“Soon they are seated. The house lights dim… the curtains part and with a fanfare of thrilling music the gigantic wide screen comes to life…”
I don’t recall a fanfare at the start of the film. I thought it was that weird, avant-garde wordless music sung by a dissonant chorus in an echo chamber over a black screen, with a sound that resembles wind blowing through crevices in a cave.
John Hardy Turnbull delenda est, oh yes. I first saw the film in a really big London cinema with a gigantic screen in 1972. Watching the opening scene still gives me goosebumps even after all this years.
Also the whole film contains no Hollywood invented bad movie physics like e.g. sound in the vacuum of space.
Yes it’s pretty good that way. Kubrick had a lot of input from NASA and elsewhere. There’s the scene where Dave passes through the vacuum of space without a helmet that I still have my doubts about though.
John Hardy Turnbull delenda est, according to space flight physicians and physicists it’s possible to survive up to approx. 30 seconds without a helmet. So the passage from the pod to the air lock chamber is possible.
John Hardy Turnbull delenda est I could have sworn the Also Sprach Zarathustra part was after the windy-sounding music. It has been too long since I watched it from start to finish.
Also, the scene where Dave goes back into the ship through the emergency airlock is perfectly realistic. If you exhale before being exposed to vacuum you can prevent your lungs from bursting. You then have about 15 seconds of consciousness before the oxygen in your blood is used up. Exposed skin will suffer frostbite, sweat, tears, and saliva will evaporate leaving you dry, and you’ll suffer from the bends and be unable to move for a while if you do get back into normal atmospheric conditions, but these things all happen slowly.
Plus, Dave only lacked his helmet, so the rest of him would have been pretty well protected. He still would probably have been temporarily blinded and suffering from the bends for a good while though.
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how soon were you bored with the movie? after 10 minutes? 5 minutes? 2 minutes? haw!
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The movie never bored me. I watch it again at least once a year.
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Geo. Tirebiter hard to see it as a holiday movie for kids but there you have it.
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“Soon they are seated. The house lights dim… the curtains part and with a fanfare of thrilling music the gigantic wide screen comes to life…”
I don’t recall a fanfare at the start of the film. I thought it was that weird, avant-garde wordless music sung by a dissonant chorus in an echo chamber over a black screen, with a sound that resembles wind blowing through crevices in a cave.
Now I want to watch it again.
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“Just as the repairman is about to re-enter the spaceship he slips and floats away!”
I guess they didn’t want to tell the children that he was actually murdered by a robot piloted by an artificial intelligence that had gone mad.
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Ramin Honary you’re forgetting the famous opening with Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra youtube.com – Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 – Strauss
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John Hardy Turnbull delenda est, oh yes. I first saw the film in a really big London cinema with a gigantic screen in 1972. Watching the opening scene still gives me goosebumps even after all this years.
Also the whole film contains no Hollywood invented bad movie physics like e.g. sound in the vacuum of space.
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Yes it’s pretty good that way. Kubrick had a lot of input from NASA and elsewhere. There’s the scene where Dave passes through the vacuum of space without a helmet that I still have my doubts about though.
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John Hardy Turnbull delenda est, according to space flight physicians and physicists it’s possible to survive up to approx. 30 seconds without a helmet. So the passage from the pod to the air lock chamber is possible.
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John Hardy Turnbull delenda est I could have sworn the Also Sprach Zarathustra part was after the windy-sounding music. It has been too long since I watched it from start to finish.
Also, the scene where Dave goes back into the ship through the emergency airlock is perfectly realistic. If you exhale before being exposed to vacuum you can prevent your lungs from bursting. You then have about 15 seconds of consciousness before the oxygen in your blood is used up. Exposed skin will suffer frostbite, sweat, tears, and saliva will evaporate leaving you dry, and you’ll suffer from the bends and be unable to move for a while if you do get back into normal atmospheric conditions, but these things all happen slowly.
Plus, Dave only lacked his helmet, so the rest of him would have been pretty well protected. He still would probably have been temporarily blinded and suffering from the bends for a good while though.
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Yes about the sound track. I forgot that bit.
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