Monster of the Day #2001

Updated on September 12, 2019 By Ken Begg 14 Comments

Perfect timing, as my friend Matt will be showing 2001 in the beautiful Pickwick theater next Wednesday night, on a mammoth screen and with Keir Dullea making a personal appearance.

Good work, Kubrick. It’s nearly 20 years after your film was set and we still don’t have a Howard Johnson’s on the moon.

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  • Gamera977

    Funny, as I was going to sleep last night I was thinking this would be the perfect MotD 2001. Only I was thinking HAL 9000 would be the perfect monster.

    BTW: If you ever find it ‘The Lost Worlds of 2001’ is a wonderful behind the scenes look at the development of the novel and movie. Before the idea of the Monolith an immortal alien named Clindar was supposed to come to Earth and teach the man-apes to use tools. Then he’d be the representative to meet David Bowman in the far future. The idea that he’d be quite a bit older than the entire human race is a little mind-blowing.

  • Kirk

    Looks like me trying to fix a Check Engine light.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Howard Johnson’s on the Moon? How did it get there?

  • Gamera977

    (Sigh) five billion years of evolution and nothing changes…

  • By rocket?

  • Rock Baker

    I tried to watch this once. I sat slack-jawed with boredom. I didn’t even make it to the killer computer stuff.

    Amusingly, one of these ape masks was later used, reportedly, as the menace of TROG. That one at least held my interest.

  • I can see that. I like the flick, I think it might be one of the best Science Fiction movies made, but it’s never been one I race out to see again.

  • Rock Baker

    The basic concept is certainly workable. I think the biggest problem might be the massive runtime. Trim it back to 80 or so minutes and I would have stuck around for the whole thing I’m sure.

  • The Rev.

    Howard Johnson. Caught in the wheels of progress.

  • Ken_Begg

    I take pride in the fact that this site’s demographic is “People who respond to 2001 A Space Odyssey with in-depth references to Beast of Yucca Flats.”

  • Gamera977

    It’s a brilliant film but yeah it moves like molasses in January in Minnesota..

    It was one of the first DVDs I picked up when I bought my first player. I still haven’t watched it again though. It’s still sitting there on the shelf in the original cellophane here 15-20 years later.

  • Mike Weller

    I find it a good film to run when I wanna take a nap. That, or the MST3K of GORGO. I can relax and shooze well, while quoting some of my fav. riffs…
    “They got into port, and everyone was O-kay, We went out for lunch and felt better!”

  • Eric Hinkle

    Looks to me more like a typical Internet discussion about either fandom or politics.

  • Marsden

    I understood that reference.