{"id":49792,"date":"2015-03-09T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/movie-review-2001-a-space-odyssey-1968.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:26:23","slug":"movie-review-2001-a-space-odyssey-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/movie-review-2001-a-space-odyssey-1968.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 1 of "Let's watch some iconic SF movies from the 60s while +<\/span>Kay Hill<\/a><\/span> is studying that decade in high school history" Week. For which I owe my daughter a profound apology. If not for the scenes and memes that have become iconic, this movie would be unwatchable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nA ★½ review of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)<\/a><\/span>
\nRarely has such self-pretentious and over-indulgent twaddle ever risen to such culturally iconic nature. There’s about an hour of good movie in the 2-1\/2 hours of 2001. Unfortunately, it’s not just a matter of editing out vast tracts of visual FX, or chopping all the various space ship scenes in 1\/2 to 1\/3, but the entire movie is paced at a stately crawl, as if Kubrick insists on showing us how slowly things (and people (and action)) move in spa…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Part 1 of "Let's watch some iconic SF movies from the 60s while +Kay Hill is studying that decade in high school history" Week. For which I owe my daughter a profound apology. If not for the scenes and memes that have become iconic, this movie would be unwatchable. 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