2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Cast

Keir Dullea
as Dr. Dave Bowman
Gary Lockwood
as Dr. Frank Poole
William Sylvester
as Dr. Heywood R. Floyd
Leonard Rossiter
as Dr. Andrei Smyslov

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Genres & Description

Action Adventure Mystery Sci-Fi

8.3 / 10

"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

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Comments on this trailer
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bg jones

" Whats this movie about" ROCK HUDSON. - @Tuesday, December 11, 2018 6:23 PM

CEA

How did the trailer for 2001: A Space Odyssey, end up in hell? - @Monday, October 15, 2018 11:32 PM

Captain Cinema

The much better trailer that I think has a significantly more powerful effect is the "B" trailer that was released by National Screen Service at the end of 1969. While the version here is from the Cinerama simulation BluRay, it was released in standard letterboxed for flat (non-anamorphic) trailer packs, without that Cinerama curve. The reason I like it so much more than any of the "talkie" versions is because like the film itself, this trailer is pure visual with no hokie voiceover which is frivolous anyway -- I mean, how can a trailer hope to explain 2001 in a a few minutes worth of hype dialogue? Here the spectacular imagery with just the Strause music under does more to make an audience want to see the film than any ad copy ever could. Here -- see if you don't agree -- this is the better 2001 trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWURhn5xQFk BTW, I know for sure that this trailer was released for the first run engagements of the film at the end of 1969 in the 35mm format; I can't say for sure that it also was made available in 70mm -- I know for absolute certainty about the 35mm release because I ran the trailer in 35mm the first time I booked the film in our theatre (still have the trailer print). - @Wednesday, August 22, 2018 10:39 PM

Michael Stern

If you ever have a chance to see this film played with live music, *go*. - @Thursday, July 12, 2018 8:10 PM

Daavhimself

Landis was probably one of the critics who hated on this when it came out, then changed his opinion like a sycophant - @Monday, May 14, 2018 6:32 PM

Al Jackson

The Sam Goody story about the music is just goshing on Landis's part. The music for 2001 is quite a story in itself but it premiered in New York with exactly what one sees today. Not sure why Landis wanted to pull our legs about this, even if this is a thing he does. - @Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:02 AM

William K

All due respect to all concerned, I don't like this trailer - for maybe the most ridiculously anal reason ever - that logo - No! Adding depth stinks of hyperbole and is unacceptable. Flat text is all that is required. Like, simply '2OOI: A SPACE ODYSSEY', stark and unforgiving as an epitaph, you know, 'Take it or leave it. I'm not going anywhere', it would seem to say. 'You'll be back. They always come back' - @Tuesday, March 27, 2018 3:34 AM

Dr. Medic

How do you kill a vampire? - John Landis Uhm... Stake to the heart, holy cross, garlic. - Max Landis NO! You can kill a vampire however you want because they don't exist. - John Landis - @Friday, December 22, 2017 5:56 AM

john hanley

too bad it was never released as I-MAX - @Saturday, November 11, 2017 4:27 PM

Skusioh

I cannot believe this movie is from 1968.. the special effects are mind blowing (for the time) - @Saturday, September 9, 2017 8:48 AM

Jesse Chingon

who gives a shit what bohn landis has to say about anything guy wrote the STUPIDS - @Sunday, May 21, 2017 5:57 AM

August Greig

A lot of people like to talk about how hippies would go see this and take LSD so they could ooh and ahh at the visuals of Jupiter and Beyond. But the truth is, with or without psychedelics, when approached with the right frame of mind, this film can have profound spiritual meaning. - @Tuesday, May 9, 2017 1:42 AM

Anthony Smith

A true sci-fi masterpiece. This help launched the great space movies from Star Wars to most recently The Martian. Hal is really the star of this picture. I love the Dawn of Man sequence with apes looking at the monolith. - @Friday, February 17, 2017 10:34 AM

Chris A

This movie is so ahead of it's time, the only thing that dates it is the flat-top buzz cut that one of the military guys have at the beginning. (Makes it look "60's NASA) otherwise it's seamless!! - @Tuesday, January 31, 2017 3:24 AM

Luis Segovia

hello ...im federico fellini and i love this movie - @Monday, January 16, 2017 10:51 PM

The Everyday Challenge

When you're in the right mood and put on Space Odyssey it's a total experience of a film. Still my favorite after many years, glad to see so much love for the big ideas and grand scope of this flick on YouTube. - @Sunday, January 15, 2017 1:35 AM

Tha Urban Gremlin doin' Poonany and Road

rigsby............ - @Thursday, December 29, 2016 5:03 PM

teenie beenie

my least fave of the reviewers... - @Monday, December 5, 2016 11:13 AM

danielle king

amazing film dont get the acid trip ending but the effects stand up well - @Saturday, November 19, 2016 12:22 AM

jimmyl324

What a great movie. - @Sunday, October 9, 2016 3:53 AM

diddymuck

a gigantic door the size of the whole installation that opens up like a sliced pie to let in a craft with 4 people??? Ever hear of energy and air conservation? - @Sunday, September 11, 2016 5:43 AM

diddymuck

it IS monumentally unimaginative. the core story is the old hat theme of a computer taking over people. that concept was outdated when they used it for the 1957 flick The Invisible Boy. Outside the makeup for the primitives and the Pam Am flight, this was dull, absurd in concept, and at the end completely goofy. And these days, outdated...no more soviet union, no colony on the moon (for dirt and rocks research?), no commercial flights into space (a multi-million flight for, what? a total capacity of 40 people???), and no Pan Am! - @Sunday, September 11, 2016 5:19 AM

delon a

The best and most imaginative movie ever made. I saw it in the American Cultural Center in Kabul in 1979. I was nine years old. You can imagine the impact it had on me. I had seen nothing like it before, or since. - @Thursday, September 1, 2016 10:04 PM

