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  • All time great Classic space movie ever made in my opion ; hard to top it !!!

  • I like this version of the music - it's less harsh and more warm than the original recording.

  • whats the name of the song played at 1:20??????

  • I think this is a FINE condensation of the space scenes from 2001. well done, metalape, and bravo!

  • how did they do that effect wise in 1968?

  • A sign of the times, the satellites in the movie were supposed to be a 60s version of 21st century orbiting bombs, however, they never looked that way, more like probes of various sorts (even today) that were decidedly non-threatening in appearance. They could still pass for legitamate spacecraft even today. While I would have preferred the orginal soundtrack, it's still nice.

  • wonderful music! it goes from feeling very tentative to confident and triumphant. amazing

  • ta curado

  • Beautiful. That's the only word I can say and not an ounce of CGI. That's so perfectly constructed. I would recommend Silent Running as well (full film is on YT) because that comes close, but could never equal the mastery of visual and soundtrack as 2001. Worth a look though.

  • Ooops! Sorry about that Future thing that was suppose to happen during the "Baby Boomer" generation. Better luck Next Species

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  • @Grunnow The film is about a doomed mission. The beginning may be quite optimistical, but Kubrick predicted the idea that the computer would turn against the man. In that way, one could make a parallel with the consequences of current "electronization" of everything.

  • @Grunnow Oh my god,.....you just hit the nail smooth on the head my friend! I could not of said it better!!

  • The music is incorrect - it's out of sync with the image (also a different performance).

  • @JanPB Well, this is NOT a 1:1 Copy of the Movie. And it was never my intention to just show off bits of the Movie. This is a Space Sequences Tribute edited by MetalApe. Please read the Description. I'm Sorry if you don't like it.

  • @MetalApe It's not that I don't like it, it's more that I really appreciate the sophistication that went into editing the original. Notice how spaceships etc. cross the film frame at precise musical phrases. Moving the sound off by ~2 frames would become noticeably sloppy at such points. Film editors distinguish e.g. between making a cut a _consonant_ vs. on a _vowel_ of the spoken dialogue. That's how delicate it gets.

  • @JanPB Point Taken. But again, i never wanted to Re-Edit the Movie, it's a Tribute to the Handmade Special Effects of yesterdays. To preserve the Spirit, i tried to do a most careful Montage, fiddling with the Images as less as possible. Overlooked it many times. Because of the different "Blue Danube" Music: I certainly used a Version conducted by Herbert von Karajan, as in the Movie. And almost like a miracle, this Version fits exactly into this first 10 Minutes Montage of Space Sequences.

  • @MetalApe could you be so kind and share some links (books/films/courses/names) about making cuts _consonant_ or _vowel_ ? I would love to know more about it!

  • @MetalApe Good effort. Well done.

  • @MetalApe well you really suceeded in fucking Stanley kubrick and his editors right in the ass. congratulations on missing every great music edit that kubrick slaved over putting. thanks for taking kubrick genius out of all of this sequences. Please take these down and repost the corrected version.

  • 2031! HEH! More like 2301 the way things are going!

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  • The type of air turbulences seen when the moon shuttle lands correspond to an atmosphere much denser than that of the moon :)

  • Has anyone else discovered that the Great Perfectionist Stanley Kubrick made a BIG mistake 3:30 to 3:40? When we get the pilots point of view, the shadows on the spacestation don't move. But the stars in the background revolve, so the station still rotates. To get this effect, the Sun must orbit the station in a synchronous orbit... Also: The image on the pilots docking display is totally out of pace with the stations docking bay.

  • Stanley Kubrick, the MASTER OF FILM, with legendary music and truly stunning shots. come on guys, this was 1968, and the visual effects are brilliant, this is a masterpiece!

  • Can we have the year 2001 to do over again? This 2001 is so much more beautiful and inspiring. A wonderful space ballet with virginal-white ships cruising amongst the stars. OUR 2001 was nothing but skyscrapers falling down, the start of what looks to be an endless war in the desert, and plans to go back to the Moon. The Moon is great, but we've been there. No forward progress since the Apollo landings? How about Mars? Or aim high like Clarke and Kubrick and visit one of Jupiter's 63 moons.

  • I hope in 50 years when i will retire to go to Titan in vacation :)

  • We could have had all this 9 years ago. The politicians betrayed us, they are traitors that lost their vision and stole our future.

  • The visuals of this film are simply stunning, for the time it was made...

  • just perfect

  • EPIC!!

