Mon Jun 11, 2012, 10:06 PM

texanwitch (17,166 posts)

I am watching 2001: A Space Odyssey.

It is 2012 and we are not close to the movie in space travel.

Rats.

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I am watching 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Original post)	texanwitch	Jun 2012	OP
On the plus side, we aren't asked for our Christian names during voice print identification, either	Orrex	Jun 2012	#1
I noticed this for the first time, the cost of the video phonecall from the space station to earth.	texanwitch	Jun 2012	#2
Back when the movie was made, the $1.70 charge was exorbitant.	Bolo Boffin	Jun 2012	#19
this is an example of why we should be allowed to rec replies. n/t	Soylent Brice	Jun 2012	#32
It can only be attributable to human error.	El Supremo	Jun 2012	#3
There are flat screens in the movie.	texanwitch	Jun 2012	#4
My husband knew AC Clarke well ... and Clarke was kinda bummed that	Flaxbee	Jun 2012	#5
The book (not movie) "2010" was better.	Archae	Jun 2012	#6
I loved 2010 when I was a kid. But the book was better.	hrmjustin	Jun 2012	#22
Try not to fall asleep at the end. It just goes on, and on, and on, and on.	HopeHoops	Jun 2012	#7
It does.	pipi_k	Jun 2012	#8
And Hal sings nursery rhymes. It's sad in a way.	HopeHoops	Jun 2012	#11
Yep...I always	pipi_k	Jun 2012	#17
Every single time I see V-GER mentioned, I hear the music/sound effect.	Liberal Veteran	Jun 2012	#9
"Didn't anyone else see that eye or whatever it was?" - love the movie.	HopeHoops	Jun 2012	#10
I'll tell you why that is	WhoIsNumberNone	Jun 2012	#14
Actually 'In Thy Image' was a recycled script from Roddenberry's	MicaelS	Jun 2012	#16
In the original series, they used magnetic clamps to get it into the transporter.	HopeHoops	Jun 2012	#29
I think the first Star Trek movie was almost ruined	hedgehog	Jun 2012	#31
Check out Spider Robinson's book, "Stardance"... which he co-wrote with his wife, Jeanne...	MiddleFingerMom	Jun 2012	#12
"This Conversation Can No Longer Serve A Purpose....Goodbye."	WiffenPoof	Jun 2012	#13
one of the best quotes from that film	militant_lib2553	Jun 2012	#21
Check out the Pink Floyd "Echoes" version of 2001's ending	deutsey	Jun 2012	#15
$700B annually for the DoD	pokerfan	Jun 2012	#18
sad, isn't it?	militant_lib2553	Jun 2012	#20
Go here if you like film analysis	edbermac	Jun 2012	#23
I am a huge....	WiffenPoof	Jun 2012	#25
This message was self-deleted by its author	Archae	Jun 2012	#26
I saw an interview with a couple actors, who did Kubrick movies.	Archae	Jun 2012	#26
Well...	WiffenPoof	Jun 2012	#30
It seems to be that way in the movies. They always use years that are not far	Honeycombe8	Jun 2012	#24
I'd love to join you, but...	pinboy3niner	Jun 2012	#28
Best theme music ever.	Initech	Jun 2012	#33

Response to texanwitch (Original post)

Mon Jun 11, 2012, 10:25 PM

Orrex (36,450 posts)

1. On the plus side, we aren't asked for our Christian names during voice print identification, either

Win some, lose some.

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Mon Jun 11, 2012, 10:34 PM

texanwitch (17,166 posts)

2. I noticed this for the first time, the cost of the video phonecall from the space station to earth.

Last edited Mon Jun 11, 2012, 10:36 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

It was $1.70.

No cellphones.

No personal computers either.

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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 05:25 PM

Bolo Boffin (22,518 posts)

19. Back when the movie was made, the $1.70 charge was exorbitant.

It got laughs, it was so high.

Now that gets laughs the other way. So it goes.

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Fri Jun 15, 2012, 07:14 PM

Soylent Brice (8,129 posts)

32. this is an example of why we should be allowed to rec replies. n/t

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Response to texanwitch (Original post)

Mon Jun 11, 2012, 10:40 PM

El Supremo (13,153 posts)

3. It can only be attributable to human error.

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Response to El Supremo (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 11, 2012, 10:45 PM

texanwitch (17,166 posts)

4. There are flat screens in the movie.

I remember reading the book back in junior high.

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Tue Jun 12, 2012, 02:18 AM

Flaxbee (12,525 posts)

5. My husband knew AC Clarke well ... and Clarke was kinda bummed that

we hadn't progressed as far as he'd hoped in terms of space travel and exploration. And in terms of free energy, etc...

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Tue Jun 12, 2012, 02:57 AM

Archae (26,371 posts)

6. The book (not movie) "2010" was better.

The books went downhill from "2010."

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Response to Archae (Reply #6)

Wed Jun 13, 2012, 05:52 PM

hrmjustin (9,081 posts)

22. I loved 2010 when I was a kid. But the book was better.

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Tue Jun 12, 2012, 10:21 AM

HopeHoops (47,675 posts)

7. Try not to fall asleep at the end. It just goes on, and on, and on, and on.

The V-GER (first) Star Trek movie had similar moments.

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Response to HopeHoops (Reply #7)

Tue Jun 12, 2012, 10:39 AM

pipi_k (16,268 posts)

8. It does.

My favorite parts are the beginning with the baboons and the part where HAL9000 gets all evil and Dave Bowman decides to "kill" him.

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Tue Jun 12, 2012, 05:52 PM

HopeHoops (47,675 posts)

11. And Hal sings nursery rhymes. It's sad in a way.

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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 04:58 PM

pipi_k (16,268 posts)

17. Yep...I always

have very mixed feelings when I see that part.

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Response to HopeHoops (Reply #7)

Tue Jun 12, 2012, 11:19 AM

Liberal Veteran (20,369 posts)

9. Every single time I see V-GER mentioned, I hear the music/sound effect.

Of course, there were good moments in the first movie. I particularly liked the transporter malfunction. "What we got back didn't live long....fortunately."

They did it better in Galaxy Quest.

Jason Nesmith: What? What was that?
Alexander Dane: Uh, nothing.
Jason Nesmith: I heard some squealing or something.
Gwen DeMarco: Oh, no. Everything's fine.
Teb: But the animal is inside out.
Jason Nesmith: I heard that! It turned inside out?

Teb: And it exploded.
Jason Nesmith: Did I just hear that the animal turned inside out, and then it EXPLODED?

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Response to Liberal Veteran (Reply #9)

Tue Jun 12, 2012, 05:51 PM

HopeHoops (47,675 posts)

10. "Didn't anyone else see that eye or whatever it was?" - love the movie.

It was what SHOULD have happened to the original Star Trek cast. You have to watch it repeatedly to catch the really subtle but hilarious stuff - "But you live with your mother." - "Wow, the floors are so CLEAN!" - "We're screwed." - and don't fail to watch the outtakes on the DVD. That's the only way to understand how Gwen's uniform got so messed up by the end.

"Hey guys, get a room. WHOA! Oh, THAT's not RIGHT!"

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Response to HopeHoops (Reply #7)

Wed Jun 13, 2012, 11:48 AM

WhoIsNumberNone (4,510 posts)

14. I'll tell you why that is

In the 1970s a second Star Trek TV series was proposed (Almost all the original cast were to return. Except Spock. Go figure.) It never got beyond the embryonic stage. Twelve episodes were outlined for the first season, and several eventually became Next Generation episodes. The pilot, 'In Thy Image' was re-written as the first Star Trek movie. So the reason you have so many long sequences in the V-GER movie is that it was originally a 45 minute script which had to be stretched to two hours.

