2001 A Space Odyssey.

[EDDIE51]

Presently showing on BBC2 well worth watching even if just for the music.
Interesting to see what Kubrick thought 2001 would be like and compare it to reality .

[Old_Geezer]

Reality suggests we hadn't bothered to progress much after all.

[Buenchico]

>>> Interesting to see what Kubrick thought 2001 would be like and compare it to reality

Not so much Kubrick, as Arthur C Clarke, who wrote the original story in 1948, surely?

(I must have read everything ACC ever wrote when I was a kid!)

[Old_Geezer]

Great Sci Fi writer.

[Captain2]

My favourite book (read at least 5 times) and favourite film (seen about 6 times - but not tonight unfortunately, didn't see that it was on).

[Captain2]

Think Asimov (especially the Foundation saga) and E 'Doc' Smith (Lensman series) are my two favourite Sci-Fi writers; they really get your imagination going.

[jno]

there are a lot of brand names in the film, as I recall - Pan Am and so on. I seem to recall reading that most of them have vanished.

It's been claimed that the computer HAL is just one letter back from IBM, but I think that was just a coincidence.

[jno]

always risky attaching a specific year to your ideas, though I think 1984 was just 1948 (when he wrote the book) reversed. We were all supposed to have plastic furniture we could just hose down and travel to work with our jetpacks, but the spread of computers, mobile phones and so on weren't that widely predicted.

[chrissa1]

I'm in bed, reading and sort of watching tv. I've just pressed, record. I'll catch the end of it at least. Great film. Thought it strange at the time. Lol.

[jno]

I saw it on an old Cinerama screen, sort of like Imax but not so high; sitting in the middle of the third row. Mind blowing.

[chrissa1]

Me too, jno. I was 17. :)

[EDDIE51]

It was said at the time HAL was actually IBM each one letter forward in the alphabet.

[EDDIE51]

I have read all of the books by Arthur C Clarke, Asimov and the Lensman series by E 'Doc' Smith.
IMO the film owes as much to Kubrick's interpretation as to Clark's original.

[EDDIE51]

The film was based on an Arthur C Clarke short story 'The Sentinel'
So it had to be greatly extended to make a full length film . #
Astounding to think 'The Sentinel' was written in 1951.
Has there been a film of 'Rondaview with Rama ' by the way ? that was another of Clarke's books that had a big impact on my thinking.