Its 40 years since the showing of 2001 a groundbreaking science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick written by Arthur C. Clarke. the movie still holds up but its beginning show its age only the quality of the effects makes it stand out. A CGI movie made five years back would show its age even quickly with the way CGI updates its software to come out with more realistic rendering.
Watching 2001 and you see an age past a look at the 60′s the way they think design will be in the future quite amazing and nostalgic something why Austin Powers was a cool movie. Groovy Baby!
Barbarella’s cool campy fashion styling, only from the 60′s. Barbarella was a fashion and culture movie with sex on the side.
Amazing stuff from 1968. Gosh, gas prices were still so low no OPEC embargos, no AIDS the sexual revolution was in high gear it was a groovy time baby!
Time Machine another George Pal film and a very good one. If you know the H.G. Wells story then you know about the time traveller goes to the future and finds humanity divided into two distinct species. Rod Taylor who plays the lead finds the beautiful Yvette Mimieux saves her from drowning and saves the Eloi from the carnivorous Morlocks.
Yvette Mimieux -she’s so beautiful! A Classic beauty from an age long past.
Yvette is the most beautiful woman in the world
We’ve been spoiled not just by better CGI, but by better production values all round.
In older movies, you had to have a great deal more of what the English majors call “the willing suspension of disbelief.”
Case in point — the overdone fright wig in the pic above is ludicrous; you have to really work at it to not crack up laughing. Oh, and the monster’s matching hairpiece is almost as funny…
Kinda takes the edge off the intent of the scene.
Speaking of which, the semiotics of expression seem to have changed a lot, too.
In that pic, she’s apparently reacting to the impending situation; but is she in terror, or ecstasy, at the fact that (one way or another, it would seem) she’s about to be eaten?
“Yvette Mimieux -she’s so beautiful! A Classic beauty from an age long past.”
Holy Cow, it wasn’t THAT long ago! She’s only a year and half older than I am! (We Baby Boomers haven’t figured out yet that we’re aging…)
thanks for sharing years of 2001, Barbarella and Yvette Mimieux