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Jumping on the Space 1999 bandwagon. Yeah, I remember when it came on TV but at the time I never saw more than one or two episodes and thought I was missing something. I found it on streaming TV a few months ago and tried to watch it but it just sucked royal swampwater after the first couple of episodes. So, disappointed. The two principle actors should have stayed with Mission Impossible.
Not possible...or should I say "impossible"? While Landau and Bain did leave after the third season (around 1969), the series itself wrapped up in 1973. So even if they stayed until the end, they would have been "available" no matter what by the time Anderson started working on 1999.
It's interesting how many people have independently suggested some sort of malfunctioning "hyperdrive", "jump drive", what have you, as an alternative tp a nuclear waste dump simply going "BOOM!", myself included. My angle was that they encountered alien tech (a bit of a nod to 2001) and their interference caused the issue. But testing the Meta probe system also makes sense, amybe a supposed improvement upon the "Queller" drive that was the basis of one episode.
There are a few good episodes in the first season, but the entire second season was pretty awful. I think the overwhelming consensus is that the episode Dragon's Domain is the undisputed highlight of the series, and, ironically, it was also one of the handful that didn't focus on the main cast.
Stingray was basically a remake of the previous Anderson series, Fireball XL5, except set under the ocean instead of outer space. Stingray was also the very first TV show filmed in the U.K. to be shot in color, which is kinda crazy.
"Dragon's Domain" outright scared me the first time I saw it at the age of <mumble>! Definitely one of the best episodes.
Oh yeah, the mood and sense of dread in that episode was rivetting, and the creature was both terrifying and amazing... Which is probably why the Space 1999's head special effects guys ended up working on a little film called Alien a few years later, and won an Academy Award for it.
Just checked, it was released in 1968. We know what was going on in 1968 so I'm sure there were some great visual enhancements and a distortion of time going on for most viewers lol! Probably a "long strange trip!"
Yup. UFO was a neat show! I've binge watched it twice recently. Sure, some of the 'sixties sensibilities' are on full display, but overall the show still manages to mostly hold up. They did have women in command positions at least, albiet in miniskirts some of the time! Yep, 60's Sci Fi and miniskirts...
Space:1999 is one of those shows that I like the model work and such, and agree/have expressed the sentiment before that the 'Moon jumping from solar system to solar system' premise needs to be developed a lot better. My thought is that an ancient wormhole generating device of alien origin is buried in the moon, and thanks to the 'nuclear accident' now has an unintentional new power source and fires off every so often... but as for the plot lines, etc. of that show, yeah a lot of them just make me groan inside. Also, the Eagles aren't really obeying Newtonian physics, but technically neither did the lunar interceptors in UFO... Space:1999 did have it's moments though!
I think that either show is reboot-worthy, though! I'd like to see the Space:1999 plots (Space:2039 now?) a bit more 'grounded'. That show had a lot of potential, but it was a product the 70's, soooo...
And yeah, 'slower, more ponderous pacing' was something we used to see a lot more of back in the day. As someone else pointed out, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, also Solaris, Silent Running... numerous other examples. Some movies still do this to some degree, but for the most part don't really connect with a good portion of today's audiences.
But yeah, 2001 is one of those movies where there's a lot of 'theorizing' going on in the background from the fan base, and of course some of it is detailed in the book. One thing I remember from the 2010 book is that the Monoliths are multi-dimensional objects, with the 'square' progression continuing into the higher dimensions (1 x 4 x 9 x 16 x 25...). Ars did a write up of the 70mm re-release a couple of years back:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/07/2001-in-70mm-luxuriate-in-variously-evolved-humans-going-places-eating-things/
I still remember when 70mm was a thing, and made it a point to see all three of the original Star Wars movies at my local 70mm theater. It closed a few years later, and was eventually bulldozed/replaced by apartments. These days, IMAX sorta kinda fills that void, but yeah fond memories of the huge screen, the killer sound system. I remember going to another 70mm theater to see the original Battlestar Galactica on the big screen in Sensurround... you could hear the engines rumbling while standing in line OUTSIDE the theater, at least where I went to see it. As I remember, Sensurround movies even had health warnings for the faint of heart posted!
Of course, in the era of COVID, well hopefully you've invested in a decent home theater system if you are still a fan of going to the movies. It's a poor 'second' to say Imax, but it's something at least!
Just a note, someone mentioned people and their phones in relation to long movies on page one. When 2001 was released, phones were at home, plugged into a wall and we could leave our homes, go to the movies and escape from the real world into worlds beyond our current capabilities or into our dreams. You could also go to a resturant and people actually sat, ate, looked at their companions, and had conversations with them over a meal.
I love Sci-Fi movies. But this one, I can't remember ever seeing it, or if I started to, if I finished it. But Star Wars, that has meaning to me and my son. The first three episodes that were released at least.
