What always amazes me about this film is that the people strike me as acting like robots and "hal" who has the most common human reaction to the situation (act first and think later) is seen as monsterous, when we behave much like hal everyday. Using all our technology and intellegence for better answers but some how that power pushes us further into destruction.
@NolanSordyl it also goes back to the first sequence of the film...mans first use of a tool turns into mans total reliance on technology. dave uses a 'rudimentary" tool to destroy his (man) total reliance on technology...followed by the next sequence where he (man) regains his humanity. kubrick making hal's "death" sympathetic to the audience recalls mans sense of humanity.
one of the greatest and most challenging sequences in film. if you dont feel ambivalent about HAL's death -- that is, if you dont start to feel sorry for him even though he's scary -- then you are not human and your arguments are invalid GOOD DAY SIR
@seanreillyireland Your cat is logical, tries to kill his owners, refuses admit his mistakes, can be controlled by computer input boards, and speak from a huge red eye in the middle of their face?
No matter how many time you see this, this scene is always disturbing and brilliant. HAL sound very human, and Dave, in a curious inversion, looks like a machine, a mindless cancer working through someone else brain.
That's what Hal wants you to feel. He wants Dave to stop so he can kill him. Hal doesn't care at all about his own personal safety, he just wants to continue the mission. He's a computer and is not at all human.
He was programmed as he was, not told to lie - that doesn't exist with computers and robots, since lie making needs human judgement, in the human subtllies of human lie making.
But Dave realised that CIA, yes, put a sub-routine as routine, to make sue everyone knows that they are still there, Dave, quite dysfunctional, as a hysterical post-red post-Vietnam hysterical way, spilling over the sides, and mind, I never mentioned Chille early seventies, and Pinochet.
When will HAL get the point, that Dave is not listening to a shit he says? Some talking computers just do not get it sometimes. Sad bunch of microprocessors some are.
@closertofiftythanyew Because it has no choice, it wants to appeal to the emotional side of people so it won't die. I think most people would do the same thing when confronted by a murderer.
@closertofiftythanyew Thats Stanley Kubick for myou, mif you are going into a Kubrick film to not get meaning, then you are not watching it correctly.
Well, what I think Kubrick was trying to put across is not to trust technology too much, human judgement should be the final decission maker. And also, it looks as if the first law of ROBOTS was not programmed into HAL, that is, don't harm human beings. Maybe that is where the mission went tits up.
And also, putting too much trust into technology can cause an amageddon of sorts - what would be the knock-on effects with multi-satellite breakdown due to a large sunburst?
@MajorObvious You misunderstood my post. He hardly has any human characteristics (that means, of course that he has some) but we still care for him like a human, because compared to the real humans in the film, who acts themselves like computers, he's not that different.
And also, I don't like the idea of comparing Hal to a human. He's a life form, just like the aliens seen later, the man-apes seen earlier, the humans, and of course, the star child.
Edgar, from Electric Dreams, is the only computer to get close to this level of emotion, and cause personal investment in the character.. And it's still world's away.
I have seen some crazy ass horror films, with lots of gore and crazy immoral scenerio's, like rape, incest, gouge fucking, but that was mostly shock value. This, not being a horror movie, is by far, by FAR, the creepiest thing I have ever seen. But damn it if i don't love it.
I was sad to see Hal go... but think about Dave, he's gonna be totally alone... not more conscious creatures in his universe with the exception of hearing 2 hour delayed transmissions from Earth :(
he did indeed. he wanted to use HAL's reasoning of fear on the album, but Kubrick rejected his request because it would open up the oppurtunity for others to use the sounds. Roger decided to use it regardless after he died.
a bit of an asshole move if i may say so, but it is used to perfect effect to highlight the fear and tension within not just the song, but the entire album
It apparently has to do with man's tools turning against him. Man first gets his tool in the opening scene with the apes. This is the pinnacle of the evolution of the human tool. It gets to the point where man relies completely on the tool, instead of the tool relying on man. That's how I see it anyways....
