Cuba Gooding, Jr. On 2001: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

Cuba Gooding, Jr. shares his thoughts on the Sci-Fi classic 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY during an interview for AFI's 10 Top 10 in 2008.

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[Mcrlover2death]

Greatest movie ever made!

[GBillyboy]

Best movie ever

[TrailerParkUnicorn]

The first 5 minutes of that movie scare me so fucking bad, that movie was soooo fuckn revolutionary

[malows1234]

@myrtlebox no he doesn't, if things were left up to clarke, the movie would have ended when they found the monolith on the moon. and clarke's a good writer, but kubrick is given credit because he made a film that cannot exist as anything else. if you read the book, you would realize the difference in immersion, this of course has to do with kubrick's usual visual genius. kubricks 2001 the movie is the greatest movie ever because, it can't exist in any other medium, it is unique to movies.

[JayGatsbyOdysseus]

I have also heard that the then young theoretical physicist Michio Kaku worked on the film. I thought that this idea of singularity was a recent thought, but I guess even back then the idea of computers thinking on their own was with us.

[myrtlebox]

Kubrick gets boatloads of credit for 2001:ASO; and he deserves it. But let's acknowledge Arthur C. Clarke. If you liked the movie, you owe it to yourself to read the book. It answers many of the films open-ended questions (especially the final sequences).

2001 was a collaborative effort between the two. Clarke and Kubrick disagreed on many things. Kubrick did things his way for the movie and beat Clarke to publication. Clarke, however, deserves MORE than 50% credit for the thing - IMHO.

[MichaelLeroi]

@jamesmoose We can't know for sure, but that's the beauty of it. It's all about interpretation. which is why i wrote "to me the ending makes perfect sense" rather than just "the ending makes perfect sense" I haven't read any of the books but I've seen this film countless times and that is my interpretation of the ending. If your interpretation is different then cool, but i don't have a problem with the ambiguity of it :)

[jamesmoose]

Cohart, we cannot know Dave passes into the Stargate without reading the book, because Stanley neglected to put it in. We see the monolith revolving, then the camera tilts away from the monolith, then the stargate sequence begins. If, instead, the camera had've tracked in on the monolith and we had've heard Dave's final line (present in the book and referred to in 2010), "It's full of stars," the ending would've felt connected to the rest of the movie. I think Kubrick made a pivotal error.

[M0VIES4U2]

@MichaelLeroi Oh, sorry dude! It's really hard to understand sarcasm over the internet.

[MichaelLeroi]

@M0VIES4U2 it's what we call humour. I do love space odyssey BUT i was making fun of the fans and "reacting" to you being worried about "getting a bunch of crap" ..... I'm having a hard time believing you thought I was serious!

[M0VIES4U2]

@MichaelLeroi WHAT?! What does this movie have ANYTHING to do with the Holocaust?! This is just another perfect example of Kubrick letting his fans do all the work for him.

[MichaelLeroi]

@Cohart777 to me the ending makes perfect sense. HE passes through the stargate via the monolith and is placed in a constructed habitat by the aliens that are going to make him evolve. (basically they stick him somewhere they think he'd be comfortable, like we do with animals in the zoo) and they give him the same gift they gave the apes. A higher state of being.