What was the last Movie you saw... Part III

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
Was that the first time you saw it?

[Charger]

This was a work of art visually and stylistically, however the story itself is weak and too vague.
I still like it and maybe I need to see it again to make sense of it's symbolism. 7.5/10

It deserves it's place in the classic movie category but I've always found it to be just bit too artsy fartsy for my liking. The symbolism is there but honestly I haven't gotten half of it either by watching it...

[Thelemech]

^^^^^^
Was that the first time you saw it?

Yes - first time as I just picked it up on Blu Ray.

[Thelemech]

This was a work of art visually and stylistically, however the story itself is weak and too vague.
I still like it and maybe I need to see it again to make sense of it's symbolism. 7.5/10

It deserves it's place in the classic movie category but I've always found it to be just bit too artsy fartsy for my liking. The symbolism is there but honestly I haven't gotten half of it either by watching it...

It is rather artsy, and I believe that it attempted to be as much a work of art as possible. I have studied symbolism but I am in the dark as to what the symbolism in this movie is all about.

For it's time it must have been groundbreaking as the special FX still maintain their quality all these years later.

[Typhon]

This was a work of art visually and stylistically, however the story itself is weak and too vague.
I still like it and maybe I need to see it again to make sense of it's symbolism. 7.5/10

It deserves it's place in the classic movie category but I've always found it to be just bit too artsy fartsy for my liking. The symbolism is there but honestly I haven't gotten half of it either by watching it...

It is rather artsy, and I believe that it attempted to be as much a work of art as possible. I have studied symbolism but I am in the dark as to what the symbolism in this movie is all about.

For it's time it must have been groundbreaking as the special FX still maintain their quality all these years later.

I have this film and have seen it 5 or 6 times, but not in the last 5 years.  It is number 19 on my Top 50.  It is indeed a work of art, and the special FX are the best I have ever seen with respect to the year it was released (1968). 

To properly discuss the symbolism and meaning of this film, I think, would require a thread just for that, which would be fine with me if others are interested.  IMO this film is a masterpiece and one of the reasons Kubrick is my favorite director.

[AnnoMundi]

This was a work of art visually and stylistically, however the story itself is weak and too vague.
I still like it and maybe I need to see it again to make sense of it's symbolism. 7.5/10

It deserves it's place in the classic movie category but I've always found it to be just bit too artsy fartsy for my liking. The symbolism is there but honestly I haven't gotten half of it either by watching it...

It is rather artsy, and I believe that it attempted to be as much a work of art as possible. I have studied symbolism but I am in the dark as to what the symbolism in this movie is all about.

For it's time it must have been groundbreaking as the special FX still maintain their quality all these years later.

I have this film and have seen it 5 or 6 times, but not in the last 5 years.  It is number 19 on my Top 50.  It is indeed a work of art, and the special FX are the best I have ever seen with respect to the year it was released (1968). 

To properly discuss the symbolism and meaning of this film, I think, would require a thread just for that, which would be fine with me if others are interested.  IMO this film is a masterpiece and one of the reasons Kubrick is my favorite director.

I watched this classic the other day, never really understood the movie, not even now.

I watched it back in February, glad you finally got to watch it Thel.

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
  So why the double quote?

[Zzzptm]

Absolutely 2001 is awesome. I love the whole thing, but my wife hates the first part with the ape-men. She's also not a fan of Gyorgy Ligeti, who did the music used at the end of the picture. I do like Ligeti, though, and consider him my favorite 12-tone composer.

[AnnoMundi]

^^^^^^
  So why the double quote?

I don’t know I get confused sometimes.

[AnnoMundi]

I never understood what those black slabs are suppose to be.

[Tyr66]

I never understood what those black slabs are suppose to be.

These black monoliths are, in my opinion, supposed to represent the Evolution, can be God himself or his Divinity, a sacred sense of Life ...
2001 is THE Masterpiece, so ahead of its time like no other flim was.

[Typhon]

For me, the black monoliths are a monitoring device used by an alien intelligence to search for other intelligent life in the universe.

[Tyr66]

For me, the black monoliths are a monitoring device used by an alien intelligence to search for other intelligent life in the universe.

good idea .
But they also influence behavior. The tribe of the monkeys threatened by the other tribe finally keeps their territory with the monkey who bravely touched the black object and acquired a form of intelligence by using a bone as a weapon. It is also an active accelerator of Evolution from the Bone intro to the Jupiter's confrontational situation with HAL 9000, one of the first personification of AI.

[Zzzptm]

^ That much comes out about the monoliths in the later books and the 2010 movie, which can't touch 2001 for its epic arc.

Interesting, though, how man has to kill the machine in order to enter into the monolith and elevate himself.

[Typhon]

For me, the black monoliths are a monitoring device used by an alien intelligence to search for other intelligent life in the universe.

good idea .
But they also influence behavior. The tribe of the monkeys threatened by the other tribe finally keeps their territory with the monkey who bravely touched the black object and acquired a form of intelligence by using a bone as a weapon. It is also an active accelerator of Evolution from the Bone intro to the Jupiter's confrontational situation with HAL 9000, one of the first personification of AI.

I would have to view the film again to confirm what I remember.  But it seemed to me that rather than have the monolith appear in the film too frequently, Kubrick merely allowed the viewer to see it was there when a significant advance was made by either man or beast.  This could be mistaken as the cause of the advancement.