About 10 years too late, but it's finally happening...
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We should list all of the things that 2010 got wrong..
You know that 2001 used rear-projection on flat screens for the Discovery computer screens, so they looked like modern flat screens.
They did that because it was low tech, and probably the best they could manage.
When 2010 was made, they went all out to make the ships look realistic and "high tech", so they used actual CRT moniters for the Discovery's (and Leonov's) screens.
And so the ironically the screens in the newer movie looked more dated than the low-tech visual effects in the older movie.
2001:
2010:
Also, 2001 had tablets...
2010 was a good movie, but Kubrick never wanted anyone to make a sequel, thats why he ordered all the props and models to be destroyed. It is so true that 2010 hasn’t aged as well as 2001, the CRTs being a great example.
To start, the Soviet Union was long gone and the cold war over by 2010.
To start, the Soviet Union was long gone and the cold war over by 2010.
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I was thinking, Discovery overshot trying to get home.
I just couldn't seem to get into any of the films (2001, 2010) for some reason. I think it was because that the first one took to long to really get to the actual point and that just might have influenced my opinion on the second film. To this day I've never been able to watch either of them right the way through.
I agree it's a work of art in the visual and audio departments and also special effects sector as well. But there were times I was confused to what the storyline/s was all about.
2001 is best watched after reading the book.
2001 is my favorite movie of all time, but I also like 2010 a lot and consider it a worthy sequel.
The biggest mistake I thought 2010 made was the inconsistent gravity. In some scenes, there is gravity where there shouldn't be (we see characters actually sitting on the floor in parts of the Discovery where there should be zero-G), and of course there's that one scene on the Leonov where Floyd and Kirbuk are standing around, clearly in gravity, but Floyd releases a pen which proceeds to float around. So is there gravity or isn't there?
Fun fact: The blue spacesuit from the Discovery and the design of the Leonov both show up in B5. The suit appears in Babylon Squared & War Witihout End, and the Leonov was adapted into the Omega-class destroyer.
The biggest mistake I thought 2010 made was the inconsistent gravity. In some scenes, there is gravity where there shouldn't be (we see characters actually sitting on the floor in parts of the Discovery where there should be zero-G), and of course there's that one scene on the Leonov where Floyd and Kirbuk are standing around, clearly in gravity, but Floyd releases a pen which proceeds to float around. So is there gravity or isn't there?
Fun fact: The blue spacesuit from the Discovery and the design of the Leonov both show up in B5. The suit appears in Babylon Squared & War Witihout End, and the Leonov was adapted into the Omega-class destroyer.
So is that why the production design for 2010 was so different from 2001's? I've always wondered about that.
It's a pity, really, since the Discovery's centrifuge (which, in 2001, was a complete set, all the way around, and really did rotate) would have looked awesome in 2010.
Destroyed props/sets or not, those behind 2010 could have easily built their own projected tech from that world. They had no trouble rebuilding some of the Discovery's interiors, and by the time 2010 was in production, there were a number of advanced set design/sets in other productions that did not use CRTs, or video-gamey fonts/graphics for on-screen data, so it was possible to do the same for the Leonov interiors.
We've found Jupiter's anus.
Well, that was an easy one to get wrong, even from a vantage point of 1984.
2001 is best watched after reading the book.
2010 is a good watch for their attempt to be "hard sci-fi".
3001 is a strange sequel but still a good read.
They covered that at the end of 2010 when Scheider was talking to his son.
21-12, I'm going to "roll the bones" and guess you are a Rush fan, LOL. Me too.
2010 is a good watch for their attempt to be "hard sci-fi".
3001 is a strange sequel but still a good read.
They covered that at the end of 2010 when Scheider was talking to his son.
21-12, I'm going to "roll the bones" and guess you are a Rush fan, LOL. Me too.
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