10 August 2025

Video of the day -- science fiction as art


No explosions, no quasi-supernatural nonsense, no superheroes with silly powers -- just the perhaps paradoxical combination of realism and beauty.  I doubt this could even be made today, at least not in the same way.  Well worth fullscreen.

5 Comments:

Blogger Marc McKenzie said...

You could call 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY the first science fiction "art film". That docking sequence is almost like a ballet, and the film is filled with amazing space sequences like that.

Sadly, Douglas Trumbull, who was the guiding hand behind many of 2001's visual effects, passed away a couple of years ago after a long and distinguished career.

I would say that the closest a modern film has come to this would be Nolan's INTERSTELLAR, but that is just my personal opinion.

10 August, 2025 09:22  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One of the most magnificent film achievements of our lifetime. Kubrick was a creative genius and took us to a future world like nothing anyone had ever seen. I was 15 years old and loved the film so much I went back and took friends and saw it in first run at least 10 times. It is one of the reasons I went to NYU film school and had a career in film and television. Thank you Stanley

10 August, 2025 12:20  
Blogger Mary Kirkland said...

That is such a good movie.

10 August, 2025 14:51  
Blogger SickoRicko said...

That was a fabulous movie. Thanks for the memories.

11 August, 2025 11:34  
Blogger Infidel753 said...

I remember 2001 startled people when it came out. It made its space settings look real, and magnificent. A lot of SF has gotten almost cartoony since then. I think its use of music also contributed a lot.

11 August, 2025 18:18  

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