About 10 years too late, but it's finally happening...

[marillion]

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.

Me three.. Greatest band in the world (though my avatar is from a Marillion album)...

One big thing they got wrong is having beer in Capri Sun-like pouches. At the beginning of the movie, Floyd is on the beach working and sipping a bud from a pouch. Dammit I want my beloved Stella in a pouch, NOW!!

 

[Takeru]

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.

How does a director order the studio's property to be destroyed? What an asshole.

 

[Marc]

How does a director order the studio's property to be destroyed? What an asshole.

The props and sets would be owned by the production company (which in this case was, courtesy of wiki, Stanley Kubrick Productions).

 

[Morpheus 02]

Io's shadow

"It's no moon... it's a space station!"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Me three.. Greatest band in the world (though my avatar is from a Marillion album)...

One big thing they got wrong is having beer in Capri Sun-like pouches. At the beginning of the movie, Floyd is on the beach working and sipping a bud from a pouch. Dammit I want my beloved Stella in a pouch, NOW!!

And he's also using an Apple //c. This guy must love antiques!

On a completely different matter: On the Discovery, why is the blue spacesuit missing its helmet? It wasn't the one Dave used in 2001 when disabling HAL. Dave wore a green helmet, which he got from the suit stowed inside the emergency airlock.

 

[FormerLurker]

How does a director order the studio's property to be destroyed? What an asshole.

Considering Arthur C. Clarke is rumored to have had a clause in his contract granting filmmaking rights that allowed him to demand the destruction of all prints if anyone involved called the film Twenty-Ten instead of Two-Thousand-Ten before the premiere had ended, Kubrick wanting to be the only filmmaker known for adapting THAT story of Clarke's doesn't surprise me. It takes all kinds.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Couldn't have been too easy getting all those Russian actors, at the height of the Cold War...

I used to think Helen Mirren actually was Russian because she just nails the part. I think she does have Russian ancestry though.

 

[Push The Button]

Me three.. Greatest band in the world (though my avatar is from a Marillion album)...

One big thing they got wrong is having beer in Capri Sun-like pouches. At the beginning of the movie, Floyd is on the beach working and sipping a bud from a pouch. Dammit I want my beloved Stella in a pouch, NOW!!

That terminal inside Hal’s core that Chandra uses to reboot him looks a little dated now as well, plus its something that obviously wasn’t in there in 2001.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Well, that was an easy one to get wrong, even from a vantage point of 1984.

Especially from a vantage point of 1984. Renewed Cold War paranoia was at a peak in the mid-'80s. That was the era of The Day After, Red Dawn, and Amerika.

ETA: On the subject of the film 2001, I prefer a less literal explanation than Clarke provides in the book, in favor of interpreting what Kubrick was attempting to convey. For insight on that, I recommend this site:
https://www.kubrick2001.com/
The film and the book are really two different animals sharing the same story.

 

[JD]

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.

Wasn't Syfy supposed to be doing a 3001 miniseries? Whatever became of that?

 

[Push The Button]

Wasn't Syfy supposed to be doing a 3001 miniseries? Whatever became of that?

There is also 2061

 

[RPOW0614]

There is also 2061

You are right.
I read it too!
I guess it wasn't that great of a read for me to forget it, but it was also a long time ago.

 

[Phoenix219]

Acccording to some alternative/pseudo science on the internet, Jupiter and Saturn won't ignite into stars because Sol takes up all the juice.... if they were wandering in space solo, they would light up as brown dwarfs. *Shrug* Interesting thoughts, if utterly unsupported.... interesting thought excercises, if nothing else....

 

[diankra]

Acccording to some alternative/pseudo science on the internet, Jupiter and Saturn won't ignite into stars because Sol takes up all the juice.... if they were wandering in space solo, they would light up as brown dwarfs. *Shrug* Interesting thoughts, if utterly unsupported.... interesting thought excercises, if nothing else....

Point in 2010 is that the monoliths artifically compress Jupiter so a body that doesn't naturally have the mass to go to fusion, does.

 

[Ethros]

Random question- wouldn't the new Star at the end 2010 and it's light completely mess with plant life, and animal life, on Earth? As in plant life is designed for our light-dark system.

 

[Push The Button]

Random question- wouldn't the new Star at the end 2010 and it's light completely mess with plant life, and animal life, on Earth? As in plant life is designed for our light-dark system.

The book addresses that, If I recall correctly. Short answer is yes.

 

[Turtletrekker]

The book addresses that, If I recall correctly. Short answer is yes.

That's what I recall as well.