50 years 2001: A Space Odyssey

[Rhinocrates]

So many threads I could add this to, but I'll take this one. Maciej Rebisz illustrates the earlier iterations of Discovery. In orbit around Saturn, as was the case in early drafts.

 

[publiusr]

Any would be good as Discovery II

 

[Michel Van]

This here is retake of 2001, based on Novel by Clark.
The People how dit this, made great job

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqllbb6k80

 

[Archibald]

Oh gosh ! I remember being offered the novel for my 19th birthday in May... 2001 and being completely fascinated by Bowman trip, straight out of Clarke vivid imagination (perhaps with some help from LSD and mushrooms, but that's another story LMAO).

Nice to see a gifted CGI guy tackling it !

 

[uk 75]

If I am honest the bits I enjoyed have remained the same since I first saw it aged 13.
The spaceships orbiting the Earth (the movie does not explain they are orbital weapons platforms but I did notice Chinese and German markings)
The Pan Am clipper journey to the wheel followed by the Ares trip to Clavius base on the Moon
The Moonbus journey to the Monolithic slab.
Discovery in space and the introduction to its crew and routines.
Before and after those sequences the film is a mess.
The whole introduction with the apes just delayed the arrival of the stuff I had come to see-the cool space gear.
The struggle with HAL for control of the ship is a bit like an episode of Star Trek without the humour.
The ending of the film in a US style hotel room after a Pearl and Dean (Advertising Film Agency at all UK cinemas) like light show is also a dull note.

I avoid space films (even the Alien genre) because they always seem slower than their terrestrial equivalents.

I love the 60s style and clean design. But once you have 2001 stuff like Space 1999 is just less dramatic reruns of Ares and Clavius or bits of Revell or Airfix plastic kits cobbled together (Star Wars Battlestar Galactica and many more).

The original Starship Enterprise and the 2001 are classics.