  • It's amazing a man living before the space age can make a movie depicting space squence with this realism.

  • Forever timeless. Of the surely thousands of films I've seen in my lifetime and of the two I rated 10/10 this is one of them.

  • just imagine seeing this yourself.... :)

  • I think the satellites are nuclear launch platforms. it would make artistic sense.

  • Awesome!

  • cockmaniac1

  • Greatest movie and probably most important message to human kind. But the orbital speed of the lunar shuttle was too slow... The speed to maintain the orbit on the Moon must be 1,023 km/s

  • Ah, too bad Youtube's encoder can't capture the stars in the background :\

  • best movie ever.

  • @popomaniac1

    Obviously you didn't get the film. Just because you don't understand something it doesn't mean that it is bad and that he was dumb. Think again.

  • bvvccv

  • I wish I hadn't sen this movie twice a year since I first heard of it, someone needs to invent a device to unwatch movies....

  • lol. How would you unwatch a movie?

  • Probably the most impressive chunk of film ever shot.

  • It´s a great shame that the ISS does not look like this ! And that Ares 1 and Ares V have been cancelled..It should have been called 2031:A space Odyssey..Because the film 2001 is still ahead of us in what we actually done !

  • Stanley was/still is way ahead of the curve. Take a new look at a Clockwork Orange sometime, chilling.

  • Heh, and with the current state of affairs of the movie industries, his superiority is far from being beaten.

    I guess if Kubrick was still alive now, he might play around with youtube.

  • @kurt30001 Nahh, I'd say 2041 for the first and then 2050 for the recovery of Discovery One.

  • great film !!

  • 5:47 col. Straker.

  • This is the greatest film *ever* made. Watch this film then take a step back and look at your life and realize you are nothing. Take some pride in your fucking species. Humanity is the apex predator on this planet now and always, and God willing the universe.

  • You should also step back. It was one apeman, one individual apeman that discovered the use of bones as weapons. It was one apeman who saw the apex.

    Our capacity for great individualism, intellect and survival is the hallmark of the human species. It's the difference between man and nothing.

  • That strangers interested in other people's children are creepy.

  • Incomprehensible? My 10 year old comprehended it.

  • what did he comprend?

  • @TheShanks

    That he spells better than you

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  • A shame what youtube compression does here, unfortunately. I just watched it again recently on BluRay and these space scenes were just so incredibly beautiful. The shot around 2:35-3:15 is incredible in HD... but blurred mush online :(

    On a side note, it is nice to say "the shot from 2:35 to 3:15" - a 40 frame shot would be long by today's standards, let alone a 40 second one!

  • Theres some theory that SK faked the moon landing footage back in 68, how mental is that? I can't even enjoy a movie without people coming to me with conspiracy bullshit lol. Amazing film anyway, opened my eyes.

  • this movie absolutely hypnotizes me. can't conceive how it is in any way boring or plodding. every moment is essential.

  • Another reason this work is brilliant is the pairing of 21st century technology with 19th century Strauss waltz. It speaks of the timelessness of both forms.

  • Still, and by far, the best and most convincing of images of space travel in cinema and no CGI bullshit. genius.

  • I would love to see this movie at a theatre or an imax that would be mind blowing

  • @SoundsLikePurple it is! if you ever see it being screened, go! i have a projector in the house and every time the space docking scene comes on my eyes well up a little, its just stunning.

  • @SoundsLikePurple Just saw a 35mm print of this a couple weeks ago. It's a religious experience.

  • @preconcussion

    If 35mm was religious, then a 70mm experience must be heaven.

  • That's the most physically realistic sic-fi i've seen.

  • After 40 years, still the best SF ever.

  • All the models were thrown into a skipafter filming!!!!!

  • @peterpops27

    into a what?

  • If you're American you call them dumpsters!

  • I love the space sequences, it orcheastrates the "dance" of ship and station flawlessly and envokes feelings and thoughts transcending understanding. And the visuals, absolutely stuning, much better than the computer-rendered special effects of today's cinema. This movie is just such a wonderful, beautiful movie; Kubric is the best director the cinematic world has ever known.

  • Am old enough, fortunate enough, to have seen this in it's original Cinerama release

    - with surround-sound. It wasn't a 'movie', but an overwhelming 'experience'! Kubrick and Clarke's masterpiece.

  • truly amazing, look at the vdu displays inside the shuttle, this is 1969. just to think this was made about the same time as star trek, and they just had flashing lights that flashed out of time??.

