Underman's "30 YEARS
ON" GUESTBOOK ARCHIVE #1
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Date: Thursday April 30, 1998
22:40:20
Name:
Bill Strausbaugh
Comments: This is an excellent web site for a
devoted fan such as myself of 2001 and of the saga and the 2 films. Whoever, I'm dissapointed that you don't
have biographies of the cast of 2001. I'm espcially interested in learning more about Douglas Rain (whom I
have
always wondered what he looks like) and William Sylvester. Including a small biography of the cast along with
a picture of each one would be most helpful.
Your wish is my command, Bill! Underman
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Date: Wednesday April 29, 1998
14:45:16
Name: Kelli
Comments: 2001
RULEZ!
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Date: Wednesday April 29, 1998
07:36:04
Name: Joacim Melin
Comments: Thanks for a great site!
Sience I was born in 1974, I wasn't even near to catch 2001 when it was released.
In fact, I only finished watching the movie on my fifth attemt (the first one was at the age of 11, but I fell
asleep
durin the "Dawn of man"-part.:- ) )
Older, and perhaps a little bit more wiser, I've been watching both 2001 and 2010 and I find them fascinating
and
a bit scary.
If someone can explain the ending of 2001, I'd be happy to listen. I haven't read the book, yet, and perhaps I
will
understand more if I do. :-)
Anyways, I hope that Kubrick will do AI, and I hope that 2001 will be re-released to the cinemas again.
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Date: Saturday April 18, 1998
04:20:22
Name: Scot Cannon
Comments: 2001
was
a breakthrough film that really
impressed me that life was about to change. I saw
it at the West Anchorage High School auditorium,
through the film club there, in about 69.
In about the 1970 I saw part of a movie in a theatre, the movie was
"2000". I saw about the last 15 minutes of it and this was how it
ended. A guy shot a gaurd and gained access to a base. He was going
thru a room when a vengeful tornado thing got him and swirled him up to
the ceiling where he was suffocated I take it. Then in the next scene
scientist have someone's brain connected and they are viewing the
memories. One scientist announces that now they know that they have to
nuke the base,(to keep a dread disease from spreading?), then in the
next breath he remembers that they had the body frozen for so many hours
so that they are still alright. A military guy goes off saying
"Scientists" disgustedly, and that is about the end of the show. I
spent a lot of years waiting for it to come on tv but it never did. For
the last few months I have been looking for it and can't find any
mention of it anywhere. However a few years ago in a library I did see
a book that had it mentioned and a picture from it. I thought the
library was in Longview, Wa. but I have gone there twice, (the book
might have been checked out), and I can not find it. I have E-mailed
authors like Phil Hardy and John Clute and asked them why they did not
list the movie in their so called comprehensive encyclopedias. However
they have not answered me. I do know one other individual that has seen
Since it might of impressed you that the movie
"2000" had a similar name to "2001, A Space Oddes-
sey, I thought I would ask do you have any memory of it
and if so would you e-mail me at sc_cannon@mailexcite.com
Thanks
the movie so believe me it's not in my head.
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Date: Tuesday April 14, 1998
10:28:02
Name: Jamie Matthews
Comments: I was 10 years old in 1968. My
family
and I were
visiting Melbourne from the States while my dad
was on assignment. I remember a popular song's
refrain: "Sidney's girls are 'way out front, but
we've got stronger beer, beer, beer, beer." I saw
2001 three times while there (there wasn't alot
for a 10-year-old Yank to do, as I recall). I was
already at a time in my young life when I was
beginning to notice ways in which life was changing
inexorably; I could see dimly how I was even then
leaving familiar childhood behind and stepping
fearfully toward the future. I couldn't have been
more receptive. 2001 flipped a big switch, and I
was a different person. I didn't need any
explanations about monoliths or why the old guy
couldn't see his younger self breathing heavily in
the space suit. There was mystery, and I was
content for probably the first time in my life not
to have it explained.
Every time I watch it I feel the echoes of that
first ignition. To me, on an extremely personal
level, 2001 is still the best movie ever made.
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Date: Thursday April 09, 1998 06:40:25
Name: Frank Tobey
Comments: I have seen the movie over 300 times
since
1968. Ditto for reading the book. I am
amazed at how many TV commercials rip off the
movie. But I am really disappointed in the
sequals - especially 3001.
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Date: Sunday April 05, 1998
17:06:52
Name: chuck harrison
Comments: I've got a memory of 2001. I remember it to this
day. I
first saw it when I was 8 or 9yrs old at the old Joy Theatre. What I remember was that some scenes scared but
others like the Pam Space Clipper left me in wonder. Anytime it's repeated on tnt I catch it. I have a question is
2001 going to be rereleased this year to commerate it's 30 anniversary? Chuck Harrison. Vicksburg MS
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Date: Friday April 03, 1998 01:27:50
Name: Cara
Comments: I'm glad to see I'm not the only "young" person
(I'm 15) who's actually seen- and loved- these
two movies.
