{"id":43,"date":"2002-01-17T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2002-01-17T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=43"},"modified":"2016-10-29T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T01:02:05","slug":"2001-a-space-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/2001-a-space-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"2001: A Space Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- 2002-01-17 10:27 --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin-right:2em;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/photos\/Video_Detail_2001_keyart.gif\" alt=\"2001 A Space Odyssey poster\"  \/> We made a special effort to see <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0062622\"> 2001 A Space Odyssey<\/a> at the Paramount Theatre last night. It is one of those movies that should be seen only on the big screen. We&#8217;ve seen it at the Paramount before, but this is a newly-restored 70mm print with six-track stereo sound.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nRoger Ebert heightened our interest in seeing <i>2001<\/i> again by publicizing the controversy over the rerelease. Unfortunately, his remarks have now vanished into the ether of the internet.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nTears rolled down my face in the opening scene as the heavenly bodies align to the now famous, and often-parodied, strains of &#8220;Thus Spoke Zarathustra&#8221;. The moment conjures a vision of the future from the past. It&#8217;s 30 years ago and I&#8217;m in junior high school and the year 2001 is so unimaginably in the future that I doubt that I&#8217;ll even live to see it. Now suddenly it is 2002 and the future has passed; the future is past.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nIf you have the opportunity to see this rereleased version in the theatre, do so. If you have never seen <i>2001 A Space Odyssey<\/i> before, understand going in that it is a very slow movie.  Nothing happens and when it does you don&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s going on anyway. Understand with your heart, not your mind. Approach the movie through the music and watch, amazed, the waltz of the universe.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nAnd now for something completely different, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiteyourface.com\/one\/\">Lego<\/a> parody.\n<\/p>\n<h5>Bottom Line: Must-see Classic.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music of the spheres.<\/p>\n<h4>Bottom Line: Must-see Classic.<\/h4>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/2001-a-space-odyssey\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}