  • Man, is it just me or does it look like they actually filmed it in space.

  • This film has some THE most mind boggling "Tracking Shots" I've ever saw in a movie, without strings and NO CGI, this film has Ideas in it, that are way ahead of its time, and Looks years ahead of its time, "Star Wars, Alien" which even nods to this film, those film franchises and others were all heavily Inspired by this film. A very underrated Science Ficiton, documentary styled film.

  • min 3:13 That flying fu&%in swastika called Space Station V is actually Kubrick´s homage to Werner Von Braun.

  • Swastika? Kubrick really paid homage to Von Braun in Dr. Strangelove - satire. But this? I'm not sure how you abstracted that from a space station that looked likes a spinnng wheel of cheese.

  • Kubrick really paid homage to Von Braun in Dr. Strangelove - yarbles

    Didnt stop there...80% of the space sh&% in this flick came from that Nazi Werner. Spinning Swastika, silver spear (rocket ship), Blue Danube ? C´mon man.

  • I hope you know that BMW had Nazi connections...

  • What's your problem with someone who helped develop most of the rockets that we use today, and just happened to be a Nazi? The way I see it, as long as he wasn't shooting rockets AT us, then there isn't any problem.

  • What's your problem with someone who helped develop most of the rockets that we use today, and just happened to be a Nazi? - silverrange

    I can think of "6 million reasons" off the top my fu%$in head you sh%$faced you

    Nazi lover.

  • Why should you even have a problem with our space program? You're from the bahamas!

  • "Why should you even have a problem with our space program? You're from the bahamas! " -silver

    I live in the fu&%in Bahamas yes, but born n raised in AZ, so STFU.

  • Well excuse me, and thanks for swearing at me. It made my day much better.

  • Shut up.

  • Why does it matter who produced the technology as long as it works? I can't imagine you can think of a singe reason, let alone 6 million.

  • Wernher Von Braun didn't want to be a Nazi. Everyone who was a scientist at the time was a Nazi. He immediately surrendered to the Americans when he had the chance, specifically because he wanted to bring his technology to the U.S.

  • THANK YOU! Finally someone who agrees with me!

  • The definitive combination of film and music.. genius

  • Whats the name of the song?

    I wanna try find a Hardstyle remix of it :D

  • lol...that's from 1968...and in the 60's,the peoples thought,that the space will looking so modernly and differently at 2001..,but it's even not,it stayed equally...and it will stay equally...

    maybe in 2043,the space will looking differently

  • the auntetical master piece in 2010 its incredible your vissual effects.

  • Hätte die Menschheit nur seit jeher zusammengearbeitet.Dann könnten die technischen Errungenschaften dieses Films längst Realität sein!

    Eigentlich traurig, dass es dazu noch mindestens hundert Jahre benötigt...!

    Stanley Kubricks Meisterwerk wird auch in 50 Jahren modern wirken.Karajans Einspielung der schönen blauen Donau trägt ebnfalls dazu bei!

    wir sollten uns schämen, noch immer nicht auf diesem technischen Niveau angekommen zu sein...

  • My parents got me a model kit of the moon bus (last vehicle) to put together. It was easy because after building, there was very litttle painting needed.

  • :

    Inspiring awe and wonder to a generation, it profoundly changed my world view then and still re-affirms it to this day.

    There is so much potential in us all, yet the majority who walk among us are asleep and a minority of those sleepwalkers who lead us, lead us in the wrong direction.

    We are a product of Nature.

    Nature is a product of the Universe.

    Therefore we are the Universe ...

    ... manifest conscious.

    No God can replace that truth.

  • meliora, dittos! Also this great music is as good as it gets!

  • I was 8 years old when this movie was released.

    At 0.25$ per showing, I must have gone to see it more than a dozen times back then m - I still enjoy watching it today.

    Awe inspiring to an 8 yr old who was simultaneously aware of the Apollo program and the promise space exploration held back then. Those were the days.

    It's the only sci-fi movie to show what space-travel is truly like breathtakingly majestic in its depth, weight-less and silent. ...

  • pretty awesome visual effects for 1968

  • the most famous and powerful jump cut in the history of film right there!

  • The parts where this song plays are my favorite parts of the film.