This movie is amazing, when I watch this I feel genuinely sad for Hal, yet I know that he is not a human, and my reaction is irrational. I shouldn't feel sad for a computer that lacks hardly any human characteristics. Yet, I can't help myself from feeling goosebumps when Hal states he is afraid. Perhaps it's the whole experience of watching the movie. The strange feeling of loneliness makes me empathize with any lifeforms. And only Kubrick manages to do that. We need more intellectuals in films.
"I can feel it" scary shit man. a true sci fi masterpeice.the greatest sci fi of all time. fuck lazers and monsters and guys with capes. i like diolaouge, great story and check the badass shit for being old as hell
I see a lot of comments saying they feel sorry for HAL. But how do you know it wasn't just saying that because it thought Dave would reconsider destroying it if he felt emotion towards it? you all fell for it .... so.
HAL goes insane because it is programmed to help people, but it is told to keep the real objective of the mission a secret from David and Frank. It can't handle the inconsistency and the inner conflict. I suggest reading the book, it explains a lot more..
there were very few dialogues in the movie and still this movie is ingenius in many ways. the selection of dialogue in the sequence of HAL's death is so well put together that we actually feel sad for the villian.
Thanks Sir, for caring to inform me and us, of what I didn't know! I knew NASA had an airfield there, and is currently launching un-manned research airplanes, but not of Mr. Sam Langley.
I come here to both share and to learn. You just proved it.
(btw, I have a 1968 1st edition hardback of the book.)
the whole disconnecting scene is so sad... but then you realize it's the same as disconnecting the computer you're using right now... yet you can't help so sad for it... now that's good moviemaking!
@FatAlbertCamus Oh man it really is. It starts out trying to stop him, then rationalizing with him, and eventually it's just telling him how scared he is as it watches itself die.
Nicholson (The Shining) dies very much the same way that HAL9000 does...a jibbering and incoherent wreck.
Re: HAL & Humans....one of the key points that this movie was making....is that in the future, humans would behave more like machines and machines more like humans...probably the most accurate prediction that this film ever made regarding the future.
HAL is easily the most emotional character (apes apart) in the whole movie...he is more human than either Bowman or Poole.
Actually the main point the 2001 was supposed to make was about how things make a step of evolution near the monolith. They go from apes, to using tools earlier on. Later they go from normal humans to something more, that is never fully developed. When HAL is made to evolve he loses alot of his logic and brings in emotion, whereas the humans go the other way. Both evolving in what they are lacking.
This film is 40 years old, and it is still the most amazing film I have ever seen. Sure, I have a lot of favorites, some of which are really awesome! But 2001...it just blows me away, EVERYTIME I SEE IT.
In the reality this is what is going to happen. As soon as scientists will create AI ( and I think they are very close) AI will inevitably replicate the human weak, including pain, fear, envy, sense of guilty and sorrow. Ironically, the stronger computers' minds will be, the more weakness they will have
I have never though about future computers as Terminators, but more as unhappy powerful creatures, created by an imperfect creator.
This scene actually made me cry. I feel so sorry for HAL, especially when he says he's afraid; it's so sad. :( Thank you for posting this wondeful scene.
@arroy624 Hal went crazy because he was contradicted. on one hand, he was told to make sure the mission succeeds at all costs, but somewhere along the line he decided that the only way to let the mission succeed is to kill the people who could jepordize it.
Too bad this clip ends just before Heywood Floyd appears on the screen and explains about the Jupiter Mission. I was so startled the first time when I suddenly heard a strange voice saying "Good afternoon"
Why not? Films are an expression of people's ideas and creativity whether good or bad seems like art to me. Not to mention that filmaking is talked about as being the art of filmmaking.
Yes I think you're right it's just that when people say a film like this, with it's use of visual images, they consider it to be an art film and it has a message to it but say a more ordinary film that also has a message to it isn't considered an art film. What's the difference?
I'm contesting your claim that all films are art. Ordinarily filmed movies can be artistically strong in other ways. However, not all films have artistic merit.