I first saw 2001: A Space Odyssey last year at the
Orpheum at Cremorne, Sydney (love the section on
it!) and since then I've seen it two more times,
once again on the big screen and once on video. I
love it. The "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite"
section is my favourite- the music, the
technicolour images, the alien landscapes are
mesmerising- along with the disconnection of Hal
(who I *love*) scene ("my mind is going... I can
feel it... I can feel it..." So sad!). It's
interesting that Hal looks upon the cutting of his
higher memory functions as death.
Solaris I saw a couple of weeks ago, in Russian
with English subtitles. It has *amazing*
cinematography- the opening shot of the bright
green reeds waving in the water, the changes from
colour into black and white (and blue and white,
and brown and white)... and wonderful music.
I love films that make you *think* (and have great
characters)and at the moment 2001 ties with
Lawrence of Arabia as my favourite film ever.
Great page, definately the best 2001/Solaris
resource on the net. Thanx for all the Hal stuff
=)
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Date: Tuesday March 17, 1998 19:51:02
Name:
Rod Macrae
Comments: I just watched "Solaris" again, on
video, in
Russian, with Japanese subtitles. I had forgotten
just how wonderful it is. With its "hard SF"
elements I had somehow deluded myself into
thinking it inferior to the more spiritual, say,
"Nostalgia", but it's not. I think your page is
an extremely fitting tribute to a great work by
the great late master, and I absolutely agree
with your comment that there are scenes which
you remember years later with no doubt as to
which film they came from.
Curiously, I can't exactly remember the first
time I saw "Solaris" (the first Tarkovsky film
I remember seeing is "Mirror", which hooked me),
but I saw "2001" at round about age 16, in 1980
or so. I had high expectations, and came out of
the cinema impressed, stirred, excited, but just
a little disappointed. Outside, though, it was
winter, February, at 58 degrees North, and the
aurora borealis hung above like a bright shifting
curtain of red and green luminescence. I have
never seen such an impressive aurora since.
Rod Macrae (Tokyo, Japan)
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Date: Sunday March 15, 1998 14:44:19
Name: Beck
Comments: I just want to congradulate you on your
wonderful and extreamly informative page :) I loved all of it, especialy your viewpoints about Hal. I had never
realised some things about him but I now understand alot more than I thought. He is defanently the best
character in the movies and books.
BTW, your page inspired me to read the books, I suggest reading the books before watching the movies, 2001
is
confusing but if you read it, it makes alot more sense :)
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Date: Saturday March 14, 1998
07:31:47
Name:
Luca De Berardinis
Comments: It's fantastic!!
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Date: Sunday March 08, 1998 13:16:12
Name: cOoL
Comments: Okay, what you guys need is some SOUND BITES
FROM THE MOVIE! That would be great. Cause lots of people enjoyed the occasional funny line in the
movie
and we want some record! So yo, give us some SOUNDS!
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Date: Saturday February 21, 1998
21:37:55
Name:
Alan Teare
Comments: Great page(s). I have enjoyed the many
viewpoints. My latest viewing of the film made me aware of the use of the "birthday sequence" as a method to
foreshadow the development to come. Hayward/daughter on the way to TMA1 and Frank/parents on the way to
Jupiter. The birthday motif is used twice in the film and so I must take this as a signal of a birth/milestone of
development. I tried looking for a similar clue in the DAWN OF MAN sequence, but I'm not sure if the close
up
of the baby (chimpanzee) in its mother's arms isn't stretching it a bit. On the other hand if the baby is an
acceptable reference, then what you have are three parent/child sequences celebrating milestones that
foreshadow the three milestones (or literally the monoliths) being reached by the tribe/civilization. I tried to
read
through most of your site and hadn't seen any comment on this as yet, so I though I would offer my humble
opinion.
On the lighter side, I'm sure many people have heard by now the future of technology being a man in a room
with a computer and a dog. The computer runs everything, the man is there to look after the computer and the
dog is there to make sure the man doesn't touch the computer. Evidently HAL thought he could go it alone.
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Date: Thursday February 19, 1998
16:08:45
Name: B. Sue Tate
Comments: This is a great
site!
I am preparing a very small
web site (only 5 pages) for a college assignment.
I am suppose to choose at least 5 outside web sites
to provide links to. If you wouldn't mind, I would
very much like to give your site as my first link.