  • verflixt höre ich " an der schönen blauen donau " gehen meine gedanken immer zu kubrick, strauss und karajan o.a. sind völlig verwaschen. schon kurios.

    wolf

  • Definitely my favorite parts of the movie. Nicely stitched together. Thanks you. Thank you very much. This brings back memories from my elementary school years when I first watched this movie over 30 years ago! (I watched these sequences over and over on my Sony Betamax). It was absolutely brilliant of Stanley Kubrick to incorporate Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz for these Space Sequences.

  • Sauerkraut!

  • but humans are also universe

  • Maybe humans are weird and the Universe is normal?

  • mefreakshow, Are we unique in the Universe or are we not, that is the question!

  • i love amenabar`s "agora"

  • a lot of people would think (in my work for example) that I'm crazy with the previous comments i have made, BUT the reality is that we don't know nothing about this, the reality and may be wouold be interesting everybody would be more concern about and speak about this with humility, MORE PHILOSOPHY AND LESS (FUCKING)ECONOMY

  • everything so strange... seems a joke, and i don't mean a "celestial" joke

    I only mean it's so fucking weird, as the movie final that you can't fully understand (is up to your reading, which i love of this film, the best in my oppnion)

  • what tje fuck is the universe? it's so strange, isn't it?

    it's so weird, why is here in this way and were it comes from... in the past the people were fascinated about this... now if you speak about this you are a boring man...BUT IS LIKE POETRY.. a MISS ISSUE

  • best movie ever.... the final would be better (or not bacause universe is indiferent to human being) if the final of Tarkovski's solaris (1972) would appear (something more "human": imean, with that two movies, the best of all times...

  • Mega KuLT

    A GREAT MOVIE

  • simply beautiful

  • Awesome footage to watch. But did this sci-fi classic ever provide a satisfactory answer to the query that even stumped Einstein: "ARE THERE RINGS AROUND URANUS"?

  • CGI as of the year 2000, if its done well, as in the movie FINAL FANTASY, looks pretty much the same as this. I watched 2001 on a gigantic CINERAMA screen in stereophonic sound, in Manhattan in 1968. It was beyond breathtaking. And 8-months later, mankind orbited the moon, and we got our first views of the complete Earth from space. It was epoch-making, and glorius!

  • one of the greatest movies of all time!! no doubt about it!

  • and a great theme of course by Johann Strauss II the blue danube.just damn stunning.

  • i am a sri lankan and have met arther c clarke.what kubrick did was just genios.i was 12 when my dad took me to watch this.i was mesmerized.thx for a great post.kubrick rules.

  • I hope you're not one of Clarkes "boys".

    Paedofillia is never a nice thing.

  • cosmic waltz....symetery.....but beware technology....maybes we rely on it to much..it may like in the film destroy us all

  • after years of hearing about this film i went down to the local cinema where they were playing it ....i have never been so entertained in the movie world before .....amazing film and a fantastic soundtrack......came out of the cinema knowing i had seen one of the best films to date ....what a masterpiece!!!!!!!!

  • People always seem to demonize CGI as this evil technology. Don't get me wrong, I thing that the special effects here are awesome. I'm just saying, CGI has revolutionized special effects, and is great as long as it isn't the focus of the film.

  • I think were it possible to have more of a dissolve from the thigh (?) bone to the space station it would have been a much cooler sequence. Demonized as it is, CGI would have made that possible.

  • one of the greatest movies of all time...

  • the best space sequence ever shot on film.heres to mr.kubrick.

  • Still gives me the tingle factor...

    What a stroke of audio / visual genius marrying these two masterpieces together. Remember seeing the film all those years ago in London - on the old three screen set up (Cinemascope I think...?). A classic film...Thanks for posting MetalApe...

  • CINERAMA.

  • On the maturation of mankind: The next 100 years might make all the difference.

    The first thing to do is to stop filling

    our minds with and obsessing over apocalyptic doomsday stories and self fulfilling "prophecies."

    Instead, study *carefully* the psychology and reasoning of those who present that type of story to you.

  • i find it so sad that CGI is ruining the imaginations of the movie world

  • Magnificent, joyous but *not* desolate grandeur!

    If only we could have come this far in reality!!

    Even so seeing this makes me very VERY glad we have *tried*.

  • I don't believe we (humanity) will ever give up this pursuit. Though there are troubling mitigating factors why we are not, it is a matter of time. The Universe is as dangerous as it is beautiful. When our sciences and societies mature, will we find our place out there.

  • we'll vanish before that time

  • It's a pity the real 2001 is far from the 2001 in the movie.

  • Strauss, blue danube

  • Kubrick's the first and only director ever to translate beautiful music into film-form.

