Call number
DVD-DRAMA 371
Collection
Publication
Warner Home Video (2011), Edition: New Packaging ed.
Description
A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.
Subjects
User reviews
LibraryThing member t1bnotown
Possible spoiler alert:
Before I read this book in high school, I'd heard great things about it. The book didn't excite me- I'm more a fantasy person than sci-fi, and, though I guess he's asking all manner of deep and important questions (where did we come from, what will we evolve into, what
Before I read this book in high school, I'd heard great things about it. The book didn't excite me- I'm more a fantasy person than sci-fi, and, though I guess he's asking all manner of deep and important questions (where did we come from, what will we evolve into, what
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happens when artificial intelligence evolves, etc.?) I didn't connect to the story, so I didn't care. The movie I liked even less- all that classical music while he floats around- bleh! This one definitely didn't do it for me. Show Less
LibraryThing member comfypants
There are mysterious space rectangles, being all mysterious.
It's very flawed, but what's good is too good to say it's anything less than a great movie.
Concept: A
Story: D
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: D
Cinematography: A
Special effects/design: A
Acting: B
Music: A
Enjoyment: A
GPA: 3.1/4
It's very flawed, but what's good is too good to say it's anything less than a great movie.
Concept: A
Story: D
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: D
Cinematography: A
Special effects/design: A
Acting: B
Music: A
Enjoyment: A
GPA: 3.1/4
LibraryThing member wdjoyner
One of Stanley Kubrick's best.
Awards
Hugo Award (Nominee — Dramatic Presentation — 1969)
Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time (10 — 1992)
National Film Registry (1991)
UPC
088392918752