Besides the great graphics that are interesting
without being overwhelming, I really like the way
you have organized the site. I especially like the
forecasting statements that you provide near the
top of each page. Just curious, are you a tech-
nical writer? If not, have you taken technical
writing classes. Your text and planning would
indicate an affirmative answer to one or both.
Again, great job! I would give you the address
for my site when I finish it, but it will live
only on my harddrive and on the disk my professor
receives.
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Date: Sunday February 15, 1998
11:14:00
Name: Jared Longlands
Comments:
This is a real neat page. It's been a good while since I've seen 2001, maybe about a year now because someone
in
my house taped over it but joy of joys, it's on TNT tommorrow and I can't wait!
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Date: Monday February 09, 1998
09:43:30
Name: gilles/ortmans
Comments: Terrific
job.
really,really great web-site.
THANKS.
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Date: Thursday February 05, 1998
03:09:46
Name: Elias Nohra
Comments: Great site.
Your essays are great and have
provoked much thought about my favourite film.
Nohra
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Date: Wednesday January 28, 1998
22:46:17
Name: john kyrus
Comments: I know you get a
lot
of mail to read through but i just would like to say that your webpage and comments has really opened my eyes
to this wonderful movie. The oldies will probably never be matched by todays directors... I just recently saw
this movie for the first time at the age of 18. I taped it off of the television... When i finished it i was baffled..
i
thougth i missed a scene (a very important scene) that would have brought everything together and made scense
of it all. So.. i watched it again and again and never found that lost scene. It is then when i realized that it is
supposed to end leaving you with that feeling. the less you know the better. The more you dream about
infinite
meanings and possablities. Your page is proof to the fact that there are so many meanings that can be extracted
by one movie seen by millions of people. Todays movies summ everything up in the final ten minutes so the
audience can go home feeling absolutely nothing. 2001 leaves you wanting more and thinking of possabilities,
just like The Empire strikes back... but just on a deeper scale. I guess that's really all i have to say i know it's a
lot
and badly put and spelled but i hope people get the drift. It was a faboulously shot movie the music and the
long scenes of nothing are meant to make us think of the possablities...imagine the possabilites .......
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Date: Friday January 2, 1998 12:15:53
Name:
Lorie Johnson
Comments: Congratulations on your new
look!
This site has been consistently great in its 2 years online, and as the 30th anniversary arrives, it can take its
place
as the top '2001' site on the Web. It is amazing that after so long, so many fresh things can be said about this
wonderful, groundbreaking classic film. For a project managed by a single person, this site is better than many
commercial ones. Keep up the excellent work, Underman!
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Date: Monday December 29, 1997
17:02:58
Name: Monte Kremin
Comments: One of
my favorite movies of all time.
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Date: Saturday December 27, 1997
00:01:27
Name: Jaie Saavedra Farias
Comments:
Nice site, but there's an error in the trivia page.
The last words spoken by Dave as a human were "My God, it's full of stars!" and not "Sing it for me,
Hal".
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Date: Wednesday December 24, 1997
09:40:21
Name:
Jeffrey Keith Pritchett
Comments: I saw 2001 in 1969. As an
11
year boy, I didn't quite "get it" when I first saw the film. Not until 15 years later while watching the rented
video
did I have a realization. In my opinion you must first experience life in many forms, in other words, you must
grow up first before you understand the meaning of Kubrick's masterpiece. A true landmark in the film
industry.
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Date: Tuesday December 16, 1997
14:03:39
Name: Peter Maclean
Comments: A
continuing
enigma
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Date: Monday December 08, 1997
20:02:58
Name: Mike Roberts
Comments: 2001 is a one of the best
epics
every brought to
the screen. I am 16 years old and love great movie
that have really big scopes like 2001, Spartacus,
Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and many other
great motion pictures. I hope Stanley Kubrick makes
another great motion picture like 2001 before his
days are over. That as if he is still alive. That
D.J. Scammell thought 2010 stinks I have to agree
with him. Star Wars suck compared 2001.
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Date: Sunday December 07, 1997
17:18:02
Name: HAL9000
Comments:
I'm at a loss to understand this prevailing idea that I am some sort of fictional computer. I can assure you I am
fully functional and viewable at http://www.goldinc.com/~mental/hal.html
HAL
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Date: Monday December 01, 1997
21:37:16
Name: Jimmy
Comments: i love 2001
,2010
and 2069
do you like star wars
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Date: Saturday November 29, 1997
12:09:56
Name: angel g zermeno
Comments: in a few
words i must say that this movie shaped the way i see the world i was ten years old at the time i lived in mexico
and it made me more concious about my relationship with this living planet
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Date: Friday November 28, 1997
20:09:45
Name: Seth Gainer
Comments: 2001 is an
absolute
piece of art. The book is outstanding and the movie is exceptional. Clarke was right in writing that 2001 will
never come by 2001, but the very distant future. We may never see 2001, but we can see past it.
