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  • soooo... the monkeys from the beginning were living on the moon?

  • Sometimes reading the user comments on Youtube fills me with despair for the species, so I will stop and continue to enjoy this movie.

  • 8:35 - Its the Event Horizon! They found it!

  • the hole damn movie is covered with fat ass knobs and weird televisions and they are all having weird converstations with each other

  • u can exit the red bar

  • @daleshane thank you for the comment . Pl explain why I must exit the red bar?

  • Wasnt it supposed to be buried 100 million years ago? humans started using tools 100 million years ago I think

  • Hm so far it's a movie about ships flying slowly to classical music

  • Did anyone bring some papers

  • the future of spaceflight, but halfway through Kubrick seems to have been dissatisfied with the narrow field of story telling and wanted to make something about the future of mankind - man's ultimate evolution into a different creature. I think that explains the lack of character development;we're watching almost two different movies. Also, there was to have been a narration to explain much of the back story, but that was dropped because Kubrick wanted a sense of mystery. Still A++ to me

  • I do very much love this movie for the stunning visuals and the extremely realistic depiction of spaceflight (except here, in the moonbus scene, they are acting as if they are in some kind of gravity, which they would not be in coasting flight), but it's a very different kind of movie.  I'm not sure if this is entirely what Kubrick intended, or if he ran out of time/money/studio patience before completing it along the lines he desired. The movie started out as a prognosticaion of the future of

  • this is the only movie i can think of where an HOUR in we have not even been introduced to a single real protagonist. Or nay interesting character of any kind for that matter. It gets better, I assume?

  • @ralaq stfu

  • @ralaq If you don't like it this far, then you probably won't at all. If you want a typical or stereotypical plot and film then this movie isn't for you. It breaks the mold, like all great art does.

    Plus its much, much easier to understand if you read the book.

  • @raleighwhisp

    I see quite stereotypical characters and ideas. I don't know what the hell you're talking about when it comes to breaking the mold. Some of the scenes and props in this movie are downright retarded and it's still quite apparent I'm watching a movie from the 60s, rather than something timeless and brilliant in it's scope. I do believe it's better if you've read the book but don't pretend he isn't recognizing great art or brilliance. Full Metal Jacket was also really overrated.

  • @Grungadin You're entitled to your opinion. Then again, a vast majority of film critics seem to disagree with you.

  • @Grungadin In it's time, this movie broke the mold. The reason you see stereotypical characters, and ideas is because this set the mold, and other movies took notes from this.

  • reminds me of 1969 when I saw this for the first ti,e...I finally..get it.

    Gemma

  • 7:24

    It just cuts off. That creepy buildup and it just cuts off...

    O_o

  • It's a good, really different movie, but I can't stand people who religiously jizz over it.

  • I love the philistines' comments below: the music is "overkill," and "I hate the soundtrack." LOL. Ah, YouTube comments are the best.

  • ok this is the first time i have ever seen this and i just have to say that the music is just complete and totally overkill

  • @penguin1818 Music overkill? At this time music seems to be one of the only valuable things we have. Your ignorance not being one of them.

  • @JumpStartation just my opinion no need to be a complete asshole about it

  • i hate the soundtrack.......

  • @12212012Oo19 its the best part

  • @12212012Oo19 Er, why?

  • @12212012Oo19 The whole movie is a soundtrack!

  • @12212012Oo19 I hate you.

  • @JumpStartation and you have every right to, but frankly i don't give a damn

  • Amazing movie. Effects still hold up wonderfully. In fact most fancy digital effects today to me simply look like - fancy digital effects by comparison. Interesting that 1953's "Invador's From Mars" utilized a similar vocal score.

  • Anyone else that has observed that the Earth is repeatedly illuminated fom the left side and the right side during the lunar landing and moonbus scenes?

  • How were they able to put

    JUPITER MISSION

    18 MONTHS LATER

    there?

  • I still don't get the whole obelisk thing

  • @BigMuf3zPi

    Monolith, actually. If someone does NOT want the spoiler of something that's now basically part of pop-culture, stop reading right now.

    ...