David Norman

you're a lousy director - @Saturday, July 30, 2016 12:10 AM

hifijohn

hi marcello - @Sunday, March 20, 2016 8:50 PM

maximadog

Please give the wonderful William Sylvester, as Dr. Heywood Floyd, his due. His cadence, his way of speaking in this film, have resonated in my subconscious ever since the first time I saw this work of art... - @Saturday, December 19, 2015 2:46 AM

David Cook

A landmark movie. There's been some great sci-fi movies thru the years (Planet Of The Apes, Silent Running, Soylent Green, Blade Runner......) but this will always be the Daddy. - @Saturday, October 24, 2015 10:51 PM

MrKylePopovich

This is totally wrong. The editor actually used classical music as a guiding track. When Kubrick went into the edit he fell in love and dismissed any other music. - @Friday, October 16, 2015 11:14 PM

Samuel Oldham

I FINALLY GET IT! - @Sunday, September 6, 2015 7:22 AM

skivvy9yo

Masters and Doctoral thesis have been written on this film. Nuff said Ms. Kael! - @Friday, July 3, 2015 2:17 PM

Paul Kyriazi

I had a chance meeting with John Landis, that paid off years later when I met him again. I wrote about it here: http://goo.gl/myp2Kc - @Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:21 PM

Aura Hyel

Ku'prick' was an arsehole. A genius, yes; a gentleman, no. He didn't have the courtesy to inform Alex North, who composed an original score, that his music had been replaced by classical music. - @Friday, December 19, 2014 2:11 AM

Aura Hyel

Pauline was this snotty, anally retentive dyke. Her reviews were laughable for the most part. - @Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:52 PM

GREG FREEMAN

Pauline Kael's dismissal of 2001 just proves how short sighted some critics can be. They should al be avoided and treated with contempt. I have never been bored by a Stanley Kubrick film until Eyes Wide Shut when one my second viewing I kept nodding off but 2001 mesmerizes me. It is probably Kubrick's most hopeful film. One of the thrills of my life was meeting Keir Dullea when he appeared for a 2001 Q & A at the theater I work at and actually got to speak to him one on one. I rarely gush and was floating about three feet in the air meeting someone who worked with Kubrick and especially on such an iconic film. He looked exactly as he appeared in 2010, very nice, and autographed a 2001 book for me which is a cherished piece of my Kubrick collection. I wish I had written down a few questions instead of babbling like an idiot. I wanted to throw out my theory about the Star Child and the way its hands were (in my observation) in a Hindu gesture of greeting and peace. The novel's ending of it detonating obiting nuclear satelites could be interpreted as a good thing or a bad thing. I prefer the film's ambiguous ending that has no implication of violence. Or my theory how Kubrick literally beats the acting out of the actors so no one outshines the themes he is presenting. His characters can be a bit unreal at times but it is all to serve the film's theme. - @Wednesday, November 5, 2014 9:17 AM

Durins Bane

Pauline kael- I used to have respect. What an out of tune bitch you were-Rot. - @Saturday, September 13, 2014 2:58 AM

ewaf88

I can just imagine Alex North picking up his phone and HAL saying 'This film is too important to allow your score to jeopardize it'. - @Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:07 PM

richard murphy

Just a total Mindfuck - @Sunday, April 6, 2014 11:52 PM

AwesomelyAwsome

Remind me why people speak so highly of Pauline Kael? - @Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:57 PM

dnwilliams

I loved you in The Tenth Victim, Marcello. - @Friday, March 21, 2014 11:09 PM

TanookiLord

I haven't seen the entire movie, simply because it's so damn boring and put me to sleep. One of the most overrated movies of all time that seems to get a pass because of its visuals and because Kubrick is trying to show off some grand "themes" and "ideas" that are woefully executed in my opinion. - @Friday, March 21, 2014 5:06 PM

tio borracho

Blows my mind every time! lacyunlimited d o t com/unlimited - @Tuesday, March 11, 2014 1:59 AM

Steve Chaput

One of the all-time greatest SF films ever made. Among my Top Five favorites. - @Monday, March 10, 2014 10:25 PM

ZJ75

Landis for president. - @Monday, March 10, 2014 4:01 PM

leclue22

Someone should do a video blog on "Movie Critics from Hell" with all the stupid things that movie critics have said over the years about movies that turned out to be classics. - @Monday, March 10, 2014 2:27 PM

leclue22

"See you next Wednesday, John!" - @Monday, March 10, 2014 2:26 PM

WillsDuffy

There is this and everything else: - @Monday, March 10, 2014 12:43 PM

Daniel Ring

It was and still is a helluva game changer. - @Monday, March 10, 2014 8:13 AM

Luca Sebastiani

Hi i'm macielo mashtroianni - @Monday, March 10, 2014 7:27 AM

Ryan Reese

Great to hear Landis talk about such an achievement in filmmaking. Every word he says is absolutely right... - @Monday, March 10, 2014 5:07 AM