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2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
Director: Peter Hyams
Writers: Arthur C. Clarke (novel), Peter Hyams (screenplay)
Cast: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea
Genre: Sci-Fi Mystery
About: In this sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, we find a joint U.S.- Russian expedition being sent on a Russian space ship to Jupiter. Their mission to learn what has happened to the first ship Discovery, and the missing astronaut Dave Bowman. There in orbit is a giant monolith the same one Dave Bowman had encountered nine years early. The only clue is his last message:
2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
Writers: Arthur C. Clarke (novel), Peter Hyams (screenplay)
Cast: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea
Genre: Sci-Fi Mystery
About: In this sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, we find a joint U.S.- Russian expedition being sent on a Russian space ship to Jupiter. Their mission to learn what has happened to the first ship Discovery, and the missing astronaut Dave Bowman. There in orbit is a giant monolith the same one Dave Bowman had encountered nine years early. The only clue is his last message:
Review: I don't know why people are so down on this film. Sure the idea of sequels seem like a tired money making idea...and sure this isn't directed by Stanley Kubrick...and yes this has a totally different feel than 2001...But all of the doesn't make this a bad movie.
First, a lot of credit for 2001 goes to Stanley Kubrick as it should, but lets not forget the man who came up with the idea and wrote the story, novelist Arthur C. Clarke. And 2010 is based on Arthur C. Clarke's second novel in the series, named 2010. So this is not, just another attempt to make money. This movie gives fans more of the story that 2001 presented as a mystery.
Second, the director pays respect to 2001 and never tries to out do it or ruin it's continuity, 2010 is respectful to the original 2001. The director Peter Hymas spoke to Kubrick and got his 'blessing' to make this film. And he even pays tribute to both Kubrick and Clarke on a cameo magazine cover.
What 2010 does right is to fill in some of the mystery of 2001, while importantly leaving the main mystery, as a mystery. 2010 tells it's narrative through the human experience via some very talented actors. The characters they play, take the part of 2001's vast visuals. Here the story comes with the heart of the characters via emotions.
I found 2010 to be a touching movie, in a spiritual, metaphysical, mystical way. And I've found myself thinking about the film and the greater idea of something more important than ourselves. And that's rare for a film to do that.
First, a lot of credit for 2001 goes to Stanley Kubrick as it should, but lets not forget the man who came up with the idea and wrote the story, novelist Arthur C. Clarke. And 2010 is based on Arthur C. Clarke's second novel in the series, named 2010. So this is not, just another attempt to make money. This movie gives fans more of the story that 2001 presented as a mystery.
Second, the director pays respect to 2001 and never tries to out do it or ruin it's continuity, 2010 is respectful to the original 2001. The director Peter Hymas spoke to Kubrick and got his 'blessing' to make this film. And he even pays tribute to both Kubrick and Clarke on a cameo magazine cover.
What 2010 does right is to fill in some of the mystery of 2001, while importantly leaving the main mystery, as a mystery. 2010 tells it's narrative through the human experience via some very talented actors. The characters they play, take the part of 2001's vast visuals. Here the story comes with the heart of the characters via emotions.
I found 2010 to be a touching movie, in a spiritual, metaphysical, mystical way. And I've found myself thinking about the film and the greater idea of something more important than ourselves. And that's rare for a film to do that.