    The Monoliths are practically invincible machines created by a unknown alien civilization quantum leaps beyond anything humanity can currently remotely comprehend, who desire, literally above ALL else, to cultivate sentience throughout the cosmos, and raise species that achieve it to continually higher planes of existence.

  • For God sakes.......why do you have to corrupt the visual imagery with that damn red bar across the top of the screen?

    Embarrasing.

  • @WillHurricane Errr. I was only advertising one of my own uploads :) That too only on the top above the picture area! If you find it interfering please turn off the annotations. There is a small red icon on the bottom. Click it to turn on/off annotations. Very innovative of youtube ! I just love the possibilities

  • @WillHurricane If you don't know how to take that bar off you are an idot.

  • @WillHurricane dude don't get mad about something like that. at least someone bothered to put this whole thing on line. Don't be ungrateful I don't see you putting movies as epic as this online. Thank you totallyfreeenergy I'll make sure to click the thing at the top when I'm done

  • The music heard during the Discovery establishing shots is the Adagio from the Gayane Ballet Suite by Aram Khatchaturian. It was quoted by film composer James Horner in 'Aliens', 'Patriot Games', and 'Clear And Present Danger' almost exclusively because of its usage in this film.

  • The music at about 8 minutes starts to sound like the opening music from Aliens

  • @willd3rbeast

    I noticed that too. But this film came out 10 years before the first Alien movie.

  • @POlNTMAN, yep, i guess even james carmeron can be inspired!

  • @willd3rbeast

    He sure can.

    BTW the first Alien movie was made by Ridley Scott. Cameron build on his ideas.

  • @willd3rbeast

    yep, you hear this at the end of Alien, and at the beginning of aliens.

  • It's funny how the apes just stood in awe of the monolith while modern man just wants to take damn pictures!

  • @funkyflea89 My feeling is because Man has seen (at this point in the film's "real time") things that are way more intriguing and unusual than the Monolith. (Think about sky scrapers, they're a dime a dozen to us- but for a child to see the empire state building for the first time! Whoa!).

  • I've been reading the book for university, having to watch the film now because I couldn't find my DVD copy. I was trying to imagine/remember what Discovery looked like: aaaaaaaaaaah. Ok. Got it.

  • Kubrick had a 30-ton rotating "ferris wheel" built which was 38 feet in diameter and 10 feet wide. Various scenes in the Discovery centrifuge were shot by securing set pieces within the wheel, then rotating it while the actor walked or ran in sync with its motion, keeping him at the bottom of the wheel as it turned.

  • ...How the hell did they make him run around in a sideways circle?

  • 07:18 Major Ear Rape,

    And I had headphones on and every thing.

  • Why don't we make films like this anymore? :(

  • @ashtonmadhatter We have to many retards as film makers, these days.

  • @DarthWar7 Yes we do. Stanley Kurbick was a genius.

  • @ashtonmadhatter CFR scumbag traitors are done with us, so there is no need to brainwash us anymore with their Sci-Fi about where the mass murdering Debt Syndicate sprogs will be going in the future.

    We'll all be put to death, long before then.

    We buy the farn, and they fly off on our graves.

  • @ashtonmadhatter Because peoplewouldn't watch them.

  • 07:19 it plays the brown note. ewww definitely not something you want to do in a space suit

  • 2:04 I'd like to see them pour coffee in a moving spaceship.

  • @AuK0T1K Gravity still exists in space.

  • 0:22 Genetically Modified Organism GMO food

  • Why exactly is the Monolith giving out all these strange moaning sounds?

  • @TF2Fan101 I beleive it's called "music."

  • That Jupiter ship looks like its headed for Uranus.

  • @PDopey IS that a joke? If so *rim shot*

  • Frank running around the Discovery is so much like Danny riding his bigwheel around the Overlook. They're both going in circles, trapped in buildings that turn out to be conscious and hostile. Frank runs past hibernating astronauts about to be murdered, and Danny rides into axe murdered twins! They're both isolated and practically helpless. Frank, like Danny, is also the first to suspect danger. Truly, this is as much a horror film as The Shining!

  • I still don't get, though, how the Earth could be on the lunar horizon at 4:10, and it could be lunar dawn, and then at 7:10, the Earth and Sun are directly overhead! Since the Moon is tidally locked with Earth, the Earth's position in the sky should never change at all ...and dawn to noon on the Moon takes a whole week, not a few minutes! Is Kubrick just messing with our heads here, like the impossible maze in the Shining?

  • There's so many holes in the original story that I wouldn't even know where to start! :) Arthur C Clarke may be a scientist and a fine writer, but he's ignorant of many other things like economics, politics, and sheer common sense. In this case, digging a gigantic hole in the ground is a sure give away that the Americans are up to something - precisely the opposite of what the intent was, I'm sure!

  • @ogukuo72 have u seen this film? can u plz tell me what part is the part where the astronaunt being w/o a space suit

  • @ogukuo72 The digging was done before the Monolith was discovered; all they knew then was that there was a magnetic anomaly. Concern for secrecy hadn't been a concern then. It was only after they realized they had the product of an ancient alien intelligence that the Americans tried to keep a lid on their discovery. I don't see evidence of Clarke's ignorance about sheer common sense. He was ignorant about the nature of the Moon, but remember, this was in pre-Apollo days.

  • Dave is a baby ~

  • What is the name of that beautiful song that starts at 7:28? Does anybody know?

  • @Kazmarazin: Aram Khatchaturian, Gayaneh ballet suite, Adagio

  • @mkk707 Thank you...I appreciate it.

  • @Kazmarazin Gayane Ballet Suite(The music as it appears in the film):

    The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

  • this movie is scary, while i was watching half way in my fire alarm turned on and off for no reason

  • Imagine being splashed with hot coffee in 1/6 G. The pain, the pain.

  • the music when they arrived to the monolith is just fantastic and epic!!!

  • space monkeys !!!

  • @plmqas lol

  • music is great

  • wow whoever wrote up the subtitles sucks at it XD

  • man fuck this music!

  • 03:50 Do I hear fully grown bees? On the moon?

  • Nobody uses paper pictures anymore!

  • is there anyway to turn the subtitles off?

  • Interesting, an ancient monolith on the moon, and one just like it on Earth. How, and who?

  • @RIOT690 Who? I read the books these movies were based on, and I'm STILL confused as shit.

  • @shockraid1 actually, the books were being written at the same time the movie was being made. The author and the producer actually worked together to give eachother ideas.

  • this is the slowest moving movie i have ever seen.

  • @linkomega123 woh i was going to thumbs you up .. i cant

  • @linkomega123 i agree. it's like one long drawn-out sentence by some distant relative you were never interested in sitting next to in the first place. and the whole scene only livens up when the rebellious punk cousin (aka HAL) turns up.

  • 7:05: uh...

    7:14: SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-­

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  • @divine604

    I believe that that might be the alchemical symbol for 'mercury', symbolizing the evolution from man to 'super-man'. Salt, sulfur, mercury are the three 'chemicals' on the male line of the Pythagorean triangle of evolution.

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  • sweet ride

  • whats up with this eeirie music???! creep me out!!

  • Anyone know what became of the monolith back on Earth?

  • @MrStillmans read the book, i'd tell you but it would spoil the series

  • what's the name of the music that starts playing at the beginning of "the Jupiter mission?"

  • How can the Monolith make any noise in outer space? theres no air to carry the soundwaves?

  • @navylaks2

    Well the monolith is sending a radio signal towards Jupiter. That signal is been picked by the radio’s of the science team, who are inside their helmets

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  • i love this movie

    i just finished reading odyssey: 2061

    gonna go on to odyssey: 3001!!!

    If i could thumbs up it i would.

  • wtf is with the stupid music? seriously that music is shitty!

  • @Solja2010 Stupid youngsters, and all their "rap" you wipperschnappers.

  • @pgdarth95 lmfaooo get ur facts straight before puttin ur words out clown!

  • @Solja2010 Allright, kid lawl.

  • why did kubrick use such sad music when we see Discovery

  • What's odd is that when the monkey's were in need of water, the monolith provided knowledge. But when the astronauts arrive in all their abundance and technological superiority, the monolith kills them.

