Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Keir Dullea
as Dr. David Bowman
Gary Lockwood
as Dr. Frank Poole
William Sylvester
as Dr. Heywood Floyd
Douglas Rain
as HAL 9000 (voice)
Daniel Richter
as Moonwatcher
Leonard Rossiter
as Dr. Andrei Smyslov
Margaret Tyzack
as Elena
Robert Beatty
as Dr. Ralph Halvorsen
Sean Sullivan
as Dr. Roy Michaels
Frank W. Miller
as Mission Controller (voice)
markuspm
There are many great predictions hinting to future (it is from 1968 - can you believe it?) innovations throughout the movie. I might not have found all them because I keep falling asleep while watching it but I will keep trying to find them all....
izgzhen
I believe that we should call it a modernism show, albeit exhibited in the form of a movie. While it might feel "boring", it forces you to rethink what philosophical level that a two-hour film can achieve. The focus on questions about life, intelligence, and time, is worth more attention than the sc...
tmdb47633491
The eighth wonder of the world. Easily 30+ viewings since I was a little kid. Nothing new to say here; simply wanted to add another pair of hands to the ocean of applause for my absolute favorite thing, the only indisputably perfect movie, the answer to the question of Is Life Worth Living, Man's gr...
Per Gunnar Jonsson
I got this movie recently when it came out on Ultra HD Blu-ray simply because it was missing in my collection and, being a Sci-Fi fan, missing 2001 in my collection simply would not do. It is a movie that was made to rely almost entirely on the visuals. It could be said that it is a visual symphony ...
Wuchak
_**Inscrutable space science-fiction as cinematic art**_ The discovery of an ancient extraterrestrial monolith on the Moon leads to a mission to Jupiter, but the astronauts have unexpected complications with their vessel’s onboard computer, HAL 9000. William Sylvester plays an official of US Astr...