Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: 2010 review Message-ID: <222@looking.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: looking.222 Posted: Sat Dec 8 00:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:38:09 EST References: <10210@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.movies:5151 net.sf-lovers:5339 I came into 2010 not expecting a lot. After all, 2001 had been directed by God in His Incarnation As Stanley Kubrick, but still it is a major SF movie based on a book by one of the biggest authors in the field. Anyway, it turns out that I was very pleasantly surprised. This film sticks well to the novel and captures much of its flavour. Clarke must have approved. Watch him feeding the birds in front of the White House in an early scene in the movie. There is an extra "world tension" subplot which isn't all that necessary, I guess it's to make the film more topical, but it doesn't detract a lot. All in all one of the better SF movies in a while. (Of course the last film I saw before this was Android. If Mary Schelly got a royalty for each time her story was retold, she'd make a fortune! Couldn't do a lot with it now, mind you, being dead and all, but it would be a fortune.) Anyway, the tradition of 2001 must have rubbed off on Hyams. A good (although not perfect like S. K.) attempt at depiction of realistic spaceflight. Reasonable use of music (not as good as 2001) and sfx. Balaban as HAL's creator was kinda week in my opinion. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473