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Reviews
"The appeal of this film diminishes with time as its almost comatose pacing threatens to alienate it from a modern audience. There are nevertheless moments of sheer brilliance and it is undoubtedly their stark visual power that lends this piece of cinema its famous visionary qualities." Almar Haflidason - BBC Films Review
"This film, ultimately, is about the need mankind has to transcend its limited thinking and move into dimensions that are greater than its narrow aims. It is not a pessimistic film as some have suggested, neither is it an optimistic film; it is a film based on self-discovery and intellect and contemplation. It is one of the great original works of cinema, maybe even the best; it is a film that is not even a bit dated as I view it once again in 1999 still awed by the spectacle, the accuracy of its scientific statements, and its mystery." Dennis Schwartz - Ozus' World Movie Review
"What else can this film be called other than ART?" Dan Jardine - Cinemania
If you ask me, Kubrick's effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which were made by human hands, are still unsurpassed." Jeffrey M. Anderson - Combustible Celluloid
"Only a few films are transcendent, and work upon our minds and imaginations like music or prayer or a vast belittling landscape. Most movies are about characters with a goal in mind, who obtain it after difficulties either comic or dramatic. ``2001: A Space Odyssey'' is not about a goal but about a quest, a need. It does not hook its effects on specific plot points, nor does it ask us to identify with Dave Bowman or any other character. It says to us: We became men when we learned to think. Our minds have given us the tools to understand where we live and who we are. Now it is time to move on to the next step, to know that we live not on a planet but among the stars, and that we are not flesh but intelligence." - Roger Ebert
Links
www.filmsite.org/twot.html
www.palantir.net/2001
www.space.com/sciencefiction/movies/2001_space_oddity_991216.html
www.everything2.com/index.pl
www.wikipedia.org