this film had on the industry in its time, but that doesn't mean that I found it enjoyable.
It was heavy breathing and scenes of nothing (pretty nothing, nevertheless) against epic music, or sometimes even just a creepy choir, for 140 minutes straight. I wanted to switch it off…
Review by Lulu ★★★★½ 1

y'all make fun of alexa now but she's bound to snap one of these days...
Review by Aaron ★★★★★ 66

“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”
In the beginning was the Monolith, and the Monolith was with God, and the Monolith was God.
From where had the Monolith derived? It scarcely mattered. If it had always been there, then it had come from nowhere. It simply was. The nothing from which everything sprang. The animating stimulus that drove the amoeba to split in two. The force of nature that extinguished the great lizards not inclined toward avian salvation. The spark of ingenuity that made the ape stand upright and realize its potential for violent innovation.
The Monolith was not “natural” in any traditional…
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 25

Everything that could have possibly been written about this film pretty much has been by now. So instead of reviewing 2001: A Space Odyssey, I'm just going to say - if you love 2001 as much as I do, here are some other films that you might enjoy:
- The Tree of Life (2011), dir. Terrence Malick
- Solaris (1972), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Baraka (1992), dir. Ron Fricke
- Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), dir. Bela Tarr
- Under the Skin (2013), dir. Jonathan Glazer
- The Double Life of Veronique (1991), dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012), dir. Don Hertzfeldt
- Angel's Egg (1985), dir. Mamoru Oshii
- Enter the Void (2009), dir. Gaspar Noe
-…
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 7

100
A few notes on the Christopher Nolan-supervised 'unrestored' 70mm print:
- First off, it was indescribably gorgeous. Deep, limitless blacks, sharp and distinct range of colors, and off-the-chart clarity. 65mm photography doesn't merely allow for a greater appreciation of the composition or the 'look' - it frees up each individual element to be its finest, most perfect self. Want to focus on faces? Go ahead. In it for the location and set design? It's all yours. Fascinated by gestural details and minutiae? Knock yourself out. 2001: A Space Odyssey, in 70mm, from sound to image and presentation, allows the art to fully speak for itself.
- That thought and consideration is so beautiful to me, so I was a…

Recent reviews

Review by Joey Langdon ★★

Cringe
Review by notsharontate ★★★★★

I’d pay a lot of money to see this on the big screen, however my dad called it a “crock of phooey”
Review by Conrad ★★★★½

Uhm cheesed to meet you?
Review by Tom Cass ★★★★½

A phenomenal visual masterpiece. This film should not be watched if you can't deal with films that have limited dialogue. The soundtrack is amazing and the visuals have aged beautifully. Hal is one of the greatest villains and when he sings Daisy it is truly terrifying. All in all if this film could be watched again and again without getting to boring it would be a solid 5 stars.
Review by IzPank ★★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

JESUS this film was a rollercoaster. So many things I loved, the score and cinamatography and how Kubrick somehow made science look exactly like art. The colouring and the pace and the spaceships dancing in space OH.
HAL was so fucking creepy in the best way,, his voice was calm and measured and unphased and BOY does that make it so much worse. So affecting though! The silence! The music! THE VOICE!
I must say the final part with the moving through time or colour or whatever was lovely, I just went with it,, but I was too lost in the final room. So confused,, too confused I would say which definitely detracted from my joy
BUT how the FUCK WAS THAT MADE IN 1968?!??!!!?!!!?
Literal unadulterated genius. WOW
Review by Daria ★★½

soulless mesmerizing art show
Review by The Movie Screen Scene ★★★★½

t is a traditional failing of science-fiction that the stories tend to neglect characterisation in favour of ideas, storyline and visual effects. Perhaps that is one reason why the genre was so well-suited to Stanley Kubrick, a director about whom we might say the same thing.
Nobody watches 2001: A Space Odyssey because they are interested in the characters, and what happens to them. Kubrick puts characters into the background. There is no dialogue in the first and last twenty minutes of the film. Indeed there is only 40 minutes of dialogue in the whole movie. Most of this dialogue is comically banal in any case.
The ideas expressed in 2001: A Space Odyssey are interesting, but critics overstate their…
Review by Kyle ★★★★★

Only in 2020 could a bunch of sheep-counters inspire me to watch the greatest movie of all time.
Review by DarthPeter ★

Por que acham esse filme bom?
pra mim, é horrível
Review by elifnaz

üstümden bi yük kalktı çünkü izledim bitti ve bi yük bindi çünkü izledim ,mutsuzum
yarın olsun da keyifli bi film bulup izliyim,banane ya
ilerleyen saatlerde konuşup bi şeyler okuyunca sinirim geçti tamam sakinim ya nedir sankiymiş
Review by mia <3 ★★★

my favourite part was the apes. also those visuals are truly spectacular.
Review by guytor ★★★★½

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