God, this movie was like, so boring! I mean, why was there like, no explosions or anything? The monkeys were just doing nothing and who cares about some girl wanting a bushbaby? God, so boring. Imma go watch Alien Vs. Predator.
Read the book for a more detailed insight into the meaning of these images. It's a very rewarding experience! Kubrick did a wonderful job of capturing the feeling of the finale. To describe the inner journey of the character with symbolism was a tremendous feat. It's not merely an hallucination. It is the character's spiritual awakening into a higher consciousness. Check out a video by a guy named Rob Ager. He interprets the film wonderfully.
I think this is a great ending. I love how the movie is so strange, and that this last appearance of the obelisk possibly gave immortality. It's like the final step, and we do not know what comes next.
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Since everyone says this is the best movie ever I finally checked it out. My conclusion is that it can't be compared to general movies since this is an art film. It's long paced and for the most part not even slightly entertaining. It's created to arouse emotion and debate around its context. I feel that Kubrick failed at some parts in its presentation and succeeded in others. All in all, it's a successful art film, but I still get the impression that most people are overly pretentious about it.
UUUUUUUUUUHhhh!!! Did I miss something here? Aren't all films art films? Even documentaries are edited and their cameramen are artists in their own right.
Yes, you must have missed something. Google "art house film" and you'll see that it's an entirely different genre. 2001 is refered to as one of the most important art films in the 60's.
It's fascinating how my previous entry got thumbed down this much since it was a valid comment. I believe people are overly defensive about any form of criticism.
this movie is good but there are way to many retarded scenes. its hard to sit through 45 minutes of random colors, and still shots of a guy making random and strange faces. and its takes 53 seconds ( i timed it) for the old guy to raise his hand and point at something. and if anyone says "its art, and you cant understand the complexity of kubrick's genious work" i will kill them.
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yeah, the best thing about this movie is its extremely epic main music theme. I laughed my ass off when it played in the beginning where some random monkey beats stuff with a bone club.
It is also quite interesting how Kubrick chose to portray how the acquiwition of knowledge was first utilized [within the context of the film]. It certainly mirrors his other works in relation to his view of human nature.
the monolith is the freaking cinema frame, in jupiter we get sucked into the monolith itself (the cinema frame) expanding our minds into the 4th dimension, the baby is a starchild, a iluminated one that comes to free all humanity from suffering.
Perhaps what happened to Dave is that not only did he tap into a subconscious that had obviously never been explored before by any of humanity, he tapped into a plane of existence never witnessed by man. You know how we use only 10% of our brains? Well, I believe that Dave cracked all 100%. I believe that having that power is what is so disquieting. The experience alone was equivocal.
We use 100% of our brains. The 10% thing is a stupid myth, supposedly about how much of it is for conscious function. In reality though between interpreting our senses, understanding language, emotion, bodily functions, personality, morality, etc, etc. we use 100% of our brains or close to it.
I still find myself disagreeing with you. How are you aware that we DO in fact use 100% of our brains? Have you had an experience similiar to Dave's? I think mankind just needs to realize that he doesn't know everything, nor is he even remotely aware of what goes on beyond his own confined living quarters. The mind is a powerful thing, surely, but the soul of man is far more powerful still. Until you or I or anyone of us cracks that great mystery, then I disagree.
While we might not know exactly what goes on in 100 percent of our brain, the fact that damaging it even a tiny bit, anywhere, causes big changes in our behavior suggests that we do, indeed, use all of it. We might not be using all of it to its full potential, but we need all of it, which suggests it is in use.
think about men, we must always think about women, soccer and cars...we have no more capacities for other things like "listen to women", "doing two things at the same time" or "change diapers"
dont think women have more capacities, they have a better operating system or task manager, the hardware is still the same ;-D
Neaver understud the ending of this film, It maby just kubric fucking with our heads..... he was way ahead of his time, take what ever you want out of it..... Chap was thinking on a diffrent level with this one...... very l.s.d.....
To understand this movie you must also see the second part "2010 the year we make contact." Both movies are a telling of the ancient Egypt mythologies of Osiris (Monolith) and Isis who copulate together and the result is the starchild (the baby at the end) or called Horus. In 2010 is the birth of the starchild after killing HAL, which results in a second sun and promises everlasting peace and understanding of all nations.
Thats another directors view of the ending.... Kubrick had much deeper intentions with this one, My interpitation is when dave aproches the monilith on the way to jupiter, the stargate sequence could be very well like getting sucked into a black hole, the streems of light could also be interpreted as Spaghettification, (whan somthing is sucked into a black hole) time and space are irelavent during Spaghettification, hence dave is looking at his , past, present, future, in the final seen...
What's your interpretation of Jupiter (Greek Zeus/Egypt Osiris) in this movie?