It's probably because I only saw your post by itself and not in response to bladerunnerchile's post.
@MajorObvious Agreed. I believe there's a philosophy behind this book and movie, and HAL is used as the analogue to the human mind in some sense.
Unit1126 10 months ago
What always amazes me about this film is that the people strike me as acting like robots and "hal" who has the most common human reaction to the situation (act first and think later) is seen as monsterous, when we behave much like hal everyday. Using all our technology and intellegence for better answers but some how that power pushes us further into destruction.
fatcheeks87 10 months ago
Surprised no one talks about the significance of the screwdriver in this scene...it's fucking key!!
21gramsofsoul 10 months ago
@21gramsofsoul such a rudimentary *tool* being used to destroy the ultimate in human tools
NolanSordyl 10 months ago
@NolanSordyl it also goes back to the first sequence of the film...mans first use of a tool turns into mans total reliance on technology. dave uses a 'rudimentary" tool to destroy his (man) total reliance on technology...followed by the next sequence where he (man) regains his humanity. kubrick making hal's "death" sympathetic to the audience recalls mans sense of humanity.
21gramsofsoul 10 months ago
Dave, tell me about the rabbits.
SASirPropane 11 months ago
"I'm a-fraid, Dave."
What a chilling line. Such a great movie.
Pipsocle 11 months ago
creepy
SuicidalJonnie 11 months ago
Can HAL play Jeopardy?
haymaker710 11 months ago 2
@haymaker710 Yes, AND he could beat you at chess.
DiscoGabe 11 months ago
@DiscoGabe But, I could take out all his hard drives and kill him. "DAAAAISY DAAAAAAISY"
haymaker710 11 months ago
@DiscoGabe Look closely at the chess scene, and you'll notice he actually didn't beat him.
Tuckerscreator 10 months ago
LoL, at first I thought my speakers broke due to Kubrick's knowledge of no sound in the vacuum of space.
StrangeCognitivism 11 months ago
Watching this high, late at night on a huge tv, dark, and volume turned up with a bunch of friends. It will really mind-fuck you.
NickForelli 11 months ago
@sooperdooperfilms im sure you wont be saying that when james camron's profacey of JUDGEMENT DAY comes true.
respecttheBOOMSTICK 11 months ago
@respecttheBOOMSTICK what's a profacey?
JBTheMovies 11 months ago
and I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for u meddling astronauts.....
slockster94 11 months ago
@sooperdooperfilms Yes. this clip makes me feel sorry for a computer, Genius.
CSavageSr 11 months ago
It's not a death. It's a lobotomy!
cogitatione1 11 months ago
Dave. Dave. Right there Dave. Dont stop Dave. I can feel it. I can feel it Dave. Your amazing Dave.
TheSmacTalk 11 months ago 3
7 people dilike this film. What inside people's brain?
nhdaniele 1 year ago
Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave.
That feels good....I feel...h.a.p.p.y...
austinrees 1 year ago
@sooperdooperfilms No, because thats the emotion he wants you to feel so you'll stop. HAL Killed the crew...
Darkaero199 1 year ago
Happy Birthday HAL RIP (born 19 years ago today) ;)
marcius692 1 year ago 2
one of the greatest and most challenging sequences in film. if you dont feel ambivalent about HAL's death -- that is, if you dont start to feel sorry for him even though he's scary -- then you are not human and your arguments are invalid GOOD DAY SIR
BKrtojGLASS 1 year ago
If you move the letters to VSE by one you get WTF.
Coindicence? I think not.
rbrbran277 1 year ago 7
@rbrbran277 FUBAR
srs7734 1 year ago
Haal should have won an award for this escene
100irissa 1 year ago
@sooperdooperfilms i did
themonster86 1 year ago
lol, i bet some people thought their sound was off during the first few seconds of the video.
jcpro17 1 year ago
@sooperdooperfilms
of course. thats why the movie is so brilliant. no other director could evoke such feelings for a computer
ranchump 1 year ago
Poor HAL.
blindandwatching 1 year ago
HAL reminds me of my cat.
seanreillyireland 1 year ago
@seanreillyireland Your cat is logical, tries to kill his owners, refuses admit his mistakes, can be controlled by computer input boards, and speak from a huge red eye in the middle of their face?
