Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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Yeah, Arthur C. Clarke. wasn't very proud of that one.
He didn't write it?
He wrote the novel, but not the film.
That explains a lot. The whole Jupiter thing in the movie felt silly.
If you thought that was silly, read 2062: Odyssey Three.
2001 is my favorite movie of all time, but I fully accept 2010 as a worthy sequel. They did a remarkable job of recreating the Discovery (pity we couldn't see the centrifuge again!) and Roy Scheider and Helen Mirren had great chemistry.
Her Russian accent was better than Chekov's (what isn't?) but still not very good (FYI: I am of Russian descent).
That's my favorite of them all. Forgot the b-plot about Halman (HAL & Bowman). It's interesting to envision Clarke's predictions for the future.
2010 is one of the better and more ambitious sequels ever filmed given the act it had to follow and one it knew it could never top. For what it was and for a film made 16 years after the industry-changing original it is really eerie, profoundly creepy and atmospheric in a way few sci-fi films then or now are.
I'd agree with that, just a shame the only transfer I have of 2010 is not widescreen. I've been trying to get a decent version of it in that format.
I haven't seen 2010, does it follow the novels more than 2001 did? I can't imagine a sequel to a film whose point was more the metaphor than the narrative.
Not really.
For one thing, the Cold War paranoia running through the film is not in the novel.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one...
Monoliths are taken out...by a computer virus!?!?!?
And don't even get me started on the brain caps.
And don't even get me started on the brain caps.
Scary fact: You know all those space satellites we see in the present day (after the ape throws a bone and it cuts to a satellite)? Those are all nuclear missile platforms.
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Yeah, that is stupid. computer viruses are system-specific. In fact, they exploit the specific weaknesses of a system. He's talking of a virus that would work regardless of the system, which is insane. It would be like a disease that would affect any form of life whatsoever from a blade of grass to a human being.
Ohh...no!! I like gingerbread.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55454718
I've got one you can borrow, but I'm keepin' the cat. He catches mice.
Yikes! What kind of messed up world did that, I guess though given the time it was written he might have thought all those nukes up there pointed down here would be some kind of MAD deterrent.
Yep, some folks thought about that.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty
The Outer Space Treaty entered into effect in October 1967. It is the second "nonarmament" treaty (the first being the Antarctic Treaty of 1961). There is no expiration date.
The first three articles of the treaty set general principles for the use of space; the rest of the articles are intended to guide the behavior of treaty parties.
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/legal-agreements-space-weapons
I regard that as the b-plot which I could have done without.
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