CLASSIC SUNDAYS: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) Director: Stanley Kubrick Rating: 10 Welcome to Classic Sundays, today we'll celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of Stanley Kubrick's masterpieces, based upon the short story "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke, I present you: 2001: A Space Odyssey. What's the movie about? Well, it's a tricky thing to explain it but basically this film shows how a mysterious monolith unleashes a series of events that affects mankind from the dawn of man until the far future where humanity has mastered interstellar travel. This film is consideres as one of the most influential and most revered science fiction films of all time, if you check out on movies like Star Wars, Alien, and most recently Gravity and Interstellar you'll see the influence of 2001, which 50 years later still looks amazing. However it wasn't acclaimed as it was today when it released on April 1968. Critics and audiences were divided, some loved it fo...
