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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kmart: [QB] The thing that bothered me most when I first saw it was the total reversal on the Floyd character. In 2001, you see Floyd on a pretaped message tell Bowman that only HAL knew the truth about the mission (and earlier scenes establish him as being very political and in on the TMA-1 coverup), yet in 2010, Scheider's Floyd makes an enormous deal about it being the NSC who programmed HAL to lie and his NOT knowing. At the time I reconciled it by figuring it is Scheider playing Floyd as 'protesting too much' just for the benefit of the other crew, but nobody else thought the writing and plotting in 2010 was smart enough to have a character that clever and conniving (yet Scheider's shit-eating grin after Chandra discovers his HAL-killer device suggests he really IS a bastard.) As for the good stuff in the flick ... I liked the Chandra/HAL/"I think we should abort the countdown and investigate" scene ... that and the Europa remote probe sequence (which at least plays the contrast of sound and little sound with interior/exteriors) are two bits in the film that FEEL very movie-like and compelling ... if they had maybe another half-dozen scenes as good as those, I'd have eventually forgotten they were attempting to sequelize an untouchable classic and gotten into the movie, but alas ... A guy I used to work for at Cinefex saw the 2010 miniatures up close and in person when he covered the film, and even though he still holds that the APOLLO 13 fx are the best he has seen, he said the modelwork on 2010 was just staggering. My disappointment with the fx (which in the theater were rather stunning, and certainly deserved the Oscar more than Indy2, which won that year) has to do with the way they look on video ... you have to adjust the picture rather severely to keep the 'garbage matte' boxes from showing up during space scenes, due to how 'hot' the film was printed during video transfer. I have held off on buying a dvd of 2010, hoping they'll go back and do a really nice new transfer, but since this was a problem on laserdisc as well, I think we may have to live with it as chronic. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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