2001: A Space Odyssey overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 5
...ranks in these movie lists:
- The Top 100 Movies of the 20th Century (#12)
- Most Horrifying Outer Space Movies (#3)
- Greatest SciFi Movies (#7)
- Movies That Should Be Remade in 3D (#10)
- Most Outdated Movie Visions of the Future (#2)
- Favorite Movies 1960s (#13)
- Favorite Movies of All Time (#21)
- SciFi Blockbusters Pre-Dating Star Wars (#1)
Synopsis:
A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story The Sentinel, Kubrick and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the "Dawn of Man," a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith alien to their surroundings. To the strains of Strauss's 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra, a hominid invents the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Studio: MGM
- Year: 1968
- Run Time: 139 minutes
- Country: UK, USA
- Language: English
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Science Fiction
- Filmed in: Color