Tuckerscreator 1 year ago
@Tuckerscreator No... but he sure knows how to make me feel guilty when he doesn't get his own way!
"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?"!
seanreillyireland 1 year ago
I think. HAL is quite upset, that he is being shut down, after mudering humans. HAL is so adolf.
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closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
I think. HAL is quite upset, that he is being shut down, after mudering humans. HAL is so adolf.
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
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Poor Hal, he had to be shut down :(
dryace86 1 year ago
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dryace86 1 year ago
@sooperdooperfilms In a strange way, I do.
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4 weeks ago 32
No matter how many time you see this, this scene is always disturbing and brilliant. HAL sound very human, and Dave, in a curious inversion, looks like a machine, a mindless cancer working through someone else brain.
signorellil 1 year ago
it's going to be alritgh now .. I feel better .. take a stress pill lol!! xD
banq0o 1 year ago
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banq0o 1 year ago
@sooperdooperfilms nope he's tricksy like those orks tryin to steal my precious
lumpyfishful 1 year ago
@sooperdooperfilms
It's a murderer
frother 1 year ago
@sooperdooperfilms
That's what Hal wants you to feel. He wants Dave to stop so he can kill him. Hal doesn't care at all about his own personal safety, he just wants to continue the mission. He's a computer and is not at all human.
crazyforJesus12 1 year ago
He was programmed as he was, not told to lie - that doesn't exist with computers and robots, since lie making needs human judgement, in the human subtllies of human lie making.
But Dave realised that CIA, yes, put a sub-routine as routine, to make sue everyone knows that they are still there, Dave, quite dysfunctional, as a hysterical post-red post-Vietnam hysterical way, spilling over the sides, and mind, I never mentioned Chille early seventies, and Pinochet.
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
shouldv'e stuck with the apple mac dave *shakes head*
randomandproudqueen 1 year ago
for instance? as Kubrick would typically ask.
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
"My mind is going..." - what a line
therealdjcammONUTUBE 1 year ago
give me the ship jeff. you start singing daisy bell and im done :D
gamevidsproductions 1 year ago
@thisisjoshman you should watch silent running
paistyboydubs 1 year ago
Get a Mac, you Twat!
; )
tinghaling 1 year ago
When will HAL get the point, that Dave is not listening to a shit he says? Some talking computers just do not get it sometimes. Sad bunch of microprocessors some are.
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
@closertofiftythanyew Because it has no choice, it wants to appeal to the emotional side of people so it won't die. I think most people would do the same thing when confronted by a murderer.
celophysis5454545 1 year ago
@celophysis5454545
I think you are getting a bit too emotional there - it is only a bunch of microchips and a few lines of programming after all, nothing to cry about.
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
@closertofiftythanyew Thats Stanley Kubick for myou, mif you are going into a Kubrick film to not get meaning, then you are not watching it correctly.
celophysis5454545 1 year ago
@celophysis5454545
Well, what I think Kubrick was trying to put across is not to trust technology too much, human judgement should be the final decission maker. And also, it looks as if the first law of ROBOTS was not programmed into HAL, that is, don't harm human beings. Maybe that is where the mission went tits up.
And also, putting too much trust into technology can cause an amageddon of sorts - what would be the knock-on effects with multi-satellite breakdown due to a large sunburst?
closertofiftythanyew 1 year ago
@closertofiftythanyew really it was the fact that they basically told him to lie which was something he had never been programmed for.
ShovelFighterSw33n3y 1 year ago
@thisisjoshman true, all AI opponents ever since HAL have been based on him in some way, and most even have referances to him.