    It almost seems to be punishing them for their sins - of indifference, and apparently pride since the exact moment is when they decide to take the picture.

  • @highwind8124 it doesn't kill them as far as I know. I guess the frequency of the signal must be so loud in their helmets that it hurts a lot.

  • why do they keep showing the sun moving over the top of the monolith? illuminati symbolism? and why did they jump to the jupiter mission so suddenly? what was that noise that hurt the astronauts' ears?

  • The book explains this. The monolith is buried so no sunlight can hit it. The sunlight first hits the monolith when the astronauts arrive, thus triggering a reactivation of the monolith. The sound is a signal sent out by the monolith alerting its creators that the humans have "evolved" technologically enough to have reached the Moon. This is a milestone in our evolution. The signal goes to Jupiter, so we send a mission there to discover why. There, they discover another monolith...

  • @GlobalDating kubrick was very anti illuminati , i dont think he wanted THEM in his film

  • i dont remember this happening in 2001 tho

  • @TURBODORK2 because this was made in the late 1960's lol they were very enthusiastic i guess you could say

  • The music from 8:30 onwards reminds me of Aliens so much!

  • @Arangarta it's the same music - its music from a ballet by the russian composer khachaturian

  • Warning: Spacecraft controls not to be used by anyone suffering from epilepsy or easily annoyed by rapid beeping noises...

  • I love sandwiches.

  • @lockhughes... There is a gravitational force on the moon.  Just not as strong as earth. So you could actually pour the coffee.

  • Haha... pouring coffee in Zero G most amusing! :)

  • @lockhughes There is no such thing as Zero G.

  • LOL That singing scared my little pug, Desi. I'm not surprised. She has an aversion to opera, too.

  • were those monkeys on the moon 4 millions years ago?

  • @wavepsychic No offense, but no wonder you don't enjoy this movie.

    "It seems to have not been subject to other forces, like erosion. It seems to have been deliberately buried." This quote, from this portion of the movie, shows that the block was left by someone or something for humanity to find.

    The block is a symbol. It is found at every leap in human evolution. So far, it has been found at the discovery of the tool (the bones the monkeys used) and on the moon (man's first space voyage).

  • @TheBestInterest There is no erosion on the moon. This movie is lame.

  • @wavepsychic You're correct, the moon has no atmosphere, so it is not subject to the same type of erosion as Earth. However, you are wrong because the surface of the moon can and does change. Everything in space is subject to erosion, with or without an atmosphere. This is because of tiny particles flying at great speeds in all directions. So the moon does experience erosion, just not the type Earth does.

    Even if the moon had no erosion, it wouldn't void this entire movie.

  • Yup...from monkey to the moon in just 4 million years...uh, yeah...right.

  • @oldpreach I take it you don't believe in evolution? If not, why are you watching this? There are plenty of movies out there to suit your intellectual depth.

  • @TheBestInterest Good one, troll boy. I guess you think those that see the phony religion of evolution for what it really is, junk science based on wanting to make a name for oneself, are just lower than you. Think again. I know lots of folks with much knowledge of physics and astronomy that have actually looked deep enough into it to shake off the pride of not wanting to be wrong. Maybe someday, when you 'evolve' enough, you can too ! I suppose having a high IQ is just not good enough for you.

  • @oldpreach Don't you have some snakes that need handling somewhere?

  • @darkprose Ah, another lonely troll rises up out of the pond long enough to spit aside the drool and form a word or two. Did it ever occur to you that there are plenty of decent minded and smart folks that actually believe in and know God for themselves ? Oh, I know....you think you are somehow better or smarter than I am...sry, I forgot that you think that way. Forgive me for not knowing better !

  • Wait, wait, wait -- who's the troll here? Who is baiting people with creationist comments about 2001: A Space Odyssey, precisely? I just gave you like for like -- you, my creationist friend, are the troll. .

  • the sound is creeping me out.

  • A couple more curiosities in this scene: the hills on the lunar landscape look like they've been eroded by water. Seems crazy, but in Clarke's "The Sentinel" he had commented on oceans in the distant lunar past (and even fossilized sea life there!).