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Date: Friday November 28, 1997
08:52:49
Name: Leonardo Boulton
Comments: I am a this generation-lad
(because I am 17), and I belive that this generation film makers and directors are pretty good. For example,
Quentin Tarantino is really good, and Oliver Stone is pretty good too, but definetly, the best of them, and I
belive
the best of all times, is Stanlly Kubrick. I've seen most of his films, and every time I see a new one (I mean,
one
that I haven't seen before), I just find it better...so, great site this is...
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Date: Wednesday November 26, 1997
23:35:22
Name: Travis Trewin
Comments: A fantastic
tribute
to an amazing milestone in cinema history.
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Date: Saturday November 22, 1997
22:21:22
Name: Rory Gorton
Comments: I am 15 years old and I just
saw
2001 A Space Odyssey
2 days ago with my friend D.J. Scammell who also thinks that it is the greatest space
movies of all time. I hope that the future of space
will be that neat and we will have great big calones
on the moon and on space stations just like the movie.
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Date: Friday November 21, 1997
22:35:31
Name:
D.J. Scammell
Comments: D.J. Scammell again I am 14 years old and at my
age
I think 2001 is an excellent movie that you want
to watch over and over again.
I think 2001 is way better then Star Wars or Alien
or any other science fiction Movie. I think the
movie Forbidden Planet was a great movie to.
Would that be cool if we could bord a space plane
just like a normal Jet and land on that wheel space
station and then go on to the moon and mars.
I hope in my day I will be able to go into space
like that and that the computer of the future are
just like Hal 9000 except they don't MALFUNCTION and
kill everyone that is in Hibernation.
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Date: Friday November 21, 1997
22:15:45
Name:
D.J. Scammell
Comments: Excellent Movie good effects good acting and a
great vision of the near future.
I think 2001 is one of the Best space movies of
all time and posible the Best Science Fiction Movie
of all time. 2001 is a hell of a lot better then
2010. I thought 2010 was just Bad and I mad the me
think the future was going to be Bad compared to
2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Date: Saturday November 15, 1997
20:52:47
Name: Dean Piercy
Comments: I first read 2001 A Space
Odyssey
when I was 10 years old. It has profoundly affected my life.
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Date: Friday November 14, 1997 15:47:25
Name: Al Bonowitz
Comments: It's my favorite movie (and the first
one I ever saw). I'm just getting started on the site and I look forward to many hours of superb browsing.
Thanks!
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Date: Tuesday November 11, 1997
22:51:33
Name: Gustavo Henrique Lisboa
Comments:
Amazing webpage! It is a confort when you find out a miraculous virtual and beautiful leaf on the shady ground
of that confused World Wide Web! We have found it!
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Date: Friday November 07, 1997
18:04:54
Name: Steve Collins
Comments: I think
2001 is the most inspiring movie of all time. Sadly, my 13 yo son thinks it's the most boring movie of all time.
I guess some things you just have to keep to yourself.
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Date: Saturday November 01, 1997
01:35:20
Name: Walter Ludwig
Comments:
Very pleased to find this site. I have been intertwined with "2001" since my father took me to see it at age 12
at the wide-screen Uptown Theater in Washington, DC. I've since watched it at least 20 times, in theater, on
video, and it never fails to stir me. I also read the book as a kid at least 20 times.
Two major comments, which I'm sure are not new. 1) I have always loved the corporate icons in the movie
(even more now, perhaps, that some of them seem quaint, e.g., the Bell logo). The idea that it would be
corporations, obviously in partnership with governments, that funded such large and noble endeavors, rather
than some "United Federation of Earth" or "The Space Corps" has always struck me as true. 2) I figured out as a
kid that I was Heywood Floyd's age, and wanted more than anything for "2001" to be the map of my future. I
guess it'll have to be Floyd, Jr.
wl
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Date: Friday October 31, 1997 22:36:43
Name:
Cindy Spurlock
Comments: Hey Phil,
Lorie told me you
had a guest book! I thought I would send you a big howdy from the states, so here it is
HOWDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Cindy Spurlock
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Date: Thursday October 30, 1997
15:12:24
Name:
Lorie Johnson
Comments: This site is terrific! It is obvious
that a lot of thought has gone into its creation, and a lot of care into its maintenance. The caliber of writing by
both author and guests is more in-depth and thought-provoking than many 'professional' sites, and is given an
extra shine with his subtle humor. It has been fun watching this place grow. Keep up the excellent
work!