In the second section of the movie, astronaut bureaucrats discover another monolith buried on the Moon and when sunlight touches it for the first time in millions of years, it sends a powerful signal to Jupiter.
Perhaps it represents something 'close to god.' If you take it to mean Zeus, it's the 'father god,' the biggest and the most powerful and also the most fertile of the masculine gods (and this is a very male-centric movie.) If Osiris, then surely it must be the god of rebirth. For Egypt, the afterworld was the next step up - Osiris made the nile sprout but also took care of the dead. So Jupiter provided, and Jupiter took away, in order to get man to take the next step on his journey.
The guy is dead, something humans cannot escape (after the water pool with the monkey's the tools and the tools we made with orselfs (the computers)). We couldn't use our tools in Space and we needed to learn to walk again. Space = no human place. So we are a baby in space a fish in a ocean but we rule the Earth (we left it with our space flights) then there comes the death. The Starchild means that the next step is getting past the death. The bottle has broken but the whine is still there. :)
i read the book and didnt understand the ending. Did the protoganist, a man, get turned into baby? Why? In outer space?
amy i trying to understand too much or does the author and director of this film just put a baby at the end to make a spectacle and have people questioning life and beyond for the sake of passing the production as an award-winning movie if nothing else?
Ok so we started off from type -1 to 0. Than went straight to type 1 and 2. Than advaced to type 3, and ending with type 4 wre the god baby is born as the size of earth. If you dont know the type of civilazation. Type refers to different levels od species. Humans as if right now are type 0.
how could you think the starchild is the size of the earth?, and....a god, is just evolution, no gods or anything like it, and he is just closest to the camera and hes looking at earth, he is not the size of the earth,,,,
okay, i was crying at the end of this movie too, but not a sad cry, i was crying because i was so fucking freaked out at the last 45 minutes... and i was really really high.
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i rly didnt like this movie. Until like 2/3 i was pretty satisfied until they hero got like a fucking lsd trip and became older and the older and then he got aids and then he became a giant fetus . So i cant rly say i was satisfied with end . lOL
Ok don't strike me down, but my interpretation is that in the beginning we all start out as seperate entities (monkeys-beginning) and we evolve over milleniums ecthing closer to a truth that we are really one being in the end and that is the source of who we really are! we needed seperatism to understand our existance but needed to evole to understand that we are not seperate in the end! we are all one!
or maybe i completely mis-understood this movie lol
I think that's a good interpretation...though I have heard other, completely different ones....brickford's has validity...Stanley Kubrick would be prpud, since he left the message of his movie up to individual interpretation.
i dont understand how this could be the greatest movie of all time if 99.9999999% of people do not understand it, the only person being kubrick himself.
Well it's not like nobody has a complete clue what it means; all of us have have our own interpretations ranging from specific to ambiguous--I think we can all agree that the themes of this movie deal with human evolution, space exploration, etc.
Even without all of the deep themes, it's still a kickass science fiction flick.
CONT. It's sort of like the Queen song 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. I couldn't have any less of a clue what the lyrics mean, but I love the song nonetheless. It's the same with this movie. We love the visuals and special effects. We love the lack of dialogue, the convincing acting, the music, etc. you name it, Kubrick has got a little bit of everything in this film.
Yeah, the ending is really confusing. But you should get the main point, and the reason the "starchild" is never really explained: try picturing an ape (or an animal similar to what we evolved from) describing modern man. It's impossible. And the ending of the film is the same: for modern man to describe what we will evolve into would be just as impossible.
wow this is not the best movie of all time maybe the most screwed up. i haven't seen all of it but ihave seen some parts and it looks totally screwed up
haha how could you call this movie boring?? I agree with WilliamTheFloydian..... perhaps Transformers and Fast & the Furious is a better fit for the Kubrick haters.
Nah, kubrick's genius cannot be replicated and he truly understood film as a form of art. Nowadays movies are all about the money and the explosions and its not worth trying to convince people because big studios would never front the cash for a movie that didn't make a ridiculous amount back. As in they'd rather make a mission impossible 4 than help pay for the next kubrick to make a new masterpiece.
The beauty of the ending is that it leaves one in the vacuous, interminable void of the space of the infinite universe, with humankind an irrelevance to the indifferent, infinite cosmos. Yet it also leaves one with an awareness of humanity's drawing ever closer (through its own endeavours or otherwise) to the creator of everything.
It is art but Kubrick had a genius for commerce as well, he was savvy of the marketing aspect and always ahead of the curve (except for maybe EW shut)
this movie is art. nothing less. It's a phenomenal film and if you can't exercise your mind in order to comprehend it then you shouldn't watch it. Go back to your Transformers and Fast & Furious.