PeterFrederikDomsten 1 year ago
@thisisjoshman you've never played portal have you?
thesackingcommenter2 1 year ago
never seen the movie but that was intense by itself!
wiliscool 1 year ago
@MajorObvious HAL is a cold calculating machine with the information about manipulating human emotions.
SmokiSounds 1 year ago
@MajorObvious You misunderstood my post. He hardly has any human characteristics (that means, of course that he has some) but we still care for him like a human, because compared to the real humans in the film, who acts themselves like computers, he's not that different.
And also, I don't like the idea of comparing Hal to a human. He's a life form, just like the aliens seen later, the man-apes seen earlier, the humans, and of course, the star child.
FredMalm 1 year ago
Edgar, from Electric Dreams, is the only computer to get close to this level of emotion, and cause personal investment in the character.. And it's still world's away.
DiamondbackCobra 1 year ago
I seriously almost balled my eyes out when HAL started singing the first time I watched this movie. And I still get teary eyed.
TheDirectorofFoo 1 year ago
The only computer I fear more than HAL is AM. Both are pretty terrifying though.
Ravemecaptain 1 year ago
Hvala Ti S na svakoj maloj caroliji... 33...
Uvek cu te voleti, malo.
25.08.2010.
Proleterskih Brigada 10
cupofcloud1 1 year ago
I think Shodan, HAL, and GLaDOS should all be hooked to the same network.
It will be fun.
TraskNari 1 year ago 2
''Samo malo ljubavi...''
cupofcloud1 1 year ago
i cant belive this movie is from 1968! it looks like a movie made in the late 90s
ECST4C 1 year ago 3
lawl he bumps his head at the start
Pcfan11 1 year ago
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I have seen some crazy ass horror films, with lots of gore and crazy immoral scenerio's, like rape, incest, gouge fucking, but that was mostly shock value. This, not being a horror movie, is by far, by FAR, the creepiest thing I have ever seen. But damn it if i don't love it.
Mlonearrow 1 year ago
The first scene in which Bowman entered the Odyssey must have hurt like living hell, in space your blood boils in seconds killing you.
EndeavourLaunch 1 year ago
@EndeavourLaunch sorry that is a old wive's tale, see nasa website you have half a minute or so, and, your blood does not boil!
graemejholt 1 year ago 2
This movie was WAY ahead of its time!
urmo345 1 year ago 3
I guess my DROID is HAL'S Son or something lol, its got Hal's eye!
howlbigbadwolf 1 year ago
I can almost hear HAL think «oh shit no!» at 0:21
young5ever 1 year ago
I was sad to see Hal go... but think about Dave, he's gonna be totally alone... not more conscious creatures in his universe with the exception of hearing 2 hour delayed transmissions from Earth :(
h2opolodan11 1 year ago
Am I the only one that thought HAL seemed kind of gay?
generalflood 1 year ago
The saddest death in cinema
cockroach2 1 year ago
if in portal 2 when you kill GLaDos she starts singing this im going to laugh so fucking hard
lostnightfilms 1 year ago
Daisy... Daaaaisy.... so wicked I love it!
hockyjocky4 1 year ago 3
omg i just noticed...roger waters from pink floyd used hal's voice at the beginning of one of his lives songs:
youtube search: "Roger Waters - Perfect Sense (Parts I & II) - live"
it's right at the beginning
Mowgli131 1 year ago
he did indeed. he wanted to use HAL's reasoning of fear on the album, but Kubrick rejected his request because it would open up the oppurtunity for others to use the sounds. Roger decided to use it regardless after he died.
a bit of an asshole move if i may say so, but it is used to perfect effect to highlight the fear and tension within not just the song, but the entire album
seantheman121 1 year ago
oh look he missed one of the white things he is taking out of dave, you know their daves mind
WesthamMr 1 year ago
This made me so sad :(
Summoner7 1 year ago
It apparently has to do with man's tools turning against him. Man first gets his tool in the opening scene with the apes. This is the pinnacle of the evolution of the human tool. It gets to the point where man relies completely on the tool, instead of the tool relying on man. That's how I see it anyways....
