A four-million-year-old black monolith is discovered on the moon, and the government sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission while hiding the truth from the public. Later, another team is sent to Jupiter in a ship controlled by the perfect HAL 9000 computer to further investigate the giant object--but something .. Read more
| Starring | Keir Dullea, Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester |
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| Director | Stanley Kubrick |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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A four-million-year-old black monolith is discovered on the moon, and the government sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission while hiding the truth from the public. Later, another team is sent to Jupiter in a ship controlled by the perfect HAL 9000 computer to further investigate the giant object--but something goes terribly wrong. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is a masterpiece of filmmaking. Director and coscreenwriter (with Arthur C. Clarke) Stanley Kubrick has created a visual and aural spectacle that stands as one of the greatest achievements ever put on celluloid. The film begins with the "Dawn of Man" segment, about the evolution of apes, and then ventures into the future, taking a look at what the world might be like in the first year of the 21st century. Kubrick's film is a triumph of technological storytelling, a marvel of stunning sets and a brilliant soundtrack with the power to overwhelm and mystify. Long dialogue-free scenes sparkle with indelible images and powerful orchestral music, culminating in an unforgettable, inscrutable tale of birth and rebirth, human evolution and artificial intelligence, the past and the future.
| Starring | Keir Dullea, Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Robert Beatty, Leonard Rossiter |
|---|---|
| Director | Stanley Kubrick |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 16 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 16 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 2 hrs 22 mins HD DVD: 2 hrs 28 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies, American Film Institute's top 100 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English HD DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish HD DVD: English, Castillian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish |
| Released | Production year: 1968 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 30 Jul 2010 To Rent: DVD: 01 Sep 2001 Blu-ray: 10 Mar 2008 HD DVD: 24 Mar 2008 |
| Watch now | £2.49 |
A lengthy montage of brilliant model work and obscure symbolism, this curiosity slowly gathered commercial momentum and came to be cherished by those who used it as a trip without LSD.
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This is painfully bad by a self-indulgent and pretentious director
This is IMHO a truly awful film......there's no nicer way of putting it. It's over-rated, over-hyped, over-long........the only good 'over' is ... read more »
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mega movie
i've watched this film many, many times...with many people...most of whom have fallen asleep during it.
i love it.
the pace, the ... read more »
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This is painfully bad by a self-indulgent and pretentious director
This is IMHO a truly awful film......there's no nicer way of putting it. It's over-rated, over-hyped, over-long........the only good 'over' is ... read more »
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Absolute classic...only if you were born before 1968 though
Undoubtably an outstanding achievement for Kubrick in 1968 in terms of the score, the visuals, the vision of the future and the acid trip effect. Unfortunately... read more »
The climax of Stanley Kubrick's widely acclaimed film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which unhinged artificial intelligence computer HAL finally descends into insanity, has been rated as the most important moment in science fiction history by a panel of illustrious experts. The crowning glory of the1968 classic was chosen by a panel of sci-fi experts which included Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson and, less convincingly, a number of UFO investigators. The film beat a long list of significant sci-f Read more
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