2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Black monoliths of unknown origin play a decisive but puzzling role in mankind's destiny. After one is discovered on the Moon, a manned mission is dispatched to Jupiter in search of other monoliths. Even though this movie is 40 years old, the scenes depicting activities in space and on the Moon are still pretty spectacular -- even though to our more experienced eyes they don't look "real." The whole series of events around the HAL-9000 computer on board the Jupiter mission is classic. My only complaints: The extreme length, at two and a half hours, of the movie; and its leisurely pacing. The light show near the end was a real head trip back in the '60s. The subtitles are adequate. Grade: A-
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