TheT4xid3rmist 1 year ago
This movie is amazing, when I watch this I feel genuinely sad for Hal, yet I know that he is not a human, and my reaction is irrational. I shouldn't feel sad for a computer that lacks hardly any human characteristics. Yet, I can't help myself from feeling goosebumps when Hal states he is afraid. Perhaps it's the whole experience of watching the movie. The strange feeling of loneliness makes me empathize with any lifeforms. And only Kubrick manages to do that. We need more intellectuals in films.
FredMalm 1 year ago 2
Daisy scene is so messed up!
thebestofsopherboys 1 year ago
i love this movie
quinnofearth 1 year ago
"I can feel it" scary shit man. a true sci fi masterpeice.the greatest sci fi of all time. fuck lazers and monsters and guys with capes. i like diolaouge, great story and check the badass shit for being old as hell
newcastlekingdom 1 year ago
In...TENSE.
Beck436 1 year ago
Did anyone else watch this segment of the movie on 12th January 1992..? I did.
ADE300867 1 year ago
I see a lot of comments saying they feel sorry for HAL. But how do you know it wasn't just saying that because it thought Dave would reconsider destroying it if he felt emotion towards it? you all fell for it .... so.
gandhisleftnut 1 year ago
HAL goes insane because it is programmed to help people, but it is told to keep the real objective of the mission a secret from David and Frank. It can't handle the inconsistency and the inner conflict. I suggest reading the book, it explains a lot more..
rainbowofhazes 1 year ago
Even though that HAL is evil I was sad that he was disconnected and I have no idea why
lilmissfab96 1 year ago
The single creepiest moment in film history, bar none. I always get chills watching this.
NickHannula 1 year ago
What are you talking about, GLaDOS is still alive!
PurpleFrogger5 1 year ago
i think this clip is sped up
ceilingkatt 1 year ago
The best death scene ever.
CSavageSr 1 year ago
Damn you, Kubrick. You were too good.
RaygunShaun 1 year ago 13
HAL has a soothing voice.
Komnenos1234 1 year ago
Best scene ever
enthuzjazz 1 year ago
It's so mechanic. But still so emotional.
monkiball 1 year ago
Aww I felt bad for him..it..lol
CaptainPommby 1 year ago
Strange coincidence! Or is it?
Take each letter of hal's name and move it one letter forward. You got it! I.B.M
ronnymarcus 1 year ago 20
@ronnymarcus Not really, IBM where the first to make a synthetic voice on a computer. Daisy Daisy was what they used!
zaftra 1 year ago
"Stop Dave... I'm afraid..."
So friggin' creepy.
Kubrick, man...
BlueKoi1969 1 year ago 7
@BlueKoi1969
I think the whole movie is a mindscrew, specially at the end.
MindstormXL 1 year ago
there were very few dialogues in the movie and still this movie is ingenius in many ways. the selection of dialogue in the sequence of HAL's death is so well put together that we actually feel sad for the villian.
Kubick's masterpice
arkantoxic 1 year ago
god this is so moving...the voice is so creepy yet so sad!!
ginaonthebass 1 year ago 5
The rebirth of Bowman...Discovery just popped out a sprog. :-)
roachy333 1 year ago
A I in 92...way out.
TheGodParticle 1 year ago 5
any other movie, so much silence would be coincided a waste, but here its very effective
jubmaster13 1 year ago 4
Microsoft Sam
Hudzan 1 year ago 6
Seconds after 5:09 HAL says, "My instructor was Mr. Langley."
The CIA is headquartered in Langley Virginia, USA. We know who programmed HAL.
Do I get a prize for connecting the dots here? ... No - I'm probably just put on HAL's watch list as an anomaly. I am a cat.
1236bigcat 2 years ago 18
Could also refer to Sam Langley, a pioneer in spaceflight and the namesake of NASA Langley Research Center, also in Virginia.
Kingsknight531 1 year ago
Thanks Sir, for caring to inform me and us, of what I didn't know! I knew NASA had an airfield there, and is currently launching un-manned research airplanes, but not of Mr. Sam Langley.