In Los Angeles in the 1950s/60s, they filled air time with old movies from the 30s/40s and I loved them. On Saturdays, the local cinema had $.25 movies for kids with The Three Stooges, Buster Keaton, Lucielle Ball, Roy Rogers, ... We would load up on $.01 and $.05 candy and sit for hours watching them.
That point about the old movies is right on. I think one of the reasons my generation watched old movies and even listened to "old people music" at all is that there wasn't enough new stuff to watch and listen to. If you wanted to watch The Beatles on TV, like it or not, you got stuck watching everything else on Ed Sullivan, too.
That's not the case now. Today, we can all live in our bubbles.
And I'm all for it, because it's not like I would ever hear Gorod on the radio.
I'm lost. If this image is from 2001, Why is it being used as a daz promo? They programmed in fortran! CGI was more sci fi than the movie.
Also, sorry, I tried to wach it once but I was board.I only know it has a AI named Hal. I think the guy was alone and the score was great.
The model is a direct knock-off of an Eva vehicle from the film 2001 (top 100 for the Library of Congress and National Film Registry). Its iconic status makes it a easy target for the owner of the intellectual property (Disney) to sue.
Not Disney, that's Star Wars. 2001 was produced by MGM, whose assets, through a long series of mergers, buyouts and acquisitions, are now controlled by the AT&T/Time Warner/HBO Borg conglomerate entity.
Well, some of the acting was (intentionally) a bit wooden.
You are right!
I do have to say, I find it a bit depressing to hear the comments about "old" films here... it reminds me of my ex's kid brothers, who literally refused to watch anything in black and white, and thus missed out on so many great films and early TV series. Fortunately, in the real world, the enhanced access that the internet now provides has brought as ressurgeance of interest in classic films and actors, and it's great to see that Buster Keaton's star is very much on the rise again as people realize how much of not just modern comedy but modern action films are just new directors, actors, and stuntmen endlessly reshuffling the same elements from the bag of tricks that Buster developed.
I've never seen a Buster Keaton film. I don't know anything about him, though I've heard the name mentioned in a couple of different movies. Do you have any recommendations for someone to watch if they've never seen his work?
Argh!!!
Everyone says this, of course, but the books are far better than the series, and the audiobooks narrated by Jefferson Mays are exceptionally well done. Highly, highly recommended.
Having said that, I've seen a couple of marketplace items based on the interior of the 'Discovery'. What's the copyright position on them?
Here's one of them: https://www.daz3d.com/sci-fi-spaceship-centrifuge
Ha, yes. Also this space station Corridor. https://www.daz3d.com/retro-sci-fi-corridor
(Not the Discovery, but the hotel in the transfer station between Earth and the Moon.)
There are plenty of things in the store that I like, which clearly come from movie sources (and not just 2001).
I love old Alfred Hitchcock films. "The 39 Steps", "The Lady Vanishes", "Jamaica Inn", ...
I'm a Scroogeophile and obsessively watch as many versions of the 'A Christmas Carol" as I run across during the season. My hero, the pre-ghost Scrooge. My favorite version is the Reginold Owen 1938 version. Of course in b&w.
And I remember the '50s. The world really was black & white back then. The sun didn't emit colors until the late '50s.
Back when the Earth was flat.
Back before the ocean water falling off the edge reduced the pressure holding the world flat, and let the corners curl up into a ball.
Thank you, @Sevrin ! :D
That is a Classic.
OK, so now I know more that I wanted to about the movie but not why the promo for Daz Studio features a model from ShareCG in a prominent position
They often pick cool looking images from the Galleries for the header images. They don't have to feature only Daz3D content to be chosen for that, I believe.
I'm watching this now. It's pretty cute and funny! "If you lose this war don't blame me." LOL
The pacing seems a tad "slow" for my taste (like the dialogue and stuff says on the screen a bit too long, etc) so I'm watching it at 1.5 speed. lol Just seems to be a bit more exciting and the pacing is better slightly sped up, imo. It's a fun movie, I'm enjoying it (I had to pause it to let you know - since I'm forgetful and would probably forget to later). Thank you for the link! *sneaks off to finish watching it*
If you've seen any Jackie Chan movies, you've seen a ton of references and homages to Buster Keaton, with Chan really being the only person to rival Buster in terms of both sheer crazy, truly death defying stunt work and spot on comic timing. Buster didn't believe in faking stuff for the camera - if he couldn't do it himself, he didn't do it, and the guy was completely fearless. Here's a great interview coupled with some stunt highlights in which an older Buster explains where his name came from, as it wasn't used as a person's name before Keaton, and orignally meant a really spectacular fall or a someone who tamed wild animals by riding them. The name was handed to Buster by no less than Houdini after the legendary magician witnessed the then six month (yes, month,) old Keaton fall down an entire flight of stairs only to get up and shake it off without even crying.
So was the TARDIS.