  • I miss model work in films. CGI just doesn't compare. I wish I could watch this film for the first time again.

  • I was surprised to learn that Kubrick originally wanted to use the music of Pink Floyd. MGM didn't go for the idea. Someone on YouTube has synched up "2001" with Pink Floyd's "Echoes". It works surprisingly well.

  • i find it sad how cgi is the main theme in movies now today in the old days where plot was the saver of the films miss the old good movies

  • I'm always amazed at how well the special effects hold up 41 years later. They're not perfect by today's standards but still look very very good. It's only some of the civilian costumes that really date the film.

  • The orbiting "long things" shown after the jump cut from the dawn of man to 2001 are nuclear-weapons platforms, capable of devastating the entire surface of the planet.

  • Yep the transition is supposed to show the evolution of man's weapons from a bone to a nuclear warhead

    In the book the Star Child Bowman detonates the bomb in space at the very end (the last scene of 2001 is the starchild hovering in front of Earth)

  • obra prima, um espetáculo

  • monty python has forever ruined the bone throwing scene for me :)

  • "So you're from Hungary?"

    "So you must be very HUNGRY people!"

    HAHAHAHAHAHA

  • You are very funny. Where do you came from?

  • i'm dutch fyi

  • What an art this movie is

    not only does it say how fast were developing our tech but also the unknown that lies ahead of us

    fore science sake i hope humanity will stop hating and start working together so we can be sure that we can expand into the stars

  • amazing to think that we will have a permanent base on the moon by 2020 :-) but my bet is on the private sector get us to the stars and beyond.

  • of course they are gonna get us out into the stars

    cause governments sucks at doing good jobs in anything

  • we already would have had our base by 2001... if Profit were not the only goal the last 20 years on earh....

  • true.

  • lots of symbolism in this film the ape throws the bone into the sky it is a weapon he had just used to kill to survive. It transitions to an orbiting nuke showing how mans use of weapons has advanced. (Check the book for reference)

  • That's very insightful of you you webbworld1

  • But this was 1968, so not their fault :-)

  • Moon's landscape is too rugged -one of the few things they got wrong science-wise. Apollo 11 photos showed it to be much flatter than we supposed.

  • ah yes but like earth we have different terrain, no?

  • After forty years, the special effects in this movie still hold their own to any CGI.

  • Straus - Beutyfull Blaue Danube is fitting for the world and mankind,thou its a hungarian river ^^

  • Danube isn't Hungarian river. It is European river beginning in Germany and than flowing trough Austria and Slovakia before reaching Hungary, than continuing trough 6 more countries on its way to the Black Sea.

  • Yes. But only Hungary has close historical bonds with it.

  • spoken like a true neo-nationalist...

  • Hey! Im not gonna drink the river away from you guys :-D Im just saying Im proud of the composition. And Danube is proud Europes river!!!

  • Wonderful. Thanks. A masterpiece of classical music and movie sequence. Best combo of all time IMO.

  • One has to consider the social context of this movie. 2001 was the first time that realistic visual effects of what it would like to be in space were made. The movie asked the questions that people were thinking at the time: What is it like to go into space? What will we find? How will it change us? The movie is basically symbolic: space exploration and our advancing technology are having an effect on humanity in much the same way as our distant ancestors discovery of the use of tools.

  • Then what was HAL9000? A prediction that we will all become subject to our robot overlords?

    Oh wait...could the iPhone be considered a "robot overlord?"

  • The most legendary masterpiece of music one of cinema's most unique films of all time. The year prior to man landing on the moon this film released in the parallax of the Vietnam War and the Tet Offensive. What a shame America had to be in such turmoil. Otherwise this film would have really opened the minds of many much more than it had then. Great Film and Great music!!! I know Kubrick made his movie to leave people in some obfuscating state of mind but its message to me was simple - GENIUS!

  • the most eloquent statement yet on possible human origins and evolution, and on multiple levels.

  • Ho pauraHo paura, la mia mente se ne va .. Lo sentoLo sentoLa mia mente svanisceNon c'è alcun dubbioLo sento L'uomo prepara da solo la propria distruzione. Non impazzisce ma ritorna allo stadio infantile, come anche l'astronauta dovrà fare fino alla propria morte, per poi risorgere come il feto per una nuova umanità. Il cerchio quadra da solo: ecco il respiro profondo dell'astronave, il silenzio del nero cosmico dove la morte è muta, mentre l'occhio che scava dentro la storia.