Film Discussion of the Week: 2001: A Space Odyssey

This dude was an amazing director. He also made the The Shining, and according to some, he was that good that he even worked with the government to film the first Moon landing scenes.



Which without falling for lame conspiracy theories it makes sense considering they wanted to film something so far away on a live stream in 1969 with a radiation belt in between.

Specially if they travelled over 237,000 miles on this I assume not very comfortable aluminum space ship:




That said, the 2001 Space Odyssey theme by Richard Strauss is freaking epic. You can hear it on footage of the Apollo missions, and I don't blame them.

If I just crossed areas of space as hot as 2,700 C degrees on a space ship made with materials that melt at 600 C degrees and still survived both ways, I would feel like a total champ and would love to wake up with such an epic music.



The only major conspiracy I would actually buy into more easily is the fakeness of the cold war. I mean c'mom, just to be sarcastic:

Remember all the Russians that died in the hands of our soldiers? None.

And remember how many third world countries political systems were affected with internal guerrilla wars and contras? All to end up with a brand new central bank in place.

Do you remember when Moscow and Washington D.C. were first bombed? It never happened.

Were Russia and USA arch enemies in WWII? Nope.

But do they both had Jewish privately owned central banks? Yup.

Playing which monkey gets to space first sounds like a clever entertainment between friends.

Hey I got nothing against Jews. I'm not Mel Gibson.

Hahaha I had never been able to listen to Alex Jones because his personality makes me feel like I'm watching brainwashing Fox News LOL! At least he doesn't sound as fake as the CNN people. But I heard that once in a while he says good stuff here and there.

Respect. Mel Gibson is an absolute piece of gutter trash and anyone who supports that bastard should be castrated while still alive, then beheaded and dumped in a landfill.

Regarding Kubrick, I think he was a jerk for how he treated his actors. I've heard from multiple sources that he often made them do hundreds of takes just for his own satisfaction. With The Shining it was so bad that Shelley Duvall became seriously ill from stress and her hair started falling out in clumps. I'm not about to praise someone who treats their crew that way.

What? I thought for a second there that we were on the same page about Mel Gibson?

I hate him because he has abused his rights as a human being on planet Earth. Namely, he has added 9 CHILDREN onto this planet, which in this day and age is absolutely unacceptable and is a crime against our planet. On top of that, he is a self proclaimed ultra conservative. What is especially troubling is that all of those 9 kids will probably grow up to be bigoted just like him and themselves will go on to have 9 kids of their own and deny global warming. He deserves all the scathing criticism he gets for playing dirty just to get his way.

No matter how much he apologizes (not that he ever would), there is no way he can undo the crime he has committed. When you have a kid, it's here to stay, and there's nothing that can be done. Americans live more unsustainably than do citizens of any other country, especially when they come from parents as wealthy as people like him.

Oh, and then there's the fact that he's a racist and anti-semitic and has been known to beat women on occasion.

Sorry for the double post, but just to say that I find it interesting how MeleeMonk 's post condemns Gibson in two paragraphs for having 9 children while it leaves the whole racism/antisemitism/women beatings to a "by the way, he also etc." short phrase at the very end of the comment.  It's the exact inverse of "arson, muder and jaywalking".