There are multiple theories, but I think this baby is to represent the next step of human evolution. Until this very moment, humanity has still been like babies out in space, but now we are finally a true space baby ready to grow. Sorry for my bad english, Im from Sweden.
That main character got in contact with aliens when he reached Jupiter, and they taught him about time and space and lots of other stuff. When he died, the star child was born.
Kubrick made this film, and it is supposed to be separate from the books... this scene helps to conclude the myriad sperm/semen references in the film... the next step of evolution of man ie the metaphor is that sperm evolves into a human that can live outside then normal realm of the ballsack ie earth and space... the reason this film had very little dialogue? so you had time to think!
This is one of the greatest films ever made. By relation, Kubrick has to be one of the greatest directors in this overhyped genre that is movie making.
Scorcese and Copolla come out as churlish adolescents in comparision with this man. Imagine how overblown this'd be in their hands?
A genius: The visuals of the speeding sequence, the faceless leading men, and above all, to marry Embryo to The Universe, a genius.
if you are so clever i suggest you find the message hidden in this : ——————/´ ¯/) —————--/—-/ —————-/—-/ ———--/´¯/'--'/´¯`•_ ———-/'/--/—-/—--/¨¯\ ——--('(———- ¯~/'--') ———\————-'—--/ ———-'\'————_-•´ ————\———--( ————-\———- if not just get it as it is...
I have been watching this movie a lot lately and also reading interpretations on the net. If you watch it on its own you will completely miss all of the understated symbolism that the movie is rich with. It is very easy--especially b/c of the snails' pace, little dialogue and dragging on of some minutia that occurs--to underestimate this film, which I did at first. But once you learn about the symbolism, this might be the best film ever made.
I can't believe you people who are, number one, bored by this film, and number two, feel that film's purpose is to cater to a common preference for Michael Baysplosions or Tony Scott Eye-Bleeding cinematography.
As a film student and as a person who enjoys all types of films, from all countries and time periods, I can say that this is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, film of all time.
Most people with even a slight taste in films, even those utterly bored with the film, will recognize that it has more merit than most films do and will ever have.
I think before you judge a film as great as this, you should either take a film criticism class or go back to watching Shyamalan.
The argument here against this film is that it's boring, which is totally irrelevant to whether it is a good film or not.
There are films which I find boring or drawn out, but I can still recognize as good, respectable, well-made films. On the other hand, there are really shallow films (ie. Transformers) that I love for their entertainment value while seeing they are crap.
I hate when people relate boredom and a movie being 'bad'. That's like relating rocket science to botany.
so you say that people should be told what makes a good film rather than coming up with their own judgements? there's no accounting for taste my friend
Huuuuuuuuuuge dissapointment! Comparing to Clockwork Orange and Shining this is likeeeee wtf was he thinking?!? And don't give me that crap about simbolism and what this shit represents...The movie is boring, and since it is boring, it sucks. The whole point of a movie in general is to entertain, not to put to sleep.
This movie is pure shit and a half hour shot of flashes claiming to be space travel with no meaning whatsoever can hardly be called art, only a stupid try to seem different. I could as well shoot myself looking at a ceiling for an hour and call it a masterpiece with a hidden meaning only a few geniouses could understand.
I'm assuming you have seen roughly 1/8 of the movie because completely disregarding the symbolism hidden within it, it tells a very good and straightforward narrative
I'm confused.
Superhumanattack 2 years ago
It had its tedious elements, but that movie just got me. It just did.
AliaSparrow 2 years ago
AVP was gay
xxxjastaticxxxx 2 years ago
*Extreme sarcasm below*
God, this movie was like, so boring! I mean, why was there like, no explosions or anything? The monkeys were just doing nothing and who cares about some girl wanting a bushbaby? God, so boring. Imma go watch Alien Vs. Predator.
*Extreme sarcasm above*
phxsns1 2 years ago
this movie was soooooo long and boring, it had its good points of views, but the most part was boooooring,
bigpccc 2 years ago
ah.. beautiful. so beautiful.
orrissanen 2 years ago 3
its chuck norris!!!!
manulsd85 2 years ago
It's the future dammit, and I want my rocket car to the moon!!!
olesne 2 years ago 2
HOLY GIANT BABY!!!
lou4560 2 years ago 7
The star-childis a mystery. i love it!!
DeadMametchi 2 years ago 2
Kubrick just missed by 100 years.
vls174 2 years ago
watch the last 20 mintuesafter smoking a joint or two.
dear lord the most incredible experience of my life.
redkoolaidguy693 2 years ago 5
You potheads are so retarded
AngelSilasTV 2 years ago 2
Was the last 20 min of the movie the director's version of an acid trip or is it just me?
