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pokerfan

(27,677 posts) Thu Jul 26, 2012, 02:38 PM Jul 2012

If 2001: A Space Odyssey was released today

What if 2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 2012? Just how silly would the marketing campaign be?

The folks at Film School Rejects have recut the trailer for Stanley Kubrick's classic space movie, to appeal to modern audiences — and they kind of hit it out of the park. We're almost 100% sure that if a cerebral and hard-to-sell movie like 2001 was hitting the streets, this is the trailer that would be appearing before every action movie for a few months.