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2001: A Space Odyssey -- should I watch it?
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Last edited by Marcel Birgelen; 04-05-2022, 01:55 AM.
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I wouldn't watch it unless it IS in 70mm.. Seeing it in any other format IS a complete waste of time... The film format is at least half the show. Ya read me Dave?.Last edited by Mark Gulbrandsen; 04-05-2022, 10:49 AM.
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Be sure to check out the pictures in the warehouse on this site from when I worked with a group in chicago to run it outdoors in Lincoln Park, in 70mm, on a 70 foot wide screen. Five - 4675's behind the screen, about 20 JBL surrounds on portable stands and ten Intersonics servo drive subwoovers. The low frequency was so loud it rattled the windows in a high rise almost a block away. NASA still uses groups of these subs to levitate test objects in wind tunnels. We did three nights of films and the turn outs were great. Did I mention we used a DP- 70? We also ran Ran, but in 35mm on my Simplex XL with the high speed intermittent... we also ran one of the surviving 70mm prints of Days Of Heaven.
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Originally posted by Brian D. Whitish View PostIts my favorite movie of all time. Thankfully got to see it many times in 70mm at Seattle's Cinerama. So awesome on that big screen.
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2001 is very long and there are some extended boring parts but I'd say watch it. Reel 9, the psychedelic stuff, really doesn't add much and the effects didn't age well. The ending makes zero sense. But worth seeing once for sure. As a teenager I saw it (glorious 70mm in a former Cinerama house) with an older (30s?) woman friend of the family. I was amazed, she did not like it at all.
Science wasn't ignored - I think the weightless scenes were well done and the movie doesn't use the nonsensical "artificial gravity" copout seen so commonly in SF movies and TV shows. And HAL singing is great.
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Absolutely watch it at least once! It would have even greater meaning today if you had seen it in the early release years and the memories return. I've been involved with 70mm showings in Detroit and see something new in it and have lasting impressions each time.
Paul Finn
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Originally posted by Mark Gulbrandsen View PostI wouldn't watch it unless it IS in 70mm.. Seeing it in any other format IS a complete waste of time... The film format is at least half the show. Ya read me Dave?.
Originally posted by Brian D. Whitish View PostIts my favorite movie of all time. Thankfully got to see it many times in 70mm at Seattle's Cinerama. So awesome on that big screen.
Originally posted by Jim Cassedy View PostI notice that that the DCP version currently circulating contains two versions with different sound tracks.
1) A "Digitally Restored" Audio Version,
2) "Original 1968 Audio" Version, For the 2018 restoration, supervised by Christopher Nolan.
- A friend who is running the DCP version of "MMI" next week sez he's been instructed to run the
"1968" audio version
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There is a cemetery along one of the back roads that I frequently travel and there is a plain, rectangular gravestone visible from the road as you drive by.
It says, "Bowman," and nothing else.
Many times, when I drive by, I say, "My God! It's full of stars!"
I often wonder whether the family of the deceased did that on purpose.
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So, film fans, here's a question for you: What, exactly IS the aspect ratio on the 35mm 2001 prints?
I ran a show this morning ("Scope") and I had at least a foot of black space between each side of the
picture and my masking. It's been at least 7 years or more since I ran this in 35mm, but I don't recall
the scope image being undersized. Whatsupwiththat?Last edited by Jim Cassedy; 04-09-2022, 05:25 PM.
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