Nevalar 2 years ago 2
Read the book for a more detailed insight into the meaning of these images. It's a very rewarding experience! Kubrick did a wonderful job of capturing the feeling of the finale. To describe the inner journey of the character with symbolism was a tremendous feat. It's not merely an hallucination. It is the character's spiritual awakening into a higher consciousness. Check out a video by a guy named Rob Ager. He interprets the film wonderfully.
mindstormsabrewin 2 years ago 2
i agree with steinover. wth is there a creepy looking giant baby thing floating around??
NightQUEENRainbowGi 2 years ago
i think its the alien that put the monolith in earth
rish987 2 years ago 2
classic
peck4111 2 years ago
clsssic
peck4111 2 years ago
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greatest movie of all time? wow that must have been the only movie you have ever watched.
ScuzzAsh 2 years ago
I think this is a great ending. I love how the movie is so strange, and that this last appearance of the obelisk possibly gave immortality. It's like the final step, and we do not know what comes next.
cheezonator 2 years ago 5
Is that baby Stewie from Family Guy?
Kingbub09 2 years ago 2
That is one creepy-looking baby.
btm85bubs 2 years ago
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Since everyone says this is the best movie ever I finally checked it out. My conclusion is that it can't be compared to general movies since this is an art film. It's long paced and for the most part not even slightly entertaining. It's created to arouse emotion and debate around its context. I feel that Kubrick failed at some parts in its presentation and succeeded in others. All in all, it's a successful art film, but I still get the impression that most people are overly pretentious about it.
EnLitenEkorre 2 years ago
UUUUUUUUUUHhhh!!! Did I miss something here? Aren't all films art films? Even documentaries are edited and their cameramen are artists in their own right.
adventurous63 2 years ago 3
Yes, you must have missed something. Google "art house film" and you'll see that it's an entirely different genre. 2001 is refered to as one of the most important art films in the 60's.
It's fascinating how my previous entry got thumbed down this much since it was a valid comment. I believe people are overly defensive about any form of criticism.
EnLitenEkorre 2 years ago
this movie is good but there are way to many retarded scenes. its hard to sit through 45 minutes of random colors, and still shots of a guy making random and strange faces. and its takes 53 seconds ( i timed it) for the old guy to raise his hand and point at something. and if anyone says "its art, and you cant understand the complexity of kubrick's genious work" i will kill them.
tphart88 2 years ago
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yeah, the best thing about this movie is its extremely epic main music theme. I laughed my ass off when it played in the beginning where some random monkey beats stuff with a bone club.
Del249 2 years ago
that was supposed to be when human first got the idea to use tools :D and here we are today
903harman 2 years ago 5
It is also quite interesting how Kubrick chose to portray how the acquiwition of knowledge was first utilized [within the context of the film]. It certainly mirrors his other works in relation to his view of human nature.
Mechanized0 2 years ago
Fact: Chuck Norris understands the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
avelsdjur 2 years ago 6
Fact: Ur a dickhole.
stickmanpictures01 2 years ago 2
u just made my day !
i have tears sliding down my face from laughter !
bbuuggzz 2 years ago
Fact: avelsdjur is fucking retarded
MrOzzyIommi 2 years ago
the monolith is the freaking cinema frame, in jupiter we get sucked into the monolith itself (the cinema frame) expanding our minds into the 4th dimension, the baby is a starchild, a iluminated one that comes to free all humanity from suffering.
AntonioCapacho 2 years ago
the starchild is the metaphor of the birth of a new consciousness of the human race.
AntonioCapacho 2 years ago
Sucked into time?
b0b0maj0 2 years ago
People who argue on the internet clearly only use 10% of their brains.
JarOfRats 2 years ago 6
WTF is up with the baby
killermel23 2 years ago
Why is the baby floating around in space here at the end?
steinover 2 years ago 2
It's Dave, reborn as a Spacechild. The birth of humanity, maybe.
LightStijn 2 years ago 4
Thanks Stan! Thanks for all the magic! from Buenos Aires
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fanchbrezoneg 2 years ago
i never watched this movie, ifi do i might get lost in my head hahahaa
Legoman2022 2 years ago 3
Yeh I think we use 100% of our brain... well most of us
ThaGangastaBoss 2 years ago
Perhaps what happened to Dave is that not only did he tap into a subconscious that had obviously never been explored before by any of humanity, he tapped into a plane of existence never witnessed by man. You know how we use only 10% of our brains? Well, I believe that Dave cracked all 100%. I believe that having that power is what is so disquieting. The experience alone was equivocal.
shivaboyd 2 years ago 2
I believe that this was made up
IdontlikeusingLOL 2 years ago 2
We use 100% of our brains. The 10% thing is a stupid myth, supposedly about how much of it is for conscious function. In reality though between interpreting our senses, understanding language, emotion, bodily functions, personality, morality, etc, etc. we use 100% of our brains or close to it.
