8 Movies With Seriously Insane Details You Didn't Notice

7. Stanley Kubrick Demanded That The Equipment Featured Would Actually Work On The Moon - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Stanley Kubrick is probably the quintessential "insane genius" movie director, because that's precisely what he was. In fact, the man's name has become common amongst film types requiring shorthand for "obsessive perfectionist."

2001: A Space Odyssey, which, today, is still considered to be one of the greatest - if not the greatest - sci-fi movies of all time, luckily found itself helmed by the only man who could have likely done it justice in 1967. The movie, which spans the beginning of time all the way up to the present and, uh, back again (or something), also concerns itself with a doomed space journey that pairs Dave, an astronaut, with an eerie computer, HAL, as they plough across the universe and, like, bicker and stuff.

You need to skip to a random frame of 2001 to understand just how much detail Kubrick squeezed into every frame. The ship's layout is extensive and brilliantly-realised, and the movie is technically sublime in every aspect. Even now, it looks mind-blowing.

Kubrick's assiduousness was certainly justified, then, though we're not quite so sure why the director insisted (demanded, even) that all the equipment and props used during the moon sequence could really work on the moon. Seriously. The props that were built had to actually work should they find themselves on the moon's surface for some reason. Which, given Kubrick's experimental nature, might've paid off one day, since we can absolutely imagine him proposing that his next project "is to be filmed on the moon."