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Originally Posted by Mike
Heretical as it may sound, "2001" is well worth watching on a small screen because the ideas are brought much more clearly into focus. I find it quite hypnotically beautiful to watch myself but its also intellectually provocative. Ironically, when Arthur C. Clarke spelt it all out in the book I thought he managed to miss the point by becoming far too literal.
I'm not a particular fan of Kubrick but by god, the man knew how to make films.
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It's funny you should say that, but 2001 was one of the 3 films that cemented my early love of movies (the other two being Superman:The Movie & O Lucky Man!)...I first watched it when I was about 11, on my black & white portable, on BBC2 in proper letterbox widescreen!
Needless to say, I've been a movie fan, and an avowed Kubrick fan, since. I would go as far as to say that
A Clockwork Orange meets Mike's criteria of a perfect film. The pacing, consistency of tone, stunning McDowell performance, allied to cinematography/shot selection that is frame perfect, an exceptional soundtrack, well for me it's as close to perfection as I've yet seen. OK, I'd admit if pushed that Patrick Magee perhaps hams it just a little bit too much as the mad writer, but then again he is meant to be a metaphorical Ludwig Van Beethoven, so it is fitting (Beethoven some years later being brilliantly chanelled by Christopher Lloyd in his manic performance of the, quite possibly mad scientist Doc Brown in Back to the Future).
It's absolutely a must-see film. I still get a shiver of anticipation before viewing it for the upteenth time...
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