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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
yippi..
im not alone
Nope, I LOVE 2001 have since I first saw it when I was seven.
It holds a higher place in my heart than even Star Wars, not too hard to believe with all of the new crap.
I loved the apes when I was a kid and I love them now. I found the Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Monolith scene to be very disturbing. HAL was awesome and scary and the Beyond The Infinite was always a trip (the ultimate trip).
I remember being jazzed to see the Starbaby poster for 2010 on a routine family shopping trip to Burwood in 1984. (Sequel's not that great but still okay. Outland and Capricorn One are Hyams' best work.)
Attempting to explain the last scenes of 2001 is fruitless as Clarke said that anyone who says thay understand what it means is wrong because neither he nor Kubrick were really sure. I believe that it means what it says it means and that Dave has entered the transfinite. But what do I know?
Having said all that I wouldn't be averse to the idea of a fan edit of 2001 where the plaid striped 1968 animations of Dave's hyperspace journey, aka the toilet break, were replaced with a multicoloured Julia set fractal animation.
Touch nothing else, change no music cues, update no models with inferior CGI but the Trip Beyond The Infinite.
But they'd still have to give us a branching DVD with the choice of plaid hyperspace or Julia set hyperspace.