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2001: A Space Odyssey
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New School Classics- 1915-2005
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What Members Thought

RJ - Slayer of Trolls
Like many, I picked this one up after I watched the movie and wanted to know what the @#$% happened at the end. The book didn't help much - of course I found out later that Stanley Kubrick withheld a lot of information from ACC and also gave him some misdirection, so it might be best to look at the movie and the book as related entities but not the same. (And if you want to see some cool film analysis stuff on 2001 and other Kubrick films, check out Rob Ager/Collative Learning channels on YouTub ...more
Carrie
My rating is more like a 3.76


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Mar 03, 2008 rated it it was amazing
From ImdB:
After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer HAL 9000.
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