Arthur clarke space odyssey5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() “It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen,” he told Kubrick’s assistant editor. Griffith in 1915, only a teenager in the projection booth had anything nice to say about 2001. People love to remember how the snobs got it wrong.Īt one studio screening, attended by, among others, a woman who had worked forĭ. ![]() Those preview screenings and early reviews have become part of the film’s legend. The critics in New York, however, all hated it (except for Penelope Gilliatt in the New Yorker), and it had not done well in preview screenings with studio execs and celebrities, who found it boring and confusing. It was especially popular with acidheads and pot smokers, science geeks, budding filmmakers, and people under forty in general. It was a big hit and ended up the highest-grossing film of 1968. STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. ![]()
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