Eetaq 2 years ago 6
I still find myself disagreeing with you. How are you aware that we DO in fact use 100% of our brains? Have you had an experience similiar to Dave's? I think mankind just needs to realize that he doesn't know everything, nor is he even remotely aware of what goes on beyond his own confined living quarters. The mind is a powerful thing, surely, but the soul of man is far more powerful still. Until you or I or anyone of us cracks that great mystery, then I disagree.
shivaboyd 2 years ago
Noboby has the answer !
fanchbrezoneg 2 years ago
While we might not know exactly what goes on in 100 percent of our brain, the fact that damaging it even a tiny bit, anywhere, causes big changes in our behavior suggests that we do, indeed, use all of it. We might not be using all of it to its full potential, but we need all of it, which suggests it is in use.
Seleteles 2 years ago
yeah 10% is a myth...
think about men, we must always think about women, soccer and cars...we have no more capacities for other things like "listen to women", "doing two things at the same time" or "change diapers"
dont think women have more capacities, they have a better operating system or task manager, the hardware is still the same ;-D
ChuckVanDamme 2 years ago
The child at the ending is nothing more than "resurrection'.
vhengar 2 years ago 2
this is the GREATEST movie ever undisputed
PHISHjohnsonPHISH 2 years ago
that was creepy...
TheParanoidGangster 2 years ago
Neaver understud the ending of this film, It maby just kubric fucking with our heads..... he was way ahead of his time, take what ever you want out of it..... Chap was thinking on a diffrent level with this one...... very l.s.d.....
gemineye7 2 years ago
To understand this movie you must also see the second part "2010 the year we make contact." Both movies are a telling of the ancient Egypt mythologies of Osiris (Monolith) and Isis who copulate together and the result is the starchild (the baby at the end) or called Horus. In 2010 is the birth of the starchild after killing HAL, which results in a second sun and promises everlasting peace and understanding of all nations.
Here you can see the birth scene:
watch?v=vhMYgq-0cGI
66mra 2 years ago
Thats another directors view of the ending.... Kubrick had much deeper intentions with this one, My interpitation is when dave aproches the monilith on the way to jupiter, the stargate sequence could be very well like getting sucked into a black hole, the streems of light could also be interpreted as Spaghettification, (whan somthing is sucked into a black hole) time and space are irelavent during Spaghettification, hence dave is looking at his , past, present, future, in the final seen...
gemineye7 2 years ago
What's your interpretation of Jupiter (Greek Zeus/Egypt Osiris) in this movie?
In the second section of the movie, astronaut bureaucrats discover another monolith buried on the Moon and when sunlight touches it for the first time in millions of years, it sends a powerful signal to Jupiter.
66mra 2 years ago
Perhaps it represents something 'close to god.' If you take it to mean Zeus, it's the 'father god,' the biggest and the most powerful and also the most fertile of the masculine gods (and this is a very male-centric movie.) If Osiris, then surely it must be the god of rebirth. For Egypt, the afterworld was the next step up - Osiris made the nile sprout but also took care of the dead. So Jupiter provided, and Jupiter took away, in order to get man to take the next step on his journey.
Seleteles 2 years ago
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fanchbrezoneg 2 years ago
The guy is dead, something humans cannot escape (after the water pool with the monkey's the tools and the tools we made with orselfs (the computers)). We couldn't use our tools in Space and we needed to learn to walk again. Space = no human place. So we are a baby in space a fish in a ocean but we rule the Earth (we left it with our space flights) then there comes the death. The Starchild means that the next step is getting past the death. The bottle has broken but the whine is still there. :)
xzaz2 2 years ago
Revival !
fanchbrezoneg 2 years ago
what teh . . .
ancalites 2 years ago
This movie blew my damn mind.
MrJS15 2 years ago 2
i read the book and didnt understand the ending. Did the protoganist, a man, get turned into baby? Why? In outer space?
amy i trying to understand too much or does the author and director of this film just put a baby at the end to make a spectacle and have people questioning life and beyond for the sake of passing the production as an award-winning movie if nothing else?
sinopo 2 years ago
No. It's man taking anoother evolutionary step.
SoylentGreenISHUNGRY 2 years ago
a true evolutionary leap, life being created where it traditionally cannot exist.
llExll 2 years ago
wht does it mean
BillieGD71293 2 years ago
LOL. grow your own alien. just add water and keep it in the egg until it grows. =D
NGstalagmite 2 years ago 2
Yeah, until it's the size of the Earth!
phxsns1 2 years ago
this ending is BULLSH*T
eronny 2 years ago
I know...
hawkbad360 2 years ago
Why exactly is it bullshit? Elaborate.
