"2010: The Year We Make First Contact": I had never heard of this movie from 1984, but I began watching it last night. In the beginning, it had a couple of scenes from "2001: A Space...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I had never heard of this movie from 1984, but I began watching it last night. In the beginning, it had a couple of scenes from "2001: A Space Odyssey." It's a continuation of that film. The credits show that it was based on the book by Arthur C. Clark. There is a scene in the beginning with Roy Scheider and another character sitting on a bench in front of the White House discussing the up-coming mission. Several feet away, is an old man feeding pigeons. I swear it was Arthur C. Clark.

I began watching it on YouTube last night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nNiUBVwF-o&t=1097s

2001: A Space Odyssey is hailed as a masterpiece, yet its sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, is an underappreciated, all-around better movie. 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968, broke new ground with its inspired, grounded special effects.

Super Weird! I wanted to post the scene with Arthur Clark, so I tapped PRT SC. When I pressed Ctrl-V, I got everything but the movie scene. That doesn't happen with other YouTube videos.

BebuLamar

To me any movie would be better than 2001. 2001: A Space Odyssey was an extremely boring movie and didn't have any meaning to me.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

BebuLamar wrote:

To me any movie would be better than 2001. 2001: A Space Odyssey was an extremely boring movie and didn't have any meaning to me.

Exactly! "Much Ado About Nothing"

Aside from the lack of a plot, there were two things I didn't like about it. The screen would go from almost total black to almost total white and vice versa; there would be loud shrieking sound all of a sudden.

BebuLamar

jerryc41 wrote:

Exactly! "Much Ado About Nothing"

Aside from the lack of a plot, there were two things I didn't like about it. The screen would go from almost total black to almost total white and vice versa; there would be loud shrieking sound all of a sudden.

Yeah, I think it was praised for the special effects that was not computer assisted but the special effects was the worst thing in the movie. Way too long, too boring and doesn't add or explain anything about the movie. It seems you have to be on drug to watch the movie.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

BebuLamar wrote:

Yeah, I think it was praised for the special effects that was not computer assisted but the special effects was the worst thing in the movie. Way too long, too boring and doesn't add or explain anything about the movie.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Odd... I enjoyed the original.

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

I liked both for different reasons. Having first read Clarke's "The Sentinel" and the book version of "2001: A Space Odyssey" I appreciated the first movie both for its theme/plot and for Kubrick's mastery of the medium.

The second movie was more geared to mainstream viewers. The science in the second was more understandable and realistic and it explained a lot that was needed to understand the first movie. I agree the second movie was underrated largely because it was compared to the first but it was an apples and oranges comparison.

RiJoRi Loc: Sandy Ridge, NC

fourlocks wrote:

I liked both for different reasons. Having first read Clarke's "The Sentinel" and the book version of "2001: A Space Odyssey" I appreciated the first movie both for its theme/plot and for Kubrick's mastery of the medium.

Me, too! Even having read "The Sentinel" and the book, I was still saying "Wow!" after the movie.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

jerryc41 wrote:

I had never heard of this movie from 1984, but I b... (show quote)

I totally enjoyed 2001. 2010, not so much.

bwa

frankco Loc: Colorado

I've seen the movie 2001 and seem to remember reading 2010 about 50 years ago. Was 2010 the one with towers on earth so tall they were beyond gravity's reach?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

frankco wrote:

Was 2010 the one with towers on earth so tall they were beyond gravity's reach?

And all the construction workers spoke different languages?

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

I highly suggest reading the books before watching the movies.
Also, there is a third book in the series titled "2061:Odyssey Three".

frankco Loc: Colorado

It's been 50 years. I don't recall the workers language.

Grumpyone Loc: Pascoag,Rhode Island

IMDB list Arthur C. Clarke Man on Park Bench (uncredited)

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

BebuLamar wrote:

Yeah, I think it was praised for the special effects that was not computer assisted but the special effects was the worst thing in the movie. Way too long, too boring and doesn't add or explain anything about the movie. It seems you have to be on drug to watch the movie.

In 1968 a lot of people were on drugs!