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Oops. My mistake. I meant wires holding up the pen (even if they filmed it on a sheet of glass). I know models are filmed on motion-control rigs and the like. One of my favorite HAL lines: "You seem upset, Dave. Maybe you should take a stress pill." (or something like that)
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I have this vision of this 60's-era Liam hotly disputing any suggestions of the film's brilliance when it was firat released, and telling all and sundry that The Jetsons is much more realistic. 8)
No, since this isn't about music I agree with Simon. It is a masterpiece. It does set out what it was meant to do. And I'm not sure if there's any other way they could have done the end sequence.
I'm glad I've seen it, but I'd rather have my bollocks electrocuted than see it again.
2010 is much less of a masterpiece, but in many ways it's a superior movie.
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I just watch for the dildo-suit flight stewardess, the one that walks like she has had a mindchip inserted into her brainstem, to make her an efficient, detached worker and sex slave.
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i meant i wish i had the dildo suit.
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good. the fewer questions the better.
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1337 insertion fantasies aside, 2001 is an incredible film, with a very potent message. I am surprised so many of you who apreciate good science-fiction aren't all that into it. Perhaps you haven't seen it on the big screen. That's really where you will come to understand the magnitude of the thing. I was lucky enough to catch the restored 70mm print up in SF a few months back. It was amazing. There is so much detail.
I mean the acid-freak-out sequence at the end is easy to poke fun at, and it could be argued is the weakest moment of the film. I don't claim to understand it, and wouldn't even hazard a guess around you lot. That excepted, the film had so much to say about the plight of man and his tools and which is which. It poses difficult questions and evokes uncomfortable emotional responses and does so with such vivid and tangible imagery. I mean the visual storytelling is just remarkable. There are so many big budget films that have come out since with access to all this newfangled technology, that can't even touch it. It is truly is a masterwork.
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It'd be funny if they made a movie called 1337, and a whole bunch of script kiddies and the like went to see it, and it turned out to be about the beginning of the Hundred Years' War...
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To really appreciate the technical brilliance of this movie, you have to see it on a big, big Cinerama screen. If you've only seen it on a 14" TV, you might get the completely mistaken impression that that over-literal matte-lined piece of crap 2010 was a worthy sequal. The effects, filmed with long, stately cuts, blows any other predigital effects completely away. Blown up to 40 feet, the effects are absolutely bulletproof.
Too bad about the ape suits, though.
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