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2001: A Space Odyssey, As An Action Film

by Lev on 30 July 2012

You really can make anything into a fast-paced, loud trailer:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZSGsh9so_dA

Incidentally, I would advise you all to watch <i>2001</i> again. I gave it a try on a whim a few months back, and was surprised by how moved and stimulated I was by it. I mean, this was the movie that I didn’t care for as a teenager because not all that much happened, aside from a few cool parts with HAL. But rewatching it as an adult really made me see it differently. I could appreciate how the film introduced and developed its ideas in an accessible way, and the film’s legendary slowness I actually appreciated as inevitable and appropriate due to the enormous distance and emptiness of space. It’s definitely a minimalistic film, but a masterful one too, and arguably one of the few science-fiction movies that can even be argued to be hard sci-fi, along with the original Solaris and not too many others. It’s just a way different experience than contemporary sci-fi films.

I don’t spend enough time going through the all-time classics that I should. But often when I do, I find the best ones really do change with me. The way I appreciated the film when I was a teenager is probably a fair approximation of where I was at that time, and I can only wonder how I will respond to it ten years from now.

(h/t: A.V. Club)

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