From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnss!ihuxv!lew
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: 2001
Article-I.D.: ihuxv.146
Posted: Wed Jun  9 08:45:24 1982
Received: Thu Jun 10 01:15:40 1982

With all this interest in Star Wars and Star Trek, I can't help pining
for good old 2001. It remains unsurpassed in its depiction of space
habitation. I can't think of any other film which has even attempted
to depict weightlessness at all, let alone as pervasively as 2001.
Other elements of it have been adopted so generally that it is easy
to forget their origin. I'm thinking of the "look" of the flat white
spaceship with lots of surface detail, the zooming effect in the
light show, and the ape costumes.

The genius stroke of the movie, though, was HAL. How can R2D2 compare?

				Lew Mammel, Jr. - BTL Indian Hill