Movie Review: '2010: The Year We Make Contact'
Pros: 2010's cast, including Roy Scheider and Helen Mirren. Good script. Great visuals. Cons: Real life rendered its Cold War political undertones obsolete. In the years after the 1968 release of Stanley Kubrick's landmark science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, he and collaborator Arthur C. Clarke were asked many questions about how it was conceived, how the realistic special effects had been done, why did Kubrick decide to use classical music pieces in the soundtrack, and if HAL was a punny jab at IBM's corporate name. Another question that followed both the director and the writer for years was Will you ever do a follow-up to 2001 ? Kubrick, of course, wasn't interested in doing a sequel and generally stayed away from science fiction; the only other set-in-the-future projects he ever envisioned after 2001 were A Clockwork Orange and penning the basic story idea for ...