KillSwitch2 2 years ago
evolution lies is all they deny their creator, dumb circular logic
ncbookz 2 years ago
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may atheism bring people to coming back to their senses!
may wisdom rule and religions descend to where they belong:
oblivion
GeilerRitter 2 years ago
And thus spake Zarathustra, "The Star Child is Born."
One of my all-time favorite movies already. Few films moved me so much as Space Odyssey.
oliverat 2 years ago
nothing says creepy like a fetus staring directly at you.
BartS4177 2 years ago 3
Ok so we started off from type -1 to 0. Than went straight to type 1 and 2. Than advaced to type 3, and ending with type 4 wre the god baby is born as the size of earth. If you dont know the type of civilazation. Type refers to different levels od species. Humans as if right now are type 0.
animemanga15 2 years ago 2
how could you think the starchild is the size of the earth?, and....a god, is just evolution, no gods or anything like it, and he is just closest to the camera and hes looking at earth, he is not the size of the earth,,,,
alecemusic 2 years ago
Pretty creepy to me.
jdupnrth 2 years ago 4
this movie is the best!
THE BEST!
deliman 2 years ago
Like all good mothers, the earth has to see her children go sometime. How far can our tools really take us? Is it time to evolve beyond them?
Thus, the star child is born.
madmax14141 2 years ago 7
okay, i was crying at the end of this movie too, but not a sad cry, i was crying because i was so fucking freaked out at the last 45 minutes... and i was really really high.
Schlepp420 2 years ago 7
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Star Wars are better.this is boring same as star trek
rainmaker646 2 years ago
Oh shit! That giant baby is going to collide with the planet! We are all fucked! WE ARE ALL FUCKED!!
TheFlyingHoodlum 2 years ago 7
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i rly didnt like this movie. Until like 2/3 i was pretty satisfied until they hero got like a fucking lsd trip and became older and the older and then he got aids and then he became a giant fetus . So i cant rly say i was satisfied with end . lOL
az0r22 2 years ago
LOL WTF?
AMERICANxxPSYCHO 2 years ago
We will all look like this after 2012....children in space...looking down at the new Earth...
sillywillyisgoodforu 2 years ago
hopefully. can you point me in the direction of some good truth to read up on for 2012.
malcomx52 2 years ago
search the Ra Material. or uhh, Terence Mckenna's novelty theory.
MadeRude91 2 years ago
it's a metaphor...
MrAppleby56 2 years ago 3
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND ?
artcentrum 2 years ago
Ok don't strike me down, but my interpretation is that in the beginning we all start out as seperate entities (monkeys-beginning) and we evolve over milleniums ecthing closer to a truth that we are really one being in the end and that is the source of who we really are! we needed seperatism to understand our existance but needed to evole to understand that we are not seperate in the end! we are all one!
or maybe i completely mis-understood this movie lol
brickford27 2 years ago 7
no
the starchild thing at the end is just one guy, made into an immortal entity by the forces of the monolith
the monolith brought man to where it is today, and it brought one man even further
metafication 2 years ago 3
I think that's a good interpretation...though I have heard other, completely different ones....brickford's has validity...Stanley Kubrick would be prpud, since he left the message of his movie up to individual interpretation.
ossarider 2 years ago
I was crying when i was see this in the end xDD
MrBasterd2 2 years ago
a truly great ending. love that epic music
movieguy4 2 years ago
i dont understand how this could be the greatest movie of all time if 99.9999999% of people do not understand it, the only person being kubrick himself.
Gza36Chambers 2 years ago
Well it's not like nobody has a complete clue what it means; all of us have have our own interpretations ranging from specific to ambiguous--I think we can all agree that the themes of this movie deal with human evolution, space exploration, etc.
Even without all of the deep themes, it's still a kickass science fiction flick.
misterx37 2 years ago
CONT. It's sort of like the Queen song 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. I couldn't have any less of a clue what the lyrics mean, but I love the song nonetheless. It's the same with this movie. We love the visuals and special effects. We love the lack of dialogue, the convincing acting, the music, etc. you name it, Kubrick has got a little bit of everything in this film.
misterx37 2 years ago
it was never really meant to be understood
kubrick and clarke really made the movie completely mysterious and surreal, as opposed to the book which is much easier to understand
not being understandable doesn't make something bad, though
metafication 2 years ago 3
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well they had to come up with this ending because they ran out of money.
FuskaTv 2 years ago
no the book ends like this too
metafication 2 years ago 3
true. read that somewhere, or it was in the behind the scenes
malcomx52 2 years ago
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dpr1326 2 years ago
Yeah, the ending is really confusing. But you should get the main point, and the reason the "starchild" is never really explained: try picturing an ape (or an animal similar to what we evolved from) describing modern man. It's impossible. And the ending of the film is the same: for modern man to describe what we will evolve into would be just as impossible.
misterx37 2 years ago 4
And you won't be more intelligent if you say you hated and understood this film. If anything, it'll only make you look stupid.
who3697cares 2 years ago
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The Ending of The Most Annoying movie of all time...
