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