2001 A Space Odyssey Is Now 50 Years Old

[Weatherman2020]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Welfare was much better investment

 

[Erinwltr]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Still an awesome movie!

 

[Moonglow]

We put astronauts into space all the time along with satellites and pilotless shuttles..To include tourist flights...

 

[Moonglow]

NASA is about to blast off another Mars rover....

 

[Weatherman2020]

We put astronauts into space all the time along with satellites and pilotless shuttles..To include tourist flights...

Putin puts astronauts into space.
America couldn't if we had to.

 

[OldLady]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Still an awesome movie!

I never really understood it, but it was memorable, that's for sure.

 

[Erinwltr]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Still an awesome movie!

I never really understood it, but it was memorable, that's for sure.

The sequel 2010 goes a long way to help explain 2001. Check it out if you have not watched it yet.

 

[Erinwltr]

NASA is about to blast off another Mars rover....

I think they are launching another deep space probe today. Supposed to look for other planets outside our solar system, or something like that.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

If we'd in the 60s stopped wasting money on welfare, social justice crap and enemy foreign nations, we'd probably have our infrastructure rebuilt AND a warp drive by now.

 

[Mr Natural]

Welfare was much better investment

Almost as good as the never ending military escapes.

 

[toobfreak]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Here is a concept drawing of a space station in 1952 by Werner Von Braun, father of the space program:

Looks a lot like the station in 2001, doesn't it? Like most things, mankind lags far behind the vision of fiction largely because man is far too busy making war with himself and trying to steal from his brother.

 

[rightwinger]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Still an awesome movie!

I always thought it pretentious and overrated

Same goes for Clockwork Orange

 

[Syriusly]

We put astronauts into space all the time along with satellites and pilotless shuttles..To include tourist flights...

Snowflakes are too busy complaining to notice.

Great movie- I always get nostalgic when I see the Pan Am shuttle...

 

[Mr Natural]

Same goes for Clockwork Orange

One of my favorites.


No time for the old in-out, love. I've just come to read the meter.

 

[Nosmo King]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Still an awesome movie!

I always thought it pretentious and overrated

Same goes for Clockwork Orange

C'mon!

Open the pod bay doors and let the genius of Stanley Kubrick wash over you.

2001: A Space Odyssey is the seminal six-fi movie of the age. The pacing, the story and the cinematography are beyond praiseworthy.

 

[rightwinger]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Still an awesome movie!

I always thought it pretentious and overrated

Same goes for Clockwork Orange

C'mon!

Open the pod bay doors and let the genius of Stanley Kubrick wash over you.

2001: A Space Odyssey is the seminal six-fi movie of the age. The pacing, the story and the cinematography are beyond praiseworthy.

I remember seeing it when it came out
Visually spectacular
But the story? Inferred much more than it delivered

The whole monolith thing and apes pounding bones was so contrived

Not something I watch for old times sake. There were much better films from that era

 

[Nosmo King]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Still an awesome movie!

I always thought it pretentious and overrated

Same goes for Clockwork Orange

C'mon!

Open the pod bay doors and let the genius of Stanley Kubrick wash over you.

2001: A Space Odyssey is the seminal six-fi movie of the age. The pacing, the story and the cinematography are beyond praiseworthy.

I remember seeing it when it came out
Visually spectacular
But the story? Inferred much more than it delivered

The whole monolith thing and apes pounding bones was so contrived

Not something I watch for old times sake. There were much better films from that era

Isn't it more inspiring to allow the inferences make the story than have everything laid out before you? Seeing the apes develop technology juxtaposed against the most effective jump cut in the world to a space station was inspired film making.

But your point of films of that era is not off the mark. I saw films like Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather, The Graduate, Patton, The Sting, Taxi Driver and A Clockwork Orange before I saw Star Wars. Remember, Star Wars was marketed as akid's movie. It was during my one and only screenplay nag of Star Wars in the summer of 1977 that I was first called 'sir'. Of course it was followed by 'please leave the theater. You're drunk and making a scene', but I got that 'sir'!

 

[Weatherman2020]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Here is a concept drawing of a space station in 1952 by Werner Von Braun, father of the space program:

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Looks a lot like the station in 2001, doesn't it? Like most things, mankind lags far behind the vision of fiction largely because man is far too busy making war with himself and trying to steal from his brother.

A lot of people were pushing for a space station before we got to the moon. They knew once we got to the moon people would lose interest. A space station would have been an anchor for keep going. They made a feeble attempt with Skylab afterwards, but that was just a McGyvered tin can.

 

[rightwinger]

Instead of having space stations and moon bases we can't even get an astronaut into space.

Still an awesome movie!

I always thought it pretentious and overrated

Same goes for Clockwork Orange

C'mon!

Open the pod bay doors and let the genius of Stanley Kubrick wash over you.

2001: A Space Odyssey is the seminal six-fi movie of the age. The pacing, the story and the cinematography are beyond praiseworthy.

I remember seeing it when it came out
Visually spectacular
But the story? Inferred much more than it delivered

The whole monolith thing and apes pounding bones was so contrived

Not something I watch for old times sake. There were much better films from that era

Isn't it more inspiring to allow the inferences make the story than have everything laid out before you? Seeing the apes develop technology juxtaposed against the most effective jump cut in the world to a space station was inspired film making.

But your point of films of that era is not off the mark. I saw films like Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather, The Graduate, Patton, The Sting, Taxi Driver and A Clockwork Orange before I saw Star Wars. Remember, Star Wars was marketed as akid's movie. It was during my one and only screenplay nag of Star Wars in the summer of 1977 that I was first called 'sir'. Of course it was followed by 'please leave the theater. You're drunk and making a scene', but I got that 'sir'!

Don’t get me started on Star Wars