I come here to both share and to learn. You just proved it.
(btw, I have a 1968 1st edition hardback of the book.)
1236bigcat 1 year ago
No worries man!
Kingsknight531 1 year ago
@1236bigcat Both Kubric and Clarke have both denied that rumor. But both are gone now so you can't ask them anymore.
blindandwatching 1 year ago
Every time I see this I can hear GLaDOS singing "Still Alive." XD
wiglaugh 2 years ago 4
They'd make a cute couple. AI-shipping for the win! :-D
Arancaytar 1 year ago
finally someone who got this idea too XD with AIs XD I thought I'm the only one with this crazy thought XD even when it isn't with this movie XD
StealthKaelly 1 year ago
the whole disconnecting scene is so sad... but then you realize it's the same as disconnecting the computer you're using right now... yet you can't help so sad for it... now that's good moviemaking!
CriticallyRandom 2 years ago
Around the 10th time I watched this movie, I began to find this scene to be unbearably sad. Now it makes me weep every time.
FatAlbertCamus 2 years ago 6
@FatAlbertCamus Oh man it really is. It starts out trying to stop him, then rationalizing with him, and eventually it's just telling him how scared he is as it watches itself die.
supernerd767 2 years ago
the first 15 seconds = one of my favorite scenes of all time. i literally can't breathe until he does.
MagicalMysteryWhore 2 years ago 5
I really wish he'd say "Too f*cking bad, HAL," but that's not very high-brow.
Wargoat6 2 years ago 4
Brilliant.
bioshock5678 2 years ago
Nicholson (The Shining) dies very much the same way that HAL9000 does...a jibbering and incoherent wreck.
Re: HAL & Humans....one of the key points that this movie was making....is that in the future, humans would behave more like machines and machines more like humans...probably the most accurate prediction that this film ever made regarding the future.
HAL is easily the most emotional character (apes apart) in the whole movie...he is more human than either Bowman or Poole.
roachy333 2 years ago 3
Actually the main point the 2001 was supposed to make was about how things make a step of evolution near the monolith. They go from apes, to using tools earlier on. Later they go from normal humans to something more, that is never fully developed. When HAL is made to evolve he loses alot of his logic and brings in emotion, whereas the humans go the other way. Both evolving in what they are lacking.
Mrxwyatt 2 years ago 2
This is what Roger Ebert sounds like...more or less. ;) He alluded to it himself on his blog.
TheFaustianMan 2 years ago
This film is 40 years old, and it is still the most amazing film I have ever seen. Sure, I have a lot of favorites, some of which are really awesome! But 2001...it just blows me away, EVERYTIME I SEE IT.
scrambuild 2 years ago 8
POWERFUL
erickliddell 2 years ago 5
the only other computer i was sadder to see die was GLADOS from portal...
zqmanster 2 years ago 55
@zqmanster why were you sad when dave shut hal down? Hal was fuckin' evil
speier 2 years ago
Hal wasn't evil, he had a sense of self preservation.
Bullshaz 2 years ago 6
@zqmanster Hal and GLaDOS have very similar personalities. To be honest I think Portal was inspired by this movie somewhat.
RockXStarEvan 1 year ago
@zqmanster but GLADOS is still alive
manice08 1 year ago 3
@zqmanster of course she had a much more likable disposition
JWSulzer90 1 year ago
@zqmanster GLADoS is still alive, LOL
DarkSuccesses 1 year ago
@DarkSuccesses His comment was before portal 2 was announced I believe
Animeisfuture 1 year ago
In the reality this is what is going to happen. As soon as scientists will create AI ( and I think they are very close) AI will inevitably replicate the human weak, including pain, fear, envy, sense of guilty and sorrow. Ironically, the stronger computers' minds will be, the more weakness they will have
I have never though about future computers as Terminators, but more as unhappy powerful creatures, created by an imperfect creator.
