http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/ Engadget Comments for Movie Gadget Friday: 2001: A Space Odyssey http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/
Oh well... This movie looks great on HD DVD!]]>Mar 21st 2008 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/
And yes it does look good.]]>Mar 21st 2008 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/
...better? ]]>Mar 21st 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/
Perhaps the homage is a little misdirected at this point? Are we praising Kubrick or Clarke?]]>Mar 21st 2008 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/
That call up asking about God thing, I always thought that was his question to Stephen King for The Shining...? Or was that like the question of his life ;)]]>Mar 22nd 2008 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/
Airliner seatback IFE, video phones, "LCD" screens (they obviously weren't really, but they were flat panel and thin), instant credit card payment, digital cameras... I mean most of these things weren't even a glint in anyone's eye in 1969. I'm not sure credit cards even existed! (Seriously.) And even through the 1980's, they were only used for major purchases and you had to sign a carbon copy that was run through a mechanical machine to make an imprint of your card. So this idea that you'd just stick a card in somewhere and then pull it out and a computer would register your payment was really alien to audiences back then.

Even all the secondary screens in all the ships and control areas show stuff that actually makes sense and is contextual to the scene. That's really rare in a sci-fi movie and it just goes to show Kubrick's attention to detail. Keep in mind none of this stuff really existed back then; nobody knew what a screen in a spaceship would show while you were landing, for example. Even the Apollo lander did not have screens like that, so this was totally new for the movie. There was nothing in the real world for Kubrick and Clarke to base this on; they just worked out what they thought would make sense. But the fact that they even thought to do it at all is what made all of Kubrick's films great. Most other directors would say "eh, nobody's even gonna see it" and just put a bunch of garbage up there. For Kubrick, everything had to be just right and his films were better for it.
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I've read it was actually filmed in real-time and not added later, it was done with multiple slide or film projectors.

The film is a bit cheesy (bad 70's hair and clothes) but that scene was great. Even the virus shown under a powerful electron microscope is pretty convincing.]]>Mar 21st 2008 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)#Imagining_the_future

Great list of things they predicted right, and wrong.]]>Apr 12th 2008 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/
Maybe today I'll actually watch them for the first time.
Or should i wait for my hd dvd? I hate decisions.]]>Mar 21st 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 21st 2008 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/
Someone with way too much time found every logo http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1682667]]>Mar 21st 2008 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/

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It was never supposed to be a huge ship. I think that's what's initially confusing. It's been a long time since I read the book but I think it's even described as small in the book. And Kubrick and Clarke did the book and movie together.

Kubrick's extreme wide angles probably occasionally make the interiors seem larger than they are too.
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I watch this film at least once a year, but I always skip the initial ape-man section and switch off when it goes nuts at the end.]]>Mar 22nd 2008 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/
I agree with you...the movie is great but the ape-man section at the beginning and all the trippy stuff at the end kind of lost me.]]>Mar 22nd 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 24th 2008 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Another great example for the many details that make this movie special.]]>Apr 13th 2008 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 25th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 26th 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/Mar 28th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/movie-gadget-friday-2001-a-space-odyssey/How many items have been invented after some nerd watched 2001 i grade school and thought that it would be a great idea and then actually invented the technology for the item some 20 years later??

Ponder that one.]]>May 2nd 2008 11:49PM