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SvennoJ on 20 April 2012
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pezus said:
SvennoJ said:
pezus said:
spurgeonryan said:
Easy guys! I will watch it this week to see how it is then I will administer my recommendations.

Indeed. Go in with an open mind and don't expect a plot that makes sense. Then you're good to go

Did you guys read the book? That makes a big difference as well, especially for the ending.

Top 5 pre '70 for me

2001 (1968)
Ben Hur (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
Planet of the apes (1968)
Jungle book (1967)
runners up: Journey to the center of the earth (1959), Bridge on the river Kwai (1957), Psycho (1960)

I have to watch Dr Strangelove again. I saw it in my student years, drunk and sleep deprived, can't remember much of it.

No, I actually did not. Did not even know there was a book, or maybe I had just forgotten it. How is it written lol, I can't imagine?

The book series is great, one of my favorites. Arthur C Clarke is a great writer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_%28novel%29
There is a good section on the difference between the movie and the book. There's nothing about the end sequence, but it's easy to understand that works a lot better in book form where you read the thought process of Bowman.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two
Was released as a movie too in 1984


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2061:_Odyssey_Three


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3001:_The_Final_Odyssey

His Rama series is great too and I hope that that will get a movie adaptation some day.
Morgan Freeman is still rooting for one http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134933/
It dit have a video game in 1984 but it wasn't all that fun. It felt more like an eleborate IQ test. Gameplay was basically collecting puzzle pieces for mostly 'what's missing or next in this logical sequence of symbols' puzzles.