LupoLeo 2 years ago 6
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in futurama its like this... they just took the idea... exept other names
cejason 2 years ago
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Seriously? This movie was made in the 60s? Jeez it looks more like the 80s to me. I thought the 60's didnt even have colored video yet. Wow
WhiteHawkPROD 2 years ago
@thisisjoshman
GERTY?
Savaril 2 years ago
What's that?
thisisjoshman 2 years ago
@thisisjoshman
Gerty is the computer from 'Moon' I think it won sundance in 2009... AWESOME film
jca7891 1 year ago
GERTY was awesome I have to say, but I still think HAL takes the cake
awhislyle 2 years ago
This scene actually made me cry. I feel so sorry for HAL, especially when he says he's afraid; it's so sad. :( Thank you for posting this wondeful scene.
Twistanturnu 2 years ago 5
My God It's Full Of Stars
Curttehmurt 2 years ago
HAL speaks with a completly emotionless voice but somehow we can all feel he's really afraid, right? magic. great scene.
nieswoj 2 years ago 7
Dr. Chandra
junoxtc 2 years ago
My mind is going... I can feel it...
mrgreyshadow 2 years ago
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do..
I'm half crazy all for the love of you....!
LischoPine 2 years ago
One oft favortie movies
So much psychology and philosophy involved
This is the best scene by far
I agree, the swap of roles is and interesting thing
iplaysthedrums 2 years ago 3
It's amazing how the roles of computer and human change in this scene.hal is showing feelings and dave is acting like a robot.
great movie
MrPhilchip 2 years ago 16
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Garbage in garbage out.
BrianTheJames 2 years ago
Didn't hal go crazy because he was given an impossible mission objective?
LordMunchkin 2 years ago
Hal went crazy because he was programed by humans.
BrianTheJames 2 years ago 4
he went crazy cuz he was given conflicting orders
Maverick5588 2 years ago 7
more like he went crazy because was told to distort information, something he wasnt programmed to do. lol
arroy624 2 years ago
@arroy624 Hal went crazy because he was contradicted. on one hand, he was told to make sure the mission succeeds at all costs, but somewhere along the line he decided that the only way to let the mission succeed is to kill the people who could jepordize it.
Kerma7 2 years ago 2
This scene is like an abusive boyfriend pleading for a girl to stick with him. Which is not too far from the truth, since HAL did kill some people.
ssfsx17 2 years ago
Not sure why you got mod'd down. I think most of the people watching this haven't seen the flick or understand what's going on here...
BlownMacTruck 2 years ago
HAL <33
sockglue 2 years ago 6
funny stuff
fogdog60 2 years ago
Too bad this clip ends just before Heywood Floyd appears on the screen and explains about the Jupiter Mission. I was so startled the first time when I suddenly heard a strange voice saying "Good afternoon"
Larrylarp 2 years ago 2
I hate to think what Hal would have done if he had lost that game of chess. "I am going to activate the self-destruct now Dave!
Hrothgar01 2 years ago 6
A great scene to a great movie.
AxWound7 2 years ago 3
Its a Art film, just George Lucas say
bladerunnerchile 2 years ago 2
Aren't all films art?
mummra4ever 2 years ago
Nope.
Zeketheo 2 years ago
Why not? Films are an expression of people's ideas and creativity whether good or bad seems like art to me. Not to mention that filmaking is talked about as being the art of filmmaking.
mummra4ever 2 years ago
If a film is not pulled off effectively it doesn't communicate a message. There needs to be a certain level of eloquence for something to be art.
Zeketheo 2 years ago
Yes I think you're right it's just that when people say a film like this, with it's use of visual images, they consider it to be an art film and it has a message to it but say a more ordinary film that also has a message to it isn't considered an art film. What's the difference?
mummra4ever 2 years ago
I'm contesting your claim that all films are art. Ordinarily filmed movies can be artistically strong in other ways. However, not all films have artistic merit.
It's probably because I only saw your post by itself and not in response to bladerunnerchile's post.
Zeketheo 2 years ago