If 2001 got modern marketing treatment

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

This is prety cool, I can't wait for it to come out next summer! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZSGsh9so_dA

[Allhallowsday]

Make it loud.  LOUD I said!  LOUDER!!!


ugh 

[zombie no.one]

I honestly can't work out if that's supposed to be 'good', or deliberately terrible...lol

[Criswell]

I honestly can't work out if that's supposed to be 'good', or deliberately terrible...lol

I think Parody is the correct word.

[bob]

my poor ears

[Flangepart]

And the ghost of Kubrick plots revenge...

[zombie no.one]

I honestly can't work out if that's supposed to be 'good', or deliberately terrible...lol

I think Parody is the correct word.

I hope so...

in fact unless I'm mistaken  it looks more like some film school project that is neither parody nor straight.

kind of like they were set an assignment: "re-do an 1960s trailer in the style of a modern day blockbuster". just to show they have reached a certain level of editing skills. jut a hunch...

[AndyC]

I don't know why I read some of the comments. It's disturbing how many people didn't even consider the possibility that it was a joke.

[Allhallowsday]

I don't know why I read some of the comments. It's disturbing how many people didn't even consider the possibility that it was a joke.

It's not funny. 

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I took it as a satire, and after loking its sort of an arty thought experiment
... here is the original source, if you feel like investigating:
http://blog.imaginaryfoundation.com/2012/07/25/what-if-2001-had-been-released-as-a-modern-summer-blockbuster/

Sorry I should have put it on earlier.

[AndyC]

I don't know why I read some of the comments. It's disturbing how many people didn't even consider the possibility that it was a joke.

It's not funny. 

I thought it was.