2001: A Space Odyssey was very boring to watch in 2020, but when it came out in 1968 it was way ahead of its time. Renowned writers have estimated it took about 2400 hours to write the script for the movie which I find hard to believe because there was barley any conversation in the movie. The impressive aspect of the film was the centrifuge that was used to film the gravity effects for the movie. One scene that really showed this off was when one of the astronauts was exercising in the space station to make it look like he was feeling the gravity and staying on the walls of the ship all they did was rotate the set around on the centrifuge which is obvious to us today but revolutionary at the time and for sci-fi movies to come. We see this idea copied in films like inception but since technology has advanced so much for example CGI the movie seem very outdated. Since the movie was filmed using motion control cameras and props they were limited on the speed of scenes and therefore the movie went by very slow. For example a portal landing back on the ship took like 2 minutes in real time should only take 10 seconds tops to keep the audience entertained today. Although they were using very primitive filming technology it was the best at the time and they wanted to show off how ahead of its time the production quality for the movie really was. While the movie is not impressive by todays standards it is amazing to look back and see how fast technology is evolving and complex film is becoming.
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