![]() ![]() Floyd, instructs his crew to "listen to your cassettes" to receive updates on their mission. The computers, monitors, and graphics used throughout are instantly identifiable, dressed-up Commodore 64-era tech hardware. While 2001 is timeless, 2010 reveals its easily dated personality on a couple of occasions. But Stan the Man is a hard act to follow. ![]() 2010 is dated, somewhat forgotten, and does fall short of the power of Kubrick's vision (how many times have you heard THAT before?). ![]() That peerless original, of course, is 2001. They were among the first users of e-mail technology - in 1984!) reveals the director's paranoia and even humility as he hopes his film will even come close as a worthy successor to the peerless original. If any fans of AC Clarke's series have read the book "The Odyssey File", which chronicles the making of 2010 (the book is composed of e-mail correspondence between Clarke and director Peter Hyams. On the whole, 2010 is an above average, yet not superior movie. Or maybe the Ruskies were trying to save power by keeping all of the lights off! That really piqued my curiosity. I wondered that when the interior of the Leonov (CCCP ship) was so freegin' dim. ![]()
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