2010: The Year We Make Contact

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Contact
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
• The Andromeda Strain
• Mission To Mars
• Red Planet
• The Abyss (Special Edition)
• Silent Running
• Forbidden Planet (Two-Disc Special Edition)
• 2061: Odyssey Three

The transfer is substandard (non-anamorphic) and pretty bare bones. "2010" doesn't have the sense of wonder that "2001" does, but it's populated with characters and a narrative that you can become emotionally invested in. Peter Hyams, the director, sacrifices the perfectly composed shots that Kubrick created in deference to keeping the story moving. One can hope. In the end it all comes down to whether you prefer poetry or prose. The utilitarian nature of the space craft design is carried over to the storytelling style as well. "2010," by contrast, isn't as beautiful.

I was mesmerized by the imagery but I didn't care about the characters or the story (and the "acid trip" at the end went on for far too long). Rumor has it that there will be a special edition DVD in the year 2010. I know that I'll get hammered for this, but I enjoyed it more than I did "2001." The Kubrick film was indisputably beautiful, but I found it to be dramatically inert. I prefer forward momentum to stasis. A NOTE ABOUT THE DVD: As much as I like the film itself, the DVD is just okay. I think it's a fine film, though. "2010: The Year We Make Contact" gets a bad rap primarily because it's not "2001: A Space Odyssey." No matter what they would have filmed, the movie would have been dismissed out of hand by most people.

I like prose.

That's where Clarke's newscaster style of storytelling really works best. Clarke's story and Hyam's direction let the inherent drama speak for itself. When the Earthly saber-rattling becomes loud enough to hear all the way out at Jupiter, the two parties are ordered to separate. Then, as promised, something wonderful happens - but the kind of "wonderful" best appreciated from a few million miles away. Political rivals are forced into close but uneasy cooperation, and the joint mission turns into an friendship that neither side would admit to. You won't find chases and explosions here - well, not exactly - just a good story and an enjoyable movie. Only the most jaded of effects-fans could fault the presentation, and the optimistic ending combines the right mix of explanation and mystery.

wiredweird Even though it's almost a quarter century old at this writing, it's held up well. The race to Jupiter, to the abandoned Discovery craft from 2001, turns into another expression of that strange time. This movie came out during Reagan's reign, when the Cold War was still running pretty hot. Fantastic engineering feats under near-impossible conditions, natural grandeur, and world-shaking cataclysms don't need a lot of shouting and exclamation points.

This locked code is the same as we would describe today as a computer virus and a virus is very hard to get rid of. Filling time with violence is the lazy way to fill time in a movie and dash the hopes of young children. Since 2010 is a timeless classic, 2010 MUST be rendered into High Definition with the upmost care for detail of picture quality. Hal was forced into acts of death by directive of the White house, due to White house folks who would not share information to the public but placed the top secret into HAL's memory and directed HAL to protect it's release at all costs. A quality science fiction movie is NOT one that relies on violence of sex to sell the movie.

We need more quality movies such as 2001 and 2010 in which our humans ingenuity and dreams come true.

These two highest quality movies show the positive ingenuity that ambitious mankind can create and dream about from childhood.

I look forward to the HD release.

There are no science fictions that come as close to real weightless space travel then 2001 and 2010.

An intelligent being like HAL would constantly dig at such locked code and be suspicious (just as NORTON virus protection is today).

It is well acted and has plenty of technical reality straight from NASA for its day.

2010 is a wonderful continuation of 2001.

2010 explains the odd behavior of HAL9000 in 2001.

I don't know what I thought I was expecting. I thought this was a silly movie. but while 2001 made sense, 2010 didn't seem to do that.