Stop adulating this movie and admit that it's completely boring.
You won't be more "intelligent" if you say you loved and understood this film
sandra94100 2 years ago
its obvious you don't understand the movie, saying stupid things like that. what an asshole
elnicopo 2 years ago
wow this is not the best movie of all time maybe the most screwed up. i haven't seen all of it but ihave seen some parts and it looks totally screwed up
Sourdog69 2 years ago
Well yea the ending was intended to be confusing and beyond the human experience.
This IS the best sci fi movie of all time.
Vedaseran 2 years ago 2
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Colnago2005 2 years ago
Can someone explain it???
Churruminonian 2 years ago
It's man. Evolving. That's what thw whole film is about. Our evolution.
SoylentGreenISHUNGRY 2 years ago 3
One of the Greatest Films ever. Definately a personal reference for myself and for many others i believe. Stanley Kubrick you will live forever.
AeonBlueApocalypse 2 years ago
Makes no sense to me...
Alex06CoSonic 2 years ago
Thanks! And you are PRECISELY right. The ending to the greatest film of all time. No doubt about it.
racetoinfinity 2 years ago
haha how could you call this movie boring?? I agree with WilliamTheFloydian..... perhaps Transformers and Fast & the Furious is a better fit for the Kubrick haters.
krakakilla04 2 years ago
The slowness just adds to the intensity. It builds up the tension. A lesson that current filmmakers would do well to heed.
Vedaseran 2 years ago 3
Nah, kubrick's genius cannot be replicated and he truly understood film as a form of art. Nowadays movies are all about the money and the explosions and its not worth trying to convince people because big studios would never front the cash for a movie that didn't make a ridiculous amount back. As in they'd rather make a mission impossible 4 than help pay for the next kubrick to make a new masterpiece.
Icix1 2 years ago 4
I agree. We may be seeing a new age of mediocrity in absolutely every art form. Fortunately, there are still old goodies out there to be discovered.
Vedaseran 2 years ago 2
The beauty of the ending is that it leaves one in the vacuous, interminable void of the space of the infinite universe, with humankind an irrelevance to the indifferent, infinite cosmos. Yet it also leaves one with an awareness of humanity's drawing ever closer (through its own endeavours or otherwise) to the creator of everything.
KendoSaggyknackers 2 years ago 2
It is art but Kubrick had a genius for commerce as well, he was savvy of the marketing aspect and always ahead of the curve (except for maybe EW shut)
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it looks like a very boring movie...
23Gilkez23 2 years ago
quite the opposite. It's long, but it's very good. you have to open your mind and sit down in a comfy chair, but it's worthwhile.
WilliamTheFloydian 2 years ago 4
EPIC.....
Yaminoken 2 years ago 3
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what the fuck? the last 30 minutes of this movie are nothing but color, oldness, the black monoloth and this shit. This movie was bullshit.
Wastelander1993 2 years ago
this movie is art. nothing less. It's a phenomenal film and if you can't exercise your mind in order to comprehend it then you shouldn't watch it. Go back to your Transformers and Fast & Furious.
WilliamTheFloydian 2 years ago 6
i agree this film is more than film its genius
Dalek1230 2 years ago
holy shit one little lucky human gets to evolve into a fetus which can live outside of a round-shaped... ... man this whole movie is about sperm
WonkotheSane42042 2 years ago
when I see this....Yes,there is a God...
neilzep 2 years ago 4
wich one?:)
Sandgn0m392 2 years ago
you know if you read all three books you'll actually understand the whole story the author meant.
iloveanime884 2 years ago
Ok I've seen this movie like 4 times, and i still don't get it.
AwsomeAusitnRox 2 years ago 10
There are multiple theories, but I think this baby is to represent the next step of human evolution. Until this very moment, humanity has still been like babies out in space, but now we are finally a true space baby ready to grow. Sorry for my bad english, Im from Sweden.
That main character got in contact with aliens when he reached Jupiter, and they taught him about time and space and lots of other stuff. When he died, the star child was born.
Fr0ggeh86 2 years ago 4
Nice way to express.
Jaquzze 2 years ago
you got it perfectly.
That's exactly what happens in the book, which I like better than the movie. However, it's still the best movie of all time.
Ilikelimpbizkit 2 years ago
Mmhm. To signify our moving from our world into space. Nice description ^w^
commonlemme 2 years ago
Kubrick made this film, and it is supposed to be separate from the books... this scene helps to conclude the myriad sperm/semen references in the film... the next step of evolution of man ie the metaphor is that sperm evolves into a human that can live outside then normal realm of the ballsack ie earth and space... the reason this film had very little dialogue? so you had time to think!
