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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: 2010 review--non spoiler
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 02:01:11 EST
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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
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