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CAST: Keir Dullea, Gary
Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Douglas
Rain, Leonard Rossiter SYNOPSIS: The film has four parts. The first section
is the dawn of man. Man-apes are taught to use tools and
kill by an imposing black monolith. In the second part, a
second black monolith is found buried in the moon by
astronauts in the year 2001. This leads to a mission to
Jupiter by another team of astronauts and a talkative,
emotional computer named Hal. The final and most surreal
part has astronaut Dave traveling to the infinite and
beyond. Critics hated this movie when it first saw
theatrical release. Audiences - particularly hippies high
on acid dug the psychedelic special effects scene at the
end and thus made it a box office hit. Years later, one
would be hard pressed for a critic who admits to
disliking this film. It has made the so-called
"canon" of critics' favourite films.
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2001: A
Space Odyssey
But how does this film look today,
almost 30 years later, to audiences weaned on the special
effects wizardry of Star Wars and its ilk? Except for
perhaps a midnight showing at some obscure cult cinema,
audiences are also unlikely to see the film as it is
supposed to be seen: on the BIG screen.
