Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: 2010 review--non spoiler Message-ID: <1194@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 02:01:11 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.1194 Posted: Mon Dec 10 02:01:11 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 02:38:35 EST References: <1193@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.movies:5163 net.sf-lovers:5351 My editor hiccupped, and the 2010 review was ejected from its pod prematurely. Let me continue... Many people have argued that 2010 should not be judged against 2001, one of the most influential movies of all time. Perhaps it IS an unfair comparison, for 2010 is inferior in almost every respect. But, let's face the nature of sequels: their lot is to be compared against the original. Simply because so few sequels are equal or better is no reason to accept mediocrity. And, what's more, a sequel, by trading on the success of the original, bears a heavy responsibility to its audience. 2010's special effects are nothing special, mostly being of the Star Trek throw-yourself-across-the-room variety. Compare this with 2001, whose effects set a new standard (and raised own own standards.) 2010's use of music is minimal, and certainly suffers compared with Kubrick's. It dusts off the Ligeti "Kyrie" from 2001 occasionaly when the monolith appears, but more often contents itself with pedestrian workaday movie music. But most earthbound is the vision of 2010. Compared with Kubrick's sardonic view of a soulless consumer culture of the 1960s projected into the 21st century and its salvation despite itself, and filled with inchoate, resonant symbols, 2010 contents itself with a connect-the-dots sledge-hammer message of peace and brotherhood, completely lacking in subtlety, guaranteed to incense anyone who thought highly of the first movie. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA