2001 Space Oddity!

[GregBlu5]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

seriously the transfer was great but 148 minutes of it is way to boring. I dont know why it was so popular back then but i guess with people today we want like the whole explosions, car chases, blood and gore spraying everywhere, sexy chicks, and so on. plus whoever made those space suits must have been on crack because they look so retarded looking but i guess back then they didnt think of the stuff we could have today

No one had seen special effects quite like those before. The space sequences and those on the moon and in the ship looked realistic. Remember, the U.S. had just landed men on the moon. And this was a logical projection into the future as to what it would be like to have a 'conquered moon' orbiting around the Earth.

Adding the mystery of what the monolith meant was a heightened aspect to the film. What will they find? And why was Hal malfunctioning?

(Again, 2010 actually completed the cycle of 2001, answering some of the mystery and the questions a viewer would have.) Sure, it didn't have the high octane of newer Sci Fi. But it wasn't competing against any of that back then. Yeah, you had to be there, really.

-Greg