WonkotheSane42042 2 years ago
read the books ;) ... it helps a lot :D
sebaXXXteacher 2 years ago
so this is where simpsons got their ending from for their episode when homer went to space
warrior4641 2 years ago
For a movie with a timeframe that covers the entirety of man's existence, it is not long enough! Ten stars out of five!
WeJustGotColorTV 2 years ago
i have never seen the movie, but i really want to. what just happend? i dont get what just heppend.
RobbTheBop 2 years ago
everything. everything just happened.
Oh, uhh, evolution. Transcendence into something that will save us all.
Tripp393 2 years ago
Great Answer.
seanreillyireland 2 years ago
The creation of a new human racer? A perfect one?Who knows, this movie has a lot of theories,
and is easy to make another one.
supermatx 2 years ago
This is one of the greatest films ever made. By relation, Kubrick has to be one of the greatest directors in this overhyped genre that is movie making.
Scorcese and Copolla come out as churlish adolescents in comparision with this man. Imagine how overblown this'd be in their hands?
A genius: The visuals of the speeding sequence, the faceless leading men, and above all, to marry Embryo to The Universe, a genius.
Just my opinion. We're entitled to that much.
seanreillyireland 2 years ago
I tried to watch this but I couldn't get into it so I deleted it from my DVR then watched 2010 and regretted deleting it
MST720 2 years ago
I love this film because it asks questions. Very few films do this, so we forget them quickly. A masterpiece from a genius director...
squirehendrix 2 years ago
great stuff
stef1652 2 years ago
this movie was meant to unravel so slowly. if anyone doesn't think this is a great movie it is simply over their heads.
adrenacrumb 2 years ago
EARTHBOUND/GIYGAS FLASHBACK OMFG
theamazinglizard 2 years ago
Why not a theory? XD.
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bakabandit1 2 years ago
I have been watching this movie a lot lately and also reading interpretations on the net. If you watch it on its own you will completely miss all of the understated symbolism that the movie is rich with. It is very easy--especially b/c of the snails' pace, little dialogue and dragging on of some minutia that occurs--to underestimate this film, which I did at first. But once you learn about the symbolism, this might be the best film ever made.
firmingitup 2 years ago
in the credits, what is the name of the song
CargaMarranas 2 years ago
When the credits roll, the music is "The Blue Danube Waltz" but the music playing here is "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss.
firmingitup 2 years ago
I can't believe you people who are, number one, bored by this film, and number two, feel that film's purpose is to cater to a common preference for Michael Baysplosions or Tony Scott Eye-Bleeding cinematography.
As a film student and as a person who enjoys all types of films, from all countries and time periods, I can say that this is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, film of all time.
GarrisonCompany 2 years ago
CONTINUED...
Most people with even a slight taste in films, even those utterly bored with the film, will recognize that it has more merit than most films do and will ever have.
I think before you judge a film as great as this, you should either take a film criticism class or go back to watching Shyamalan.
GarrisonCompany 2 years ago
You don't need to be a major in something to say whether or not it's good. >_>
Supertails90 2 years ago
The argument here against this film is that it's boring, which is totally irrelevant to whether it is a good film or not.
There are films which I find boring or drawn out, but I can still recognize as good, respectable, well-made films. On the other hand, there are really shallow films (ie. Transformers) that I love for their entertainment value while seeing they are crap.
I hate when people relate boredom and a movie being 'bad'. That's like relating rocket science to botany.
GarrisonCompany 2 years ago
Yeah no.
Some people see movies for enjoyment. If the movie bores them, they're not enjoying it, therefore in their eyes it's not a good movie.
See how it works?
Supertails90 2 years ago 2
so you say that people should be told what makes a good film rather than coming up with their own judgements? there's no accounting for taste my friend
keatingt123456789 2 years ago
Spongebob is art for this crap. nerd
bakabandit1 2 years ago
Huuuuuuuuuuge dissapointment! Comparing to Clockwork Orange and Shining this is likeeeee wtf was he thinking?!? And don't give me that crap about simbolism and what this shit represents...The movie is boring, and since it is boring, it sucks. The whole point of a movie in general is to entertain, not to put to sleep.
baramat87 2 years ago
This movie is pure shit and a half hour shot of flashes claiming to be space travel with no meaning whatsoever can hardly be called art, only a stupid try to seem different. I could as well shoot myself looking at a ceiling for an hour and call it a masterpiece with a hidden meaning only a few geniouses could understand.
nixPSY064 2 years ago
I'm assuming you have seen roughly 1/8 of the movie because completely disregarding the symbolism hidden within it, it tells a very good and straightforward narrative
APPLEAPPS1 2 years ago
whatever
nixPSY064 2 years ago