Worlds of Tomorrow: 2010
Read by Alasdair Stuart
Welcome to Worlds of Tomorrow, an occasional feature we’ll be running looking at some of the best in science fiction cinema. From acknowledged classics to forgotten gems we’ll be covering them all. Some of them you’ll have seen, some you won’t, some you’ll agree with me on and some you’ll wonder what I was drinking when I watched them but that’s half the fun. Spoilers abound so if you haven’t seen the movie and want to be surprised, go rent it now, we’ll be here when you get back. Otherwise, set a course for fun. Or in the case of our first instalment, huge black objects circling Jupiter…
2010 was a marvelous movie. It made you forget what it was a sequel of…until you get inside Discovery. I had never thought of the juxtaposition of pre and post Alien as well as American/Russian space technology. The review helped me appreciated the movie more, have to go rent it again.
Wow. Someone read waaaaay too much into an average sci-fi movie.
The only good thing you can say about 2010 is that it wasn’t lethally boring like 2001. Protip: Judicious use of fast-forwarding will allow you to watch 2001 in about 45 minutes without missing anything critical.
I enjoyed both films, and the story continues with 2061, (Floyd visits Halley’s Comet and Europa) and 3001, the most fantastical of the books in which Frank Poole is revived 1,000 years after his death, and returns to an Earth he scarcely recognizes.
Trivial factual correction. Our presenter said Dave Bowman appeared to his fiancee … but it was his widow. He visited his mother as well.
Love reading your posts, well server!