    Also, I wonder what the monolith is stuck into at the bottom of that pit. Surely, the researchers would want to dig it up completely, to study all sides of it.  But they left the bottom stuck in the ground. What's the deal?

  • @boriato They got struck with the monolith syndrome.

  • @BecuzIt The Hershey Bar From Space! Oh the chocolate horror!

  • the movie industry should definitely go back to the 60's and 70's when movie directors required true ingenuity to make convincing special effects, unlike today where computer graphics is a solution to everything.

  • didn't Cameron use some of this music in ALIENS? A tribute I guess...

  • Blooper alert: Earth is first shown near the lunar horizon, and it's supposed to be just before dawn. Then, when the monolith emits its signal, both Earth and sun are directly overhead. We went from dawn to high noon - a week on the moon - in a few minutes! And since the moon is tidally locked with Earth, Earth's position in the sky shouldn't change at all, but it did in this scene. What's the deal? I would have thought that Clarke for sure would have caught that astronomical blooper.

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  • Why do Americans always go on about coffee in films? Is it some kind of subliminal advertising?

    Still, I'm British and we always go on about Tea!

  • @neil73 Imagine you've made a top secret discovery on the moon, and it scares the pants off the authorities, and you're isolated from almost all the rest of humanity, and Floyd show up demanding security oaths and whatnot. You're pretty much running on caffeine after a few days. I'd make good use of an espresso bar at that point!

  • @boriato LOL! Definately include som proplus pills on that trip then!

  • @neil73 I think some of us Yanks are addicted to the stuff. I know I am.

  • everybody get together for a group photo!

  • 7:30

    Reminds me of the opening to spaceballs! LOL

  • "The thing seems to be deliberately buried",

    "Well, how about a little coffee?" ....lol

  • @thelongwayhome I laughed my ass off when I heard that line to. its like they discovered the most important item in human history...and they want coffee...

  • i wonder if those voices ever get tired after 4 million years

  • @assassinofdoom12345

    Hahaha that's the real question this film is exploring.

  • thanks for adding the plot. It makes it so much easier to understand what is going on.... in all 10 minutes of nothing...

  • @Cocytus127

    it must be some sort super technology that infulences your brain to think smarter and more intelligent and what not. It's basically an "Artificial Evolution Stimulator" In the movie it made human evolution possible.

  • I still wonder if they're hearing what we as an audience hear. The voices are supposed to be coming from the monolith so it would only make sense. I mean we know they hear the loud buzzing noise but maybe that's all they get from it?

  • The prop designers should have used something like pancake syrup or motor oil to simulate coffee in 1/6 earth gravity, just so we could watch it pour. Oh, well.

  • we are just fish in a fish bowl year after year

  • That's one small jog for (a) man, one giant hamster wheel for mankind. Quite a mind-bending gift for a six year old back in 73' when I saw it- still learning, Stanley, still discovering.

  • the non schalantness is so thick on the moonbus scene

  • hahahahah...you cant land on jupitor...

  • cool

  • I love the music

  • Philoseraptor says...

    9:30 Is he running up the circle, or down?

  • When you're not afraid to follow your vision as far as you can movies and other works of this caliber are possible. 

  • funny.. how you can see the stars from earth and not from the moon.. plus they r walking as if they r still in earth's gravity,, o well

  • @realguitarshredder thank you, people that like this film seem to find everysingle thing thats good about it but forget 100% of everthing thats retarded

  • SOOOO AMAZING!!!!!!!!

  • Thank you for posting this film. It certainly remains to be one of the most interesting films of its kind; a great film. Talk about being ahead of its times, since Stanley Kubrick was one of the most innovative of directors, and the soundtrack! Even to this day, it's still worth watching...

  • wait......... so since when were there apes on the moon

  • Interestingly, the crater (and the base) are named after Christopher Clavius (1538–1612), a German mathematician and astronomer. His Latinized surname is related to the word for key ('clavis'). In the context of the storyline and the importance of the discovery made at that base, therefore, it's a great choice of name.

  • The moonwalking is actually not that accurate..Oh what the heck, who cares?

    that´s just so sweet to my eyes.... even better than star wars, i have to admit.