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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Peter Hyams |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 07 December, 1984 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie, Science Fiction |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 012569505322 |
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Customer Reviews of 2010: The Year We Make Contact
A very worthy sequel, even if not a masterpiece First of all, I have read "2010: The Year We Make Contact" and, while it is a very good story, it is not the great story that is "2001: A Space Odyssey". I would not expect, then, that the movie version of "2010: The Year We Make Contact" would be a masterpiece, and it isn't. But, is it a good movie? Absolutely! <
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>In "2010: The Year We Make Contact", we start nine years later. America and Russia are on the verge of war over a dispute in Honduras. America and Russia are also mounting separate missions to Jupiter, to investigate the obelisk there and the derelict Discovery, whose orbit is slowly decaying. The Russians will get there first, but do not know how to restart HAL 9000, who holds some of the secrets to what happened nine years ago. In a tense agreement, the Americans are allowed to board the Russian ship, Alexei Leonov. The Americans are Dr. Floyd Heywood (the guilt-ridden mission leader for the Discovery mission, portrayed ably by Roy Scheider), Dr. Chandra (the genius behind HAL 9000, and possibly the only man who can restart and cure HAL, portrayed extremely well by Bob Balaban), and Dr. Walter Curnow (an engineer who might be the only man who can restart Discovery, portrayed very well by John Lithgow. <
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>I will say little more about the plot, except that they do get to Jupiter, they do fix and cure HAL 9000, they do restart Discovery, and "something wonderful" happens. That something is truly wonderful, and re-shapes Humankind's future. <
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>I think they did an excellent job creating a look for the movie that fit what was occurring. The Discovery and the Alexei Leonov are both well-done, showing us two very different but feasible designs for long-range spaceships. Jupiter, Io, and Europa are portrayed well, with some "artistic liense" in the form of too much light reaching them from the Sun, and colors on Jupiter that are a bit too vivid. <
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>The acting was very good overall, wit the stand-outs of: John Lithgow, as the everyman nice-guy who is a brilliant engineer with a good sense of humor; Bob Balaban, who portrayed HAL 9000's creator who is a homo sapiens mirror-image of his creation; Elya Baskin as Lithgow's Russian counter-part; Keir Dullea as the eerie entity that is, or might be, or seems to be Dave Bowman. <
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>Special Features on DVD: Language choices of English or French, plus several subtitle language choices. A "featurette" that includes interviews with Arthur C. Clarke and Peter Hyams, plus some demonstrations on the making of the ships. <
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>Overall, I'm really glad I bought this DVD. I've watched it twice in one week, and will watch it again. Is it as good as its predecessor? No, but "2001: A Space Odyssey" was so well done, so different, and so important in filmmaking history, that no sequel could equal it. I will say, though, that "2010: The Year We Make Contact" did do justice to its ground-breaking predecessor.
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i really liked this movie, it would be impossible to compare it 2001, because they are both very different.
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>with that being said the movie itself holds up, but my only complaint is that 2010 is really made for its time period, the cold war influence can be too much at times. this is actually the danger of making a film (that is not about a certain point in history) while being influenced by current events. it doesn't translate well to future generations. (kinda like using rock music in a period piece.)
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>what i mean is if you wanted to make a statement about a certain era, its okay to use all the political backdrop (forrest gump used vietnam effectively), otherwise the underlying motive just seems like sneaky activism.
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'2010: The Year We Make Contact' directed by Peter Hyams and released in '84, sixteen years after classic '2001: A Space Odysessy', is a far cry from the majestic, poetic and mystical cinematic masterpiece of Stanley Kubrick. I'd compare this film to that popular series of books that have glutted the market in recent years that are geared to making particular subject matter more accessible for the intellectually challenged. Title this film "2001 Space Odyssey for Dummies." That's not meant to insinuate that this is a bad movie, it's just a very practical, straightforward approach to trying to understand the mystery of the awe-inspiring Monolith that has stumped a generation of film fans.
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>Positives: The reworking of Hall 9000 into the script and resolving the artifical intelligence programing problem that occurred during the first mission was well done. I also enjoyed the cast of characters, they were more developed and likeable than in Kubrick's film. Most of all I'm glad they didn't completely spell everything out for the viewer. The mystery of the Monolith is still left a mystery.
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>Negatives: The Monolith(s) are not the awe-inspiring presence they were in the original, they're just kind of there. There's also a couple of technical issues, not a widescreen presentation and rather poor, grainy picture quality.
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>My ultimate litmus test for any film is the repeatabliity factor. Is this a film I could enjoy watching over and over again. Unfortunately the answer is no.