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| I'm sorry Dave. I just can't do that. | | Date Created: Aug 08, 2005, 09:15 AM |
Last night we saw the 70 mm version of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Michigan Theater. (The theater is having a summer classic film series.)
It's amazing how well the special effects from 1968 still hold up. In fact, they look better than the DVD versions of Star Wars. (If you've got the Star Wars DVDs, you've no doubt noticed the little blue rectangles around all the space ships in the space scenes. Blech.)
Unfortunately, the Michigan's 70 mm print wasn't in very good shape -- very scratched -- and it even broke about 5 minutes before the end of the movie. It broke right at the point where Dave has gone "Beyond the Infinite" to the Victorian Hotel Room at the End of the Universe.
Of course, this film is a classic, and everything important that can be said about it has already been said. I think it must be pretty neato to have created something so full of immediately recognizable images.
After the movie, nearly every conversation I overheard was, "What did it mean??" Arthur C. Clarke once said that "If you understand 2001 completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered."
I think the whole movie is just an illustration that, even if you're an alien culture powerful enough to manipulate human evolution, plant these monoliths around our solar system, and even travel past the speed of light, it doesn't mean you have any style. You'd think they'd be able to come up with better decor than that horrible baby blue Victorian hotel stuff?
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