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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 04:35 PM

MicaelS (4,386 posts)

16. Actually 'In Thy Image' was a recycled script from Roddenberry's

Proposed TV series "Genesis II" titled "Robot's Return."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_%28film%29

"Robots Return" - The advanced computers and sophisticated machinery left on a moon of Jupiter by a 1992 NASA expedition have evolved into a new form of robot life and visit Earth in search of the "God" which created their life. They meet Dylan Hunt, formerly of NASA and consider him a messiah. This story idea was later developed into the script for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and, shares that work's thematic similarities to The Changeling (Star Trek: The Original Series), written by John Meredyth Lucas.

Roddenberry was obsessed with the "Enterprise meets God" trope. He re-used it again with "Q" in ST:TNG.

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Thu Jun 14, 2012, 02:43 PM

HopeHoops (47,675 posts)

29. In the original series, they used magnetic clamps to get it into the transporter.

Then they beamed it out into space to explode.

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Fri Jun 15, 2012, 04:27 PM

hedgehog (30,406 posts)

31. I think the first Star Trek movie was almost ruined

when they left so much of the story on the cutting room floor so Robert Wise could imitate Stanley Kubrik.

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Tue Jun 12, 2012, 06:04 PM

MiddleFingerMom (22,219 posts)

12. Check out Spider Robinson's book, "Stardance"... which he co-wrote with his wife, Jeanne...

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... who was a choreographer/dancer/novelist in her own right.

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AMAZING book (it's part of a trilogy, but I can't tell you about 2 & 3).
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It's about first contact with aliens who are a race composed of pure energy
who comunicate by movement. Earth sends up a dance troupe that trained
in zero-gravity. They chose to meet us near Pluto.
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Fantastic book.
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Robinson (probably the Tom Robbins of the science fiction world) is best-known
for his series of novels/short stories about "Callahan's Place" -- the coolest bar
you could ever hope to find. Ever.
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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 11:29 AM

WiffenPoof (1,088 posts)

13. "This Conversation Can No Longer Serve A Purpose....Goodbye."

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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 05:48 PM

militant_lib2553 (7 posts)

21. one of the best quotes from that film

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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 02:24 PM

deutsey (16,802 posts)

15. Check out the Pink Floyd "Echoes" version of 2001's ending

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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 05:14 PM

pokerfan (25,409 posts)

18. $700B annually for the DoD

vs $17B for NASA. It's not hard to figure out.

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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 05:44 PM

militant_lib2553 (7 posts)

20. sad, isn't it?

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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 08:56 PM

edbermac (11,145 posts)

23. Go here if you like film analysis

Guy in England named Rob Ager does some great work. He used to have a lot of stuff on YouTube but is selling DVD's of his analysis now. Some good stuff on Kubrick films, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove and The Shining.

http://www.collativelearning.com/

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Thu Jun 14, 2012, 01:54 AM

WiffenPoof (1,088 posts)

25. I am a huge....

Kubrick fan. I'm going to the link right now. Thanks for posting.

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Thu Jun 14, 2012, 02:06 AM

Archae (26,371 posts)

26. I saw an interview with a couple actors, who did Kubrick movies.

The guy was equal parts genius and asshole.

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Fri Jun 15, 2012, 03:23 PM

WiffenPoof (1,088 posts)

30. Well...

A lot of geniuses are assholes. LOL

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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 09:01 PM

Honeycombe8 (18,006 posts)

24. It seems to be that way in the movies. They always use years that are not far

that are not far enough in the future.

Prometheus, which I just saw, takes place in 2093. It is highly doubtful we'll be flying to different solar systems in 80 years.

OTOH, many things in the movie, like in Orwell's books, came to pass. Cell phones, flat screen TVs, the weird furniture, modernistic style, computers that speak, Skype, and I'm sure some other things I can't think of right now.

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Thu Jun 14, 2012, 02:31 AM

pinboy3niner (27,535 posts)

28. I'd love to join you, but...

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Fri Jun 15, 2012, 09:02 PM

Initech (38,858 posts)

33. Best theme music ever.

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